Chapter 19: In Which He Doesn't Show Up

Alexander woke up to the buzzing of his phone on the bedside table as he squinted at the faint blue light the illuminated from the phone.

He looked down at Isla who was soundlessly sleeping on him, making him her personal mattress, she stirred a little at the commotion but went right back to her slumber as Alexander's fingers weaved through her silky strands with one hand as he picked up and answered his phone with the other, looking at the caller ID to see it was one of the security team members.

"What is it?" he asked, voice groggy as he massaged his temples to get the sleep away.

"We have an urgent thing to take care of. Meet us at the compound in ten to lay out the plan" the guard said making Alexander scowl.

"Fucking hell. Fine" with that he hung up keeping the phone back.

He was not at all happy to be woken up from such a blissful sleep at 3 in the morning. They can count on him being a cranky ass mother fucker on that account.

He kissed the crown of Isla's head and she let out a sigh in her sleep making him smile as he finally decided to get up, duty calls.

He flipped Isla carefully on the bed from on top of him, as her head fell to the side hitting the pillow, she was sleeping like the dead and he couldn't keep himself from pressing a feather light kiss to her warm pink cheek. He pulled the covers on her properly before slipping out of bed and making his way to the closet with quiet steps.

He changed into his suit and got his gun from the drawer beside where Isla was asleep and tucked it in the holster.

He took the liberty to set the digital clock to 7 o clock alarm so that she would wake up on time to get back to the main house and also left a blue post it explaining to her that he had to leave.

With one last look at her, he exited the room quietly closing the door behind him.





"This mission is high stakes. You will lead 15 men into the Campbell estate-" before Richard Gambino could even finish his sentence Alexander cut him off.

"Just so I am clear, you want me to lead men into the gods damned Campbell estate?" Alexander questioned incredulously.

"That's what I said did I not? and let me finish, do not cut me off again" Richard said sternly.

"Yes sir, sorry sir" Alexander looked down faking the slight shame even though he could hardly stand Richard Gambino's presence knowing how unfair he was to his daughter.

"As I was saying, you are going to lead a team and infiltrate the Campbell estate. I need you to get all the information regarding their shipments and all sorts of documentation from their control room, its USB has a software installed which will hack through their security system easily. Copy the files and get your ass back" Mr. Gambino explained handing out the device to Alexander.

"Their estate is heavily guarded" Alexander said.

"What happened Lieutenant, scared?" Richard mocked and Alexander resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

"I considered that, I am not some fool who would send his men in the line of fire to be slaughtered. The reason it's vital to get this done today is because more than half of the Campbell men are standing at war with a drug cartel in Indiana. They are weak and vulnerable and we need to take advantage of that while they are distracted and least expecting of it and even the family is in England" Richard told him.

That made more sense. Plus, this could work in Alexander's favour to have a forever with the mafia princess later on.

"Yes sir. We'll leave in 15" with that Alexander walked out with one last nod of respect.







Isla woke up to the annoying beep of the alarm on the bedside table and what made it worse was that she woke up alone unlike what she'd gotten used to with Alexander next to her or more like under her considering that she'd end up snuggled on top of him each night.

She saw that it was 7 already and made haste to get up from the bed and the first thing she saw was the blue post it informing her that he had to leave for another one of those errands her father has him on.

Once she had made her way back to her room, one of the maid's not even moments later had came to get her down for a hearty cheese omlette breakfast.

She spent her day messing around with Ace and reading books. At some point while scrolling through her phone she came across a sugar cream pie recipe which looked extremely delicious.

That's when she decided to slave away in the kitchen, kicking the cook out yet again to make that sugar cream pie and along the way she got carried away and started on baked pasta as well.

She had decided to have dinner with Alexander considering it was way past the time his shift was to start and he hadn't been back since morning which made her frown. In fact it was time for her dinner, however, when one of the maids as well as the cook asked of it she showed them the containers of food and told them that she would have dinner in her room while watching a good show and go straight to bed and that no one was to disturb her.

It was weird, sure, but it wasn't their place to question their young mistress as they were dismissed and she made her way upstairs to her bedroom escorted by rolfe.

She gave him a sickly sweet tight lipped smile before shutting the room door.

She took out her cute Kuwaii bag pack and stuffed the containers in it carefully before getting her shoes on and climbing down the tree.

She was eager to see Alexander considering she hadn't seen him all day long and it was a day too long for her.

"Alex it's me" she called out as she slipped inside the pool house in order to check if he was even in.

"Room, Doll" his gruff voice called out.

A grin made it's way to her face as she made her way into his room but that grin was quickly wiped off as she was faced with the sight in front of her.