Chapter 76

**Kapittel 75**

**"Of course."**

"I'm just right around the lobby. So if you need me, you know where to find me," Hades told her and Allison nodded. He leaned to her to give her one last kiss– on the forehead this time, before turning on his heel to leave while she waved goodbye. Just as he was gone in the sea of crowd, she heard a voice behind her ask.

"Aye, your boyfriend went gone now, sweetie?" she turned to become face to face with a tall, dark, and handsome bartender who had a cheeky smile on his lips. He seemed the type to be flirty under the guise of being friendly.

She just gave him a small smile before answering casually, "A cocktail, please. And no, he's not yet my boyfriend. He's a suitor."

The bartender's grin grew wider at her answer. "Not yet. So that means I have a chance to become your boyfriend, if I may apply?"

"Hmm." She hummed and scrutinized the bartender. He was handsome all right, not to mention, he's also oozing the scorching sex appeal with his bulging muscles and happy-go-lucky features.

"You may..." she trailed off, "But too bad. I'm actually not that interested in dating at the moment," she said and offered him a sweet smile.

"Then why are you with that dreamy Papi if you're not interested in dating? Is a thing that escalates dating?" he inquired further and raised his brows repeatedly to imply what he wanted to imply, to which she answered by shaking her head. "Long story short, he likes me and we got into this kind of circumstance that made me feel things for him, and we're on a getaway date while I figure it out." The bartender laughed. "Then you'll date him if you realize what your feelings for him are? Hang on. Just give me a few minutes," he said before turning on his back.

She rested her elbows on the counter to wait and answered his speculation, "Who knows?" and continued to wait. However, a few moments later, she heard someone call for her name. Despite the loud music ringing her ears, she could hear the voice loud and clear.

"Aunt Allison!"

She immediately turned her stool to look for the person who called for her when she heard a loud shriek.

"My favorite dress!"

Allison went off her stool and looked where the shriek came from, and that was when she caught sight of young Jekyll, looking fearfully at a woman whose back was facing her.

'What is Jekyll doing here?' she asked herself with her face wincing before dawdling towards them.

"Who are you?! Where are your parents?! Oh God, you just ruined my new dress!" she heard the woman demand to the young boy who was already crying out of fear with his face red and nose snotty. She looked down at the child's pants to see if he had pissed on them, and she was right! Jekyll's pants were soaked!

"Jekyll!" she called out to the poor kid.

"Aunt Allison!" the child cried and threw himself into her arms. She kneeled in front of the boy to meet his level and pacified him by ruffling his hair and pulling him into a hug. "It's okay, Jekyll. I'm here," she whispered in the boy's ear.

"And you are?" the woman who was yelling at Jekyll interrogated and brushed her eyes at her from head to toe. She could tell that the woman was angry as hell that her face crumpled that it no longer looked human-like, no wonder he looked so afraid.

"I am his aunt. May I know what happened?" she asked calmly. As much as how her heart was loudly hammering in her chest because of the turmoil, she must remain calm. In an argument, there should be two people: the one who was angry and the calm one. No matter how angry she was right now for the fact that a grown woman was yelling at an innocent child, she needed to be the latter to deescalate the situation quickly. Her heart lurched when she felt the child's embrace on her get tighter and his cries became louder.

The woman crossed her arms over her chest and raised her head high. "Well, as you can see. Your nephew ran to me that caused me to spill my drink all over my favorite dress!" she shouted at the top of her voice that caused the people to stop dancing and watch them with malice in their eyes, even the DJ stopped playing the music which caused all the attention to be given to them. Now the entire area was loud with whispers and it didn't help the situation any better. Jekyll became more afraid and sulked himself further into Allison's body.

"I see..." she trailed off and stood up before facing the woman apologetically, "I apologize on behalf of my nephew. But I believe it was an accident. He couldn't have possibly run to you," she apologized to the woman while pacifying the young boy by running her hand on the boy's hair.

The woman sneered at her and gave out her hand. "Well then, give me back my money!"

Allison was stunned. "I... I'm sorry?"

"My money!" the woman waved her fingers demandingly. "This dress costs a fortune you know! It's branded!"

"I apologize, I don't have my money with me right now. May I ask how much it is so I could hand it ov..." she was about to reply as she didn't have her wallet with her but the irritated woman immediately cut her off.

"Ugh, you know what? Never mind!" the woman said irritatingly before grabbing a cocktail from a waiter who just passed by and throwing it to her face. The crowd gasped in surprise. Even she was surprised by the sudden assault.

"Aunt Allison!" Jekyll cried harder, seeing the horrifying scene. Allison wiped her face and saw the woman sneering at her with pure delight.

"What is going on here?" a deep, baritone voice asked. "Love?" she heard a familiar voice called out. She turned her head and met eyes with Hades who was looking at her with concern.

"H... Had..." she was about to explain to him when he pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket and began wiping her face gently.

"Are you okay, love?" he asked her as he wiped her face gently with his handkerchief like she was some sensitive clay. She just nodded at him in reply.

"What happened here, Hannah? What did you do this time?" she soon saw a man in a business suit ask the woman who assaulted her with a drink.

"Well you see, honey. This woman's nephew just threw himself at me that caused my drink to spill on my favorite dress! Look!" she pointed to her cocktail dress that was inked with grape juice. "I just threw a drink at his aunt in return for revenge!"

She felt Hades halt wiping her face and saw his hand balled into a large, shaking knuckle.

"Hannah, you threw a drink at someone just because her nephew bumped on you? You're unbelievable!" the man exclaimed and buried his face in his palm frustratingly.

"What?! It's her nephew's fault!" the woman, Hannah, defended.

"No one disrespects my wife and my nephew, especially inside my property," Hades muttered under his breath with his jaw clenching in anger before facing the man and the woman with his face contorting in anger.

"Wh... What?" the woman's face paled at his statement. It seemed that she wasn't aware that Hades was the owner of the resort, well, Allison was too.

"You heard what I said, woman. I do not tolerate anyone who disrespects my fiancée. So I suggest you get off my property before I do something unforgivable," he warned the woman, anger laced in his baritone voice.

Allison pulled Jekyll to her side closer and took a step back away from Hades who had an overwhelmingly powerful, menacing aura was all over him, even though she could not see his face, his voice was already enough to tell that he is angry, very angry.

"P... Please forgive my girlfriend, Mr. de Vries. Sh... She just can't control herself when she gets angry," the man beside the woman tried to coax, putting himself in front of the angry beast.

"So she's your girlfriend," he laid his eyes on the man beside Hannah.

"Y... Yes, Mr. de Vries," the man nodded.