The Return Of The Secret Billionaire

Chapter 84.

"Alright then, I will be sure to contact you later," Manuel said on the phone to a business partner. "Alright then. Thank you very much." Then he hung up. Drawing a heavy sigh, he threw the phone across the bed and bloodshot red eyes stared into nothingness.

He was cooking up a new plan, a selfish one at that. Evelyn could always tell. "Is everything okay?" She decided to ask, even when she knew clearly that he wouldn't even give much of an audience to her. Manuel had been acting strange for some time now. It was true that he got accepted as a member of the Dragons not too long ago, barely two weeks ago. After all those long years of pleading.

But that was certainly not enough reason for him to have grown cold to her and everyone around. It was certainly not a reason to act cold at all to her. She had stood by his side all those weeks now, and what was he rewarding her with? Silence and awkward behaviors.

Manuel stared and nearly jumped out of his skin. "You're still here?" He asked