311 Troubling Complexes
“Call it whatever you will, but you basically ran away from ho. Without going into the details, Ace and his father doesn’t have a very friendly relationship. You probably already know at least that much, right?” Elizabeth asked before she paused.
“Yes, I do…” I replied while telling myself to be patient and to ignore her rudeness.
It was all for a chance to learn sothing new about Ace. Ace didn’t seem to perfectly agree with Elizabeth’s version of the story but at least he didn’t stop her from continuing.
“The ti I’m referring to is that period when Ace quit his job at his father’s company and went off to start his own thing. That was a pretty bold and extre move at the ti. Obviously, Ace’s father was absolutely against it, but Ace also obviously didn’t care. He just disappeared so I always refer to that period as Ace running away from ho,” Elizabeth said before she laughed.
“I see…” I murmured before I waited for her to continue.
“People thought that he disappeared from the social scenes to go off to do his own thing on his own and that he beca easily successful and all that. However, that’s not really the entire truth. Ace struggled a lot when he parted ways with his father back then…” Elizabeth continued with her story.
“During that ti, Elizabeth’s father reached out to
and managed to convince
that I needed his support. Of course, I knew him well from before and it didn’t seem out of place for him to offer help. I wouldn’t have accepted his help, but he convinced
by saying that he would support
in whatever it was that I wanted to do. In the end, he did stick to his promise…” Ace jumped in to explain.
“People think that it’s so easy to beco successful all on your own. The reality is very different. My father helped Ace and gave him advice all throughout the ti when he was away,” Elizabeth chid in.
Elizabeth was right about the dia painting Ace as being a genius who managed to beco successful all on his own after leaving his father’s prestigious company to start his own ventures. Ace only ca back when all his venture were successful, at least that was how the story went. This was the first ti that I was hearing so details about that phase of his life, and it was quite different from what was portrayed in the news.
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“It’s just like I told you earlier. You should learn from other people. Back then, I was young and probably a little too stubborn for my own good. To make up for that, I was eager to learn, and I felt like I had a lot of ti on my hand to do exactly that when I quit my job. Elizabeth’s father seed like the perfect person for
to learn many things from at the ti,” Ace explained.
“Wow. You should have told
this earlier…honestly…” I mumbled.
It ca as a pleasant surprise that Ace was more open now to talk about his past. Perhaps it was partly thanks to Elizabeth who brought up this topic and was willing to tell Ace’s story from her point of view while highlighting the involvent of her father. Elizabeth went on to provide more details but my mind was too busy trying to connect the dots. Maybe it was because of how close Ace was to her father that they got engaged to each other.
Maybe that was it…
Although Ace had reassured
before that there was never any romantic feelings between him and Elizabeth, I still wondered if that was entirely true. From what I could see in front of , Elizabeth truly had a way to get Ace to open up and how she seed to manage to do it so effortlessly only made
jealous of her and the connection that they shared. Even if I would like to think that it bordered more on friendship, I still found myself feeling more than slightly anxious inside and I couldn’t ignore how jealous I felt.
Whenever I asked Ace about anything including his past, his responses were always vague and his attitude would suddenly turn cold and distant. It felt like there were lines and boundaries that I couldn’t cross while Elizabeth seed to have the license to roam around all over the place so freely.
“Unlike Ace here, my father absolutely hates Kyle…” Elizabeth stated before she laughed.
“Can you stop saying that, please?” Kyle spoke up.
“Why? It’s the truth and everyone knows it. Don’t worry, there’s nothing to be ashad of,” Elizabeth turned to say to Kyle.
“You know very well that I’m trying my best to get him to like ,” Kyle muttered darkly.
I could sense the tension between them and it seed like this issue of theirs was a longstanding one. Kyle looked so frustrated and irritated at the sa ti while Elizabeth was a pro at taking this serous issue and treating it as a joke.
A very bad joke…
“Like that ti when you stole the idea of that comrcial from Karina and tried to pass it off as your own?” Elizabeth said before she shot him a look.
Her sharp words and an sense of humor confird for
once again that she was rciless. Kyle clamd up at her comnt and that only made Elizabeth laugh even louder.
“Seriously, I honestly don’t think you should work too hard on making him like you. I an, one of the main reasons that I’m so attracted to you is probably because my father hates you. It’s like…my way of getting back at him and acting rebellious because there’s nothing else that I can do…” Elizabeth said with a scoff.
“Enough, Elizabeth. Let’s not discuss this here…” Kyle warned softly.
I was starting to think that I was too rciless on Kyle, and I had to admit that I started to pity him a little at that point. Perhaps, deep inside, I was a pure angel at heart after all.
–To be continued…
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