Lisa went down after wearing a loose shirt and trousers, the villa Augustus had bought has 3 floors with a terrace floor separately.
The first floor has Simon's room, his study room, a theater, a gym, and an indoor playroom for him.
The second floor has Maria's room, her study room, a mirror room for her ballet dance practice, and the other two rooms are currently empty as they will shift Tommaso's stuff to that room once he will grow.
On the third floor, Augustus and Lisa have their own bedroom, a study room for Augustus office work, a library, a music room for Lisa and one spare room is currently the nursery of Tommaso as Lisa has not hired any nanny for Tommaso so she needs to keep him near her on the same floor.
While Maria and Simon stay on different floors.
The ground floor has a big kitchen with 5 rooms, one room was for Ms. Davis and the other 4 are the guest room Augustus has prepared in case his mother stayed here with him or his friend Bella gave him visits or Lisa's friend Sasha comes over with her boyfriend Lester.
He has deeply thought about his future before buying this villa.
They all dine together on the ground floor daily and at night everyone would go back to their respective floor to sleep.
Lisa has not hired the servants to stay at her place, she and Ms. Davis managed the cooking while the other staff people came later for the cleaning and would go back after 9. No servant stayed at their home.
Lisa wanted this home to be a family home and she didn't want any servants to invade their personal privacy.
Augustus always respected her decision and did exactly the way she wanted their house to be.
Lisa walked down to the ground floor as she could hear silence on the other floors indicating that kids had woken up and down for breakfast.
Lisa went straight to her family that was all sitting around Tommaso, trying to please him but from time to time Tommaso would throw away the toys grumpily as he couldn't see his mother.
"Daddy, he threw my doll," Maria complained as she looked at him in confusion.
"Stupid, you gave him doll give him a car he would like it.. See.." Simon told her as he pulled up a car in front of Tommaso and made a gesture of it flying in the air.
Tommaso looked at him with interest in his eyes, but after a few minutes he got bored as Simon gave him the car to hold and he threw it too.
As he blabbered "mom" and started crying.
"I think he needs Mommy, Daddy." Maria looked at Augustus as she told him.
"Why does he always need his mother, I don't understand this," Augustus said absentmindedly as he held him up and tried to calm him.
"Stop crying. She is not only your mother, we all have a right on her too." Augustus scolded him as he was running out of patience and also irritated by the continuous voice of him crying.
Seeing his little son get scolded, Lisa took Tommaso from his hands angrily. "Is this the way you should calm a child?"
Augustus was completely at a loss of words as he looked at Tommaso in Lisa's embrace that was completely quiet now and had snuggled in her arms like a small bear.
"Little brat.." Augustus cursed under his breath feeling annoyed.
"Lisa, we are a family. You should give us all equal time right?" He said as he looked at Simon and Maria to join him but they completely shook their heads in disapproval as it was completely a bad move from Augustus.
Since Tommaso was born, Lisa had been very attentive to him and not only her but everyone in the family but no matter what every time when Augustus lost his patience Lisa would catch him at the perfect time, and all his hard work and goodness would go in waste.
He wasn't wrong asking for the time from his wife but he didn't know that newborn kids want more attention than anyone.
He had tolerated it for months and now he is getting out of patience as Lisa has stubbornly refused him to hire any nanny for him.
"Does anyone have any complaints from me?" Lisa asked angrily as she turned to Maria and Simon.
"We didn't say anything," Maria murmured looking at her with puppy eyes as Simon said beside her. "It's just the dad."
Augustus shrugged as Lisa stared at him with anger in her eyes. "I am going to make breakfast now." She yelled as she doesn't want to create an argument in front of the kids.
Ms. Davis greeted her politely as she had prepared all the things ready for breakfast, Lisa put Tommaso in a baby chair she put on the apron and tied her hair in a scarf, and started cooking.
"Eggs." She asked Ms. Davis without even looking up as an egg tray was passed to her, she cooked the breakfast without even looking up.
When she put the breakfast into the plates and finally looked up to Ms. Davis to take it out to kids. She felt surprised to see Augustus standing in the kitchen, he was the one helping her now.
She held the plates and started walking out ignoring him, as Augustus pulled her back. "Lisa, you know I love you." He told her as he pecked her lips.
"Yes, but you need to stop complaining about certain things, Augustus. I don't feel happy to not give you alone time. I also missed the alone time we had together but right now our son needs me so I have to be there for him."
"Yeah, I know I know... just don't get angry with me. We are having our reception in a few days. I don't want you to get more tired. Let's hire a nanny for this week only, what do you say?"
"Augustus..." She tried to refuse but Augustus stopped her. "At least during the reception, we need someone to take care of him. He is not used to staying in huge gatherings, right?"
What he said was right, Lisa thought about it for a moment, and then she nodded her head in approval.
"Okay, fine. Let's have breakfast." Lisa said as she kissed him on the cheek with a smile and Tommaso's low growl was heard from afar.
"What? Don't forget you're here because of me, little man." Augustus said arrogantly as he deliberately kissed Lisa's cheek in front of him and then picked him up in his arms while walking to the living room.
"You need to control your anger, Tommaso you're too tiny for it."
Lisa laughed out loud behind them. She felt completely stunned by the way Augustus talked to Tommaso and always taught him things like he is a little man, not a six-month-old baby.
One Year Later“It’s a great honor to interview you Mr. Aldrich or I would say the prince?” A woman in her mid-thirties sat straight with a sharp face and a gentle smile as she began her interview.“Steven would be fine.”“So, Mr. Steven first of all congratulations on the success of your new foundation for cancer patients. This would be the third center you had built in one year. Is there any reason why you’re so passionate about it, saving lives?”“I had lost my wife because of cancer and didn’t want anyone else to lose their loved one because of it. The treatment at the right time saves many lives.”“Oh, deeply sorry to hear about your loss.”“Huh, it was never a loss for me.”“Pardon?”“Please continue.”“So Mr. Steven, what do you want to say about Miss Steva’s praises for you and your wife? It’s been 8
Steven’s bitter laugh echoed in the room and the man standing in front of him winced in discomfort.“I never wish pain for you, Steven. I was angry with you, but that didn’t mean that I would want to destroy your happiness… No… Never…”“So, then why was my happiness taken away from me, Dad, why…” Steven asked, disheartened, and then unexpectedly started crying out while hugging the painting in his arms.“Steven…” The Old Master rushed to him to console him but he looked inconsolable.“I am still hoping that it is a dream, tell me, dad, it’s a dream… I want to wake up, wake me up… Wake me up…” Steven said in a choked voice and then started hitting his face like a mad man, the painting dropped to the floor and it showed a bald, petite woman in the embrace of a man that looked like Steven.Old Master's eyes widened realizing that it was Stev
“Are you sure?” The doctor asked Laura as he handed her a paper.“I am,” Laura replied to him firmly but still he looked hesitant. “It’s going to be fine,” Laura said calmly and then scribbled on the papers.The doctor sighed helplessly and then nodded to the nurse indicating her for the surgery to get started.***“DO YOU LOVE ME?”“ALL OF ME?”“I LOVE YOU.”“LET ME GO.”It has been eight hours since Laura was taken inside the OT and Steven stayed glued to his place waiting for her to come back, her voice echoed in his ears and he kept shaking them away, tiredly.“Drink something, it will make them go…” Augustus said as he handed him a cup of warm coffee. Steven looked at him blankly and then nodding his head, he gulped it down.“She will be fine…” Augustus comforted him while sitting beside him.&ldqu
The dinner went well, Steven didn’t ask Laura anything related to Steva and neither did Laura say anything to him related to her or his past.The next day, Steven left with Laura early in the morning afraid that Tyler would try to stop him, he can’t ignore Tyler’s plea. In his eyes, he is still a child. He had already informed Arthur about his leaving so he would be able to convey his message to Tyler.After what happened last time at the beach he didn’t want to repeat it as he took Laura away from this place as soon as he can.“Here we are,” At the request of Laura, Steven had brought her to meet her mother. “Can you come after some time?” Laura requested Steven as she didn’t want him to go inside with her, she needed some alone time with her mother.“Laura…” Steven was going to refuse her request but Laura pleaded softly, “Please… Steve…”“Fine…
“STEVA."Laura looked from the woman’s shoulder and saw Steven standing behind her with a bottle of water in his hand. His face looked angry as he clenched his jaw and then started pulling Laura with him in a rough way.“Steve…” Laura was completely taken aback by the sudden anger in him but he turned a deaf ear as he kept dragging her with him to the castle not caring about her health.By the time, Laura entered the castle, she was panting heavily and in desperate need of oxygen, at this moment she wasn’t even able to form a word but gasping for air with difficulty.Looking at her state and his brother’s stern face, Tyler rushed to them with a worried face.“Brother, what happened to sister-in-law?” He asked anxiously and it was only then that Steven realized what he had done as he turned and exclaimed, “Laura…”Laura's body fell to the ground as soon as he let go of her hand and
PRESENT“Steve…?” Laura looked up at Steven who was lost in his past with his hand pressing on his chest as though he was feeling the pain from it.“Huh…” Steven’s trance from the past broke and he looked down at the small face of Laura.“It’s alright… It’s gone…” Laura said while taking his hand away from his chest.“Hmmm… but it still haunts me…” Steven confessed in a hoarse voice.“Steve, people can’t change their past you need to move on with it,” Laura told him and he sighed agreeing to her words.“You were just like me, remember the first time, when I saw you crying for Augustus in my room, I knew exactly at that moment that if I won’t help you, you would end up the same way I did. Maybe that is the reason I never wanted to leave your side and stay with you every time so you won’t end up regretting just li