The sunlight seeped through the window and highlighted a figure on a bed, his arm and head was bandaged and you could still see the slight blood. His face was ghastly pale and his lips were chapped and dry.
All in all, he looked very sick and feeble, if you did not look closely, you would not know that the figure was a 'he' because of his weak physique.
The figure grunted and squinted his eyes open with difficulty, he closed them back as he was unable to adapt to the sudden brightness. Soon, he opened them again and this time, clearer.
Of course, the figure was Ivan.
Ivan furrowed his brows tight and looked around.
"Where the fuck am I? What happened to me?"
He was in a luxurious room that looked like a room in a five star hotel. The room was clean and was painted white, it was very quiet and apart from Ivan's slight breathing sound, there was also a beep sound from the machine beside him.
His eyes widened in realisation, he was in a hospital but the room looked different from the rooms that he had been before. If not that he had seen the clinical equipment that was monitoring his heartbeat and pulse, he would not have believed that he was in a hospital room.
Moreover, the scheme of the hospital was white, including the ceilings.
He shut his eyes, trying to remember what happened exactly and how he got here and then it hit him with a bang.
His depressed state of mind when he went for a walk and how he got into a fight with some unreasonable people. The only thing he remembered was the blurred figures of those guys as they absconded.
Ivan was still deep in thoughts when he suddenly heard the loud ringing of a phone, he looked around having realised that the ringing tone was his. Then, he saw his phone on a table nearby.
When he saw the name displayed on the screen, he clenched his jaws and hesitated before picking it.
"Hello? Lucy is that you?" Ivan questioned in doubt.
"Yes, it is me. Where have you been? You did not come home the whole night, did you?" She asked and Ivan took in a deep breath.
If he said that he was not glad about Lucy's concern, it would be a lie. It seemed that Lucy still cared about him a lot and he could not help but be glad.
If she could apologize, he was ready to forgive her.
"I am sorry, I was caught up with something, is everything alright?"
"Come home." Lucy said simply and Ivan nearly laughed aloud. He felt that although Lucy's voice was calm, she still liked him.
"Alright." He agreed without hesitation and with that, Lucy disconnected the call.
He smiled and traced his head that had been throbbing with his hands, soon a nurse entered the room with a notebook in her arms. When she saw that Ivan was awake, she smiled gently and checked his conditions and the monitoring machine before speaking up.
"How are you doing sir? Do you feel any discomfort anywhere?"
"I am okay, but how did I get here? I can't remember any thing." Ivan asked in doubt and the nurse answered, with the same gentle and polite smile on her face.
"You were brought here yesterday night by someone, you were unconscious and injured with bruises all over your body, he claimed that he saw you unconscious in a dark valley." She said and Ivan frowned.
He actually wished that the person did not save him because he could not see any reason for him to be alive but still, he was grateful.
"is the person still around? I want to thank him personally."
"He left after paying your bills and making sure that you are okay, he was also the one that arranged for you to be in a VIP ward." The nurse said and Ivan's frown became deeper but he just sighed after.
What if his son was as lucky as he was now? What if he also got someone to help arrange a VIP ward for his son? Ican shook his head, knowing that there was no what ifs.
"Alright, thank you, but can I leave now? I need to attend to something." Ivan asked the nurse and she contemplated before nodding slowly.
"Your wounds are just superficial, you don't have any internal wounds so you can be discharged, you don't have any thing to worry about, it has all been settled." She said and Ivan nodded, he could not help but be very grateful towards the person that helped him.
With everything settled, Ivan took his phone and left the hospital before walking towards his and Lucy's house with brisk steps. He already knew that Lucy wanted to apologize to him, so he walked even faster, enduring the pain on his legs and left arm.
He had requested for the nurse to remove the bandage and he rolled his sleeves to cover the wound on his arm, his bangs also covered the wounds on his head.
Soon, he got home. He saw two cars in the garrage. One was Lucy's while the other was a Porche car. He shrugged and walked inside.
He bumped into an unfamiliar lady the moment he entered, he was surprised.
Was she Lucy's new friend?
"Ah, i am so sorry, so sorry." The lady apologized profusely, Ivan quickly waved his uninjured hand to tell her not to worry.
"Are you here to see Miss Lucy? I am a maid that she just employed, can I know who you are?" The lady said very politely and it made Ivan embarassed.
"My name is Ivan, I am Lucy's husband." He said with a smile but the lady's countenance changed and she suddenly scoffed, contempt and disdain evident in her face, It caught Ivan off guard.
"So, you are just the useless and good for nothing husband? Tsk tsk, I was respectful for nothing, such bad luck." The lady said after looking at Ivan from head to toe. She had thought that he was some low key young master, but she was mistaken.
Ivan was enraged and was about to berate the lady when he heard Lucy's voice.
"Ivan?"
Ivan glared at the lady before bypassing her and walking inside, he saw Lucy sitting elegantly on the couch, a man in suit was sitted beside her. He was holding a briefcase.
Ivan suddenly got a bad feeling but he forced himself to calm down and was about to ask who the man was when Lucy handed some papers over to him.
He looked at her in doubt but she just raised her brows.
"Read it." She said and Ivan nodded.
But as he started reading, his eyes dilated and he trembled before raising his head to look at Lucy and the unfamiliar man on suit.
"Divorce papers?"
Ivan's heart sank and he even felt as if his heart was pierced with glass shards, it hurts terribly that his face turned ashen and he stiffened. He raised his bloodshot eyes to look at Lucy, Lucy was stunned by the look on his face and she shifted uncomfortably on her seat but still maintained that uncaring expression. She felt that there was no need for her to be guilty, he should blame it all on his uselessness. She was about to talk when the man beside her stopped her."Good afternoon Mr Ivan, my name is Ben and I am Miss Lucy's lawyer, she complained that you've not been taking care of her and you are also an irresponsible Father to your child that he died. She said that you are unable to care for her and that she does not want the marriage any more. Those are the divorce papers as you've read. So, please sign them to avoid unnecessary trouble." Ben finished his speech and looked at Ivan for his response. Ivan was dumbfounded at what Ben said.Miss Lucy? He had even started to
Ivan was surprised at what Lucy said, if what she said was true then it would mean that her company would start tp grow well from then onwards.You must know that for a big corporation could agree to invest in a small enterprise, it either meant that the small enterprise had limitless potential or it has many connections.In Lucy's case, it was both possibilities.Actually, Ivan was happy for her, but when he remembered how she got her connections, he froze.Lucy thought that he was feeling bad about himself, her pride rose and his expression stroked her ego. Lana could already guess what was going on, but she sighed.The truth was that she really liked Ivan, he was a caring husband and also very polite but he was useless and there was nothing Lana could do to help someone like him."Lucy, did you get your connection by sleeping around?" Ivan suddenly asked with a tremble to his voice and Lucy's face changed drastically before flaring up."Ivan, how dare you? Do you want to ruin my im
"Did you think that we just freezed Lucy's account just for nothing? We knew how despicable you could be so we feeezed her account so that you won't live off her. But we still underestimated you, even after freezing her account, she was still the one feeding the family with her small enterprise company, are you not ashamed? Ivan, are you even a man?" Mrs Anderson questioned, her pitch getting higher and louder until it became a shriek."Ivan, I had wanted to accept the relationship with my daughter after she gave birth to your child, but when I also heard that the boy had died due to your carelessness, I was utterly disappointed. You are not worthy of my daughter from the beginning and you are even worse now, you are not even worthy of carrying her bathroom slippers." Mr Anderson also said, he was calm and collected but the rage in his eyes showed how much anger he was feeling right then.Ivan could not talk, it was not like he does not have anything to say but that he could not open
The divorce issue was finally settled, Mr and Mrs Anderson could not help but beam."Now, our daughter will be able to get a good man to marry." Ivan, who was already on his way upstairs nearly stumbled when he heard what Mrs Anderson said. He could not help but wondered if they knew that Lucy had cheated on him.But so?Even if they knew, Ivan was sure that they would dismiss it and he would also be blamed for it. Helpless, he could only keep quiet. Now, he was not staying in Lucy's house as her husband anymore, but as a servant because he had to work for staying here. He had been reduced to such a state.That was not right, he was never something from day one....In the evening, Ivan left his room and went downstairs. He has been on his bed, trying to sleep and forget everything that happened but he could not. He must have woken up six times. It was a futile tussle of conflicting and complicated thoughts.He had wished to sleep it all off and wake up to the refreshing sunlight bu
Ivan ignored the two people who bypassed him and went back to sleep on the couch. He did not want to sleep in the guest room beside the master's bedroom. Ivan was still perambulating around when he heard a moaning sound from upstairs. It was loud, and it was obvious that Lucy was not trying to control her voice. It was unknown whether she did it intentionally or not. He stopped walking for a while, clenched his jaws, and then lay on the couch with his back, staring at the ceiling. ... The morning rays flooded into the room through the drawn curtains, shimmering on the surface of the glossy tiles. The drawn curtains fluttered with the early morning wind, casting flowing shadows on the ground as they moved, giving the room a surreal vibe. Ivan squinted his eyes open at this point, his eyelids droopy, and looked around the sitting room with his groggy eyes, as if confused about where he was. After a while, his eyes regained clarity, and he stood up, then walked towards the stairs
Ivan glanced at Charles from the corner of his eye before leaving the room, his mind swirling with different thoughts.The moment he left, Charles stared at his retreating back and took his phone from the table beside the bed, dialing a number."You know what to do, right? Just ruin his day for me. Contact those small companies since he could only work there with his talent. I want to see him defeated," he said, grinning before disconnecting the call.Lucy glanced at him and the direction Ivan had left with a thoughtful gaze before smiling. With that, they both entered the covers, and soon after, Lucy's sultry voice rang out.Of course, all this was unbeknownst to Ivan, who had already left.He knew that if he wanted to be free, he needed to get a job first. If he had a good pay, Lucy might also start to take him seriously, she might even accept him back.Ivan knew that he could not forget about Lucy just like that. He knew that he was being ridiculous, but he believed that if he work
"Sir, isn't this the person we were told not to hire just this morning?" the man in the blue suit exclaimed after multiple checks, and Ivan's heart skipped a beat.'It couldn't be right? There must have been a mistake or a mix-up,' he thought inwardly while clenching his fists."Really? Bring it and let me see." The man in the seat ordered solemnly, and the man in the blue suit did not waste time and quickly handed Ivan's CV and his phone over.The man in the seat went through it, and his face darkened gradually. He dropped the CV and the phone before raising his head to look at Ivan with an incredulous look on his face.He was quiet for a while, and his face turned expressionless."I'm sorry, but we can't employ you," he said simply, and Ivan's face fell.They had decided to employ him but changed their mind at the last minute. Could it be that it was Charles? Or... Jack?Ivan was stunned, but he could not let this chance slip from his hands."Sir, you saw my CV, right? I have the qu
Ivan's eyes turned red when he saw Charles. Charles looked totally different from how casual he had been that morning.At that moment, he was wearing a black tuxedo, his black hair was combed back, and his suit was without wrinkles. On his hand was a limited Rolex watch, the crown had a fluted design and two dots beneath it.Ivan might not have seen it before, but he recognized it because he had seen its image on the web and knew how expensive it could be.And the ironic fact was that he could never afford it, no matter how hard he worked.The man beside him also seemed to be a wealthy figure, but he looked slightly older than Charles, seemingly in his early forties.Charles also saw Ivan at that moment and gave him a smile filled with mockery."Mr Ivan, there is no vacancy, so please leave," the receptionist said slowly, and Ivan turned to look at her. His face was calm, but his clenched fist betrayed his inner turmoil."Why? Is it because of him?" he asked with a deep voice, pointin