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Chapter 7: Beauty

Zora's POV

I was resting on kenzi's arm with our legs interwined together, my hands were wrapped around his torso and his arm hugged me tight.

I loved the position to be honest. But I needed to get out of it to avoid any awkwardness.

Just as I was about to act, Kenzi moved and I pretend to be asleep.

He gently peeled himself from me and replaced himself with a pillow. As sokn as I heard the soft click of the door and finally opened my eyes.

'So it wasn't a dream'. I thought. 'But how did we end up in that position?' I asked myself. I really hope nothing else happened because I don't recall anything from the time he turned to leave the room.

I picked my phone to call my Mum but the network was still not okay.

I got off the bed and headed downstairs to the kitchen, part of the details Julia gave to me earlier. My room was on the second floor along with that of the twins.

If I can't make calls, I definitely could listen to music. I plugged in my earphone and started listening to Dance the Night by Dua Lipa.

Some people passed by and looked at me strangely. I would do the same if I saw someone with earphones singing and dancing on the stairs. On getting to the kitchen, I saw a man who looked exactly like Kenzi. I would have mistaken him for Kenzi if his hair color wasn't gray and his aura was so commanding that you wouldn't dare to go against him. There was no need to guess, it was his father. I paused the music and removed the earphones.

"Hello sir '' I greeted with a smile. He paused in his track, turned and looked in my direction. Recognition lit his face but I could swear this was my first meeting with him.

"Zoe right?" He asked. Taking a seat on one of the stools in front of the island. He looked strict but the reaction I got from him said a different thing. Maybe he just look that way, I thought.

"Yes, you are right sir." I said with a smile. He smiled too and introduced himself as Alpha Blake.

"Go ahead with what you came here for" He said. I almost forgot what brought me to the kitchen. I went to the refrigerator,opened it and picked a fruit juice. The moment I closed the door, Kenzi appeared.

"Good morning" He greeted and took the same juice I picked earlier. The refrigerator is the first thing you will come accross in the kitchen.

"Morning" I replied awkwardly occupying myself with the juice cap.

"What a beauty you got yourself" Kenzi's father said. I looked at him and back at Kenzi.

His expression instantly changed when he saw his father and I became confused. The air in the kitchen also changed but this only made his father to smirk.

Thank God for the phone call that came through Alpha Blake's phone, I wonder what would have happened this early morning.

"This is Alpha Blake speaking," He said and paused. "Give me 10minutes" He replied to the person and hung up.

"Let's have a nice chat some other time" His smirk was back on his face.

"Not happening" Kenzi said quietly but I heard him and his father's reaction confirmed he did too. I gave him a small smile and he left thw kitchen.

"What was that about " I couldn't help but ask him.

"It was nothing" He replied trying to sound normal and took a seat too.

"I'm sure it wasn't nothing". I said opening my juice and emptying the content into a glass cup until it reached half.

I closed it and kept it down. I turned to look at him and noticed he has emptied his own juice before I took a sip from mine.

"Wow!!" the word flew out of my mouth.

"Which do you prefer, cereal or pancake?" He was already taking out the ingredients.

"Ofcourse Pancake," I said, forgetting about the question. Yes, a pancake can make me do that.

I smiled and offered to do it instead.

He accepted and rested his back on one side of the island watching me. I started mixing it and in less than fifteen minutes, the pancake was ready.

Kenzi never stopped looking at me. The awkwardness left a while ago. I turned and asked for syrup. He went to the cabinet to bring a new one since the last opened one has been used up.

Surprisingly my phone rang. I removed it from my pocket and Jay's name flashed on the screen.

I excused myself from the kitchen and headed to the corridor to receive the call.

"Jay!!!" I screamed on the phone.

"I knew this would happen, so I kept my phone 2 inches away from my ear,"he said laughing.

True, I do that to him alot.

"How have you been?" He asked.

"Trying to cope," I said and signed.

"I heard about your vacation," he said again.

Vacation? Was that what mum told him?

"Oh, it's fun," I said, twisting the edge of my hair. It was partly true.

We talked about other things too before he hung up. I imagined what my brother would do the moment my real identity is revealed to him. I signed and opened the door to the kitchen.

Kenzi was scrolling through his phone but he stopped when he saw me.

"Finally" He said and threw his hand in the air playfully. Just as he stood up to put the syrup on the pancake, a girl with wavy strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes walked in. She was tall, slim and looked like a disney princess.

She strolled to the island and took a seat. "Hi" She said sweetly, looking specifically at kenzi before sparing me a glance. I almost rolled my eyes but didn't, not to be rude on a first meeting. At least she greeted, that was a little sweet.

"Hey Mira" Kenzi answered the same time he finished topping the pancake with the syrup.

Hmm what a name for a beauty, I thought.

But her next action made me to retract my compliment immediately.

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