The Mafia & The Billionaire

Third Person’s POV

Another week had passed since the incident in the dining hall, and Alex was still thinking about it. After he went to his room, he expected Serene to come up, but she didn’t. And she chose to sleep in a different room. Alex found out about it and confronted her. “We don’t need to share a room; the mansion is big,” she said.

“I like to conserve energy, so you will be staying in our room,” Alex told her, leaving the guest room where she was staying. At night, Serene couldn’t do anything but follow Alex. She promised herself and Alex that she’d fulfill her duty as his wife, so she didn’t want to argue with him any longer.

Now that Alex needed to travel from the mansion to the house, he would be home at 6 p. m., and he usually found Serene waiting for him in their room. He liked to find her there every time, but he was getting suspicious of her because of her quietness and her being submissive to him.

“Did you leave the mansion?” he asked, and Serene looked at him.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

“Why?” she asked too, instead of answering his question.

“Nothing; I was just thinking that you would start to get bored here if you didn’t go out or hang out with your friends,” he replied.

“Enzo and Patt are my only friends,” she replied, but she saw that Alex didn’t believe her. “Others were busy working,” she added, and Alex went to their walk-in closet to change his clothes. He looked around and noticed something.

Alex was meticulous with his things, and he knew if someone touched them or took something. He noticed the position of his underwear had changed. He wondered if it was his wife, but looking at her, he knew that she would never bother touching his things. It was not that he minded if she did, but he just had a feeling that Serene wasn’t like that.

“Did you leave the room?” he asked Serene, who was busy on her cell phone after he went out of the walk-in closet.

“Yes, I went to the garden and stayed there this afternoon.” Why?”

“Did you ask someone to get into the walk-in closet?” he asked, and she stared at him.

“You had a feeling that someone was there as well?” she asked, and he was amazed. He thought that she was like him. He nodded his head and told her about his underwear. “How can you say that someone has been there?” he asked.

“When I get back, I smell your scent,” she replied casually, and she had her eyes on her cell phone once again. She didn’t seem bothered by it, which baffled Alex.

“What are you going to do about it?” he asked.

“Nothing,” she replied.

“Nothing, as in nothing?” Alex repeated.

“Yeah,”

“Why?”

“Maybe they were one of the maids who liked you,” she replied, as if she didn’t care.

“And that’s OK with you?”

“What’s wrong with the maids liking you? It’s not as though she will be able to get you just because she likes you,” she replied.

Alex was about to say something when Serene’s phone rang. “Hello,” she answered, while Alex was curious as to who she was talking to.

“Yes, no problem. See you there.” After saying that, she hung up the phone and returned to her email. Alex was waiting for her to tell him about the call, but he waited for nothing.

“Who’s that?” he asked, as he couldn’t wait anymore.

“A friend,” she replied.

“And?” he asked, and she looked at him, confused.

“Do you want to know what I am doing every day?” she asked.

“Yes,”

“Didn’t the man who was tailing me report to you what I had been up to all this time?” she asked.

“I stopped it about 4 days ago,” he replied, and Serene looked at him curiously.

“Are you sure?” she asked, and he nodded.

“You have been staying here the whole time, and you are already old enough to take care of yourself. I just want to know where and what you did the whole time so I can feel at ease in the office, thinking you are satisfied with our marriage,” he replied. “So what did your friend call you about?” he asked again.

“He wanted me to come with him to school tomorrow,” she replied.

“He?”

“Yes, he. I don’t have any female friends, so don’t get too shocked whenever I talk to you about men,” she replied.

“What are you going to do in school?”

“He will be judging a fashion design contest, and he wanted to keep himself low-profile,” she replied.

“So he will take you there for what?”

“To help him judge, I guess,” she replied.

“What about your hearing?” he asked.

“It’s the day after tomorrow, so I guess it’s fine.”

“Do you want me to be there?”

“No need; I didn’t want your name to be involved in this case. I can handle them,” she replied.

“Lawrence will still handle your case; at least I will still know the progress. You are not fond of telling me things, just to remind you,” he said, and Serene nodded. “Are you not going to go down to eat or what?” he asked when he saw her not moving to her seat.

“OK, let’s go,” she said, and they went out of their bedroom first.

Their dinner was ready when they got there. The maids were eyeing Serene, as they were afraid of her. They thought she was a fragile woman, as she was small and dressed like an ordinary person, but whenever they saw her around the mansion, they started to feel something different from her, so they always avoided her.

“Can I hire someone to be our maid as well?” she asked when they were already eating. Alex looked at her with a creased forehead, as if he didn’t expect her to ask him that. He wondered if something had happened when he was out. “Don’t look at me like that. Nothing happened. Everyone was nice to me when you were at work.” she said when she noticed him having a confused reaction.

“Why do you need someone?” he asked.

“She’s a friend and needs a job,” she replied.

“I thought you had no female friends.”

“You’ll know when you see her. Well, that is if you agree,” she replied.

“I will agree on one condition,” he said. He was curious about the woman, so he had to know how badly Serene needed her to work with them.

“What is it?”

“Kiss me,” he said, looking at her straight in the eyes. Serene was speechless and was wondering why he had said that to her.

‘Does he like me?’ she asked herself. But when she thought about her plan, she agreed.

“OK,” she agreed, which made Alex stare at her in disbelief.

“You agreed.”

“Should I not? You stole a kiss from me; at least now, I won’t get shocked.” She replied, and Alex smiled, which left Serene stunned for a moment. At that moment, he looked like a Greek god in her eyes, and she didn’t notice that he had reached her and pulled her closer to him.

Their lips touched, and Alex kissed her demandingly and possessively. His tongue plunged inside her mouth because he wanted her to respond, and he wanted to make sure that she would. He sucked in her tongue, a sensation unfamiliar to Serene, as she had only permitted Alex to kiss her because he was her husband.

His kisses went deeper and longer, and Serene couldn’t help but respond to him, so she could at least breathe a little. Serene found herself drawn to Alex, encircling his nape with her arms. He became her guide as she kissed him the way he did.

She also sucked in Alex’s tongue when she had the opportunity to insert her tongue into his mouth after he had removed it. Alex moaned and felt ecstatic; just like Serene, he would not mind the food in her mouth when he kissed her.

Their lips parted as they gasped for air. “Now, that’s French kissing, and I fucking liked it. You are really a fast learner. It made me agree to anything you want,” he said, and her eyes widened in excitement. “Minus the divorce thing,” he added, which made Serene’s eyes sharpen. She thought she already had a chance.

‘I am so doomed.’ Serene thought as hers and Alex’s eyes locked.