About seven minutes before the assembling of the staff. Ivan relaxed on the sofa after breakfast and after seeing Trevor off. Hours had passed since he did that though. He heaved a sigh as his brows furrowed. 'How long do I plan on remaining silent about this?' He asked himself. He placed a thinking hand on his lips as he sat up and bent forward towards the laptop that sat on the table. For the second time, he pressed replay and watched it again. He heard footsteps, not one but two, and he looked up to find China and Vienna walking towards him. The looks on their faces didn't look like people who had good news to say to him and it immediately got him worked up. "Is... everything alright?" He hesitantly asked as he closed the laptop, hoping everything was alright and he had just read their faces wrong. Vienna sat next to him and locked her arms with his while China sat on the sofa opposite him. Placing a hand on Vienna's that was around his, he looked at her then at China. "We hav
They all fell silent again with a few heads bowed down. Ivan let out a sigh, he felt like he was losing his sanity. His nightmares still stalked his dreams and he couldn't lie, he was afraid of the evil that lurked around in the darkness, waiting for him to lose his guard so they would strike him at once.Would he ever find the confidence to tell the truth to the world about who he was truly and when he did, would it all be worth it? Was the money, power and fame all worth the price for his sanity and safety? Was he any different from Charlie and Mr Andrews now?He turned around before he would break down in front of them and started towards the main entrance door but a voice stopped him in his steps. "I steal food from storage room sometimes, I feed them to people in my streets that are too poor to fend for themselves and I know I should have just asked you for me knowing how kind and free giving you are but I was afraid I would be overstepping." A young girl narrated as she walked
Everything was just as he remembered placing them. It was his plain old dorm room and he let out a sigh. "It sure is more fancier at Ivan's home." He said to himself. He fell into the bed and heaved yet another sigh. "And it sure is extra lonely without him here." His ear pricked as he heard a ding. It was his phone. He had been expecting a message all through the ride back to imperial blue blood. As he sprung up in bed, he reached for his phone and his eyes grew wider as he saw that it was a message from his back. "No way!" He yelled. As he opened the message, he had to scream again. His bank had requested for his presence as a sum of one hundred million US dollars had been deposited into his account and his account wasn't opened to accept such big amounts. "Holy fuck! He did... What the... He didn't..." He kept stuttering. He found it difficult to complete a single sentence as the amount took him by surprise. Their deal was only thirty million dollars and even when he asked for
A smile curved on Ivan's lips as he stared back at his lover. "It's alright, can I have it?" Vienna blinked. "Huh?" She asked as she looked at the white paper in her hand. "Oh right! The letter." She stretched her hand towards him and handed him the letter. He took the letter with her hand and pulled her to his chest. Placing a kiss on her forehead, he wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her close. "I'm sorry." He said plainly. He felt her arms wrap around him and his lips curved into a smile. "I'm the one who should be apologizing to you. I'm sorry for what I said behind your back." She tightened her hold around him as she spoke. Ivan shook his head. "You don't have to be sorry. I haven't explained anything to you since you got here and unlike normally, it's been nothing but drama on drama.""But I'm not asking any questions either, I know you'll come to me when the time is right and explain everything. There's no need to rush it when you have eternity to explain it to
The day went by faster than a hare. Ivan had woken just in time for dinner and they all ate peacefully. He kept seeing strange signs like something was up with Vienna but didn't know whether to ask what it was. She barely even touched her dinner!For a while, he felt guilty. Could she be acting all strange because of me? Is she giving my words a rethink? Maybe she doesn't want to be dragged into all this mess after all.If that was the reason then he had every right to know and he wanted to tell her that he wouldn't be angry if she wanted to stay far away from him to save herself and her innocent son from unwanted trouble. A while before dinner, as Ivan woke up. He was actually awoken by the sound of his phone as it rang vigorously. He buried the phone under his pillow as he saw that it was Trevor calling, still wanting some time alone but a thought hit him at the back of the head like a brick thrown at him.What if something had happened to him and he was calling because he needed
For the first time in a while, Vienna was heading out of the house but there was nothing to wear but a repetition of clothes. She didn't make any complaints about it though but the heavy sigh she heaved was more than enough.Even though she had nowhere to go, she would have loved to have been given a heads up to pack her clothes when she was called over. For how long was she going to be with Ivan in his home and how long would she have to live with the same cloth repeated over and over and over again?But still, she never voiced out a complaint. Ivan gave a slight smile as she looked across his way which she mirrored. Her crazy brother-in-law had demanded an attention with her later in the afternoon. In his words, "share lunch with me."Since it was just him, she was barely interested in impressing him with the clothes she wore and he wouldn't even know that she had been repeating them but still, she did. She knew of the number of times she had worn it, wearing Ivan's top inside the
He cleared his throat as his eyes trailed from Vienna to the road and then back at her again. His hold on the steering wheel tightened a bit but he let his grip release. "My net worth?" He asked, even though he heard the question the first time she asked it. A thought crossed his mind sluggishly enough for him to access it fully. What if she was feeling uncomfortable from all the talk of huge sums like it was nothing?Well then, he had to give her enough to make her feel like it was nothing to her too. "Well, from all I've heard and seen, shown and told to me by Alfred. I think it should be around fifty quadrillions or so. Wealth accumulated by my forefathers since their time of existence." He said to her. He knew any sum bigger than that could cause her heart to stop which was why he chose to lie to her. His wealth was more than that. But even with his lie, she froze. Her heart stopped for a second and no more and she had to inhale and exhale before she gained control of her who
The large halls of the Wayne manor were empty, except for Ivan. All his mind allowed him was to think of Vienna. He heard footsteps approaching him from behind and he turned around, only for his eyes to meet with Misha's bow. "Good afternoon master Wayne." She said with a respectful bow. Unlike Alfred, she never called him young master Wayne, just master Wayne was fine to her. Plus, she was young too but most importantly, she felt there was no need to use his age to decide what to call him, her master was her master. "It only came to my knowledge a few minutes ago that you chose to skip breakfast." She continued. Ivan nodded with a gentle smile. "I had somewhere important to be and sitting to have breakfast would seem like a waste of time." "I see... Well, since you're here now, is there anything I can demand be made for you? Be it a fresh cup of coffee, or some calming tea if I may because you seem quite tense." Ivan's smile widened by a little. "Is it that obvious or I'm the o