"I seem to hear that you dazzled the board!"Lia chuckled. She was talking with Aster on the phone. This phone call was made by her. She was worried that something was wrong with Aster so she needed to know again for sure.When she talked with him earlier, he seemed busy. Knowing he was okay, she was relieved.But she called again to see if he could say anything more."It was okay. I felt scared but I had to do that.""You did a good job. I found many hidden moles. At least the company will be uneventful for some time now."Lia also felt that this was a good outcome."I always wanted ask you. Did you tell Marvin about me? Like why I am your wife and I dress differently. It seems that they know. I'm just worried that they tell my family."Aster paused."I am sure that won't happen."Lia felt assured now. She felt that she should be the one who told her family the truth. Knowing it from others would be a betrayal. And she didn't want to hurt them like that. But when everything is done,
Only Aster knew how he came back. His kind was buzzing. The things he ignored came back to his mind. Why did the Lexor family start developing here? Why Marvin requested to live with him?Most importantly why Grandpa Lexor came to stay here. They were family. They were Lia's family. This explained why they knew everything about him and Lia. This was simply surprising. It meant that he should talk with Marvin.He waited for Marvin in his apartment for a long time. "You are good."Marvin spoke dryly.Aster stood up. He didn't know where to put his hands but he had to talk. "Brother, you are Lia's family."Marvin didn't say anything but his temperament changed. "Then I can talk to you about some things."He sat down."I don't like what you did."Aster nodded."Lia is not someone you can play with. I don't like your contract in any way. I'm quiet because I feel like she agreed. I'm not accepting her decision either but I have no say in this matter. But in any case, you are more at
Marvin and Oggy had a deep talk before they decided how to handle the matter between Aster and their family.Their grandfather had given his statement. Lia was not to be hurt in any way.This made things heavy.They had to move forward extremely cautiously. "You saw why, we have to now not act on Aster.""Brother, he is my best friend."Marvin glared at Oggy."Your best friend trapped your sister in a stupid agreement. He could have confessed to her straightforward instead of acting like a complete doofus CEO like in the novels."Oggy touched his nose."You are right. But brother, I know this, people in love lose their IQ. That's why he acted like this. Maybe he wanted to have his first and last relationship with our sister. Isn't this hood? If he asked someone else to act like his wife now. Wouldn't we be on the bad side?"Marvin glared more. "You know I'm right. It's just that he involved her in danger. But brother, Lia isn't a kid. She saw the out dug by him and she jumped in wi
Aster had just sent off the unwanted visitor when he found something else."Sir, I found a very suspicious activity."Ray called Aster and he hugged from his tone that Ray was really confused.Marvin had visited his new office and came back when he found Aster waiting for him."What's new?"Aster was depressed."I found that there is a new emerging force that is attacking my company. Can you track it?"Aster was sire that Marvin could help. He had forces that were superior to him."Show me."Marvin looked at the screen and frowned."This is not a white company. Most probably this should be some shell corporation and who is behind it, will take time to investigate.""Okay, I will be at ease with you looking at this."Aster had another reason to do this. He wanted to do other checks in the meantime.Marvin didn't bring his assistant here so I transferred the work to him.He had three assistants and they were trained to do specific tasks. One was his life assistant who helped in daily jo
When days pass by, you loss your perception. Because the lull you feel makes you let go of your worries. You feel nothing could go wrong. Life waits for you to feel those moments.You lose sight of all the worries and feel the light in your life. Everything seems all right. Lia felt the same. She didn't think anything could go wrong. Maybe except the shadow of the unknown murderer, there was nothjnf that prevented her from worrying.But that all broke when se saw something shocking. She was returning from a grocery run and she saw Aster getting out of a car. That was not his car because she knew his cars.It was a coincidence or something but Lia saw the driver look back at her.It was a young girl who smirked at her.Aster got out of the car and walked in.Lia watched the car leave and then she went in. She didn't take this matter to heart. Then again, why would she? Right?But she met with this situation again in the company.Lia had followed to check the progress of new Night li
"I'm sorry, sister. I lied. I just wanted to discredit you. I know I'm wrong. I'll not do this again. Please forgive me."Before Aster could do anything, she kneeled. Lia was speechless at this. What can she do to someone who could perform a drama scene at any moment? "Yes, Mrs. Brooks, you see, she is a child. Let her go.""Yes, she knows she is wrong."This kind of stupid moral kidnapping, Lia felt for the first time. She had seen this and knew about this. But experiencing it first hand, this was the first time. She understood now that experiencing yourself makes you empathize with anything.You can say, I feel you but you are wrong. If you feel, only then you can feel. You can't just imagine. Because the mindset when you imagine is quite different from when you feel.It shows you what differs in these two cases. And Lia was pissed now. Her teeth were clenched. She wanted to yell but she couldn't. Aster frowned."Miss Ruby, you act like we asked you to kneel. Please get up and
Lia stared at Ruby and saw her looking at her like a kitten."I have to go. I'm busy.""Yes, yes, sister. When do you get off?"She asked running after Lia."I don't know. If my team leader gives me more work, I have to stay late.""Why? It would help if you only worked during work hours. Do they give you overtime pay? If not, I will fight for you."She said moving her hands."They pay me well. Otherwise thus won't be the most sought company here. You should go do your job."Lia hoped frantically that she left her here.Because Lia had a terrible first impression of Ruby. Maybe the third impression. But that sire sealed the deal. She didn't want to stay with her for one more second."Hey, sister, what's your name?"Lia walked faster."Sister, I'm Ruby. What's your name?"She kept yelling.Lia could see people looking at them weirdly.She was embarrassed."Don't shout. Listen, you have to stop following me. You should have some work to do here, right?"Ruby kept following Lia again.L
Lia was very much in a dilemma now.She told Aster about her meeting with Ruby. "By this incident, we can rule out the possibility that she recognized you. And we can also infer that she is definitely not like the person she showed herself at the party. She doesn't like to hurt others but she still framed you. Why?"Yes. why would someone act in a totally different way?Unless they were coerced to do that."What if? I mean, what if the person behind the scenes asked her? There's no other reason, right?"Aster pondered. "You may be right. We have to confirm this. Otherwise, we can go the wrong way."Lia nodded but she felt that her hypothesis was right. She liked the person Ruby was when she asked her to be her friend. But she didn't like when Ruby hurt her earlier. But she saw her as two different people, not one person.It was totally different.How could she treat her nicely when she got flashes of her framing? It was a contradictory situation."I will see if I get any informatio