"Ah!"
The woman suddenly screamed and sat up in bed.
When she opened her eyes and noticed the scene in the bedroom with rapid breathing, Alia felt relieved.
Only then did she realize that she was sweating all over and her pajamas were soaked.
The scene from her dream just now still appeared in her mind from time to time...
Feeling that she couldn't fall asleep again for a while, Alia got up, showing off her beautiful figure, and slowly walked into the bathroom next to her.
Then, the sound of running water could be heard faintly in the bathroom.
Just as Alia changed into her nightgown and walked out of the bathroom, she heard a knock on the door.
She walked slowly to the door cautiously:
"Who is it?"
"It's me, Alya."
Barron's voice came through the door:
"I heard you scream just now, so..."
After hesitating for a moment, Alia opened the door and saw Barron, a tall man, standing outside.
"Are you still awake, Your Highness?"
"I was just about to go to bed, and I passed by your door and heard your voice, so I wanted to check on you. I knocked on the door just now, but there was no answer, so I thought I heard it wrong... But I'm still a little worried."
Thinking that she had just gone to take a shower, she knew that the rooms here were well soundproofed. Just like when Barron was with other women... Alia only heard those noises when she arrived at his bedroom door because she had something to ask.
So Alia was a little surprised that Barron could hear the sound of her waking up from a nightmare... Was her voice really that loud at that time?
"Excuse me for disturbing you, Your Highness, I just had a nightmare."
"That's good..."
Alia's face was already delicate, and perhaps because she had just woken up from a nightmare, she looked somewhat pitiful at this moment.
Barron looked at her and asked softly:
"Is it about...something from the past?"
Seeing the girl nodded silently, Barron comforted her:
"It's all over, Alia. You are safe now. No one will hurt you. Well, go to bed early. If there is anything, just tell me."
Today, Barron made Alia feel a rare... gentleness.
Seeing him say that, turning around and preparing to leave, Alia bit her lip lightly and said:
"Wait a minute, Your Highness, I, I have something to tell you..."
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When Barron returned to the bedroom, Ivanta was still asleep...
Barron did not expect that after he had just "coaxed" her to sleep, he went downstairs to drink water because he had sweated too much. He happened to hear Alia waking up from a nightmare, and then got the news from her.
According to Alia, the day after she returned to New York from Boston with Barron, she happened to see someone on the street when she was out with them...
At first, she thought she had recognized the wrong person, but when the other person gave her a smile - a smile that was so familiar to her, Alia was sure that the person was Mikhail Ritter.
As mentioned before, in addition to Alia, her adoptive father Louis Lafayette also adopted many children.
Most of them, after they grew up, were used by him and joined his criminal organization.
And Mikhail Ritter is one of them.
Mikhail is of Slavic descent. He has been extremely talented in fighting since he was a child. With the special training of Louis Lafayette, Mikhail has participated in some underground fighting competitions since he was 16 years old - the kind in which people bet in an iron cage, regardless of life or death.
Mikhail's combat record was very impressive, and he was once called Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards hell.
"Why didn't you tell me this before?"
At that time, Barron looked at Alia and asked lightly.
"Because... because I didn't think he was actually still alive."
"What's the meaning?"
At that time, Alia was sitting in front of the French window, looking at the moonlight outside, and said with some reminiscence:
"The last time I saw Mikhail was two years ago. After that, I never saw him again..."
She looked at Barron, took a deep breath, and said,
"Do you remember that I told you that I had a sister who was tortured to death? It was Mikhail who told me about this. That's when I learned that Mileva was my sister, and she was Mikhail's lover..."
When she said this, Barron remembered that Alia had indeed told him about this matter at the beginning.
"Mikhail told me at the time that he was going to take me away from there and avenge Mileva... But the next day, news came out that Mikhail was killed by bodyguards because he intended to attack Louis... I really didn't expect that he was not dead, and I really don't know whether his appearance was a coincidence or for some other purpose. Why did he come to New York?"
No matter what Mikhail's purpose is, or whether he still has any relationship with Alia's adoptive father Louis Lafayette, since the other party has also seen Alia, Barron must also be on guard against this.
Especially since I knew from Alia that Mikhail's skills were very good.
The next day, Barron and his team left New York and returned to London on a Gulfstream G450.
It wasn't that I was scared away by Mikhail, but it was already late April, and Viscountess Chris's due date was very close...
Although the baby to be born is Ethel Boot, she is still Barron's biological daughter, and he will definitely not favor one over the other.
He had also already made an agreement with Rebecca that once she recovered a little, he would send his plane to Los Angeles to pick her up and take her back to London for recuperation. Rebecca would also be able to return to her alma mater to continue her studies...
This means that they will be able to meet again in just over half a month.
The person who was most dissatisfied with Barron's hasty departure was naturally Ivanta, with whom he had just been together for two days.
After all, no matter what her original purpose of being with him was, as the two of them spent more time together, she had discovered many more strengths of this handsome Duke... Compared with the men she had known before, it could be said that Barron had won in every aspect, so Ivanta's fascination with him grew day by day.
In Ivanta's opinion, perhaps Barron's only shortcoming is that he is too fickle.
But in this regard, because of her family, it is not particularly difficult for her to accept...
After all, her father, after two marriages, has recently been involved in a passionate relationship with a model who is 24 years younger than him...
And over the years, Ivanta herself probably couldn't even count the number of women who had appeared around her father.
Therefore, when it comes to love, Ivanta understands more about what she needs, and her reason allows her to actively ignore those trivial matters.
"Baby, I need to take care of some things. You know, one of my companies is preparing to go public. But I promise you, when I go to China next time, I will take you with me..."
After hearing Barron's promise before leaving, Ivanta smiled and gave him a sweet kiss.