Micah sat in his revolving chair, constantly hitting his pen against the file on the table, he was deep in his thoughts, Renya’s face kept on appearing before his eyes and the way she talked to Hunter made his stomach boil up. He wasn’t sure why he felt uncomfortable but that wasn’t the first time he had this feeling.
The door had a light knock and the secretary entered the room holding onto the papers that Micah had asked for a while ago.
“Place it on the table, I will look into it when I am free,” he responded. His secretary did so and left him alone.
Micah pulled the file and flipped through. the first page where the designer name was written in bold letters “E liontári”. Micah looked at it for quite a while and then closed it while still a frown on his face . He got up from his chair and wore his jacket before leaving the office.
“Boss! Are you leaving?” The secretary asked.
“Yes, you should leave as well,” Micah replied and glanced down at his watch, it was still 4:30 and mostly he went back home at 8.
He walked down the stairs, the people around bowed their heads lightly in respect, Micah didn’t bait them an eyes. But his aura kept them all still. None of them dared to upset or even strike a conversation with him.
He pressed the elevator button and waited, there were whispers around him, Micah was used to these kinds of whispers, the elevator doors opened and there were three girls standing giggling, but when they saw Micah, there faces formed into lovely expressions, even though everyone knew about Micah’s rotten attitude, but nobody could resist his handsome face and his wealth. Many dreamed of becoming his wife just to be on the top of the rich society, even becoming a mistress was also a huge catch.
The elevator started moving, Micah heard the low giggles that made him uncomfortable but he didn’t look around at them, rather he just kept staring at the elevator door and waited for it to open up.
The door opened and Micah took a deep breath of relief, he then swiftly walked out and headed straight out of the office without looking back.
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Eryna got off work later than usual, She packed her bag and was about to enter the elevator when she saw Ayden walk in with her.
“What are you doing here?” Eryna asked as she pressed the 1st floor button.
“The elevator close to my office just broke so I came here,” he replied.
Eryna stared at him with her eyebrows up.
“You came all the way here to take the elevator? You want me to believe that? Your Office is like three storeys up from here…” Eryna asked with a suspicious tone.
“Okay fine! You caught me,” Ayden replied with a heavy voice, “ I thought we could go home together,”
“...” Eryna blinked for a few times as she stared at Ayden who’s face had lost a smile, she felt like she was looking at a sad puppy.
“You should have just said so,” Eryna replied.
Ayden’s face brightened up suddenly and he smiled, both of them walked out of the elevator together, Ayden’s car was just outside the building, He opened the door for Eryna and she sat in, while they giggled over something, they didn’t notice the lost foul glares of the people behind them. There were women who started gossiping while some had already snapped photos of them. With bitter expressions they bid farewell to the lovely couple that had driven off before their eyes.
The journey ended sooner than expected, and they were now just outside the mansion. The gates opened and Ayden drove in. He stopped the car before the main door. Eryna untied the seatbelt and picked up her bag, she opened up the door and got off. She took a deep breath trying to regain her energy but suddenly her eyes fell on the gardener from the other day.
“My tree!!” Eryna realised that she had completely forgotten about her tree.
“Tree? What tree?” Ayden had walked closer to her.
“The one I grew the other day, it must have died by now,” Eryna placed her bag on the car roof and hurried down the lawn, Ayden’s face flushed, his complexion suddenly looked oddly pale. He wanted to stop Eryna from going to the lawn but she was already a few steps ahead of him. He followed her quickly.
“What?-what is this?” Eryan made a surprised sound. Ayden felt like he had been caught stealing, he hurried in closer to explain his intentions but when he reached the place where they had planted the trees, it was empty. There was no sign of the Myrtle trees. Ayden was confused and so was Eryna.
“Where did my tree go?” Eryna asked with disappointment.
“Miss, I am so sorry,” the gardener had followed her and he swiftly apologised.
“But why did you do that? I put so much effort in planting it…”
‘Even though I did a very poor job,’
Eryna’s face clearly showed dissatisfaction, she was annoyed.
“Miss I didn’t remove the twigs, Master came by a while ago and said that he didn’t like the twigs so he pulled out both of them,” the gardener replied with a sorry tone, he really meant it because it was visible through his expressions.
Eryna grinded her teeth in anger while stopping the ground hard.
“This—gaah!! I am so mad,” Eryna walked away from the spot leaving Ayden still in daze. She angrily walked into the mansion and up the stairs. She didn’t bother knocking and went straight into the room,
Eryna looked straight at the table where Micah usually sat but he was not there, she closed the door and walked down the stairs.
“Uncle Shaun?!” Eryna called out the butler.
“Yes Miss?”
“Where is Micah?” Her voice still had a hint of anger in it.
“What happened?” The butler was confused.
“Tell me where is he?”
“He is in His study…” Eryna heard half of his answer and headed back upstairs, “He said to not disturb him!!” The butler warmed her but she was in no mood to listen to a warning.
She stormed into the room, Micah suddenly glanced up as it was an unexpected action.
“There you are!!” Eryna closed the door behind her with force, it made a loud bang as it closed.
“...” Micah speechlessly stared at her for a few seconds before he knitted his eyebrows.
“You think you can just walk into my place, and I would allow it?” Micah slowly got up from his chair, “ I gave you permission to enter my room not because of my free will, but I haven’t given you the right to walk into my personal space like this,” he glared at her.
“Hah!! Look at this— first you ruin my property and then you expect me to keep calm? Tell me why did you pull out the tree I planted?” Eryna spoke angrily.
Micah was left blank for a moment but then he spoke again,
“It’s my house and I will do whatever I like,” his answer didn’t have much emotion in it.
“Okay then, let me remind you something,” Eryna looked around and then glued her eyes to the comfy chair behind the table, she walked over to the chair and sat up like an arrogant child, “I am your wife and that means this house equally belongs to me so from now on I will stay here, and I will ruin this place as much as I want,” Eryna glared at Micah who stood in the spot frozen.
“Haha!! You finally decided to show your colours, you married me because of this mansion?” Micah replied with disappointment.
Eryna didn’t care what he was talking about and pulled out her phone, she dialled a number and took the phone close to her ear.
“Yes grandpa, it’s me Renya! I wanted to ask that…”
Micah pulled the phone away from her hand and looked at the screen to end the call but to his surprise she hadn’t called anyone.
“You!”
“What? What are you going to do now?” Eryna provoked him.
“Get out!” Micah boiled up.
“Not until you plant my tree back…” Eryna stated her condition.
“You wish!...” Micah picked up his files and walked to the sofa and made himself comfortable.
“I will haunt you, I won’t let you do your work…” Eryna whispered, she pulled out the tissue papers from the box and rolled them into balls, she stocked them up on the table and started throwing them at Micah one by one, who was trying very hard to read.
Even though not a single ball reached him, they successfully made a mess on the floor. Micah felt uncomfortable when he saw all the mess but he didn’t utter a single word. Eryna too got tired of the play and she picked up her phone and called the butler.
“Hi! Uncle Shaun...I just wanted to tell you that I am very hungry and I would like some food and also, could you bring me the bag I left on the top of Ayden’s car. I have a lot of work today.” Eryna spoke loudly, Micah’s ears perked up when he heard the word Ayden from Eryna’s mouth.
“Where are you Miss?” The butler asked.
“I am in your Master’s study...hurry up and don’t be late,” Eryna placed the phone down and looked back at Micah, but she jumped up in surprise as Micah was just a few steps away from her now.