Chapter 34 - Thirty-four

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Woken up and dressed for the day, she sat at the table sipping her cappuccino. This household had coffee Machines and a barista trained maid working here. Quite frankly, today she was enjoying her breakfast alone as she had done for the past few years. She didn't miss his overwhelming presence right now. His Highness was at his office and had breakfast early as told by Agatha who felt the need to tell her or rather inform her, as she said.

"Hi," startled by the purring greeting, she looked up.

'Wow, she's pretty,' was her immediate thought. The red hair and pretty silver eyes had invoked a feeling of jealousy inside her. Alexis felt like a peasant in front of the beauty queen.

"Hello?" Unsure of why was she even here, Alexis greeted her back. Her words seemed to be unsure and unconfident in front of the woman who was confident enough to stand in a man's house who claimed to be in the mafia.

"Do you mind changing into a Gucci jumpsuit and bring a Louis Vuitton bag while you are at it?" She blankly stared at her, making demands. She took a seat adjacent to the one in front of Alexis. She had to respect Alexis even though she was not aware of her position. 

"Yes, I do mind. Why do you want me to do that and for whom?" Straightening her shoulders, she leaned back into the chair. If anything, Alexis had worked under the CEO long enough to know how to follow the chain of command.

"Because the boss, Angelo De'alassandro has bought a new business and you, my friend are invited there for a lunch. Everyone would love to know that the new boss has a family too and would be liberal with a few somethings. Now chop," she clapped her hands, "off you go. We are going to have a busy day."

"Did you not say lunch?" Alexis asked her in no hurry. "It's hardly Eleven." 

"Well, I am not married, so I don't know what he wants his fiancée there for. I am simply the messenger and you don't kill them."

Alexis leisurely sat back, enjoying her cappuccino and looking around. The power play was not new to her. Often higher officials tried to overrule her as she was just an assistant but Alexis knew how to handle the heat and to what level.

After five minutes had passed, she stood up and said, "Some people do feel the need to shoot the messenger." The words just left her mouth. She was undermined by that man but God forbid if she would let just anyone push her. 

Going for a Valentino dress, she still chose the handbag because simply, it was too pretty to pass up. The one she owned belonged to seasons behind the one in her hand. 

Going down she saw the woman daydreaming. She could not help but clap her hands in return. The woman immediately broke her out of it. "chop, I don't think we have time to waste." Smiling Alexis walked to the door which was for the first time as she had seen open. 

Maya nodded and walked behind Alexis, She understood what Angelo saw in her. Potential for a queen. Smooth and subtle, two qualities are not often seen.

The roll's Royce was smoothly running through the roads of new york. She noticed that the neighbourhood seemed to be a well established one. Of course, given his identity it was obvious he came from a long line of money makers and inheritance. Though Alexis could not help but wonder who the girl was and why all of a sudden she had appeared. 

"Who are you?" Alexis turned to her, putting an end to her questions running wildly in her mind.

"Maya, I've been working under the boss for the past 15 years. Now, I'm a Dominatrix and I'm given assassination assignments as well." She, proud of profession and promotions talked about them with Alexis, expecting her to be happy about it as well. In "In fact, I am on the firsts to achieve it."

"First?" Alexis questioned, surely there might have been more. 

"There were more but they start feeling things. You know the rules when you get into it and outsmarting is never the option." 

Merely nodding she looked out as the car came to a stop, the building was huge.

"Tip, don't open your door. They will survey around for threats and then open your door." Maya leaned in for giving her the advice, knowing she would need it in the future.

Nodding, she got out as soon as the door opened and she was greeted by the guard. Led through the corridors and past the reception, she has rushed into the lift with Maya along.

Now they were seated in his cabin, as Angelo's meeting took a little longer.

"Ah! Would you see that!" Maya shrieked with glee.

Raising an eyebrow, she walked next to Maya in hopes of looking for something interesting. "Look at her," pointing a finger at the woman with massive amounts of documents on her desk. "She was my classmate, who made fun of me and look at her now, where she is! Earning in a year what I charge for one meeting. I just do it once in a while." Proudly, she told her, flicking her hair back.

Her thoughts immediately went back to the conversation that took place last night between her and Angelo. She looked at Maya's happy and satisfied face which made her favour the decision more.

"So why did you take revenge on them? Just like what they did it for? For fun?" Alexis probed into the situation, more than she would've normally liked but couldn't help herself. Thus was important. She did not want to pass up the opportunity for this.

"I was dirt poor. So poor that I used to stink because we couldn't even afford water for bathing. They all knew it and instead of leaving me alone with my problems they bullied me like anything. They destroyed my social life, my mental health, they just destroyed everything! What did I do? I just minded my own business and they, all of them literally tripped me down the hall, burned and tore my work and also stole my homework!" She breathed a little, calming down her nerves, "listen, Alexis, what they do is always for some harmless fun which it is not, and if you ever get a chance to hurt them back, even slightly, never let the chance pass up."

"Never?" She mumbled, still thinking about something.

"Never," Maya said in a firm voice. "Those regrets will always eat you. I can see that something is troubling you, tell me about it." 

Since they were sharing stories of their past and bullied childhood, Alexis felt the need to maintain the personal level with the woman. She seemed to share a little and in brief and so had Alexis decided to do. 

"I..uh," she hesitated a bit. "Angelo offered his ..help," if his offer for murder could be called that, "and I do not know what to do about it because frankly speaking, I have moved on. Like really moved on, I don't care what happens in their lives now. I have mine to live and I am concentrating on that." 

"That's impressive," Maya smiled her way. "but not enough." 

"But it is. Maybe not to you but me, it is." Alexis argued. She immediately noticed how defensive she sounded of her thoughts. She did not need to explain herself. 

"No Alexis, it's not." Maya rolled her eyes at the absurd statement that Alexis had provided her. "You are not. People move on from things when there is no hope. What are you trying to convince yourself of? You have the opportunity yet you don't strike." 

"No one is asking you two to hit them with missiles. You can simply give them a stab. A little harmless stab. No worries." She smiled at the end. It seemed that Maya had done this countless times. 

Alexis's could not get over how she used that word. "That's amazing and astonishing that how you deem a stab harmless." 

"You'll get over it." She winked. "Bye." She turned and walked out. 

Humming Alexis went back to the chair she sat on before. Life was tough as it is so how was she to take revenge on anyone? But the satisfaction on Maya's face made her think twice. She had never stepped up and thought of revenge before but what now when she was given the opportunity and the perfect one?

A soft kiss on her temple made her jump in the chair. She looked found Angelo looking at her with a small smile. His eyes were different from the cold and calculating ones she saw at his house. Was this a ploy to lure her in? Could she trust him to not use Damon's and this revenge thing against her in the future? 

"Hey there, jumpy," he chuckled.

"Hi.." She whispered back.