Infatuation Of Darkness

Safely landing and exiting the airport, the couple was being driven through the roadways of Chicago. It was really cold and Alexis was thankful for Agatha to have packed a coat for them. Angelo was busy taking a few calls, as soon as they landed and he turned his phone on it was bombarded with various texts, emails and calls. She had her head against the window and kept on peering outside. It looked like New York but so unfamiliar at the same time. One could not even notice the difference if not for the architecture.

Her eyes moved to the people's face often looking at what they doing or wearing. A few looked like they were in a hurry but then again, were everyone not? As she focused on two bodies, she noticed something happen to make her smile at it. The guy just got pickpocketed and for the first time, she watched it happen instead of just hearing about it.

How many times had she come to Chicago before? Many.

Did ever have time to gaze out of a window with such leisure? Never.

She had been so busy with everything that she had never taken two minutes or even seconds out of her time to look around and enjoy herself.

The irony; today she saw pickpocketing.

Turning towards Angelo, she said, "I think I wanna pickpockets now." She winked.

Hearing her say something Angelo turned to her, "What?" he asked not having heard her the first time as he attending to the person on call.

Laughing softly she shook her head. "Nothing." She turned to look out once more. Alexis always thought that she did not have regrets, frankly, she had no one holding her back of anything so she did whatever she wanted but now seemed like somewhere or the other, she had forgotten to take care of herself, not that she did not have the perfect skincare routine or did not wear good clothes or anything like that. She meant to keep herself happy and she did not focus on that. But her in defence, when could she go for herself?

Her childhood had always been full of bullying and torment, her college life had been full of studying and wanting to build her career and when her twenties came and also, more stability, Angelo had found her. So when was she ever supposed to have time for herself? To take herself outside to shop not for office purposes but herself or to go out for a coffee or mean and eat out.

But she had never done anything like that, as she had leisurely watched the roads and do nothing else. It clicked that she had never really enjoyed it. She saved instead of spending crazily, always fearing for the worse happening.

"Hey," Angelo touched her cheek and brought her out of her thoughts. "we will be reaching to Silvano's place in ten to fifteen minutes."

She nodded at the given information but then she frowned. "Did you not say something about our penthouse?"

Angelo smiled and then teased, "why? Want to be alone with me?"

A smack came on his shoulder and he laughed answering, "Yes, we will have our place. But for the beginning, we would rather have us all be in one place. It would be easier to protect all. Also, you could decide what you want in decorating the house and stuff." He shrugged at the end.

She thought about it. Alexis had never paid attention to her apartment as well. Now that she realised it sure was mismatching a lot.

"That is a nice idea." She praised. She could work on it and distract herself often. Ah, that seems nice, it would be like a new project.

His phone rang and he looked away from the conversation was over. Excusing himself away, he attended the call and she went back to looking outside as if she had anything better to do other than constantly trying to distract her mind from going to a dark place. Sometimes she was afraid that she would never come back from it.

It seemed like a dark corner just calling her in and imprisoning her in there forever. So she tried her best not to think about it. It just brought back more of the memories that she wanted to avoid. Sometimes it felt that it did not even happen as she did not experience it in full consciousness but at times when she woke up as her body fought for consciousness, she would see a blurred figured and she hated that. it would resurface and she would have a harder time distracting herself even further.

She sighed and then glanced at Angelo who seemed to be speaking rapid Italian. He was quite furious by the looks of it. The car came to a stop and she looked out, expecting to be reached on the destination only to be disappointed. They were an accident ahead and the cars in front had not even had their engines running.

Great, she sighed, another disruption for the day. As if it was going great, to begin with.

She looked out, again, with a sigh was tiring, all she did for today was looking out of damn windows. Ah, what ha-

She gasped silently as she saw him. It was impossible. He had to be dead. There was no way that he could be alive.

He was talking to a person and Alexis watched the man with utter concentration. Something she won't even see her children with. She could not believe her eyes. Should she pinch herself? But won't he be gone by then? And that was the opposite of what she wanted.

He was alive and in front of her, talking to someone with a smile on his face.

Would he recognise her, after so long?

But Alexis was ready to take that chance.

The man waved a bit and then turned around to leave making her internally panicked. Where was he going?

In that feeling of panic, Alexis opened her door and ran towards him.