The next day, Haylee went to school as usual. She didn't want to think much about what Ben said to her last night after dinner. She had checked her bank account. It was true that a thousand dollars had been transferred to her bank account last Friday, proving that Ben was telling her the truth about the school allowance.
Yet, she went on with her decision on not using Niel's money and continued to find a part-time job as she had planned before. She walked to the school field during recess time, trying to find someplace to be alone. There was a new grandstand built beside the field and the chairs were all new. She went to sit on one of the chairs.
"This is refreshing," she mumbled alone while observing the blue and orange chairs on the grandstand.
After a while, she took out her phone and started surfing the internet again. She still hadn't decided what kind of part-time jobs she wanted to do and she kept scrolling between the internet pages that showed some loca
It was Wednesday. Today, it finally marked as a month that Haylee had stayed in Niel's house. Right after school, Haylee requested Ben to send her to her old house. She had been preparing to meet her mother again after a month. She figured that whatever might happen later, she just going to suck it up and bear with it. It was the right thing to do after all. She needed to return home. She couldn't possibly live with Niel forever, that's just not right for her. She didn't want to depend on him forever, so no matter how bitter her life might be after this, she would just try to bear with it until she enter college. It just a year left. After she went into college, she'll be free again from having to live with her abusive stepfather. Since Ben already knew her intention to return home, he didn't ask much when she requested to be sent to her old house. He just drove her there straight from school. However, when they arrived, Haylee felt a bit weird because she saw a real estate signboard
Niel was at the penthouse, currently was just having a meeting with his board of directors for about twenty minutes already. The CEO of the company was presenting some new investment plans and Niel was focusing himself on them. Out of the blue, his phone suddenly rang. The meeting got halted as all of them heard the sound of ringing. Niel hastily took out his phone from the pocket inside his coat and saw that the one who was calling him was Ben. He felt weird that Ben was calling him in the middle of his meeting. 'He knew I was in a meeting right now. Why would he call me?' He wondered internally. Usually, Ben would just send him text messages if there was something he needed to tell him. But this time it was a call. 'Was it urgent?' He thought more. "Can we pause for a while?" Niel asked the rest that were present inside the meeting and they just gave him a nod, obeying his request. Niel excused himself from the meeting table and walked to the hallway that l
Within thirty minutes after Ben made the phone call, Niel arrived at Haylee's old house. He parked his car right in front of Ben's car. Ben who was sitting inside the car waiting for him came out again to greet his Master. As soon after Niel got off his car, Ben approached him hastily and bowed down to him in respect. He apologized for calling him and interrupting his meeting previously."Go home. I'll take it from here," Niel instructed him while staring at Haylee from afar.Ben nodded in compliance and got into his car again, driving away from the area immediately.Niel scanned the surrounding. There weren't many people around the area. It was a shabby neighbourhood. Somehow, he felt like he couldn't believe that Haylee used to live in such a neighbourhood before. Now, that he came back to that place again, he felt heavy to let Haylee return to such a place.He noticed that there was a 'For Sale' signboard in front of the house. 'Her mom was really awfu
When it was around nine o'clock, Niel entered his bedroom again and saw Haylee had already fallen asleep. He turned off the stereo and checked the food tray that she left at the bedside table. She did eat some of the food although she didn't really finish it. 'At least she ate a little,' he mumbled internally and took the remote control of the lights. He dimmed the lights inside the bedroom and then took the food tray to the kitchen.After that, he went to his study office. It was the room next to his bedroom. He sat on a swivel chair behind the wide office desk inside the room and took out his phone from his pants pocket. His mind kept thinking about Haylee's old house. 'Should I just buy it?' He wondered. 'She grew up in that house since she was little. I bet she must have a lot of happy memories with her parents inside that house,' he thought more. 'Why am I being this sentimental?' He groaned instead, didn't like the melancholy air that surrounded himself.Niel sig
Niel groaned in distress as his mind rolled back to reality. He still remembered it quite clear that he had made a promise to Haylee before. He promised her that he would not date anyone else. Now, Brianna was trying to sabotage her at school and trying to make her high school life miserable because of him."No... I can't let that happen. Not after Haylee got abandoned like this. Her high school life should be great at least. She's suffering now. I can't just let her suffer at school as well. What should I do?" He grumbled alone inside his study office, having lost of what to do.He knew what was the right choice for him, but it was also the wrong thing as well. He had never imagined being put in such a situation in which making the right decision was also like making the wrong one. It was too complicated, he ended up being stressed because of it."Ahhhh... I have a meeting tomorrow. I don't have time to think about this," He began to sigh over and over again.
"A dream? Why so?" Niel was confused, couldn't understand what she meant."Do you still remember that day when my mom chased me out from home?""Yes. Why?""That day... you took me to shop and bought me so many things, and then you showed me your penthouse and brought me to live at the lakehouse. Those moments... it felt like a dream. I really thought it was a dream because when I woke up the next morning, my mind seemed not to be able to process it. I screamed that morning and thought I was kidnapped by a stranger when I woke up in your bedroom," Haylee told him what she felt during the first time she slept in his lakehouse."I knew. Martha told me," Niel responded and chuckled a bit again."It took me days to finally realize that I was indeed living in your house and my mom really did chase me out. Sometimes, I even dreamt that I was sleeping inside my bedroom in my old house.""Did you still dream like that nowadays?""No," Haylee
As they walked past the entrance door, another few men dressed in black came to Niel as well and suddenly walked behind him in an orderly manner. Haylee got startled and quickly speed up her pace. She unconsciously bumped herself into Niel from behind.Niel stopped his steps abruptly. In an instant, all his subordinates behind him showed a tense expression on their faces. They were expecting Niel to get furious as someone just bumped into him. It was disrespectful behaviour, a big no to anyone who worked inside the building. 'That girl was done,' they thought internally, feeling sorry for Haylee and they assumed that in any seconds now, she would get scolded by Niel, the Chairman of the Anderson Global Corp."Oh, your coat got dirty! My make-up had stained it a little. Let me clean it a bit," Haylee said leisurely and rubbed Niel's back to remove the make-up stain from his coat.'That's a wrong move, Miss,' the subordinates thought almost similarly with their fa
"Well... sure! There were two bodies inside the Anderson Global Corp. The first one is the Anderson Industry that deals with any local business arrangements. The second one is Anderson International Cooperation. That one deals with the international business arrangements. Both are separate multibillion dollars companies but under the same entity which is the Anderson Global Corp. The Chairman, Mr Anderson, owned both of them and he was the one that control both companies," Susan gave her a brief explanation about Niel's company."Ooohhhh..." Haylee made a sound of amazement. Susan just smiled at her."How was he like when he was here inside this company before?" Haylee asked more."The Chairman is a very solemn person. To be honest, he rarely smiled. He was always looked so serious all the time," Susan leaned closer to her and whispered to her ear as if afraid that someone might hear them."Really? But he was quite friendly when he was at school. He likes