It's late in the evening, when Zenos arrives. "welcome back master", a maid said as she took his coat for him. "hmm", he replies.
He heads upstairs, and goes to his room. Opening the door, he sees his wife sleeping, he smiles. He walks toward the bed and sits next to her, he gave her a kiss on her forehead before getting up and heading to the bathroom.
He takes a shower, comes out and puts on his clothes, goes to the bed and lays down hugging Lucia from behind.
More than thirty minutes had passed, and they were still in that position. Lucia wakes up, feeling something or someone heavy pressing against her, she turns.
She sees Zenos sleeping, well, that was what she thought. She reaches out to touch his face, she smiles and caress his face. "You're awake?", Zenos says as he smiles and tightens his grip on her, she got startled and pulled her hand away. He opens his eyes and looks at her, "why did you stop?", he takes her hand and brings it back to his face and smiles.
"Sorry", Lucia says. "Why are you saying sorry?", Zenos asks.
"Well I woke you up", Lucia replies, Zenos chuckles and says, "I was awake even before you woke up", he puts away some strands of her hair behind her ears.
"So you were just pretending to sleep?", Lucia says as she frowns, "hmm", he replies while smiling.
"So how was the training today?", Zenos asks. "It was good, although they did not know how to hold a weapon well, I gave them wooden swords to practice with", Lucia says. "poor them they must be exhausted now", Zenos says looking at her with a sad face.
"Why did you say that?", she asks, Zenos looks at her and says, "seriously".
"What", she replies looking innocent, Zenos looks at her and sighs, "forget it", he says. He leans in to kiss her, when they heard a knock on the door, *KNOCK KNOCK*, "master, dinner's ready", a feminine voice can be heard, looking annoyed, Zenos turns and says, "okay".
Lucia tries to make her way out of his embrace. "What are you doing?", Zenos asks.
"The maid just said that dinner is ready, aren't you hungry?", she says, "no", he replies. As if hearing what he said, his stomach grumbles in protest making Lucia laugh, she got off the bed. "Come on, let's go and eat", she says. Zenos got up from the bed and pouts like a child, they both head out of the room.
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In a room, five children can be seen sitting around a table with some snacks and juices on top, with a dim light in the middle of the room. But it is bright enough to see their faces.
"So, what's the agenda for the day, Emily", Selene says. Emily who is crossing her leg and folding her arms against her chest, looks at them with a cold expression and says, "as we all know, our parents are acting suspicious, and we don't even know what they do for a living", they all nod in agreement.
"Earlier, before we started training, I and Selene came to a conclusion", Emily says, "and what might that be", Xiaoling says.
Emily, Xiaoling, Selene, Avery and Lucifena had always gathered in a room that looks abandoned, but now it is clean and looks like a room they can be able to play in. They always come to the room a.k.a their lair/meeting room, to talk about 'serious matter' as they say. To others it might look like they are just playing, but only they know what they do.
"We suspect that mom might be an assassin, and dad a spy", Selene says with a straight face sipping her drink.
"Well i also suspect that mom might be an assassin, but dad a spy? I don't think so", Lucifena says.
"Lucifena, can you please share with us why you think dad is not a spy", Emily says.
Crossing her leg, Lucifena takes the cupcake in front of her, she bites it and puts it down on the plate, "well, yeah I do agree that dad does look suspicious and all, but with his muscular build, and aura he emits whenever he is angry does not make him look like a spy at all, he looks more like someone who owns a company, he looks like a boss, however, I don't think that is it either, because there was a day when I was going to meet dad in his room and I overheard him and uncle Wu Long talking. Although I did not hear them very well, because they were not talking out loud, but...", her eyes turn sharp as she says, "I did hear the word mafia and boss, then I came to a conclusion. Dad is a mafia boss".
Everybody's eyes widen in surprise as they look shocked. "That can't be, so you're trying to say dad is a bad person?", Selene says looking a bit it scared.
"Calm down Selene, Lucifena you can not just say things like that", Emily says. "Well...I was just saying", Lucifena grumbles.
Suddenly a cute small voice is heard, "um, if I may ask, what is mafia?", Avery says. The other four girls looks at each other.
"Don't worry Avery, don't listen to Lucifena, she's doesn't know what she's saying", Emily looks at Avery with a soft gaze. "But I still want to know", Avery says.
"Let's just tell her since she is hear, and you guys know just how curious Avery can be, if we don't tell her now she might go and ask uncle later on", Xiaoling says.
Emily looks at Avery and says, "Avery, mafia is an organization or group of people that does very bad things". Avery looks surprised she turns and looks at, Lucifena, "so you are saying that dad and uncle are bad people?", she says.
"Mm, well not exactly", Lucifena says as she looks away, scratching her cheek with her finger.
"We need more information, this won't do", Selene says. "Yes I agree, but how?", Xiaoling says eating a biscuit.
"Well I know you three are good at acting, and you easily get what you want", Emily says while pointing at Lucifena, Avery and Xiaoling, "so you three should try and get some information, from that. I want you guys to indirectly ask them some questions about their job and something related", she continues.
The three of them nod in agreement."What about us, what do we do?", Selene asks, "we are going to be snooping around", Emily replies. "Oh, you mean like detectives", Selene says in excitement almost jumping off her seat, "Yeah, something like that", Emily says.
"That's not fair, I also want to be the detective too", Lucifena pouts and says. "Sorry Lucy, but we can't allow you guys to do it", Emily says.
"But why?", Xiaoling says. "Well, you guys aren't fit for the job, and it looks like mom is always watching you three, you guys are somewhat noisy, and...", Emily looks at Avery, "what about me?", Avery says, ".....sigh, you guys should just stick to the task I gave you", Emily says.
"Hey, you did not answer my question, what about me?", Avery says. "Seriously you're asking me that, we all know you are terrible at snooping around", Emily says.
"I am not", Avery tries to defend herself, "really, what about the time we sent you to secretly get cookies from the kitchen, you were hiding behind a flower pot, do you need me to mention all", Emily says with her eyes half closed.
Avery looks away pouting. "Okay, I guess that's all we should head out now I'm sure they must be looking for us", Selene says, "hmm, let's go", Emily says.
They all get up and left the room. "Sigh, I'm starving", Emily says, "yeah me too", Lucifena says while rubbing her stomach. "What, we just finished a whole tray of snacks and you two ate the most", Selene says looking at them with a shocked expression.
"That was snacks Selene, not food", Emily says. "Yeah", Lucifena says and nods in agreement. Selene looks at the two and says, "whatever", with her eyes half closed. All five of them continue to walk, as the smell and aroma of food reaches their nose.
Emily and Lucifena's eyes brightens as they thought to themselves, 'dinner is ready'. They both ran towards the dining room.'These two will never change', Selene thought to herself as she chuckles.