Once he finally realised what had just happened, he smirked devilishly before saying, " Of course I find you pretty, sweetheart. You are the prettiest creature that I have ever laid my eyes upon. "
While saying these words, he slowly reached out for my hand and held it. Then he looked ahead as if to check whether or not the road was clear to avoid any accidents before staring straight into my eyes and bringing my hand closer and closer to his lips. It looked like he was going to kiss my hand. Once I understood his intention, my eyes widened and I pulled my hand out of his grasp faster than the speed of lightning. I looked horrified.
I resembled a cat that had pulled it's hand from its owners grasp because the owner was going to dip it's hand in water.
Soon peals of laughter were heard inside the car.
" Hahahahaha " Lucifer started laughing and it was not a small chuckle or a dry laugh but a hearty laugh which I had never heard before. Hearing him laugh at me, I started blushing in embarrassment and turned my head head towards the window.
" I am telling you Alexandra, I have not laughed like this in such a long time. Wait, are you blushing right now? "
" Get your eyes checked! " I said without turning around.
" Don't even try to deny it, I can see your bright red ear tips from here. "
I said nothing.
" ....Am I getting the silent treatment now? * Sigh * You're so petty Alexandra. "
" 1 - 0 " he said after a moment.
I couldn't understand what it meant at first but then it struck me and I snapped my head towards him and asked, " Why are you keeping a score now?! "
" Because it'll be a pretty interesting addition to my daily life, and challenges... are always fun. " he replied while devilishly smirking.
' Well that backfired. ' I thought and sulked while looking outside for the rest of drive.
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After some time, we reached Lucifer's father's house. Lucifer got out of the car first and then opened my door for me. I got out and straightened out the creases on my dress.
We stood in front of the door and rang the bell. Soon the door was opened by someone who I presumed to be the butler.
" Good evening young master, young madam. I am Austin, the butler. Master is waiting for you in the living room. " he introduced himself and led us towards the living room.
" Both of you are finally here! " Lucifer's father said excitedly.
He came to me, held my hands and said with a warm smile on his face, " Alexandra, I can't be happier now that you are a part of this family. You can just treat me like your own father and don't hesitate to tell me if this son of mine bullies you, okay? "
" Yes father " I said with a genuine smile once I felt the sincerity of his words.
" Great. So as there is still some time for dinner, let's sit down and talk for a while, shall we? " he said and gestured towards the sofa. Both Lucifer and I sat down side by side on the sofa.
" Father, I was wondering, why did you choose Alexandra as the bride? " Lucifer asked the moment we sat down without giving anyone else a chance to speak.
" Should you really be asking that question? Don't you already know? " he said and narrowed his eyes.
" Father you know I don't like beating around the bush, right? "
" Ugh! You're no fun. And in fact, the one who should be asking questions is me! If you had already met such a sweet, hard working girl then why didn't you tell me? "
" Father we had met only once but that's not the point, the point is that how did you know that we had already met each other? " Lucifer asked with narrowed eyes.
" Do you both seriously have no idea? " he asked and we shook our heads.
" Hah" he sighed and said, " Austin, please bring the Ipad. "
Austin brought the Ipad and handed it to him, who opened something on it and then passed it to Lucifer. I shifted a bit closer to him so that I could also see.
" *cough* *cough* *cough* " looking at the image on the screen, I choked on my own saliva and broke into a coughing fit. A maid that was standing near us, quickly brought a glass of water. While all this was going on, Lucifer sat frozen beside me.
" Alexandra, are you alright? " father asked me worriedly.
" I'm fine. " I replied with a slight smile in an effort to ease him.
" Thank goodness. And YOU! , your wife was going to die beside you and you did absolutely nothing! " he pointed towards Lucifer and said.
" Dad... how did you get this image? " Lucifer said, completely ignoring his father's words.
" What do you mean by that? It was all over the internet last month. This remained the hottest topic on almost every social networking site for about half a month, in fact some people are still talking about it. How could you both not even know about this? " he said.
" I can't believe it. The first time that my son fell in love, he didn't even bother to tell me about it. " Lucifer's father said in a low voice, that was still audible to both of us, as if he was sulking while me and Lucifer were still trying to process everything.
' * boom * DID HE JUST SAY LOVE?! ... God why in the world is Lucifer's father exploding bombs like that!!! ' I thought.
" Father, this is the first and last time I am telling you this. Me and Alexandra are NOT in LOVE. "
" Yes, we are not attracted to each other in the least. " I chimed in.
" You both literally look like you are whispering sweet nothings to each other in that photograph. "
' Well if calling someone a Devil is also included in those so called sweet nothings, then yeah, I guess we were doing that. ' I thought.
" Anyway, whatever you lovebirds say. I don't want to involve myself in your relationship.... * Sigh *Guess, I am too old to understand your generation. " he said after a moment.
' Oh god, how in the world are we going to solve this misunderstanding now.... Guess we'll just have to let it be for now. ' I thought.
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We were now back in the car.
Though nothing much happened in this visit ( except that photograph of course), I did I get to know one thing and that is, that Lucifer and his father are worlds apart. His father seems like a warm hearted, sweet, caring and loving person while Lucifer on the other hand, from my observation till now, seems like a cold hearted and ruthless kind of person, he also doesn't speak or laugh or smile often. In fact till now I have never seen him truly smile and the only time he laughed was earlier today. I haven't seen him being ruthless till now but it's just his aura. He gives off a dangerous vibe even when sitting in a relaxed position.
" I seriously can't believe that were married just because of an image.... a fricking image. " I said, bewildered.
' Maybe this image was the reason why my parents agreed so quickly to this marriage proposal. ' I thought.
" Yeah, an image in which we were whispering ' sweet nothings ' to each other. " Lucifer said while smirking and air quoted the words ' sweet nothings '.
" Hmm... yeah....Oh, I forgot to ask you, are we heading back now? " I asked awkwardly as I clearly knew the ' sweet nothings ' he was talking about.
" That was a very bad attempt at changing the topic but yeah, we are heading back. "
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