Infatuation Of Darkness

"Go on then," she took a seat at her chair once more, "tell me what was so important that you can't even knock before entering."

He nodded and moved forward coming to stand in front of a table." I apologize for not knocking ma'am." He bowed his head, "but there is something of grave importance that I must ask."

She nodded, a bit irritated by his constant deflection.

He started out looking visibility uncomfortable, "Have you told the don about..." His expression said it all. 

"About?" She asked as she twisted her hand in a what gesture. "About my daughter? Of an event that I entrusted you to become a part of, anyway, you are talking of it while being against me."

He bowed his head bit but didn't move, "my loyalties are to the don and then the donna. I hope you understand that matters like these, all the ones that he should know of."

Alexis would have agreed with him if her daughter was still alive and she was hiding her like a bastard child but the reality was her child had been long dead. after Jaden had faked his death and along with her child months after running away with her child Alexis had considered her baby to be that and with extensive therapy, she had moved on.

So now that there was no child, it made no sense to Alexis as to why she would tell Angelo about her past which was buried deep inside her heart.

But Liam was just an employee to her especially now that he had chosen to side with her husband and did not consider her opinion.

She smiled at him and said, "pray to tell what's the use of telling him of this anyway? Especially now? When my child is dead." She pointed it out once more for him to hear and understand where she was coming from, "I repeat, now that she is dead."

He scratched his head and replied, "but he should know-"

"Of what?! A child that is no longer alive? Or never was mine, to begin with? What am I going to get after opening a can of worms as big as this one, as hurting as this one?" She yelled, "you have no idea how it feels to carry a child inside you and then have someone steal it away, fake their death and when you finally come in terms to the reality the show-up and tell you that the thing that you had no longer exists. see even this does not make sense nothing makes sense and you want me to tell that man as if everything that makes sense?!" She hissed loudly.

If anyone could hear Alexis at the moment they would know that this was a touchy subject and given her position they would leave her alone. As for Alexis, she would agree that she had gone a little bonkers with how this whole situation had played out.

But she did not want to think about it at all.

"Ma'am," she sighed in irritation but he continued, "you have to understand the position from which I am speaking."

"What position?" She asked standing up and taking place across the window, enjoying the gardens and she could also see the arrangements being prepared for her tea with Juliette. "That position is not going to be yours anymore."

"Excuse me?" The man look appalled as she cast him a glance.

"The don doesn't affiliate himself in men that are divorced out of adultery." She smiled as she so his expressions break and worry crowd his face. "Something wrong, Liam?"

He opened his mouth off but closed it hesitantly he started again, "what do you mean, adultery?"

She smiled and took her seat. "My child is dead now but you have three and are the sole earner of the family. Being so close to the don provides you with many benefits that you surely do not want to be stripped off of, then why is it even after making a grave mistake you turn up to my desk and the demand for me to correct it?"

"Yo-you..know?" He whispered.

She gave him a toothy smile, "how funny lit is that you don't expect me to know what is going on inside my house. My husband doesn't need to know about a dead child but I am sure your wife would hate to know that you have cheated on her. And if she knows that and you get a divorce you know you that the don with discard you with that he does with traitors." She opened the file, "close the door on your way out."

Dismissed he was. As clearly as crystal.

*******

Alexis had first called Juliette to her room before going out in the gardens.

"Ah come." She received her sister in law or as she came in with Agatha. "Sit here." She pointed to the chair of the makeup table.

Juliette, with a bit of hesitancy, did as told. Alexis took a few cotton pads and with micellar water on it, she moved forward and took off Juliette's blotchy makeup job.

"Wha-'

"Hush." was all Alexis said in return to quiet and down her protests. "There you go," she took all of it off and stared at the marks with disdain. "Why did they do that to you?"

Juliette's eyes glistened over as she shrugged barely keeping herself together. "Simply stating because I am not you."

Alexis took some moisturizer on her hand and began working her job. "Stating this with great hardness, you will never be me." She turned Juliette's face around to look into her eyes. "You are you, Juliette. No matter how hard you try, you will never come close to me. You become the best for yourself or the lowest."

Juliette shook her head, "They don't get it."

"They never would." Alexis picked up a brush. "Because you never tell them that and even if you do, your words hold no power."

"Because I don't have any." She turned Alexis's hand down and stared into the young Donna's eyes, "but you do and you are the only one who can make the change. For people like us who have no power and just look up to you."

Alexis, for the time, felt a rush of power run through her entire body.