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"What?" Alex said and fisted his hand beside him. how did she find out... "Are you Alex Graham?" Juliet asked again, and Alex looked away and slowly nodded... "I was about to tell you about it tonight, but..." He trailed off and ran his hand through his hair... Juliet closed her eyes for a second and opened it... "You should have told me... you had plenty of chances to tell me... why didn't you want me to know who you are? " Juliet asked in a low voice... "I just... didn't want to complicated things between us, " Alex said and took a step closer to her, causing juliet to take a step back from him... "Juliet," He called out to her, but she shook her head and walked past him... Juliet walked into her living room so she could try to catch her breath... "I kept wondering why Michelle Graham came to my workplace... I had a little doubt, but I didn't dwell on it, and then lana..." She sighed and turned to look at Alex, who was standing behind her now... He looked truly sorry, and what did he mean by he didn't want to complicate things between them... keeping something like this from her would complicate things for sure... She was bound to find out sooner or later... "Then the work at the hotel, was that you doing?" She asked, and he didn't answer, but juliet took his silence as a yes... "I knew it was odd from the beginning, but I wanted I wanted to be positive about it..." Juliet muttered and sat down on her couch... She face palmed herself and then looked up at Alex, who was standing at the same spot and staring at her... She wanted him to say something, anything... "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have kept it from you... I was afraid you might now want to see me again if you found out...I haven't met someone like you before and I didn't want to ruin things" Alex tried to explain himself, but he decided to leave out the part about his crazy family drama... He mainly didn't want her to get roped him, but now he doubted he could avoid that if he wanted to be with that... all he could do was protect her from his mother and everyone who would judge them... Alex slowly walked to the couch and sat beside her... and she did react or move... she didn't even turn to look at him "Do your mother know about us?" She asked, and Alex nodded... He wasn't going to lie to hee anymore to avoid any more misunderstandings... "Then she came to my workplace to tell me to stay away from you, right?" Juliet said, and Alex was silent again, so she took it as another yes... Juliet sighed deeply and finally turned to look at him... "I don't know how to feel about all of this... I'm sorry, Alex, but it could be habe dinner another time. I need to think... could you please leave, " Juliet said, and Alex hesitantly got up, He hoped she wouldn't try to break up with him or anything like that because there was no way he was going to accept that... no, he wasn't going to leave till they cleared everything up... a suggestion popped up in his mind... "Do you want to come with me to my house?" Alex asked, and juliet was a bit taken aback by his question. she looked up at him like he was joking because he had to be. his house! did he live with his mother! what if is mother smacked her like they did in dramas! No juliet wanted to avoid that. "I don't think that is such a good idea..."Juliet refused... she sighed deeply... "I live alone, well except for my butler and a few workers. but they mind their business. You don't have to worry, " Alex said, still trying to convince her, but what piqued juliet interested was a butler. He had a butler? in this day and age!... it didn't change the fact about them. what would people say when they found out who he was with... they would call her gold digger definitely... She hated it the most when people spoke lies about her... she hated it so much... But she was afraid of what would happen to their relationship the most... how it would change because of this. She didn't want to break up with him... juliet couldn't bring herself, so say those words. "I'm mad that you kept this from me, Alex, and I'm afraid it might affect...us," juliet blurted out and stood up... she was afraid she might lose him at the end of the day... People like them couldn't be with people like her... They were from different social classes... There was a huge gap between them... "Juliet, it will never I promise... I would never let his affect us... My feelings for you matter a lot, and I know you feel the same way..." Alex said, trying to assure Juliet that everything would be fine between them... "What would people call me then. they would judge me and not you, " Juliet said in a low voice and turned away from Alex... she blinked back the tears that had formed in her eyes... "What people say doesn't matter to me... it never did... They don't know you, but I do... should that be all that matters to you, julie... How we feel for each other... not what people might say about us... I don't think I can function without you in my life, " Alex said and walked close to her... He hugged her from his back and buried his face in his nook of her neck... He was never going to let go of her... "Alex," Juliet said, his name softly, and tears escaped. Her eyes... all her life, she tried to avoid situations that could cause her trouble, but now she that she was involved with him... Juliet couldn't avoid him... she wanted to be with him...