XYNETH'S POV
I was already at the Emperial's Mansion, exactly at 4:00 in the morning. Thank goodness Yves had registered my fingerprint to open the door and gate, or else I would have spent the early morning outside the house.
As I entered, the house was quiet, and I noticed a note stuck on the refrigerator. I read the words:
"I have something to do today, please take good care of my son. I'll be back at six. Choose any room you prefer." That was the note Yves left.
Following Yves' instructions, I looked at the rooms. I went up the stairs to the second floor and saw seven rooms with different colored doors. I chose the sky blue door, which thankfully wasn't locked.
I looked around the room, which had a sky blue theme and a queen-size bed. I placed my luggage on the bed and opened it to unpack my clothes into the closet. I placed my laptop, phone, and notepad on the table, while other belongings were placed on another table.
I hung my clothes in the closet and arranged my shoes and sandals on the shoe tray. Underwear, bras, and socks went into another tray near the closet.
Once I finished, I left the room and checked my watch. It was exactly 4:52 in the morning. I headed to the kitchen on the first floor to prepare our meals.
"Oh yeah, where is that young and beautiful maid?" I muttered to myself while grabbing the frying pan to fry some chicken breast.
"Aww... Thanks for the compliment," a voice replied behind me.
I immediately turned to see the person who spoke. "What's your name?" I asked, still holding the frying pan.
She chuckled. "My name is Heira."
"I'm Xyneth. Nice to meet you," I said, introducing myself.
"Nice meeting you too. Anyways, I want to be the one cooking today. Can I? Besides, you need to wake up Xavy and help him with his morning routine," Heira said as she took the frying pan from my hands.
"Okay then, I leave the kitchen to you," I said, smiling at her before heading to the second floor to wake up Xavy.
I entered Xavy's red-colored room and saw him sitting on the bed, listening to a song. When he saw me, he put his phone down, climbed off the bed, and rushed to my side.
"Mama, you're here!" Xavy exclaimed, smiling.
I chuckled. "Hello, I'm your new babysitter. You are free to call me Mama since I'll be taking care of you."
Xavy hugged my knees. "Hello, I'm Xavy Emperial. It's nice to meet you, Mama."
"Nice to meet you too. Anyways, what time did you wake up?" I asked, bending down to match his height.
"I woke up at 4:30 in the morning," he said, still smiling from ear to ear.
"Wow, that's early. Do you want to take a bath first or go out of your room first?" I asked, kindly.
"I want to take a bath first. Let's take a bath, Mama," Xavy invited, giving me puppy eyes. I couldn't resist and nodded, knowing I couldn't say 'no' to this adorable kid.
It took us about an hour to enjoy the bathtub before finally deciding to rinse off. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around my body, and I also grabbed a red medium-sized towel and wrapped it around Xavy's body.
I carried Xavy in my arms and used the blow dryer on his table to dry his hair and dress him up. After that, I dried my own hair and went to my room to change my clothes.
We both left the room and headed to the first floor, with Xavy holding my hand.
"Oh, they're here. Good morning, let's have breakfast," Heira said, smiling.
Xavy and I approached her, greeting her with a "Good morning" before we took our seats.
"Papa will be here in a minute, let's wait for him. It's almost 6:00, so he should be here on time," Xavy said, waiting for his father.
And as expected, exactly at 6:00 in the morning, Yves was at the front door. "Good morning. I'm here."
"Welcome back," Xavy said, grinning from ear to ear. I also smiled at Yves, who was looking at me with a smile on his face. Heira, who was already eating the fried chicken, didn't seem to mind Yves' return.
"Mama, give Papa a welcome home kiss," Xavy said, shaking my hand, which shocked me and made me form an 'o' with my mouth.
"Come again?" I asked, surprised.
"Kiss Papa," Xavy repeated, looking at me, while Yves whistled and grinned, walking toward us and ruffling his hair.
"Stop teasing her, kiddo."
"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Still a coward, I see," Xavy said, shaking his head as he hissed.
"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Still a small kid, I see," Yves responded, 'tsk-ing.'
"Let's eat before the food gets cold," I said, starting to serve rice onto Xavy's plate, my plate, and Yves' plate.
"Mama, where's the kiss?" Xavy asked, looking at me.
I smiled, placed the spoon down, and kissed Xavy's cheek.
"Done. I've already kissed you."
Xavy giggled after receiving a kiss from me, then he glanced at his father, who was looking at him. Xavy stuck out his tongue and mouthed a 'bleh' to his father.
"Coward," Xavy said in a low tone, enough for his father to hear since he was sitting nearby.
Yves chuckled and pinched Xavy's cheek. "You little brat."
Xavy just chuckled in response and then looked in my direction as I served the food onto our plates.
"Let's dig in. Thank you for the food," the three of us said in unison, while Heira had already finished eating.
'What a weird father-son bonding,' I thought.
XYNETH'S POV I kept glancing at Yves, watching as he observed his son eating. He must be feeling a mix of worry and relief now that Xavy was starting to eat his meals properly. What a good father he is... and I'm sorry for doubting you, Yves. I can't apologize to you directly, but I'll apologize in my mind. Xavy stopped eating and looked at his father. "Do you want to eat, Papa?" Yves smiled and nodded. "Yes, I would like to." I was stunned when he suddenly smiled. My heart skipped a beat as I saw how beautiful he looked when he smiled, especially with his eyes sparkling. He truly loves his son. The way their eyes sparkled was so beautiful that it made my heart tighten a bit. Xavy raised his head and looked up at me while still sitting on my lap. "Do you want to eat too?" I smiled in response to his question. "Yes, but I'm afraid I'm already full. Remember, you fed me earlier?" He nodded and then glanced at his father, who was busy serving food onto his plate. Xavy looked at
XYNETH'S POV "You're sleepy, right? Let's go to sleep," I said, but he shook his head. "I won't..." "But you just said earlier that you were sleepy, right? So let's go to your room and let's sleep," I softly said to him while he was still clinging onto me, and Yves was just staring at us doing nothing. The two maids were busy cleaning the table. "I'm sleepy, but I won't sleep," he insisted, making me sigh. "And why is that? It's already late at night, and you have to sleep so that you will grow fast," I told him, but he just pouted and kept insisting not to. "Can you tell me why you won't go to sleep, dear cutie?" I said sweetly to him, making him grin cheekily, but then his face suddenly turned sad. "Because I'm afraid that this might be a dream created in my mind. I'm afraid to wake up feeling empty, and I'm afraid to wake up without you," he sadly said. I couldn't help but pinch his cute, adorable cheeks. "Silly. Where did you learn to be so sweet? Don't worry, I won't go a
XYNETH'S POV I was huffing, catching my own breath as I ran hard. I didn't know where I was. All I could see was a dark, abandoned building. I didn't know why I was there. I ran as fast as I could, but it was no use. I heard growling noises, the sound of falling leaves being blown by the wind. My heart was beating so fast, and I could feel my legs shaking. I wanted to give up. In any minute, my legs could turn into jelly from nervousness and fear. My legs were trembling, and so was my whole body. My eyes started to water because of the darkness. I was scared of the darkness because I felt like someone might be watching over me. "H-Hello? W-Who are you? W-Why are you doing this?" I didn't know what came to my mind when I uttered those words. It felt natural when I spoke them. Where am I? Why am I here? Where is Yves, and where is Xavy? I clenched my fists to calm my nerves, but I was still shaking. I didn't know why I felt like this. I was startled when someone grabbed my hand.
CHAPTER 9I WAS HUFFING, catching my own breath as I ran hard. I don't know where I am, all I can see is a dark abandoned building. I don't know why am I here.I ran as fast as I could but it was no used, I heard some growling noises, the noise of the falling leaves which blows cause of the wind.My heart was beating so fast, I can also feel my legs shaking and wanted to give up. In any minute, my legs could turn into a jelly cause of nervousness and scared.My legs are trembling so as my whole body. My eyes starting to watered, because of the darkness. I'm scared of darkness because I can feel that someone migjt watching over me."H-Hello? W-Who are you? W-Why are you being like this?"I don't know what comes to my mind when I uttered those words. It feels natural when I spoke those words.Where am I? Why am I here? Where is Yves and Xavy?I clenched my fist to calm all my nerves, I'm still shaking... I don't know why did I felt like
CHAPTER 10I LOST count on how many times I slapped my forehead, I can feel that it's swollen because of it. It's because of these two, they won't get off the bed unless I kiss Yves."Xavy, get down and let's eat food I'm already hungry, I'm sure you feel the same way."I told him but he shook his head while he crossed his arm."I don't want to. Kiss Papa first."He said.He's so persistent."So? Why would you like me to kiss your father? Aren't you jealous that I might kiss him again and again and forget about you?"I raised my eyebrow while talking to him making him stilled.He silently climbed off the bed and stand near to me makes me chuckled.I looked at Yves who's already pouting but I just rolled my eyes on him."Let's go, I'm already hungry."I said to him but when I try to walk, I can't feel him following me.He's just standing, sadly looking at his father, I can't help but to sighed."Fine, fine, fine. You both win, I
CHAPTER 11"WHAT?! HE CHEATED ON YOU?!" I exclaimed when she was talking about her ex who just cheated on her with a guy."Yeah, I didn't know that he has another guy, I just found them making out of my room and the man was just happened to be my bestfriend."She said while sipping a cup of coffee.Actually Yves was on a meeting while Xavy was watching netflix on the living room that's why we both have time for the two of us."So what happened when you found out that your boyfriend was making out with your bestfriend and on top of that, it is a guy that he's been secretly dating ? I mean, did you slapped both of them?"I asked but she just smiled and giggled."Ofcourse not. I just happy for them, if it was a girl who's he's been cheating and making love with then I might kill both of them but thankfully it was a guy."She happily said making me also laughed."Wow. What about your bestfriend? What's he's reaction?"I asked."Well, nothing much he
CHAPTER 12I LOOKED at her confusedly, "I mean I though you were—""Maid?"She chuckled, "That's because I love dressing outfit and I wanted to do the maid cosplay" She continued.I chuckled, "I thought that you two weren't siblings because to be honest, you two really don't looked alike except for the little mole under your eyes, Yves has one too."She smile at me teasingly, "So you've been paying attention to him, huh?"I rolled my eyes, "I wasn't, I just love the color of his eyes and I always looked him straight to the eyes that's why I notice the little mole under his left eye.""Wow... you're the second person who love his eyes except his family and me."She smiled."Huh? And why? Does other hate the color of his eyes?"I continuously asked.She nodded, "Yeah, I've heard his co-workers said that it's weird and he's abnormal, why does a person has a green color of his eyes? Something like that."I gritted my teeth in annoyance,
CHAPTER 13I WOKE up feeling good because the nightmare's was disappeared. I was about to sit on th bed a warm hands was wrapped on my waist, I looked at who's hands was it.It was Yves, he's also sleeping on the left side while Xavy was on the right side, his also eyes was wrapped below my chest since he's tiny.I was about to moved Yve's hand on my waist but he tightened his grip. I looked at his direction."Don't pretend to be asleep, why are you hugging my waist? Remove it, I want to go down stairs."I whispered but he just groan.He hasn't let go of my waist while he's still sleeping—no he's awake but didn't want to get up and open his eyes.I tried to removed his hands again but he thightened his grip again."Stop moving around and let me sleep for a second."He whisperedly said near on my ear making me stilled due to shock.Damn... I hope he won't hear how loud is the beating of my heart.I sighed and tried to sleep again bu