The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 25

Stacy’s POV

I knocked on the guest bedroom door but there was no answer. I gently opened the door and looked around, Soraya was not in the room but I could hear her. The sound of her throwing up in the bathroom. I quickly walked towards that direction. I was worried about her, clearly her and Xander had a fight, he had come out of the room looking like he was ready to strangle someone.

“Raya? Are you okay?” I asked her as I got into the bathroom. She had stopped retching, her body was heaving as she started to sob heavily.” I ran forward and pulled her into my arms. “Oh sweetie, what’s the matter?”

I pulled her up and took her to the basin where I washed her face and gave her some water to rinse her mouth then I gave her a face cloth to wipe her face. Her hair was in a ponytail so at least she hadn’t barfed all over it. I flushed the toilet then led her back to the room where I sat her on the bed.

“Stacy, I think I started with my contraception pills way too late and Xander threw away the rest. What if I’m pregnant, I can’t be pregnant.” She cried. I pulled her into my arms.

“Everything is going to be okay.” I shooshed her and rubbed her back.

“No it won’t be, I need to leave this place. I can’t give him another child.” She hiccuped as she continued to cry. “He doesn’t love me, I can’t be with a man that doesn’t love me.”

“What about Kai? You can’t leave Kai and your parents?” I pointed out to her.

“Stacy please help me get out of here. Kai has Gaia and you and my parents.” She shook her head. “I don’t want to stay here and live out the rest of my life like a zombie.” She pleaded.

“Raya…look at me, you two can fix this. You love each other.” I said softly.

Her expression changed, she had a determined angry look on her face. “If you don’t help me then I will get out of here myself. I am not having another child just so Xander Adamos can keep taking from me, he threatened to lock me up in a basement when I asked for a divorce.” She looked so angry, I knew I would not be able to reason with her at that point in time.

“Let me fetch you something to help you fall asleep, you need to rest. We can talk about this once you are calmer and come up with a plan okay?” She nodded.

I took off to my room to grab a Xanax then I ran back to her room. “There you go sweetie, take this and get some sleep. We will sort this out.” I watched her take the Xanax then kissed her cheek. A few moments later she was knocked out. Hector or Gaia had to intervene, I could not lose my best friend again.

I went in search for Hector but I couldn’t replace him. Ever since I had told him I was pregnant, as excited as he was…he was also worried. He had made me promise him over and over that I would be careful outside the estate.

I looked everywhere until I decided to go and look for Gaia rather. She was in kitchen giving instructions for supper.

“Gaia, May I have a word with you please” I asked her and she smiled at me.

“Of course, let me finish up here and then I will replace you in the drawing room perhaps?” I nodded and went there to wait.

A few moments later she came to replace me, one of the housekeepers was with her, carrying a tray of a really deliciously scented tea and some biscuits.

“You can set them on the table Talia, thank you. Will you fetch the kids outside and make sure the nannies clean them up.” She instructed the house keeper.

“This sounds serious.” She looked at me.

“It is, Xander and Soraya. She is not okay and Xander is not helping the situation.” I tried to think of how to approach the topic.

“My son baffles me at times, with all that he has achieved in his life, there’s one thing he is definitely failing dismally at and that’s communication with his partners.” She shook her head and tutted.

“I don’t want to meddle Gaia because you know how Xander is but the truth is he strong armed Soraya into this marriage, Hector and I agreed to be their witnesses because we knew that they are in love with each other and hoped that they would eventually see it, I mean only a fool would ignore the signs right? But they are always fighting.”

“They are definitely in love, there’s no denying that. I have been told Soraya moved into the guest bedroom.”

“She wants a divorce.” I hesitated.

“Oh no, we can’t have that. You are not being completely forthcoming with me Stacy. Tell me everything so that I can knock some sense into my son.”

I started from the beginning, telling her what I knew but leaving out the part about Soraya suspecting that she was pregnant. I looked at Gaia and judging from the expression on her face, she looked like she was ready to give her son a beating. I had noticed how everyone in the house was terrified of Xander but his mother could shut him up with just one look. She had the power to talk some sense into him. Gaia was sweet natured but she could also turn from sweet to assassins creed in seconds.

“And you say he threatened to lock her up in the basement?”

“That’s what she said, she has asked me to help her escape. Gaia, Kai will be destroyed by this and Xander, as foolish as he is acting will never get another chance at love again. He needs to stop being so stubborn and open up to Soraya, she thinks he doesn’t love her. I don’t want her to take of again, this time she might just go on the hide to a place where he will never replace her.” I said

“I will take care of it, don’t stress. I made you some fruit tea, there are certain teas that you can’t drink in your condition sweetheart, I asked Helga to make you my special fruit tea. Safe to drink and will not upset your stomach, I can’t wait to have the cries of a newborn in the house.” She beamed.

I blushed and smiled. “Is there anything that gets past you in this estate.” I laughed.

“My husband was a mafia boss, he taught me a thing or two about always staying ahead.” She chuckled. I could not help but laugh.

“Let me go and replace this son of mine and knock some sense into him.” She said. She kissed my cheek then she walked off.

Xander’s POV

“Okay, now that we have a solid plan in place, you can go ahead and organise the tactical teams. We execute this plan in a week, you can go ahead and brief Dorian.” I said to Hector as we went through our strategy.

“We can get everything ready by then.” He smiled.

The door to my office opened and my mother walked in. She looked like she was ready to kill.

“Mother, we are kind of in the middle of something.” I smiled at her.

“Hector, will you please excuse us.” She ignored me and looked directly at Hector.

“Yes ma’am.” He said without question. He gave me a ‘you are in so much trouble’ look and sniggered as he walked to the door but when she looked at him he composed himself quickly. My mother tended to have that effect on people. She could intimidate them with just one look. My father used to joke that I got my deathly stare from her. Hector exited the office and my mother took a seat in front of my table.

“Sit!” She instructed. I didn’t argue with her, I took a seat in my chair and prepared to listen to what she had to say.

“I should take your father’s old cane and use that to knock some bloody sense into you Xander Adamos! Arranged marriage?” She frowned at me.

Damnit! When would Hector’s meddling wife learn to mind her own damn business. I clenched my jaw.

“If you attack Stacy about this, you will have me to reckon with. She is concerned about your wife’s wellbeing.” She added.

“I had no other choice mother, Soraya is stubborn, she fights me at every chance she gets. I mean I know I’m to blame for it but there was no other way to get her to agree to marry me. I did it for hers and my son’s safety.” I tried to explain.

“I don’t blame the poor girl, you slept with her then offered to pay her for giving herself to you! Have I taught you nothing! Did your marriage with Hera teach you nothing? You can’t bully your wife into submission! You love her into submission, a woman naturally submits to her dominant man when she feels loved and protected.”

“I don’t think she loves me, she’s said it a thousand times.” I said to her.

“Then you are a fool my son. That woman loves you with every fibre of her being. She is just scared to open up because you don’t open up to her and you are not helping because you keep threatening her. You need to be earning her trust and telling her everyday that you love her to make up for what you did. And this nonsense with these women from your past needs to stop. What was Maya doing here?” She snapped at me.

“She was here for Sofija’s high tea, you know me better than that mother.”

“I know that you are silly enough to use a situation like that to try and make your own wife jealous, it will only push her further away. You need to also tell her about Hera, son you need to accept that it was not your fault and that there was nothing humanly possible that you could have done, heal from your wounds then allow Soraya to love you.”

I felt myself tense when she mentioned Hera, I could not share any of that with Soraya.

I didn’t know what to say, trust my mother to know exactly what was going on.”

“Allow yourself to be vulnerable around her or you will lose her.” She said softly. “Go and talk to your wife. I swear son if I lose my daughter in law, there will be hell to pay.” She finished off. My mother, like me did not make empty threats.

She got up and came around the table to hug me, she gave me a k**s on my forehead. “What happened to Hera was not your fault. Fix this.”

She walked out of the office, I sat there wrecking my brain about what to do. I could come up with strategies for my business in my sleep but when it came to Soraya, I was as lost as a ship in a storm with no light house to guide it. I got up and went upstairs to her room again.