Devil's Snare by Sruthionyx (top 100 books to read .txt) 📕

Everyone was silently eating breakfast and the kid was babbling something and asking questions, nobody bothered to say anything as they are not used to the lively atmosphere. Silas and his household moved to the Cavallo mansion. The entire mansion was lively and filled with people. Rafael and Victor both seemed to take a liking to the kid but none of them showed it. This is new to them as they didn’t have interactions with the kids for many years.

Alzea was feeding the kid not noticing the eyes on her. She was making sure that the kid had everything he needed right from water to his nutrients and his supplements. They were also practicing for his speech therapy, according to his teacher the more practice the soon the kid gets better.

Rafael was watching her with curious eyes. Every move of hers is very delicate and attentive, not once did she let the kid let her know his needs, she was very proactive and would address his needs before he even asked. Later, Silas walked in and started having breakfast, followed by Maya, Victor, and Sadie.

Rafael looked at Sadie and her smiley face and asked, “What are you so happy about Sadie? And why are you here?”

“You will see fiancé, you see Uncle Vittorio asked me to move here and if you have any issues take it with him not me”, she said chirping.

Just as when everyone was about to put their first bite in, the kid made a huge fuss asking to put him down. Sadie was irritated and was about to yell, but one look from Rafael shut her down.

Rafael observed Alzea and the hickey on her shoulder, she seemed to not notice it. Sadie noticed Rafael looking at Alzea and asked, “what is that on your shoulder?”, this made everyone look at her.

“Huh?” asked Alzea unaware of the hickey on her shoulder. “Your shoulder girl, there is something there, are you whoring around?” this made Alzea look at Sadie with wide eyes.

“We walk in the woods with the kid, maybe something happened”, Alzea said sure that there must be something on her shoulder that had to do with the demon.

This time Maya intervened and said, “find it out, if not it could be dangerous for you”, to everyone that seemed like a concern, but Rafael felt something else in that tone.

“Hmm!!” Alzea nodded and got on with her work. Everyone was done with their breakfast and left for work. The hall only had Alzea, the kid, and Rafael. Alzea walked into the kitchen to pour some milk for the kid. She filled the milk and walked over to the sink, she put the glass over the sink and poured the milk in it. She turned around to face the impassive Rafael. He was looking down at her. This made Alzea gulp, “do you want something Mr. Cavallo?” she asked trying not to tremble, but he made her nervous.

He said nothing and bent down to Alzea’s level; this made her crouch back. He lifted his hand up and moved it further enclosing her between the counter and himself, he then moved even closer to her like he was hugging her. Alzea closed her eyes and stood there feeling him come closer, he smiled at her small form and took the apple behind her and bit into it. The sound of the apple made her open her eyes, but he continued to look at her while biting into the apple. Their proximity caused her heartbeat to rise as high as the Burj Khalifa. He did not waver his expression nor he moved back, he stood there looking at her and eating that apple. Alzea was standing there awkwardly not understanding what she was supposed to do, so she tried to move to her left to leave, Rafael moved to her left and blocked her, she then moved to the right and he mirrored her movements, after teasing her for a good few minute, he left without looking at her. Alzea was shocked beyond words, “what just happened? Why was he making me nervous?”

When Alzea walked out of the kitchen, he was still sitting at the table as if nothing has happened, but Alzea’s mind was in a frenzy, “why was looking at me like he was going to eat me?” she shrugged it thinking it wasn’t her concern to wonder. Alzea did not have the mental capacity to think about it anymore. It wasn’t her job to wonder why he was behaving the way he was behaving.  She picked the kid up taking him to the living room. She walked over to Paul and asked him “Mr. Paul where is the chauffeur? It is time for speech therapy”.

“I will call Master Silas and ask him to come to get you both”, he said picking up his phone and calling Silas.

“No need, I will take you both”, Rafael spoke from behind shocking Alzea and Paul.

“I think we can do with the driver Sir”, she said trying to reason with him.

Rafael without looking at Alzea spoke to Paul, “tell them to be ready in 15”, he said leaving them behind.

“You heard him, get ready in 15”, said Paul leaving Alzea.

As soon as Alzea packed everything for the kid for his speech therapy, she walked out finding Rafael already in the car. Alzea wondered why he is driving his employee's nephew and his babysitter to speech therapy. A few minutes later, the car halted, and Rafael parked there.

After picking up the kid, Alzea entered the building. He sat in his car, recalling the way Alzea crouched in fear and gulped, the way her eyes looked up in fear and shock, fuck, she was delightful and such a sweet little thing, Rafael thought to himself as he sat there in his car.