Bodyguards

Lexi placed her hand in his as a beautiful smile bloomed on her lips. Alex lead her out of the bedroom down the long hallway to the grand staircase .At the top of the stairs he snaked his arm around her waist. Lexi stiffened slightly as she snapped her head up shooting him a warring glaring surprising him. Alex immediately halt his steps confusion washed over his handsome face.

Seeing Alex's confused expression Lexi almost giggled but instead she ran her hands down her dress smoothing the nonexistent wrinkles she murmured "don't wrinkle my dress Alex, I don't want your mother to think your pawing me."

He chuckled taking his arm off her waist intertwining their fingers bringing them to his lips kissing each finger one by one. As he leaning towards her he whispered in her ear. "I want everyone to know I'm pawing you sweetheart."

Lexi rolled her eyes giggling "Alex ,please don't embarrass me in front of your mother." She begged

"Sweetheart you sit in my lap and kissed me in front of your parents." He reminded her.

"I know Alex, but my parents are different, they still flirt with each other.And they're probably making love in the shower right now. I have never had to be proper in front of them we had the best family life. She paused clutching onto his arm as she pleadingly gazed into his eyes "Can we have that for our family?"

"Sweetheart I just want our children to grow up happy and loved." He replied "And I plan to flirt with you until the day I die." He added teased patting her bottom "Hell sweetheart I want to make love to you all over the castle."

Lexi glanced around at the enormous space below them. Workers dotted the floor below them cleaning and polishing the floors and walls and antique furniture. She turned back to face him again blurting out "We can't do that there's to many people here in the castle."

"Sweetheart I can do anything I want it's my castle."Alex grinned tugging her forward

"I don't think I'm into people watching."she replied a bit shyly even though Lexi wasn't a shy girl she could hold her own talking trash with Ethan to embarrass Karmen. However she found it a bit strange to speak to Alex that way.

Seeing her cheeks had turned pink Alex chuckled "I'll give everyone the day off and we can try it."

"Theirs a lot of rooms in this castle Alex."

She Grinned,!turning her head from side to side pretending to look around the huge castle.

He winked,"I know sweetheart,it sure would be a fun day."

As they walked into the dining room ,Jackson was already setting at the table looking as handsome as Alex. He was dressed in a dark blue three pieces suit crisp white shirt and a silver and blue silk tie. As she and Alex approached him Jackson stood up taking Lexi's hand bringing it to his lips placing a respectable kiss on it with a pleasant greeting "Dear sister-in-law you look beautiful tonight."

She giggled smiling sweetly, returning the greeting "Thank you Jackson, you look very handsome your self this evening. You two are so suave and debonair just

like a real price charming,"she giggled as she turned to face Alex gesturing with her hand towards Jackson " Alex this is what I'm talking about, the difference between my parents and your mother .It makes me kinda of nervous, thinking about being this formal with family."

Alex sighed "Sweetheart we don't have to raise our children like that ."

Jackson creased his dark brows together as he shifted his gaze from Alex to Lexi "What the hell are you two talking about. You don't even have kids yet."He asked confused.

Lexi points her finger at Jackson "that's how my family is. "she squealed"And that's the way I want to raise our children. They need to be well mannered and polite, with strangers. But comfortable and relaxed with family. I don't want to be a mother ,I want to be a momma."

Alex chuckled as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her cheek. "What ever you want sweetheart, don't be nervous just set down and have a drink."

"Alex I don't want to get drunk." She whispered her eyes slightly widened

"Sweetheart I said one drink not the whole bottle." Alex replied amused by her reluctance to have a drink.

"What the hell Alex, are you trying to get Lexi hammered before mother gets here, what time did you tell her to come?" Jackson ask

"I didn't tell her a time ,I just said we would have dinner together. We have time to have a drink before she gets here." Alex replied as he pulled Lexi's chair out for her to sit taking his set at the head of the table.

Jackson took a set across from Lexi and picked up his phone scrolling down to kitchen services to place everyone's drink order "Alex, what do you want ?"

"I'll have a martini and get Lexi one of those girly drinks. He said ,cringing slightly from the memory of their first date. "sweetheart would you like to try sex on the beach ?"

"Are we going to the beach on our honeymoon?" She babble excitedly her blue eyes sparkling from the flickering glow of the candles on the table.

Jackson's hand flew up to his mouth to suppress his laughter.

Alex leaning over to whisper in her ear "We can go tonight if you want to have sex on the beach , but sweetheart I was talking about a mixed drink called sex on the beach."

Her eyes widened a flush crept up to her face ,"Oh! Okay, I guess I can try it."

Jackson looked up from his phone his eyes landed on the two small dots on her neck. He smirked."Lexi let me order you a cosmopolitan you really don't want mother to show up and ask what you're drinking .She would probably fall over with a heart attack if you told her you were having sex on the beach."

Glancing over at Alex ,he shook his head "You couldn't wait until after dinner."

Alex shrugged his shoulders a huge grin plastered on his face. "He's right sweetheart maybe a cosmopolitan is a better choice." He agreed, glancing back at Jackson he nonchalantly replied "mother will just need to understand, it's more about me protecting Lexi ,then for me getting my rocks off."

Lexi coughed and stuttered "W..What are you talking about ."

Alex cupped her hand in his rubbing her finger with his thumb as he calmly explained ."Sweetheart you have two small holes on your neck from where I tried to drink your blood this afternoon. Vampires call those love bites, because not many vampires need to protect their mate anymore. After they mate the first time they just do it because it feels good."

She brought her hand up to her neck lightly rubbing the two small holes she tugged her brows together with a frown she pleaded frantically"Alex help me take my hair down so it covers my neck."

Alex walked behind her, and rubbed her shoulders as he learned down and whispered close to her ear "sweetheart don't worry about it, I'll explain everything to her and she will understand stand."

Lexi covered her face with her hands and shook her head as she begged"Please Alex just take my hair down."

Alex sighed and stood back up running his hands through her curly blonde hair he searched for the all hairpins holding her hair up removing them carefully one by one, then combed through it with his fingers pulling it in place to cover the two small holes on her neck.

Leaning over he kissed her cheek whispering softly in her ear " There sweetheart are you happy, you worry to much. I think you might need two drinks tonight. Remember I want you to be relaxed tonight when we go to bed. It will just help you sweetheart."

Jackson glanced back up from his phone ."Alex what do you think Mother is going to do tonight?"

Alex casually walked back to his seat, unaffected by Jackson's question he shrugged "She will probably bitch and moan trying to find any excuse she can for me not to marry Lexi."

Jackson chuckled, "I can imagine ,she's probably been on her computer all day suffering the web trying to dig up dirt on Lexi."

Alex thought about what Jackson said for a moment and agreed that he might be right that sounds like something his mother might try to do. He hesitated a moment thinking it might be better not to have any surprises .ask ." Darling have you ever been photographed in public with any other men that could possibly be considered scandalous?"

"Alex the only people I ever go anywhere with besides my parents is karmen and Ethan and their parents. When you picked me up at the Castle you seen who was there that day."

"What about when you're at charity events , have you ever been photographed standing alone with anyone?"Alex question

"Alex when I go to charity events I have three body guards with me all the time. One is a female she even goes to the bathroom with me."

"Sweetheart if there is something on the internet we need to know so mother can't surprise us with some made up bullshit . Do you care if Jackson pulls up information on you off the internet?"

Lexi shrugging . "No go ahead, I don't think there's anything out there." From her knowledge this is the first time she had ever been in any type of scandal she was curious herself to see what the media was saying about her.

He glanced over towards Jackson and gave him a nod. "Go ahead ,we need to be ready for what ever mother has cooked up in her head."

Jackson immediately typed in Lexi's name scrolling through the various articles while the maid brought in the drinks and quickly left the room after placing them on the table. The top three stories that popped up was her and Alex in the interview with Miss Foster. A video of Alex proposing,and the story about Alex kidnapping her.

Jackson kept scrolling through his phone and found an article about her turning twenty one . Three articles about charity events she had attended. One article about a high diving sports event with a photo of Lexi standing on a diving board. A article about a show jumping equestrian competition with another photo of Lexi on her horse in the final jump.

Alex and Lexi waited patiently as Jackson continued to scroll through the various articles and photos on his phone. Noticing Jackson pause and bring his hand up to the screen to zoom in on the photo on his phone Alex quirked a brow but wait silently for a moment while Jackson was reading.

The photo he zoomed in on was taken back in December of Lexi Karmen ,and Ethan on a ski slope . And another one with her,karmen and Ethan eating dinner at a ski lodge restaurant .

The head line reading Princess Alexis Whitley having food and fun with childhood friends. Ethan and Karmen Boyett Billionaire Heir and heiress of Star Mag productions and investments .

Jackson stopped scrolling his phone and looked up at Alex . "I found it " Alex raised a brow ,Lexi looked at him puzzled and asked "What is it?"

Jackson pushed his phone over in front of her . Lexi looked at the photo and back up at Jackson a bit puzzled not understanding what he was talking about. She shrugged her shoulders and explained. "That's just me,Karmen ,and Ethan at Pine Trails ski lodge. Does it say something bad in the article?" She ask, more confused then ever.

She's ran around with Karmen and Ethan all her life and every reporter in the whole country knows about her family and the Boyett's family relationship it's not new Karmen's dad and her dad grew up together and have been friends forever.

Jackson started reading the whole Article out loud for the two of them. It told everything they had done that day . From eating breakfast to hitting the slopes , going shopping in the exclusive little shops around the resort . Even what they ate for dinner. But not one bad thing was ever mentioned .

He looked up at Lexi confused ."How the hell can you be seen in public with Ethan Boyett and nobody talks about you? That bastard lives in the fast lane he's in the clubs every night and only dates porn stars." He stated, as an actual fact he knows Ethan well because he parties with him at least once a month.

She giggled at the astonished looked on Jackson's face , she takes his phone pinching the screen so the picture will get bigger.

She pointed to three people in the photo wearing black suits and earpieces explaining everything to him, " Because everyone knows Ethan is like my brother and I have never been alone with anyone that's my body guards, Patrick, John and Tina. Tina isn't just a bodyguard she's a chaperone also.She even slept in the same room with me when we stayed at the lodge . If I left the castle for any reason they went too. "She flipped through every photo on his phone and pointed out the three bodyguards in each photo.