On this day, Hailee was not at home, because she went out with Candice and Lis to do some shopping.
A kind of women's activity where husbands were left at home to look after their children.
Actually Ramon and Lexus didn't mind, especially since Jayden and Misha were only a year apart, so they could play together.
But, the problem was Alina.
The little girl who had started to become a teenager began to make many friends and spent more time with her friends than with her family.
Actually there was nothing strange about it, it was something natural as the kids started growing up and began having their own friendship life, the parents had to start picturing themselves as friends for their children.
However, the two men from the Tordoff family still couldn't accept this fact.
In their eyes, Alina was their little girl they had to take care of. For them, she was always a child who would run toward her father or her uncle while smiling broadly before hugging them tightly.
It was a shame, Alina rarely did that lately and what was more, she also spoiled the two men only once in a blue moon.
And Alina's change was very pronounced for Ramon and Lexus.
This afternoon, Alina had a group study, where three of her friends would come, while they consisted of two boys and one girl.
"Why are there boys in your study group?" Lexus asked with a probing tone, he was holding Misha and feeding him.
"Why can't they?" Alina tilted her head, feeling strange at the question raised by Lexus. "Ours is a coeducational school, so of course there will be boys in my group."
"I should have sent you to the only girls' school," Ramon muttered as he tried to make Jayden eat quietly.
Lexus just realized that feeding a child was very inconvenient because all this time he had never really been left alone with Misha, there would always be Candice or a babysitter to tend to them. As for Ramon, he seemed much more in control of the situation.
"Seriously, papa..." Alina muttered while rolling her eyes. She was now being helped by two maids to arrange afternoon snacks for her study time together with her classmates. She looked cheerful.
Of course, Alina's facial expression could be seen clearly by Ramon and Lexus and it aroused even more suspicion in them.
"Don't lock your room," Ramon said.
"Yes," Alina replied, still garnishing the small cakes on the plate.
"Don't do anything stupid," Lexus added.
"We're going to study uncle, no-no what do you mean?" Alina frowned and pouted.
Alina knew that the two of them were very overprotective, but actually she didn't have a problem with it at all. It was just that, sometimes, being watched so closely like this was really uncomfortable.
Therefore, she had to confirm something with these two men before things got any worse than now.
"Okay, listen," Alina said, this time she walked closer to her father and uncle and shortened the distance between them.
This time, Alina looked like Ramon when he was asking for people's full attention in an important meeting he was about to chair, and the strange thing was; both Ramon and Lexus paid close attention to her. Even Misha and Jayden perked their ears up.
"I hope you two don't do strange things while I work on our group assignment," Alina said, opening the conversation. "We will only work as a group, nothing more, so throw away your negative thoughts."
Lexus scowled, he then denied. "What negative thoughts do you mean? Of course we don't have any negative thoughts, anyway what can we do? What do you mean by doing weird things?"
Lexus spoke too fast to sound confident with his offended acting, while Ramon was silent because Lexus had already said what he wanted to say.
"I don't know," Alina said. She then folded her arms and tilted her head, just like Hailee when she understood that Lexus was trying to trick her. "Maybe you will spy on my room or accidentally enter my room suddenly or do other things that can interfere with my efficiency."
Lexus gulped. He didn't need to say that what Alina said was true, because that was what had been on his mind all along.
Lexus then glanced at Ramon with accusing eyes that Ramon couldn't understand, because right now Lexus was accusing his older brother of raising a daughter like himself who was full of calculations and logic.
Meanwhile, Lexus' expression told Alina that she had guessed correctly.
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Outside Alina's room, Ramon was receiving a phone call from David, who was reporting on the three children that came to study with Alina, after he sent pictures of Alina's three friends who had just arrived. Especially the background of the two boys in the room.
Ramon wanted to know which family the two boys belonged to, the full names of their parents, what business they were involved in and any other records that David was able to find in the shortest time possible.
While by his side, Lexus was holding Misha in his left hand and Jayden in his right, while he put his ear close to Ramon's to be able to hear the report.
The first boy was named Luca De Russo and he was from one of the most respected families in town A who also had a business in the transportation sector. Ramon knew the family.
While the second one was Sebastian Ashburn, he was the first son of a businessman whose company stocks had recently skyrocketed. Ramon also recognized this family.
"It doesn't seem too suspicious," Lexus muttered after Ramon turned off his cell phone. "But, we can't let our guard down." He added.
However, without the two of them expecting it, Alina was already standing in the doorway and staring at the two men with sharp eyes.
"You broke the agreement," she said in a cold, sharp tone. Just hearing it left Lexus and Ramon quite surprised.
Then without saying much, Alina closed the door to her room, slamming it slightly.
Ramon and Lexus thought their problem was just dealing with an angry Alina, but it didn't end there, because moments later they got a phone call from Hailee and Candice.
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