Infatuation Of Darkness

'Think think think.' Alexis chanted in her mind and with a smile on her face. 'think of something before you regret it.'

And that's when it came to her mind.

"Whatever he saw in me, I don't think it would be proper for you to know." She smiled and laughter flooded the hall making her continue taunting Julia a little more, "I mean come on grandmother, you must have been firm in your time too." she winked making Julia's face redden more.

Saggy tits, take that. 

But she didn't back down. "I-" 

"That's alright, calm down." Alexis did not give her another chance to continue and directly took the mic away from her. "Did you know according to your age it is not nice for you to stand for so long? Come on," holding her hand she dragged her to the table in a far corner in a hard grip making her realise the threat, "There you go. Sugar-free desserts would be brought to you." she smiled and signalled a staff member to take care of it.

With Julia done and the ladies went back to their normal talking, Alexis relaxed as well. There was nothing more than Julia could do knowing that Alexis would kill her if she had the chance. Her warning a few minutes earlier had been clear about it.

"She does that on purpose you know." A small yet clear voice rang out in the entire hall. "That women do this on purpose. She wanted to humiliate Our Donna because she is better than her." Helena came up and spoke out in the most confident voice she could have. "She abuses my left and right and makes me stutter out words. She strangles me and my daughter in law without any sort of knowledge of ho-how much pressure she is applying. That woman is vile and deserves no one's respect!" Helena screamed and the entire hall and the people heard every word very clearly.

Alexis gulped as she closed her eyes. Now was the worst time of all to stand up for yourself. Insulting someone more powerful than you in front of the public was the only worst mistake anyone could make.

She went to her, taking her first step. "Auntie hele-"

"No, no, you must let me speak. Everyone should know what kind of woman she is." She cried and then turned around to the people. "Our previous Donna had made sure that none of us suffers abuse from our in-laws and parents but this woman did everything to bring Isabelle down so much so..." A sob came from her but she didn't stop. "..So much so.. that she even corrupted Isabelle's children against her and when I informed Isabelle about it, she pushed me down the stairs making me lose my second child. My second miscarriage." She revealed and then yelled at the top of her lungs with a furious expression, "She made me embrace the child of my husband's mistress. Yes! Matteo is not my child but of my husband's mistress. She made me take that child in and treat him like my own which I did out of humanity but not only that she made sure that I would never get pregnant on my own. She took that from me," from voice broke, "she took motherhood from me."

Unable to take it anymore Julia looked away as she breathed heavily.

"Not even denying it, mother?" Isabelle taunted. "Even I know that she speaks the truth. Yet you are not brave enough to admit it that it is your doing?"

"Why would she?" Helena chimed back in. "She does not need to admit it. Every person in this room knows well enough that this woman is full of deceit and lies. No one standing in this room has had any positive comment from her." She scoffed and everyone agreed verbally, "this woman has successfully driven me crazy yet she expects more from me. I would say the best decision that she has ever taken was giving the throne to her younger son."

She turned to Isabelle, "because I don't think that I will ever come close to being the person that you are."

Isabelle smiled gratefully. "Thank you." She whispered and hugged the woman.

"You are not supposed to hug that woman!" Julia growled out getting up. "How can you even think of praising her?!" 

"Don't you get me started I won't hesitate to hit you!" Helena yelled back. 

"How dar-"

"Enough!" Alexis roared and shook everyone letting them know that she was still in charge and command of the room. "No one is going to talk about it now. We will solve the matter when we reach home."

But Helena couldn't wait until then. "Bu-"

"I said and repeat, we will take care of this matter when we reach home. We will take care of it tomorrow morning not tonight." She delayed it even further making Helena understand that she was not anyone to interfere.

So she nodded and once again everyone went back to what they were doing but this time way of what was about to happen.

"Thank you for that." Nikita came to Alexis and held her hand. "It's fascinating to see how even Isabelle lost her cool and for the first time Auntie Helena spoke up for herself."

Alexis slightly shook her head. "I am glad that she stood up for herself but there are a place and time to do so. You do it wherever you know it would make a difference."

"But it did, didn't it?" Nikita countered. "Now everyone is going to openly acknowledge that Julia is in the wrong. Everyone already did but it's is going to be in the open now."

If Alexis gave it a thought, Helena standing up to Julia in front of everyone would only work in her favour. Helena had even paid her respects to Isabelle who had the respect of everyone hence, making everyone believe that she was not talking out of her mind.

Alexis nodded. "Maybe so. But my party was not the place for it."

"Ah," Nikita sang with a smile on her face. "You should have said it that way."

"I didn't need to." Alexis sighed and took a glass of wine.. "It's just tomorrow that concerns me now."