6 Chapter 7

~Xavior's POV

I wake up due to the sun rays hitting my eyes. I look down at Victoria's sleeping figure laying comfortably in my arms. I brush a strand of hair that has fallen on her face. I watch her sleep. She looks so peaceful.

I hear her groan. She's waking up, I pretend that I'm waking up myself so that she doesn't suspect that I was watching her.

She pushes herself half way up and sees the position we're in. She blushes and makes a move to get off, but I hold her in place. "Good morning angel" I tell her in my sleepy voice.

She greets me and tries to wiggle herself out of my arms but I hold her tighter. "Why do you want to leave my arms so quickly?" I ask her

She covers her mouth with her hand and speaks "I need to pee" she says. I look confused at her hand over her mouth. She blushes again before speaking. " Morning breath" is all she says before breaking free and running to the bathroom.

I laugh at her actions and head out of her room to mine to get ready. I do what I need to do, I shower, brush my teeth and put on a crispy new suit. I walk back to her room to find her already dressed in the clothes she wore yesterday and typing away on her phone.

I knock on the door to get her attention. She turns around and looks at me worriedly. I walk over to her and she looks back at her phone.

"What's the matter mi amore" (my love). She shows me her phone and I see all the miss calls and messages from someone named "jess❤️".

"Who's Jess?" I ask feeling a bit jealous at the sight of the heart next to its name. "Jessica is my best friend, I live with her." she explains. I relax as I realize it's a girl.

"She's worried sick, she said she contacted my mother, when she realized I was not at the university yesterday. Oh gosh I'm in so much trouble when I get back." she paces back and fourth.

I grab her shoulders to stop her, she looks at me with fear, but not for me, instead fear for what is going to happen when she returns. "We're going to meet her and then we going to tell her my version of what happened yesterday"

She scoffs "Yeah like I would ever tell her that I got kidnapped and brought to some strangers mansion who is also the guy I've been looking for, since the time everything went to shit" sarcasm drips from her lips matching her annoyed expression.

I tell her the story that we're going to tell her best friend and mother. I then tell her to message her friend, saying that we were on our way to meet them.

We get into my Maserati and drive off to the address. While we're in the car, Victoria speaks up. "Xavior? What do you do for a living?" I freeze at her question. I feel her strong gaze on my face as she waits for an answer.

"Well, I own a few companies around the world as well as clubs and hotels" that was partly true, I do own clubs and hotels but I left out the part of being a mafia boss, she doesn't need to know that yet.

"That's interesting, kind of funny how I've never seen a CEO carry a weapon around though. " she says turning her gaze back to the window and looks out to the city. "We're almost there" I hear her say before she goes quiet again.

We reach her apartment building and her best friend let's us up. I grab her hand and intertwine our fingers when I see the nervousness on her face. "Everything will be okay" I reassure her. She nods and knock on the door.

When the door opens, I see a woman in her early twenties with dark brown hair that stops just below her shoulders and dark brown eyes. She hugs Victoria tightly while I stand there with my hand in my pocket.

Jessica breaks the hug and steps back, she eyes me up and down and look down to see Victoria's hand holding mine.

"Jess, who's that the door?" I hear an elderly lady say. A woman in her late forties, sandy blond hair and electric blue eyes, just like Victoria, walks up to the door, her eyes tear up when she sees Victoria, this must be her mother

"I was so worried about you baby, please come in" her mother says with tears in her eyes. I look over to Victoria to find that she has shed a couple of tears herself.

We go in the cosy apartment and sit in the lounge. I look around and see many photo frames of Victoria and Jessica. We all take a seat and Victoria's mother speaks up first. "You, young man, I've seen you before? Who are you?" she asks me

Victoria and I glance at each other before I speak " My name is Xavior Clark mam, and yes we have met. I'm the man who carried Victoria to the ambulance five years ago." I say both Jessica and Victoria's mother gasps.

"No way" Jessica says, she's shocked just like the mother. I get up to extend my hand as sign of greeting and respect. She gets up as well and takes my hand in hers "I'm sorry please excuse me for not introducing myself, I'm Emily Henderson, Victoria's mother" she says. We let go and sit back on our seats

"That doesn't explain what happened to you yesterday" I hear Jessica say. She looks at me suspiciously.

Victoria begins to explain what "happened" yesterday.

"I met Xavior at the library and he recognized me and explained who he was, we exchanged numbers to keep in touch with each other. That's when Jessica came and I rushed out to meet with her." they both nod in understanding and encourage her to continue.

"When you dropped me off, I went in the university and that's when Xavior messaged me and asked if he could take me out to eat. I agreed and was about to message you but I had to rush to class. I had forgotten completely about informing you to not pick me up."

"He picked me up and took me to his place for lunch, I wanted to check my messages but my phone was dead. He offered to charge my phone and I agreed. When I charged my phone, I wanted to rest my head for a bit, but i had fallen asleep on his bed from the exhausting day and that's why you never heard from me. " she says fluently as if it was the truth.

They believe her and thank me for taking care of her. " Xavior Clark... I've heard of that name before" I hear Jessica say. I see Victoria begin to panic, why is she panicking? . Before she could guess who I am I speak up. " I own many popular hotels and clubs"

Emily looks impressed at what I just said. I see Victoria get up. She says that she's going to change into new clothes and leaves the room.

I sit there under the gaze of these two women in front of me. Emily is the first one to speak. "What do you want with my daughter? You have the money, and the looks, I'm pretty sure models all over the world throws themselves at you. So what makes a guy like you wanting my precious daughter?" she interrogates me

Not going to lie, it was a bit intimidating seeing that I've never done such a thing before, I didn't want to mess up. I look at Jessica and find her already staring at me waiting for me to answer.

"You are right, many pretty girls throw themselves at me, but none of them makes my heart stop the way Victoria does. I've been in love with Victoria ever since I've laid my eyes on her. I swear on my life that the feelings I have for her is not lustful or inappropriate. I just want something genuine and I believe that she can give me that."

Emily looks pleased with my answer. But Jessica looks at me scepticaly. She's very observant, I think to myself. She speaks up. " Then what about Amber Joseph? " she says referring to the model that I've been using for sex over the past few months, but the tabs states that she is my girlfriend which is not true.

I see Emily look at Jessica in a confused manner then at me. Before I could say anything I hear Victoria's voice behind me. "Who's Amber?"

Shit