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
It was probably a stupid thing to say, but he couldn’t take it back now.Lucien’s gaze on him seemed to be tearing him in half. The atmosphere had surprisingly dropped in temperature, and if Darius wasn’t mistaking, the lighting of the hospital had dimmed as well.He knew he had done… said something he shouldn’t have. Probably pushed the wrong button of the country’s biggest business tycoon. If he’d survive the night after that stare, he’d thank God.When Lucien had not shook his hand, Darius retracted his hand and stuffed it into his pocket, exhaling through his lips in that moment.“Alexandra is currently resting.” He informed the glaring man.Sadly, his words fell on deaf ears. Lucien’s ears- for some reason, had been ringing since the announcement of his introduction. The blood inside his body seemed to rise up and boil along with it.Fiancé? Ha, what a classic prank!Lucien wasn’t one to pick at baseless proclamations, and as much as he wanted to grab Darius by his collar and pun
It was some time during winter back at high school, one of her usual reoccurring dreams. Alexandra stood under the large oak tree of her school, dressed in her uniform. The person standing in front of her had his back turned towards her as he stared out across the vast field.Dry leaf slowly fell from the tree above, gathering around her feet like some romance teen movie. Except nothing about this moment was romantic. She could feel it, almost as if she was living this dream more vividly than the rest.Finally, when the boy turned around, half of his face had been blurred out by dark shades, his chestnut brown hair being the only thing Alexandra could barely recognized.“You know,” He spoke, the sound of his honey soft voice startling her. “Vengeance can be sweet, but destructive. If you feel like the whole world has wronged you so bad, why not just get stronger and show them what you’re truly made of. That way no one would dare mess with you again, right?”The sound of his last words
Darius had returned with the doctors less than ten minutes later. They ran a few checks on her and clarified her health. However, she was instructed to stay on the hospital grounds for another few days, a week at tops. Apparently they needed to make sure the poison didn’t have any further side effects on her. Alexandra accepted without a fuss, although she hated hospitals, she was in no rush to leave, get back to work or pay her atrocious grandmother a visit.She decided to leave all that until when she was in the mood for it.“That’d be all for today.” The doctor said as he completed his check up on her. He packed his things and smiled at her. “Ms. Grey please be mindful of what you eat in the future, you were very lucky that your Fiancé was near you at that moment. Although the poison dose ingested was not fatal, it still could have caused a lot of damage to your body, coupled with your allergy.”The doctor had said so much, but out of all, Alexandra had only heard a select few befo