Chapter 2 COUPLE OF THE YEAR

"Sounds like you have taken quite a fancy to Sydney," Davina spoke with a raised eyebrow.

Charles let out a soft chuckle. "Jealous much?" he asked with a smirk.

"You wish," Davina muttered and rolled her eyes at him.

"But seriously, why do you need an assistant when you already have Sydney? Oh... Don't tell me you fired her..." Charles tone was suddenly solemn.

The SUV started to move along the tarred road.

"Well, I did fire her. Why? Would you miss her? I could give you her house address if you want," Davina muttered and it was Charles' turn to glare at her.

She chuckled and his gaze on her gradually softened.

"Why do you think I would have eyes for other girls when I have you?" Charles asked as he reached out to tuck a loose strand of Davina's chocolate brown hair, behind her ear. He patted her head when he was done.

Davina glared at him, and then reached out to grab the hand, which was patting her head and tossed it away.

"Ouch!" Charles mumbled, but he chuckled in the next second. Davina scoffed.

"Well, well, well... They wasted no time uploading the pictures of the both of you at the studio earlier. You two are literally being talked about all over the net. They have even put the both of you on the top of the ranking for Couple of the year," Mrs Loretha informed as she went through her phone. She was sitting behind Davina and Charles.

Charles grinned while Davina let out a soft sigh before reaching for her phone in her handbag, which was right beside her.

Charles just watched Davina as she also started to go through her phone.

"So for lunch, I was thinking Italian," Charles started.

"Whatever," was Davina's tired reply. She leaned her head backwards to let her head rest on the headrest of the seat.

"What else is on my schedule for today?" she asked Loretha as she shut her eyes and let out a yawn.

Charles took out his phone and got busy with it in no time. He could kill for video games...

"Well, you and Charles have a press conference in exactly two hours..." Loretha informed.

"That is today? Alright... What else?" was Davina's quiet reply. Her voice was almost inaudible.

"You have a concert tonight," Loretha said.

"Yeah... The concert is tonight..." Davina's voice trailed off.

Loretha noticed that Davina had dozed off so she stood up and lowered the chair Davina was on, so that Davina could relax her body comfortably on it.

Afterwards, she proceeded to take out Davina's laptop to check her emails.

It was no surprise that Davina Swift was so tired. The young teenager worked so hard, and she didn't have to...

Davina Swift was a top global celebrity. She was a top actress who had won numerous awards. She was a top artiste too and she was an international supermodel. And it didn't even end in the entertainment industry.

Aside from being the apparent heiress of her father's brewery company and the vice CEO, Davina Swift also owned her own fashion brand and it was a globally recognized one at that.

So... Davina Swift led quite a busy life and was successful too...

When the van eventually came to a stop, Charles looked up from his phone. He turned to Davina, who was half lying on another seat beside the one he was sitting on.

"What a sleeping beauty!" he didn't even know that he was thinking aloud until he heard himself. He turned to look at Loretha who just shook her head hopelessly at him.

"You didn't bring your assistant with you," Loretha commented.

"Well, she had to take care of some things for me so she couldn't tag along," Charles replied, and then turned to the sleeping Davina. It took him all of his willpower not to reach out and touch her.

"At least you do listen and take your bodyguards with you. Davina is as stubborn as hell. Half the time I don't even know what to do with her," Loretha said.

"Heard that," Davina murmured, and then opened her eyes. Her long eyelashes danced as she blinked while yawning.

"You have been awake?" Charles asked in surprise. She didn't reply.

Just then, Charles' side of the van opened. One of the bodyguards trailing in the vehicle behind them had come to get the door.

"Mi lady, please wait for this gentleman," Charles mumbled, referring to himself, and then quickly got off the car, rushing to her side of the van to open the door.

When he opened the side of her car, he stretched out a hand towards her to help her out. She took it. When she had gotten out of the car, they both approached the five star Italian restaurant before them, arm in arm, with Loretha following closely behind them and about five bodyguards following after Loretha.

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At the press conference, the questions were unending. Davina barely said anything. She just left the talking to Charles who seemed to be having a field day answering virtually all the reporters questions.

The press conference was being held, majorly for two reasons. The first reason was because of a movie, which had just aired, in which the two of them were the lead actor and actress respectively. The movie had only just aired two days ago but it was already trending like crazy and its fame had already spread far across the globe.

The second reason for the press conference was Charles and Davina's love relationship. Charles and Davina had done quite a few movies together already as lead actor and actress so a love relationship between the two of them wasn't strange.

The supposedly relationship of Charles and Davina had driven even more traffic to the movie of them that had just aired. In the movie that had just aired, the both of them had been a couple so seeing the two of them as a couple in real life was sure fascinating. After all, who doesn't like a love story?