Everyone was stunned by Victoria’s voice. Leo stopped eating and turned to look at her. Heaven removed her hands from covering her face so that she could see what’s going on. James turned to look at his daughter. He was upset by her noise. “What is your problem, Victoria!?” James raised his voice at her for the first time in a while. He wouldn’t have raised his voice if she shouted like that, startling everyone. Victoria was angry because her dad yelled at her without trying to know why she shouted. Leo was more concerned about James' health so he gave him a look trying to tell him to calm down. James understood the look clearly so he tried his best to stay calm. “Dad, you didn’t even bother to hear me out. You didn't even ask me why," Victoria answered. When she noticed James was not interested in what she had to say again, she stood up and walked out of the dining room. Heaven felt bad for her mom because she is the one that told the chef to prepare the egg salad with t
James was a little upset because he felt Leo should have told him immediately instead of making him start shouting at the chef the way he did. “I’m sorry grandfather.” Leo apologized slowly. Heaven was quiet. She was surprised to see that Leo took the blame for what he knows nothing about. “It’s fine. You don’t know anything about her allergy to eggs. I’ll calm her down.” James said calmly to Leo. Then he stood up and walked out of the dining room. Leo felt bad because he knew that James was upset but he tried not to vent it on him. Heaven felt ashamed of herself for doing something that she couldn’t own up to at the end of the day. She couldn’t even look at Leo’s face because she was too ashamed to do such a thing. “You can go.” Leo said to the assistant chef and the chef that were on their knees. Heaven stood up immediately and crossed the assistant chef. “I’m sorry.” she had to swallow her pride and apologize to the assistant chef. Leo saw what she did and he was happy
Leo was still in deep thought. He was thinking about the promise he made himself. He almost forgot he was doing something before he remembered the document he was signing. “Sir, are you okay?” Jake asked when he noticed Leo was lost in thought. The question brought Leo back to reality immediately. He moved all the papers aside and stood up from where he was sitting. He walked out of his office so that he could think clearly for a few minutes. Jake was confused because he was wondering what suddenly went wrong that's making his boss act the way he is acting. “What is wrong with me?” Leo asked himself and put his hand on his waist. He sighed heavily and finally decided to stop thinking about things that will ruin his mood. He walked back into the office and sat down. He shifted the papers closer to him and started signing them. When he was done, he handed them over to Jake who quickly put the files in the right place.*********************** Heaven was confused at this point
After checking out the delivered package, Leo smiled and kept it away. He'd realized from the moment he got home that he was late. So they must have probably had dinner without him. He decided to go to bed after taking his shower.*************** The next morning, he woke up very early and left for work without even taking breakfast. Heaven woke up tired because she couldn’t sleep well. She kept thinking of how to sort things out with her friends and what to tell them. She stood up from the bed and walked to the bathroom. She checked her face in the mirror and noticed her eyes were a little puffy. “It’s so obvious.” she groaned and walked out of the bathroom. She just went back to the bed and laid down on the bed. When Leo got to the office, he went straight to the board meeting that was supposed to be held in the evening. “Sir here.” Jake said and handed the tab to him the moment he sat down in the meeting room. They proceeded with the meeting and within some minutes, t
It was when he turned back to look at her that he realized that something was different about her. His eyes darted up and down, scrutinizing her departing figure. That's when it clicked in his head. Her clothes... He'd gotten used to seeing her in modest clothes that he had completely forgotten the first time they met. She was wearing an extremely revealing cloth then and she is doing the same now! He shook his head. He gets that they are at home and they can wear anything but does she have to wear such revealing clothes? If the stripes on her shorts had gone higher, it would have given a free display of her bum. Leo almost choked when he realized his train of thoughts. He looked away and pretended to cough. Even so... She is aware of the important event that is going on today. Does she have to dress that way? With this thought escaping into his mind, he hurried after her. He managed to catch up with her just before she began to descend down the spiraling stairs that had bee
"Of course, grandfather looks handsome. They had better not drool over you tonight cause I have also chosen a similar tux," Leo teased as he took James by hand and led him to the nearby couch. The room boomed with James loud laughter. "Silly boy... I'm too old for that." Leo looked like he wanted to refute James' words but the latter didn't give him a chance to do so. "Now that I remember... Leo, I was looking for you cause I wanted to inform you that I have invited some very special guests tonight," James' face turned serious with these words and Leo couldn't help but wonder who the 'VERY-SPECIAL-PEOPLE' were. "Okay," He gave a curt nod not knowing what to do with this piece of info. "So... You can't let anything go wrong at the party and you mustn't let any word anyone says to you get the best of you," Leo listened attentively to James advice. Why does this sound familiar? Didn't James also say the same thing when he was going to introduce him to Victoria and Heaven? "
Huh? Is there some kind of mistake here? She looked at the menu again. Why is every single dessert on the menu Leo's favorites!? She beckoned on the maid closer to her and asked,"Why...? Are these all the desserts set for the party? Is there some kind of mistake somewhere?" People nearby including Scott turned to look at her. The maid shook her head and replied in a calm voice like she had been instructed to,"No ma'am... Everything here has been personally chosen by our young master." A hush fell upon the room. Young master!? Which young master? Everyone in the room exchanged gazes in surprise. The room was only silent for a minute before it soon erupted with loud whispers of gossip. They could barely stop the excitement of finding out that the welcome party had been arranged for one young master. Mandy nodded at the maid with a fake smile and let her go. She looked around at the people murmuring and turned back to the menu. She checked the desserts section again. She chec
She doesn't understand why someone as old as her still displayed the familiar socialite wife behavior. One of the reasons why she hates family gatherings! She also didn't miss how her mother(Victoria) looked embarrassed with this statement. "Heaven dear," Heaven finally turned away, succeeding in stopping herself from marching to that grand-aunt of hers and giving her a piece of her mind! She turned to look at the woman that walked to her and held her hands with a soft smile. "Grandma Emily... Did pa force you to come here again? Alan told you about your health. I can't believe you told him to hide the secret from me!," Heaven displayed a genuine, worried look as she pouted and led the old woman to a nearby chair. This is Emily Greene who is married to Wave Greene, James' elder brother. Before I forget to mention... She is Heaven's favorite grandaunt. "Aiyo!," Emily exclaimed as she sat down. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted that grandson of mine to keep this away from you.