"It's only going to get tighter Mr Aer. It would be better if you relaxed more."Derek could feel his heart pounding and the metal-like object around his arm seemed to squeeze even more with each passing second, but he took a deep breath and calmed down all the same.The band around his arm was beeping and the little girl beside him seemed to be taking note of everything all at once. Her eyes flew from the monitor at the corner of the room, to the screen just above them, then to the machine at her side, and then finally landing back on him.Derek could tell the smile she gave him next was a bit fake but it looked pretty all the same."You're doing really well Mr Aer."He felt like chuckling and running a hand through his hair but he couldn't move so he only chuckled instead. "I can tell from your expression that you're lying Lisa, and please, call me Derek."Lisa stared at him for a while before finally nodding and looking over to her father. For a little while Derek could see somet
Jane stared at the man in front of her and she pressed the red button below her desk. Two guards came in to escort the model in front of her out and she sighed."Send the next person in."Her assistant was almost pale faced right now and Jane couldn't help but chuckle at that a bit.She hadn't expected anything less than him being pale faced really. It was a pretty normal reaction.Today was an important day and it was also a busy one. She had been in her office as early as 6am and she had asked for the modeling room to be prepared.So far she had spent over six hours on her seat and it was really hard to sit in one spot for over six hours.In the space of six hours she had rejected over sixty men.Well seventy to be honest but who was keeping count anyways?Lancer walked over to the door and nodded to the man outside. He turned back to look at his boss and he could feel the color returning to his cheek at the look on her face. In a way, it seemed she was more exhausted than he was,
Xavier stared at the lady in front of him and stepped back a bit. He had known it would be hard asking Jane to leave her workplace and go out and have lunch with him.She literally took this building as if it was her personal child and she would literally do anything for it. Asking her to leave work was like asking her to leave this world all together. This was how she coped with the stress life threw at her and so far she had made something good of herself.As Xavier looked at surroundings of the building to avoid looking at the lady herself, Jane found herself short of breath. Xavier was asking her out for lunch!This had never happened before. Usually she was the one who sometimes came over after work to invite him for dinner and he always refused.She sometimes had to get Lisa to force him, and she did, but this was different.Jane scrunched her eyebrows up and stared more intently at the man in front of her.He was still looking at her, seemingly waiting for a reaction. She woul
Aubrey groaned and let her hand fly to her head as she tried to stand up from the cold floor."Urghhh, my head."Her voice came out raspy and her hand came back slick, with blood.The memories of before came rushing back and she felt a cold chill race up her spine. She looked around as slowly as she could and the sight she met made her feel goosebumps race up her skin.The snake was still around them, spurting blood from its now split open head. Along with brain matter and a lot of other things.Nausea took hold of her immediately and she found herself hurling out the contents of her stomach. It wasn't like she had eaten much before coming on this expedition, so she didn't really have a lot to hurl out, but the little she had is what she did and boy did it hurt like hell.It was almost like her insides were also trying to tell her that coming out here had been a bad idea from the start and anything she got was what she deserved.Aubrey felt another wave of irritation hit her as the sm
The Frost mansion had a very rare occurrence happen in it.For the first time in ten years, four people were actually together under one roof.Xavier felt sort of nervous having all of them under one roof, but all the same whatever would be, would naturally be.He would take this as a sign. The way things had been developing lately would have led to this front ultimately, though seeing Aubrey's son publicly make advancements towards his daughter was a bit disheartening.Xavier cleared his throat and picked up his cane again. He dropped it again and cleared his throat once more.Jane and Aubrey burst out laughing.They laughed so hard that they almost toppled out of their seats and that just made them laugh even harder. Xavier had to be the most cautious father in the entire universe.Clay hadn't even done anything yet. He was just casually flirting with Lisa and Xaveir was looking like he would have a seizure."Is it really that bad that my son is showing some initiative Mr Frost?"X
Aubrey could feel her world spinning right before her eyes.Right before her very eyes, everything she had known threatened to crash down and not make sense anymore.Con was standing in front of her. Right in front of her! With a smile on his face and those perfect features she had been so engrossed with in the few months she had known him. He was standing right here, as real as the cutlery she had dropped on the floor.He frowned at their stunned expressions and raked a hand through his hair."I'll take it that no one really missed me then?"Aubrey felt her consciousness fading in and out. Jane felt her throat closing up for lack of a better thing to do.They were both speechless, but on another end of the house something else was happening.Derek Aer gripped his head and screamed.It hurt!!!It hurt so much!!!It was like every bone in his body was being broken and remolded again. Like a million and one bombs were going off in his head and all he could do was just stand there an
Xavier took his eyes off the wall and blinked.Using that part of his ability always tended to make him phase out for a bit and in all truth, he really wasn't supposed to use it.But anyways, what did he miss?The sight of one man standing and the other on the floor was the first thing that caught his eyes and Xavier found himself moving out of his seat just a bit.Sure enough, the man on the floor was half clothed, lean and well built, but still not the real Constantine Easton.The real one stood in front of them now, donned in clothes that weren't his, and smiling at all of them sweetly, almost kindly even.Jane moved and the next moment, there was a gun at Con's neck.She had been the one in the chair closest to him anyways, but still for her to move like that, Con could feel something like amusement and pride warming up in him again. Jane looked downright furious and her eyes had a deadly glint to them."Move and I'll shoot off that head for you.""Jane....."Xavier's voice cause
His plan was simple.He would live as the heir to the Blacks while hiding his identity as Derek Aer. The Argon family really didn't have any standing in the city. They were just like every other family that wasn't affected by the catastrophic effect of Orion city collapsing.They had money, but not too much of it.Con chuckled as he thought of that. He was really done being kind to people and trying to see who or what could change whatever wicked tendencies they had within them.He would slap, maim and kill if he needed to. Regardless of gender or standing. He was back, and he wouldn't live the pitiful life he had led twice now.Xavier stood straighter and tried his best to keep the look on his face a neutral one. He was used to wearing a blank expression now so he didn't really have to put too much work into it, but the surprising thing was that he had to. He did have to put some work into it. His head was hurting from using the small bionics infused into his metal leg and his he