"Michael, it's been 3 years; did you really feel nothing?" Xavier asked no one in particular. He was now alone in his big office, and his intense emotions were raw and revealed on his face. He furrowed his brows as he leaned back on the chair, stroking the smiling picture of the youngster. Xavier sighed as he attempted to put the frame back into its original position. An incoming email notification popped up on his phone just as he returned the frame to its original position. Seeing that the sender of the email was his assistant, Xavier opened and read the email in the inbox; the content says he has a meeting in an hour. Xavier dropped his cell phone and ran a hand through his neatly styled black hair, giving it a somewhat messy look. Subsequently, he decided to return to working on his document. But the minute he opened a document, a message alert pinged and lit up his phone's screen, which interfered with his reading and caused him to lose focus. Originally, Xavier had left his
Hayden appeared to be having a nightmare, and he was mumbling incoherently. “Zenos… No… Zenos… Please… Don't leave me… it's cold… I missed you, Zenos. Zenos.”NO!Hayden yelled, and he sat up in a trance, his chest thumping in fear.After some minutes, he eventually regained his composure and ran his hand through his silky blond hair. Having nightmares has become familiar to him lately, so after a few minutes of calming his thoughts and recollecting himself, he was back to normal. Besides, it's still that familiar nightmare of Zenos leaving him, but with different contents and mind-numbing scenes. Hayden didn't even know when he fell asleep, as he had initially thought that the overdose wasn't going to work on him that morning. Hayden found himself extremely thirsty after he woke up; he had been experiencing an extreme flow of beautiful inspirations these days, so much so that he was always in his gallery working after study. Hayden was always engrossed so much that he finds it h
“Michael?” Jude addressed the preoccupied Michael. Michael was startled by the sudden call, and he jolted. He faced them with a light smile and asked, “What… When did you all arrive here? What are you guys talking about?” he hadn't heard their arrival at all, nor had he heard all they were talking about until David called him.“Are you okay?” David inquired worriedly. They all knew how much work everyone had put in over the last three months, and they knew how exhausted and stressed everyone was. For that reason, they assumed Michael's inactivity was also due to the accumulated stress, not knowing it was totally unrelated to it. Michael nodded and feigned nonchalance. “Yeah, sure I am. What are you all talking about?” He sat up and feigned interest, even though he wasn't, as he found himself unable to. “We are traveling to Grail State.” Michael was still overwhelmed by his sad mood; he was weak inside, and he didn't have the energy to go sightseeing or do business in his current m
For a perfect collaboration and well-maintained business conduct and introduction, Caleb's father assigned Caleb the responsibility of introducing Jade to their line of business and showing her the company's achievements, workings, certain things, etc. However, it turns out Jade was simply uninterested in what she was there for, and all she knew how to do was run around all day. This minute she's taking him to the cinema to watch movies, the next minute she's taking him to a spa, the next one she's taking him to a salon to get her hair done, the next one a beauty salon, then to a famous limited edition mall for her clothes, etc. If Jade had known she was only interested in playing around, she shouldn't have invited him. He was trying to prepare his part with Hayden, and his time was running out, yet it turns out she would always end up squandering his time by doing nothing useful. If he knew she was this wastrel type of person, no matter how talented she is or how interesting their
Sean suddenly stretched his hand out, and a bodyguard dropped a clean apple in Sean's hand, immediately. David and Jude shook their heads, while Zenos glanced at him briefly.“I'm afraid that—one day—you'll be the first to be diagnosed as having too much fruit illness, you fruit addict…” Sean took a mouthful, swallowed the bite, and he immediately opened his mouth to bicker with the trio, who were always mocking his fruit-eating habit. “At least mine is still…”Sean paused, his eyes suddenly sparkled with an enigmatic glimmer, and the retort words that were about to be uttered were all forgotten, completely.“Eh!” Sean suddenly exclaimed and grinned slyly. He extended his empty hand and placed his hand on Zenos's shoulder. “Zenos, I saw that message; that beautiful secretary really has something for you. Dare to tell me it's a lie now?” Sean teased while grinning slyly, which made everyone's lips twitch, but they soon turned toward Zenos curiously. 'When did you have someone new? H
“You still like him?” Sean stopped laughing, and they all turned to look at Zenos. After all, Sean is just interested in interesting dramas. Besides, when he (S) looks at Zenos, he (Z) doesn't look like someone interested in Hayden anymore, so that possessiveness is what Sean doesn't understand.“None of your business.” Zenos shut them up while sounding irritated without even knowing the reason why he felt irritated in the first place; with that, he walked out of the room.“When he's like this. I'm afraid no one knows what Zenos is thinking.” Jude said a few minutes later with a profound and mysterious look, which made David and Sean nod in agreement.“Do you think he still likes him?” Jude kept silent for a few minutes and shook his head. “I don't know. Maybe? It lies in that boy's actions.”____“Zenos.”“You don't need to get involved with a stranger. He's already muddled, thinking of me as someone else. This kind of person, you can't be sure of what they'd do to you next. Let's
BANG!Michael lurched forward, and the impact caused his neck to hunch forward. He hissed in anguish due to the painful impact of another person's car suddenly crashing into his—from the posterior.He hissed once more; gently massaging his now-painful neck, he stepped out of the car swearing, in contrast to his nonchalant or gentle image.Michael was furious; how could this driver suddenly hit his car when Michael was driving at the usual speed? Besides, the road was not even crowded with cars, is the driver blind? Michael was mad and overcome by his rage. He was furious, he had a tight-lipped smile, veins throbbed in his neck and his fist was clenched! One sentence: the driver was dead once Michael got his hands on him!“Damn, that person!” Did he forget that he was on the road driving? How dare he drive so recklessly? What if it were someone else? What if it was a pregnant woman who was in the car the driver had collided with? The gentle doctor doesn't even want to contemplate
Hayden immediately glared at his friends, and it made all of them keep quiet. Hayden harrumphed proudly, then returned to typing something on his phone. After a cold battle with him, his friends were suddenly enthusiastic and f***** suspiciously caring that evening. And Hayden had promised himself that he wasn't going to succumb easily! Never! Not after all the cold shoulders he had gotten from the six.“Hayden, would you be busy tonight?” Philips asked again, but Hayden refused to reply, just like they had all done to him in the past couple of days.“Hayden, do you still have anything to do in your gallery?” Simon asked. “Or, do you have time to watch the latest blockbuster movie in my room? Action banger pow pow pow!!!” Craig said, using his hand to imitate a shooting gun while saying the 'pow'.“I met a hot, sexy girl last night; she should be your type…” Four eyes immediately glared at Mason, which made him keep his mouth shut; the eyes belonged to Hayden and Mia. “I was just j