Chapter 4: Deliberately causing trouble

- Come in.

Elena took another deep breath, and a few seconds later she reached out and gently pushed the door open, carefully peeking her head in. The spacious room, with a mild minty scent, wafting through her nostrils made Elena suddenly feel less tense.

Elena crept in. She looked around the room and saw Mikey. He was sitting behind a large desk, his expression nonchalantly trying to appear hard at work, ignoring Elena's presence. The light from the floor-to-ceiling window behind made Mikey's whole body glow, just like the halo of an angel.

Very pretty!

The first time Elena was able to come to this room, she witnessed with her own eyes the serious working appearance of the big boss. This image was in stark contrast to the times she had met him before, suddenly making Elena look at him in surprise without blinking.

Only now does she understand why her female colleagues admire Mikey and use him as an ideal model to find a lover all the time. Certainly not unreasonable. He was really handsome, if Elena hadn't seen his evil side, she might have had a different view of this man.

- Have you looked at me enough?

Elena was startled by a sudden cold voice. She woke up from a dream. Mikey is still hard at work typing on the computer keyboard, his head hasn't even lifted… how does he know she's looking at him, does he have magic eyes on the top of his head?

Elena grimaced in embarrassment and said defiantly:

- I'm waiting for you to finish work, but when do I look at you?

Mikey nonchalantly replied:

- Then you just stand there until the night, then I will finish the work.

Hearing Mikey's words, Elena froze, suddenly angry. The goodwill that had just been there a minute ago had vanished like smoke. She clenched her fists trying to control her emotions, then reminded herself to stay calm. She then walked over to Mikey's desk and placed her crumpled-up promotion letter on the tabletop:

- Can you revoke this decision? I'm used to working in the Marketing department, I promise to do well and try harder so I hope you don't move me to another position, okay?

- Call back.

Mikey coldly shouted, scaring Elena, and giving her goosebumps. But she thought about it and still didn't know where she made the wrong name. Elena thought blankly for a moment, then replied:

- General manager, can you consider my proposal?

Only then did Mikey pause, raise his hand slightly, glance at Elena, and say nonchalantly:

- At the company you need to call me by title, not arbitrarily called, this rule when working at L.X company, no one taught you?

Elena lowered her head and tried to suppress her discomfort. Before when Elana was a noble lady, she had never had to endure this kind of feeling of being treated coldly by others. But since her family's incident, everything around her seems to have collapsed, and Elena has adapted to this harsh reality. She mumbled apologizing to the man, Elena's attitude making Mikey feel a little gloated. He leaned back against the back of the chair, resting his legs on top of each other, his fingers tapping on the table with a thud, his overbearing voice resounded:

- Why should I change my decision? Don't you love money? If you work in the mail room, the salary will be very high. You don't like that?

Elena struggled to swallow, she was reminding herself: [ This is the company and he is a powerful man who can call rain and wind, and a big boss who pays her monthly salary. I should not allow her to get angry.]

Elena smiled wryly.

- Yes, I love money, but I also really like my current job. Previously, I applied to L.X to work in the Marketing department, so now I don't want to move anywhere. Please, General Manager, withdraw this decision.

Mikey smirked. Under Elena's expectant gaze, he rose from his seat and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window behind him. The man leaned his shoulder against the glass window, folded his arms across his chest, looking out at the beautiful city of A that was sparkling in the warm sunlight of the sun, Mikey's heart on the contrary was extremely painful. He turned his back to Elena, hiding the loneliness in his eyes, and looked out, Mikey's voice still stern:

- Then you quit your job.

Elena hurriedly waved her hand, she couldn't lose this job. She was scared, trembling, and said:

- I really need this job, so can I ask the general manager to forgive me? You...Oh no, general manager, with your position, you can recruit a lot of talented secretaries or volunteers to do this job.

- So… Why don't you want to?

Elena was speechless, she suddenly could only stare blankly at the tall figure of the man. The bottom of her heart vaguely had a kind of painful emotion. Her head is also very painful.

Suddenly Mikey turned around, and shoved his hands in his pockets, his eyes seemed to carry the sun's rays, they just flashed a brilliant yellow and then quickly disappeared. He uttered another sentence that startled Elena and took a step back:

- You have another option if you still want to work in the same position.

Elena was like a non-swimmer struggling in the fast-moving water when she received a lifebuoy. She immediately looked forward to Mikey, waiting for him to state his terms.

But Mikey beckoned to Elena to come near him. Elena cautiously shook her head slightly, then he said indifferently:

- Then you quit your job or move to the secretarial office.

Elena knew that this man was intentionally making things difficult for her, so she had to go into the water to be patient. Elena slowly walked closer until they were only two feet apart when she stopped. Mikey leaned down to her ear and whispered:

- You signed a contract to sell my body.

Then he reluctantly straightened up, the tip of his nose was the scent of his wife's body, every cell in Mikey's body seemed to be screaming for him to hug Elena but he couldn't. He just had to regret and hold back.

Elena heard these words coming out of her class boss's mouth and just wanted to raise her hand to slap him in the face, but because L.X's generous salary was enough to help her pay for most of the medical bills. John was sick, so she patiently pleaded with Mikey:

- Can you change another condition?

Mikey pouted, shrugged, walked back to the chair, and sat down.

- It's over, I'll give you time to think until tomorrow morning. If you keep quiet, then you accept the resignation, I will still pay you your full salary this month, but there will be no bonus at the end of the year. I heard, if you are the highest revenue earner in the Marketing department, the bonus must be quite a lot, right?

Elena opened her mouth wide, she was breathing heavily like someone who was deprived of air, the bad boy was clearly doing it on purpose. He wanted to corner her. If it weren't for the money, Elena would have cursed at him for fun and then run away from here at once. Her anger rose up to her neck and had to try to swallow again, her eyes brimming with red veins. She hated being able to strangle the pervert in front of her.

- If you want to scold me, just do it. Why must you be so angry?

Elena was startled by Mikey's words. Startled, she blurted out:

- Are you a ghost? The thing…

Elena still managed to capture what she said when she hit her face, it was the nameplate of the CEO placed on the desk. Without even saying hello, Elena turned to leave, ignoring the person behind who was smiling proudly.

The whole working day that Elena couldn't concentrate, the choices Mikey made for her were almost impossible to escape. Did she offend him or something? Is it because the money she asked for last time made him regret it, so now he wants to torture her to make up for the lost money?

At the end of work, Elena quickly crowded into the crowded bus to go to the NT cafe to work. Today the shop was empty, so it was just past eleven o'clock, she and her colleagues finished cleaning everything and then took a break. Elena enlisted to the hospital to visit John.

She quietly sat next to the hospital bed watching her brother still not having any positive changes. This made her feel very frustrated and discouraged. At some point, Elena was crying because she suddenly felt bored with everything. The driving force that keeps her alive is John, but increasingly she lacks faith in her brother.

Will he wake up or not? How much longer does she have to wait?

- John! I beg you, wake up. I'm so tired! This society is scarier than I thought. It always makes me ruffled to live. No matter how difficult it is, I will try to overcome it, but please wake up. John! Don't give up, when you wake up together we'll find out who killed our parents, we have to take back what's ours… I need you, please wake up, okay?

May quietly stood outside the door to wipe her tears. Nolan went to her side and asked in a low voice:

- Does Elena have any other relatives?

Yes, but they're all bad guys. Not only robbed Mr. and Mrs. Hill's property but also kicked her out of the house. She only works alone to support herself and take care of John's medical expenses. It's hard, but I've never seen her suffer like this. Perhaps something had happened to make her so discouraged and cry in front of her little brother.

- Let me talk to her.

Then Nolan entered the room. He put his hand on Elena's shoulder, his voice soft:

- Let's talk for a moment! You do not mind?

Elena looked up, her tear-stained face making anyone who saw it would feel heartache.

She recognized that the person who just said was the doctor who treated John quickly wiped her tears and smiled:

- Hi Nolan. Okay.

- You go out first, I'll go get coffee.

Elena nodded and watched Nolan disappear, then she turned around and kissed John on the forehead and whispered:

- When you are tired of sleeping, wake up and play with me!

She instructed May to do some things, then put on her coat and went out into the lobby. Now Nolan was waiting for her with two cups of coffee in hand.

- Aren't you on duty?

- I just finished my shift, so I'm going home. Are you still doing well these days?

Elena took the coffee cup and took a small sip, smiling.

- Yes, it's okay, work at the end of the year is a bit busy. Is John making any progress?

- I just asked the head doctor this afternoon. He said everything is still the same but don't worry too much, John will wake up soon.

- I hope so too, now I can only wait for some miracle.

- Why are you crying so much? Even though John was unconscious, he could still feel it. You have to be optimistic and happy, if there is anything sad, find me. I will listen to you.

Elena nodded and smiled, her tears still lingering on her curled eyelashes.

- Thank you very much, without you always by my side to help me from the beginning, I would not have been able to get up.

- Don't be so polite. It's late, I'll take you home!

- Oh, no need to bother you like that, I can go home by myself. You want to go home and rest early.

- Don't mind, wait for me to change my blouse and then I'll take you home.

Saying that Nolan quickly walked toward the office and he was back in a flash. His face shone with joy, his eyes filled with love for Elena.

Sitting in Nolan's car, Elena fell asleep. Back under the apartment block that Elena rented, Nolan just sat there and waited without waking her up. The longer he waited, the more he saw Elena sleeping, so he opened Elena's bag to find the key to her apartment and got out of the car. Nolan went to open the door next to Elena's seat, he gently took Elena in his arms and carried her upstairs. The whole process was like that, but she still slept soundly.

Mikey sat in the car, he saw Elena being held in his arms by a man, then grabbed the steering wheel and got angry: [You are so easy, you dare to do high with me?]

[You abandoned me and my son to live these days?]

[Elena, do you understand that my heart is in pain?]

Mikey waited silently until Nolan returned, then got in the car and disappeared. At this point, he got out of the car, went to stand in front of Elena's apartment door angrily, and rang the bell. But he waited forever and still did not see her open the door. He tried to open the door himself, but he didn't find the lock, so he leisurely entered the house.

Elena was lying on the bed peacefully sleeping, he quietly sat down beside her and looked at her, muttering softly:

- Elena, what happened? Can you tell me? I still don't. Dare to believe that when you leave for another man.

Elena turned slightly to lie on her side, the sound of her breathing was clear and steady. Mikey took a cigar and went to the balcony to smoke, he did not leave but stayed here, for whatever he himself could not answer. Probably still trying to love her.

Suddenly Elena shouted, Mikey rushed back to the bedroom.