Stefan sent Travis out and watched him leave the villa with Shein and Savannah. 'Can't believe that they will go against me for the sake of my wife. But it's good to know that she's got someone she can rely on aside from me.' He walked back inside the house and found Cayenne looking through some pictures inside the albums that his father found. 'Huh?
Where did that albums came from?' Stefan walked to her side and saw her smile.
"Enjoying yourself, huh." Stefan commented as he sat on the space beside her. "Is this me?" he took one picture which consisted two little children. One was Alexander so he assumed that the other child was him. "How come they have this picture?"
"You've never seen these pictures?" Cayenne asked after a moment of hesitation. When Stefan vaguely nodded his head, she frowned. "How's that possible? It's your own house and you didn't know about these pictures. Look at this." Cayenne handed him another album and when he opened it, there were more pictures of him and Alexander. They were even younger compared to the ones that Cayenne was looking at.
There pictures of him crawling on the floor with a happy smile on his face while Alexander showed him a plastic ball. There was one picture when Alexander placed a cake on Stefan's nose. There was a picture of them wearing bunny ears and bunny pajamas. There was a picture of them wearing a matching outfit and they went to an amusement park.
Looking at these pictures, there were times in the past that the butler will ask Stefan and his brother, Alexander, to wear matching outfits and then their father will bring them to amusement parks or to ocean parks or to different places but once they arrive home, they will ask him to change his outfit immediately and they will turn cold towards him.
And then, Clara arrives from whichever place she came from. These kinds of events happened a lot when he was young. The butler will become warm to him when Clara's no longer around, his father will take him somewhere with Alexander, just spending quality time together. All those years, Stefan thought that people were just toying with him.
They were both acting warm and cold towards him, thinking that it might be fun. Only Alexander remained consistent whether his mother was around or not, he will always stay with Stefan.
He continued to look at the pictures and found that there was a picture of him and Alexander sleeping together. There was a picture of him holding Alexander's hand while they were going to school and many more pictures from when he was few months old until he was around seven or eight years old. Then, it stopped.
"Your father…" Cayenne gulped and blinked back her tears while looking at the pictures. Since Stefan said that he was not aware of these pictures, it's highly possible that his father took them in secret or asked someone to hide these pictures away because he didn't want his wife to see that he loves the son of his mistress this much.
"Stefan, I'm not sure if I should say this but, would you like to talk to your father alone?"
"I don't know." Cayenne took hold of his hand and kissed his knuckles. "Just ask the things that you wanted to ask him all these times. I'm sure you've got questions for him because I have so many things I want to ask him. But I know I don't have the right to do so. Just talk to him, will you?"
"Do you want me to get some closure with my father and perhaps, rekindle our father and son relationship? Cayenne it's not that easy."
"Just try. You won't know anything unless you try." Cayenne had this notion that Magnus loved his son very much because at the end of the day, he was his flesh and blood and the son which his most beloved woman conceived for nine months. There's no way he didn't care for him.
Stefan can see how much Cayenne tried to stop her tears from falling. Her red eyes and red nose were the evidence of her turbulent emotions. She aches for him. She was hurting for him. She got so many things in mind that she wanted to clarify with Stefan's father. She wanted to know why he let Clara bullied his son to the extent that he needed to leave the place that he once called home.
"I'm fine." Stefan hugged her and kissed the top of her head. "You don't have to be sad for me. You don't have to cry for me. I am okay." Stefan whispered these words again and again while caressing her back. The guests were petrified to see this scene. They were a bit afraid that someone made Cayenne cry and Stefan will take it against them.
They didn't want to be on the bad side of the next CEO of the Dumrique's shipping lines and other businesses.
Around two in the afternoon, Stefan was called to the study room along with Cayenne. It was very unexpected that she was called to come with him but what happened next shocked the lawyer, his father and grandfather.
"What's this for?" Stefan pointed out another stack of documents which clearly stated 'pre-nuptial agreement'. "Why are you bringing this kind of document here?"
Magnus coughed drily while giving a side glance to Cayenne. He didn't really want to belittle her or embarrass her at this moment but they wanted to protect their properties and assets just in case their marriage won't work in the future. "Ms. Ardolf, I'm sure you understand why I'm doing this, right? I'm not trying to embarrass you or anything but – "
"There's no need for this." Stefan took the documents, tore them piece by piece and threw them on the floor. "I already married her."
"Ha?" the three people looked at him and then shifted their eyes to Cayenne who remained unfazed beside Stefan.
"You're married?" Magnus asked his son. "I thought the ring was just a couple ring."
"Exactly." Stefan retorted. "I haven't given her the wedding ring but that doesn't mean we're not married. She's already registered as my wife. You can check it if you want but you are not allowed to leak it."