One Night With The Prince

Grandmother Santos had no idea that Alexa was on the way to where she was; Alexa's office. If she knew, she would have run out in a heartbeat. She had no idea how she was going to face her granddaughter at that moment. She needed to get out of town, and she needed to hide as far away as she could...

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Flashback:

Early that morning, grandma Santos was happily playing mah-jong in a nearby neighborhood when someone came looking for her; an investigator. The investigator was hired by Alexa's biological father 'Sean Grant' from America. After finding out that he had fathered a child, he didn't waste any time by hiring a private investigator to look for the mother and child no matter what the cost was.

The investigator that Sean Grant hired in the past was top-notch. However, because of his wife's interference, the investigator always returned to him empty-handed. Until recently when he suspected that something was wrong with the private investigator's inability to bring him any good news which led him to threaten his wife that he would file for divorce if she did not divulge everything that she knew. He asked her because she was the one who introduced him to the private investigator.

All doc.u.mentation regarding Alexa and her mother 'Chrissy Chen' was handed over to Sean Grant. He was devastated to find out that 'Chrissy Chen' had passed away from a car accident leaving their daughter in care off the nanny 'Lydia Santos.' As he read through the file, he found out that his daughter had lived an impoverished life. He read through the records, until the last page of the report, not realizing that tears were flowing down his handsome face.

Sean Grant called up another private investigator to come over to his place. Once the private investigator arrived, he then ordered him to fly to the Philippines at once after handing Alexa's recent picture to him. "Bring my daughter back here, no matter what it costs. Don't bother coming back if she's not with you. Do you understand?" Sean Grant sternly ordered while trying his best to stay calm.

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Meanwhile, Alexa and Ramon arrived at RRWP headquarters in no time. The traffic wasn't too bad. They thanked God for the color coding on the highway which was not as traffic-jammed as it used to be. Alexa couldn't wait for Ramon to find a parking space, she asked him to drop her off at the front of the building.

Once the car came to a full stop, she hurriedly opened the door ready to jump out as soon as she could. She was about to close the car door when she remembered something. She poked her head inside the car to tell Ramon to go, "if you have somewhere else needed to be, just go- I can handle it from here." She then closed the door and rushed toward the building without waiting for Ramon's reply.

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Inside the breakroom, Grandma Santos was quietly waiting for Andrea to come back with the money and the bus ticket for Pangasinan province where a family member of hers lives. She started to get impatient, she got up and was ready to look for Andrea when she suddenly heard Andrea's voice nearby, it seems that she was speaking with someone and getting close by the minute. 'Wait a minute...-that voice sounds familiar...?'

Grandma Santos quickly peeked through the window blind that covered the employee breakroom. "Oh, sh*t! It's Alexa; what am I going to do?" She mumbled to herself while she was trying to find a place to hide. Unfortunately, it was too late... The doors opened then Alexa and Andrea walked in...

As soon as Alexa saw her grandmother, she ran to her and hugged her as tight as she could while tears were flowing down her face. "Grandma!!! What's the meaning of this? What are you doing here? Oh, grandma!!!" Alexa hugged grandma Santos like there was no tomorrow.

Grandma Santos, broke-free from Alexa's tight embrace, pushing her away from her before going back to the chair where she was seating before they came; without saying a word.

Alexa was speechless, unable to move and follow. She just stood rooted to the ground while gazing at grandma Santos tired with a sad looking face as she sat back down in the chair...

Without looking at her, grandma Santos spoke. "Alexa, we need to talk..."