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Duke wasn't expecting Melody. He hasn't seen Melody in months and even though he kind of misses her, it was a good thing because he has the time to focus on other issues. Of course, they are cool. He knows that her modeling has been going on well too and that's enough for him. Why has she come to see him after all of these months? Did Ansel find her and cause trouble for her?" Sir. " Gwen pulls him out of his thoughts. " She has been waiting for you for hours. "Duke nods and starts to walk to the door. He stops and turns to her. " Give us a few minutes alone, okay?" He tells her. She nods, she looks like she would have said something to him, but she bites her lips instead. Duke innocently walks into the house and he sees Melody sitting in the living room. She turns around and he sees her face. The angle at which he sees her from the door makes it impossible for him to see her fully, but he can't tell from her face alone that she has changed. " Duke?" She smiles. Even her sm
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It's hard to tell if Melody heard the whole of their conversation, her face is still straight. " Melody..." Duke is trying to act straight and just drop the bottle, but it falls to the ground and spills on the ground. " Bloom, can you give us a minute?" She requests, her eyes not leaving Duke. "Yes, ma'am. " Bloom keeps his eyes on the ground as he leaves, he has prayers for Duke in his heart. Melody shuts the door of the kitchen and turns to face Duke, he rubs his thumb over his nose. " What were you talking about?" She asks. " What?" He bit his lower lip, he is a very bad liar when he is drunk. " Who did you get pregnant?" She asks. This is a trick question because he would lose either way. " Melody, let's just talk about this tomorrow. Okay?" He says. " You need rest. "" Who, did you get pregnant, Duke?" She hits his shoulder. He looks down at the ground. It's so hard for him to openly cry, but if crying would solve this, he won't hesitate even once. " Melody, I'm sorry
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Ansel is the last person that she was expecting to see, and not at her house of all places. He turns around, he has a cigarette in his hands. " Hello, Eden. " He puffs smoke into the air. " Ansel, what are you doing here?" She asks. Her hands are folded and there is a small frown on her face. " Why haven't you called me?" He tilts his head. He walks finger, standing in front of her face and he exhales the smoke in her face. " My card wasn't for decoration, I was waiting for your call. " He leans to meet up with her height. " You know it isn't nice to make gentlemen like myself wait for a call. "" I have been busy. " She doesn't bat an eyelid. " Sweetheart, don't tell me that your mother is Eve. " He laughs. " Holy shit. "" How is it then that you are related to Duke Dawson Xavier?" He asks. " Eve adopted me. " Eden folds her hands. " It doesn't matter, how did you get into my house?"" That doesn't matter too, sweetheart. " He continues to smoke. " What matters the most is t
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Duke gets to the house, but his heart is still heavy with the thought of meeting Melody again. He tears off the tie from his neck and shuts the door of the car. He walks towards the house and Bloom meets him outside. Bloom's sleeves are raised to his elbows and he looks super exhausted, Duke doesn't need to ask, he knows that Melody has been a hand fool. " She didn't kill anyone, did she?" Duke sighs. "Well, only herself. " Bloom shrugged. " But she took a nap and she didn't feel like it anymore. "" Thank God. " Duke continues to walk to the house. He is super exhausted, but he is going to keep up with her since he is the reason why she is so mad in the first place. He gets to the house to meet Gwen cleaning the living room. " Welcome, sir. " She greets. " How did the meeting go?"" It went fine, Gwen. " He nods. " Where is she?""She just came down from the room to get a glass of water a few minutes ago, she returned back. " "Thank God. " Duke wipes his face. He walks to th
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" Ansel." She tries to cover it with laughter. Ansel comes to her ear and kisses the top of it. " Mister Barrett, you have no business with this." The man answered. " You are not the one that I came to see today.""Oh, is that so?" Ansel asks. " I know that I know you from somewhere."" The things you asked of me are things that I can't do. " The man is agitated. " Just stay out of this, for God's sake. "" You..you guys know each other?" Eden looks from Ansel to the other man. " We have had failed business transactions. " Ansel kisses her chin. " Nothing much. "" You are right, nothing much. " The man snaps. " Don't get all meddled in my affairs. "" Tell him, Eden. " Ansel says. " Tell him that the business is off. "Eden is confused, but she is going to handle this well. She pulls closer to Ansel and whispers in his ear. " Why are you saying this? This business promises to be very profitable for me. " She calmly says. He looks at her, a mild kind of anger in his eyes and he l
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Melody gets off the plane with her sun shades in place and she sighs with disgust at the bright sun that she is almost taking her sight. She goes down the steps to meet her grandfather's SUV, waiting for her just a few feet away. A lady in a suit hurriedly walks to her with a plastic smile on her face. " Hello, Mrs. Xavier. " She greets her. Melody is taken back in utter disgust, she doesn't need a soothsayer to tell her that this person is from her grandfather. " I'm Melody, not Mrs. Xavier. " She corrects her in annoyance. " Don't ever call me that. "The lady looks confused, glancing at the piece of paper in her hand, she quickly folds it and puts it in her pocket. "I'm sorry, ma'am. " The lady apologize. " I will make corrections from now on. Lord Jimmy asked me to bring you over the houses. "Melody bites her tongue, feeling the bitterness in it. She ignores the lady and walks to the door, she opens the door by herself and gets into it. The lady joins her shortly and sign
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Melody's mother almost backs away in fright, she hasn't seen someone so young smoking. "Hello." Eden shoots her a smile, she is still smoking. " Sorry who are you supposed to be and what can I do for you?" She looks at her from her head to her toes. " Oh, I'm Eden. " Eden flicks the cigarette from her hand into the flowers growing at the side of the house. " I'm here for Melody."" Sorry, who are you?" Melody's mother is even more confused. " Eden. " Eden repeats. " E-D-E-N, like the garden. I'm here for Melody. "" I'm sorry, I don't think I know who you are and what you're from my daughter. " Melody's mother shakes her head. " You don't even seem to be her age, why do you want her?"" Oh God..." Eden shuts her eyes. " I don't want to be here okay? Duke made me say yes to doing it."Now she is even more confused, she wants to say something, but the words get stuck in her mouth." You know what? Please give me a minute. "She shuts the door in Eden's face and she is very disgusted
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Melody cannot understand how she has concluded that she is in love with Duke when all she has just told her is how much she hates him. " What do you mean?" Melody asks. " Look, I might be young, but I am not stupid. " Eden folds her hands. " You talk about how much you hate him, but it just shows that you love him so much."" I don't, Duke is a terrible person. "" Do you know where he has gone to?" Eden questions. " He has gone to Padre island to save the people from some terrorists. The chances of him coming back are like fifty-fifty."" What are you saying?"" That he could die? His plane could crash, the bad guys might actually get him, and you are going to be a widow?" Eden opens her eyes. Melody has never thought of this, the way her face sobers up quickly. " You don't know Duke. A lot of people have been trying to kill him for a long time, he is not going to die. "" So you don't want him to die?" Eden teases. " I hate him, but it would actually suck for him to die. "" I