Fearless

Chapter Fourteen

Five weeks later

5 weeks had passed since that day. I started my Russian lessons the next day. I took a total of nine days to master the language... Literally. What ever that formula thing is it is ridiculous. It took 1 day to read a 500 page learning manual... in total. I always laughed at the concept of it being possible to read that quickly. Ever since I watched the first series of Criminal Minds and saw Dr Reid read a page within seconds and thought how impossible that could be, but it turns out I can now read like that... and memorise it.

Viktor tested me by making me quote specific lines from random pages of the book but I always got it correct. Scary... but now I can speak and read in fluent Russian and now French since I got bored. That took even less time as I knew the basics as I did my AS during year eleven in school whilst doing my GCSE's. The Nursery and play group was designed and currently being built. I'd spent hours going through finding toys and making files and files for the staff with recipes for baking, different messy play activities such as home made play dough, cloud dough, moon sand, slime and god knows what else... I had fun testing the recipes soon... Viktor wasn't so pleased to find me, Sofia and Emilia covered in gooey green slime!

Sex Ed was.... educational. Viktor thoroughly enjoyed that... I can't say I completely didn't but whatever was left of my innocent mind has disappeared completely. He has made me sit through hours of porn for no other reason but he thought it was fun. I did not... at first... Then he started bringing some weird stuff out... once again I was not impressed! Until he got out the rabbit and had fun watching my squirming turn to squirting.

Finally though, after 5 weeks here I am packing with the maids to go to New York. I swear Viktor has packed more than me... he has honestly made me pack two outfits! He keeps telling me I'm going on a shopping trip so it's fine but I still can't help but worry... I am so picky with clothes sometimes that it takes me hours when shopping. The girls are coming with me! They're as excited as I am. It took a lot of arm twisting as he thought I shouldn't need the maids but I played the cards of they know what kind of clothes he likes to see me in so they can help... ha ha ha... I just thought the girls could do with a break! Ivan's coming so why not them?

"Annabelle... you're spacing out again," Viktor laughed. "Huh?" I said snapping out of it, "sorry... It's the meds, I think I'm tired." I yawned confirming the fact. "Eat something then get some rest, we've got to head off in 3 hours," he replied giving me a quick kiss. Three hours and we're off to the air hangar to get on his private jet. Cordelia my head maid (the cockney one) passed me a menu with a choice of lunches. I ordered a sandwich and some fruit and sat down on the couch.

I was in the news again. As soon as the news got ahold of my letter the whole world seemed to be in a frenzy. Some people thought it was a fake but the policeman who stood in front of Scotland Yard confirmed that the letter was real and actually sent by me after doing that whole handwriting analysis and fingerprint stuff. Cordelia came back with my sandwich which I happily munched into. "How can something so simple make you so happy?" Viktor laughed, sitting beside me. "I don't know, I love sandwiches and I never get bored of them because there are so many different ones!" I beamed.

I drank some water and finished my lunch. He turned off the TV and kissed my forehead before saying, "right, get some rest!" I gave him a quick hug before he had to go off and do some work before we go, then I got into bed, snuggled into the covers and took my usual 2 O'clock nap.

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"Annabelle..." Viktor's voice whispered, "Annabelle wake up.... its time to go!" I rolled over to my back and yawned, "what time is it?" He gave a light chuckle. "It's 16:30 sweetie," he replied giving me a quick kiss. I shot up. "But I'm only supposed to sleep an hour!" I complained. "Don't worry, I told them to let you sleep in... you needed it, you were up half the night too excited to go to sleep!" He laughed, "and I know we were meant to set off at 17:15 but I thought it would be nice to go buy some snacks rather than have the staff to prepare some for a change, they've gone to a lot of length just to make us an excellent meal that's plane friendly."