Infatuation Of Darkness - Chapter 278

Drop a red stone!

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They arrived home later that night and Salvatore was up waiting for his mother. Alexis smiled and picked him even though he was very heavy for her.

“You didn’t sleep?” She mumbled as she eyed her sleepy son.

He nodded and a yawn sneakily escaped him. “I didn’t want to sleep without reciting our mantra.”

Alexis chuckled. “Reciting our mantra?” She repeated with a smile on her face. “If my baby is using such big words I believe he is growing up to be a big boy.” He nodded firmly at that.

She put him in the bed and side hugged him with his head on her shoulder, “Let’s recite it then, we do no-”

“Do not hit someone as violence is not the solution. I hit when someone hits me. I should not let my anger control me. I am a good boy at heart and I must not forget it.” He mumbled sleepily and she smiled with tears in her eyes.

Alexis had been powerless towards a few situations in her life but that did not mean that she had completely let go of the control. If she could not make the situation better for herself than she made sure that when Salvatore was born, he would be a better man than his father.

Strong but better.

“Thank you, baby.” She kissed his head and gently remove his head from her shoulder. She went to her daughter’s bed in the same bed and kissed her forehead too. Next, she did the same with Lucas who was in the adjacent room.

She moved to her room and Angelo stood there changing into his night clothes after a shower.

“Kissed them all good night?” He tsked. He didn’t her smothering them with love.

She nodded and took her seat at the vanity table taking her Jewelry and makeup off. “In the past year when I had been attacked, my thoughts were the last thing I said to my children was eat your greens. I don’t want that to be it, so please let it be.”

He did. They didn’t talk about it after that.

Alexis had fallen asleep pretty easily. For years after pregnancy, she had suffered from post-pregnancy depression which had taken away her sleep but therapy had helped a lot.

In the middle of the night when the entire mansion except the guards was asleep when Angelo’s phone rang waking them both.

She could barely open her eye and look, but was aware that he had picked up her phone.

“What?!” He yelled making her wake up too. “How the fu-” he sighed harshly. “No! Don’t! Tell Vince to come in. I’ll handle the rest.” He growled out and hung up as he got out of the bed.

She got up too and watched him dress up hurriedly.

“Go back to sleep.”

I will. “What happened? Too serious?”

He nodded and loaded his gun. “They raided our warehouses. It was the one with the least amount of stock but still, they were not supposed to know about it.”

She had no desire to raise kids with their father in jail. “What are you going to do?”

“I don’t know,” he said, “Sleep,” he said and closed the door behind him and all she could do was watch the door.

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She woke up on time and a new routine with the kids followed. She went to Lucas’s room first and got him ready as he recited his Mantra.

“..do not hit someone as violence is not the solution. I hit when someone hits me. I should not let my anger control me. I am a good boy at heart and I must not forget it.”

“That’s a good boy,” she kissed his head. “Go down with Agatha and read today’s newspaper, okay?” He nodded and kissed her cheek as he went out of this room.

Next, she tackled the twins.

“And?” She pointedly stared at Rosie who looked annoyed. “You know you have to say it.”

Stomping her foot, she did as told. “I must not hit someone and respect my elders and not throw tantrums.”

Alexis nodded. Bella Rosa had often changed the words but the core remained the same. Also, her future was going to be different. “Yes, thank you. Off you go now.”

She took a bath herself, a quick mommy one and then went downstairs too.

“Alright kids, pack up the reading material. It’s breakfast time.” And their father was nowhere to be seen. He had not returned last night.

“Mommy, I think I forgot my case in my room,” Rosie whined as she stabbed her egg with her fork.

Alexis nodded. “Agatha, watch them, no one should eat each others food.” She warned and went ahead to get her case. Instead of having the help, she preferred to do little things for her children.

“Madam!” Blake meet her halfway from the stairs and was heaving from breathlessness.

She frowned. “Blake. What’s wrong?”

“It’s the boss madam,” he breathed, his words barely getting out.

With the situation that she had been made aware of last night, she could only imagine what could have had happened and it was not the happiest. “Say it! Hurry up!” She rushed him feeling all kinds of anxiety herself.

“It’s bad ma’am, very bad.” He muttered and gulped. Alexis had never seen him be this Disturbed and scared and it had the same effect on her too.

“Blake, I am not joking when I say this. Tell me what is it?” She hissed still mindful of the fact that her children could hear her if she talked loudly.

“He is in custody.” He whispered. “The CIA took him for questioning and now they are in jail or taken by them but the lawyers are now their way! He told you to stay calm and at home, madam and—”

“Stay calm?” She blinked back her tears at that. He wanted her to stay calm and back at home?

“Have the lawyers reached?” He nodded. “Good, then I will follow after dropping the children.”

It’s about time that man knew what to stay and where her priorities laid.