Annie felt more confident with her new hair colour. It was still styled from her trip to the salon earlier in the day so all she needed to do to get ready for a dinner with Chris was change clothes. Annie put on a black knee length dress that she felt matched her new hair colour. Annie decided she would arrange to go shopping with one of the girls one day in the next week to get some new clothes to match her new hair colour. Annie lightly did her make up, she was going to a rather fancy restraunt and feared being underdressed, she had never been one to live an expensive life style before and it was a big adjustment for her. She had never really had to worry about her bills, but she didn't have enough money to pamper herself like she did now. Alexander had just given her a debit card with no spending limit. Annie hated thinking about how he got this much money, but she hoped it was of semi legal means despite her doubts. Annie got an uber to the restraunt and when she arrived Chris wa
Chris drove over to headquarters where he assumed that Alexander was hiding out. Chris knew that if Alexander was so busy that he couldn't make time for Annie there must be something up, or something going on that he wanted to be in the loop about. When Chris arrived at headquarters he quickly made his way over to Alexander's office. He greeted people as he saw them go by, it seemed everyone was attending to their usual duties which rose many more red flags to Chris, he couldn't think of a single reason that Alexander would be ignoring Annie so cruelly immediately after she had moved in. Something was off and Chris was determind to find out what. "Why have you been ignoring Annie?" Chrris demanded the second he walked into Alexander's office. Alexander barely looked up from his work. "I've bee busy." Alexander brrushes off. "I have a lot of paperwork." Chris shakes his head. "That's bullcrap, you have the same amount of paperwork as usual unless there is something I don't know ab
Annie had plans with Bailey when she woke up to a once again empty house. Annie was getting sick of always waking up to silence, she missed living with Rebecca who she still wasn’t seeing much of. Rebecca and Cindy were enjoying their honeymoon phase while it lasted, Annie was happy for them but was starting to feel isolated. She and Bailey had made plans to negate the feeling of being apart from their best friends. Annie got dressed quickly. She was glad to finally have her own clothes again, but she still kept the clothes Bailey and Cindy had brought on Alexander’s behalf when she had first arrived. It had felt like so long ago when she had first arrived, she wondered what what going on with her family. Part of her didn’t even care, they still hadn’t checked in, there were no calls when she was away. She would call at some point, but for now she wanted to wait. None of them were in any kind of rush to speak to her. Jack had sent her a text, but she had yet to reply. She didn’t know
Alexander had been living on edge for days. To figure out how to protect Annie, Alexander had to be away from Annie. The hours would tick by and before he knew it, it would be the early hours of the morning. Alexander was sure that Xavier was the person threatening Annie, he had never been more sure of anything in his life. But he was beginning to question how. Xavier had no transactions anywhere, none of his assumed names were being used anywhere and Alexander wondered how Xavier could have recovered so fast. Alexander was considering working from home for a few days, he wanted to be around Annie to protect her more. Part of his feared that she would be killed before he even got the chance to say go on a date with her. He hated how he had finally confessed his feelings and now he was stuck. Working from home would be the best thing he had ever done, if only that would be manageable. Being at home with Annie is where he wants to be, but it just wasn’t plausible. Barely anybody knew wh
Annie had been waiting for Alexander for hours. It was at least 3am and she was starting to lose hope. She hadn’t quite given up, her body was exhausted but she had a hot cup of coffee in her hand as she sat on the uncomfortable chairs in the kitchen. Annie had never realised how uncomfortable they were until now. Annie was grateful for the hard seat bellow her that helped her stay away for hours on end. As Annie sat, she thought. She thought about that day when Alexander confessed his feelings to her, she remembered the look on his face as he exclaimed his love. Annie couldn’t help but feel a put in her stomach grow as she wondered if his feelings had changed. Annie knew she had taken a big risk when she offered herself to Alexander, in a way she felt ridiculous. She knew Alexander could have anybody he wanted. Annie feared she was letting Alexander control her, even though that was the exact thing she had hoped to prevent by leaving his house. Annie knew Alexander was a busy man,
Annie woke up alone the next morning, she wasn’t surprised though. As Annie moved around Alexander’s room she noticed a short note. This time Alexander left his phone number and Annie sighed. She wondered why it had taken so long for them to exchange numbers. Annie walked around feeling even worse about how everything was going between them. Annie would stick to her word and still give Alexander a couple of days to figure his stuff out, but Annie didn’t think it was looking good. Annie spent the day around the house. Annie, Samual and Adam spent the day tidying and watching movies. Adam still didn’t seem comfortable hanging out casually with Annie, but they were starting to overcome the divide between them. It was around midnight when Annie finally went to bed. +++++Alexander had been busy all day. He had meeting after meeting, never having a chance to check in on Annie. As Alexander worked he realised just how busy he had been. Seeing Annie the night before had made him just as ha
Kaylee was waiting for some news. She sat at home waiting by the phone. It had been hours now since she broke into Alexander’s house, she was surprised at how crappy his security system is. Once you get past the guards, which was easy considering they all knew her, there were no other challenges that came at her. Kaylee was angry that she hadn’t yet been informed. Even Mason was still at home asleep. Kaylee wondered if maybe Alexander was asleep and she would need to wait til morning, however he doubted that. “What are you still doing up?” Mason asked as he groggily walked into the living room where Kaylee was sat waiting. “I can’t really sleep,” Kaylee looked down at her lap. “The nightmares are back.” Mason looked at her sympatheticly. Mason and Kaylee had grown closer. They had both lost loved ones and that made them closer. They were now apart of a club that neither one wanted to be apart of. “Do you ever dream of her?” Mason asked, sitting next to Kaylee on his sofa. Kaylee lo
Annie woke up to Kaylee’s phone call and was instantly on edge. Kaylee refused to tell her what was going on, it was the second call in under a month that left her feeling uneasy and on edge. The last one had made no sense but at least this time she knew who had been calling her. Annie had never been great at waiting, nor being in the dark. Annie had lived a sheltered life which meant she knew very little about the world around her. Annie knew even less about the darkness of Alexander’s world and so this new feeling of fear was unknown to her. In her head everything was safe until now when it seemed everything fell apart. Annie stormed to Alexander’s office only to see everybody there. Instantly she knew something was wrong. She had yet to go downstairs to discover the artwork that somebody had thought the walls needed to be complete. “What is going on?” Annie demanded, she was sick of being treated like a child who needed to be protected from everything. “Nothing.” Everyone said.