Sunset blossom

Alex opened the door to step into the hallway. Just to find his path was blocked. Karmen and Jackson stood in front of the doorway in a heated kiss . His mother was already walking up the hallway with one of Rich's men. Alex cleared his throat to gain their attention. Jackson raised head glaring at his brother, releasing karmen from his embrace. Alex opened the door wider for her to step inside the bedroom instructing her on what to do. " karmen , Lexi and the dress designer are already inside, when the two of you are done just stay in Lexi's bedroom until either me or Jackson come to get you."

Her eyes wondered back towards Jackson, he had pulled her back to him , he peck her lips one more time , reluctantly releasing her hand before she stepped inside. Alex closed the door behind her. Putting his hand on his shoulder reassuring him " she will be safe, I have a security camera in Lexi's room hooked up to my phone. And Rich has posted Tony and Scott in front of the door. Scott is inside right now. " he pointed down the hallway in the direction his mother was coming from ,with a large man in military style clothing with a gun strapped to his side. " here comes Tony now " they walked towards the two people coming down the hallway stopping to greet them, Alex spoke first " mother , don't brother knocking just go on in , the girls are already waiting for you." She nodded her head, pulling her younger son to the side ,so she could speak to him privately, "I have something for you," she reached inside her purse pulling out a small black velvet box with a tiny flat gold crown on top. Slipping it into his hand, telling him about the gift " I want you to have this, your father gave it to me the day you were born it's called the sunset blossom. He opened the box to reveal a rare fifteen carat padparadscha sapphire ring mounted on a beautiful vintage leaf, rose gold band . The beautiful sunset colors of the pinkish /orange sapphire danced brilliantly under the light coming from the chandeliers hanging in the hallway. His lips curled upwards as he slipped the velvet box into his pocket, he leaned forward kissing her cheek. Nonchalantly saying "Thank you mother, I will use this tonight." She stood dumbfounded, her mouth agape. With a smirk on his handsome face, he tilted his head to the side, shrugged his shoulders, asking her "what, did you never expect this day to come?" Joy overcome her, she wrapped her arms around him. Giving him instructions " do something romantic and get down on your knee." Chuckling, he reassured her " mother, I think I know how to propose." Alex over heard the conversation, between his mother and his younger brother. He turned his head looking their way, giving Jackson a little shout "let's go get this done so you can go on your date."

He hugged his mother once again before he turned to walk in the direction of his brother . As they walked down the grand staircase , Alex, mused " I guess mother is ready for you to settle down. Where do you plan to propose?"

"I don't really know, I need to go to the mall tonight and get a new phone. Do you and Lexi want to go with us?"

As they walked in to the service elevator, Alex pushed the button to take them back down into the basement, he leaned against the hand rail asking him " what's wrong with your phone, you just got a new one two weeks ago."

"When you called me I had my hand on Karmen's tattoo and I threw the damm thing across the bedroom ."

Laughter filled the air inside the elevator as the door opened up to the basement .They strolled down the hallway, with amusement in his voice he comments

" I'm assuming, she wasn't to pissed off about the article on the internet."

"No Alex, she's super sweet and kind"

Being curious he probed Alex for a little information " Alex, When did you know Lexi was your mate?"

Alex , pressed in a security code on the key pad to open the office door as they stepped inside, he took a seat behind the big wooden desk, answering his question

"I had a feeling she was a couple of times after I talked to her, we had so much in common."

"Yeah, that's for sure if two people where ever born to be together it's you and Lexi. It's strange how theirs no other girl in the whole country who fits you as perfectly as Lexi does."

He lites up a cigarette, propping his feet up on the desk, with a smirk on his face snuggly saying "Jackson, you can't believe how suited Lexi is to be a vampires wife."

Jackson set down on the sofa with both his legs stretched out on the seat crossing them at his ankles. Chuckling about the thought of the mad dash Karmen attempted at the lake house ,to save her best friend. Thinking this might be a good time to Inform Alex about what he needs to do.

"Yeah, yeah I heard you two at the lake house, you really need to sound prof that bedroom."

" I guess I should before King Charles and Queen Victoria come up , I know Lexi will want to take them out there."

He paused for a moment, taking an ashtray out of the desk drawer, pushing back with his heal so the chair tilted backwards a bit. He continued "back to what I was telling you,I never got to hold Lexi until I picked her up at Whitley Castle. And on the way home I had no doubt in my mind, I got this strange overwhelming feeling to protect her and make her happy."

"Alex, what do you mean you never got to hold Lexi ? Was you going to marry her with out knowing she was your mate."

"Just what I said, King Charles was so protective of Lexi I only talked to her on the phone and through video conferencing, the whole two years. Jackson I fell in love with her before I ever even touched her hand. I really didn't even know if the mating process would work on a human. But I didn't care."

"Alex where do you think I should propose to Karmen , I want some place a little romantic."

Chuckling, he smashed his cigarette out in the ashtray , sounding a little amused commenting " fuck if I know, if you remember I didn't really plan a proposal. I just needed to tell mother, grandmother had gave me her fire and ice ring before she died, it fit my relationship with Lexi so well, I decided to use it for her engagement ring. Makes me wonder sometimes if grandmother somehow knew I was going to marry Lexi."

Sounding confident , he simply stated "who knows Alex, grandmother was a strange old bird, with lots of abilities that nobody else has, it's possible she did know."

Jackson's comment made him reminisce about his grandmother, thinking about some of the strange things she told him. He was his grandmother's favorite grandchild, always keeping him close to her .As he was lost in his thoughts, Rich knocked on the door with Julie by his side.