“Young Master, your father has arrived.”Alexander wrinkled his straight and narrow nose at the news. He hated him and everyone around his father. He wanted to get up from the bed so he wouldn’t have to meet him, but he couldn’t due to his injuries.“Young Master, please don’t try to move; your wound will only bleed more.” Tibor begged the young man. Even though he was seriously wounded by his enemy, he still had the strength to get up.“Tch, you’re worthless!” Alexander almost threw something at Tibor to vent his anger.“I’m sorry, Young Master!” Tibor bowed his head and was ready to kneel in front of Alexander to forgive him.Tibor knew that the last thing his master would want was for his father to see him in such a state. He was forever stuck with the prideful father-and-son who both didn’t want to lose to each other. It was as if they want to kill each other whenever they were in the same room. However, despite of that, one couldn’t ignore the other in rare situations such as the
ALEXANDER WOKE up from a bad dream last night. He felt mad again because he couldn’t get up to get something to drink. Another thing that made him angry was that Tibor had not returned since yesterday. His father was the one watching over him the morning he woke up. He didn’t want to talk to him, so he had no way of knowing where Tibor was.Alexander clenched his right fist as he remembered his dream. He quickly pressed the red button on his side to call his guard. Two of them eagerly went in and both their faces were expressing concern.“Is Tibor not back yet?”The two guards looked at each other and couldn’t open their mouths so Alexander got even more bad-tempered.“Are you going to talk or do you want me to blow your heads off?!” He yelled at them.The two broke in cold sweats as they glanced at the gun that was next to Alexander. They knew the young man, his anger was always worse than his father’s.“Please don’t, Young Master! I’m deeply sorry, but your father strictly ordered n
LAURENZO SMILED almost imperceptibly as he watched Dylan. He made the right decision. Only that man could match his son.“Young Master, please forgive Dylan’s rudeness.”“Who did this to you?” Alexander asked instead.“I’m sorry, Young Master, I acted without your consent. Maybe I’m too old for this job and I can’t protect you anymore.” Tibor said, his face remorseful.“Don’t say that, only a buffalo gets old! And even though you are already weak, no one else can take your place. I can handle myself and I don’t need your strength to—”“Do you not see yourself to be saying that you don’t need a strong person to watch over you anymore?” Laurenzo said sarcastically.“It’s none of your business!” He snarled at his father.“I’m still your father. Besides, if your mother was still alive, she wouldn’t want someone like Tibor looking after you now. You know your safety is important to her.”“Mommy’s not like that! She entrusted me to Tibor, she wouldn’t like anyone else to look after me!”“Th
“ARE YOU okay now?” Alexander asked Tibor when he opened his eyes.Tibor smiled at the young man; he was already saddened that he couldn’t accompany him all the time from now on.“You should be resting; all your wounds haven’t healed yet.” He was not happy with Tibor’s current state. He was still in the hospital because his wound had developed an infection.“How are you? I heard you had a fever last night.”He nodded, then closed his eyes. He didn’t know who took care of him. He could only recall that someone bothered to wipe his body. He was certain it wasn’t a doctor or a nurse. His fever was so high that he couldn’t even manage to open his eyes last night.“Young Master, please take care of yourself. From this day on, I won’t be able to take care of you, so please don’t be stubborn.”Alexander opened his eyes, glaring daggers at Tibor. “You don’t have to protect me because I can take care of myself. But you can’t leave; no one else can take your place!”“I’m sorry, Young Master, bu
“HAVE YOU heard the news?”Rose raised her eyebrow at her gay friend. “If it’s something bad, then don’t tell me.” “Are you sure you don’t want to hear it? It’s about the son of the man you want to marry.” Jacob gracefully sat across his ambitious friend.Rose straightened her posture; she was suddenly interested. She and Laurenzo were frequently together, but he seldom talked about his son. She only knew that Alexander was hospitalized, she had no other information about his condition. Her boyfriend never allowed her to visit his son either because the young man didn’t like her. The gay fellow stretched out his palm to Rose, his left eyebrow arching.Rose reluctantly grabbed her purse and scooped up thousand dollars in exchange for his gossip. Jacob smiled widely as he counted five thousand dollars. “Well,” he began as he put the money in his own bag. “I just found out that Tibor had resigned from his job, so there will certainly be more villains seeking to harm your stepson.”“R
“If you can convince my Dad to remove this man from his position, you can take care of me.”Rose looked at the man that Alexander was pointing at. He was watching them with a poker face. It seemed like he was used to Alex’s bad attitude, and that he wasn’t scared or even recognized him as his master. “I will talk to your Dad if you don’t like this man. Honestly, I also don’t like him.”Dylan just shook his head when Alexander smiled. He could be childish sometimes. He glanced at the clock before stepping toward the woman. “Your visiting minutes are up, please leave.”Alexander’s grin widened as Rose’s eyes became round. “What? I’ve been here for mere ten minutes!”“Would you prefer to leave by yourself or be dragged outside?” Dylan didn’t sound like he was joking.Rose turned to Alex to ask for support, but he just smiled and shrugged. She understood why she was given a chance to talk to him; it even seemed as if they were on good terms. But she didn’t expect that Tibor’s replacement
A FEW days passed and Alexander was about to be discharged from the hospital. He didn’t want to stay in their house and that angered his father.“From today on, you have to work for the company and earn your own money. I’m also taking back your condominium. Now, if you don’t want to go home, then find somewhere else to sleep!” Laurenzo said harshly to his son.“Damn you!” Alexander yelled at his father through his gritted teeth.Dylan shook his head to express his disapproval of Alexander’s disrespect for his father.“Thank you!” Laurenzo smiled mockingly. “Now, it’s up to you where you go home. I’m not such a bad father, so I left fifty thousand on your credit card. And the car is only for Dylan to drive. When I find out you left without Dylan, you can expect what I’ll do next.”Alexander cursed frustratedly a few more times. He would seriously do anything to pressure him to comply with his wishes. His father had left, but he hadn’t decided where to live yet.“Shall I find you a plac
When Dylan turned around, he caught Alexander looking at him. “Do you have anything else for me to do?”“Are you seriously going to sleep here?”“Do I have any other choice?” Dylan replied nonchalantly.“You don’t have to keep me company. Don’t worry, Daddy won’t find out.”He ignored Alexander’s proposal, and instead asked him: “Order another blanket and a mattress that I can lay here on the floor.”“No, I don’t have the money to—”“I will pay.” Dylan cut off his excuse.“I don’t want to! There’s not enough space!” Alexander refused. There wasn’t anywhere for Dylan to sleep on; there was only a small sofa in the room aside from the single-sized bed.Dylan thrusted his hands in his pockets, then looked at Alexander’s bed. “If you want to sleep together, don’t make any more excuses.” He remarked mockingly.“Jerk, I don’t like your type of guy!”Dylan grinned as he slowly approached Alexander. He placed both his hands on the bed and crouched down close to his master’s face.Alexander be
“Which hospital was my husband taken to?” Alexander asked Dante as he hurried out of the elevator.“He’s at home, sir.”Alexander suddenly stopped walking and turned angrily to Dante. “What? Why wasn’t he taken to the hospital? What if my husband is having trouble breathing? I can kill that Troy!”Dante scratched and almost ran to keep up with his boss. “Sir, your husband is not injured, but the car is heavily damaged.”Alexander still did not calm down and worried about his husband. Only then will he believe he’s okay when he sees him. After entering the car, he immediately ordered Dante. “Drive!”“Shouldn’t we wait for Ms. Lily?” Dante asked his boss in a tone of concern for the woman.Alexander was stunned for a moment and forgot about the girl. “Just call her later and tell her to take a taxi home. I can’t wait for her, and I have to see my husband.Dante secretly smiled and immediately started the car. It was only right that they had already turned out of the parking area when Li
Raffy smiled when he saw the man’s cellphone ring after he dialed the number he gave. “That’s my number; call me how much you spent on your car, and I’ll pay for the damage.”“I won’t refuse if that’s the case, especially when the salary isn’t coming yet.” He pocketed the cellphone before looking at Raffy again. “How about your car?” He asked, and the front part of it was also broken.“It’s fine, and I can buy a new car.” Raffy comes with bragging. He smirked when the man’s eyes were sticky on him. It turns out that his charisma has not faded with his fellow men. He grabbed his wallet and took out a calling card. “Just in case you can’t save my number. Use this cash as well.”Without a second thought, Dylan took the cash and card from the man. When his finger touched his palm, he saw that the man was biting his lip. “I’m still lucky even though my car got damaged and someone like you crashed into me.”Raffy smiled and reached out to the man to shake his hand. “Maybe there is a reason
When Dante got away from Lily, he messaged Troy again. “What’s a good thing for us to do today?”“You need to focus on Raffy first. It’s definitely not just because of the company that he came back,” Troy replied.Dante was stunned for a moment; his friend has a point. Only now did he remember the past.“Don’t let Lily get close to that man either,” Troy’s message again.Dante nodded while writing a reply to his friend. “Okay, it’s a good idea not to let anyone know about Boss Dylan’s private contact number, and the other one is you try not to let him use it.”Troy didn’t reply to his friend and quickly put his cellphone in his pocket when Dylan called him.“What’s the news in the conference room?” Dylan asked.“Raffy is sitting as vice president. This is his profile.” Troy handed the young man a folder.Dylan quickly opened the folder and read Raffy’s background. The first time he looked at his picture, he knew right away that it was like Alexander, who was flexible with his same gen
“Where is my husband?” Alexander calmly asked Troy when he recognized his voice from the other line.Troy breathed a sigh of relief when he heard his master’s calm voice. It’s good, and he won’t have more problems. “Sir, your husband is busy in front of the laptop and doesn’t want to be disturbed.”“Okay, tell him to call me when he’s not busy.”Troy looked at the cellphone screen in surprise and saw the caller’s name. Maybe he misidentified the other person because the Alexander he knew was not like this.“Has he eaten yet?” Alexander asked again.“Not yet, sir.”“Alright, I’ll call Mother Belen to bring her food to the library.”“Don’t, sir!” Troy panicked as he refused to tell his boss.Alexander frowned, and Troy seemed to be hiding something from him.“Because we’re not at home right now, sir, and we’re here at a coffee shop,” Troy explained quickly.Alexander gasped for air. He remembers that his husband invited him to eat out, but he refused. He suddenly felt guilty to know tha
Alexander clenched his fist when there were many votes for Raffy’s position as the new vice president of the company. He doesn’t have enough reason to object, especially since some still doubt his ability as a CEO.Raffy grinned at Alexander when their eyes met. When the board members got out, he approached him, smiling. “You’re not going to introduce me to your beautiful secretary?"Alexander smiled, but his eyes were sharp. “Stay away from her!”“Oh!” Raffy’s mouth formed an ‘O’ shape, and he took two steps away from the man. “You’re so possessive, I like that!”Alexander’s appearance only darkened. If Lily hadn’t stopped him, he might have punched Raffy in the face.“Alex, just ignore him,” Lily worriedly scolded the young man.“Wow, that’s so sweet! Did you hear that? She doesn’t want you to be mad at me,” Raffy said, teasing Alexander to make him angry, and he guessed that he was successful.“Do your best on your work because if you don’t, I’ll kick you out of your position all b
“After Raffy visited your wife, the young master suddenly became sweet to Lily.”“What do you mean?” Dylan asked darkly.“Lily has been clingy to him in front of the employees, and he just lets the girl go. In—” Troy almost jumped in his stands when Dylan suddenly dropped his clenched fist on the table.“That bitch!” Dylan stood up angrily and tried to rush into Alexander’s office, but Troy quickly stopped him.“Boss, calm down, and don’t act rashly. We need to know first why your wife is letting the employees think he’s having an affair with Lily.”Dylan cursed and kicked the chair. He piled his anger he felt in there. He took the cellphone and called his wife.Alexander nervously picked up the cellphone when he heard that it was his husband calling. Because that ring tone was set to his husband’s name, he knew immediately it was him.“Don’t answer.” Lily stopped Alexander when she guessed Dylan was the caller.Alexander frowned and looked at Lily in surprise. They are already inside
Dante frowned as Alexander and Lily walked out of the office at the same time. What surprised him was that the woman was obviously clingy, and Alexander was just letting her go.Lily turned to Dante when their eyes met. She smiled meaningfully at him before hooking her hand on Alexander’s arm.Dante clenched his right hand while looking sharply at Lily. He was suddenly worried about what the woman had said to his boss, and it seemed that he had become subservient to her. He silently followed the two and looked around.“Gosh, do you need more confirmation?” Jessa excitedly whispered to her colleague when the CEO passed in front of them with his beautiful and sexy secretary.“Don’t pay attention to them, Alex. This is my purpose of what I’m doing to focus your enemy’s attention on me,” Lily whispered to Alexander. Upon looking at them, it looked like she was saying something naughty to Alexander and the man smiled.A corner of Alexander’s lips lifted when he felt that Raffy was just aro
“I’m sorry, I didn’t go out earlier after sending your guest here, and I waited for you to order me to do something for him,” Lily explained when she read what was in the man's mind.Alexander blew air out of his mouth and stood up.“Don’t worry, and you can trust me with whatever is bothering you. You can also tell me the reason why you are angry with him, and maybe I can help you,” Lily offered to the man.Alexander sighed again before looking at the girl. That’s right, he needs good advice to resolve his concerns. “He’s my mortal enemy; he steals everyone I like.”“Are you worried that if he finds out that you are married with Dylan now, he might steal him from you too?” Lily asked and smiled secretly.It was embarrassing, but Alexander was forced to confess to the girl. He nodded before looking away from her.“Then no one else must know that Dylan is your husband. Neither should you be seen together outside, especially if you are being sweet to each other,” she suggested to the ma
“We’re here, sir,” Troy informed the man. He didn’t know if he fell asleep because he was wearing dark sunglasses.Dylan adjusted the big coat he was wearing before getting out of the car.“The new person you hired has sent a message, and he is already inside the company.” Again, Troy informed his boss the news while following him into the company.“Have you reminded him of his duties?”“Yes, sir. All are clear by now.”“Good, what about Dante? Where is he now?”“He’s looking after your wife.” Troy called the young master a 'wife' for Dylan.Dylan nodded and entered the elevator. He let Troy press the number to which floor they were going. The company has ten floors and there are different businesses on each floor. They went up to the 9th floor, and his wife was on the 10th floor.He kept his sunglasses on until he entered the office. He immediately opened the laptop and started working.Troy also stayed inside the office, and no one could see him. Like Dylan, his face was almost cove