Darius returned from the convenient store less than thirty minutes later and had set the table by the time Alexandra stepped out of the shower.She changed into the flannel be had worm earlier since she no longer wanted to be in bed evening gown and sat by the table."Wow." She mused while glancing over the food a big smile on her lips."Like it?" Darius asked as he took his seat beside her.Alexandra was quick to nod as she picked up her spoon and began digging in. She moaned out in delight after she had stuffed the first spoon into her mouth. Although she wasn't one to eat fast, convenient store food, as they always left a sour taste in her mouth, this one surprisingly tasted perfect and soon Alexandra found herself digging into the various dishes Darius had gotten.The male chuckled with a smile on his lips as he picked up his own food and began to eat, making sure to keep an eye on her even still.After dinner was finished and she'd eaten more than enough to make up for what she w
~Twelve Years Ago.~~August Eighteenth, Two Thousand And Eleven.~The rain had just barely subsides when Cory stepped into the warm comfort of her house.Closing the door behind her, she viewed the beige, yet simple interior of the place she called home and sighed.In the distance, she could hear Alistair playing his console games in his room and screaming over several of his wins.She chuckled. A sad one, and momentarily wondered how long this peace of hers would last.However long it lasted, her goal was to protect her children. Cory thought and her grip hardened on the SD card she was holding.Soon, she was no longer by the door and now in her study. She pulled open her laptop just as she sank into her chair and connected the SD card shortly after.Cory sat still for a few minutes bracing herself before opening the file and clicking on the last video that back dated to a few days ago.When the footage began, Cory felt her heart skip a beat. What is going on here? What she was seein
~The Night Before.~Lucien watched as Alexandra interacted with the foreigner talking to her. Well it wasn't much of her doing the interaction, it even seemed like she wasn't too kin on talking to the guy.At long last, the male left and Lucien decided to step forward and talk to Alexandra. He still believed the their talk had not yet ended and that they could still work something out if all the patches were smoothed down. After all, there was nothing more important in his mind than a relationship between him and the girl who was now standing before him.As he got closer, he could hear her muttering a few words... No, she was muttering a one sides conversation, but it didn't seem like there was anyone else apart from herself and him present and obviously she hadn't noticed his presence, otherwise she would have snapped at him in the nastiest of ways.So who exactly was she talking to? Lucien thought as he stopped in his tracks.This time, he was a bit closer and could make out a few o
"What?" Alexandra asked, dumbfounded by his straight up approach."Are you? Or are you not?" Lucien pushed forward, remaining serious and stoic despite the look of confusion, disbelief and surprise written across Alexandra's face.Silence hung in the air for a few seconds, in which after, Alexandra sighed and shook her head."Leave." She ordered. "Get out of my sight before I make you regret showing up.""You still haven't answered my question.""Because I don't want to." Alexandra deadpanned and folded her hands above her chest, the flannel she was wearing briefly exposing her thighs skin. "But since we're playing the game of questions, here's one of my own. How the fuck did you find me?"Lucien remained unresponsive to her question. He didn't answer and instead he simply stood there looking like a male god, all muscle and sinew as he stared straight at her."Answer my question first?" His gaze clearly demanded wordlessly.This made Alexandra scoff out in disbelief, yet she still cou
On the drive back home Lucien could concentrate. There was so many things going on in his head that the male thought that he would be involved in an accident even before he got home.Much to his dismay, that didn't happen.Parking his car, he stepped out with a sigh and slammed the door shut. That was more than enough announcement to the servants of the house that their master had returned.The first person that approached him even before he could step inside was Regent. The elderly male quickly sensed the displeased aura surrounding Lucien and tried his best to sooth that aura of better still, avoid it."Welcome Young master Albrecht." The butler greeted with a bow.Despite his anger, Lucien still found himself cringing at the title he was addressed with.Ever since Leon, his father, showed up out of the blues, the servants of the house had ever since addressed him with the title of Young master and not master like the previous days. Probably because they now knew that Leon was still
"Alexandra Grey has something I want." Eliana said as she tapped her well manicured finger against the window glass of Alexandra's old bedroom, staring down at the gardeners below who were trying their best to aid the dying garden.Pitiful, she thought and turned her attention away, fixing it back on Lucien who was giving her, not only a death glare, but a confused look alike. She almost felt like chuckling after seeing it."Well, to be exact, she has someone I want." The female added in, intending to defuse Lucien's confusion, but only added all the more to it.Alexandra had someone Eliana wanted? Who could it be? Was she possibly holding a family member or relative of Eliana hostage?No. Lucien shook thoughts of such off. The Alexandra he had come to know was genuine and too sincere to go down and dirty like that. Even if it meant she wanted something desperately, she just wasn't that type of woman, and that was what he admired and what made him keep falling for her all the more, ev
First of all, before Alexandra's mind briefly wheeled with questions, she felt a strange sense of Deja Vu hit her.What was he doing here?There was no way he could be...Before Alexandra could deny her thoughts, the foreign stranger walked towards where Mr. Bianchi and his wife sat and each hugged them."Mother, father, it's good to see you guys again."Alexandra swallowed at his words and felt her appetite drop. Even if she had used strange soccery, there was no way she could have predicted that he and Darius were related.And step siblings for that matter! Those two looked nothing like each other.While Darius had thick dark hair and green entrancing hazel eyes, The foreign stranger had bright blonde hair and blue eyes that seemed depth-less. And it wasn't only their looks that constracted, even their personalities were at odds.From the few odd minutes Alexandra had talked to the foreign stranger, she could tell he was an outgoing person. Someone who stopped at nothing until he ha
"What exactly is going on here?" Alexandra quickly made her presence known as she matched up to where Darius was and stood behind the familiar looking girl.She folded her arms and watched as the girl seating beside Darius turned to look at her, her eyes seemingly doubling in astonishment as she finally realized Alexandra had returned. Much to Alexandra's surprise, the face that she gazed down upon was a familiar face, Eliana Curt, if she remembers correctly."Ms. Grey, what a pleasant surprise." The cherry hair female quipped and quickly got to her feet, forgetting that she had been trying to pull a fast one on Darius as she walked to where Alexandra was standing just a few feet away.The blonde sized her up and her expression darkened. She really didn't like the girl for one single thing and today just proved how much her gut was right."Miss Curt, if I remember correctly?" Alexandra asked and she nodded her head enthusiastically like a child."Yes, correct." She beamed, but her smi