All Chapters of The Dominant Alpha's Perfect Obsession with his Janitor: Chapter 101 - Chapter 105

Maya's cup rattles when she sets it down. The ring of it against the saucer runs a second longer than it should. She flattens her hand over the rim to stop it, and the ring is gone.There is nothing but a pale band on her finger where the ring Niklaus had given her sat for years. Not even her new engagement ring from the man she loves ‘with all her heart’."Will you attend, or not?"She asks, cutting through every emotional process I was going through.Love my ass, there is nothing soft about her gaze."Attend as your brother or as Lucien Heinrich?"She swallows.Her eyes go past me to the window, out at the park across the road with its greying grass and its bandstand nobody uses."Everyone knows you're a Heinrich now."A scoff gets out of me before I can stop it.How is she always this disappointing?My head rests on the backrest of my chair."Answer?"She presses, and I sigh."Yeah. Sure, Maya. I'll be there."She stands, takes her bag off the seat, and looks down at me from the en

Maya is being nice to me, which is normally the first sign something is wrong.“Luci, try this.”She lifts a small pastry from the silver tray passing between us and places it directly on my plate before I can tell her that I am already eating.“You’ve barely touched anything.”She adds on when I eat something other than what she has served me in the ‘meet the in-laws’ gathering Niklaus insisted we attend.“I’ve eaten enough.”I say because even Niklaus keeps giving me food. Since when did I become a baby bird?Her smile remains perfectly pleasant.But that could have also been because of the gifts we walked in with: flowers for Vincenzo’s mother, an expensive bottle of scotch for his father, wine older than Maya and an engagement gift Niklaus’s secretary selected himself.She gestures with her eyes that I should eat what she has given me, despite my full comment, and when she doesn’t relent, I take a small bite.“Mm… it's good.”Ugh, I don’t like powdered sugar.“Really? I'm so glad

Niklaus, clearly understanding the situation before me, pulls out my chair, waits until I settle and takes the seat beside me. Anna watches the entire thing with amusement.“How domestic.”She comments with her hand dancing around her wine glass.“Why are you here?”Niklaus asks as he settles beside me.For a second, she squirms in her seat before turning her gaze away, as if she hadn’t heard the question.“We are discussing the future of this family. Anna has every reason to be present.”Elias, Niklaus’s father, answers on her behalf.“My medical information has nothing to do with Anna.”I add.“That is one part of tonight’s discussion.”Elias answers.A servant moves to pour wine into my glass, hesitates and offers water instead. I nod my thanks before turning back to the table.“What is the other part?”Anna wipes the corner of her mouth with her napkin.“Succession.”I should have guessed.“What about it?”“The announcement of your pregnancy created a great deal of excitement.”Sh