Velvet ViXen

"Don't tell her what happened. If you do, she'll kill you." Alexa muttered, right before Louisa walked in.

"Why did you flop the gala?" She asked immediately.

"Flop? I didn't flop it, mom. I just left the avenue." She replied, handing her mother a glass of wine. Louisa stared at her for a while and then dropped the glass on the table.

"Exactly. Why'd you leave it? More than half of the people there were waiting to see the face behind Velvet Vixen and you just disappeared like that." She argued further.

"I'm pretty sure they are just there for the dress." Alexa muttered as she sipped her wine, glancing at Cassidy with a knowing smile.

"Yes. For you and the dress you made. I mean, Doreen did a good job and all that but no one could introduce your perfectly made work as well as you can." Louisa said further.

"I agree with you, mom." Cassidy said and Alexa eyed her immediately.

"I know, Cassy. You are way smarter than Alexa here."

"Mom!!!" Alexa gasped and Cassy smirked at her.

"Where are my kids? I got some things for them." Louisa said, getting up slowly with her bag.

"What?" Alexa gasped.

"Hmmm, actually mom. The kids are asleep." Cassidy said.

"Yes mum, you know how light they sleep." Alexa added.

"I'll just sneak in there quietly and drop the gifts. I want to see the surprise on their faces tomorrow morning." Louisa smiled.

"Tomorrow morning?" Alexa raised a brow.

"Are you trying to say you'll be spending the night here?" She questioned.

"Can't I?"

"Of course not, mom." Cassidy laughed and Louisa shot her a look.

"Actually...." Alexa started and nodded at Cassy to continue.

"What?" Cassidy mouthed.

"We actually..." She said again.

"We have a girls night, mum. We are going to get pretty drunk and stressing you would be a problem." Cassidy smiled.

"You still drink?" Louisa turned to look at Alexa and Alexa's eyes widened slowly as she remembered her mother warned her to stop taking alcohol.

"Mom, that was a long time ago. I don't drink to take away pain, I drink now before I'm so happy. I mean, it's my gala, little wouldn't hurt." She said, as she remembered the last time she drank alcohol and got drunk, she cried and cried and cried again over Liam. But now she was past all that. Nothing was going to hurt her again.

After convincing her mother to leave, Cassidy and Alexa later decided to take the girls hangout night seriously.

"You won't believe who I saw today?" Alexa said, a little bit tipsy. Her red cheeks and very pink lips proved she had drank a lot.

"Who?" Cassidy asked. She was also drunk too and was tearing the chicken lap like she hadn't eaten it before.

"Liam, that guy....my ex-husband." Alexa said, pouring herself another glass of hot drink.

"Liam? Liam Jordans?" Cassidy asked, her eyes wide open.

"Hmm? That Liam Jordans. He was right in front of my car, standing right there and I almost ran him over."

"You should have run over him, girl and we'll settle in court. Let's see what he has to prove." Cassidy started folding her imaginary sleeve and Alexa slowly sighed.

"He looked fine. I'm pretty sure he's enjoying his life to the fullest right now." She muttered, placing her hands under her chin.

"You are also fine, Alexa. See how well you are doing. Besides, you rejected his company proposals a lot of times, he must be having headache now after finding out who you are " Cassidy said and Alexa clicked her fingers, smiling drunkily.

"Right, Cassidy, Liam would feel so bad. And he'll be scared knowing I'm back for revenge!" She banged her hands on the table and her face suddenly contorted in pain.

"It hurts." She whimpered.

"Oh my..." Cassidy held her hands, blowing hair on them.

"Your hands are so cold.." She muttered.

*~*~*~

Liam sat directly at the balcony, staring down at the bright city below his office which was at the top of the skyscraper building.

He fixed his hands in his hair slowly as he sipped the white wine, afterwards, staring at the card in his hands.

"Aren't you ready to go home, boss?" It was Eugene. Surprisedly, he was still working after five years and now he wasn't scared of being sacked anymore. He and Liam had also gotten very close through the time they spent together.

"I don't think I want to go home, Eugene. Actually, I think I will have to get another house." Liam replied. He had been holding up fine all these while when Alexa wasn't in the picture. Though he had tried to find her for about a year, he stopped when it yielded no results. But now, Alexa was back and suddenly, he felt the walls he built to protect himself from his emotions and feelings crash down in a swoop, leaving him unprotected from her irresistible self.

"I'll change my house, Eugene. Please get me a list of houses I can possibly acquire." He said. Out of all the houses Liam had, the one he shared with Alexa was still the most comfortable and so he didn't like sleeping in others. So now, he would have to try sleeping in a new apartment if that would work out for him.

"Okay. But are you sure you are okay?" Eugene asked, after watching him think for a long time.

"Eugene, do you think Alexandra....." He suddenly stopped, deciding it would be foolish to ask such a question. Instead,

"We would stop sending proposals to Velvet Vixen." He said.

"But why sir? Many fashion enterprises wishes to have a collaboration with Velvet Vixen and if we can acquire that, we would become the best, not to talk about the billions that would be pulled in for us." Eugene stated.

"Our proposals have been rejected so many times and I'm pretty sure they weren't even read by anyone before being rejected." Liam responded, dropping the cup in his hands as he spoke.

"Why do you think so? I'm sure if we put more efforts, they will finally give us a chance. I know you do not need the money sir, but think about your workers who will appreciate a lot of incentives like me." Eugene said with a smile.

"Eugene, do you know the owner of Velvet Vixen?" Liam asked seriously, not interested in Eugene's light-hearted comment. Eugene shook his head slowly wondering why Liam asked that question. No one knew who Velvet Vixen's CEO was.

"It's Ale...." Liam suddenly stopped.

"You know what? Dig into Velvet Vixen. Find out their background, their origin, I want to know how Velvet Vixen came into existence." Liam said.