CHAPTER 8

Michael decided to chase after Iryna but his pride got him worked up and besides, the lady was walking around with gunmen. He looked at the men standing at the wall. He was sure that all of them were wearing expensive handmade suits, and they wouldn't bat an eye to fill anyone with holes if they got too close to Iryna.

"Damn!" Michael cursed.

Marcus had been livid after the meeting. He had refused to say any word and had left without them.

"Father is such a drag," Audrey hissed by his side. She wrapped her arms around Michael's. "Let's go home, we don't need to stay here anymore."

Michael looked down at Audrey and almost frowned. He closed his eyes and resigned himself to her. She hadn’t even realized that the only reason why he rushed out was that he had hoped to catch up with Iryna and not Marcus.

"Let's go home, we will discuss about it tomorrow," Michael said.

Audrey ordered a taxi since they didn’t bring their cars.

“Did you know that girl was connected to my father’s benefactor?” Audrey asked as the car took them home.

She had been thinking about it since they went into that meeting and she laid her eyes on Iryna. How could that dirty brat be so lucky? She didn’t deserve all of those riches as she couldn’t even manage them –Audrey thought as she waited for Michael’s response.

“I had no idea,” Michael whispered.

He was also lost in thoughts of his own. He was already thinking of ways to get to Iryna. The girl was in love with him. Surely, all that love wasn’t dead yet. He should be able to milk something from it.

Women couldn’t resist him, he thought with a smile.

“She is acting all prim and proper now, she should wait for my dad. He is going to deal with her so much, she will have nothing left to show off about!” Audrey hissed.

Michael stared at her wondering if she was just plain stupid or if something was medically wrong with her.

“How do you think your dad will deal with her?” he scoffed.

Audrey looked at him sharply as she thought of a perfect answer but soon realized there was none. But she refused to give up.

The car fell silent till they got home. Michael developed a headache from thinking too much. The moment he showered he didn’t even bother eating, he went straight to bed.

He woke up the next day with the pain still present in his head. He called the office and informed them he wouldn’t be coming, and that Audrey was around to keep him company. He walked to the living room and settled into a sofa as he waited for Audrey to order something for them to eat.

Michael tried reaching Marcus but the old man wasn’t taking his calls. This was starting to get at him and his mood slowly turned sour that morning.

Audrey wasn’t interested in going to work either. She also had a rough night. She still couldn’t believe Iryna was Mr. Walter’s wife.

"Quite a shocker it was to discover that Mr. Walters' wife would turn out to be that scum bag," Audrey repeated the moment she came out of the bedroom and joined Michael on the sofa.

The large living room was laid with the best portraits on the wall. Each painting could be screaming thousands of dollars.

Audrey noticed that Michael was eerily silent. His hair was a mess on his face, it was the first time that he looked like this in front of her.

"What is wrong baby?" Audrey asked with concern.

"We won't be getting a raise, and your father won't pick up my calls," Michael hissed. He sounded quite grumpy at ten in the morning.

"That is okay, we would just have to devise a plan, it doesn't really affect us. And the company is doing really great," Audrey squeezed his shoulder but Michael sat up immediately.

"You don't get it, I am not getting my raise. Other models are making decent millions and I am still struggling to make five hundred thousand a month!" Michael glared at her.

How stupid could she get? He was very sensitive that morning and her dumb brains irritated him!

Audrey knelt on the sofa and wrapped her arms around his chest from the back. "But honey, that doesn’t-"

"Get the fuck away from me!" Michael exploded.

To Audrey, he had turned from the prettiest thing in the world to a vicious monster, he looked as if he would eat her. "Baby what is wrong? Did I do anything wrong?" Audrey complained.

"Just stay away from me, enough with your baby, baby!" Michael yelled.

At this point, his mind was made up. He had to break up with Audrey, maybe that was the only way for him to get back with Iryna. He was sure that Iryna still had deep feelings for him which would explain why she was punishing Marcus. And the fact that she had deliberately not talked directly at him yesterday showed it. He had a chance with her.

"Michael, you are breaking my heart, talk to me," Audrey sobbed. She tried to come closer to Michael but he glared at her.

"I am done with you. You are just some spoiled airhead that doesn't know her left from right. I am not sure that we can have a future when one of us clearly doesn't even know how to balance accounts!" Michael spat out.

Audrey gasped at him. She couldn't believe what she had just heard, he had called her an airhead.

"Did you just call me an airhead? A brat?” she asked as her fingers trembled.

“Oh please, I am trying to be civil here. You are dumb Audrey!”

“You know what? FUCK YOU!" Audrey threw the nearest vase at him but Michael was quick with his reflexes as he narrowly dodged it.

"The fuck? Do you want to break my face you crazy bitch?" Michael hid at the back of a table for cover.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!" She grabbed anything she could lay her hands on and threw it at him but Michael was quick to exit the room.

"Shit!" Audrey yelled and started crying. She crashed to the floor and sobbed uncontrollably.

Michael walked quickly to his car and kept on glancing behind, making sure that Audrey wasn't following him.

"Crazy bitch," he cursed as he went to his car.

He hadn't expected her to react like that, he had expected her to beg for him to stay. Well, either way, it still didn't change the fact that his plan was already in motion.

Michael smiled and dragged his hair backward, he was going to make Iryna fall for him again and he would have even more money. Iryna still looked ugly compared to him but he would live with that as long as she showered him with her millions.