Chapter 151: Chapter 151

Nick was skeptical of the two who slept for a long while until afternoon. He wouldn't want to believe that his step siblings have slept together— they weren't even related, and he had his doubts.

He watches the male come from the corridor while yawning and rubbing his head.

"Had a good sleep?" Nick asks Zayn.

"Yeah man. Cassandra is such a strong sleeper. She kicked me to the edge all night." Zayn chuckles at his own words, however Nick felt the lies through his words.

"Are you sure you two were sleeping?" Dan turns to look at Zayn as well. He turns his head back towards Nick to make a 'what the fuck' face to his depthless questions.

"I don't know about her, but I almost considered sleeping on the couch. Jeez." His lies came one after the other. Nick jumps his eyebrows as he goes back to gaming on his phone.

"What's wrong with him?" Dan whispers when Zayn comes to him.

"I don't know bro." Sitting on the table to eat, Zayn quietly eats his breakfast, more like brunch.

After awhile, a half asleep Cassandra joins them at the dinner table.

Zayn gestures her to sit on the other side of the table and not beside him. They communicate through their eyes as the male points to nosy Nick, who was not so subtly looking at them.

"Ah! I hate being a girl!" She screams out of the blue.

"And why do you feel like that, darling?" Framton asks from the living room couch, engrossed in his newspaper activity of sudoku.

"I uh...got my periods!! It's a bitch—"

"Do you want Louis to get you something? Make something for you?" Framton quickly says as Louis appears from Zayn's room. Speak of the angel.

"Y-yeah...some chocolates and a chocolate cake. I want it." She says with a small voice.

"Yeah~ I'll make it here." Louis says as the girl jumps on her chair with excitement. The man was yawning the whole day.

"Zayn, your room smells like it's depressed. Give it a cleaning." Zayn suddenly remembers of all the undisposed condoms in his dustbin.

"Y-yeah, I'll do that." Rushing to his room immediately after his lunch, he disposes of all the nasty things in his room and regrettably changes his sheets. They've had sex on these for months. It's bound to smell like a dead bed with their sweat and everything gross mixed in.

Louis and Zayn organise a board game in the evening for everyone to play.

"Roll the dice and give it to me!" Dan yells as he was impatient to catch up to Alex. He was trying to be the second last instead of securing the last position before the game ended.

The evening was fun and merry in the Johnson siblings residence.

The security ask for a holiday from their boss— Louis as they wanted to be home for the Christmas week.

Louis installs all the security devices over night. He finally had the time to do so.

"Good job, engineer." As he wipes his sweat, Cassandra pats his back as well as the others.

"Done here too. Let's check them all." Zayn, the littler engineer of the household says.

"Cool. Come on!" All the siblings with Framton lean over the couch to hear and see the emergency signals go off as Louis presses a button.

"Whoa! Let me run into my room!" Cassandra says, excited about the technology.

"Sure." The man chuckles as he activates the sensors.

Cassandra goes out of the bedroom to jump back in through the window as the sensors immediately send messages to all the Johnsons.

Amazed by the tech, they pat the great engineer on his shoulder to encourage him.

And the day passes, the next day was important.

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Framton had to go to his office to talk about an advertisement campaign during the Christmas Night and eve. As he was gone, the rest of the brothers were gone for shopping as well.

That left Cassandra and Zayn alone at home.

It was 24th of December...

Cassandra glances at the reddish itch on her palm, exclusive for her eyes, the God of Death and Zayn as well.

"It's today, huh?" Zayn was having a dump of thoughts in his head.

"Yeah." She says, reading the '24th December 2023, 20:34' on her palm for the umpteenth time.

Zayn makes up an excuse to go to the office at 7pm, he wanted to stay close to Framton as much as possible. Today was a very important day to both Framton and his grandson as well.

With an unsure and unsettling feeling rising from the pit of his stomach, he waves at the girl and leaves the parking space with his car.

As he drove to the office, he was having a great gut-wrenching kind of feeling coming from his core.

"The fuck..." stopping at a side, he notices his unusual heart racing and pounding against his chest.

He contacts Louis. He believes Louis was responsible enough.

"Hey, Louis."

"Hi! You're going to the office now, right? Be safe on the roads, it's too slippery." Louis says in concern.

"Yup. I'll be careful. D-don't be out late, alright? Cassandra is home alone." Says Zayn.

"Yes, I got that. Don't worry, my device won't fail me."

"Alright. I'll reach the office in like five minutes." Zayn mumbles, looking at the time on his watch.

"Okay, we're leaving now as well. We will reach home in half an hour. Be safe, bye!" Louis greets as he cuts the call. After talking to Louis, Zayn felt a little calm in his heart. He would head out without any worries about the girl's safety.

However, someone was exiting the parking lot and was driving towards the gated colony.

The black SUV belonged to an immediate colleague of Framton.

He was Framton's assistant.

He was heading towards the Johnson sibling residence to pick up the girl who was alone in the house. Framton wouldn't want his only girl to be home alone.

Or so the assistant thought.

His name was Edith, a 42 year old man and a trusted member for the company.

As Zayn reaches Autoc head building, he parks the car at the space, two cars beside the car that he recognises as his grandfather's.

He climbs down the car and uses the lift to get to the fifth floor, to the chairman of the Autoc Empire.

"Ugh, where is this old brat?" Framton grumbles for the absence of his assistant.

That means...Edith wasn't going out on Framton's instruction.

He was going to the girl home alone, on his own accord.