From the comfort of the back seat of her car, Alexandra surveyed the venue for Eleanor’s birthday celebration and watched as people flocked in. The party was already in full swing and bustling with well wishers for Eleanor. Alexandra had no such intention. Unlike the rest of the guests attending today, she didn’t come here to smile and utter fake words, her purpose was different and set in stone, nothing was going to change her mind.Her gaze was pulled away from the venue by the vibration of her phone. She glanced at the device laying beside her and reached for it. On, turning the screen on, it was a message from Theodore.The words simply read. “Found him.”Alexandra smiled. Perfect. The pieces of her plan were finally complete. How easy was her life being right now?Without further a due, she swiped the message away and reached for her burner phone. She texted Stefan a location and tucked the burner phone away in the secure hold of her glove compartment. When she was sure that ever
The amount of anxiousness Eleanor felt but kept hidden, Alexandra could feel. No matter how much she tried to bury the emotion, some part of her still gave it off.Taking a sip from the wine she had just picked up, Alexandra scanned the room for a certain person, her smile broadening when her eyes landed on the approaching figure. Stefan walked his way up to her, weaving through the small amount of crowd that blocked his way every now and then. When he arrived in front of her, the brunette gave her a cut nod and bowed his head to which she responded with a nod of her own.“Did you receive my little present well?” Alexandra asked with a subtle smile on her lips. Stefan nodded his head. “Good, le talk on the balcony, it’d be more convenient there.” She suggested and began leading the way towards the designated location, only stopping once when she felt Eleanor’s piercing gaze on the back of her head.She looked over her shoulder and allowed her smile expanded. Raising her wine glass, sh
“So tell me, now that you’ve met me in person, do I live up to the rumors.”Was she what the rumors had made her out to be? The two females really couldn’t find an answer out for that question in their shivering minds, but one thing they did know was that Alexandra’s beauty and elegance far surpassed anything the rumors had ever try to make her look like. Under her razor sharp doll gaze, they slowly began to feel suffocated and any sign of their previous pompous attitude slowly withered away.Alexandra stared at the ladies with now folded arms as the bucket laid by her and she awaited their answers; not like she really needed it.“I thought you both had a mouth full of things to say about me?” She questioned coldly. The girls gulped. Sure, they had indeed heard more than a hundred gossip about the female herself, but now that they were in her suffocating presence, they dare not mention a word.Slowly, they were both beginning to regret what they had said about Alexandra’s mother witho
It was all as she planned.From the center of the crowd, Alexandra watched on as the chaos brewed. When it was almost at its peak, she grabbed a glass of wine-her third one for the night- and slowly sipped on it. Eleanor seemed on the edge but surely unsuspecting of what she was about to pull off. From the side of her vision, Alexandra could see Stefan bringing in the person whom he had once introduced to her as his partner. The man towered just slightly above the brunette and together, they indeed looked like the right set of individuals to be paired together. At least Winfred had used his brain once.When they both spotted her amongst the crowd, Stefan nodded subtly in her direction. Alexandra dismissed it without a thought and turned her attention back to the stage in front. She didn’t need them to be throwing greetings and acknowledgement her way right now, what she needed them both to do was act according to how they had planned, caring out their plan without any hiccups and seei
The news of Benjamin and Daniel’s arrest spread like wild fire. Within two days since the incident, many news station and journalists had sent Alexandra a request for an interview. Of course being the woman she was, the blonde flat out denied all their interviews and focused on work, seeing as her workload had been doubled due to Michael’s absence. However, there seemed to be a certain journalist who was hell bent on getting an interview.Unlike the rest and the ones before her-Annabel Cross- the female was persistent and in the two days since the incident she had sent over a hundred requests, not for once sleeping or relaxing on the go when Alexandra rejected her interview. It was getting annoying for the blonde, but what could she do, Annabel was simply doing her job to put food on her table, she knew that, and that was one of the reasons why she hadn’t requested an order for her to stay away.Today being one of the two days since the incident, Alexandra gave the letter in her hand
Isabella Rossi. The name on ‘Natalie’s’ Patient plate red Isabella Rossi, not Natalie Marsh.Alexandra blinked her eyes in confusion. She glanced at the woman lying in the bed, sleeping, and then back at the patient plate.What in hell’s ass was she reading? Those two names were clearly different, yet she was looking at the same woman with the same features of the person who she had met back at Bianchi medical center. What were the odds that the elderly woman had a twin? Zero to none, it was more than obvious that she had Lied to Alexandra.The main question was why? Why mask her identity and approach the blonde only to disappear later? Alexandra couldn’t wrap her head around it, she may have been a planning expert but this seemed beyond her.“How did you meet my mother again?” Cory’s voice boomed from behind. Alexandra tore her gaze off the sleeping woman and turned to face her aunt. She watched as the woman placed a bouquet of synthetic flowers into a flower vase and arranged them b
Nova sat in the chair beside a hospital bed. Her lush blonde hair cascaded down her shoulders and stooped by her backbone as she stared down at the newly life given infant with an eye blinding smile. In the bed beside her, Cory sat upright, an infant of her own being held within her grasp.Both babies yawned almost rhythmically causing the two best friends to coo at the children.“She’s so beautiful.” Nova cooed at the child in her arms, watching as she flared her tiny little arms in the air. Nova brought the cute action to an end as she inserted her index finger in the baby’s tiny palm, creating an even cuter interaction. “She has her mother’s eyes.” She said and brushed away several of her baby blonde hair.The little child made a noise in delight and gaggled on her saliva.Cory sighed and pulled her gaze away from her now sleeping child. “Don’t say that Nova, you are her mother.”The blonde woman finally looked away from the baby in her arms at the words of her best friend. She for
It was like he had spoken utter rubbish.It was the first time since she had become ‘Alexandra Grey’ that Lucien saw the look of surprise on her face. Her doll gray eyes expanded almost inhumanly as she stared at him, dumbstruck by his words.Well, what other reaction had he expected after saying such a thing? At that moment, it felt like he had been remotely controlled to voice those words. But he was regretting it, all he did was have the courage to speak when the heat had gotten too much.For someone who has been praised endlessly as Seattle’s business tycoon, he sure did mellow in the presence of the woman who drove his crazy both day and night. And this was more the reason why he needed to speak his mind now. They were no longer high school students who played hooky with their likes and dislikes and he didn’t need to keep using the excuse of business to see her when he wanted.He knew that if he hadn’t taken this step now, then slowly but surely, Alexandra was going to be snatche
Mazikeen blinked. The girl in front of her with lush blonde hair imitated the same action. She blinked again and so did the reflection.Finally having had enough of the stare off with her reflection, the teen turned away from the mirror and sighed.Her eyes found the luxurious clock hung above the TV and she chewed on her inner check as each passing moment reminded her of her impending torment.It was the last Saturday of the month, and as per the long existing tradition, her family had to go over to the Langer Family Vila for a wholesome picnic time.Sure, any normal person would enjoy such outing, except her situation was different. The reason why she dreaded their usual family picnic was because of a certain noirette boy that always seemed to make her life a living hell each time she encountered him.Vincent Langer, the original ruler of hell. Or so she put him, but for some reason, only she did.Even her own mother thought he was a saint.Bloody hell, the whole Seattle saw him as
~Five years Later.~Alexandra stood in front of her parent's grave- both Cory, Nova and Miguel- dressed in a fashionable black dress that draped down as far as her knee.Her hair- which had now grown back to it's full length- was packed up neatly and rolled into a bun at the end, accompanied by the black net cap she had on her hair.Alexandra stood with a bouquet of white roses in her right hand and daisies from the nearby meadow on the left. Those were not only symbols of peace, love, and hope but also reminders that life was still going on. She looked around slowly as if giving herself a moment to reflect upon how things have changed since then.Five years ago, when she had lost everyone she loved and was shattered to the core after her divorce with Lucien, Alexandra thought her life would never be same again. She had felt helpless and hopeless that time even with all the power and must accomplish goals, but now as she looked at both her adoptive mother and Biological mother grave w
Alexandra rushed off to the location on her screen as soon as she could, even though she wasn't too kin on it. On her way there, she couldn't stop herself from asking all the what ifs, re-running even those possibilities that did not exist in her head as she drove.What if something happened to Darius?What if some enemy of hers got to him?What it Eleanor had sent someone after him?By the time she turned up in front of the given location, her mind was feeling with all sort of possiblities that she didn't even know that the house she had pulled up in front of was one of Darius's.It was only after she had rushed up to the front door and found it open that she took the time to examine her surrounding and this only made her worry all the more.Whoever she was going up against now had been smart enough to bypass Darius and his security and even broke into his house.Alexandra had felt her mind begining to reel once more when she calmed herself and reminded herself that she dealt with El
The next two days after that passed by quietly. Alexandra hd released the tap of her father's black box footage to the police after turning in the driver and after a few days of searching, they found Eleanor passed out on the floor of her house in her paralysed state.Eleanor was admitted into a hospital under sever watch to take care of her and later on admitted into the prison's medical center while her trial was underway.Although she had been saved from the dehydration and over thinking that caused her to pass out, her case of paralysis couldn't be solved and even thought it could be, Alexandra made sure that that option was rendered invalid.Apart from that, the other development that had brought a smile to Alexandra's lips was when Leonardo was suddenly caught at the air port while trying to flee with Eleanor's last fortune under a fake name.He was charged with a few crimes, one of them being his illegal use of a fake identity and the other being his illegal stash of cash.Botto
~Day One Out Of Seven.~Alexandra returned to the Grey Manor that night after her conversation with Eleanor over the phone had ended.The first thing, or rather, the first person she saw as she stepped into the house was Darius. He was pacing around the living room for a while until he noticed Alexandra and quickly rushed to meet her."Alexa... Where were you?" He asked, his voice dripping with concern and worry.Alexandra softly sighed out. "Calm down, Darius." She said while gently stroking his hair. "I'm fine. I just had to take care of something little.""What?""I found out how Eleanor knew about my pregnancy. The waiter back at the cafe was a spy for her and he must have reported our conversation to her that day." Alexandra informed."What?" Darius was angry, but then seconds later, his face crumbled and a tinge of guilt set in.I'd the waiter had only reported their conversation that day and Eleanor found out about their unborn child, then it was his fault. He couldn't stop his
Eleanor pressed the button and imagine in that moment how it all played out.The best part of it all being that Alexandra was finally out of the way and she had emerged victorious after the long battle.No other thought could have made her smile the way she did.Eleanor's train of thoughts were interrupted by the sound of her phone ringing. She frowned, not taking too lightly to the fact that one of her useless henchmen or sons were distrubing her moment of celebration.She reached for her phone and picked it up, ready to lash out brutally in whoever's name was written on her phone screen, but to her utter dismay, it was an unsaved number.Eleanor stared at the digits of numbers across her screen with creased brows.'Who is it this time?' She thought after a while as she answered the call and placed her phone to her ear."Who is this?" She asked sternly.The other end of the line was silent for a while. Eleanor could make out the sound of someone mumbling in the background and then th
Six out of seven of those days bad gone by. Eleanor had been unusually quiet. One would have almost thought that she bailed and ran away.But Alexandra knew better than that. She knew that the woman who had raised her in disguise as the perfect grandmother was more of a deadly predator than her sins gave her credit for.In other words, she isn't one to tuck her tail between her legs and run away. It was just a matter of time until she acted.'A matter of time...' Alexandra pondered those last few words as she watched as the last fragments of oranges, reds and yellows faded into a dark gray. The sunset had gone, and the blanket of night began to cover the world in the darkness of its shadow.After a while, she pulled her gaze away and sighed, focusing on the pile of work that was on her table.Because of Darius's over protectiveness, she had worked less in the last few days and barely ever came to the company. Today, she had escaped by miracle- miracle meaning that she had made more th
For the first time in a long while, Alexandra felt panic shot through her as she read the letter in her hands. She allowed the paper drop to the floor after awhile as her thoughts became more loud than the sound of her heart beat.How was it possible? How could Eleanor have found out that she was pregnant?Alexandra thought, after all she had done everything in her power to make sure that Eleanor did not find out. To make sure that the news of her being pregnant did not reach the ears of any of her foe. Yet, here she was, hyperventilating over the fact that Eleanor had learnt of her child's existence while breathing like some dying cow.'Calm down, Alexandra.' she tried to calm herself as soon as she noticed how ragged her breathing was becoming.She found her way back to her bed and sag down, controlling her breathing and thoughts together. After a while, she picked up her phone and dailed Darius's number. The line rang for a few seconds as usual before Darius picked up."Alexei? Wha
Alexandra arrived at Albrecht Manor an hour later. She was welcomed nice and warmly, remembering her of the days when she once used to be their mistress and was looked down on, snickered at and even laughed at.Memories of the olden days flooding in made the blonde clench her teeth together. She bo longer wanted to think of those days. Her Chapter with the Albrecht family was over and sincerely speaking, she was happy with her life with Darius.Sure, she did get sad at times while thinking of all the grief she has had to endure and all the pain Eleanor has out her through, but Isabella's wonderful food and care, Alistair's headstrong way of supporting her, Darius's unlimited love and affection that grew by each day and her unborn baby made up for all that sadness.So now, she wanted to finally close things with the Albrecht family and return to her content life as soon as possible.Drawing in her breath, Alexandra prepared herself, carrying her shoulders well, before she stepped into