The Black Silk

Chapter 3 🖤✨

"Ahh! Finally, my eyes feel refreshed after watching that angry hot ape for a whole ass day. His secretary has my deepest sympathy for tolerating that burning meteor breathing down his neck every minute and second of his day."

It was an hour-long ride to the Marina and from there we were to reach the island in a yacht. It was a quiet, relaxing, and peaceful expensive ride.

"Ahh! Finally, the guest of honor is here." Fluer was very fluent in her sarcasm. It was as if she had a Ph.D. degree in sarcasm.

"We can finally begin the festivities since we have the luck of our precious guest gracing us with his presence." Alessio seemed to have taken a liking to my sister's sarcastic attitude that it even reflected in his.

"Since you have always seen me as the leader at the workplace, at home, and shockingly, at your wedding as well, I bestow my blessing on you and give the go-ahead for the celebrations to begin." Adrian's unfiltered mouth also drips of sarcasm came as a shock to me and a hilarious gest for the other guests.

I only ever thought that whenever he opens his mouth either it shoots nonsense and degrades or fires someone or it only shuts the other whiny women he brings home every night.

And as I looked around the lobby I figured he would not fall short with partners for his daily night rituals.

"But why did I obsess myself with his nightly activities, it was not like mine was very active and interesting after I had that nasty break up." I thought to myself. Details are to be discussed another time.

" Distinguished members, As stated in the invitation, we will immediately begin the challenge, which you must accept," Fleur announced with a big bowl in her hand filled with colorful paper.

"You must choose one of these colorful chits from which we have inscribed your names. Your partner for the following four days will be whoever's name you receive. You betcha! The regulations are slightly different for couples than for singles here because we've taken into account the couples who are there. In her animated explanation, Fleur was leaping around as if she were high on dopamine.

"For the singles, the regulations are that whoever name you get, you have to share a room with them, and they have to couple up for the activities we have scheduled for you. Of course! If you'd like, you can join them up to you in one of the single beds that we provide for our guests." Alessio grumbled in his deep voice about the rules.

After the rules were explained I was pretty sure whose naughty mind was this. It was just that Fleur wouldn't have brought this idea of her into action as she was convinced that whenever she takes the reign into her hand for some extravagant activity something terrible happens. Not because of her but because of some shit elements of society who thought she was too easy to deal with. And I counted myself as one of those elements.

Every time she tried to plan and implement something while asking for my advice, it came out as me mocking her when all I was doing was offering some ideas. Be it a sibling connection, a relationship with my parents, or even a relationship with Nico, my tone always appeared to have messed up things for me.

However, this time she had someone willing to go above and above for her and carry out her ridiculous, silly, silly little fun ideas.

"Oh! And we forgot to mention that the chits would only be picked up by the girls." Alessio added as Fleur began the rounds with the bowl.

When we were young girls, one lesson we learned was that if you want to appreciate anything, you have to work hard to complete it. Since we came from a family of veterans, we were essentially raised as warriors. Fleur had a sensitive and forgiving personality despite her high level of training and competence. We did embrace our femininity, but I was never gentle with myself.

I was pleased and envious to see someone gentle with my fleur and also made extra steps to keep her sensitive and forgiving nature safe from those who could hurt her. Even if I had previously yearned for someone to provide me with the same amount of love and support, perhaps God had other plans for me.