Vendetta: Mysteries that surround it

Chapter 32

"Why are we stopping here?" Alexa asked him when she saw Christian halt his car outside a children's clothing store.

He excitedly turned to her with a wide smile," I want to take clothes for them too. Ice cream won't be enough you know? Next time I will get them toys and after that...."

Alexa stopped paying attention to what he was saying at some point, as she got busy staring at his excited face.

Why is he so kind? He should not be seen with a person like me. How will he react once he learns about the things I have done in the past or the things I will do in the future?

A sudden fear took over her, and her breaths started getting heavy.

He got terrified looking at those guns, what would he do once he got to know the actual reason they were there?

" Alexa...? Alexa!!" Christian's sudden call pulled her out of her train of thought.

"Huh? What?"

"Hey... Are you okay?" he held her hand with a very concerned face.

Alexa's eyes unconsciously shifted to their intervened fingers.

"Y-Yeah...Yeah, I am fine. Let's go." She said while pulling her hand out of his grip and making her way outside the car.

Letting out a deep sigh Christian followed her.

"Hello, how can we help you sir and ma'am?" an employee greeted them just as they entered.

Alexa awkwardly signaled her to ask Christian about it, because she had no clue what they were supposed to buy.

She never really went shopping, maybe once in a blue moon thing. Growing up all sorts of branded clothes were bought for her and Bianca and were automatically filled in their closets.

As an adult, she just selects the clothes online and Francesca or some other employee would go and buy them for her. Shopping was not her thing, she believed it was a waste of time and energy and would rather spend it in her office.

Her eyes darted to look at Christian waiting for him to say something, who in turn was busy staring at the rows of children's clothes.

"Umm, Christian....?"

" Give me everything." He finally spoke with a dead serious face.

"Excuse me, Sir?"

Taking fast steps towards the clothes, he placed his hand on the first clothing item," From here, to the very end. I will take everything, in every size available. Thank you very much." He turned towards the employee a huge smile plastered on his face.

"H-Huh? E-Everything?" the horrified lady turned to look at Alexa, trying to make sure she heard him right.

Alexa simply shrugged her shoulders, with her hands in her pocket," Whatever he says."

"And a little fast please, you see my lady is in a bit of a hurry," he continued with the sweetest smile ever.

"Y-Yes sir," the employee rushed inside to gather her colleagues, because of the huge order.

With his hands behind his back, Christian walked towards Alexa, who folded her arms in front of her chest and raised an eyebrow at him.

"My lady?"

Leaning closer to her, he gave Alexa a teasing smile, his dimples visible to her," Why? Don't you like it, Alexandra?"

Blinking a few times, she turned her head to look at the other side.

Shit. Why the full name?

Gulping, Alexa replied, "No."

And walked towards the counter, leaving behind Christian who chuckled and shook his head.

There was an absolute Chaos behind the counter.

The man working at the counter was trying his level best to scan the price tags of all the clothes that were being swiftly handed over to him by two of his co-workers.

Five other employees were packing all the scanned clothes in a carton.

It looked like the entire shop had left everything they were doing for this one order, that would get them an entire season's revenue.

Looking at the already packed cartons, Alexa turned towards an employee and ordered him," Start loading the cartons that are already packed."

She felt a shoulder hit hers, which was clearly Christian's because no one else here would dare to do that. Understanding his intentions, a tight-lipped "please" escaped Alexa's mouth.

"Y-Yes ma'am."

Alexa turned to look at Christian, who in return looked at her very confused because of her actions as she put her hands in his pocket as if trying to look for something.

"What are you doing?" Christian asked her.

She took out his car keys, jiggling them in front of his face.

"Here," turning around Alexa threw the keys at the employee, who fumbled with it but still managed to catch them, "Start loading them in the car trunk."

Bowing down a little, two of them picked up the cartons and made their way out of the shop.

"Umm... excuse me?" the man behind the counter questioned Alexa," Will you be paying in full?"

Nodding her head in reply Alexa's hand reached out to her purse to take out her card.

Just as she was about to hand it over to the employee, Christian's hand stopped her.

"What are you doing?" he asked her.

With a confused face, she darted her eyes from the employee and back at Christian, "Umm, Paying....? Last time I checked we can not take so much stuff for free Belincias."

Groaning in annoyance, he took her hand in his and pulled it towards him," I mean why are YOU paying?"

" I thought if you were paying for the ice cream truck, I would pay for this. What's wrong?" she asked him with her eyebrows furrowed.

"Listen here Alexandra Angello," Christian spoke with his face leaning very close to hers," I am not letting someone I offered to take out, pay for anything. And I don't care if their annual income is four times that of mine."

Alexa's breath hitched.

"Here, please bill it from this," he said while turning towards the cashier while handing his card.

Taking in a deep breath, Alexa stared at the man before her God Christian, you are lucky I have a soft spot for you. I don't know what I would have done if someone else had talked to me in that tone.

Her eyes gazed at their intervened hands and a small smile formed on her lips, barely visible.