The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 10

Xander’s POV

“I want it done in an hour Dorian, I don’t care how you f*****g do it! If you have to burn down that entire place then do it!” Hector yelled into his phone then hung up.

“We need to have that meeting then get back to California. There are certain things that can’t be delegated over the phone.” He said to me with so much annoyance in his voice.

“You need to go back to California, I am staying until I sort out this mess with Soraya.” I informed him. “Dorian needs to realise that talking wastes time, there’s a reason why we don’t negotiate with those Italian fools. Your brother needs to get with the program.”

He cussed under his breath. “I don’t know if his softness comes from having a different mother, he will get himself killed.” He sighed. “So what are you going to do? When she replaces out who you really are, she won’t want you to be in the boy’s life.”

“Well I’m not going to give her much of a choice am I? Either she agrees to what I want or I take my son away with me.” Soraya had no idea what it meant to have my son, a lot of people would be out there trying to replace weaknesses to take me down since I was the head of a Mafia family. I would not leave my son unprotected or trust anyone else to take care of him. I had done my due diligence by combing through Soraya’s life to make sure she had no other obligations.

She had quit her job at a small firm in New York, I was guessing it was to come back to take care of her ailing father, she was not married like I had assumed at first which suited me just fine. The idea of another man touching her or raising my son made my b***d boil.

I had arranged for Hector to take my place in the rescheduled business meeting I had missed so that I could have some time with my son and Soraya. I had a proposal for her and if she didn’t agree to it then I’d have to do what was necessary to keep Kai safe. Even if I were to keep myself out of their lives, what guarantee did I have that one of my enemies wouldn’t replace out about him at some point and try to get to me by hurting him or Soraya.

“You know they say you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, maybe don’t be your usual aggressive self when you are around Soraya. The last thing you want is to rip a child away from the only parent he has ever known and besides, you want her back don’t know?” Hector said

“I don’t remember asking for your advice.” I gave him a hard look which didn’t seem to deter him from speaking his mind.

“You have been alone for far too long Xander and yes you are alone because we can’t count the many gold digging women that come in and out of your life as companions. You need to forgive yourself for what happened to Hera.” He kept talking.

“I’d be careful of the next words that come out of your mouth.” I threatened him.

“I get it, you don’t want to talk about her and you don’t want to acknowledge the feelings you have had for Soraya since that day when you spotted her at the club, do you really want to live the rest of your life having the likes of Leticia in your bed or do you want to have a solid family once again?” He finished off and got up from his seat. “I will take care of anything you need me to take care of business wise, you know I will always have your back, you need to go back to living your life. You stopped living the day Hera died.”

I clenched my fists and walked to the bar to pour myself a drink. He nodded his head and walked out.

I never allowed myself to think of Hera, I felt like I didn’t deserve the memories I had with her. I let her down and now she was dead because I didn’t protect her like a husband was supposed to. A flashback of her heavily pregnant body in my arms hit me causing me to close my eyes shut. It didn’t take away the image of the b***d that had soaked her white dress and coloured her blonde hair.

I took a swig of the whisky and poured myself another one but then I remembered that I had to meet Kai today. I took a deep breath and placed the glass on the counter of the bar. I headed upstairs to take a shower.

Soraya POV

“Kai please stop running around and get dressed honey or else we are going to be late.” I scolded him.

“I don’t like this shirt, why can’t I wear my black DBZ t shirt.” He sulked.

“Because you got paint all over it and I didn’t have time to wash it. You can wear it another day.” I tried bargaining with him to no avail. He sat on the bed and crossed his arms on his chest.

“I wanna stay with grandma and grandpa.” He said. “I don’t want a daddy anymore.”

“This is not a negotiation, you are coming with me Kai Alexandre Eaton! Get up and put this shirt on or I will be confiscating all of your games and your toys.” I tried the tough love parenting style. He looked at me wearily not sure if he should believe what I said or take a chance. “That’s it! You think I’m playing, you can stay here but every toy or game in here is going back into storage.” I began grabbing items but he got up and put on the shirt I had laid out for him on the bed.

I rolled my eyes. “Put on your shoes so that we can leave.”

He sulked the entire time, even when we got to the car and I put on our favourite song, Bruno Mars’ Count on me. He just sat there and stared out the window.

“You wanted to meet your dad and today he wants to spend some time with you.” I reminded him. We got to the hotel and I handed my keys over to the valet then walked in. We walked to where the concierge counter was. “Hi, uhmm I have a meeting with Xander Adamos?” I spoke to a lady in uniform.

“Miss Eaton, please follow me right this way.” She smiled but I could see she was trying really hard not to stare at Kai. We walked to a side door where heavily armed men were standing, I watched as the lady relayed something to the guys. They stood aside and let us through then she walked us to a elevator where she took out a piece of paper and punched out some password then pressed the button that would take us to the top floor. The guards and the secret passwords made me think about how I really knew nothing about Xander, what kind of businesses did he run.

“Someone will meet you up there.” She smiled then walked back the way we came. The doors closed and the elevator started to move.

“I have never been on a elevator that needs a secret password.” Kai said quietly looking at the buttons with fascination.

“You would have missed all that if you had stayed at home.” I said and smiled.

We reached the top floor and the doors swung open. A butler was standing by to receive us. “Miss Eaton, Master Kai, good day, right this way please.”

“Oh please, it’s just Soraya and Kai.” I said frowning at the fact that he had just called my son ‘Master’. A memory from six years ago flashed into my mind, the maid who had woken me up after my night with Xander, she had also called him Master.

This was the same apartment that I had been too all those years back. The decor was different but nonetheless it was the same place. My heart lurched as memories came flooding into my mind.

“Mommy look there’s a pool by the balcony and it’s all glass, I can see through. Kai pointed.

“It’s pretty cool honey.” I said, a little distracted as the buttler led us to the lounge.

“My name is John, Master Adamos’ buttler. Can I get you anything to drink while you wait for him?” He said.

“I found him a little weird but I just smiled kindly. Uhmm yes please John. A bottle of water for me please and…” I was about to order something for Kai when he spoke out loud.

“I’ll have a raspberry slushy please.” He grinned .

“Honey I don’t think they have one.” I tried to explain to him.

“Of course they do, he will have a raspberry slushy John.” A heavily accented voice came from the landing of the stairs. I was so nervous I had not heard anyone descending the stairs. Xander smiled at us as he walked towards us, I held my breath. This man looked like a god, my heart raced and I slowly breathed out. He looked so casual in his black jeans and t shirt with a denim button shirt over his black one, the denim shirt was folded at the arms. I felt myself get aroused just by watching his muscle toned arms. I looked up at him and his eyes were just glowing as his dimpled smile widened, I quickly looked down at my feet as I felt myself blush. The butler walked away as Xander sat back on the sofa across from where Kai and I sat.

“Hi there little guy.” He smiled at Kai who eyed him wearily.

“You have a nice pool.” Kai said looking at him like they were having a staring contest.

“Would you like to take a swim in it?” He asked.

“No.” Kai shook his head dismissively making Xander frown.

Xander looked up at me. “It’s nice to know that I can still make you blush.” He said as the frown left his face.

I rolled my eyes at him. “Nothing special.”

“You remember this place?” He asked me as he looked around him and smiled.

“I’m not here to reminisce about the past, I brought your son to you just like you demanded.” I said quietly.

“Are you really my daddy? How come you never came home even when I wrote to you or called.” Kai looked at him.

“Uhmm honey I told you he was busy.” I quickly interjected. Xander looked at me with raised brows.

“You must be hungry right? I think we both are so maybe we should see what food is available.” I said quickly.

John came back with our drinks, he’d brought me the water I had requested but he had also brought me a glass of dry white wine. Xander instructed him to take Kai to the kitchen so that he could tell the chef exactly what he wanted to eat. “I have requested for a separate meal to be prepared for you and I.” He smiled at me.

“You haven’t changed at all, the only thing that’s different about you is your hair.” He said as he eyed me up and down. I was wearing a short white summer dress, it was a strappy dress that was tight on my bust and abdomen but loose as it went past my waist. It had grey floral traces on it. I had paired it up with simple light brown flat sandals.

“Here, you can read these.” I handed him a box of letters that Kai had written to him and the typed letters that I had written back to Kai pretending to be his father. “I’m not proud of this but how could I tell him that you were dead when you were not.”

“So this is what he meant when he said he wrote to me.” He looked at the box.

He took out one letter and read it, his expression changed into an emotion I’d never seen on him, he quickly composed himself then folded the letter and put it back in the box. “Thanks, I guess I need to know what it is I said to him incase he asks. He nodded and got up to put the box in a drawer.

“He might be a little weird with you at first but he’s a sweet kid, it’s just been me and him you know. In New York he was signed up for soccer and swimming and he was a Boy Scout.” I smiled as I said this.

“I can’t believe you went through all that by yourself.” He looked at me thoughtfully.

“It wasn’t easy but these past six years have been the best so far.” I shared with him. “I also brought you his pictures from when he was a baby until now.” I took out a small envelope from my bag. “There are videos too but I didn’t get a chance to get the externals from storage.”

“We have something to talk about.” He said as he took the envelope but I will wait until later on.” He informed me.

Kai came running back into the lounge.

“Mommy this place is really cool, they have so many secret doors and in one of the rooms there’s a gaming area plus the chef said I could have anything I wanted.” He said with so much excitement.

“Wow that’s pretty cool. So what are you having for lunch.” As I asked this I looked at Xander disapprovingly knowing that he had arranged that gaming room in a short space of time to bribe Kai.

“Chicken tenders with cheesy curly fries…oh and dessert, ice cream with chocolate cake.” He grinned at me.

I laughed. “That’s a lot of food honey.” I shook my head. “Your dad is going to hang out with you in the game room, you guys can play some games and get to know each other after lunch.”

“Where are you going.” They both asked me at the same time. Kai looked nervous like he thought I would leave him here by himself.

“Nowhere, I am going to just sit here and read a magazine.” I smiled at Kai.

“Oh okay, as long as you don’t go anywhere.” He said with a serious look on his face.

Kai started talking to Xander as we ate lunch, he seemed to relax and take in everything that Xander would say. Xander had him giggling and gasping in astonishment at the cool stories he told him. They spoke like they had know each other for a long time, it was beautiful to watch. I noticed how they even had similar mannerisms. The way Kai’s brow furrowed when he explained something, how he threw his head back a little when he laughed, it was all Xander. Even the way they held their cutlery, their smiles with the dimples were so identical. My heart swelled.

After lunch, he grabbed Xander by the hand and pulled him towards a passage that apparently led to the game room. I started to relax, maybe this really was what Kai needed, it was going so well so far.

I took out a magazine that I’d never finished reading on the plane and I tucked into it but I got so drowsy that I ended up laying on the sofa and falling asleep.