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Alaia 

“Mami, Dom,” Alana said, and I looked at her curiously. 

“Who is Dom, my love?” I asked as I made her sit on my lap to style her other pigtail. 

“Dom, sleep.” Noah made a sweeping gesture, and I looked at him, confused. 

“They’ve been saying it since they woke up this morning, that they saw Dom and that he sleeps. They both say it, with their little half–tongues. You know you have to listen to them carefully to understand what they’re saying, they’re so cute.” Tino watched them fondly. 

“If you see Dom again, and I’m around, introduce me to him, okay?” I told my children, wondering who he could be. The fact that they mentioned him after seeing him yesterday intrigued me; they didn’t usually do that with other people. 

“Bye!” they both said and ran off to play after they were ready. 

“I’m sure it’s some new little friend they met in Seattle. Seattle,” he sighed, “where they filmed Fifty Shades. I’ve loved that city ever since I saw it in the movie. We have to travel there.” He pointed at us. “Anyway, I was saying, I’m sure it was a baby, because of that whole ‘he was sleeping‘ thing,” Tino said, and although I was somewhat curious, what my friend said made 

sense. 

“Sweetheart,” my father entered my room since the door was open, and the children ran to hug him as soon as they saw him. “How are the little king and the beautiful queen of the house?” He lifted them both, and they looked happy as their grandfather spoiled them. “Honey, they just sent an email. You have to go back to the UK. The board wants details on the project. You’ll be in the UK for a little over a week, depending on how long it takes you,” he said. 

“Yes, I just saw the email. I’ll get the trip ready and schedule the meetings and presentations 

with my team,” I stated, and he nodded. 

“Have you been able to find out anything about the fire?” I asked. All the girls were at home and excited about their new home. Some, like Jenn and her baby, still needed care, and we were taking care of it. 

“Yes, we have something. It wasn’t arson, but knowing that the old house was a death trap, the lawyer was already working with an investigator. We’ll take care of it, sweetheart.” 

“Thank you, Dad.” 

“I’ll take these little ones to breakfast.” He took them with him. 

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“Come on, your dad is quite the charmer. How come your mother hasnt fallen at his fee? 

“I don’t know, but I think the fact that my father has stopped insisting is making her day attention to him now. It seems like they like to play cat and mouse I dont know sometimes r seems like they’re my children and not the other way around. I sighed. 

“Oh my God, Tino!” I threw a pillow at him. He groaned when he felt the slow Ast of sacra laugh, and I bit my lip. I didn’t want to think about Tino’s statement. 

In the afternoon, Nick came for the children. 

I hugged my little ones, who seemed very willing to spend time with their father 

“Come on, it looks like the hottie hasn’t had a good day,” Tino said when he saw them eare and I could only see the same serious face on Nick, which only changed when he looked a the children. He stared at me before getting in the car. 

“Aly, we have to finish your dress. We know we still don’t know if that wedding is going to happen, but it’s better to have the dress ready, Ash said, and Tino agreed. I admitted the 

were right. 

“First, I have to talk to Erika and Ignacio to organize the trip and the meetings in the UK M with you as soon as I’m done, Ash. While I’m gone, could you take care of the project, along 

with Antonio, Carolina, and Will?” I smiled. 

“Okay,” she said reluctantly, and I laughed. 

“Well, that’s settled. I’ll take care of the collection,” Tino said, and I hugged them boom. 

them. After spending several hours in the office talking to the engineers and my tva 

assistants, we managed to organize the work for the next few days so that eveything vouc 

be ready for Monday, which was the day we were traveling. I would only take Lai to red me 

with the children, and I remembered that I had to inform Nick about the and because of ten. 

“Sylvia, please, when you see Mr. Garnett, tell him I need to speak with him.” I sac Ste 

nodded. I went up to Ash’s room to try on my wedding dress so they could keep working on t 

‘I’m dying for this dress. It’s a dream, Tinc said as I observed my refection in the miru. 

I didn’t realize how much time had passed when I got a call. It was graccasting me some project files urgently, so I walked out of Astis room in my wedding dress and METL straight to mine. From my laptop, I sent what Ignacio needed and ended the cal. Met my room and moved without realizing I was about to collice with someone Not coker mein and down. I could see the surprise and other emotions ached on his face 

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“You wanted to talk to me,” he said in a strong voice as he looked at my face and avoided looking at the dress. 

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“Yes, I’m taking the kids to the UK for almost two weeks. I wanted you to know. We’re leaving on Monday.” He nodded and didn’t say anything else. He looked at my dress again with displeasure and then took a step to get very close to me. I couldn’t back up. His breath caressed my face before he stepped aside and walked away from me. I smoothed the skirt of my dress and felt a strange sensation in my stomach. I felt like my mind was playing tricks on me, but I ignored those thoughts. I walked back to the room and waited for Ash and Tino to 

finish for the day. 

*** 

The plane landed in the UK, and we got off. My mother and the others wanted to come with us, but I thought it wasn’t necessary to move the whole family again if we were only going to 

be there for less than two weeks. 

Nick went with us to the airport in Los Angeles and said goodbye to the children, as did my family. Tino shed a sea of tears for my children. I didn’t bring any of the security personnel either. I’ve never needed them here. We got into the cars. 

I asked Ignacio and Erika to go home. Our first meeting will be tomorrow. We drove through the streets of the UK, so different from those of Los Angeles, until I could see our house. We 

arrived, and everything seemed to be silent. I sighed, feeling like I had missed being there. My children quickly recognized the house. 

“Alaia, my dears, you’ve finally arrived.” Sondra welcomed us with open arms, and we 

responded in kind. 

“I’ve made dinner.” She led us to the dining room, which was ready just for us. 

We ate dinner while Sondra told us what had been going on with her and her family over the past few months. After making a video call with the whole family, my children and I went to bed. Loli asked to go home for the night, and I gladly accepted. I settled into bed with my children, and they fell asleep after I read them a story. 

The next day, I got the children ready with Sondra’s help. Loli had told me she was going to be 

a little late. I finished breakfast, and we heard someone knocking at the front door, so I went to 

open it, thinking it was our nanny. I opened it unceremoniously and could only gaze at the 

person standing in front of me. 

“Nick.” I could barely speak. “What are you doing here?” 

“I had a trip to the UK coming, and I decided to do it last night,” he explained. I went from 

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surprised to suspicious of his words. 

“Nic!” We heard our children, and they ran to meet Nick. He bent down to receive them with 

open arms. 

“Daddy’s here,” he told them, and they looked happy to see him. 

“How did you get to this house?” I questioned them as my children took his hand and led him 

into the living room with them. 

“What can I say? The Russells are very well known in this city.” The children asked him to sit 

on one of the pieces of furniture. 

“Alaia, Mr. Garnett.” Loli looked as surprised as I was. 

“Good morning.” 

“Good morning,” Nick replied, and in passing, he met Sondra, who was stunned when Nick 

stood up. 

“I have to go. I have a meeting in a little over an hour,” I explained to Nick. 

“Okay, I’ll go with you,” he said confidently, and took the children’s hands. 

“Shall we go?” He looked at our children. 

“Yeah!” Noah jumped up and down, and Alana gave a beautiful smile. Not having the weapons 

to fight those expressions of affection towards Nick, I allowed him to come with us. Thinking 

that I would have to see him for the rest of my days, I grumbled. 

“Let’s go, Loli. Sondra, I think we’ll eat out. We’ll be back at dinner time.” 

“Yes, ma’am,” she said. She looked at Nick again with some shyness, and he nodded at her. 

We left the house, and I saw that Nick had rented a luxury car to get around. However, it didn’t have the car seats the children had to use, so he would follow us. We arrived at the parking lot of the building, which was in the outer zone, and got out of the cars. Nick looked at the building and went over to take the hands of the children, who led him inside, followed by Loli. Once I got out of the car, I ran into the owner of a nearby restaurant I used to go to. 

“Alaia, I’m so glad to see you.” She hugged me. 

“Where are the children?‘ I turned in their direction, and she looked over there. “But who is the handsome man accompanying them?” she asked, looking at Nick, who was standing in the doonway waiting for me. The children continued on their way with Loli. 

‘He’s the children’s father,‘ I said in a low voice. 

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“Of course, now that I’ve gotten a good look at him, well, he looks just like precious Noah,” she said. 

“I’ll wait for you at the restaurant. Come on, I won’t charge you anything if you bring the Hollywood heartthrob. She was being flirtatious 

“Rosa.” I said, and she laughed. 

“Come on, I’ll see you later. I’ll get your favorite dish ready.” She gave me two kisses and left. I took my purse and, still smiling, walked around the car to go to the door. That’s when I heard the tires of a car screech, and I looked up to realize it was coming straight at me.