Can You Keep A Secret? (Completed)

ix - uncertainty

"Right this way," Warren motions his arm inside his room, "Aria."

He says my name in this deep and sensual voice that it made me shiver . I hope I was able to mask it but something tells me that the smile he's wearing on his face says otherwise. On instinct I ran to a door that I assumed was the bathroom.  I sigh out of relief that I chose the right door.

After I was done relieving myself I washed up and as I did that I looked at myself in the mirror and said quietly,  "What have you gotten yourself into , Aria?"

When I finally got out of the bathroom I had shaken myself into a new resolve . That I will NOT let the Wells family get to me. I'm on a mission and I don't want to let Alex down . We were in it together. 

"Feel better?" Warren asks as he's sitting on his bed scrolling through his phone .

I nod at him .

"It's been a long time Aria , 20 years . How did you manage to snag Alex? Are you pretending not to remember us?" His voice is serious with a lace of doubt.

Shock blanketed over my face which signals to Warren that I am , in fact,  honest that I don't remember playing with them in my youth . He puts his phone down and gets off the bed , taking a step closer to me . His mere presence makes me nervous .

As he inches closer to me his face softens as his eyes scan me . He looks down , because all the Wells kids are so tall , Warren being the tallest at 6'4 , and he brushes a loose strand of hair off my face . Immediately my body responds to the slightest contact of his finger and the synapses fire all over me.

When he steps back I let out the breath I hadn't realized I was holding , "I wish I could remember my childhood. I vaguely remember you but that could be from the photos my mother showed me."

Warren looks at me again, looks at my lips and then exhales as he steps away , "I'm glad that you're back in our lives." Is all he says as he opens the door of his room and waits for me to walk out. As he guides me back down the hall I spot Alex.

An Alex with a furious look to his normally laid back face . I scrunch my face at him as if to ask if he's okay .

"I've been looking for you!" He says to me as if to scold me .

"I - " I hesitate , "I got lost," I finally admit. To which makes him relax .

"Don't worry little brother , I found her wandering down the hall and she happened to be near the closest one," his tone is unamused and back to being serious .

"Oh okay, I just missed you , that's all," Alex says as he grabs my hand to bring me to the drinking room , where everybody was at. Warren pulls out his phone and excuses himself as he makes a call .

"You can't be wandering off , alone,  with my brother.  It's not a good look for us," he says to me .

I shake his grip off of me , "I know and I wasn't trying to do anything . I really got lost and then he decided to help me . Of course that was right before he tried to accuse me of something," I say in irritation.

"What do you mean ?" He stops a few feet from the room.

"Let's talk about it later?" Thankfully he nodded in agreement.

The rest of the evening went smoothly and right before we left I got a chance to briefly talk to Trip . He was going to be at my office in the afternoon and I told that he's going to meet with a few people on my team, that meant he had to be on his best behavior .

As soon as we got back in Alex's car he began to hurl question after question at me. "So what happened with Warren? Was he being mean? I know he's intimidating but you can tell me."