CHAPTER 18
Mother's P.O.V (in Paris)
I walked up to the receptionist's desk and leaned on it,
"I would like to meet your CEO" I said giving her the sweetest smile I could muster,
"I'm sorry, but he is in a meeting at the moment, would you like to wait a while or if you would like to come back another time, while I pass the message..." I cut her of with a wave of my hand,
"Don't worry I'll wait" I said and took a seat.
This so called CEO was my little brother who had somehow cut ties with me until some few years ago when I came looking for him.
I was still waiting for him and according to the time it's been 3 hours since I got here I looked out and saw that night had almost fallen, I walked back to the receptionist's desk and asked
"Ummm.... if I may ask, how long is this meeting?"
"The meeting is over but, I was ordered not to let anyone through some few minutes ago" she answered.
"I can't believe this, why didn'tyou tell me this?"
"I was about to wrap up and tell you" she answered meekly, with her head bent.
I knew what he was doing by this time of the day,
"No worries, I'll be back tomorrow" I said and headed out.
'This was a hotel and according to my little knowledge the meeting was held in the conference room and he stays here so.....it seems like I would have to visit him the illegal way' I thought to myself as I walked out of the building.
*Few minutes later*
"Hello brother" I said walking into his apartment through the balcony.
Ignoring the fact that he had a lady with him, who had almost jumped out of her skin after seeing me,I took a seat on the chair in the room and helped myself to a glass of wine.
"Leave" my brother's voice boomed, I nodded to the little chick and tilted my head to the door, she seemed to have been caught by surprise cos she kept murmuring to herself "what...how.....who....how...how....??" I chuckled and stared at the lady by his side,
"Not her, you"
"No can do brother" I said as I took a sip of the wine, it was sweet, I smiled and drank the whole glass, I tilted my head to the door to show her a way out, she got up, scrambled for her clothes and ran into the washroom to get dressed, I shook my head at her clumsiness when she ran back for her skirt and ran back into the washroom again to get changed. I waited till she was done changing and left the room before saying anything,
"What do you want??" He asked, as he got off the bed and began buttoning his t shirt while fixing his belt,
"Nothing much" I said, I walked around the room a little before standing and looking out the window,
"Then why are you here??" He asked as he began to lay the bed, I walked over to assist him,
"You were always the clean type" I whispered as I fluffed the pillow,
"And you were always the messy type" he whispered, standing straight while folding his arms,
"Used to clean up after you" he said
"Now does your "husband" do that for you??" He questioned as he raised his hands to make an emphasis on the word husband. Jeffrey was never in support of my relationship with Frank, He had never liked him from the get-go and the fact that he was human clearly pissed him off all the more, he had wanted me to be with one of our "kind" (note emphasis on kind)
"Yh he does actually or should I say he did?" I said as I walked back to drag a seat to the balcony and poured a glass for my brother, I grabbed the whole bottle and drank a bit,
"What do you mean by that?" He asked as he followed suit and grabbed the glass I had poured for him, we both looked down and I saw how high up we were, the houses below looked like tiny specks of dust
"Why did you pick a room so high up??" I asked,
"It reminded me of home" he answered, I nodded at his answer and also felt the same way.
"Good taste brother" I said as I lifted up the bottle to acknowledge his taste in wine and smiled at him.
"The prophecy is coming to pass" I said, he was sipping his wine and almost 'choked' on it ( I mean who chokes on sipped wine??) I shook my head and got up to pat his back, "You okay?" I asked, after taking a seat again,
"What do you mean?" He asked after regaining his composure,
"Who is the boy of this prophecy?" He asked
"Adam...Adam Walker" I answered. I placed the bottle on the table, humans were so lucky, they had the chance to feel drunk after drinking such stuff, but they never worked on me, on us, because of who we were, and I wanted to feel it, just once, but no matter what I drank I just never felt it,
"What do you mean by Adam Walker? Do you mean Anastasia's son?"
"Yep the son of your first love" I answered with a smirk, he glared at me and said
"But they can't be together, Anastasia's descent is different from that of ours, if they should come together there would be a disaster on earth and dad wouldn't like that, not after what he put you through and all he went through, I even had to leave her because of it and you" he whispered the last part out, I nodded my head to what he said and answered,
"I know but this isn't something you or I or even dad can stop and you know it, you were once in their shoes" I bent my head and rested it on my palms,
"And let's not forget the fact that you killed his mother" he said , pointing at me at the 'you' part.
"And that's exactly what's making me stressed out" I said sitting up again
"I saw him there while she was in the hospital"
"She's in the hospital!!!!!"he shout asked me,
" she's been there for the last three days, unconscious, I think she has began to see visions. Mom wants her to know who she is and where she comes from, but I don't want that" I said taking in a deep breath, "she shouldn't know" I whispered
"I don't want her to know" a drop of tear rolled down my cheek and I wiped it away, "Hey, don't cry" He stood up and came to my side, hugging me
"That was why I left, to keep her out of all this...this....fight or whatever ot may be, so she wouldn't know, so she could be safe, this is so messed up" I said, running my fingers through my hair
"Why did you hire bodyguards?"I asked after calming down,
"What?" He asked, like he hadn't heard me, I got up and sat on the railing of the balcony, before repeating my question,
"I said, why did you hire bodyguards?? You have the ability to destroy multiple armies by yourself so why do you need the protection of .....mere humans?" "Because the Image I have in this world is that of one who needs bodyguards, I'm just trying to keep that image, like just imagine the CEO of a conglomerate walking around with no bodyguards wouldn't that be weird?"
"I guess being the son of your dad has it's perks huh?" I asked as I started rocking back and forth on the railing,I let it go and continued rocking back and forth, Jeff made no effort to stop me and just watched.
I leaned back one last time and finally went down.
I went down and down and down before I finally landed, it was midnight already so not much people were on the road, I looked up to see Jeff staring down at me, he looked like an ant up there, I crouched and leapt up to where he was and landed on the railing, he looked up at me and smirked.
"We need to go back" I said jumping down and landing right beside him,
I repeated myself in case he hadn't heard me well again,
"We need to go back" he turned to me and asked,
"Who is the 'we' in this sentence?"
"I mean me and you"
"Why me??" He whined"why do I have to go with you?"
"So that whatever I tell her wouldn't be too difficult to accept and believe" I answered sharply.
"I'll be back by tomorrow" I said and left.