Chloe's Pov
"uniter says what?" amy says flabbergasted.
"in my mother's journal, she talks about a family from odessa, ukraine that visited ours. it was the petrov family" i said.
"and my family used to vist a family in kyiv by the name of korol" alek said.
"i thought it was a coincidence at first but then alek mentioned he was from odessa and now i know it couldn't be a coincidence" i said. i was feeling... shocked.
"wait, did you say your dad is dmitry korol?" alek asked.
"yeah, why?"
"that means your the chloe kateryna koroleva, the heir to korol industries. your not just rich. your badass rich" alek said. i took out my phone and called daniel.
"hey daniel" i said when he answered the phone.
"whats up?" he siaid
"nothing, except for the fact that one of my friends didn't tell me that i'm the heir to a huge company" i told him.
"i'm sorry. it's just that if i told you, you wouldn't have come and i needed to see you again. ukraine needs you, you are the leader of our pride and your stupid cousin is mucking that up" he said the last sentence in anger.
"fine, i'll be there" i said giving in.
"yes!" i heard him yell.
"bye, daniel" i said rolling my eyes.
"bye chloe" he said.
"i'm glad to know that i'm not the only one you roll your eyes at" he smirked and i shoved him. then i got up.
where are you going?" he said.
"to talk to my mom" i said and he let me go. i then went to tell my mom everything i just
found out. she was just as shocked as i was about everything, especially when i told her about possibly already knowing alek from before, which valentina gave a possible confirmation to. i then went back to my seat, jasmine was asleep so i just read more of my mother's journal. i smiled about an entry she wrote, it was about how she made my hair into a french braid once and how i was giving her some trouble. then i saw the the picture that was taken of that day, i must of been about three or four when it was taken. i felt a tear slide down my cheek. i tried to wipe it off before anybody could see it, but it was to late.
"hey, what's wrong?" alek asked scincerely.
"nothing, just a picture of me and my parents" i said showing him the picture.
"wow. you look just like her" he said amazed.
"yeah, they were right when they said a picture was like a thousand words. just by that picture you can tell how much my father loved me and my mother. did you know they were high school sweethearts" i told him.
"really?"
"yeah. at first they hated each other, but then after being science partners for a semester when they were sixteen they became friends, and when they turned seventeen they started dating" i summarized. i looked at him and he had this faraway look on his face.
"my parents were kind of different. it was love at first sight for them. they first saw each other at fourteen, but they didn't really understand the kind of feelings thay had since they were so young. after they turned sixteen, my dad asked my mother out on a date and my
mother said yes" he shared.
"that's sweet. your parents sound like they were nice."
"they were." he smiled at me, not smirked, smiled. it was kinda nice.
"so is that all you learned about them, that they were high school sweethearts? he smirked. the cocky basterd has returned. i just raised my eyebrow.
"you know you don't have to do that, right?"
"do what?" he said innocently.
"act like you don't care. who am i kidding? that's what you do the best" i replied sadly and i continued to read my mother's journal. after about fifteen minutes, alek spoke.
"i'm sorry. i'm so used to being around people that don't know the real me, but the 'jocko' me, as you say it. it's become to easy for me to let a smirk pop up and i hope it's not to late, but please don't hate me" he begged.
"alek, i could never hate you, but from now on i want to be able to see the real you. deal?"
"deal" he answered.
"so what do you think about the could-have-known-each-other-when-we-were-younger
possibility?" i asked.
"i think it's sorta wierd, but it makes sense"he said.
"what do you mean?"
"your going to think it's stupid" he said running his finers throuh his hair.
"no i'm not. tell me."
"well ive got this vague memory of being in this large office when i was little. i was standing next to my parents when they introduced me to this girl.i don't remember the girl's name, but when i look back on this memory i get this vague flash of how the girl
looked like. her hair was the same color as yours, she had blue eyes, and she wore this outfit that only you would wair" he said smiling.
"what was i wearing?" i asked, not knoing if he noticed the change in pronoun.
"you were wearing pair of purple ballerina flats, black leggings, a purple tutu, a purple long-sleave undershirt, and over it you wearing a blackshirt that said 'i don't do cute' in the front and 'i do friggen' adorable' in the back. your accesories were a pair of black and purple fairy wings, and a black and purple fairy wand" he said describing the outfit i wore that day.
"wow. my style was awesome, even back then" i joked, which made alek chuckle.
"yeah. sorry i can't remember anything else though."
"it's alright, i didn't expect that you'd remember much. we were probably really young" i admitted and that's when we landed in the airport. we decided to wake jasmine up. then we all went to go wait for daniel to pick us up.
"chloe!" i heard someone call behind me. i looked to see a gay with spiky black hair and hazel eyes.
"daniel!" i called back and ran into his arms.
"how are you? how was your flight?" he asked.
"me and my flight are amazing" i laughed.
"hey, you must be daniel" alek said offering daniel his hand to shake.
"yes, i am. you must be alek. chloe can't stop talking about you and your cousin" he joked. alek smirked at me while i shoved daniel.
"look what you've done, daniel. it's gonna take forever to get the size of alek's ego back to
normal" i said.
"anyway, are you gonna introduce me to your friends" he said rolling his eyes at my antics.
"yeah sure. this is my adoptive mother merideth" i said pointing at my mom. daniel
shook her hand.
"this is alek's cousin, jasmine" i introduced. he shook hers as well, but i noticed his hand
stayed there for a few seconds longer.
"this is paul and amy i said pointing at my friends.
"and last but not least, this is jasmine's mom, valentina. guys this a family friend of mine,
daniel avron" i finished.
"it's so nice to meet you" daniel said.
"yeah, about that, you are goig to tell me everything" i said expectantly.
"fine, but can we do this in the car" he said.
"fine" i said. turned out the 'car' was a limo.
"wow. chloe wasn't kidding when she said the mai were doing well" my mother said, her voice full of shock.
"only the best for our pride leader" daniel grinned.
"yeah... what's up with that anyway?" i asked.
"before you mother and father ot married there had always been two prides in kyiv. your grandparents on your mother's side were the leaders of one and your grandparent's on your father's side were the leaders of the other pride. when both sets of grandparents died, your parents inherited the eperate roles of pride leader. the result of your parent's
marriage was the unification of both prides" daniel explained as we each took a seat in the limo.
"and the company?" i asked.
"korol industries have been in the hands of your father's family for generations. when your parents got married your mother's own company was then added to it. with the unification of companies your parents became one of the strongest power couples in ukraine at the time. this included alek's parents, who were quite
powerful themselves, i hear" he smiled.
"yeah, they were, but my mother was like chloe so down to earth and my father was incredibly humble, too" he said. I felt my cheeks heat up after alek compared me to his mother.
"one thing, these two have in common. they're both orphans of a war that enialated our
people" valentina said.
"well, anybody who hurts my little girl gets a baseball bat to the head" my mom said.
"mom!" i complained. i saw alek and jasmine try to hold in their laughter.
"well it's true. they hurt you, there going down san fransisco style" she said seriously.
"i find it surprising that you know what she is and you still love her" daniel said in respect.
"well what can i say i was a little shocked when i found out, but at the end of the day,
she's still my daughter. nothing can change that" my mother said. we then pulled up the 'house'. it was a mansion, literally, maybe it could count as two. we went in through a huge black gate and drove through a circular stone pathway that had a huge fountain in the middle. we got out of the limo and i took off my rayban sunglasses.
"this is mine?" i yelled.
"well, technically not yet. we need to make a quick stop tommorow. i was able to convince the court not to read your parent's will to your cousin yet, they were supposed to read it when you turned sixteen. they were also supposed to officially pronouce you dead that day. i convinced them not to" daniel said.
"is she relly as terrible as you say?" i asked.
"terrible is an understatement. britney messed everything up. she messed up everything your parents ever cared about" he scoffed.
"so we are not a fan of britney, i take it" alek said.
"britney isn't the worst person i've met. she's just so arrogant" he admitted.
"hey, alek maybe you and britney can meet up and start a club" i joked.
"hahaha. you think your so cute, when you say jokes like that" he quipped.
"well yeah, but that's not the point" i said.
"do they always flirt like this?" daniel asked.
"yup" amy, jasmine, my mom, and valentina said together. i felt heat rush up to my cheeks and when i turned to alek i saw him blush to.
"shutup!" me and alek. said together, we blushed once more, and we then walked up to the front door. daniel then put the key in the keyhole and opened the door. it was even more gorgeous in the inside.
"this house is gorgeous!" i exclaimed.
"i knew you'd like it" a guy with red hair said said from leaning on the staircase. he looked to be maybe eighteen.
"this is james, a member of your pride" daniel introduced.
"you must be chloe. we are so happy to have our rightful pride leader back" he said grabbing my hand and kissing the back of it while bowing. i blushed and you should have seen alek's face when this happened. he looked so jealous.
"and apparently, your also charming. i'm jasmine" jasmine said.
"nice to meet you jasmine" james said.
"let me show you to your room" daniel said. when we went up stairs so daniel could show us our rooms, alek stood there for a few minutes.
"don't worry, your still my favorite mai guy" i told him as i winked at him. i think i saw alek's jaw drop, but eventually he followed us upstairs. the hallway full of rooms was both large and long and almost every room had two seperate medium sized beds so we could share rooms. each room included two closets. the first room we came to was on the left, belonged to my mom and valentina their room was connected, by a very large bathroom, to the room jasmine and amy were sharing. jasmine and amy's room was right across the hall from the room alek and paul were staying in (alek was not happy had to share a room with paul). their room connected to a bathroom which was connected to my room that was at the very end of the hall.
"now i know you're not ecstatic about having your room be connected to alek's, but he's your protector so this is for your safety" daniel said before opening the door to my room. when he did open the room, i stepped into a slice of heaven. the room was gorgeous, there was a queen sized bed in the middle of the room, the covers on the blanket and pillows were royal blue with golden trimmings and stars. the colors of the uranian flag. the bed posts of the bed were mohagany. on each side of the bed there was a mahogany night stands. there was a huge mahogany closet in the corner of the room and next to it were one of those standing mahogany dressers.
"i'm going to leave you here to think, okay?" daniel told me. i just nodded.
"you know this was their room. this is where thay slept" i said to alek who stayed in the room with me.
"or where your mother was impregnated in" alek said looking around the room.
"alek!" i yelled.
"what do you want to say! the chipped bedpost is proof of it. it's also proof of her preference in style" alek said smirking.
"eww. too much info. neither of us need to know that about my mother" i said scrunching up my nose in disgusted mortification.
"didn't know you were such a prude, king" alek teased.
"i'm not. i just don't want the details on things like this" i said.
"so you don't want to know all the possible places they could have done it in the whole house?" he asked. i had just about had enough with alek for today.
"alek, out!" i said pointing at the badroom door.
"really? because one obvious place is-"
"i said out!"
"the spot your standing on, just might be one of the places" he continued.
"that's it!" i said and i pushed him out of the room.
"don't deny the fact that your curious" alek said after i locked the door behind him. i rolled my eyes and laughed softly. i love the guy to death, but sometimes he could be so annoying. wait, love? did i love alek? i don't know, my life is so confusing.