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
Alexia's POV. Ignoring Nathaniel isn't the mature thing to do and I know that. I should probably tell him why I needed to pull away from him but how do you tell your fake boyfriend, that one person that you are not supposed to have any feelings whatsoever for that you like him? It couldn't even be more than like. It is more than liking him. I want to climb the man and have my way with him. I can't think properly when he is around so yeah, it is more than just liking him. When he asked me what was wrong with me I panicked and I just said the first thing that came to my head. I lied. I am not on my period in-fact I just had it about one or two weeks ago but he doesn't know that and it looked like he bought my lie. I hate the fact that I have been doing that a lot these days, lying I mean.Staying away from him wasn't as easy as I had hoped it would be. Sometimes I find myself wanting to speak to him so badly that my skin itched from it. It isn't fair on him for me to just become dist
Alexia's POV. Nathaniel was pissed. More than pissed even. We are on our way back home and he is yet to say one word to me. I shouldn't be bothered, after all, I have been avoiding him the whole time and he was just making it easier on me but I still didn't like the fact that he could be mad at me. That he was mad at me. "Are you mad?" I asked him with a small voice. He didn't give me any reply and just wind down the window of the car. "Nathaniel, talk to me and tell me why you are mad at me," I demanded."That is rich coming from you, Alexia." He said with a scoff. This isn't good. "I don't want to fight with you. I just want to know why you are so mad." "And you think I want to fight with you? For goodness sake, Lexi. You have been the one playing the whole avoiding game with me and now you want to talk. I have been trying to get you to talk to me but you refused and now you want to talk? Talk about what exactly? Why you have been avoiding me? Why do you recoil from my touch l
Alexia's POV."I didn't think you would be waiting," I said and stood by the pool hands folded, watching him play with the water. "You thought I was bluffing?" He asked and I nodded. "I never bluff." "Yeah, I can see that now." I tried not to let my eyes drift to his chest or even anywhere other than his face but even his face is a distraction. "Join me, will you?" He asked. I shook my head. "I don't know how to swim." "That is fine. I can teach you besides the pool is not deep. You can stand in it." He said. "No, I am not getting into that. I don't plan to stay for long I just came here to tell..." "Get in the pool, Alexia." He ordered leaving no room for argument. "But...""Just get in. We can't talk when you are standing that far away." He said. I didn't point out the fact that he could come out of the pool and we will be able to hold our conversation. Instead, I untied my kimono and dropped it. I could feel Nathaniel's eyes following my every movement like a hawk. When I