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• A Beautiful Secret   Chapter 8–Dinner With My Family

  Xavier's POV"Javier, Javier, please wake up. Javier, you need to wake up. Mom and Dad are here". Ten year old Xavier sobs"Please Javier! Javier!!!"I jolt awake from my slumber. I was sweating profusely and breathing hard. I grab the bottle of water next to me and gulp down its content.I rub my temple with the hopes of ridding myself of the headache that was starting to form. I take my pills prescribed to me by my physician for suppressing migraines.Getting off my bed, I head into the bathroom. I rinse my face and look into the mirror. My eyes are bloodshot and my hair is disheveled.I perform my morning routine and take a shower. I dress up in casual dark blue shorts and a white shirt with some matching white sneakers.I go into my room, grab my phone and head into the kitchen to see my housekeeper, Martha already making breakfast."Good morning sir King""Good morning, Martha. How was your night?""It was fine, thank

• A Beautiful Secret   Chapter 7–My Mistake

  Galaxia's POVAfter our little reunion, we head over to the dining room with profound happiness and extreme hunger. It was already 8:17p.m. My mom and I head into the kitchen to bring out the dishes. lαncαshírє hσtspσt, tσαd-ín-thє-hσlє, crσquєttє, lαsαgnα and many more. Immediately my brothers and my dad spot the food, they start licking their lips and rubbing their palms together.They're about to start eating without waiting for my mom and I to sit first, then mom hits my dad's outstretched arm and I hit my brothers'. They start rubbing their arm while my mom and I glare at them."I can't believe you guys can't wait for us to be seated first. And Kingston, I'm disappointed in you. I mean you're supposed to be a good role model to them. We haven't even said prayers first". She scolds them."I'm sorry, honey. But you know how irresistible your cooking is. We just couldn't wait much longer" my dad says and winks at my mom."Awwn really? Thanks swe

• A Beautiful Secret   Chapter 6–Unbreakable Bond

  Galaxia's POVMy phone beeps, signifying the entry of a text. I snap out of memory lane and check my phone to see it's a text from my mom."Where are you?! Laxy, if you for any reason miss tonight's dinner, you're gonna hear it. Your father, brothers and I are all here waiting for you. Get down here this instant!".I immediately look at the illuminating clock in my car and see it's 6:55 p.m. I'm almost late by an hour. I've been reminiscing for fifteen whole minutes.I hurriedly get out of my car, grabbing all my necessities and practically sprint all the way inside with heels on.I knock impatiently and one of my parents' helpers opens the door, bowing slightly and muttering a greeting. I absentmindedly nod my head and run in.I step into the living room and find everyone sitting there. My dad and brothers are chatting away and my mom is standing, looking at her wristwatch while tapping her foot impatiently on the floor.She lo

• A Beautiful Secret   Chapter 5– A Glimpse Of The Past

  Galaxia's POVBeep Beep BeepMy alarm goes off again at 5:00a.m. and I turn it off. I've been awake since 1:47a.m. and I've not been able to go back to sleep. I think I should stop setting my alarm since I wake up even before it goes off.I get off my bed and make my way into the bathroom to brush my teeth. I change into my workout outfit and perform my morning routine before showering. Then I head into my closet to pick something to wear.My Thursday, which was yesterday, was a normal day, no drama whatsoever. Once a week, I'd always go around my company to check a few things and probably fire employees that are slacking off.When I first started this monitoring, a lot of employees were fired. I had caught some of them just standing there, talking and gossiping. They were beyond shocked when they turned to go back to work and found me right behind them with my signature emotionless face and arms crossed.I fired them without hesitation and

• A Beautiful Secret   Chapter 4–Xavier

  Xavier's POVI sip my cup of coffee as I glance at my bedside table to see the time is 3:27 a.m. I have been working on my laptop since I got back from work about five hours earlier.Ever since the incident that occurred when I was ten, fifteen years ago, I've been having these constant nightmares, so I do everything I can to avoid sleeping. Of course, there were times where I'd sleep off and then have nightmares.When I was younger, my parents took me to visit different therapists because after the incident, I became distant and withdrawn. No matter how many therapists I visited, the nightmares never went away, not one day and I never grew accustomed to them no matter how often they occurred.As time went by and I grew older, my technique of avoiding falling into slumber started improving and now I can stay awake for a long time, however there are still times where I'd fall asleep at work or at home no matter how hard I try to avoid it.It affects me m

• A Beautiful Secret   Chapter 3–Annoying Day

  I listen to some music on my playlist while reading through some files before drawing more sketches of designs I might produce next. Immediately I released this "in vogue" products, I started drawing new ones so I wouldn't have to rush later and because I had nothing else to do.I suddenly remember this lunch I am supposed to crash so I check my wristwatch and see it's already 12:45 p.m. I close my sketchpad, take off my headphones and get up, grabbing my shades and putting them on.I walk out of my office and see my personal assistant standing and talking to my secretary. As soon as they see me, my P.A. quickly looks down and starts fiddling with her fingers and my secretary gets back to whatever she was doing.I ignore the both of them and walk straight to the elevator. I scan my thumb again and the metallic door slides open. I walk in and my P.A. follows fearfully after. I'm pretty sure she's about to suffer a heart attack due to the fact that she would be al