𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺.

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"This way sir, ma'am." The new bodyguard instructed while both of us followed him.

I looked up at Alex but he was still in his world, after I told him about my degree he quite literally shut up.

I tried to understand his expressions too, but clearly, the Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses were doing its work perfectly and covering his face.

wait, Dolce and Gabbana?

I did a quick mental dance and clapped, I've been realising that slowly I have adapted to Alex's lifestyle. I know the name of the things he likes, the brands they come from, and all that.

Small things, I know small things.

Like the antique one dollar note he always carries with himself in his wallet to the Dior aftershave he uses.

Aftershave, that's what it's called right?

I shook my head to get rid of my thoughts and looked right ahead of us to see the regular that Alex always uses. I think it called rolls Royce but I'm not sure.

Suddenly a big car was driven into the airport arena and a few people gasped at the look of it, I looked up at Alex and saw a big full-blown smile on his face.

"Take all the luggage and everything else with you, I'll take the other car, my fiancé will come with me," Alex instructed and took off his blazer handing it to one of the bodyguards.

He then pulled me with him to the new car that had just pulled up in the airport driveway, even with the glasses on you could almost see the same expression on his face that I used to have back when Mary would get me a cake secretly on my birthdays each year.

Alex was almost running towards the new car and dragging me along with him, but I felt happy for him, he rarely smiles the way he is smiling right now.

It's as though he's received the greatest gift of humanity.

Alex opened up the door on my side and pushed me up a little because it was a big car and ran to the other side.

"Is this your favorite car?" I asked slowly when Alex got into the car and in return, Alex gave me a full-blown smile.

"you can say that, it's still a Concept car to the market." I nodded but kept my eyes trained on Alex's.

I looked up at the screen touch board in front of us which read 'Welcome on board to Ferrari Millenio'

"Ready?" Alex looked at me one last time and gave me a confident yet excited smile.

The car engine boomed to life and ran against the wind in speed. "oh my god, my hair! " I cried out when I realized that because the roof of the car was down the wind blew against and hair and it was now an open mess.

Alex looked at me for a second and started laughing " look at the road " I screeched and Alex turned looking at the road but he was still laughing.

At me.

You know what, we need to be equal in this.

I stood up with ease because there was no roof bent a little towards Alex and ran my hand in multiple directions through his hair making them messy like never before.

"what the-" I ignored Alex and once I was satisfied with how messy his hair was I sat down again.

A content smile on my face.

"Do not stare at me like that and look on the road, An average person has 100,000 - 150,000 strands of hair on their head and a woman spends approximately 10 years of her life doing her hair!"

Alex burst into a fit of laughter all over again and so did I.

After ten minutes or so Alex turned the car around on to a much more private road with big houses and then suddenly came to a stop, I gasped at the sight in front of us.

A beach?

I rubbed my eyes unknowingly and opened them again but the scene in front of me remained to be the same.

Take care of your senses, Sierra, I scolded myself internally for a second.

I kept my eyes trained on the beach when finally after a blissfully isolated stretch of sand a big beach house came into my view. The moment I read 'Alex Taylor' written beside the glass stretched gate I knew this was our stop.

Alex drove through the driveway and I quickly jumped off the car without paying any attention to Alex and ran to the seashore.

The sand kept on dragging through my feet down, it became a little difficult to run but with excitement and a little nervousness running through my veins I kept up my speed when I did finally reached the waves a whiff of the salty breeze hit on me.

My eyes were still trained on the beautiful but gigantic water body in front of me, it seemed to be never-ending. It was as though the water was all that was there, nothing else only water.

The beautiful turquoise like water touched my feet and made me shiver slightly with excitement, I stood there in a trance looking at exactly what I read about through my entire childhood.

It was way more than what Mary was able to tell me, it wasn't just beautiful it was breathtaking.

I did it, Mary, I came to a beach, traveled on a plane I did everything I was always scared to do. I did it.

A tear slid down my eyes without even realization.

I looked up at the bright yellow sky and closed my eyes, are you still looking down at me mom? Are you still guarding me? I'm here mom, there's no pain here. No one touches me against my will, I- I get to make friends, I get to cook what I like when I like, I-I get to do everything Sara always got to do because of Alex, all because of him.

Alex is a really good mom, he-he seems to care. My scars seem to be fading away mom. He doesn't say anything, he hardly even looks at me and we hardly talk but he gives me freedom. He does small things for me, He gives me strength for everything, he empowers me just like Mary does.

He never opens up to me mom, I want to talk to him but he likes the quietness in life, and if that's what he likes then that's what I want to like to. He gave me more than anything anyone else has been able to in a very short time. He's like the angle Mary always told me about, he's here and he's here for me.

"Sara? Come back to life woman!" Suddenly Alex's voice reached my ears and without wasting a second I ran towards him and flung myself onto him making him surprised at my sudden outburst.

I wrapped my legs around his waist and started crying "what the- Why are you crying?" I did not say anything and instead tightened my hold around him.

"Thank you, Thank you for everything" I continued sobbing and Alex stiffened under my hold, slowly but very cautiously he wrapped his around me and I tried to stop crying.

"what's wrong?" Alex asked me but this time around a little softly

"I- Nothing really. I just started missing my mom all of a sudden" I said and pulled away slightly, Alex hummed silently but did not say anything "Do you miss your mom at times too"

Alex suddenly went even stiffer if that was even possible "never saw her, never want to see her. I miss my dad. He was both my mom and my dad for me."

I looked into Alex's eyes and he seemed to have let down his guards a little "how was he?"

"He fought the whole world for me, he stood up for me, he cried for me but he also taught me how to live, not by teaching me how to live but by living his best life with me by his side. He was the best dad in the world. He taught me absolutely everything he knew, he passed on his love for the car to me and his knowledge of business as well but then that night came, the night when everything started going downhill all because of that one person-" As though Alex was pulled to reality his eyes looked straight into mine and burned with hatred, he looked at me as though I took away his father from him.

"Ale-"

"Stop, don't say a word. Never again will you ever ask me about my father again, you don't deserve to know him. You fuck!ng don't" Alex screamed the last part and walked past me into the beach house.

What just happened?

I looked back at Alex's retrieving figure and sat down on the sand, pulling my knees close to me.

What is it that has caused so much hatred in you Alex? I've never even seen you before the little we've known each other.

My eyes followed the path of my hands and settled onto the big rock in my ring finger, it's not fair that you've given me the world and I've given you nothing in return is it, Alex?

You're the reason I'm here, you're the reason why I'm happy, and it's only fair that you're happy because of me too.

Right?

I'm going to make it up to you Alex, I don't know why you hate me but the least you deserve is happiness.

Happiness for looking after me, Maya, Ian, and a hundred others. I'm going to make it worth your while to be with me, you've given others enough its time for you to take from me now.

And if you think it's going to be easy to push me just know that it's me in your way to happiness, if I can go through my life locked up in a house with unwanted hands on me and broken ribs trust me I can go through anything.

Anything, and for you?

Absolutely anything.

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𝓥𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓐𝓷𝓭𝓕𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀

𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮- 𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪.𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢