Chapter 108
[MIA]
Alex didn’t have to work a day of his life for his good looks. His father didn’t even look like his father, he could easily pass as his elder brother.
Alex was an identical copy of his father- his height, body, face, hair, everything except for his eyes. His entire family had brown eyes except for
him.
And, his parents were normal people.
They didn’t glare, they didn’t look murderous, they weren’t arrogant and they certainly didn’t walk like everyone else was just dust beneath
their shoes. Unlike a certain someone, who had a manufacturing defect it seemed, because he turned out nothing like his family.
“Oh no, Mia, call me Sofia,” Alex’s mother told me when I called her Mrs. Whitlock, after they called me in and asked me to sit in the living
room where they were all settled previously.
“Sofia,” I smile at her, “Thank you.”
“So, who are you?” Aurora eyes me, Gabriel’s twin. They were fraternal, and looked so different but when she gave me that suspicious look, I
could swear I saw exactly how related they were.
“Mia?” I offer.
“She’s a colleagues sister,” Gabriel lies effortlessly, not even blinking. “He asked me to take care of her for a few days till he’s… busy.”
“Hm,” Aurora frowns, not buying her brother’s lie.
“So, Mia, what do you do?” Alex’s father asked.
“I am a baker,” I reply in a small voice.
“Really?” Sofia’s eyes shone. “I loved baking too, when I was younger.”
“Really, Mama?” Aurora enquired, and Sofia nodded, and so they began talking about things, how Sofia loved to bake before how troublesome the twins were as toddlers. There were even stories about how Alex was so jealous Ronan was going to be born that he threw himself down the stairs and gave everyone a scare, hence the faded scar on his forehead.
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It was past midnight when the stories and laughs ended, and the older Whitlocks ushered us to sleep since Gabriel had a meeting early in the
morning.
“Mia, should I prep the guest room for you?” Sofia asks me affectionately, and I smile at her.
“If it’s not too much trouble?” Ever since Sofia found out I grew up without parents, she had taken an extra liking towards me. Even Alex’s
father’s eyes had softened.
“Of course it isn’t.”
“But Mom,” Aurora protested. “The guest room’s AC isn’t working, remember?”
“Huh?” Sofia asked, confused.
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“It isn’t working.” Aurora announced. “And the other guest room still has Luna’s stuff remember? And the third one, Ronan turned into a man- den for his eighteenth birthday and you guys allowed him under the pretext we barely have guests.”
“I- I can sleep without AC,” I offered, not wanting to a burden. I had been thrown out of foster homes for being an inconvenience one too many times.
“Nonsense!” Aurora dismissed it. “I’ll prep Ronan’s room for you.”
Ronan, Alex’s almost twenty–one year old brother that had come up in conversation multiple times but wasn’t around for the night.
Alex glared at his twin.
“What?” She shrugged with a smug smile. “He’s partying. He’s going to most likely not even make it home. And I’ll leave him a text to pass out in the guest room if he does end up coming home.”
“No.” Alex refuses.
“What no?” Aurora retorts. “I would have offered for her to stay with me but I have work to do and I’m going to be up till like 3 AM, and I’m sure she’s so tired after travelling.”
My cheeks were flustered. “I- I can manage anywhere, I’ll be okay, really.”
“She’ll stay with me,” Alex announces.
“She will?” Aurora smirked.
My eyes widened. “I will?”
The older Whitlocks both exchanged amused smiles, wishing us goodnight and leaving upstairs.
“I have to keep an eye on her till her brother’s busy, don’t I?” Alex offers. “How can I do that if she’s not where I can keep an eye on her?”
“Yes, because Ronan possesses such danger to Mia,” Aurora muses, her smirk widening.
Her twin glares at her, and she glares back till Alex sighs and shakes his head and she smiles triumphantly.
“Goodnight Alex. Goodnight Mia,” she grinned. “Our room is just adjacent, so keep down the noises, if there are going to be any.” She winks at
me, and I think I turn as red as a tomato.
“We’re not like that,” I tell her in a mumble.
“Not your business, Auro,” Alex glares at her, and not playfully like he has been doing all this while. He glares at her icily, coldly the way I had gotten used to.
She blinks, pouts and walks away flipping her hair, and then flipping him off.
I turn to Alex with a small smile. “You have a nice family.”
“Nice?” He cocks an eyebrow. “You call that nice?”
“Mh–hm.” I nod, pursing my lips. “Makes me wonder what happened to you.”
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He acts offended, which I knew he wasn’t.
“No, seriously,” I pushed. “When I first met you, I thought you would have had an abusive childhood for you to turn out so…”
“Cold?” He offers.
“Monstrous,” I quipped.
He glares. “I have killed people for calling me much lesser than that.”
“And yet, you won’t kill me.”
“Yet,” he conditions. “I won’t kill you yet.”
I huff, following him wherever he was walking, probably to his room. It was down the same hallway Mia had walked into, and he leads me into a door.
His bedroom was big, much like mine at his house. Dark blue wallpapers, a king sized bed, a huge walk–in wardrobe along with an even bigger bathroom. Blue curtains separated the balcony, which had a table and a few chairs set outside.
I notice how it wasn’t dusty despite not having been used since a while.
As luxurious as the room was, that wasn’t why my heart started beating louder in my chest.
It was because of the bed.
There was only one bed.
