Chapter 171 - 171 The General and the Fierce Lawyer

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When everyone was busy with their own love lives, it is Xavier's headache towards the fierce lawyer named Samantha Wu. Xavier's parents were both busy talking to Samantha as if he doesn't exist to their eyes, his mother like the fierce lawyer while his father listens to the two women talking at their table. ​​

"Mom, Dad, are you not finished talking to my date. Hello I am her escort tonight and yet you snatch her away from me" Xavier said as he pouts his lips. "Oh come on Xavier, I love having a conversation with your parents. Don't be a cry baby there okay" Samantha teases him.

Xavier rolled his eyes on her, this is the first time that a woman didn't an interest in him, she didn't even fall for his charms. This the reason why he had a crush on her, she is very fierce and straightforward, the first time he meets her was the day he was mending his broken heart. Luna told him that she only see him as a brother just like Dimitri and Ryder, he accepted Luna's decision for that was also her answers to Alexei and Marco when they told her their feelings for her. It is only Francois who didn't make any moves to Luna back then, that's why they thought that Francois is not interested in her. 

But when Dimitri summoned them to have a bull session, that's the only time they knew Francois's feelings towards Luna. But still, they accepted it for Luna's love and care for them. When his father sent him abroad for a conference, that's the time he met the lawyer... The lawyer whom he didn't knows that has a special place on Luna's heart.

Xavier: "Mom can I get my date? I want to dance with her and I have something to tell her in private."

Prince Timothy and Duchess Clarisse laugh but they nod their head for they can see that their son is already pissed off because they got the attention of the woman who fixes his mending heart. Xavier excuses themselves to his parents as he took Samantha's hands with care as if it will break to his big hands. Samantha bowed her head as a respect to his parents. They both went to the dance floor, Prince Timothy send a text message to Audrey to what song will be played while they are on the dance floor. The twins are very playful as they ask one of the men in Phantom to focus the spotlight on the two as they walk at the center of the dance floor. 

Xavier is very nervous, he knew that there will be a surprise for him as he can see from the corner of his eye that the eyes of the great bosses, Luna and Francois, Scarlet and Dimitri, Ryder and Sapphire, and Jamil and Audrey were watching them. As the song "Can this be Love" by the Filipino artist Smokey Mountain was heard. 

"I knew it." Xavier blurted out; Samantha giggled as she heard his curse. "Why does the song mean something to you General Xavier?" she asks him.

Xavier holds her hand and waist, he brought her closer to him; Samantha gasps as he did a thing to her, "What if I said yes and the song is for you because it was I felt for you Atty. Samantha Wu" he replied.

"Can this be love I'm feeling right now

I know for certain I'm feeling right now

I don't recall ever feeling this way

To one who makes me feel this way"

As the first stanza of the song was heard, they thought it is just a random person who is singing it, but the voice seemed familiar. Xavier knew the owner of the baritone voice who is currently singing. Then it was followed by a voice that they both knew and very familiar.

"Can this be love I'm feeling right now

I am not sure of this feeling somehow

Why do I tremble whenever you're near

I can't seem to say my words so you'll hear"

As their eyes turned in unison to the place where it came from they both saw Luna and Francois, singing with their whole hearts.

"This is the first time I'm gonna say 'I love you'

It's the first time I ever felt so helpless deep inside

If I had to say a thousand times I'd tell you once again

This is the first time I'm gonna say 'I love you'…"

As the stanza was in a duet the couple look at them and gave them a very mysterious look. Xavier chuckled and Samantha blushed, "Luna is showering her magic on us" Samantha whispered to him. 

Xavier: "Samantha, I know you might think that I am joking but I have something to confess to you. I memorize these words from the moment Luna told me that she knew you way back at the City of Wise."

Samantha: "Xavi, don't look at me like that, you are staring at me so seriously. You are making me nervous."

Xavier: "We'll have insensible arguments, I know. The air we breathe will end up filled with words we'll regret. You'll get annoyed and walk away. But at each time, I'll be taking quick steps after you. Just to pinch both of your cheeks and whisper my apologies. Or hug you, if you'd let me I will kiss you passionately until we run out of the air in our lungs."

Samantha: "Xavi, I am getting nervous to your words"

Xavier chuckled, "You'll be give a free rein to your inner innocent person to get back at me. But I won't mind as I'll hang out with it. I'll take out all of the prerecorded videos and pictures of what is happening right now, make an exhibit for the whole world to see, and share with it every memory each one holds. I'll tell our stories about how I met you and I am not shy that you once called me a pervert and a jerk. How I fell in love with you and how will I ask your hands in marriage."

Then Samantha's face turned red as a tomato, but she already can feel his heart beats so fast. She knew that he was professing his love to her, "Xavier, One day, I know, we'll be faced with rivers of problems that we might think we can't cross but I know we'll be holding our hands securely. The kind that does not want to let go. We'll make feel for both of us to be each other's strength."

Xavier: "Because you're mine and I am yours. We'll take an enormous climb to safety and continue our journey together. I'll look you in the eye, bravely tell you what's happening, and try to make you understand. I won't turn my back on you or leave in the hours you most especially need me. When you get tired of yourself, I'll give you a thousand rationales why you shouldn't. I'll stay and I will be your star that shines your gloomy night. I won't get tired of you. I won't get tired of loving you."

Samantha: "So you are telling me that"

Xavier cuts her off, "I love you, I have been in love with you from the moment you didn't mind my presence at the conference and when I get home at the City of Wise you are always on my mind. That's why all the people in HADES and our HADES families knew you because I always pester them just to get your pictures and your information. After all, Luna doesn't like to give it to me."

Samantha was surprised to hear it, she knew that he likes her because Luna has told her on the day of her marriage to Francois. Luna and Francois are still singing and they are still dancing. Francois's voice was heard as he sang the stanza like it was Xavier's unspoken words for her. 

"This is the first time I'm gonna say 'I love you'

It's the first time I ever felt so helpless deep inside

If I had to say a thousand times I'd tell you once again

This is the first time I'm gonna say 'I love you'

Can this be love I'm feeling right now

I know the feeling it's giving me now

A voice inside me is guiding me now

It's telling me now

To take your hand and say

This is the first time I'm gonna say 'I love you'

Then she heard Xavier's voice to her ears; he was whispering the song, she can feel his seriousness. She can feel that he was true to his feelings for her. 

"It's the first time I ever felt so helpless deep inside

If I had to say a thousand times I'd tell you once again

This is the first time I'm gonna say 'I love you'

It's the first time I ever felt so helpless deep inside

If I had to say a thousand times I'd tell you once again

This is the first time"

It's the first time I'm gonna say I LOVE YOU"