ETERNAL LOVE

12: BROTHERS

AUTHOR'S POV

Jane's cafe,
05:09 pm

Xaden felt himself getting dragged outside the cafe by his brothers.

" What the f*ck is she high on in broad daylight?" Xaden growled shooting a glare at the cafe from outside. " Can't she see?" He gritted his teeth looking down at his ruined new shirt.

" No. She can't." Reed replied. " She's blind." He added sounding so done.

Xaden's head snapped up. He looked at Reed and then at Edwin to wish he heard something wrong only to run his fingers through his hair. " No, God no please...not me again. Why is the whole universe against me? Xaden made a crying face.

" You shouldn't have said that in the first place." Edwin scolded.

" I didn't say that intentionally, okay?" Xaden got frustrated. " I didn't know out of all the people in the world she would be blind."

" Enough." Reed interrupted as he saw others coming to them except for Alice. As she was sent upstairs with Jane's aunt.

" I apologized on behalf of Alice. I'll pay the cost of your clothes." Jane slightly bowed before Xaden but her voice wasn't soft as usual.

" N-No...no...no...no... Actually, I-I am sorry." Xaden stuttered because of being unfamiliar with the words. " You don't need to pay for anything. It's alright." He smiled nervously and took a quick glance at others' faces from the corner of his eyes to see if he was doing right.

The poor soul was frightened.

" No, Sir, I've learned this from someone... to pay the cost for your fault." She sounded polite to others but Reed realised her words pointing at him because him giving the mobile to Alice.

Not knowing what to reply Xaden just nodded.

" I think it's all clear between all of us. Am I right?" Ian asked trying to clean the air.

" You are forgetting one thing." Jane said pulling everyone's attention back to her. " The reason we gathered here for. Do you all still think Xaden sir can take care of Alice when we'll be out for the meeting?" Jane asked more like taunted but no one replied.

" Wait... fill me. Who is Alice? What am I missing?" Xaden asked with crashed eyebrows.

" The girl you just bumped is Alice. She is Jane's cousin sister. Jane's aunt is going to attend a funeral. As now you are aware of her condition we can't leave her alone here, so we are planning to take Alice with us on the trip but we need someone to accompany her there when we'll be out for the meeting." Hazel explained.

" And you guys selected me for that?" Xaden asked.

" She said we were planning to." Ian emphasized the second last word.

" Because I'm the least important person to attend the meeting, am I right?" He asked looking at them with a tilted head.

" We haven't finalized it yet-"

" I'll take the responsibility." Jane began but got cut by Xaden as he thought this will be his time to shine. He'll be proven responsible if he'll takes good care of Alice as well as he wouldn't have to attend another boring meeting.

He glanced at Jane only to see her blank eyes looking at him emotionlessly as Xaden was fast to make the decision. He noticed her expression and it didn't take a moment to burn up from inside. " Don't give me that look." Xaden glared.