CHAPTER EIGHT-NINE:A connection-- “Tyler,” It was Victoria. “What took you so long?” “I was taking a bath.” He simply answered.  “And so?” “Why, you only wash yourself for less than five minutes?” “…” “I know.” Tyler nodded then closed the door behind him. “Any way, what were you two talking about?” “Charles.”  Charles? Althea looked back at them after hearing a foreign name. She wanted to focus on their conversation but when she saw Tyler walking towards her in an even pace, it robbed her attention.  “Ah, him.” He replied to his mother, but his eyes were focus on her. He only stopped when they were arm’s length apart. &nbs

CHAPTER NINTY-TWO: A Month Later --  -- “What was that?” Althea roared at Tyler when she was sure that the two of them were out of the other’s earshot. “What were you saying to the kid? To my son!” In front of her roaring flames, Tyler answered calmly. “I said what I said. I meant what I meant.” His words fueled her anger. She can feel it boiling like a kettle of water under a hundred-degree Celsius temperature. She wants to get physical so bad and smack him with both of her hand, but if he went back down with a swollen face, she’s certain that Kai will ask what happened. In the end, she just groaned out her frustration. “You’ve gotta be kidding me, you son of a-” she clicked her tongue to stop herself from spitting that horrible word. She sighed loudly. “Stop joking aro

CHAPTER NINETY-THREE:Different-- "What do you think of him?" "Hm?" "Tyler." "..." Kai paused. He turned to look at his mother, that was sitting on the sofa next to him.  She was leaning at the armrest and resting her arms there. Her eyes were on him the whole time he was playing on the floor with the toys Tyler bought for him. "He's nice." He answered.  A silence of his mother followed it, like how silent the house is. It was morning, Tyler was already at work, leaving the two of them in the house together with the maids.  But those women, Kai noticed, that they somehow disappear from the face of the earth unless you call them for something.  It was a little different from Charlotte's house, from his father's house, but it's not that bad. "H

CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE: -- Althea's heart raced. It thumped against her chest like a running horse. A suddenly elation started to build up in her chest, it made her heart pound harder.  'Wait- no,' she calmed herself. 'Why am I acting so-" "Happy." "Pardon?" Althea was startled with Lina's interruption of her thoughts.  Lina smiled at her mischievously. "You don't have to deny it, ma'am. If you're that happy, you can see him right away- oh, I forgot to tell you, he's still in a middle of taking a bath, I'll just warn you before hand. But if you want to see his delicious, delectable body, you can enter his room and take a bath with him if you want-" "Sto- stop- what are you talking about...!" Althea hastily puts a plug in her mouth and cautiously look at her son. Relief washed over her when she saw that he wasn't listening to the co

CHAPTER NINETY-SIX: -- A Week ago… The street was bustling with cars and people, it was lunch, they were either going out to buy some or getting their break after a hectic working hour. Everyone has the right to take a short break so they can remain productive all throughout the day. Some went out with groups, but some also ate alone at their cafeteria. They all took their time to enjoy the break and munched foods in their mouth with bliss. But that’s not the case with the CEO of the company.  He remained in his office, accompanying the pile of papers on his office table. His hands were flipping on the pages of document on his hand and his eyes were scanning through it in a fast pace. It makes the outsiders wonders if he can still even understand the document he was reading.  It was lunch, his secretary asked him what he wants to have,