THE PROPOSAL

What in the Christian Grey kind of proposal was this?

I stared in shock at the letter lying limply in my hand. I double checked for what seemed like the third time, to make sure it was really from Alex. He had even had it stamped and signed, even though it was personally delivered to me by one of his staff.

Talk about an official letter, this certainly took the cake.

I licked my suddenly dry lips, wondering if I had probably hit my head and misinterpreted the words staring at me in the letter. Chito wheeled himself into the room and I scrambled to hide the letter but it wasn't necessary. He didn't even so much as glance my way.

We had fallen into an uneasy kind of relationship where I had become one of the fixtures in the house to him. I, on the other hand didn't know what to say to him whenever I saw him. I couldn't impose my will on Alex and tell him I wanted the boy put in another room. As it stood I was already walking on thin ice, especially after the visit of the six uninvite