Today was the third day Brian returned ho feeling relaxed, calm, and happy. The servants knew he must have encountered sothing interesting because he had never been this content for a long while.
The young man entered the house and blessed all the workers with a smile. The servants were scared to get accustod to their young master’s new behavior for fear that he might just be having mood swings.
Brian’s new behavior didn’t go unnoticed by his parents. Mr. Hwang was quite excited about his son’s happiness but not his wife, Nancy.
She felt that Brian had started communicating with Piper behind her back, and so she sent out people to monitor his every move... her belief wasn’t unfounded. Three days ago, she received a phone call from the communication departnt stating that soone had made a call out of the city with a burner phone that couldn’t be traced.
She had been keeping watch to know who that person was but failed, so now that her son was unnecessarily happy, it has to be connected, She thought.
Sitting at the dining table and eating breakfast, Mr. Hwang’s hardened gaze was on his wife after she made a statent that didn’t go down well with him.
"Ok," unlike before, Brian didn’t argue or refuse. His response not only shocked his mother but also left Mr. Hwang feeling uncomfortable.
"Are you sure about that?" he asked his son.
"I’m cool with it," Brian declared.
"Don’t do sothing you’ll regret, son." The father was skeptical. He knows his son and understands him well.
"I’d be ok, Dad, I got this," he smiled faintly at his dad and continued eating.
Madam Nancy cleared her throat and waved the servants away. "I don’t know what you’ve been up to lately, but it better not be a sche to humiliate your bride and her family!" she warned.
Brian chuckled and answered sarcastically. "You’re the almighty, the most feared. Who am I to make you lose face in the presence of the world?"
"It’s good enough that you understand that. I sent your retirent letter to your agency. You are no longer an artist."
"Nancy!!" Mr. Hwang roared, but the unrepentant woman didn’t feel like she did anything wrong.
Brian’s spoon froze in mid–air before he dropped his hand and pushed his plate of food away, and got up to leave.
"Where are you going? You just ca back."
"Sowhere I feel like a human and not so ans for business deals and a puppet to be controlled," He stopped by his father’s seat and hugged his neck before he left the house again. But this ti, his spirit was obviously down.
"You must be very excited," the father said after Brian left.
"Of course, my son has agreed to go on a date with his fiance, and he didn’t throw a tantrum when I broke the retirent news to him. So why won’t I be excited?" She didn’t even raise her gaze from cutting her grilled turkey bacon.
"Bang!" he slapped the table and roared, "You demon!"
She finally looked up at him and smiled faintly, "You are losing it. Do you need your prescription?"
"You–"
"Shhh... don’t say anything, I understand." She pushed her seat back and got up, then walked to stand behind him and leaned forward until her lips were close to his ear. "You know I can stop this marriage from happening. I can quell interfering in our son’s life. All you need to do is get the rainborite Ore or have sex with ... I’m your wife, Hwang Min, and that will forever be the truth." she whispered.
"I’d rather seek pleasure in a prostitute than co to you. You’ll forever be rusty down there without to make you feel like a woman, Nancy Rong."
Nancy’s face changed, and she moved away.
Hwang Min looked at her disdainfully before he snorted and continued, "You are not and will never be fit to have inside you. Whatever brought about Brian’s existence was a mistake you know too well... Nancy, you thought only my life would be ruined when you created the misunderstanding that drove her away?" He shook his head and continued eating his al.
The vegetables suddenly taste more delicious after breaking her with his words.
Nancy gritted her teeth and balled her fist so tight that she could feel her nails hurting her palm. "I’ll make you beg to have but then, it will be too late." She turned and stord out of the dining room.
After she was gone, the man stopped eating and looked in the direction she left. He picked up his phone and called soone.
"Have you found her?" he asked.
"S– sir, she has entered the city," ca the fearful voice of the other person.
Hwang Min’s eyes dilated and he imdiately bounced up from his seat. "Where is she?!"
"We are on it. She is hiding too well sir."
"Find her before my wife’s people do... be discreet."
"Yes, sir!"
The man left the dining room after that.
anwhile, inside Nancy’s bedroom, the woman who didn’t change much from how she was 26 years ago when she approached Christine’s father and demanded that Jeslyn be killed, slamd her phone on the bed after making a call.
"She can’t be found? Huh?... Alex you aren’t tired of this hide-and-seek ga? I’ll fetch you out from wherever you are hiding!" She walked to her wardrobe and opened a hidden compartnt, then brought out a burner phone and called soone.
"Why is the almighty calling ?" an advanced woman’s voice sounded from the other end.
"I give you five hours to tell where Alex is," Nancy said curtly.
"After 27 years, your first call is to threaten ?"
"1 hour."
"Nancy!"
"30 minutes!"
"Fine, hold on, we can resolve–"
"20 minutes!"
"Alright!! withdraw your n from my territory after I tell you where she is."
"You are not in any position to make a bargain with . If after 10 minutes you don’t tell what I want to know, I promise you, your half–heart organization will be crumpled!"
"Don’t go too far!... Alex is in your city. Where she is exactly is what I don’t know." the voice let out.
"Why did she co here?"
"You think I’d tell you if I knew–"
Nancy ended the call and kept away her burner phone before she called one of her n, "I want you to find soone."
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