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Chapter seven

*edited*

Everleigh:

"Sergei Romanov"
Ash greeted him with a handshake than introduced me.
"This is Everleigh, my date for tonight."

I couldn't help but feel a little hurt by 'my date', well we aren't official, heck! I hardly know the guy but I just feel like I've known him forever.

The man also known as my godfather spoke up. In a thick Russian accent that I came accustomed to.

"Hello Mr Asher Mortimer," huh, so Asher is what Ash is short for, Interesting...

" And what a lovely young lady you have there by your side..." ok, now I am uncomfortable. He was eyeing me from top to bottom, analysing all my features.

He knows me like the back of his hand, I'm like a second daughter to him, he didn't only make deals with my dad, but he was/is (not sure anymore) my dad's best friend. I haven't spoken to him since the incident...

He still looked at me making small talk with Ash while I was just praying to be able to retreat to a hole and hide there.

The talk came back to me, I think Sergei is eager to get to know me better, and I think he already recognised me but, still needs the recognition.

"So Ms Everleigh...." he paused waiting for me to tell him my family name

"It's Graham. Everleigh Graham." I didn't dare to look him in the eye, my gaze held strong onto the floor.

"Ms Graham, where are you from? You don't sound American."
"You are right, I was Born in Britain, but grew up in Australia and then moved back to Britain in my early twenties.And now here I am."

I decided to answer truthfully, he nodded his head and started tapping on his glass that was in his right hand with his index finger. I was listening to the tapping and realised it was morse code. He had taught me that with Victoria ( his daughter, my best friend) when we were younger, so I decrypted it and he said "busted snowdrop".

Snowdrop is how my brother calls me and he does the same. It's because I was born on a snowy day of December.

I looked up at Ash who didn't seem to have understood why Sergei was tapping on his glass. I looked at him with pleading eyes trying to make him understand, that I didn't want him to tell Ash that we know each other.

After a couple minutes of small talk, Ash and I walked away bidding our goodbyes to Sergei as we walked off to see other people.

If I'm honest this was a very boring evening, I didn't say much I was just listening to Ash make business talk and talking numbers so I was calculating everything and thinking about the deals he could make to have a better profit on things. But I didn't say anything.

I have a degree in business management and accounting. So I know what he is talking about and I say, he is handling himself quite well.

All evening I have felt eyes on me and I know exactly who they belong to.

After what felt like the millionth person he spoke to, I decided to go to the loo and call Paul and/or Louis to ask them if all is good with Rose.

Ash gave me his phone since he took mine away and I walked towards the lady's restroom knowing that soon Sergei would follow because I knew that we had things to discuss.