DOUBLE CROSS

Chapter 9

"Are you going to stay at home, Zavanna?" her mom, stepmom to be exact asked her with that warmth smile on her face.

She was lucky because even the fact that she was a daughter of a woman that once hurt her stepmom so bad, she was still accepted and was still loved by the family that her mom almost got ruined. Still she never hate her mom, she was still the only woman she would look up in her life. She was still wishing she was there, witnessing how she achieved her dreams.

"I am going abroad tomorrow, Auntie, I am afraid I couldn't go back home for I have to stay still in my condo since it was closer to the airport," she answered and showed a smile on her face.

Her father and her sister was smiling at her as well while she was talking to her sister's mother. Although there was never a time that she had a chance to stay at the family's house ever since she started modeling for her mom her own condo unit when she was 7 and her being a minor living inside that condo unit was never a problem especially when her mom died when she was 13.

It was her father who owns the building where she and her mom lived and this time, she got several apartment building that she owned. She invested her money in a good cause and that is why she was working so hard for she don't want to lean her full back at his father's name and money.

Winona pouted and kind off showing some disappointment in her. "I thought we could have some time to bond. You know, it was a long time ago that we got a time shopping together, partied together and even drive in a high way together. I was busy doing the business and you were busy making name as well," she said while eyeing at her.

Zavanna chuckled while looking at her sister acting too opposite how she acts inside the company's office. Winona was never soft to her employees, that's what she learned about.

"Big sister, I am just not wasting all the opportunities that stopped by for me," she responded wearing that wide smile she could show. "Because, you know, there are millions of models in the world, and it would be just only a dream to get an offer and your dream to be fulfilled. I was given a chance and I was lucky that I have those chances," she added.

Looking at her father that curved a wide smile for her kind off flattered her a lot. Before, her father did support her choice of being a model for it was a memory of her mother, she was having a hard time working on it just to prove to her dad that modeling was really for her. That it was engraved in her palm and that she was destined to be a model.

And now that she became the country's highest paid model of all time, she got all the blessings from each member of her family. From her step-mom, her half sister and of course, her dad, whom the hardest person to please — well, she know.

"Please give me some of your free time when you come back here in the country next time," Winona said and even rolling the eyes on her that only made her let out a little laugh for she honestly didn't expect that roll of the eyes.

"I will surely," she replied but seems like Winona wasn't still okay with her response and all.

Until her dad called the waiter for their bill and paid everything, she's now walking towards her own car while her family was riding in a single car. Why not, they're just living under one roof. She was about to open her car's door when she spotted that good looking man behind hers reflected in the side mirror of her car. She narrowed her eyes — kind off more like, frowned when she spotted how looks he had.

She had been seeing different varieties of handsomeness but this one says different. He wasn't just handsome, he was looking more than that, she couldn't help not to turn her head because she really did turn her head to see the man. She was tall but he was taller. He could tower her if she would be standing next to him. He was looking high-profile as well. He wasn't looking like a joke.

"Hi miss?"

She was stunned blinking when she all of a sudden heard the voice of the man she was facing. She even didn't notice how the heck that he already is standing before her. What the heck was going on?

"W-what?" damn! She stuttered, what the f*ck!

The man chuckled and that kind off shivers her entire body. "Do you need anything? You walked towards here in front of me, so I assume that you'd probably be in need of something from me," he asked again.

And with that, she realized that she was standing next to the car that doesn't belong to her. It wasn't him who stood up before her, it was her who stood up before him. What the f*ck just happened and how did it happened that all of a sudden, she's here? She was just standing beside her car and now, she had passed one car that was there in between her car and this man's car.

"Ahm.. nothing in particular, I mean, I just thought you were someone that I know. You kind off look like him," she lied, trying to make it sound like a lie and no never stutter.

The man chuckled and even smiled at her. "Really? Well, people said that there are 6 people in the world that would surely look like us. So, are you certain now that I am not the person who you think I was? Damon, by the way, Damon Rivero," he uttered extending his hand that made her followed his action.

She gulped looking at his hand extended for a hand shake but she's Zavanna Salazar for f*ck sake. She couldn't help putting herself in an embarrassment. She cleared her throat before she pulled a smile to him, a smile with so much confidence.

"Zavanna, Zavanna Salazar is the name," she responded and accepted the hand of Damon. She even could feel the tightness of how he hold her hand before they let go of it.

"It's nice to finally meet you in person, Zavanna."

Her eyes narrowed with that statement, she was looking at him with question of what the heck he mean about that. "That was you, right?"

She looked up following his finger pointing something and when she saw what the hell was that she chuckled for it was indeed her, her billboard.

"Well, I guess, yeah," she replied trying to sound cool.

"I have been seeing bunch of your billboards along the country's high way, that is why I told you I have finally meet you in person, finally."