Chapter 14

**Xavier Black**

"What are you so pissed of about?" Ura asks as he walks into my office. I grunt and go back to reading the file in front of me and ignore him. "I'm serious man, you've been a nightmare all weak. People are scared to breath wrong around you." He says and I sigh, sitting back in my chair.

"Skyler doesn't want kids. No, she doesn't want kids with me." I tell him and he stares at me for a whole minute. "What?" I ask causing him to shake his head.

"You've been upset all week because Skyler told you she doesn't want to have kids with you?" He asks and I nod. "You're not even married yet, why are you thinking about having kids?" He laughs and I glare at him.

"I'm fully aware we're not married yet but you know I want kids, like not for a few years still but I want them and she doesn’t.” I say and he sighs.

"She's not going to want kids with you if she doesn't like you. She's not going want kids with anyone that she doesn't love and man, she can't stand you." He says and I frown at him.

"So, you're saying I'm never going to have kids?" I ask him causing him to laugh.

"No, I'm telling you to stop acting so hard and get her to fall in love with you man." He says and I raise my eyebrow at him.

"How am I going to do that?" I ask him and he shrugs.

"You can start by proposing to her, the right way this time." He says and I run my hand through my hair. I don't know the first thing about proposing to a girl, how the hell am I going to do that?

"Fine, but you're going to help me." I tell him and he nods with a smile on his face before he gets down to why he came here in the first place. For the rest of the day I'm distracted by the thought of having to propose to Skyler and I must admit to myself that this is the scariest thing I'll ever have to do in my life.

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"Why would I want to do that?" She asks and I roll my eyes.

"Because I asked you to." I say and she cocks her head to the side. "Are you going to or not?" I ask, suddenly annoyed that I have to go though all this trouble.

"You want me to lie to my best friend so she can go to dinner with you and you can propose to her?" She asks and I nod. "Again, why would I want to do that. She doesn't like you dude." Natalie says and I swear if I could choke her I would.

"Look, I know she doesn't like me but this is me trying to get her to like me." I tell her, hoping she would just stop asking questions and agree already.

"You're hoping she's going to like you if you ask her to marry you even though she's already marrying you?" She asks and I nod. "Fine, I'll help you, not because I like you but if she's going to spend the rest of her life with you then she might as well start liking you. I want her to be happy." She shrugs and I sigh in relief.

"Okay, so all you have to do is get her to the restaurant." I tell her and rolls her eyes at me.

"It's not like it's rocket science." She says, pulling out her phone and typing away on it. "There, dinner tonight at seven. Good luck and don't make regret this." She says before getting up and walking out of the building. When I asked her to lunch I didn't even think she would show up but now I'm glad she did, if she hadn't this would have been a lot harder because I know Skyler wouldn't willingly agree to go to dinner with me. Our last trip alone didn't end up so well and she's made it a point not to be alone with me since then.

"Are we all set?" Ura asks the minute he picks up the call.

"Yeah, she's coming. Are you sure this is going to work?" I ask him because I'm not in the business of making a fool out of myself and if this doesn't work that's exactly what I'm going to do.

"Yes, now stop stressing and do your part." He says and hangs up. I sigh before texting the chef the final menu and then leave the restaurant . I then pick up the flowers that I had my assistant order and head to Allure to set everything up. It wasn't difficult to get the owner to let me use the place tonight and I know for a fact Skyler likes the place since she east here all the damn time.

"Mr. Black." The waiter greets as I walk in and hand him the flowers. He takes them to the back to do heaven only knows what with it and I take my time to look at the setup. It's pretty simple with a table made up with candles and fairy lights to light up the place in the dark and I'm guessing the roses are for the centre of the table. I make sure the chef got the menu before leaving the place and going home to get ready.

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"What the hell?" Is the first thing out of Skyler's mouth when she walks into the room. I grin and take her in as she walks closer to me. Her hair is curled, making is shorter but she looks good in it and although I still prefer her long her this isn't to bad. "What's going on here, Xavier?" She asks and I shrug.

"I thought we should have dinner." I say and I can see the gears in her head turning.

"You thought we should have dinner but couldn't ask me to dinner?" She asks and I give her a blank look.

"Would you have come if I asked you?"

"No."

"Exactly, now would you like to sit down?" I ask and she sighs but nods her head. I pull out her chair and she sits down without any complaint.

"Why am I here, Xavier?" She asks and I consider telling her that she's here so I can have kids one day but I refrain from ruining the night and possibly my entire life.

"You're here because this is stupid." I tell her and she raises her eyebrow at me. "The whole avoiding each other thing. If we're going to be married and living together we should get used to being alone with each other." I tell her and she sighs.

"And tricking me into having dinner with you is how we're going to get along?" She asks and I nod.
"Yes, that's how we're going to get along. It's a start at least." I say and she runs her hand through her hair, obviously not concerned about messing it up.

"Okay, I agree we should get along, that much I will tell you but you don't have to go though all this trouble. I'm reasonable and I'll listen to you when you're making sense." She says and although I have no doubt that she will listen to me I don't think she'll be reasonable when it comes to me.

"Okay, so can we have dinner now?" I ask and she nods. The waiter comes in with our drinks and then with the food and even though she doesn't say it I can tell she's impressed with what I ordered for us.
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