The Limits of Forever

'How do I look?' Seb says from across the kitchen island.

I look up from my phone.

He is standing in a well-fitting suit and his shirt buttons aren't done the whole way up. I can see his holster with his gun in it, but that just makes him hotter.

I don't think he's ever looked this good.

I'm the slightest bit jealous of wherever he's going.

'You look so fucking hot.' I say

He smirks and comes around to where I'm sitting.

'Yeah?'

I don't know why he's acting like he doesn't know he looks hot as fuck.

'Mmh hmm. Where are you going?'

'Out.'

I raise my eyebrows. 'I hope you're not going to see other women.'

'Never.'

I roll my eyes and shove my middle finger in his face.

He laughs and pushes it away. 'I'm going to a meeting Lexi.'

'Hmm.'

'How do I look?' Axcel says from the other side of the counter.

I turn my head to face him.

His hands are sat on his hips, like he's posing for a photo.

I smile. 'You look alright.'

He looks at me offended. 'Only alright?'

I tilt my head.

'That's very rude Alexis.'

I laugh. 'You look good Axcel. You both look good.'

He crosses his arms across his chest. 'Still offended.'

I turn back to Seb.

'My parents said they'd be here tomorrow.' I say

'Okay, sounds good.'

'You guys should make food for them.' Axcel says, before biting into an apple.

When did he even get that?

'We should.' Seb says to me.

'Sure, I don't mind.' I say.

He smiles and places his hand under my chin.

He tilts my head up and brings his face closer.

'Get a room.' Axcel groans before walking out the kitchen.

We both laugh.

'I love you so much.' He whispers

'I love you so much more.' I reply

He leans in and plants a kiss on my lips. When we break apart, his lips still linger on mine, like he doesn't want to ever let go.

He pulls back. 'I'll see you soon, okay?'

'Yeah.' I say softly

Then he leaves. I listen to the front door shut and now, the only people in the house are me and the staff.

And I don't think they really give two fucks about me snooping around Sebastain's office, so I think I'll be fine.

After hearing Seb and Axcel's argument yesterday, I'm a bit annoyed that I wasn't told that people are threatening me.

Personally I'd quite like to hear their threats.

But I suppose I can't...cause they're dead.

So I'm going to take it upon myself to find out what's going on, because I'm not about to bring my child into a world I know nothing about.

I walk into his office and sit at his desk.

Pretty much every single draw is locked. Every single file cabinet has a fingerprint scanner.

Except one.

One that probably has nothing useful in it.

I walk over to it and root through the files.

All of them are labelled with dates. I don't know what they mean, and I don't care.

They're not what I'm looking for.

I sit back at his desk and turn on his computer.

Locked.

I roll my eyes.

I click on the password bar.

Seb isn't the smartest person I've ever met, but he's definitely not the stupidest.

And I'm definitely smarter than him. So if I can't crack his password then being pregnant has definitely made me lose my brain cells.

I type in like five different combinations of what I think it should be.

His birthday, my birthday, Axcel's birthday, my name, his name.... even the baby's due date.

They're all wrong.

I place my head down on the desk and groan.

It shouldn't be this hard.

I sit back up.

One more try.

I type in the day we met.

I don't even know why I remember that, but I worked it out a while ago.

When I told him I worked it out, he said he already knew it.

And it seems like he was telling the truth, because when I press enter, his computer loads and then opens.

Ooo I'm not losing brain cells.

I click on the files icon and it opens to reveal more files with dates. I scroll right past them till I find the ones with names on them.

His mum has a file.

Axcel has a file.

Lucia has a file... so does Scarlett.

Even Evie has a file.

I don't have a file.

Why don't I have one?

I look at the overview bar.

There's a file at the very bottom with a padlock on it.

Why does he feel the need to lock everything?

I know it's mine, because it's got my initials on it.

I click on it.

Maybe I can hack my way into this one.

A blank screen comes up and the words scanning appear.

'Scanning.' Seb's automated Alexa thing says.

'Fuck.' I whisper.

I push myself off the chair and onto the floor so she doesn't do anything stupid like telling Seb I was snooping around on his computer.

'Cancelling scan, as no motion is detected.' She says.

'Fuck.' I whisper again.

The computer beeps and I peek over the edge of the desk. The screen is back to the file overview.

I suppose I'm not getting into my file anytime soon.

Stupid Sebastian.

I sigh and walk out of the room.

I'm going to have to figure out what's going on another time.