The Forgotten Heiress novel Chapter 56

Jessica thought about that for a second. "Yes, I guess it is."

"As you wish."

She had to bite back a laugh when he sighed overly dramatic.

Listening to his fading footsteps, she leaned her head against the wall and closed her eyes; enjoying the silence and solitude. A commodity, hard to find in the last week; before, with her old body guards, she was free to at least roam her house on her own, not so with Christian and Axel, they followed her everywhere.

Everywhere but into her room and the restroom; and even there they stood a couple of feet from the door!

Taking care of business with an audience listening in wasn't easy. Now every time she went into the restroom she sang off-key and at the top of her lungs to feel comfortable enough to go, which was redundant because every time she sang...everyone knew what she was doing.

Unfortunately, according to Nick, there was only one solution to her problem.

Jessica closed her eyes and recalled the morning after her date with Nick. When Axel and Christian had followed her to the downstairs restroom, she had stopped them and told them to wait for her in the living room. They'd shaken their heads, apologized and told her they were only following orders.

When she'd asked them why they needed to follow her around the house, they just shrugged and told her to ask Nick. Ignoring nature's call, she'd stomped off to do just that. She'd hurried to her room where she'd forgotten her phone and jabbed in his number, impatiently she waited for him to pick up. By the time he'd finally answered she'd managed to rile herself up and not bothering with pleasantries, she'd ordered him to call his goons off of her.

"Good morning to you too sunshine." He'd greeted her. "You know, if you moved in with your mate, you wouldn't have this problem." He told her sweetly.

In response to that, Jessica shrieked and flung her phone across the room. She'd forgotten about her increasing strength due to the serum weakening in her blood until she was staring blankly at the broken pieces of her phone on the floor. Seconds later there was a knock on her door; without being prompted, Axel peeked in and offered her his phone.

"It's for you." He'd told her.

Danielle and Christian could not stop bickering and that small fact had escaped her mind when she asked for this outing. She didn't know why but her sister could not stand Christian. When she asked Dani what was wrong between the two of them, she always got the same answer.

"Nothing," Dani would tell her. "I just don't like his never serious attitude."

Jessica had almost bought it. Dani was nothing if not serious and Jessica knew how much she liked order in her life, but she'd caught her looking at Christian more than once when she thought nobody was looking.

Thinking about them, Jessica huffed and looked down at her watch wondering what was taking them so long. Tired of waiting, she got up and stood behind the door as she opened it a sliver to look around for them.

What she saw had her jaw dropping and she was surprised that nobody heard it hit the floor. As quietly as she could, she closed the door and stumbled back to the dressing room bench.