Chapter 9

I saw Axel standing in there, and he closed the door slowly and got into my bed. My breath caught. He didn't say anything as he started kissing me. I responded and kissed him back.

He started kissing me down my breasts then lower to my stomach, even lower. Then I heard a knock, and I woke up abruptly. "come in" I answered in a shaky voice. "Morning, your breakfast" one of the maids said.

"Thank you" I replied. I could tell the waitress was assessing my face as I had already guessed it was red and I was flustered. I sunk back to my bed and, I was so shocked with myself and the dream that I had.

What was wrong with me. I literally had a sex dream and of all people , it had to be Axel. Was my subconscious also screwed up? because this was definitely not normal at all. I got up after thinking for about 20 minutes and ate my breakfast. I showered and went back to sleep.

A week had gone by and it was Saturday again. Thank goodness there wasn't any work for us to do or missions. I had practised with Mars three times this week as there wasn't any performance or spying that had to be done. Which left me relieved.

The other big thing was that I had managed to hide in my room, if I wasn't with Mars because I couldn't chance to see Axel at all. A knock interrupted my thoughts. "Come in" I responded.

It was one of the maids. "You have to get ready for lunch, we are having a family meeting at 12:30pm." and with that she left. Family meeting meant it was compulsory. It was already 11:46pm, so I rushed to the shower and I got dressed in a white hoodie tracksuit, with a pair of white Adidas sneakers.

I brushed my hair and I didn't feel like putting on makeup so I didn't. The time was now 12:20 which meant I had ten minutes to spare. I walked down to the hall and I saw that everyone was there.

I got in hoping to go unnoticed as I had put my hoodie over my head, I was going to go seat at the far end of the table because I knew Axel would probably be sitting at head. As I was going, and going.

"Talia" I turned to see London motioning for me to come and sit next to him which made Axel and Sophie turn towards me. I slowly turned and I made my way towards London. To make it worse since Axel was seating at the head of the table, I had to sit next to him, and across Sophie.

Why couldn't London have sat next to him and across that malicious wench. I sat down, and London gave me a side hug as he pulled off my hoodie from my head. My palms were sweating so badly.

"Are you the green arrow now?" London asked jokingly, I just looked at him and smiled. I could see Axel from my peripheral view. "Hey, Talia" I turned slowly. "hi" squeaked. I looked at him.

He really did look good, the dream came back to my mind in an instant, I was bought back to reality, and it looked like Axel was expecting an answer. "sorry" I stammered. He chuckled and repeated, "I said how are you doing?". I was sure I was beet red from the dream and zoning out.

"I'm good thanks" and I looked up to hear Sophie mutter under her breath "she is also slow". I felt London whisper in my ear "don't mind her Tals". I nodded staring down at my hands that were clasped together on my lap.

I felt a hand on my head and I looked up and it was Axel patting my hair. "Don't be so harsh towards her " as he directed his words towards Sophie. I looked at him in surprise that he had taken my side for the first time.

"I was just joking with her" Sophie responded sweetly but you could tell that there was venom in her voice. Then Axel smiled at me lightly and took his hand off my hair. We had discussions about a lot of things, improvements and our assigned jobs.

After we ate and couple discussions, we were dismissed. I went to go ask the kitchen for another chocolate cake, as I had really enjoyed the one I had.

I got to the kitchen and I saw that there was no one there which meant they also were in the dining room area, as they were still talking among st themselves. I guess I can help myself. I took a spoon and found the tray with the chocolate cake.

I stood by the counter and I dug in, savoring every moment. I felt a hand go around my waist and I smelt a familiar scent.