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Athena tries to control her trembling as she stands in front of Vincenzo's office. Vincenzo wasn't present in the dining table for dinner and Athena couldn't help but feel concern. She relatively understand the pain of being hungry or getting starved. It is bad.

Holding a plate of untouched food, Athena struggles to build up her courage to enter in. She forcefully pushes her negative thoughts away and knocks.

Vincenzo glances up at the door and then back at his watch. His brothers aren't present in the mansion as they went out to finish some pending work of theirs.

"Entra in." He says and continues to read through some alliance documents. He looks up and his brows furrows in genuine surprise.

"What are you doing here, Ariana?" He asks her.

Athena lifts the plate of food up slightly like those innocent criminals showing the evidence who haven't murdered anyone but got accusation.

"Food." She whispers.

"Thank you for your concern, Ariana! However I don't feel hungry, you can take it back." Vincenzo tells her internally seeming a little eager to see her reaction. Athena nods her head slightly but then like a sad puppy looks back down at the plate.

"Starving is not good.... Very bad. Don't feel good." She mumbles very lowly and sadly. But Vincenzo sharp ears easily pick her words. For some reason, he feels strange. As Athena is about to leave the room, he calls her.

"Wait Ariana!" He stops her. She looks back at him confused.

"You can settle it down there." He points at the small coffee table in the room. That strange feeling in his chest just increases as a small smile makes its way on her lips. He has never seen her smiling from since the time she came here. Her face glows and her eyes sparkles a little. It is almost mesmerising.

She sets it down carefully and silently walks out of the room. Vincenzo couldn't help but discriminate both Ariana and Athena. Ariana is classy, elegant and an hot-headed girl. She is just a wild party animal. Ariana always approached Vincenzo whenever she needed some extra cash and his credit cards for shopping. She wasn't the one who would usually care if her any of brothers hadn't eaten due to the work stress. She was completely and purely different from Athena.

On the other hand Athena is shy, gentle and soft spoken. Athena seems to care about other well beings. She isn't the one who is demanding for anything here. It might be only fear but she obediently follows everything she is told to do. Athena and Ariana may exactly looked alike but their personalities are nothing alike.

Next early morning, Athena sits up from the bed frustrated since she couldn't sleep. There is an uneasiness in her stomach and it is making her feel uncomfortable. She cleans Ariana's room. She takes a shower and dresses up in a cute green sundress. She mostly likes the collection of sundresses that are very few in Ariana's closet. She puts her slippers on and makes her way downstairs straight in the kitchen.

It is early like 4 in the morning and the kitchen is empty. The maids and servants usually starts making breakfast at 7 in the morning. Right now, the kitchen is wholly empty.

The uneasiness and discomfort is growing in her stomach with each passing second so she searches through the cupboard to find something interesting. Suddenly an idea pops in her mind and she shuffles through the cupboards. Finally searching everything, she settles the stuff down and smiles a little before starting the magic.

At 6:45 in the morning, the cooks and maids arrived. Their pupils dilates upon seeing Athena in there. Their jaws touches the ground after seeing the huge amount of freshly baked cookies.

"Here." Athena extends the first tray to them. Her cheeks turns red though as their whole attention is fixed on her and she isn't really used to it.

"Y-you could h-have told u-us Madame if you w-wanted to eat c-cookies." One of the old aged cook said in a shaky tone.

"M-my name is A-ariana a-and I wanted to bake." Athena tells them an lie and truth shyly and awkwardly.

"These for you all." She mumbles while pointing at the tray.

"Eat and tell how is it?" She asks in a hopeful tone. Unconvincingly, each of them took one. Athena looks at them like a scared kitten but her nerves eases as they smiles. It looks genuine.

"This is amazing." They compliments her truthfully. Athena grins and carefully picks the second tray.

"Who is it for?" A maid asks her.

"For big guys." She points at the guards through the window. With that, she skips out with a small smile. Baking helps her a lot to wash away every uneasiness and now she feels good.

On the other hand, the maids and cooks looks at each other confused. They hadn't ever seen Ariana in kitchen and she never even interacted with the maids or servants of the family excluding the times when she wanted something. Ariana was a bossy girl who liked to order around them but today they all noticed a change. She sure did have changed a lot.

The bodyguards outside stares at Athena like she has grown a second head when she offers them cookies. They remain emotionless though and shakes their heads, declining.

"P-please." Athena whispers. She is still so scared in their presence and she wants nothing but to run away from their sight but she can't do that. Not until they eat the cookies.

Seeing unshed tears in her huge puppy eyes, they hesitanly grabs the cookies. Athena smiles and her sadness vanishes. She looks at them nervously as they take a first bite.

"It tastes amazing! Thank you, Madame!" Athena grins at their positive criticism.

"Sir Alexander's car is coming." Someone yells. Athena frowns a little as everyone starts to rush towards their respective posts.

The gates opens and Alexander's car came racing inside with full speed. It stops near Athena and with a confused look on his face, Alexander steps out.

"What are you doing here?" He raises his brow.

"Were you planning to runaway again?" He asks and tightly grips her wrist. The tray slips out of her hold and falls. Athena starts to tremble as he looks at her with so much anger in his eyes.

"ANSWER ME!" Athena flinches when he yells at her. Her small body trembles wildly in fear. He is so scary....

"Sir! Madame Ariana was only here so we could try out cookies she baked." A guard intervenes in. Alexander raises his brow and continue to look down at her. First tear rolled down her cheek. His anger melted away right there. He wasn't mostly angry at Athena. He was angry because a deal didn't ended well. Without thinking, he just decided to snap at her.

He released her wrist out of his painful grip and his eyebrows shoots up in genuine surprise as he looke down at her bruised wrist. Her skin was always like this. It always bruises easily.

He also noticed that she has also burnt her hands a little while baking. Now he feels like a total asshole. He internally groans and grabs her wrist gently this time.

He drags her inside.