She was smiling, a genuine one that made Lucien silently sit by the edge of his bed and stare down at her sleeping face.After he had taken her away from the graveyard, he brought her back to his mansion and had gently placed her in his bed. The housekeeper did the needful and changed her out of her wet outfit, providing him with a bowl of cold water before she bowed her head and disappeared out the door. Lucien who had never really cared for a sick person was quiet relief to see her fever lessen under his watch.He glanced at the clock then back at the blonde sleeping in his bed. It was already past dinner time yet she was not awake, obviously nothing to worry about based on the doctors instructions, but based on those same doctors instructions she needed to ingest some form of solid food before at least taking her required medication and he doubted she had taking anything tangible throughout the day.A knock on the door had cut his attention in half. He turned towards the wooden ent
His words of encouragement had gotten her through the hardest of times. She couldn’t remember his every word, but just the few she could meant everything to her.She’d forever cherish them. Forever.Rays of sunlight streamed down on Alexandra’s face as her eyes slowly fluttered open. It was morning, a bright and beautiful one. Slowly, as she rose up from the bed, her vision cleared and she examined her surroundings. They were unfamiliar, not like her own bedroom, yet she somehow knew the structures.Her feet landed on the cold floor as she stepped out of bed, eyes trained on the multiple awards shelve ahead. She approached it and ran her fingers across them, then turned her gaze in the direction of the sunlight. The wooden floor looked glorious as it basked in the golden light of the morning sun shining through the balcony’s glass.It was one of the many rare peaceful sights and body could witness.Alexandra smiled, but it quickly faded as she caught her reflection wearing clothes tha
Lucas kept his head bowed as he held the door open in front of Grey Manor and Alexandra stepped out. As per curtsey, she thanked him and headed inside.The first thing she did was to collapse on her soft bed. The comfy mattress instantly accepted her body and drew her in. She sighed and closed her eyes.‘What a day.’ She thought and rolled on her side, closing her eyes to gather her thoughts when the sound of her house phone interrupted the session.“Well damn.” She muttered and rolled over then reached for the landline position on her night stand. She picked it up and placed it to her ear. “Yeah hello?”She asked casually, not expecting anyone important, however, at the voice from the other side, her body tensed up.“Alexandra, it’s your Grandmother.”Grandmother. Like hell she was! Alexandra could phantom an answer as to how she could call herself that after all she might have done. Her audacity was outrageous.Keeping herself together, she rose to a sitting position on her bed and
At the Grey Direct Mansion.Alexandra stood in front of the huge length picture shelve and browsed through it with her eyes as she awaited her grandmother’s presence. She smiled softly at some of the old pictures consisting of she and her parents. They looked so happy without any care in the world that it broke her heart all over again that they were now gone.Moving on, she looked at the next picture, and the one after that, finally she was met with a photo frame with the face placed down. She had never really frequented the direct mansion and wondered what the frame held, however, as she was about to turn the face up, two servants passed by, giggling like dying hyenas and she caught wind of their conversation.“So that’s what happened. How shameless.”“I mean we can’t blame her, who’d want to keep a child after their failed marriage. She obviously had to get rid of it to save face, and now she’s back here acting all high and mighty.”Alexandra’s ears perked up and she stepped forwar
Her Grandmother wanted her as nothing but a pawn. Another one added to her already several.Alexandra tapped her index finger on her upper arm as stood arms crossed and waiting for Michael to arrive. Once again, she was standing in front of the picture shelves and trying to forget any unsettling thought. Alas that proved impossible, and after a while, she sighed.Her Grandmother really was a clever woman. Well, all she’d have to do is outsmart her and seeing as she was her eldest granddaughter, Alexandra didn’t think that’d be much of a task.Alexandra nodded her head and continued looking at pictures. She picked up from where she had left off and approached the frame with its face down. Dust had gathered around the part of the picture shelve it had been placed.She wondered why out of all the picture, this one was the only one which had been neglected during cleaning.When she picked it up and turned the face around, the picture inside was barely half a piece. The other half had been
A suitor?Alexandra pondered these words as she stood in front of her mirror, fully dressed for her so called date night. She was for no reason pleased with the idea, but she knew the moment she’d brought it up with that sixty two years old woman a brawl was sure to break out, or worse a duel.She huffed out and shook her head in disappointment. What a wonderfully useless bunch of leech she had been given as family members.Michael gently knocked on the door’ frame and stepped in, bowing his head respectfully at his employer. “The vehicle is ready Ms. Grey.” He informed.Alexandra nodded as she examined herself one last time in the mirror, smacked her bright red glossed lips together and then nodded in approval towards her reflection in the mirror.She looked perfect.“Let’s go Michael.” She commanded the assistant who still had his head lowered as she walked past him, heading for her vehicle.Throughout the drive to the Grey’s main mansion Alexandra kept her gaze trained outside as s
Out of everybody in this whole vast world her grandmother had chosen Darius Perce to be her ‘Fiance’Oh hell no! No way in fucking hell was ‘that’ happening. She hated his freaking guts, and from the looks of their past encounters, he hated her just as much.“Child, why do you look so surprised?” Eleanor asked the noirette who was still standing at the door, mouth agape like a fish out of fresh water. “Darius dear?” Came Eleanor’s voice as she looked between the two and asked. “Do you both happen to know each other?”At that moment, Alexandra wanted to loudly bark out the words ‘As if!’, but composed herself and plainly responded as she tore her gaze away. “No.”“Yes.” Darius had happened to answer the very same second she delivered her answer.Alexandra so badly wanted to shot a nasty glare his way.Eleanor looked between the two youngsters and chuckled. “It seems to me that you are well acquainted with my granddaughter Darius?”“Granddaughter?” The male asked as he moved to take one
Alexandra couldn’t remember when the color of her delicious meat soup had become red. She glanced into the plate of yellow liquid then at her grandmother who was also looking at her.Her heart began to pound, skipping several beats in-between as her mind brought up a thought.Had she been poisoned? But when?She glanced at the table, trying to figure out which dish had carried the key piece, but when she couldn’t deduct which dish had been poison, her gaze flew to her grandmother. The only person who she believed would have a motive to hurt her and the culprit.But before she could open her mouth and accused the elderly woman, another wave of rough cough ripped through her lips. Alexandra felt like her entire inside was being torn to shreds as her body shook with a new wave of cough.After it subsided, she glanced at her hand to see a new round of red drops on her palm. With shaky gaze, she looked towards Eleanor who looked calm and she knew.The last thing she saw before her vision w
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