Velvet smoke

ocean drive

The ocean was darker than the sky, the sky was filled with thousands of mesmerizing stars

Aria Vale was resting in her laferrari, with one hand on the steering wheel and watched the empty highway stretch endlessly ahead .

sound of waves crashing against rocks making the moment more peaceful.

her phone lit up

(Aria's friend) Neh: seriously, are you spending Friday night alone?

Aria: I'm with a better company

Neh: with who girl ?

Aria: it's me bitch

Neh: you're impossible, well you've missed today's party girl, sofia and william were kissing badly

Aria: I know girl, am putting away"disgusting"

Aria switched off the phone

she got out of the car, sat down on the sand in Malibu beach

open hair

Black dress

nacked foot

she was enjoying the waves

then A stranger steps on the sand

tall

muscular

in black suit

he was standing back of Aria

he started whispering in her eyes

"you should not be hear alone girl"

then suddenly, she turned back without any hesitation

she punched the guy

without even seeing his face

the man stumbled two steps backward. he shook his head, a dark chuckle escaping his lips as he looked up.

"Damn" stranger muttered

wiping a tiny drop of blood from the corner of his lips

" you have a hell of right hook as a new adult, he said

Aria's heart hammering against her

"step back. I don't care who you are just get out of my face untill the next one breaks your nose

"I like the fire", he mummered his voice dropping an octave

"actually you should learn to keep your temper cool miss CEO, especially since my company just bought 51% of ownership from your company an hour ago"

Aria was frozed. The ciggarate felled of her fingers

"what did you just say?"

he smilled, "well you had a great company rules but from now am gonna changing everything

the crew

the managers

especially the marketing theme

aria:"but why are you doing this, I don't even know who are you, WTF when this all deals happened? "

"Well girl buying it was a massive challenge it was just worth around 800 million dollar

Aria: what the hell it was worth 1.3 billion dollar, what's just happening

she called her manager

manager picked the call

"WTF how you could sell the company without my permissions and signatures, how is it even possible

manager: "we are dramatically apologizing to you but we called you and we didn't got any response from you from days, and it was a very emergent our company was going on a massive loss so this was the best outcome we could do, you had sended your digital signatures so we used for the legal procces and solded it to Adrian brooks"

Aria: "OK well you handle it professionally I appreciate it "

Aria was a little sad but she accepted it

Adrian: so what about a drink tonight partner?

she gave him a powerful slap, which turns his face marked fingers

"get lost "

Aria got away from there and drived to her home.

Adrian was not agreed on her but very flirty and smiling

he just got quiet and drinking wine alone on the sand where Aria was sitting

and enjoyed views by watching the waves

Aria got on the bed and thinking about all the scenes happend there, she regretted slaping him, but she was agreed on him.

cause now Adrian owns the 51% stock of her company

the next morning, Aria gone to urth cafe

she sat comfortably in a cafe chair, anticipating her cappuccino order

Aria was 5'10"and very capable, she founded a tech brand when she was just 15, she dropped out of her high school to keep her total energy on to grow the brand.

The waiter brought her cappuccino

Aria opened her macbook and started visualizing the market

then, Adrian entered the urth cafe

6'4"

billionaire

he sat in the cafe just two tables over Aria's table

Aria acknowledged his presence but maintained complete composure

Adrian was very flirty he abandoned his spot Two tables. over and closed the gap seating infont of Aria

Aria was burned out,

she wanted some personal space

Adrian was blind that her emotional battery was zero

"are you always this quiet or am I just lucky enough to have caught you in your mysterious era?"

Aria was smiling in shy, inside

" Not always but in major part of life, unfortunately you are not lucky lot of people had caughted me before you did"

adrian: ohh trust me, I already know I'm not lucky, after last night i figured my face would still be bruised today.

A flush of embarrassment hit her cheecks looked in his eyes with heavy sincerity

"I am so sorry for the scene I created last night I thought you were a serial killer. I feel so much regret now I am truly truly sorry"

Adrian:" hey it's completely fine it happens besides, we're bussiness partners now, and I'd like to think we're friends too"

Aria:"I appreciate your understanding, Mr brooks, however, let's remember we are only bussiness partners my focus belongs entirely to the growth of this brand and I expect the same for you."

she stood up from the table

" I must get back to work now have a productive day"

without waiting for him to reply, Aria turned her back and walked quickly toward the exit.

Adrian sat alone as Aria walked away watching her figure slowly dissappear into the bright beverly hills sunshine

he didn't follow her. instead he just smilled to himself deeply amused by her sharp Independent spirit

He turned his attention outward took a sip of espresso and looked through glass, visualizing the view

the palm trees swayed gently against the blue los angeles sky

he leaned back in his chair realizing that working with his new bussiness partner was going to be much more interesting than ever expected

sometimes, the most intriguing paths Begins with a beautiful unexpected turn.🌼