Alexia's POV. "Can I read it?" I screamed and slammed my laptop shut before turning back to find Nathaniel dressed in a blue Tom Ford suit. I didn't think he had any other color of suits other than black. He had an amused smile on his face at my reaction."Can you stop sneaking up on me and scaring the shit out of me?" I asked him. He shrugged. "I just wanted to see what was more appealing than me. You were not in bed when I woke up." My heart was still beating fast because of the scare. "I just couldn't sleep with all the imaginations in my head. So I thought I should just...you know? Work." I said. "Will you let me read it?" He asked. "What? My book?" I asked him feigning confusion. "Yes, your book." "No, absolutely not. Not this one." He raised his eyebrows. "The first No would have done it." "Right. Going to work?" I asked him. I was obviously trying to change the topic. I wasn't sure if he noticed it cause he didn't point it out. I didn't want him to ask to read it agai
Alexia's POV. "Where are we going?" I asked Liam for the millionth time. "You just can't help yourself, can you?" He asked with a laugh. He already told me to stop asking that I was a surprise but I am not calm enough for surprises. "Just tell me already," I whined. "Check the back seat." He said. I turned around in the car to check. There was a basket filled with snacks there and a glass of wine and another basket that had lunchboxes in it. "We are going on a picnic?" I asked him before sitting my ass back on the seat. He cleared his throat and nodded. "It has been a while since we went on a picnic. I thought it was a good idea to catch up and all. We can do something else if you don't like the idea." "I love the idea but I have one question." "What?" "Who made the food?" I asked him. He laughed. "My mum did.""Good," I muttered. Liam can't cook, like at all. He tried boiling water once and he managed to burn the pot, he forgot he was boiling water and well, the rest is h
Nathaniel's POV. I was on a conference call when I got the call from one of my tenants. I didn't want to answer the call at first but then I reasoned that my tenants never call me. They know not to call me so if they are calling me then it must be urgent so I answered the call. When I heard the news my first instinct was to tell Alexia so I tried calling her number but it wasn't reachable then I tried texting her but I got no reply then I realized that if she wasn't home then she would be with one person, Liam. I called him even though I hated it. I didn't like the fact that I had to call him to reach Alexi but I did anyway. Fifteen minutes later and I was in the hospital. The last time I came here was when Alexia sprained her ankle. I walked up to the nurse that was manning the reception. "Natalia Carter. She was bought in here a while ago." The nurse flipped a few pages and then clicked something on the monitor in front of her. I honestly couldn't care less what she does. I was
Alexia's POV. "You have got to be kidding me," I exclaimed. Of course, my mum scheduled the dinner for the next night when I told her that Nathaniel will be available but I managed to convince her to shift it since Natalia was still feeling woozy. We agreed to have dinner during the weekend and here we are, on a Saturday evening in my mother's home ready to have dinner. The problem here is that I think my mummy invited the whole neighborhood. Maybe I am exaggerating a little but does sound like she invited the whole neighborhood. We haven't even gone inside the house yet and I can hear the chaos from a mile away. "I am going to her and I won't be sorry," I muttered under my breath. "Hey, calm..." Nathaniel tried but it was already too late. I was already at the door and ready to scream the house down when someone wrapped their hands around my waist and lifted me off the ground like I weighed nothing. I didn't need to look at his face to know it was Liam, his smell gave him away
Alexia's POV. Dinner is going well so far and cheers to hoping it remains that way. My mum was sitting at the head of the table as usual and Aunt Isabel was on her right with me and Nathaniel sitting beside her followed by Leon and Leo. Natalia somehow found herself between Louis and Lucas and I think the level of testosterone around here is already getting to her— in a good way. She won't stop giggling and tucking her hair behind her ear. Her behavior was irritating to Liam judging by his expression. "You are starting to drool, Natalia," Liam commented. He lied, her mouth was perfectly close. They have been getting along alright since her asthma attack. She wouldn't tell me what he did to get out of her bad books but I wasn't complaining. It is easier to be in their company now. Natalia shot him the stink eye. "Is it getting to you that I no longer follow you around like a lost puppy?" She asked him. I see she is never going to let him live that one down. "Why would it? I am h
Alexia's POV."Listen to me you have to publish it, Alex. This is good stuff." Brenda tried to reason with me but I wasn't seeing her reason. We were currently at the Starbucks having coffee— what else do you do at Starbucks? She insisted on seeing me to talk about the novel I was working on, you know the one that doesn't have a name yet and I never going to be published? Yes, that one. She has been trying to convince me to publish it but I must say that she isn't succeeding. "I am not publishing the book, Brenda. It is a personal thing, something I want to keep to myself not something I want to share with the world or anyone for that matter. I only showed you because you wouldn't stop pestering me and I just had to shut you up with something.""And it worked." She said."The only issue here is the fact that you are trying to get me to publish the book and I have said it times without number that I don't want to publish it. I don't have an outline for that book and I know you are go
Alexia's POV. "So? How did it go?" I asked Nathaniel when he got back from work. I didn't ask him immediately. I did let him change out of his suit and freshen up before I started bombarding him with questions. Like I said earlier, I don't know much about half the shit he does but I am willing to listen to him and for purely selfish reasons alone. I enjoy listening to him speak. He sighed and ruffled his hair. That can't be a good thing. "What? Is it bad news? Did you not get it? I thought you said the deal was already a done thing so what went wrong? Answer me will you?" He stared at me with a blank expression for a while before a smile slowly started gracing his face. "I was just messing with you. Of course, I got the deal." He said with a giant smile and I just glared at him and attempted to walk away but he easily caught up to me and lifted me by my waist. "Don't even start you guys. Don't start." Natalia warned from where she was sitting on the couch, still watching a movi
Nathaniel's POV. It doesn't take a genius to know that Alexia was getting distant. She was trying too hard to avoid me. It was there in the way she only said two words to me when she and Natalia got back from the spa and it was there in the way she refused to have dinner with us feigning headache. She slept in her apartment that night for the first since...for the first time she slept in my bed for the first time. If that wasn't a sign that she is avoiding me then I don't know... This is one of those moments, one of those rare moments when I wish I have a friend but Nah, I don't have any. It has not always been like this, I used to have friends, we used to go partying every weekend until I didn't have one person to call a friend but...let us not go down that part. I am only concerned about Alexia. I was desperate enough to google search reasons why your girlfriend is avoiding you and it was of no help. Yes, I know she isn't my real girlfriend but I can't exactly search for a fake