“You’re getting married?” She spat.
I turned fully to her face.
“What?” I asked.
“My dad just said something about marriage”
“You didn’t hear him correctly”
She shook her head as if it was just a waste of time to talk to me and she left too.
“I guess I was just whispering” Marcellino said with that stupid smile.
“What has gotten into you” I asked him. “How come I just come home one day to find out I have a half sister… Do i have brothers too?”
“I have a daughter and a son” Marcellino said crossing his hands over his chest. “Lost custody of them to my ex wife ”
“I have a brother?”
“Why do you care.. you’re no longer my daughter… I’m going to disown you when we’re all having dinner tonight, so o better tell you now so it doesn’t come to you as a surprise. No daughter of mine is a fool” he walked past me and went the same way my mother and Regalia went.
His words were a very mighty blow.
His was going to disown me. I wanted to turn around and leave when I heard footsteps coming towards me.
I thought it would be Regalia or my mother but when I turned around, staring at me were beautiful blue eyes.
“I heard I had s sister, never knew she’d be breath taking”
I froze, his eyes scanned me, just the way his sister’s eyes had scanned me some minutes ago and under his intense gaze, o felt naked.
The corners of his lips lifted in a half smile.
“You must be wondering who the hell I am” he said again, he had an accent, Regalia also had an accent but his own was too strong to overlook.
“I’m Jeandre” he said stretching out his hand for a handshake.
I took it.
“Jenna ” I said and his smile widened.
“Jeandre and Jenna, it rhymes”
I cleared my throat and took my hand away from him.
“Well, I won’t be your sister for long” I said matter of factly.
“Huh?” He asked me but before I could explain, I heard the door open. I turned around to see Christian walking in and shrugging off his coat.
“Jenna, you forget your cot__” he was saying to me but immediately his eyes caught Jeandre, he stopped.
“Uncle Chris” Jeandre said, it was almost in a mocking tone. The both of them were clearly almost the same age.
Christian, as always his eyes were as cold as glaciers.
I saw it then, the mask upon maks upon mask and then multiple armies that he had to put on when he was standing in front of someone that w as not me or Kylee. The person walking towards me was no longer that Christian that kissed me desperately this morning, this person was the billionaire no nonsense CEO.
Under his stare, Jeandre’s shoulders sagged and bowed.
“Jean” Christian said, he eyed the distance between the both of us and he frowned at me.
“What are you doing here?” He asked Jeandre.
“We’re going to Budapest, Regalia is also here”
As if she was summoned by her name, she appeared and she ran towards Christian in what I would consider as lightning speed.
She jump on him expecting him to catch her, he did, with one of his hand.
My chest caved in at the sight and I turned away
“Oh my goodness, it’s been ages… You look, oh my..”
“Regalia, that’s enough!” Jeandre said tersely and Regalia kept on fussing.
“You’re beautiful.. you’re more beautiful than you are on TV”Regalia said in a low purr that was supposed to be seducing.
“Regalia…” Jeandre warned and I didn’t want to turn to see her rubbing her body all over him.
“You’re married?!” Regalia asked with so much horror that I didn’t turn because of what she said, but how she said it.
“Engaged, I’ll be getting married soon” Christian said wit a smile that I see him use with people that didn’t matter to him.
Regalia’s face paled.
“Who… Who’s the lucky woman?” She blurted out as if she didn’t want know but it was the suitable question.
“You’ll see” he said to her.
“Di you know we have a sister?” Jeandre asked Christian.
Christian’s eyes went to me , I turned away.
“Where is marcellino’s and Elisa?” Christian asked instead.
“They’re at the back, come ”
Regalia laced her hands through Christian’s elbow and pulled him to the direction that all of them were going and coming from.
“So cold ” Jeandre muttered.
“The weather is actually cold but I think the heater is cutting in nicely ” I said.
“No, I’m talking about uncle Chris. You know him right, well I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t. He spends his life in his office located in the skies ” Jeandre said and rolled his eyes.
I could tell he was jealous but I didn’t know how much.
“I know him” I said , trying not to be too quiet and risk getting caught and trying not to sound so sure.
“You do?” Jeandre asked.
“Yes , he come here, sometimes” I replied.
Jeandre scoffed.
“I wonder how I’m going to sit at the same table with him”
“What’s wrong with him?
“Nothing, the last time we met, it wasn’t… I don’t want to talk about it”
I stood there, staring at Jeandre, shadows danced behind his eyes proving that under all these clean exterior, there were dirty secrets within.
“Why haven’t you ever showed up since your dad and my mum got married?”
He laughed and took a step towards me.
“No one told me that my dad was getting married”
“Really?”
“Really. The last time I saw my dad, it wa ten years ago”
“How old are you?”
“Twenty five”
“You don’t look like Regalia”
“Oh no.. my dad met my mum on campus, he had me then with my mum. She… She left me with him”
“So Christian was seven when you were born” I mused.
“My dad was studying for his first degree then ”
“So you lived with the Alexanders?” I asked him.
“Yes, but I don’t remember too much of uncle Chris ”
“He must have been boarding school by the time you were one. He never told me about you before….”
He cocked his head to the side and he looked like the younger version of Marcellino.
“You seem to know so much about him”