CHAPTER 96

An Interesting Tale

The room went silent after what Maurice said and Alexa was already blaming herself for asking that kind of absurd question. She moved towards the man slowly trying to console, but the man's next words shocked her to the bone.

"I have always been tamed as the monster that caused my parent's death, and being thick-skinned for escaping the kidnappers when I should have just rotted there and not come back," Maurice says and Alexa gasped hearing his words.

"What! What did…." Alexa was about to ask, but she did not have the right words because she was shocked to her bone marrow.

She could not believe that anyone could be so cruel as to say such things to a child who lost his parents, and also got kidnapped.

'Are they not so cruel?' Alexa thought, and her face got reddened in anger on Maurice's behalf.

"Why are people so cruel…" Alexa was saying, but she trailed off hearing Maurice's words.

"I am going to kill them all…those people I am going to find them all, and make sure I feed their balls to the dogs!" Maurice yelled, his face visible with veins as he was so angry as he decided murderous intents and immediately he sensed that Alexa was looking at him, so he comforted himself.

"I am sorry…I didn't mean to," Maurice was saying, but Alexa cut him off.

"No, I am sorry for asking, I should have just…" Alexa was saying touching the man's face and her words trailed off meeting the man's feverish gaze and her heart skipped a bit.

'Why is my heart beating so fast? Why am I having this much reaction? Am I going to do that? Because the way my heart is pounding is alarming!' Alexa screamed in her head.

"What are you trying to say!" Maurice asked, raising an eyebrow, and looking at Alexa and that jolted her brain as she focused her attention back to Maurice.

'Let's stop being a simp, okay?' Alexa cautioned herself..

"So I am saying..you don't have to blame yourself…it is.." Alexa was saying, but her words trailed off staring into the man's cold haunting eyes and she trailed her hands on his face.

"I am sorry..that you have to be in so much pain," Alexa says, like someone in a trance as she locks eyes with Maurice.

Maurice felt his soul calm as he stared at Alexa's eyes and he didn't know why his troubled heart calmed immediately and he could not help but reach out to the woman.

'Why are you messing with my head, Alexa?' Maurice mulled.

"Don't you hate me? I mean I am someone everyone refers to as a cursed child," Maurice asked, and Alexa chuckled as she ran her hands through Maurice's hair.

"You know that's not true..you are just an innocent child back then that got caught…" Alexa was saying but Maurice cut her off by kissing her.

Alexa was surprised with Maurice's actions, but she immediately got absorbed as she returned the kiss with the same urgency.

Maurice's kiss got rough and he picked Alexa from the ground clearing off the desk as he placed her there not caring about the commotion sound he must have made which might somehow alerted the maids.

Maurice picked Alexa's nipples through the clothes and Alexa moaned with his actions.

"Mhmm," Alexa let out a low moan, and before she could jolt back to her senses her clothes were already littered on the ground.

Alexa was already a moaning mess and she responded to his touch by running her hands around his well-proportioned abs.

"Should I stop?" Maurice asked again like a gentleman making sure they both wanted it.

Alexa looked into his eyes which were oozing with lust right then and she shook her head.

"No," she answered.

The couple littered the room with their clothes as they were engrossed in their pleasures and before that time the room was filled with moans of pleasure and it didn't look like they were stopping anytime soon.

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Alexa woke up the next day and she was surprised to find herself in their room not having the memories of coming down to the room herself.

Her blush crept up to her face remembering what went down in the study room the other night and she giggled on the bed like a baby…a foolish baby.

"Are you awake now," Alexa heard Maurice's voice, and she jerked off from the bed.

"It's a brand new day and a day to kick the pretenders out," Alexa says, looking at Maurice as she stands up gently from the bed with the duvet wrapped tightly around her body to prevent any unforeseen circumstances.

"Looks like you are ready to kick asses?" Maurice asked and she shrugged her shoulders.

"I am particularly enthusiastic about this," Alexa says with a resolute face and Maurice was tempted to ask her the reason why.

"Why are you enthusiastic about it? Is it because you don't like Benedicta?" Maurice asked.

"That's not true…I am only interested because it's about you, no one is allowed to hurt you," Alexa says, and she doesn't know that her little actions have moved Maurice a lot.

"Really…so you mean you are going to hurt whoever hurt me?" Maurice asked, and Alexa nodded her head and she was surprised to find the man coming to her on the bed.

"What! What are you doing.." Alexa was saying, but she trailed off when Maurice shoved his mouth forward wanting to kiss her and she panicked.

"Don't kiss…I haven't brushed," Alexa moved her face away, but Maurice shocked her by turning her face around and giving her a deep kiss.

Maurice disengaged from the kiss looking at Alexa's flushed face, and he smiled seeing how cute she was.

"What did you mean? Have we not passed that stage?" Maurice blurted and he stepped away from the bed.

What he says makes Alexa jolt out of her thoughts, and she wonders what the man could be referring to.

'What did he mean by us passing a stage?' Alexa pondered but she jolted out of her thought when Maurice spoke up.

"Then get dressed and come downstairs," Maurice says, and Alexa nods her head and he walks out of the room..

Alexa abandoned her thoughts and immediately got dressed, already anticipating how to deal with the fraud in her house.

She was surely going to kick them out of the house. After dressing up she skipped down the stairs and saw Benedicta and Penelope already settled on the table and she was surprised at how Maurice could still keep cool after all that had happened.

"Good morning," Penelope greeted Alexa, and the lady just hummed in reply.

Benedicta wondered why Penelope was trying to form a friendly ambiance, but she shrugged it off.

Everyone settled in the dining hall that morning and everyone's expression was grave except for Benedicta who was still clueless about what was going on.

"I heard something rather interesting last night," Alexa said, and Maurice looked at her, but she gave him the look that she was going to take care of it.

Benedicta raised her eyebrow looking at Alexa and she wondered what was going on.

"So Penelope, did you want to tell Benedicta the amazing story you told me yesterday?" Alexa asked.

"I told them everything," Penelope breathed out, and Benedicta looked at her confused wondering what the girl was blabbing all about.

"What did you mean? What did you tell them about?" Benedicta asked, her voice breaking a little fearing that Penelope must have ratted her out.

"I told them everything! Everything about how you asked me to pretend to get someone!" Penelope yelled, almost attacking Benedicta.

Immediately the words left Penelope's mouth, Benedicta was at a loss for words and when she raised her head she saw Maurice and Alexa staring at her and her mouth shook in fear.

"What nonsense are you saying? How can you say that rubbish…" Benedicta was saying, but Maurice cut her off by slamming his hands on the table which shocked Benedicta to her bones.

"Don't you dare think of lying your way through it so you better start talking," Maurice threatened and Benedicta gasped…