"You look good, honestly. I bet Xavier won’t be able to take his eyes off you tonight," he teased, a goofy smile on his lips.


    Selene stared at him, wondering when he would find himself a girlfriend and stop smiling like he was drunk.


    "Thanks." Selene hung up on the call.


    Despite Kace’s reply, she couldn’t help but think she was too overdressed.


    ’What if he wanted us to go hiking or mountain climbing? Wait, we can’t do neither of that at night,’ she remembered.


    Sighing, Selene stared at herself one more time before she took her purse to check the time


    <i>7:02 pm, the time said. </i>


    In a blink of an eysh, Selene had already bolted out of the room, heading towards her car.


    Jake, her driver when she first came to the mansion, would be driving her wherever Xavier told him to bring her.


    She tried pushing him to give her a hint on where they were going, but he wouldn’t because of Xavier’s orders.


    An hourter, the car stopped in the middle of nowhere.


    If Selene didn’t know better, she would have thought Jake wanted to abduct her.


    Out of nowhere, she heard someone knock on the window of the car. She turned to find Xavier dressed in one of his finest suits. Though all his suits were the finest since they always fitted him perfectly.


    Xavier opened the car door for her and she stepped out.


    Selene stared at him, trying to pinpoint something that made him look different. It certainly wasn’t the suit or the way he styled his hairbing each lock back and leaving a few strands to dangle on his forehead. But no matter how much she stared at him, she couldn’t figure it out.


    Meanwhile, Xavier tried to control his breathing when his eyes fell on Selene. The dress she wore, the way her hair was styled. Everything about her tonight made his cock build a tent in his jeans.


    He tried to get her sexy image out of his head which was a difficult task to do since she was standing right before him.


    "Where are we, Xavier?" She asked him, as she tore her eyes away from him to look at the surroundings.


    She was mistaken when she thought they were in the middle of nowhere.


    Not far from where they stood, there was a house. The lights around it made it stand out in the dark.


    "This is one of the ces I like to go when I just want to get away from everything. Somewhere I just want to rx," he replied, stretching out his hand for her to hold as they walked towards the house.


    "I never thought there would be a time you would want to get away from everything. Do you even have time for that?" She asked, a little surprised.


    Xavier revealed a small smile.


    "It’s been a while since I came here. There was nothing for me to get away from..." he paused to look at her. "...after I met you."


    <i>Thump thump thump </i>


    Selene felt her heart win a marathon as it raced so fast she thought it was going to burst out of her chest.


    The both of them walked through the small bush that was on the way. As they neared, Selene could hear a soft tune of musicing from the direction the house was.


    When they arrived, Selene’s eyes caught the serenaders—they were the ones ying the tune she was hearing.


    Xavier led her to the chair. As soon as the both of them sat down, the serenaders excused them, but the soft tune could still be heard.


    "What would you like to eat?" He asked.


    Selene told him, and in less than five minutes, the food was brought out by a middle-aged woman.


    "She’s my nanny," Xavier exined. "I had to bring her here from the Wace mansion to cook for us," he added while Selene nodded in understanding.


    The both of them fell into apanionable silence as they ate their food, the air heavy but not ufortable.


    Words were supposed to be said, but none of them knew how to spill it.


    ’I should have told Kace to write me a few notes to practice on so that I wouldn’t mess up,’ Xavier thought to himself.


    Meanwhile, Kace who was busy in his room, watching a match sneezed loudly.


    "I wonder who could be thinking about me now," he said.


    "Xavier, when you said there was nothing for you to run away from until after you met me, what did you mean?" Xavier heard her ask, her big blue eyes staring at him.


    "It means when I’m with you, I don’t want to ever run away from anything. Selene, I won’t say <i>from the first day I met you </i>but surely after I met you, I felt things I’ve never felt for another woman before. We had a mutual agreement from the beginning. You will continue to be my wife and I will help you with your revenge. But this time around, I want us to act like husband and wife because you mean the world to me."