“Where were you?” El Diablo asked Lily as she took a seat next to him.
“I told you, in the bathroom.” She replied as she looked at him. He didn’t say anything else so she turned away from him.
She noticed Axel was back in the party and Kelly wasn’t close to him. She smiled to herself, she was glad she had the strength to intimidate someone. El Diablo noticed her smile, he stared in the direction she was facing and noticed Axel.
“You talked to him, didn’t you?” El Diablo asked. She looked at him and sighed. He wanted to say something but he decided not to.
“Where is Anastasia?” Lily suddenly asked.
“We should leave.” El Diablo responded and Lily sighed. She turned to look at Axel again and realized he was gone.
She sighed and stood up with El Diablo, then they made their way out of the party.
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Max, Nora, Axel, and Kelly walked out of the elevator, they were back from the party and decided to spend the night at the suite.
“Is there a reason we left early?” Nora asked as they walked to their suites.
“I did what I wanted to do. I put a tracker on Lily so we would know exactly where he is. He is not at his base so he won’t see us coming.” Axel replied and they nodded in response except Kelly.
“Well, good night then.” Nora said with a smile and as everyone was about to walk away, Kelly spoke up.
“I think I would like to have my own suite.” She said and Nora looked at her surprised. She also noticed she wasn’t standing close to Axel either.
“Why? You don’t want to stay with Axel?” Max asked and she nodded. Nora chuckled as she wondered what the sudden change was about.
“Max, can you get her one?” Axel asked Max and he nodded.
“Yeah, come on.” Max said and let go of Nora. Kelly glared at Nora as she walked away with Max. Nora chuckled again and turned to Axel.
“What did I miss? Why is she being so distant now?” Nora asked.
“Nothing much. She is just following a rule of being five feet apart from me because she doesn’t want her hands chopped off.” Axel replied and Nora giggled.
“Let me guess, she met Lily.” Nora said with a smile and Axel nodded.
“Serves her right.” She muttered.
Axel was about to walk into his suite when Nora suddenly hugged him, he paused for a few seconds before sighing.
“Get the fuck off me, Nora.” He groaned. Nora smiled and held him tighter as she placed her head on his chest.
“I don’t care if you are being mean again, I still see you the same way.” She said and pulled away from the hug. She stood on her toes and ruffled his hair. Before he could hold her hand, she giggled and pulled away from him then rushed into her suite.
Axel sighed and walked into his. His phone suddenly rang and he withdrew it from his pants pocket, it was Kender calling.
His heart skipped a beat, he knew Kender called because he was mad. Only Kendra calls him. He chuckled at the thought of being scared of his kid. He knew he was about to get yelled at.
He slowly picked up the call and placed it on his ear.
“You owe us a million apologies. Mostly Kendra, you can hear her cry right? Why haven’t you been picking up her calls? Just so you know, we are draining your account for ignoring us. We hate you, bye.” Kender yelled and ended the call.
Axel chuckled and slowly walked to the bed, he sat on it and called Kendra.
She picked up immediately and he heard her sniff.
“Hey, baby.” Axel called softly.
“Daddy.” She muttered.
“I’m sorry I didn’t pick up your calls. I have been so busy with your mum.” Axel said and she sniffed.
“It’s okay.” She replied.
“What? You are letting it go just like that?” Axel heard Kender ask.
“But he apologized.” Kendra replied and he groaned.
“She is not accepting your apology. She is still mad at you.” Kender said and Axel smiled.
“I’m sorry, Kender.” He said and he heard him scoff.
“I have heard. Just because of Kendra.”
“Thank you.” Axel chuckled.
“Oh, can you give the phone to mum? I want to ask her something.” Kender said.
“Your mum is not here.” Axel replied as he thought of a perfect lie.
“I knew it. You and Mum are not together. Tell us, what is going on there?” Kender asked and Axel sighed.
“Nothing, Kender. I have to go now.”
“Don’t come back here without her. Oh, don’t hang up first, I want to be the one to hang up because we are still upset. Bye. Kendra loves you but I don’t.” He said and ended the call.
Axel smiled and dropped his phone, he fell back on the bed and exhaled heavily. He knows he will always go soft for his kids, he loves them and they mean the world to him.
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THE NEXT DAY
“I want to know where Anastasia is. You can’t keep me here and also hold her too. Let her go.” Lily yelled behind El Diablo as he walked down the stairs. She also walked down after him.
He was leaving the house, he spent all day in the house with her and the day was about to end already. Things were going great until Lily brought up Anastasia and he decided to leave the house.
“I am talking to you, look at me.” Lily yelled as she got to the living room, he ignored her and walked towards the door.
“Zach!” She suddenly yelled and he paused. He turned to her and sighed.
“I can’t deal with this right now. All I… ” He trailed off and furrowed his brows as he noticed something odd. He slowly walked to her and Lily raised his brows.
Lily wondered what was going on, he got to her and suddenly pulled out a hair clip in her hair.
“When the hell did you start wearing hair clips?” He asked as his eyes widened when he realized it was a tracker.
“What the fuck, Lily?” He snapped at her and she flinched.
“I swear I had no idea it was there.” Lily replied but El Diablo got too upset to listen to her.
He grabbed her arm roughly and pulled her out of the house.
“Zach, you are hurting me.” Lily yelled as he pushed her into the car roughly. He got into the car too and ignited it.
“You want to be saved so badly? Watch how you just led your husband to his death.”