Infatuation Of Darkness

Patting her hair dry, she came out wearing a robe and slippers. She had to get a trim as she looked at her hair. They were way too long now.

She kept the towel on the vanity table and went to pick up a hairbrush but her hands stopped when her eyes saw something flashy. And good lord, how beautiful it looked, it was a proper set containing necklace earrings and along with a bracelet and ring.

Oh, how shiny it looked. It had an alternate design of green and white diamonds and Alexis could not take her eyes off of it. It was just so beautiful.

"Do you like it?" She had his voice from somewhere behind her.

Still enchanted with how beautiful emerald set look she nodded but did not take her eyes off of it, "it is very beautiful."

To be honest, she did not answer what he had asked instead she told him that it was beautiful and Angelo ignored the difference. Which was fine by her because that was beautiful.

But then thinking about it she asked, "But why are you giving it to me?" they did not have their anniversary coming anytime soon and it was not her birthday as well. Surely, the set must have cost him a fortune. 

She cannot see but never the less he shrugged and answered, "Google set to give gifts to your wife to keep her happy."

Smiling a little she turned around to face him and said, "I am sure that the list consists of a few less costly things than that." She pointed to the emerald necklace. "I would have been happy with a simple rose or something."

"I know," he took her in his arms, "but I can afford to give you everything in this world and I will."

Her heart warmed with what he said. He knew how to make her feel all blushy.

"Also," he added as he took a hold of her shoulders, "do not worry about them anymore. I will take care of it, no one ever is coming after you, okay? I will protect you."

Her heart pounded loudly. Those words were something that I wanted to hear from a long time. The words of reassurance that everything will be okay.

"Thank you," she smiled which he returned.

"Go get ready," he whispered, kissing her forehead he went ahead to take a shower.

***********

Angelo was sitting in his office taking care of few legal files that he had to sign. His assistant had read them and then sent them over but he just to be sure. Therefore, he read them again.

"How is the new bride?" Silvano came in without knocking. He was here on personal queries and not a business. "Did it work? What I had suggested."

Angela scoffed as if that would ever work. The advice that his brother gave was either the only solution they had available or simply too illogical to be practical. And so was this one, just the same.

"No way in hell did I use your approach in this," he pointed a finger at him. "It would never work."

Silvano shrugged, "it works fine on my wife." He said.

"Nikita is different from Alexis." Was all he said to the matter. "I did not want to be physical with her until very much needed I think the manipulation working just fine."

"How?" His brother asked. "Tell me about it."

"I deliberately picked up on the murder. I knew she would have a panic attack and that panic attack caused her to put this as that one thing she did and completely forget about my hitting her. With her fragile state of mind, she believes everything I said because she knows that I will protect her."

He remembered her crying panic-stricken face of her in his office. She had completely exhausted to should focus on the fact that she had killed someone and that she would go to jail. She forgot that the man that was married to did it for a living.

"Fragile state of mind?" Silvano made a face at that. That shit was that now?

But then, it clicked.

"Holy fucking Shit!" He cursed loudly. "You had it all planned out from the start, didn't you?"

Angelo smiled in amusement, "honestly I thought it would take a little longer for you to figure it out."

"Answer the damn question," Silvano grunted out.

"Alright," he huffed. "After she had killed her boss, I have immediately pushed the wedding forward that meant she did not have enough time to think about what she had done. And now when she thought of it realised what she had committed.

And that is a fragile state of mind I am telling you about. She is scared of what will happen next I on the other hand will provide her with everything. She will mentally start depending on me. so much so that she would never question a decision as long as I say that it is for her benefit."

"And it would work out all in your favour." his brother completed. "I have to say brother, that is one fucking master plan."

"It is." He agreed. "no matter how much and what kind of love I show her she will always need me and that is all I want."

"I guess the manipulation game is strong try it on my wife," Silvano added thoughtfully. He had ever thought of it with Nikita but whenever he would the chance, he would love to try.

"Which kind of monsters are Angelo?" his brother questioned. "We are the exact opposite of what our mother wanted us to be."

"We are, aren't we?" Angelo repeated looking up towards the ceiling.

"Yes," Silvano sighed. We are monsters."

"We just are what we want and we want things a certain way. We don't shy away from it and accept it as a reality that is what makes us monsters."

With a smirk, Angelo continued, "but aren't we all monsters? Some of us have just accepted the fact whereas the other the simply struggle."