Chapter 27 - Twenty-Seven

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After exactly five minutes, the three women were walking down the stairs, followed by Agatha. Nikita was in the middle, Isobel at her left and Alexis at her right but that wasn't the same order of the men awaiting them downstairs. It was Angelo in the middle with Silvano at his left and Vincenzo at his right. Isobel walked forward to her husband; Vincenzo only to barge into Nikita who shifted to the left from the push and affected Alexis.

Alexis smiled at them, bit taking nag offence and walked again and bumped into Isobel who had started walking at the same time.

Talk about akward. Alexis thought and shook her head. 

Angelo was now annoyed, he took charge instead of Alexis, "Alexis come to me first, Nikita start after and Isobel, I am hoping you'd know what to do."

Isobel nodded clearing embarrassed but not before glancing at Vincenzo. Clearly he wasn't pleased with her clumsiness. Alexis had reached him and held out an arm which she was quick to catch onto. Nikita knew better and held Silvano's hand on her own. Isobel softly ran upto her husband and stood by him. Angelo started walking to dinning table with Silvano.

"Do you always have to make a fucking joke of yourself when you're outside?" Vincenzo quietly seethed into the ear of Isobel who was shaking a bit.

"I was eager to see you, I am sorry Enzo." Softly she replied back to him, looking into his eyes with her big blue ones.

He melted a bit, "keep the bloody eagerness at bay." And walked forward. Isobel smirked a bit and scoffed in her mind, they don't call women enchantress for nothing, squaring her shoulders she ran to catch upto him.

The helping staff came in and served them the meals. The food looked like it had been cooked by a gourmet chef at a posh restaurant and not a homely kitchen. Sighing, she thought of her old job when it clicked Diesel! She could hope that James, her new neighbor had taken care of him but she could ask Angelo about it, right?

"Alexis," Silvano drawled out her name, "what are you thinking so hard about?"

She answered him by telling him the truth. "Deisel, I can't believe that I forgot about him for so long. Can you bring him back here?" She looked at Angelo at the end of the sentence.

"I am surprised you didn't remember him for so long. He's with Silvano's dog, Ares." At the mention of his dog, Alexis was not that thankful now as she was the at earlier mention of him being safely housed. That wolf could eat diesel up and spit him out in a moment.

Everyone continued to eat. The men were discussing business and the others kept quiet. Maybe because the friendship hadn't been formed yet?

Alexis now stood with Angelo on the porch waving them goodbye as he said good host's should do and had dragged her to it. She had to take up many topics with him especially the queen one.

"Can we talk?" She whispered to him as he stood next to her. 

Glancing at her, he nodded, held her hand and walked upto his study. Making her sit in front of him and then seated himself behind the desk.

"Alexis" he pinched the bridge of his nose, looking annoyed much to her surprise, "you are to stand in front of the hundreds of thousands if not just thousands and command them and you were barging into people earlier. Your presence should have been enough to have them wait for you to go first. I can't stand a woman who can't even make her presence known."

She scoffed at him making him look at her in surprise. "I- whoa!" She stood up. "I can not make my presence known? And just who am I to even stand infront of even ten people to have to command them? I never agreed on anything like that! I agreed to give you chance you idiot Man! And what's this about becoming a queen? If all of this baggage comes with giving you a chance then I'm sorry but no, i can't do it, in fact I won't do it!" She was yelling at the top of her voice now and she didn't even realise this. Angelo listened to every word and insult of hers in a calm and cool manner.

"That's not fair that you decide about what to do and I just follow your orders either that is to marry you or give you a chance or anything of sort! Then come these absurd things you say about what I'm supposed to do? Why should I do anything? I did not say yes to anything you idiot and I frankly don't think that I will!" Alexis ranted on every thought that she had had in this household relating to this whole ordeal not giving a dam about the man sitting in front of her. 

"Open the door, Alexis." He asked which he had closed on his way in.

Alexis looked at him as if he had grown two heads. Had he gone mad? She thought. She had expected an answer, a harsh statement or a yell from him. His determined and steel hard eyes made her do it. She went to the door and opened it.

"Come here, now," 

As soon as she reached him, he stood up and slapped her hard that the clap sound was heard till the end of the silent hall. Alexis fell down from the impact of the slap. She had involuntary tears in her eyes. The slap was hard enough to have her jaw ache in pain. Her hair was gripped tighly and was forced to look up.

"I'm an idiot man, aren't I Alexis?" He spoke right next to her ear giving her chills with his whispering.. "Well I'll show you how deranged this idiot can be."