Unscripted Moments
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Chapter 6: Unscripted Moments
The morning after the interview, Leila woke up to her phone buzzing nonstop.
Zara had sent 15 voice notes. The flower shop group chat was blowing up. Even her old secondary school classmates were reacting to the video clip going viral across i********: and t****k.
She tapped one of the links.
Damian Cole confesses love on live TV — meet the mystery woman who stole his heart.
The comments were insane:
“He looked like he was in love fr.”
“They better get married for real. I’m INVESTED.”
“Someone find me a Damian!”
Leila stared at the screen in shock.
“We’re trending?” she whispered.
A knock came at her bedroom door.
“Come in,” she called.
Damian entered, holding two mugs of coffee. He wore a black t-shirt and sweatpants — casual, but somehow more dangerous like that.
He handed her a cup. “You’re famous.”
She took it without a word, still watching the phone. “You said one sentence. Now half the country thinks you’re in love with me.”
He smirked. “That’s the idea.”
“You’re enjoying this,” she muttered.
But Damian’s expression changed — just for a second.
“Not as much as I thought I would,” he said quietly.
She looked up. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
He hesitated. “It means… it felt different. Saying it. Watching you hear it.”
Leila blinked.
They stood there for a few seconds — holding coffee, standing close enough to touch — and neither of them said anything.
Then Damian cleared his throat.
“My father invited us to a charity gala next week,” he said, voice back to neutral. “We’ll need to act more convincingly than ever.”
Leila took a long sip of her coffee. “You mean more fake kisses and stolen glances?”
He looked at her then — really looked.
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