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"Alexis, I'm back." I said opening the door to the apartment.
"Hey, did your meeting finish early?" She asked peering her head out the bedroom.
"Yea, we got the budget done fairly quickly." I said walking into the bedroom where she was packing her bags.
"Well, that's good. I'm almost done."
"Ok, well I'm going to take my bags down to the rental car." I said grabbing my suitcase and hers, throwing her other bag over my shoulder.
"Ok. I'll lock up and be down in a minute with mine."
We pulled out from the underground parking garage and onto the street.
"You excited?" I asked as I got onto the interstate.
"Yea, I love the Hamptons. I can't wait till you see the house. I have so many memories in that house."
"I can't wait either. I'm really glad that you invited me."
"Jasper, you are the most important thing in my life right now. I love you and I don't want to spend the holidays without you." She said taking my hand.
"I love you too." I said. "How about you take a nap since you got up early. I'll wake you when we get there."
"Ok."
I pulled into the driveway and parked the car. The house was beautiful. Everything you could think of when you thought of the Hamptons, except instead of the nice weather, it was starting to snow. I looked over at Alexis who had fallen asleep, leaning over I peppered kisses on her face.
"Alexis, sweetheart, we're here." She opened her eyes revealing a sea of endless blue. She sat up in her seat quickly and looked around trying to recover from her nap. "How about you go on in. I'll get the bags and suitcases out. I don't want you to catch a cold."
"You sure?" She said unbuckling her seatbelt.
"I got it. Go on."
She got out of the car and walked carefully up to the house. I stepped out of the car and opened the trunk. I took out all the necessary bags leaving the bags of presents in for later. As I took out the last bag, my phone rang.
"Bracken."
"Is this Jasper?"
"It is."
"This is Greg Fuller from the private investigator company returning your phone call."
"Mr. Fuller, thanks for returning my phone call."
"What did you have in mind?"
"I need you to keep in eye on my father for me, Senator Bracken."
"For how long?"
"Until you find something."
"What exactly am I looking for?"
"Anything suspicious. I want to know who he meets with, where he is going, I want to know everything."
"Ok. I let you know." With that he hung up.
I sighed and put the phone back in my pocket. Grabbing the bags, I walked up to the house and opened the door. No one was in the foyer of the house, but I heard laughter coming from the back of the house. I sat the suitcases by the stairs and started to walk towards the voices. The hallway was decorated with family photos. Frames of a child version of Alexis on the beach with her father, of her building sand castles, and one from not too long ago standing on the beach with Beckett, Castle, and Martha.
The hall opened up into the kitchen where everyone stood around the island talking and laughing.
"There you are. I thought you fell on the ice." Alexis said when she saw me.
"No, I had a phone call." I said taking her hand.
"Is everything alright?"
"Yea, Miss White was just updating me with the budget."
"Ok. Well, let me show you around." She said. "Dad, will you have dinner ready when we get back?"
"Yes, sweetheart. Alexis, separate rooms." Castle said eyeing her.
"Oh, Richard, they leave together. They sleep in the same bed all the time. They probably do just as what you and Katherine do." Martha said waving her wine glass around.
"Oh god, Grams, you're making this worse. We're just going to go upstairs." She said dragging me towards the stairs, leaving Castle shuddering at his mother's words.