*bam*
Tessiana barged into the study room.
Aiden was sitting at the desk with few laptops opened up on the desk.
There were also some papers at the desk and he was also holding a file on his hands.
"What is the meaning of this, Aiden!" Tessiana raised her voice as she walked over towards the desk.
Standing before the desk, Tessiana once more raised her voice with an angry expression on her face.
"What the hell, do you think you are doing!"
Aiden putting the file on the desk removed the glasses he was wearing.
"What do you mean, my love? I don't follow." Aiden calmly replied looking at his beloved.
"You damn well know what I mean and what I'm talking about!"
"Don't play games with me, Aiden."
Tessiana stared at her husband.
She just found out some very important matters regarding their family, especially their children.
"How can you decide something like that without even consulting with me!" Tessiana yelled at her husband.
She was on the verge of uncontrollable anger and destroy everything around her.
Tessiana feels Aiden has gone too far with his actions.
"Aaron is the heir to the Blood Throne. Soon he will formally enter the world of Sacred noble society. He is 18 years old, Tessiana. He is the future of the Blood family, so he should have someone capable by his side. Someone who will be his strength and be his companion who will help him lead the Blood family. He is at the right age, so yes, I have arranged an engagement with the Rothschilde's. I see nothing wrong with my arrangement as this is what we have originally planned for our son, Tessiana." Aiden said to Tessiana as he tidied up the papers on his desk.
"Heir to the Blood throne? He has not even accepted the 'Blood Token' yet, Aiden! Yes, that's what we have planned originally but later have we not decided that they get to live their life as they wish and we will not interfere with their life? Have you forgotten what we have agreed on, Aiden? The Rothschilde's? Since when were you on good terms with the Rothschilde family? Nothing wrong with your arrangements? Everything is wrong with it! Give me an answer, Aiden. Why have you not consulted with me before agreeing on arranging the engagement with the Rothschilde family!" Slamming her hands on the desk, Tessiana demanded.
"Things have changed, the times have changed. To protect my family, I must do what is right for me to do, Tessiana. My decisions are better for our family. Yes, they are drastic changes but it is necessary for our safety. The Rothschilde girl is a good match for Aiden. I Don't think, Tessiana. I know it will benefit not just the Blood family but Aaron as well." Aiden said gazing directly into Tessiana's eyes.
Tessiana stared at her husband, she felt like she is talking to a stranger. The person she knows is still there, but that person has changed. She can't recognize her love anymore.
"Aiden Blood, do not make me your enemy!" Tessiana said slowly as she gazed into Aiden's eyes.
"I'm not your enemy, Tessiana. I'm just a man who is trying everything he can to protect the family he has."
"If you think that your activities with the Johnson's, the rest of the Blood family as well as the Shelby's can deceive me? You're wrong. You're not the only one who can play this game, Aiden."
Tessiana turned around and left the study room.
Just as she left the study room, Aiden picked up a call.
"Hello, Billie." Aiden greeted the person who called him.
"Sir, forgive me for disturbing you at this hour but we have a situation here in Texas."
Aiden frowned hearing Billie.
He had a sinking feeling that Tessiana is related to what Billie is about to say.
"Tell me what's wrong Billie?" Aiden asked.
"Sir, Mr Rodriguez has been killed. He has been found dead in his hotel room, head severed from his body."
"Is that all?"
"Yes, sir."
Hanging up the call, Aiden leaned back on his chair.
He assumed that Rodriguez's is Tessiana's doing.
When he decided to act, he knew the consequences of his actions.
Aiden deeply sighed before muttering to himself.
"Our sins should not be passed onto our children, Tessiana...It should not."
~~~
At the study hall of the great library in Carson Elites.
Aurora sat at the table, where Kieran was studying.
"I believe we are not friends, so why have you joined me at my table?" Kieran asked Aurora who sat at his table without his permission.
"Why are you here?" Aurora asked Kieran.
"As you can see, I'm here to study." Kieran pointed at his books before replying.
"I'm not asking about that, you know what I mean!"
Takashi also came and joined at the table sitting beside Kieran.
"I'm here to make you fall in love." Kieran replied to Aurora in a monotone voice with a neutral expression in his face.
"Haha, very funny! Seriously, why are you here?" Laughing briefly after hearing Kieran's words, Aurora asked again with a serious look in her face.
"As I said, I'm here to make you fall in love with me. Believe it or not, it's all up to you." Kieran replied before he went back to his study mode.
Aurora turned to Takashi before asking him.
"Why is he here?"
Takashi sighed before telling Aurora the same words that Kieran has said to her.
"To make you fall in love with him."
Aurora fell silent, before laughing.
"This is the biggest joke I've heard this year! Hahaha."
Takashi shook his head before telling the two of them.
"Why don't you two work together? You two have a mutual goal, the destruction of the Johnson family. Isn't better if you two work together?"
Hearing Takashi's words the two of them made a disgusted face feeling repulsed by the idea of working together.
"I'm not working with this hypocrite!"
"Neither am I working with this arrogant conceited woman!"
Two looked at each other before snorting at each other.
"What is the goal of the Johnson family with this?"
"They want to take you hostage and if that doesn't work then they want to kill you. You're a threat to everyone including your brother since you're quite an ambitious woman."
"I see. That's understandable, people always feel inferior when they stand before a true noble."
Kieran and Takashi rolled their eyes at Aurora's words.
Takashi turned to his best friend before speaking up.
"If you don't want to work with her, why are you giving her the information she needs?"
Replying to Takashi, Kieran said.
"I'm using her. It benefits me if she causes trouble to the Johnson family. Taking advantage amid chaos is what I excel at Taki-Kun."
"We won't be friends nor we will be partners. It's good if we use each other for our goals. I heard there's a chain of hotels under your brother at country Y." Aurora said to Kieran.
Understanding what Aurora plans to do, Kieran offered.
"80-20, I will be the majority holder."
Aurora narrowed her eyes before she went into deep thought.
Takashi beside Kieran had a flabbergasted look in his face staring at his best friend.
Turning to Takashi, Kieran only shrugged saying.
"I'm a hypocrite, what do you expect of me?"
Takashi sighed in response to Kieran's words.
Opening the bottle of water in front of the table, Takashi started drinking water to moisten his dry throat.
"I'll go out with you for appearance's sake. Also, 80-20 and I'm the majority holder."
"Pfft." Takashi spewed out the water he was drinking hearing Aurora.
Kieran was also surprised by Aurora's offer.
He took some time to think for himself before countering Aurora's offer.
"60-40, I'm the majority."
"I'm Aurora Blood, a one of a kind genius, the most talented person in all of Sacred Noble families and clans history! I'm bringing you many benefits with my name alone and also my reputation is at interest. 70-30, I'm the majority."
"Aurora didn't you say, you won't work with him? And you, you're a greedy son of a ba*tard." Takashi said hearing them negotiating.
"I'm not working with him, I'm using him. The business partner is my brother, not me. The Johnson's are an eyesore and I want to get rid of them. They are a threat to me and my brother. If I can use him to get back at the Johnsons then I benefit greatly. However, I'm indeed offering him too much but it's a risk I have to take. And yes, he is a greedy bas*ard. A *beep beep* guy with *beep beep beep*!" Aurora replied to Takashi looking at Kieran who is thinking about her offer.
"Thank you for the compliments. I appreciate the words you have said to me."
Takashi turned to Kieran and gave him a look.
"Really?"
"Sounds like compliments to me." Kieran said shrugging before countering Aurora's offer.
"50-50."
"60-40 and I'm the majority! Also, I will take an extra 27% of the net profit for the first 5 five years separately." Aurora.
"Now, that is a good offer." Takashi nodded after hearing Aurora's offer to Kieran.
Kieran thought for a few moments before he replied.
"Deal."
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm here to study!" Raising his voice bit, Kieran said to the two of them.
"Jerk!" Aurora commented before turning to Takashi.
"Kaz, I'm hungry. Food!"
Hearing the word 'food' Kieran turned to Takashi making a puppy dog face.
"I want food too!"
"Aren't you studying?"
"Studies can wait but food can't!"
Sighing, Takashi told the two of them to follow him to a nearby restaurant.
Aurora and Kieran doesn't get along with each other but for Takashi's food, they can compromise making a temporary peace among themselves
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Sabastian was having breakfast when Erisviel joined him at the table.
"Good morning, Sabas." Pouring a glass of orange juice for herself Erisviel greeted Sabastian.
"Morning, Eris." Sabastian greeted back, eating a piece of boiled carrot with a fork.
There were a few minutes of silence before Erisviel broke the silence.
"I know that you want to adopt her, but I don't see the point of it at all! Something like a reason 'I feel guilty' is BS. Events like this are common and might happen again the future, are you going to adopt every child you come across?" Erisviel said to Sabastian.
She can't understand why Sabastian is so hung up on the little girl.
Hearing Erisviel Sabastian felt tired suddenly, even though he just woke up 15 minutes ago.
"I already told you guys, you guys can't change my mind! My decision is final, I'm adopting her. That's it, period! Let's just drop this topic, if you don't have anything to say Eris. Can you please let me enjoy my breakfast?" Sabastian said turning his head facing Erisviel.
The others tried to persuade him to not adopt the little girl as well but he is firm with his decision and he will stick with.
"Okay, I will stop. I'll just tell you the reports of the psyche consult you ordered."
"Then tell me what they have said!" Sabastian said using exaggerated hand gesture and facial expression.
"She is traumatised. She doesn't speak, she doesn't show any emotions, she panics when she hears loud noises that sound similar to gunshots and she also panics when she sees guns or anything resembling a gun. She is like a robot, programmed to do daily routine tasks. She doesn't communicate with anyone, most of the time she just stares into the distance or at a wall. She wakes up screaming every night from nightmares, the only way to calm her down is by giving her tranquillizers-" Erisviel was interrupted by Sabastian's angry outburst.
"Sedatives! She's a child, Eris! Are you guys out of your minds!!!"
Erisviel calmly replied to Sabastian.
"There are no side effects, it's created by Ana!"
"Are there no alternatives!" Sabastian raised his voice again, he believes Ana and her skills but he still doesn't support the use of sedatives.
"Sabastian, she screams every night from the nightmares and has panic attacks. They have been mixing sedatives on her drinks before sleep so she could have a dreamless, nightmare less sleep without panic attacks! Either we give her a peaceful dreamless sleep or give her nightmares of the memories about her parents dying in front of her and you the person who almost died in front of her. You decide what should we do then!!!" Erisviel replied to Sabastian but her tone was aggressive.
Sabastian fell into silence after hearing Erisviel.
"I'm sorry..."
He apologised for his angry outburst.
"Apology accepted."
Erisviel sighed before finishing the orange juice in one go.
"She's an intelligent girl..." Erisviel commented.
"I know."
"But we still think you are being overly unreasonable to extremes, Sabastian."
"..." Sabastian.
Suddenly a voice sounded from the entrance of the room.
"You know I just remembered! Because it was too sensitive of a topic to you, we never talked about it in our past life. Since it was like 40 something years ago, I almost forgot about it. But now I remember!"
Nyx on her wheelchair arrived in front of Erisviel and Sabastian.
"She's not Myka!" Nyx said turning to Sabastian.
"My decision doesn't have anything to do with her!" Sabastian replied irritably.
"Is it not? But to me it looks like, it does!"
"It's not!"
"The girl is like a carbon copy of her, minus the memories. I wonder is the girl a reincarnated individual or she just looks like 'her'?"
"She's not!!!" Yelled.
Erisviel feeling confused asked Nyx.
"Whos Myka?"
"His daughter." Nyx replied.
"You have a daughter!" Erisviel said turning to Sabastian. She was shocked by hearing Nyx's reply.
"Had a daughter!" Sabastian.
"Adopted daughter." Nyx.
Nyx turning to Sabastian, spoke to him.
"She reminds you of Myka, that's why you are hell-bent on adopting her. You didn't pick her up to save her or any of the other BS. You're cold-hearted, Basti! If it was someone else, you wouldn't have done anything. A family of three, just happen to be at the wrong time and wrong place. It was their fate they died, you're cold-hearted enough to not feel anything about it. A casualty of your fate, happened to you a lot of time in the past, right? So why should she get special treatment? You could have saved yourself from all of this!"
Nyx pointed a finger to his wounds and the wheelchair.
"But you almost killed yourself. Why? Because she looks exactly like your dead adopted daughter! If the girl's parents didn't die, you still would have barged your way into the girl's life. But her parents are dead, she doesn't have anyone else. They died because of you, yeah you feel a bit of guilt because she looks just like Myka but the amount of guilt is minuscule. Only a teeny tiny part of you does feel guilty."
*thwack*
Slapping her best friend, Nyx said to him.
"STOP BEING AN ASSHAT! You can be selfish, there's nothing wrong with it. Just be honest with yourself and us. She clings onto you like you are her family. She knows that her parents died because those people were after you, she doesn't blame you. That girl is very intelligent. She doesn't have anyone else, a complete stranger is now everything to her. She likes you!"
Sabastian rubbing his cheek uttered "ouuuuuch!"
"I don't mind you adopting her, Basti. But you should know that it is a heavy responsibility you're going to shoulder. Although we are old souls, our body is still of a teen and most of the time our young body influences our soul. You are not Bastian Roseno'Greyback, you're Sabastian Franz Heilige! You have too many baggage in your shoulders-"
"She's not a baggage!"
"Yes, she's not. Sorry for that, but you know what I mean bro! You need to have a good talk with her, Basti."
"I know." Sabastian sighed hearing Nyx.
"We will also help her find herself once more, I want to see the smile that you talked about." Nyx said pouring a glass of juice for herself.
All this talk made her throat dry.
"So, wow!" Erisviel on her seat rolled her eyes a few times and shook her head.
"Quite unexpected revelation, but I guess now it makes sense."
Turning to Nyx, Erisviel enquired.
"Do you too have any daughter or son? Adopted of course, since you're still a virgin both soul and body."
Nyx rolled her eyes at Erisviel before replying to her.
"I don't have a human daughter or son but I did have non-human daughter and son."
Erisviel widened her eyes hearing Nyx.
She only joked about it and didn't expect such an answer from Nyx.
"It's not what you think Eris. If you don't mind labelling a Cerberus, a son and a Phoenix, a daughter. Then yeah! They did have a son and a daughter. Nyx/Aaron had pets who they treated as their son and daughter."
Erisviel nodded.
"I don't see anything wrong with that."
"You two are idiots!"
"We are not!" Both Erisviel and Nyx said at the same time.
"I'm going to go have breakfast, I feel hungry. I can't eat these boiled veggies, it's bland!" Nyx said taking a bite of boiled cauliflower.
Before Nyx turned to leave, she slapped Sabastian on the other cheek.
*thwack*
"Ouuch! What's that for!!!" Sabastian cried out in pain.
"Cause you said, I'm an idiot!" Nyx replied leaving Sabastian's room.
"You witch!" Sabastian shouted.
*twhack*
"Wtf, why did you slap me for!" Sabastian shouted at Erisviel who slapped him on the cheek which Nyx slapped at first.
"Because you called me an idiot!" Erisviel said leaving the room.
"HUNDRED CURSES, NO, THOUSAND CURSES TO YOU TWO!!!" Sabastian roared rubbing both of his cheeks.
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