Filed To Story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
“Don’t worry about him, he’s probably somewhere doing what he always does best,”
Exactly, that was the problem. Whenever Allen does something he likes best, it is always something big.
I glanced down, scrutinizing Ailee who gave me her super-duper innocent face – she definitely inherited my acting skills- this was a distraction. Why would she request me to braid her hair if it wasn’t an avenue to draw me away while Allen does whatever he came for?
Realization dawned on me and I sprang up to my feet with quick reflexes. I headed in the direction of my study with Ailee after me. Allen probably went there to get into getting information from my laptop about his father – his current obsession.
“Mom, what’s wrong?” Ailee questioned after me but I ignored her, she was a good pretender.
I made it to the room, turned the doorknob, and entered with the expectation to catch Allen in there only to discover it was empty.
My confusion grew, this was impossible. I was so sure of catching him in the act that meeting this failure felt like a huge slap on the face.
I checked the room for signs of any intrusion but my things were exactly the way I had kept them. My gaze rested on the laptop on my desk and was about to go check signs of tampering when I heard the sound of water being flushed and a door opening.
“Allen?” Ailee called.
I abandoned thoughts of checking the device to go see Allen and where he emerged from.
The toilet.
“What is wrong with you?” I asked out of concern, seeing the sweat on his forehead.
“I think the cake reacted badly with my stomach,” He groaned, clutching his stomach.
I felt guilty, here I was suspecting him of intruding into my study when he was going through this agony this whole time.
“Take Allen to the living room, I should have medicine for that,” I instructed Ailee to help her brother to the sofa while I went to my room to get some over the counter drugs.
So I ended up nursing Allen to good health till some colors returned to his pale cheeks. We spent more time together and I had to admit, the relationship with my kids deepened. I needed to summarize this whole revenge thing quickly so I could spend more time with them.
“Kids, you need to leave. I have someplace to be very soon,” I told them, checking the time on my cell phone.
“No” Ailee whined.
“Ailee,” I pleaded.
“I’m bored, I need to spend time with my mother; that’s what kids my age do,” She threw a tantrum.
“I know, honey, which is why I’m so sorry and would find a way to make it up to you guys,” I mollified her.
“Leave mom alone, Ailee. If you’re so bored, go practice your knife-throwing skills – you suck terribly,” Allen told her.
Before I could even react, Ailee had tackled Allen off the sofa and to the ground, sneering, “Who’s pathetic now,”
Without warning, Allen broke out of her hold before Ailee could even blink, tacking her instead, “Really? Who’s the Damsel in distress now?”
“Alright, both of you knock it out, now!” I boomed when they began to flip,unflip, roll each other to the ground, claw, screech, pull at hairs – in one word, they were fighting each other. Niles would give me a five-star rating for raising the kids well.
“If I hear you two fought ever again, you’d get it from me. You were trained to defend yourself not use the skills on each other, understood?! ” I chided them sternly.
“Understood mother,” Both chorused.
“Now shake hands,” I ordered.
They obeyed, reluctantly.
“Good,” I smiled at them, “Now give me some peace and quietness,”
They knew what that meant, bidding goodbye to me as they found the door.
With a sigh, I made my way to the bathroom. I had not less than an hour to meet with Eden and needed to bathe since I had some flour on me from our bonding activity earlier.
Done with bathing, I walked into my room with the towel wrapped around my head like a head wrap when I suddenly looked down to discover my hands were slightly dyed.
“No, no, no,” I shrieked, running to the mirror in the walk-in closet, losing the towel as well, dyed green hairs fell across my shoulder.
My jaw dropped, there was no need to guess who put green dye in my shampoo.
“Allen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Meanwhile, unknown to Reina :
“Did you get it?” Ailee asked with a pleased smile as they climbed into the car.
“Of course, who do you think I am,” He smirked, showing off the USB drive in his grasp.
Ailee’s smile deepened, there was admiration in her gaze, “How did you manage to crack mom’s password?,” she took the USB from him to take a good look at their success.
She and Allen had purposely fought earlier to clear every doubt their mother might have regarding their visit. That woman was too damn suspecting.
“Easy as pie,” Allen was smug, “There are just too many skills one could pick up on the dark web,”
Ailee was delighted, “I guess it’s time to find father,”
Reina’s POV
“I’m sorry I’m late,” I apologized, drawing out a seat, and sat down comfortably.
“Woah!” Eden exclaimed, taking in the sight of my dark emerald hair.
“Don’t say a word, I don’t need your critique, ” I warned him quickly.
Thankfully, Allen was sensible enough to use some gothic emerald and not pastel mint green or worse punk Neon green.
“What criticism,” He said, “I was going to say you look goddamn sexy,”
A faint blush crept up my face but I hid it away. Seems while Niles’s good with his hands this one’s good with his words – I need to be careful with both.
“You really think they look good?” I still couldn’t help but ask. Sigh, women, and beauty.
He smiled at me, exposing peerless white teeth, and for a moment there, I felt deja vu, like some memories flashed before my eyes. Had I been close with Eden too? No way, I couldn’t have been a two-timer. Seriously, I needed my memories back desperately, some things did not seem right.
“You look good, Reina,” He complimented me.
Well, it looks like I wasn’t going to have a hard time with this one, he doesn’t insist I’m Reina or it was just a ploy to make me lower my guard and catch my lie unaware.
At once the waiter came to our table and we made our orders from the menu handed to us. It was a high-end restaurant so I didn’t have to worry about any video leaking out like the last time with Niles.
“So, why did you decide to nag me with this meeting, Eden?” I went ahead to kickstart this discussion. I had no time for his game.
“What do you think, Reina?” his face curved with his killer smile, “I wanted to have a meal with a lovely woman like you,”
I smiled back too, two can play at this game.