She walked down the steps of her private jet onto the small airstrip that constituted to airport for the small town of Port Charles, NY. She couldn't believe that she was finally here. The small in descript sedan was there waiting for her to take to her hotel. Normally she would have taken a limo if not some luxury car that she would drive herself, but she didn't want to be noticed. No one knew who she was but she didn't want any unwanted attention drawn to herself. So she got in her car and drove to the Metro Court hotel, that was one thing that she splurged on she wanted to stay someplace nice.
She finally arrived at the hotel and when she walked in the door the first person she ran into was Jasper Jacks an old business associate of her mother. Her whole plan of not being noticed was shot out of the water.
"Alexandria, it's so nice to see you again. You have grown so much I remember when you were just a little girl. What brings you to Port Charles? Are you here with your mom?"
"Oh, hi Jax! I could ask you the same question about being in Port Charles?"
"I moved here about ten years ago and I own this hotel."
"Ok that explains a lot. No, I am not here with my mother. You must not have heard, but she died about 3 months ago from cancer. When she died I became owner and president of the company and I am here on work."
"I am so sorry to here that your mother died she was a wonderful women and even though I have not seen her in a while I will miss her."
"Thanks, but she suffered a long time and she is in a better place. I would love to catch up but I just flown in from London and want to check and get some sleep."
"We should get together and catch up; I can't believe that you are now running the company. That makes me feel old. So I will talk to you tomorrow."
"Maybe, but I have a lot of business to tend to tomorrow. I will come find you when I get a chance. It was nice to see you again."
She then walked toward the front desk and checked in and headed to a penthouse suite. She loved seeing Jax but it was very inconvenient to run into someone she knew when she was trying to lay low.
The next day she headed out to explore the city of Port Charles. She wanted to find out all the places that she would need to go to take care of her business before her meetings which did not start for another day. She asked the guy at the front desk what was the best place to get some breakfast and he told her to head to a place called Kelly's right near the
harbor.
When she walked into Kelly's she accidentally ran right into a man who was carrying food out. The food went flying and fell to the ground.
"I am so sorry," Alex said as she tried to get up and help the man with his now ruined food.
The man bent down to help her up and said, "Don't worry about it. It was an accident. I didn't see you coming through the door."
She looked up as he helped her up and she knew it was him. She had only seen the one picture of him in her file about him but she knew that he was Sonny Corinthos.
"Your Sonny Corinthos," she blurted out before she could stop herself.
"Yes, that is my name. Do I know you from somewhere you look really familiar?"
'I don't think so this is my first time to Port Charles and I would have remembered meeting you. I only know your name and what you look like because we have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow to discuss buying a pier from you for my shipping company.'
"You must be Alexandria Brooks of Brooks Shipping. I have to say I was expecting someone a lot older."
"Call me Alex, I hate my full first name. I just recently took over for my mother as owner and president of the company. With a move this big I like to take care of these things myself. I may be in charge but I am still learning and the best way to learn is by experience."
She knew that she was keeping a huge thing out of her conversation but she did not feel it was appropriate to bring it up at this point and time.
"I am so sorry for ruining your breakfast, please let me pay for your replacement."
"Don't worry about it my father runs the place and it won't be a problem for me to get new food. I look forward to our meeting tomorrow and getting to know you better. Have a great day," said Sonny as he went to get new food and leave.
He knew he had seen that face before but he could not figure where it was from but he was determined to find out the truth tomorrow at their meeting.
Alex sat down and ordered breakfast. She knew that she would have to see him sooner or later because she had a meeting with him tomorrow but she didn't know that she would feel this conflicted when she ran into her father for the first time.