Love Slave to My Dev Chapter 190

190 Late Night Search

My throat felt parched and that was what led

to wake up in the middle of the night. The bedroom was dark when I opened my eyes sleepily. I should get a drink of water from the kitchen. I tried my best to get out of bed without waking Ace. However, I couldn’t quite sense his presence with

in the dark room and when I felt around his side of the bed, I couldn’t find him.

Where did he go? It’s so late in the night.

Drowsily, I got out of bed and made my way out of the bedroom. I had no idea where Ace went in the middle of the night. Maybe I would find him on my trip to the kitchen to fetch so water. It was dark and silent outside as I made my way to the kitchen. I couldn’t find Ace anywhere and that fact rushed

to grab a bottle from the fridge before quickly drinking from it.

I walked along the hallway while I thought that it might be best to grab my phone and give Ace a call. That was when I heard the sound of sothing moving inside one of the rooms. The sound stopped but not before I figured out that it was coming out of his study.

Don’t tell

that he’s up and working in the middle of the night.

I approached the door of his study on my tiptoes, although I had no idea why I was sneaking up on him. Not wanting to disturb him might be a valid reason; however, it was probably more because I wanted to observe Ace working. The light leaking out slightly from the crack in the ajar door convinced

that he was indeed in his study.

Standing next to the door fra, I peered inside through the slightly ajar door. At first, I couldn’t really see anything. However, after finding the right angle, I could make out Ace sitting at his table with a thoughtful look on his face. I wondered what he was thinking about and what he was working on. He should be sleeping peacefully in bed next to , but he was working hard all alone in the middle of the night instead.

Before I could stop myself, I pushed the door opened slowly and walked into the room. The sound of the door opening caught Ace’s attention and his eyes imdiately fell on . To my surprise, he wasn’t quite shocked to see .

“Why are you up?” Ace asked before his eyes returned to the screen of his computer again.

.....

“I could ask you the sa thing,” I replied softly as I made my way to his side.

“You should go back to bed. It’s late but you can still get a couple more hours of sleep before morning,” Ace said before he offered

a warm smile.

He didn’t look like he was about to fall on his face, but he did look more tired than usual. At that mont, I wanted to do anything and everything for him to support him. If he had asked

to do sothing for him at that mont, I would have done anything that he requested. That was how much I wanted to help him. However, I knew that there were many things that I couldn’t help him with.

“You should go back to sleep too. I didn’t think that I’ll wake up to find you working all alone like this,” I told him as I stared over his shoulder to see what he was working on.

A spreadsheet filled with numbers filled my vision and I couldn’t quite understand what he was doing. The numbers were probably financials and so projections that he was working on.

“I didn’t think that you would wake up in the middle of the night, either. Usually, you sleep quite well all the way until morning,” Ace replied before he grinned at .

“What are you working so hard on?” I asked to fulfill my own curiosity.

“Just so plans for the company. I want to have a eting with my senior managers about it soon so I’m starting my preparations early,” he replied casually.

“Do you have to work on it in the middle of the night like this? Can’t you do it tomorrow at the office?” I asked as I started to worry even more about him.

This whole business plan and business growth commitnt that he made with his father was clearly a real challenge and Ace seed to be suffering to steer the company in the right direction for him to et his goals. It felt great that he seed so committed to eting that goal so that we could solidify our relationship; however, I didn’t really like to see Ace overworking himself like this. This was the stark contrast to the carefree and lazy CEO that I had first t.

“Nope. I focus better this way. There are always so many things going on at the office. Things that I have to do, people that I need to et, people that need my help, and all of that. It’s much more productive for

to work alone like this,” Ace replied.

“I guess I’m disturbing you then...” I mumbled.

“I don’t mind having you here, but I think you should head back to bed, Rina,” Ace said before shooting

a pointed look.

Slowly, I lifted my arms and wrapped them around his neck before cuddling him close to . I could feel his soft hair against my cheek as I leaned my face on his head and held him close.

“What are you doing?” Ace muttered.

“Giving you morale support...I guess...” I replied a little shyly but I couldn’t stop myself from smiling.

“I’ve received more than enough of that so please just go back to bed,” Ace replied a little coldly.

Maybe he’s just embarrassed?

I hesitantly let go of him. There were many things that I wanted to tell him. Sothing along the lines of ‘don’t work too hard’ or ‘you should get enough sleep’ or ‘don’t stress too much’ and other related things. However, I knew that he wouldn’t give up on what he was doing and all my words wouldn’t get to him.

–To be continued...