Saira SwitzJefferson:

Gingerly tucking Rosie into bed,I carress her cheek lightly and then draw back to look at her.

She shouldn't have gone through that.

No one should have to go through that,especially a six-year old kid.

Sighing,I place a soft kiss on her forehead and head out of the room and to the drawing room where all my files are sprawled open and it seems like someone went through it hurriedly.

In a second,I gather all of it and dump it into my enormous bag,zipping it shut.
Hearing a click of the door,I turn around with the gun on my hand and see a completely frazzled,hair sticking out in all directions and slightly tilting trillonaire.

Narrowing my eyes,I inch my way towards him with my gun raised high,

'Why did you go through my papers?'

He smiles,showing off all of his teeth and steps in front of me,
'What papers?The newspapers?I didn't read it today.What's new?'

I look at him,examining his body and head with newfound interest,

'Where did you go?'

He stares at me,comes closer amd snatches my gun and throws it behind him without even looking.

'I went to have a drink in the pub with Niall Horan.Great lad.And then I told my assistant to book tickets.'

He sways a bit again and I hurriedly grab his arm because,no,I would definitely not like to have my body crushed by him so after dumping him on the couch,I start to walk away to bring a glass of water when he grumbles,

'I am fine,Sars.'

Ignoring this outrageous nickname,I spin around,

'Do me a favor.'

'Hmm?'

'Stop talking.'

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'You really did not have to do that.'

'I totally did.',I remark plopping down infront of the distraught and slightly drunk trillionaire with a tray full of food.

He eyes my burger through his wet hair that is plastered to his forehead after I drenched him because honestly as entertaining as it was to watch a drunk Ethan making a complete fool of himself,I would like to have a sober one when I am explaining how all of my documents seemed to be in complete disarray and clearly,someone had barged in.

After ten minutes of silence,I give up and toss the second burger to him and he catches but doesn’t eat.

Instead he keeps on frowning,his eyes in close concentration with his scrunched up forehead,reminding me unceremoniously about the dwarf with the long beard in Snow White's movie.
'Ok,so I walk out to get my mind straight but then I get drunk with Niall Horan,what oh-that doesn’t happen?ok,so I got drunk,meanwhile,you here come back after getting Rosie to bed and see all your files sprawled messily and then my drunk self comes back and makes quite an impression on the fierce young first rate criminal and so she drenches me with water to get me awake because obviously there wasn’t any other nice and gentle way of sobering me up.'

I cross one leg over another and glance at him sweetly,
'Oh there was.I just didn’t want to exhibit that.'

He rubs his eyes,'My headache's getting louder.Look,can we talk about this in the morning?'

'Absolutely not.'

'Alright,Sars.'

I look up at him in disbelief,

'Aren’t you a bit shocked or alarmed that someone actually got into our room and your niece was here?',I stand up,my temper rising,
'What if I wasn’t here?What if you were still somewhere getting laid and being drunk as fuck and then you come back and see Rosie's missing?How careless could you be?'

Saying all that,I storm into Rosie's room,taking the time to slam the door as loudly but also as quietly as I can so that she doesn’t wake up.

Cause duh.
My anger's directed at this annoying irresponsible trillionaire,not to this sweet girl who had the misfortune of having an uncle like him.

It's 3 a.m.

Sighing at how irrationally I behaved,I slither under the covers beside Rosie,who is sleeping peacefully unbeknown to the fact that her uncle and I just had a fight,well it was basically me yelling at him and him gaping at me but whatever.

I thought we were getting somewhere,somewhere which included less bickering and more understanding but no,he just had to get hammered and laid the night when I am here.

Oh God,are you hearing yourself?

Yeah.

You sound almost...hurt.

Could it be?

Shut the eff up,brain.

But,see,it all fits,you are mad cause he-

SHUT UP.

I let out a deep breath and scooching close to Rosie,I decide to forget all my stress,all the pending work and sleep to my heart's content.

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Ethan Desmond Moretz's POV:

The sun is out.

It's 7 am,a time where I take my usual morning walk but I had to alter it as my head will seemingly explode any moment now.

Oh why oh why did I have to drink three bottles of Henny?

And why did I act like a complete asshole?

It's funny because I usually enjoy being an asshole but not when Rosie's in the scene and definitely not if someone,especially when it's the girl I am the slightest bit interested in gives me a lecture in the dead of the night of how careless and irresponsible I am.

Dang,she looked good though.

It's because I am only the slightest bit interested,just the slightest.

Well,enough of that.

She is mad at me but maybe the stuff I will break to her soon will melt it all away.

Hopefully not the way Olaf melted when summer came around.

You know I have been spending too much time with Rosie when you hear a Frozen reference.

Wouldn’t trade it for the world though.

And that,ladies and gentlemem,is exactly why I have booked three tickets to go back to my bungalow in Germany.

Rosie is absolutely in love with that place and well whichever place she's in love with,I am automatically in love with it too.I just hope Sairah likes it as much as we do.

You heard right.

I am taking Miss Extra Spicy there too.
My reason to suddenly fly from France to Germany completely makes a lot of sense.I brought Rosie here for a trip,so she could have all the fun in the world,not to get kidnapped and held by my rivals.

I already got my revenge,that Saira isn’t aware of and it should stay that way.

She doesn’t know how twisted my life is but then nor do I know of hers.

So we three will be traveling to Germany to untangle all the tension and relax.

Great idea,right?

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"Absolutely not.No way."

I look up from my phone confusedly,
'Why not?'

She seems a bit shaken,her green eyes move away from me and she says uncertainly,

'Look,Ethan,I can't,we have got work and I still have unfinished business here.'

Rubbing my forehead because my head still aches just a tad bit,I simply say,
'Don't worry about our deal,we can do that later '

She slaps her knee,impatient this time,
'No,you don't understand.There are other things that need to be taken care of which doesn’t involve you.'

'Oh yeah?How many places are you gonna rob,Missy?'

She sighs,'Let's not talk about it.'

I frown but before I can say anything,Rosie comes out of her room and plops down beside me and as I am just about to stand up,Saira
gets there first and takes the breakfast plate that I made and sits down and starts feeding her.

Cheater.

'What's wrong Des?',Rosie asks.

Saira smirks.

I grit my teeth.

'Nothing Rosie.I made those sandwiches just the way you liked and there’s also a bit of a surprise for you.'

Saira scoffs while my little hun jumps up and down while chewing,showing how excited she clearly is which I waste no time in telling Miss Saira here.

She replies,'Whatever.I bet she likes me best.'

My retort goes to deaf ears as Rosie puts herself between us,a brave thing,I must say,she basically prevented a war from breaking out between fire and ice.

'Don't act like two kids with one chocolate.It-it's like no one wants to share the chocolate but what I know is the chocolate would love to be shared with both of them since she loves them equally.'Rosie finishes,taking a final breath.

We stare at her and then at each other.

'No.'

'No.'

Rosie sighs dejectedly and Saira,being the tactful one replies assertively,

'I guess one could compromise.'

And that was how we spent the morning together,two kids arguing over a chocolate and the chocolate sitting there peacefully.

Three hours later,

'Head to the airport.'

I pretend to be indifferent to Saira's reaction so much so that I turn my full body towards the window where soon we would be paying Eiffel Tower goodbye.

'Ethan.I swear to God I am not going.'

'Ethan.Please.'

'Ethan.I don't have any of my bags with me.'

'ETHAN.'

Finally giving in,
'Yes?'

Her eyes are determined and hold mine,
'I can't.'

I look at Rosie who is chattering away with her Ken doll.
Then I look at Saira like,"there’s no way you are gonna refuse that."

She rolls her eyes and put an arm around Rosie.

Well,I guess that's a yes.

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Standing in front of the terminal,holding Rosie's hand,I see Saira fidgeting a little.

Rosie,for some strange reason,is awfully quiet.

And I have tried but to no avail.

Just as we reach the check-in point,someone shouts,'Senorita!'

For some unknown reason,Saira freezes.

Then she looks at me with the guilt a five-year old Rosie would look after she ate all the sugar candies I told her not to.

I look at her back and her eyes waver,'Ethan I-"

But she never gets to complete her sentence.

Because right then,someone hugs her from the back with the force of a grizzly bear and that someone is a guy.

I expect Saira to shove him off violently but she doesn’t do that.

No,what I don't expect her is to hug this tall guy back with the same force nor to have a delighted smile like that.

But she does.

I tear my eyes off them and clutching Rosie's hand,I clear my throat very loudly.
They break off the hug and Saira takes one look at me and it’s like she just heard her dog died.

Wow,so I make her upset and this guy makes her happy?

'Saira,let's go.'I say firmly.

She exhales and kneels down in front of Rosie and hugs her,I lock eyes with Mr.Grey Orbs here and I am not joking when I say my gaze can literally scald him to death.He doesn’t look away. At all.

So we have a eye to eye conversation,

I say,'I can kill you.'

He says,'You can try.'

Before I can actually punch the daylights out of him,I see Saira getting up and Rosie wiping her eyes.I am confused and before I can speak,
Saira beats me to it.

"Ethan,I can't come.I told Rosie earlier when you were taking a shower that I have got work here but that I would see you off at the airport.What I didn’t realize was that Eric,my friend came here to surprise me."

I keep silent,my face doesn’t reveal even a straw of what I am feeling on the inside.

I am seething.

'You never told me you had a boyfriend.'

Saira opens her mouth,probably to say they're friends but I am done here.

'I get it.You don't want to come.Fine.Don't come.
Stay with Pretty Boy here.'

Taking my niece's hand,I tug her away from them and into the passage when her whisper reaches my ears,
'So that's it?It’s over?'

Turning around,I look at her without actually looking at her.No,I am looking at the memories that we made,the adventures we shared and the bond we had.

Pretty Boy looks at both of us and I guess he senses Saira's distress because he drapes an arm over her shoulder.

That's it.That was the tipping point.

I finally really look at her and for some reason,I am not mad at her when I should be.But I can't bring myself to be mad at her.

No,I am mad at myself.Mad at the fact that I thought we could be something.
Something more.
I thought we had something.

Stupid me and stupid expectations.

This is exactly why you shouldn’t spend too much time with one girl.

Her face,for the first time,gives everything away while mine doesn’t.
She is apologetic.
But that emotion is not what I want her to feel.

Looking straight into her green eyes for what I am sure is the last time,

'It's over.'

Instead of making it more excruciating,I clasp Rosie's hand tightly and turn away.

Away from the girl who made me feel things a thousand girls tried to but failed.

Away from the girl who doesn’t know that I had started liking her fierce dazzled personality and her fierce green eyes.

Away.

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A/N:AND DRUMROLL PLEASE.

LALALALALALALALAALALALA

DON’T BE TOO MAD.NO THIS ISN’T THE END.
And their story is definitely just starting.
Don't sweat it.

Until next chapter peeps. ❣❣❣❣

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