“Aren’t you going to take that? It could be important…” Ace said with a careless shrug. “Can anything be more important than what we’re going to discuss?” his father snapped. “Up to you…” Ace muttered like he couldn’t care less. After shooting a glare at Ace, the Chairman sighed and stood up from his seat. With his phone in his hand, he exited the room to have a private conversation with the caller. I let out a long sigh when the door closed behind him, and I was left alone with Ace in the room. “Well, I guess the real conversation can’t start until everyone is in the room…” Ace said before leaning back leisurely on the sofa.“More people will be joining us?” I asked with widened eyes. “Actually, you’re the last of us to arrive because there were things that I had to get sorted out first,” Ace replied.I narrowed my eyes at him as my mind raced to understand what was going on. Someone else was supposed to join us. I was biting down on my lip without realizing it as I tried to fig

It was clear that Ace’s father wanted nothing more than a solution to the problem that was right in front of us. Ace’s announcement had caused massive panic and the news did not take long to reach the eyes and ears of the public and that included the board of directors and the shareholders. “You have to admit that it’s not my fault that the investors like to overreact at every little thing that I did or didn’t do,” Ace retorted like it wasn’t at all his problem. “Every time some juicy news about Ace appears, the share price tanks instantly. Like, you know, when they highlight his various affairs,” Elizabeth whispered to me before laughing.Despite the stressful atmosphere, Elizabeth seemed to be enjoying the show immensely to the point where I had no idea what truly ran through her head. I shook my head in disbelief when I recalled Ace’s words on how I should try to get along with Elizabeth and how I should learn from her. “How dare you say such irresponsible things!” the chairman

“I can’t make a decision on this right now. I’ll need to think this through, and I’ll also need to meet with Elizabeth’s father to discuss this further,” the chairman finally said. “That’s good enough for now, I guess. I didn’t expect that you could decide right away. However, I just want to remind you that this will have to go through in some shape or form according to the deal that we’ve made,” Ace said as he stared directly at his father. “What deal?” the chairman asked. He can’t mean…“Don’t act like you forgot. The deal where I’m supposed to grow the company. If I remember correctly, and I’m quite sure that I do, when we made that deal you agreed that I could use whatever method that I wanted. You would allow me to do things my way to grow our company. I remember that the set timeline is three years. Good news is, with this, it won’t take anywhere close to three years,” Ace said with certainty. The chairman eye’s widened as if he finally fully understood what was really going

I appreciated his concern and how he seemed to be composed and calm as always; however, that wasn’t something that I wanted. Putting this off would just kill me off slowly. “No, I think that we should talk right now,” I said before I would lose my resolve. “I should stop the car…” Ace said with a nod of his head. “Yeah…” I agreed softly. A moment later, Ace found a spot on the side of the road where he could stop the car. The fact that no one else seemed to be out during that time of night helped us a lot. It felt like we had the world to ourselves even if it would be just for a short while. “It’s late but I don’t really want to spend the night in that place,” Ace said as if he wanted to explain to me why we didn’t just sleep over at that large mansion. I figured that Ace must have been referring to that mansion that we had just departed from. Although I wasn’t sure if his dislike of the place stemmed from the fact that his father was there or if the place belonged to his father

“But the chairman did give you three years…” I murmured while still not quite getting why he was so rushed about this. If Ace didn’t truly like the idea of merging the companies together, I didn’t see why he had to rush things forward when he had close to three years left to come up with another plan. There was also the option of keeping that as his last resort in case all of his other plans did not work out. Ace was suddenly silent, and I ended up staring at him while wondering what he was thinking about again. For some unknown reason, my heart clenched in my chest as I waited eagerly for his reply. After a short moment that felt like it lasted so long, Ace turned to stare deeply into my eyes before his lips curved up into a very charming smile. The look in his warm hazel eyes was bright and for an instant, he looked very free of stress. A slight fluttering feeling overwhelmed my chest, and I had no idea why I suddenly felt a little excited. “I didn’t want to wait three years. It