Chapter 9

A/M: HEY ALL IM SOOOOOOO SORRY I DIDN'T POST THESE LAST TWO DAYS, CAME DOWN WITH A BAD BAD BAD FEVER. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE THIS WEEK BUT I WILL DO MY UTMOST TO GET US THERE.

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SORRY FOR THE DELAY AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY AND RATE!!!

After the high of kissing his newly acknowledged love was over they both agreed to get some food. Sadia offered to cook for them, so that Leo could get cleaned up for his meeting with Janice. The fact that Sadia was here was definitely going to be something she’d comment on seeing he’d rambled about the woman for the last two months. Not caring he got into the shower and washed himself off of the hovel he’d slept at. Now that Sadia knew about his life he could now try to bring her out of the hovel and ask her to stay with him here.

Showering gave him some time to collect his thoughts -first time since he accidentally killed Yusef- and really reflect on himself. In 24 hours he’d killed someone in self-defense, recognized his true feelings for a woman he was in love with, and finally told said woman about his vast fortunes and his feelings for her. In conclusion it had been one of the weirdest days since the meeting of Nox and Erebus.

Heading into his dressing room he got some clothes and got dressed. He put on his best shirt, pants, and shoes to entertain the beauty in his home. He double checked his attire before heading to his study and getting his printouts of the new patents and future designs. With his box in hand he head out to the living room to see Sadia finishing up and plating the food, she’d made eggs, toast, and some peeled fruit. She turned and smiled at his presence in the room.

Setting the box near the sofa he went over to eat and together they held each other’s hands and chatted. Leo asked her to move in and after some reluctance she agreed to it, on the condition she got to go back and say good-bye to Alexi and his mother. Leo agreed got some cash as a parting gift for her to give them. As they chatted the morning away the sound of his buzzer came on. The buzzer was a notice that Janice was coming and that she was on her way up on the elevator.

Sadia became nervous at the idea of meeting one of Leo’s friends in the flesh.

“Relax, she’ll love you.” He reassured her.

“If you say so.”

When Janice got in she was a little surprised that there was a woman standing next to Leo. Not trying to be rude though she just greeted the two of them as relaxed as possible.

“Hello Leo, You didn’t tell me you had company.” She said out loud.

“Sorry Jan, I was a little distracted.” He said as he hinted at the fact they were holding hands.

“I noticed. Hi, I’m Janice.” She introduced extending her hand out.

“Hello I’m Sadia.”

After they swapped introductions, Janice and Leo got straight to work. She had brought over papers on the new companies being started that day.

Lionheart Technolgies

Lionheart Pharmaceuticals

Lionheart Pharmatech

Lionheart T.V

Lionheart Robotics

Lionheart Communications.

Lionheart Energies

All of which were being utilized to test out the technologies that the he developed and to help further his plan of massive proportions. On Leo’s side he handed off two boxes of patents that were to be filed on the experimental technology to be sent out. Of course before all this he’d had a chat with his friends at the military and was going to be green lit through the Patent Office. In the end it took nearly four hours for the work to be finished and for his signature to be written over a hundred times.

“Finally done!” He exclaimed.

“Yeah, Thank god cause I’m tired of hearing you whine.” Janice laughed as she packed up.

“I’m starved, let’s get some food.” Leo said.

“Well go wake up your girlfriend while I use the bathroom.”

Getting up from the table Leo headed off to find Sadia who was taking a nap from all the boring work they were doing. Nearing the room he could hear her thrashing around and breathing heavily. Rushing in, he quickly sat next to her and tried to wake her. Yet despite his best efforts she wouldn’t wake up, so he decided to try and give her a shake a little bit. It worked and as she came to she had tears flowing down her cheeks and red stuffy eyes.

“I saw him, he came at me and you weren’t there to save me.” She sobbed.

“I thought he was back and he was stabbing me over and over and over again, I’ve never felt so terrified.” She trembled in his arms.

“Don’t worry it’s all over, it’s going to be alright.”

“What am I going to do? I don’t know if I can ever let what he did to me go.”

Leo hugged her deeply and didn’t let her go. He understood the feeling of being trapped by your own nightmares.

“Don’t worry, it’ll be alright. Come on let’s get some food, my treat.” He offered.

She responded with a smile and a nod, and together they went back to the main room to join Janice. On the sofa was Janice was on her phone oblivious to what had happened. Hearing them she looked up to see a Sadia who’d been crying and immediately said.

“Leo! If you made that sweet girl cry I will flay the skin off your nutsacks!” she yelled.

“What?” Leo said in confusion.

“It wasn’t him Janice, I just had a bad dream is all.” She reassured the Amazonian on the sofa.

“Oh” she replied calming down.

“Well anyway let’s go out and eat.” Leo said.

Together they got left to go eat, but seeing how it was still early they decided to go shopping as well. Leo settled on a snack to hold him over until dinner while Janice took Sadia out to shop for some nice things. Sadia after severe reservations on spending Leo’s money, decided to get a beautiful silk royal blue dress, a nice bracelets and a beautiful sapphire necklace. In the end she was secretly happy she was being spoiled silly.

At dinner she decided not to wear her hijab and flaunt herself for Leo. Although they never said it their behavior led to them being together ‘unofficially’. Though by the time the night had ended it was official in more ways than one.