chapter six

Chapter six

"Thank you so much. I love it. It's perfect." Lucy said after the tour. The mirth in her eyes bounced in her body.

"Okay then Ada, we'll be taking this one." Ada handed them some papers for signing and Regan said, "Send me the payment details."

"Oh and we need some renovations done. If you could make arrangements for that and also we need helpers the house is too big to manage by myself." Lucy piped in.

"The agency will see to that. I'll let them know."

"Thank you. It was nice doing business with you."

"My pleasure." Ada said and headed to her Lexus.

The drive home was bubbling with happiness, the most coming from Lucy. She couldn't stop talking about the magnificent house that her brother had just bought for her and her husband.

"The house is so beautiful." She suddenly started having the craving for children. "It has enough space for children." The moment the statement left her mouth, she wished she had not said it.

Regan looked at her through the rear mirror and chuckled sensing her embarrassment. "Zeke, I heard you talking about some kind of punishment yesterday. I hope you serve it in your house not mine."

Zeke laughed in response. "Then I guess I will have to do only the preliminary then."

"Zeke!" Lucy felt her face catch fire and her cheeks turned into the shade to beetroot in embarrassment. These two men never passed a chance to bully her and even her younger brother had no respect for her sex life.

Zeke and Regan laughed. The two made a hobby of drawing out reactions from her and she was an easy catch.

Regan looked at Zeke through the rear and said. "Zeke you know nothing goes for nothing."

"Okay?" he asked as he relaxed in his seat and draped an arm over his blushing wife. In his belief, no one could bully his wife asides him and her brother and when the two of them did it together, wasn't it a perfect combination.

"Regan don't say it!" Lucy said in despair. "Don't."

Regan smirked and returned his eyes to the road. "Your house will be ready in less than a month. I expect babies soon."

Lucy buried her face in her hands and drawled, "Oh God."

"I've been thinking about it." He said looking at his wife affectionately. "But you know my old never let me be around. I couldn't do that do her. You know. Leave her pregnant and go off for some stupid construction work for probably weeks or months."

Regan watched through the rear as Zeke gathered Lucy up in his arms and placed a kiss on her fore-head. He smiled. They were so in love.

"Ah and yes, she's under punishment so don't expect a baby until we move into the manor house."

Lucy slapped Zeke on his chest and squirmed away from his embrace. "Punishment, huh? We'll see about that." She faced the window.

"You're in quick sand, Zeke."

The moment they reached home, Lucy wordlessly stormed into the house. Regan and Zeke exchanged looks and Zeke chased after her. She was really angry.

Reign went into the guest room to check on his guest bust she wasn't there. He face palmed himself. Wasn't he the saw person that said, "… your uber arrives in an hour…"? He sighed. He didn't even know her name.

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"Elena are you sure about this?" Evandor asked his daughter for the umpteenth time that morning. His Ellie had always been so bull-headed just like him and now she wanted to take up a job at the Leroy's Resort as she heard that they had vacancies for people who knew how to cook traditional food.

Way back, Evandor and Aaron had made an agreement. Aaron had handed the cosmetics company over to him and even renamed it after him and on his own end, he was to turn in sixty percent of the company's annual earning to the Leroy family.

"Dada," she called softly while clearing the table. "I am more than sure about this. You know how much mum loves teaching me to cook. This is the best time to put it to use." She carried the used dishes to the kitchen. She was completely oblivious to the relationship between her father and the Leroy family.

"Dear, I think she is right. We should let the girl do what she wants, besides, our little El has never shown much interest in the company. We all know that she rathers spending her day grocery shopping and cooking than dolling up and experimenting products on her skin." Gwendoline Gennadios chimed

"Mum, I'm not little, I can hear you." Elena called from the kitchen.

Gwen laughed and looked at her husband. She saw the worried look on his face and took his hand in hers. "I'll do her good. She will be making her profit and I hear that the young Leroy is very good-looking." She winked at him.

"Gwen…" Evan said resignedly.

"Dad, mum is right. Elena can take care of herself. I already have the company under control. A little independence on her side will do her no harm." Claus, Elena's older brother, suggested.

Elena came back to the dining room to hear her father say, "Okay fine. Whatever you say." She bounced giddily around her father and gave him a very big hug and kissed his cheek. "Thank you dada. See, it wasn't that hard now, was it?"

"This girl." He said and squeezed her arm affectionately.

"I'll be heading to the resort now. Thanks mom. Thanks Claus." And with that, she left she house.

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Regan sat in his full grain leather chair. His fingers tapped on his rosewood table as he looked at the file of credentials that laid on it. He looked at the passport again to make sure she was the one. He placed her file aside and quickly went through the rest of the files on his table. He called Maxwell to handle the remaining work of picking out eligible people for the new staff of cooks he was about to employ. He headed home with Elena's file. There was lot of scheming to do and he had to talk to Lucy about his new finding pronto.

While in his thoughts, he bumped into someone. "Sorry." He apologized.

"Hey! Watch where you are going, dwee-"She paused her statement halfway. "Oh! I know you. you're that guy from the fancy house. The hot chef."