[Won’t be able to stop by your place, heading out to have drinks with a friend.]Darius read the message displayed across his screen as he held his phone up with one hand while the other held a shaving razor against his chin. He sighed out seconds later and placed his phone down on the wash hand basin as he continued shaving.Great, now he had to go out and buy the very same groceries that Quinn had finished. He couldn’t remember how many times he had warned her to go easy of his groceries. Not because he was financially strapped, but rather because he found going grocery shopping a hassle and ordering online was just as useless, the thing never works out well for him.“Just great.” He muttered after scraping the last of the shaving cream off his face and leaned down to splash water across his face.After that, he looked in the mirror to ensure that he had shaved well, only to see that he had missed a spot. He picked up the shaving cream and applied it on the subtle spot he had missed
“Talking in the open seemed too much like a hassle.” Alexandra informed Leonardo as Zion poured them each a cup of steaming hot coffee.Seated within the walls of one of Grey Enterprise’s many conference room, Leonardo allowed his gaze travel for a few seconds, admiring the interior of the company he had never gotten to see. Finally when his gaze landed on the steamy cup of coffee, he flinched and made no attempt to pick it up.Alexandra on the other hand, she took a sip from her cup, relished in the feeling before tilting her head in Leonardo’s direction. “Do you think I poisoned it?” She asked with a smirk and when the male flinched once more, her assumptions were confirmed. “Doing that is too much trouble for me. And besides, you are not worth killing.”He wasn’t worth killing? Did that mean that he was finally off her radar? Leonardo thought as he watched Alexandra place her cup down and fix her gaze solely on him.As if reading his mind, she uttered. “Don’t have foolish thoughts,
The price was steep.But Leonardo paid it with his full chest. Standing at the edge of her window, Alexandra watched her cousin leave after their meeting. She had heard a lot of things from him, things which were sure to help her in the long run and in return for her helping Vivian, Leonardo had agreed to help her with whatever she needed.Although she didn’t completely trust him. Just yesterday he was her enemy, no way was she going to blindly put her trust in him. She was smarter than she had once been. Repeating the same mistake twice wasn’t an option for her any more as that would only lead to a possible failure.Turning around, Alexandra pulled out her phone from her protect when she felt it vibrate. She glanced at her screen and saw it was a text message from Quinn. Without hesitating, she clicked on it and opened up the message.[I can’t seem to reach him.] Her text was plain without any further meaning but strangely it made Alexandra’s heart clench.She swiped away the massage
Darius felt the color drain from his face. His heart did a tumble and he could feel the pit in his stomach enlarge.Throughout all that, he managed to ask. “What?”At this, Cain reached into the pocket of his inmate suit and pulled out a few pictures. He tossed them on the table, allowing them scatter across the table and give Darius a full clear view of what were on each of them.Hastily, he reached for the closest picture and grabbed it off the table. A sigh left his lips when he was it a picture of him and Alexandra together. Several more after that followed and each one of them backdated towards the previous months. Even up until the point in which he had ran into her at the convenient store and they had shared snacks.Looking at all the pictures, Darius felt utter rage. “You bastard.” He sneered.But Cain obviously didn’t seem affected by his words. “What? Did you think you were the only one doing the watching?” He chuckled and crossed his arms. “Think again kid.”Darius balled h
Back at Albrecht Empire, Lucien sat in the comfort of his office with the lights dimmed. He had his tablet held within his grasp and on the screen was the long list of Octavia’s call logs Lucas had provided.He had been looking through it for some time now and only one number seemed to stand out with its frequent communications and call history and when tracked back to its owner, it happened to be a certain man with the name of Marcus Sylvester.Lucien had never heard of him but suspected he was the person Octavia was colluding with to deceive him.The male sighed and placed the tablet down. Once again, Octavia was trying to blind sight him and take something that belonged to him away. Thinking of it that way angered him. But then that anger gave path for other thoughts to roam his mind.Had Octavia ever loved him in the first place? Had he really been the only one who had feel in love during all those years of them being together?How disappointing. Not only was he a fool in love, he
It was cold.No matter how much she stirred around, Alexandra could no longer feel that one warm spot on her shoulder and unconsciously, her body became disturbed.Where had her perfect warm spot gone to? The question floated her mind as she drifted in and out of her sleepy haze, unaware of the person watching her sleep. Just when she had begun dozing off, Darius had woken up and just like she had told him, she was right there when he woke up with her eyes closed.Darius took his precious time to observe her sleeping face. It wasn’t every day he got to witness her sleeping. In the process of watching her sleep, her head bopped and she nearly slopped to the side. Darius was quick to catch her and chuckled. She looked like a fierce beast when awake but like an innocent rabbit when sleeping.One could almost mistake the two.Scooting closer, Darius gently placed her head on his shoulder and relaxed back in his seat. He had gotten a well needed rest and truthfully, could now thing better.
Alexandra sat in her car with her head hung low.Ah, why had she panicked that way? Now Darius was feeling guilty for something he had not caused. And she… well she was left wondering what was so scary about liking someone.Probably the wounds caused by Lucien’s constant torment and neglect when they had been married. But even still, she had no right to stereotype people according to that experience. For all she knew, Darius might be different. No, he was different, Alexandra knew this and that was why her heart had unconsciously slipped even when she had reminded herself number of times that she had no room for romance.His annoying yet caring way of life. His humor and heartwarming characteristics. Darius was far way different from the man Lucien had been when she was married to him. Yet her heart still shrank away at the slightest thought of romance.That was something ironic being heard from the mouth of Alexandra Grey, a powerful business woman like herself, but it was only natur
Vivian had cried until her heart was content. Alexandra had felt kind of bad of her s she held Vivian in her arms and listened to her cry, but in an instant, she wiped away such a felting emotion and instructed that the head doctor from Grey’s medical center be summoned immediately.After the medical checkup was completed, Vivian, along with Leonardo was sent back to their place while Alexandra stayed behind to clean up the final mess.As she was about closing the strategy meeting Zion, she felt her phone vibrate once again. When she pulled it out and saw it was Lucien, she sighed.Out of everybody present on the earth right now, she was not in the mood to deal with his bullshit. If the world could grant it, she’d instantly block his contact, but as fate has it, she had entered cooperation with him, that she was now regretting. Maybe the land in Paris-which was the only thing tying her to Lucien- wasn’t as important as she had evaluated it.Her company stocks had gone up twice the mar