They sat in his office. Despite her being at his house on several occasions in the past, Sophia has never been to his office. His office was painted dark blue with yellow and ash stripes. A red apple-shaped table stood at the centre with a single system on it. He had bookshelves with the same colour as the table. To her left are different sizes and shapes of monitors installed on the wall. The room has a feminine yet masculine dominance in it.
He is organized, she thought. Too organized for someone with his kind of brain. She saw him walk to the shelves and tapped the middle revealing an inbuilt refrigerator. Awed by that, she didn't realise he was standing with a can of beer held out to her.
Sorry for the intrusion Cal, Amy started. I know you don't like to be disturbed but Alex is important to me as much as he is to you and not hearing from him for a week without prior notice is something that doesn't sit well with me.
It's okay, I understand. He stared at Sophia for a while and asked What did you want to know? Reasons why you made the call to him after finding out who owned 'World of Mars'. The reason why you've become a mess for two days and why you have been taking a snap at me, Sophia vents making him smile.
He weighed what to reveal and what not to, for a while. Screw it, he murmured to himself. Emmy Mouziz, the owner of WOM is our father.
What! The three of them exclaimed. He said your father died when he was twelve with your mom.
Cal chuckled. Yeah, the one he thought was his father Alexavier Victor Mouziz my father's brother.
My father was a wife-beater. More than that, a crazy man. His ideologies were harmful which my mother doesn't like.
But what to do he was her first in everything. My mom said he wasn't like that when they got married. His behaviour changed after I was born, they left the Mouziz compound in the hope to make a living for themselves not borrowing The Mouziz power.
When in truth my Father was the arrogant person who almost killed his brother just because he spoke to his wife about how handsome I would be.
For years he refused to be with her as a proper husband. He rough-handled her at every point saying she was a cheating whore.
Did I mention, he likes games? Video games. He was a developer like me. He thought me the first programming language I knew at age three. We took the brains from him.
By the time I turned twelve, I could hack into anything he smiled at that. One night he came home drunk. I was sleeping beside my mother when he suddenly dragged me with force. Scared and out of breath I struggled to keep up with what was around me. I tasted the blood then the pain first. He laid his hands on me saying I was sleeping with his wife just like his brother did. I did not understand what he was saying but I heard my mother saying how could he think of something so abominable towards me.
When he threw the second punch, I had thought my mom would ignore what was happening due to her so-called love for her husband but she shielded me before the sit could touch me. Annoyed he was being disobeyed he beat her and then raped her in front of me. He joined his hand together to prevent it from shaking. Sophia wished age could comfort him but they needed to hear the whole story, she took his hand in his and saw the tears swirled in his eyes.
Poor child she thought. I need to finish he said gently to her. He left my mother bleeding beside me.
So I ran after he left knocking on every door I see for help but no one answered. Our house was at the end of the neighbourhood so people were isolated. I had no friends to play with just my mom and I. So, when I got back home my mom already passed out. I didn't know what to do for almost five seconds then I thought of his lessons and hacked into the hospital system for an emergency.
But before they arrived Alexavier was already there hauling my mom into his car. Months after she recovered we realised she was pregnant with another child.
She couldn't bear to have his child again so she tried aborting it. But Alex was a stubborn one. He wouldn't come off. I don't understand what was going in then but I heard Xavier telling my mom the innocent one in her womb isn't his father's alone but hers.
So she kept it and named him after the man who saved our lives Alexander Victor Mouziz. Has Alex ever told you, my mother barely interacts with him? No, Amielia said confused. He has every feature of our father including his eyes. So I was already his father and mother at a tender age. Whenever she wanted to show him how warm she was she remembered how he was conceived and turned. I was the bridge between them. Alex grew fast with a very high intelligent quotient. A prodigy, at five he could solve my homework. I mean I was already in high school and I take lessons from my brother who was still in elementary.
So, he was sent to a special school. When Alex was seven my father came again angry. He was already rich. Tried buying me with money from my mother because he thought Alex was his brother's bastard. As usual, things escalated but Xavier was there to save her this time. I guess the hatred in his eyes towards Alex was what made my mother come around. She started acting like she was supposed to be with him but Alex was already used to the coldness from her. But to her despair, he prefers Xavier and me.
When Alex was twelve I was in College, our father came again this time with ill intentions.
He fought with his brother and killed him now in front of Alex. Seeing the gore he passed out. My mother died shortly after that. The neighbours were the ones that found their bodies three days after the incident.
Alex was barely alive when he got to the hospital. I was writing exams when this incident happened. You know the rest then.
Does Alex know who he is? Sophia asked with a shaky voice. No, we decided not to let him know who his father was. I was the one who calls him Alex Vic so he assumed it was his surname. When he realized my name was different he asked about it. I had to change mine to Vic to cover it up.
Unable to sit still, Amielia and Sophia hugged him for the comfort of theirs and his. We are sorry you have to revisit this, you are not alone in this anymore. Let us help you get him back please they pleaded.
Feeling lightheaded after letting it off his chest he agreed to allow them on his trip. We need to call Henry Mac he said after a while. Who is Henry Mac, they asked in uniform.
Sabella's brother. Surprised, you knew him? Yes, I do. He was my schoolmate. We need his brain and calmness on this. He looked up at Fern, I would hold your fiance well if I were you. H is a lady's woman, they swoon over him all the time and I am sure these two won't be immune.