New Love

"Debra Lin! My guards finally found you after searching the Emperor forest for two hours!!!! But... Where is my son?!!!. Sherly Tang was aghast when she saw Debra Lin teary eyes and crazed look. "Nooo! Go back and look for my son!". Right away, two of her trusty guards jump back inside the helicopter and followed her order. While the rest of the team of ten men went back to the mountain entrance to look for their master.

Three days later...

"My son! You have to be alive! Before I see your corpse I won't give up to look for you!!!".

Sheryl Tang had called a bunch of important people to help her investigate the wedding disaster incident. If what Debra Lin said is true, then she won't hold back anymore. She would annihilate the Shen family for killing her husband and dearest son.

Unable to cope with Nicolas's probable death, Debra Lin was still in a mental institution but she couldn't collapse, for the sake of revenge, she will be stronger to uphold justice for her family.

The Shen family...

I would return to all of you a threshold for what your family did to my family!!

- Alex Lee office room -

"Leah! He probably died already! I have sent people to look for him dead or alive, but no one was able to find anything about him. My guess is either he died in the fire incident or a powerful underground organization had kidnapped him for a big ransom. But it's had been three days and no one asks for a ransom, so I assume it a big probability that he is dead!". Alex Lee sighed hard when his sister started to cry without restraint. He was hugging Leah tightly to calm her down.

"I-It c-can't b-be! Hiks hiks! H-He c-couldn't d-die y-yet! He didn't even know about Lei-Lei!!!".

"Sister! Lei-Lei needs you! Be strong!".

From the corner of the room, Felicia Lee was looking at the scene between brother and sister with a speck of jealousy. She never saw this side of the powerful man before. He was always strong but never considerate! He even put his works before his wife! Never once, he shows any affection such as now.

He would be gentle when they made love but never with soft words such as now.

Maybe he had never loved her as he loves his sister such as now.

"LiLi!!! Get me a warm wet towel!", ordered Alex Lee while wiping his sister tears with his fingers.

Without words, Felicia Lee right away fetched the requested warm wet towel and presented it to Alex Lee with both of her hands, like a subordinate bestowed an object to the king.

"W-what? She was here with us the whole time?". Embarrassed, that someone had witnessed her moment of weakness, Leah Shen was looking at the quiet masked guard with contemplation and said with a warning voice," You see none of this!"

Felicia Lee nodded. Her mask was able to hide her mixed expression but deep within she thought of whether Alex Lee also grief like his sister when she died in her fabricated conspiracy. She understood Leah Shen's grief for that's how she felt when her son died or maybe worse than her because you will never get over the grief of losing a child in a lifetime. Holding her tears at the thought of her dead son, she returned to the corner of the office room without noise.

At the same moment, in the training area of Alex Lee mansion.

"Master Xander! For three days, my mother had been unhappy and crying secretly? Please investigate for your knight the cause of this!!". Lei-Lei was looking up at Alexander Lee's face while bowing with one of his knees down.

"This master knows, but won't let you know since it was a family secret that you shouldn't know from this master mouth!". Sitting leisurely on the highest chair fit for a king, Alexander Lee sighed hard.

Lei-Lei rises up right away and sneered at Alexander Lee. " Master Xander probably just try to snub me, right?! Forgive me for being rude, but I think you didn't know of this matter and just trying to look cool!".

Lei-Lei insulted words were able to stir deep emotion within Alexander's heart, even though Lei-Lei would act dumb occasionally to make others drop down their guards, he is perfectly smart in his own way, thus he was able to manipulate his control freak cousin when he has to.

"Fine! Keep this to yourself! Your mother was sad because there is a great chance that your biological father probably died, three days ago!!". By chance, Alexander Lee had overheard his father's conversation on the phone. Or to be honest, he had tapped his father's phone to keep up with any news since he was away for a week for the Wolf warrior training session.

Lei-Lei gasped with disbelief at the secret information and ran towards the main area of the mansion.

Unable to prevent his cousin from barging into his father's office, Alexander Lee palmed his face for his doom. His father would definitely punish him big time for his stupidity of being lured like a fish by a child younger than him. Alexander Lee was following right behind Lei-Lei when he pushed away one guard with the move that he just learned recently, and kicked the door open before any of the guards were able to restrain him. Proud that Lei-Lei was able to enter the room and evaded the two guards guarding it with the moves that Alexander Lee had taught him, thus he forgot his doom for a moment and proud of his little cousin instead.

But looking at his father's face when both of them entering the room, Alexander Lee knew he was doom for life. He better plan something now to minimize his downfall. His mind was working like a clock to think of a solution.

"Mother! Is it true? My father died?!!", asked Lei-Lei with a sad expression. Knowing that his father died before he met him caused deep grief within his turbulence heart. He might just be a child but his mind is clear of this matter... His mother had hidden his existence from his father and now both father and son won't have a chance to acknowledge each other.

"L-Lei-Lei!! Erm... W-We didn't know for sure! I will tell you all about him when we get home! Let's go home! Brother, what a good son you have! See you tomorrow, brother!". Leah Lee knew that Lei-Lei wouldn't know unless someone spilled the bean and Alexander Lee reminded her of his brother at that age, he is a genius wonder boy and knowing a family secret is an easy task for him. After all, her brother had told her of her family secret a long time ago. Did she wish not to know it? No, she was grateful to know her new identity and it's time for her to be honest with Lei-Lei so she won't lose his love and trust.

Without words, Lei-Lei was walking side by side with his mother with a mixed expression. Not knowing whether he should be mad at her or erase her anguish by hugging her.

"Alexander Lee, my genius son..., what have you done?!!", asked Alex Lee with a warning tone.

'His son?!! Did he remarried?!'. Alexander Lee had just returned from a field trip exercise with his father warriors thus Felicia Lee didn't know of his existence. Astounded by Alex Lee's words, Felicia Lee was blinking hard to look at the little boy in front of her. So much alike. He looked exactly like what she imagined her son would look like if he was alive. Even their name is the same.

"Father! Lei-Lei needs to know the truth! Just like I do. Where is my mother?!". Instead, Alexander Lee asked the question that brought silence to his father. Definitely, the question was his only counterattack plan.

Alex Lee was unable to respond quickly enough for his son's question. Only Eugene Acker and his family knew of the secret that he won't disclose to his son even on his deathbed. Alexander Lee is just like him in character, knowing the secret would destroy his confidence and do no good to his mental health in the long run.

"Your mother is probably dead! But I'm alive, and all you need is just a powerful father to protect you! As punishment, you would train with LiLi for 6 hours from dawn to noon!".

"LiLi?!". Alex Lee gestured to the quiet masked woman in the room when the unfamiliar name rolled on Alexander Lee's tongue. He was mad with the punishment, all his teacher had been strong manly warriors so having the petite woman -whose face is covered with a God of war mask- as his teacher is definitely an insult to his being. "For how long, father?".

"Until you can beat her!"

That being said Alexander Lee smirked innocently while thinking 'It will be a piece of cake' and said, " As you wish, father! Good Night!".

After everyone left. Alex Lee was watching the full moon on the terrace of his office with Felicia Lee followed behind him closely like a shadow.

"LiLi, my son is too arrogant! Teach him a good lesson starting tomorrow!".

"As you wish, My Lord!".

Felicia Lee answered indifferently but Alexander Lee reminding her of his demise son a lot. If her son is still alive, they would definitely look alike. A sudden gust of pain entered a big hole in her heart. Her son died and when her grave was still warm, her beloved husband had turned into another woman and beget another child. Life is so unfair to her. However, it's her fate to serve Alex Lee until it's time for her suicide mission to killed the powerful person that was responsible for her son and aunt died. Right now, she was just a shell. No longer living for happiness but only for her ending.

Watching Alex Lee silhouette in silence, she was wondering if in the past, the powerful man had ever loved her at all. She still in love with him but she didn't deserve him now. She only stays by his side to pay off her debt. Even though he didn't know of his son, she was guilty as charged. Maybe their son would be alive and happy if she never ran away from him by fabricating her life. And maybe he would learn to love her more if she showed him more affection than just being an icy wife. And Maybe and just maybe... they would live happily ever after.

"LiLi?". The hoarse voice brought her back into reality and while looking at the handsome face who was standing on his back by the balcony she said softly," Yes, My Lord?!"

"Have you ever thought of plastic surgery?!".

Felicia Lee was stunned by his question. Before he handed the God of War mask for her to wear, he had seen her ugly rotten face but he didn't recognize her as his wife at all. Thus, the question penetrates deep inside of her. When she was beautiful, at least she knew that he had desired her, even if it was only her face and body that he loved and not her soul. But now, she is simply just a ghost shell. Her appearance probably disgusted him, but 'beat it', she won't recover her face because she expected nothing beside revenge and death in her life. Love is just an illusion. Not for a ghost-shell like her.

"My face is my retribution, my lord! My loved one would not return to me even if my face is restored thus I chose to die in this ugly shell". Unwavering, she answered in a steady tone.

The cold answer was able to move and stir Alex Lee inside emotions inwardly. Why would a young woman choose to live as a monster or a ghost? For three days, she had been his shadow guard. He even arranged a small bed in the opposite direction of his master bedroom for her to sleep and guard him at the same time. He admired and appreciated her deep sense of loyalty toward him. When she requested to enter his bedroom to guard him, he had thought that she was crazy to even suggest it. But she was really sincere without motive, thus he had agreed. She had become his shadow guard and personal maid.

But then..., last night...

When she aided his bath by rubbing his body clean with a sponge, he felt very familiar with her rubbing move. It exactly the same as his dead wife rubbing move. He had ordered her to leave afterward. How could he explain that the rubbing move had caused him a bad case of arousal, a night of agony and longing? Even after his wife died, he never felt any necessity to sleep with a woman, until LiLi rubs his back with the bath sponge with the sensuous move he had thought his beast was doom to live like a monk. He must be crazy. The moment he met her, he didn't care about her monstrous look, he thought that there was something special about her.

Then the three days knowing her, her personality had drawn him closely that he wanted her. Not just as a guard or a personal maid, but as a woman. But Lili had never shown any interest even when he was standing stark naked in front of her. To her, he was just a job, not a man. What a frustrating situation!

Unexplainably, Alex Lee had fallen in love again, but this time not with a beautiful lively woman like his dead wife but with an unsightly woman that had abandoned her soul. But even that outwardly she looked like a beast, she was beautiful inwardly. Lili had treated him really well that he could only fall deeper in love with her. He has to come out with a plan so she would accept him as a man. The sooner the better because his wet dream had become so intense that he felt like dying from frustration.

"Time to go to bed, My lord!"

"Huh?!".

"...."

Clearing his throat with 'ehm' sound, he left the office balcony to head up to the master bedroom which just only two doors distance from his office. 'It will be another long-suffering night', he thought inwardly with a deep frown while walking slowly like a livestock animal floundering to the slaughterhouse.