Together with Cesar, Xavier went to the dining room of the mansion. As soon as he stepped inside the bright space, the people inside looked at him with astonishment. Not a positive astonishment. Each step Xavier takes, he watches the family members whom he sees for the first time. He looked at his soon-to-be father, Gabriel Black. Gabriel is the Chairman of the Black corporation, and the one who physically abused Haiden when he was young. Next, Xavier looked at the eldest daughter, Rose Black. She is the owner of the Black hotel company. Rose never cared about Haiden. All she wanted is to inherit the corporation. Standing near the table, Xavier stared at the woman next to his father. That is Louisa Black, the second wife of Gabriel. She married Gabriel two years after the first wife died. Louisa always look down on Haiden. And last, the most troublemaker in the member, Brethart. He is two years younger than Haiden, but he acted as if he’s older. He bullied Haiden whenever he lik
“This is Haiden’s phone.” Gian placed the phone on the center table. Before Gian would send Xavier to the Black’s family house, he made sure that he provided him enough information to pretend as Haiden. The two of them went to the Mafia boss’ office and discussed it briefly. Sitting on the couch, Xavier looked at the phone on the table. Then, he grabbed it. “The password is 03-27-88. That is our boss's birthday. I am the only one who celebrated it with him, though.” Xavier nodded his head before he placed the phone in his pocket. “Anyway, did you memorize the family members that I gave you before, boss?” Xavier still wasn’t used to being called as ‘boss’. It’s been only two weeks. But he tried his best to practice. The more he gets used to it, the more it will be easy for him to pretend. That’s why Gian also acted as if he’s really serving the real boss of the Mafia. “I memorized everything,” Xavier answered. “From the abusive father, to the troublemaker son.” “If Haiden hear
Xavier poured the food onto the floor. If there is a reward for being the spotlight-stealer of the night, Xavier deserves to get the trophies. “Haiden,” Gabriel said in an angry voice after he saw how his foster son dared to throw the food while everyone was there. He felt like a tank that would burst at any moment. However, Xavier remained nonchalant while peering at the pale maid. ”S-Sir,” she murmured. As if having fun, Cesar watched the whole scene. If only there was popcorn, it would be better. Brethart felt the same thing. He hates Haiden, but he loves what he’s seeing. “I told you to give me food,” Xavier said with a chilling voice. “But you gave me this? What do you think I am? A goat? I said I want meat!” “Haiden!” Louisa butted. “The maid will give you meat. That was only an appetizer. It’s a full set.” “Y-Yes, Sir,” the maid explained. “I only gave you the appetizer. The steak was being cooked.” “Appetizer?” Xavier repeated. He stood up. The difference in height be
Gabriel went inside his office. He took off his suit and hung it on the rack. When he sat in front of his desk, he loosened the necktie and sighed. Then, his eyes went to the tablets on his table. As Gabriel stared at the tablets, Xavier was hiding at the narrow space between the cabinet and the wall. Next to him is the open window. Xavier was holding his breath as not to make any sounds that would reveal that he’s inside. Then, he peeked to Gabriel. He saw Gabriel sitting on his office chair while looking at the red and blue tablets about the desk. Xavier hid again and leaned the back of his head onto the wooden cabinet. ‘He almost caught me,’ he said to himself. A moment ago when Gabriel opened the door, Xavier placed the vase he caught back to its place. Then, he heard Gabriel’s voice. Someone called Gabriel’s phone, which made him stop in the middle of opening the door. Xavier took that chance to hide. He does not know who called Gabriel, but Xavier was thankful to that per
While secretly looking for Xavier’s missing family, Gian received a tip from the Binghamton syndicate that Bridgette and her son were hiding in that town. But when Gian arrived in the place where they stayed at, he found nothing, or even a clue that would lead them. “Boss Gian, I looked at the CCTV. But they went to the place where there was a mask festival. So, we didn’t see them.” Gian scoffed a laugh. “W-Why are you laughing?” the man asked Gian. “It just that I remembered someone who was so good at hide and seek,” Gian answered. He realized that finding Xavier’s family is a hard task. But Gian was certain that Xavier was having a harder time in the Black mansion. ‘I guessed Xavier did not sleep well last night,’ Gian guessed, and he pitied Xavier at the same time. Just like what he expected, Xavier didn’t sleep well last night. After finding his room last night, Xavier spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of things. First, if Gabriel will accept his deal. And second,
‘No one should know that there is Xavier Green in Haiden Black,’ - that was Xavier's motto before he started the pretending act.“You came back with drastic changes. It was as if another person went inside your body. You aren’t my brother, right?”Thus, when Rose uttered her suspicions, Xavier leaned closer and tilted his head as if he was kissing her.Perplexed at the sudden movement, Rose stepped back with widened eyes. But Xavier held her wrist and pulled her closer.Swiftly, there was no distance between their bodies as her chest pressed his.Rose panicked at the sudden skin contact. Her usual nonchalant face reddened as she glared at him and asked in a threatening voice. “What are you doing? Let me go.”She placed her hands between them and pushed him away. Yet, Xavier wrapped his other hand around her waist, making her escape futile.She gritted her teeth as if biting a bullet when she lifted her head. Yet when she saw his handsome face up close, Rose cumbered. She stood unmovab
A year ago, while Xavier was in his morning shift as a construction worker, he received a call from the police station saying that his wife was in the police station.He left his post and dashed to the station. When he arrived there, he saw his wife, Bridgette, and her employer, who was sitting next to her. “He’s lying, officer! This man tried to harass me!” Bridgette shouted the injustice she received from her boss.Who tried to harass who?With doubtful ears, Xavier looked at mane named Jacob Hugh. He was sneering at Bridgette with distrustful eyes. Even just by looking at his face, Xavier knew Jacob is a bad deal.Standing at the entrance of the station, Xavier stood there while clamping his fingers into white-knuckled vise-grips. He did not have to hear the whole conversation. With only Bridgette’s one statement, he was convinced that she was wronged.“What are you saying?” Jacob asked Bridgette. He looked at the officer and said, “I wouldn’t hit on a waitress. I have high standa
“Her skin was smooth. If only that b*tch did not fight back, I almost got a score with her,” Jacob said to his friends, who were also drinking in that pub.Xavier’s eyes widened. His hand trembled around the mug as he looked at the man who was boasting to his friends about the incident. Xavier could not blink his eyes, nor breathe while staring at the man who molested his wife.He was just imagining how he would kill this man, but now, he’s here, talking sh*t about Bridgette.“Aren’t you scared?” Jacob’s friend asked. “You might end up behind bars.”“What are you saying? Me? Behind bars? You must be f*cking kidding. It was her fault. If she didn’t mean to seduce me, she wouldn’t be so kind,” Jacob said with a malicious grin.“A pretty and married woman seduced you? Stop dreaming, Jacob.”“What’s wrong with my face?” Jacob complained as he pointed to his run-of-the-mill face.His friends' expressions delivered their answers as they are both aware that Jacob's face was very out of Bridg