Chapter 129 - 126

"Get the work done and get it right this time. And remember I don't make hollow threats" said Elisio and hung up the phone without moving his eyes from the little girl attached to his leg.

"Who are you? And what are you doing?" Asked Elisio.

"Good evening, my name is Emerald Brown and I am hugging you so that you are not angry anymore and see you are not angry anymore" said Emerald innocently.

Elisio smiled and said "aren't you precious. What are you doing here alone?".

"I am not alone. See, Kyle is with me" said Emerald pointing at Kyle.

"He is not doing a good job, is he?" said Elisio looking at Kyle and then looked back at Emerald. He sat down at a bench nearby and called her close.

Emerald came close and Elisio picked her up and made her sit on his lap.

The guard and Joshua were shocked to see Elisio being.. nice?

"So, tell me about you" asked Elisio.

"I am 3 and half years old. I like colouring. My favourite colour is pink and I want to be a princess when I grow up" said Emerald.

"You want to grow up to be a princess?" Asked Elisio.

"Aanhann" said Emerald.

Elisio smiled wide listening to her say the cutest word he loves hearing from his fiore.

"I don't know why but you remind me of my fiore" said Elisio.

"What is a fiore?" Asked Emerald.

"Fiore is the queen of my heart." Said Elisio.

Emerald gasped out loud and said "queen? Like real queen?" 

"Yes and the most beautiful queen in the world" said Elisio.

"Does she live in a palace?" Asked Emerald.

Elisio looked at Joshua and asked "you can call the mansion as a palace, right?"

"Totally. It's so big that you need a golf cart to go from one place to another " said Joshua.

"In my house you can walk to go from one room to another" said Emerald.

Elisio and Joshua laughed at her adorable words.

"What do we have here?" Asked Sabrina approaching Elisio holding Xavier's hand in her hand.

"Fiore, I have to tell you something. I have found someone else" said Elisio.

Sabrina looked at Elisio and Emerald and then looked at Joshua.

"You are finally free" said Joshua and Sabrina laughed out loud.

"You wish. You are mine and will forever be mine. But this little thing is very cute. Doesn't she remind you of yourself?" Asked Elisio looking at Emerald and talking to Sabrina.

"You didn't know me when I was that young." Said Sabrina.

"I know you forever and don't remember not knowing you ever" said Elisio and continued "you always will have the innocence of a child mio fiore. Which makes me mad about you" said Elisio and Sabrina blushed and looked at Joshua and asked "is that a compliment or means that I am not smart?"

"Accept it as a compliment" said Joshua and Sabrina looked back at Elisio smiling.

Emerald looked at Sabrina with open mouth and then looked at Elisio and pulled him close and whispered "is she fiore? The queen?"

"Yes" said Elisio.

"Where is her crown?" Asked Emerald.

"Does queen Elizabeth wear her crown all the time?" Asked Elisio.

Emerald thought for a second and said "no she does not" 

"Mio fiore is the queen of my heart. She rules the palace to keep prosperity and happiness within the palace we live in" said Elisio.

"Is she nice?" Asked Emerald.

"She is the nicest and sweetest queen who will or ever live. Go talk to her. You will love her" said Elisio.

Elisio himself was shocked at to why he was loving this little girl. 

Emerald wiggled down from Elisio's lap and stood in front of Sabrina and bowed and gave a curtsy and said "my queen"

Sabrina looked at the sweet little girl in front of her and then looked at Elisio who stood up from his place and smiled at Sabrina and said "curtsy to the queen. Tell her to rise" 

"Rise?" Said Sabrina and Emerald looked at Sabrina and turned back to Elisio and told him to pick her up.

Elisio picked her up and she whispered "she is beautiful"

"Told you" said Elisio.

Sabrina looked at Xavier and he looked up at Sabrina and both had a confused look on their face.

Rose searched everywhere in the food court and then came back to the baby store and saw Kyle talking to on the phone.

"I have been calling you. what the f.u.c.k? Where is Emerald?" Asked Rose.

"I'll call you back" said Kyle and hung the phone and said "relax. She is right here" 

Kyle looked beside him and panicked.

"She was right here, with me." Said Kyle.

"Then where is she?" Basically screamed Rose.

Both Rose and Kyle looked around and Rose then saw Emerald in Elisio's arms.

"Emerald, that's a beautiful name. But sweetheart, who are you here with?" Asked Sabrina holding Xavier now in her arms.

Xavier insisted Sabrina to pick him up to see Emerald up close.

"I am here with Kyle and mummy. See there is my mummy" said Emerald pointing at Rose.

Elisio, Sabrina, Joshua and Xavier turned to look at Rose.

Rose was shedding tears and shivering.

Elisio had a hard expression seeing Rose but what he noticed is Rose shivering with fear. Fear of being caught red handed.

Elisio looked at Emerald and looked back at Rose and knew Rose didn't want them to meet Emerald.

But why?

Kyle held Rose's hand and walked to them and said "I am so sorry. I was responsible for looking after her and I got distracted"

"You should be careful. Children get kidnapped so easily in malls and other public places." said Joshua.

"Yes. I will" said Kyle.

"Rose, is she your daughter?" Asked Sabrina.

Rose nodded.

"She has your eyes" said Sabrina.

Xavier looked at Emerald and back at Rose and said "I thought you were not well and  had to be in hospital. But why was she with you? Did you leave me for her?"

Rose had tears running down her eyes looking at everyone and then looked at Xavier and said "I never wanted to leave you. I was forced"

"Because you are dangerous?" Asked Xavier.

"Mummy is not dangerous" said Emerald.

Rose looked at Sabrina and then at Elisio and went close to Elisio and took Emerald from Elisio's arms and said "we have to go"

Rose was about to leave when Elisio held her arm. He looked at Emerald and smiled and asked "when is your birthday?"

"M-march 5th" said Rose.

"No mummy. My birthday is 1st January on new years eve. How can you forget that? I am going to tell daddy you forgot my birthday" Said Emerald.

Elisio left Rose's arm and smirked at Rose.

Rose shed more tears and basically ran away.

Sabrina looked at Elisio and asked "what's going on?"

"We all will know soon fiore" said Elisio and continued "why don't you go back to the mansion with Xavier. I have some work I need to take care of" 

Sabrina nodded and left with Xavier and two guards.

"She didn't even ask why" said Joshua.

"She is my perfect wife, Mio Fiore" said Elisio smirking at Joshua.

"So a perfect wife is the one who obeys you?" Asks Joshua never liking Elisio manipulating and making Sabrina obey his every word without an argument.

"Is there any another type?" Smirked Elisio and Joshua shook his head.

Rose rushed back to the hotel room and started packing bags.

"Our flight is tomorrow" said Kyle watching Rose in panic and basically throwing her clothes in the bags.

"No I am leaving today" said Rose.

"What's going on?" Said Ethan coming inside the room.

"Mummy is going home" said Emerald. 

"No, you and I are going home. I am not going to lose you" said Rose and hugged Emerald.

"Okay we'll go to" said Ethan.

"No. I could find only two seats by paying extra and that to for London. I just want to leave" said Rose.

"Mummy, you promised you will buy me a colouring book here. I want one. You promised" cried Emerald.

"We can buy one here in the hotel. I'll get it" said Ethan and Emerald cried to go with him.

"You pack and I'll be back with her soon" said Ethan and carried Emerald out but before Emerald left with Ethan Rose hugged her more and said "baby, I love you and I promise no one will take you away from me"

"I love you too mummy and who will take me?" Asked Emerald.

"No one till I am alive" said Rose.

"You are alive" said Emerald and kissed Rose on her cheek.

For some reason Rose didn't feel right that Emerald was leaving her sight. She wanted to stop Ethan and hold Emerald close to her but she had to pack.

What could go wrong in few minutes, she thought. 

And boy was she wrong.