Yes, I'm back and aside from a migraine I'm doing well. I've been going through and trying to figure out what to do. There are a lot of dilemmas going on here and trying to fix what mess I've made is not as easy as it looks. \
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This is the entire Chapter 22
As the rays of the early morning sun shone across her face, she knew the large frame laying next to her was not a dream. Seeing him lie there quietly deeply in slumber made her smile the biggest smile ever.
His eyes opened as if he sensed her talking about him. Their legs were so wrapped with each others, she wasn’t sure they would ever get untwined.
He reached over and gently cupped her face. “Thank you.”
“For what?”
“Teaching me how to please you.”
“I enjoyed every minute of the lesson and definitely allow you to graduate to the next grade.”
He chuckled and leaned over to kiss her quickly.
An alarm rung from his cell phone.
“That’s my eight o’clock arriving at my office and my assistant going out of his mind wondering why the hell I haven’t arrived,” he explained, yet his eyes were closed and he seemed relaxed.
“So you have to go,” she said understanding.
He looked at her. “You don't mind?”
Nodding, she said, “I wouldn’t expect you to be different than what I needed to do.”
He kissed her again as he hurriedly got out of the bed almost falling out. “Can I come back? Tonight? We have to talk."
She nodded and laughed as he hurriedly put his clothes on and rushed out of the door.
Looking at the indent in the pillow where his head had been, she smiled even brightly.
What about the warnings? She asked herself.
Who cared! She was happy and right now that was the only thing that matter. Falling back to sleep holding the pillow closely to her, she couldn’t wait for tonight.
A file slapping her on her lap made her sit straight up and scream out of her sleep, but Lethal's large hand over her mouth stifled for any of her neighbor's hearing anything.
"Could you not," he ordered.
She pushed his hand away and hysterically asked, "What the hell are you doing here? And how the hell did you get in?"
"You might as well ask why did God created woman and not just some creature without a big ass voice, because those are questions you are not going to get answered at this time, Stefanie." He pointed to the file. “That’s for you.”
“Did Axel see you? How long have you been in my house?”
“I can only be seen when I want to be seen. What matters is your boyfriend and what you need to know.”
“Treasure told me to stay away and you told me not to believe him. I’m a grown woman, Lethal. I can do whatever I want.” She heard the ringer of her phone going off, but she was sure she had left it down by her computer. Instead, Lethal was handing the cellphone to her.
"It's your boyfriend!"
Holding the cover tightly over her nakedness, she snatched her phone from him and pointed to the door.
He did that annoying eye thing with those dark eyes of his, but stayed rooted to his spot.
Answering the phone, trying not to show her annoyance, she said, "Hello?"
"Good morning," Axel said pleasantly on the other end very relaxed. "Are you up yet?”
“No, not yet.”
“I finished my meeting and wanted to know would you care for some breakfast together. I really need to speak to you?”
She looked annoyed at Lethal who didn’t look like he was going to move at all until he had to say what he came to say.
“How about brunch in a couple of hours? I could meet you there.”
“Til then,” he said hopefully and disconnected the line.
Lethal reached over and took her phone from her. “Open the folder, Stefanie, and see who the real Axel Black is, so I can say you should have listened to me.”
She looked down at the manila folder still in her lap and reluctantly opened up the file.
A picture of a five hundred pound white man was the first picture she saw. He was grossly fat all over with horrible skin, crooked teeth and coke bottle glasses.
“Who is that?” she asked.
“Daxopholos Black!”
“What does this have to do with Axel?”
“Everything Stefanie? Don’t you see?”
“I see you leaving so I can take a shower. I’m naked and very uncomfortable around you, right now.”
“You aren’t my type. Look at the picture again. Look at the eyes, Stefanie and tell me what you see.”
Raising the picture again to her eyes and looking deep past the coke bottle glasses, she gasped realizing the fat slob in the picture had Heterochromia iridium. He had Axel’s eyes.
“Is this his brother?" she asked hopefully, wanting the connections her brain were making at a rapid rate to be wrong.
“Are you really this naïve when it comes to people?” Lethal asked. “Read the resume.”
She looked past the picture to Daxopholos Black’s resume - Harvard and MIT. Just like Axel…
But it couldn’t.
He couldn’t.
What the hell was going on?
Hurling the folder across the room and jumping out of the bed taking the cover with her to wrap around her, she screamed at Lethal, “Get out!”
He only raised a brow of curiosity.
“I hate you!” she shouted. “You love everyone to be miserable around you and you’re just doing this to make yourself feel good.”
“I could care less whether you’re happy or not, Stefanie. I just thought you needed to know who the hell this Axel Black was and he’s not what you think he is.”
“That cannot be him!” She said accusingly pointing at the picture on the floor.
“That is him. Anyone with the right money can get the best scalpel, laser and dentist. Think about everything Stefanie,” he said carefully. “Read the file and think about it.”
She looked down at the picture on the floor and wanted to screech in pain. How could this be? How could she be so happy one moment and find out the man she was falling for was deceiving her too.
Not wanting to take anymore, she ran to the bathroom and locked herself in.
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