Infatuation Of Darkness

Alexis came to her room and to her surprise Angelo was on the bed and he was resting."What's up with you?" She checked his temperature. "Are you sick? Feeling a little under the weather?" She teased.

He opened up one of his eyes only a little to watch her. "Even if I am sick, which I am not, what is there to tease me about it?"

She shrugged with her lips thinned as she stretched them in a smile. "I don't know to imagine a big bad Mafia boss sneezing and sniffing or going to loo 30 times in a meeting?"

His eyes flashed. "That's not funny."

She shook her head a bit. "Well, I never said it was." She smiled and winked at him. "Scoot." She said and as he did, she laid down next to him.

She told him everything that Juliette and she had talked about in the gardens and about the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her grandmother in law.

As she looked at him for his reaction she noticed visible unsettlement for this matter on his face. "my mother had tried her best to make sure that this didn't happen and that this didn't continue but I guess as she retired from her title it became obvious that have word now holds no meaning and power."

Alexis scoffed in disgust, "I don't understand this. Why does everything have to come back to holding power? What about humanity? Isn't it just simply being Human by not hitting someone else just because they not listening to you?!"

Angelo smiled and propped his head upon his and which was supported by his elbow, "I like that feistiness. Could you also keep it for tonight?"

"Be serious please." She smacked him with chest feeling his nipple underneath, maybe next time she could try pinching that. 

"Alright," he sighed. "Why do you think that the government gives in to protests?"

"Because of the cause." She answered within obvious tone to which he shook his head.

"Not the cause baby, it's never the cause. It's because the people have the power. It is the rule of nature that whoever has the power is always crowned the king. Power can come in many forms and with many threats. Like if you don't give in to the protests you might not be elected president next time, and just like that the one who has power gives into the person who has the power. Like my grandmother giving into my mother." He explained.

She didn't immediately reply and continue to look up at the ceiling. Then slowly shook her head as a shock but not really, "it's just everywhere? And for everything?" She murmured. A sad little murmur that reached his ears nonetheless.

"Yes, my sweetheart." He agreed but then smile and complimented. "but I would say that you are fitting into your role well."

"What?" She looked at him with a slight frown on her forehead that he eased with his fingers.

He chuckled as his eyes shined with the light. "Even the Juliette was talking and practically revealing everything to you which could have been a strategy, you did not. You held your ground and played diplomatically which, to be honest, I had not expected from you this soon." He kissed her temple, "Well done."

She smiled a bit as she looked into his eyes and then stopped when he rolled out of the bed and walked into the washroom closing the door after him.

A strategy? She frowned as he thought about it.

'I had never considered the fact that Juliette revealing everything to me could be a tactic or a strategy by her family. If I had paid more attention to the conversation and not the meaning it had behind it I would have given a lot of details.' She closed her eyes as she realises what could have happened. 'and the fact that I didn't even realise until Angelo have pointed out makes me wonder what I could have possibly done?'

She sighed but then another thought popped into her mind.

'If Juliette is being abused physically by her in-laws what proof do I have that she would be on my side while conversing with me and not tell Julia everything?'

She closed her eyes as she felt tired thinking about all of this. Life of so much simple when she had just been working and spending money and that was it. now she had to figure out who was actually on her side and listen to her husband say time and again that he didn't trust anyone when it came to himself.

But when he did not trust anyone, why should she?

She sat up as she thought about it. Angelo did not trust anyone when it came to himself and that was understandable. Anyone can throw him in jail and all they had to use was the evidence given by Angelo to them but that also didn't mean that she was to trust him. Because to be honest they had not been any conversation about them where Angelo said that she could trust him with anything or where he would have taken her side even if it caused him harm.

She shook her head and got up. Taking out the diary she was writing the lessons she learnt in, she wrote something new.

Always trust yourself first.

She closed and it and then decided to do something else.

"Agatha?" She called her and received an acknowledgement. Agatha then appeared in front of her within a few minutes.

"How much of our staff is in the guest mansion?"

Agatha calculated for a second and then answered. "Five in total ma'am. We share the gardener. Other than that it's just five working staff there."

Alexis nodded. "And if I ask who would it be that you would trust the most to be a spy?"

"A spy?" She repeated a bit shocked. Agatha front never expected anything of that kind from her madam nevertheless she shook out of it and answer her. "I believe Mariam would be a good call."

Alexis nodded with a slight smile. "Well then, tell Mariam to get to work and keep an exclusive eye on Julia and Juliette."

It was time for her to step into the role slowly and gradually.

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I hope you all are noticing that Alexis is gradually slipping into her role. I would say that she has always been a leader but the childhood she had, has unfortunately buried it somewhere but it's coming to surface now. 

Thank you for reading.