Hi everyone.

Sorry for the late update. I actually started reading a book which I was very very very invested in couldn't update.

Going to speed up a bit so that I can get to my main story soon.

This is mainly filler chapter. Their will be family bonding ahead but for now I need to get to main story.

Also a month has been conpleted of this book. 18 updates in a month is quite good because I generally have tendency to forget to update😑😑😑

Thank you for all the love and beautiful comments. It was unexpected. Real feedback and comments really makes up my day so thanks to all.. ♥

Alexia's pov:

It has been 5 days since I moved in with Deluca's. I started spending more time with them and to be honest they are quite fun to spend time with.

Rosalie has also settled quite well and had made it a competition to show me that the family loves her more. Her and Francesco would go for breakfast every morning. Elijah would always baby her making sure she had everything. He requested Maria to make deserts more frequently for Rosie. Luca gave his black card to her. They couldn't communicate much but he wanted to somehow show her that he loves her. I also noticed he would always bring some desert for her for dinner. Matteo, Xavier and her would always have movie nights together. It generally ended up being family night. Xander was still Xander but he was never unnecessary hurtful towards her. He tried to be around her without actually being around her. And lastly Alessandro would always spend time with her talking about her day and randomly bringing her gifts.

Everyone has different ways of expressing love. Materialistic things is Rosie's way of love. For her 'the expensiver the thing the greater the love.' Nothing is wrong with that thinking but sometimes love is a lot more than things can show. It is tough for her to understand that because she has never been the one to understand emotions.

I on the other hand understand emotions, but I prefer to not show them much. I was more of silent gestures kind of person. I feel if people need to prove their love and care with materialistic things you never get emotional satisfaction from it.

Francesco or as I started calling him Fran was more of expressive kind of person. Though he knew I didn't prefer expressing my emotions, he always said how much he loved me. It made me feel guilty that I could call him my father even after he did everything. But to be fair it took me 6 months to call Rickard papa. Yet Fran never gave up. He acted like a father towards me even though I never called him father. My respect for him has increased a lot more. He is a family man who would help Rosie to prank Matteo and Xavier, and help me bully Alessandro whenever he tried to boss me around. He is an amazing father to them all and me. I hope someday I could have it in me to call him father.

Elijah and me always cooked together. We always made new evening snacks. We kind of had a thing to try something new, so we had taken up on ourselves to mix different dishes to make new dishes. We were living our masterchef fantasy. Half of the times we ended up making shit. Matteo was like our test rat. Not that we wanted to do that to him but he can literally eat anything and survive from it. Fran had given up on our experimental cooking declaring kitchen as a danger zone.

Luca and Xander were like a tag team. We played a lot more basketball matches. Sometimes Matteo would also join us. No matter how much it hurted my ego, they are really good at basketball. Luca ended up defeating me once and I being a sore loser ended up slaming everything whenever he was around. I even avoided him for a day. Fair to say he got the message to never defeat me in other match. My blank face goes to drain when someone hurts my ego. However after my little tantrum and bruised ego, I did ask him to help me improve my basketball skills.

Me, Matteo and Xavier would always play video games. After they found out my love for video games, we three basically shifted in the games room. They were fun and laid back people. I always kept up my upfront nature with others but it was difficult to do the same with them. They both were just too innocent and basically kids. Somehow they always managed to make me get out my 'a bit' softer side with them. A softer side where I am most likely to slam their head in wall instead of shooting their kneecaps.

Matteo was actually a fashionista. He had an extraordinary taste in clothing and somehow he managed to become centre of attention. He could literally wear red pants with neon yellow shirt and randow checked shirt over it and yet manage rock it. He literally managed to turn heads of every guy and girl whenever he would walk.

Xander always had his resting bitch face. He would randomly come kicking us out of gaming room saying that Elijah asked him to do so. However we all know he just wanted attention from everyone. He avoided us but at the same time he wanted to be with us. He is a wierd person. But to me his presence meant a lot more. He would never understand it but just looking at him would bring me calm.

And lastly Alessandro. I started calling him Al. He was a lot more like me. He would always try to boss me around and me being me would always make him payback for it. I would hide his car keys or lock his bedroom from outside or randomly send some fangirling messages to him from my burner phones. It was a lot more fun to trouble him because Fran always supported me in all this.

Francesco would always shout at boys saying them that they should be more like Alessandro. Alessandro didn't had manwhoish tendencies like the boys. Not that Fran tried to stop them but he wanted them to get into a relationship and experience love. Alessandro wanted to wait for his special one and Francesco would always joke about that. It was quite fun to watch Al get flustered during family dinner when me and dad just texted him 'I love you' from a burner phone. Though we made sure to never cross the line. None of the message were perverted cause firstly he is my brother and secondly it is to be a harmless prank and not harassment.

Me and Al would always clash and it would be like battle of dominance. I am actually comfortable with listening to others and following instructions but not with Ales. He somehow manages to always make me fight him. It is quite entertaining for everyone to watch the oldest and youngest constantly go on about even the smallest thing.

Lastly was Rosie. She made me know everyday that my presence was unwanted. Everyone adored her but somehow she always compared both of us. She always subtly tried to get everyone away from me. It didn't bother me much but it stinged a bit knowing how much my own twin hated me. She would give me looks whenever I was around the family. Sometimes she would try to threaten me to leave them. That girl is delusional.

Other than that everything was going well. I tried to be a bit more relaxed around the Deluca's. On the second day I figured out about the spy. I kept track on the spy. He was just a pawn who had no idea about the game. I was getting outside information from Devin and we were focused on our plan. The same day Devin informed Italian Mafia about the spy and about my plan. Getting the spy and stopping attack was not my motive. This was a lot deeper and I was going to make sure that my plan worked. There was a lot on stake from my side and I couldn't afford any mistakes.

We also had 'Alpha X' launch tomorrow. Fran and Al were the only one who knew I worked in the company.

2 days ago I was working on my laptop when Al came to my room.

Flashback (2 days ago):

"Why are you up this late? " Al asked as he came to my room. It was around 1 in the morning.

"Pending work. Phone launch. 2 days." I respond back without looking up from my laptop. I was in no mood for conversation.

"Actually I also have some work pending. If it is okay with you, I could work here and give you some company. So can I? " He asks back.

"Sure" was the only thing which he needed before he literally bolted and bought his paperwork to my room. We both worked in comfortable silence. By morning my room was mess. Some coffee mugs on the table, papers all scattered on the bed. Laptops on lap with half blanked on the bed and half on the ground. Turns out we both are messy workers. We end up making mess while working and unfortunately we both drank a lot of coffee so neither of us was yet sleepy.

Our next 2 night went the same.

Flashback end

I also got to know more about their birth mother Athena. She was literally a queen. Strong minded, powerful and full of energy. Fran told about their first meet and it was quite surprising to find out that she stole his phone and backfipped him when he caught her. Her name was well known in underground among the most ruthless assasins.

Xander got his eyes from his mother. They both had deep ice blue eyes with a bit ocean blue on the outside. It was mesmerizing. It was tough to not look in his eyes when we spoke in the beginning. His eyes were enchanting and one look would make you spill you secrets.

He had the same deep eyes.

Ice blue eyes with a bit ocean blue outside.

The same eyes which would make me spill my secrets to papa.

The same hypnotizing eyes which papa had.

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So how is the filler chapter. Drama will start slowly.

Do tell mewhat you are expecting further in the story.

Question of the chapter: One superpower you wish you had. (Mine would be controlling time)

I hope you liked the chapter. Do vote and comment. Appreciation and criticism both are welcomed.

Date: 21 Aug 2022

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