A deeper smile was Yuri’s answer, competing with the fraud happiness on Delta’s face. These two would normally get into competitions like this, but no one knew how to make them stop. After all, there was nothing to break off.
“Did you know that woman was part of your corps? When I came to complain to you, you looked as shocked as I was,” Mariska asked again, realizing something was amiss.
“Oh, I didn’t know it was Babi at first. I only found out when Wolfie told me later in the day.” Delta chuckled, mercilessly dragging her husband into Mariska’s ire. “When I asked Babi about it, she told me about the request. That was only when my plans were hatched. There was no real cheating, and Mariska’s behind was well-covered.
“Even if she walked out, my people would be there to make sure she was safe.”
Wolfram didn’t speak to him anymore, and the agent had run off to carry out orders. The third son walked up to Foxley and smiled at the boy. “Hey, little guy. Where did you get those drones?”Foxley looked up at the man and tilted his head to the side. “Huh? Didn’t Daddy Wolfie leave those drones for me to play with? It was inside my room when I woke up earlier. Did Daddy Wolfie not give those to me? Then, who gave them to me?”“Do you mind me taking a look at them first?” Wolfram reached out his hand to collect the remote controller of the drones.“…am I in trouble again?” Foxley handed the remote and kept his head low. Even Regina was feeling sad about the situation. She joined in: “I forced Foxley to play with them. It’s not entirely h
“That’s not right. There should be a real dilemma!” Delta laughed. “And I always put my best foot first. There’s no time to bide if I want a smashing victory against you.” The husband only did a mocking laugh before pinching her face harder. He then let go and sighed. “All right, all right. Let’s finish up here first before heading to the bazaar.” … Cheerful laughing echoed in front of the married couple that walked along the path toward the events place. Families with small children also headed the same way as some rugged-looking people and those in suits. They would only separate when the families rode the escalator to the second floor. Delta only kept her eyes on the loud children as she waited for Wolfram to finish a phone call. She figured Foxley and Eine would
The people were shocked. However, they were happy to receive the free premium passes. Wolfram watched over the giveaway, the others wondering why they suddenly received those. When the organizer got to Delta, she laughed at the strange thing. Instead of premium passes, she received two VIP passes as the organizer recognized her as the man’s wife.However, before he could hand out the premium passes to the loud woman, Wolfram cut in. The CEO wore a smirk on his face. “Wait, I remember you saying that you really want regular passes instead. Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure there are some more of them available. Skip them.”“Wait, what?” The loud woman grew appalled. “You can’t just…”However, Wolfram’s words were absolute to the organizer. He just sk
“Something’s wrong…” Wolfram stopped walking at a clearing, only attracting Delta’s eyes on his serious face. Then he quickly pressed the scorpion against Delta’s face even if the wolf’s head was already there. “Don’t breathe—” Thud! Children started falling down like dead flies, the dizzy ones fainting in the hold of their parents. Screams followed as the frantic mothers called out their children’s names. However, they all soon felt how their entire bodies grew heavy. One by one, they fell to the floor as they felt weakness all over. Wolfram caught the mother with a toddler in her arms, but he already asked Delta not to take the stuffed toy off her face. He brought down the child and the mother before feeling how his body grew weak. His mind also spun as if he was quickly losing energy. “…!” Delta kept the wolf’
Wolfram only hummed at this point. His words were not punching through the woman’s guilt. However, she simply had no fault in this. Did she ask those people to cause trouble here? Did she ask those people to endanger everyone else? As they walked, they began to see more and more survivors in the blazing room. Most of them were adults because children simply had no chance of surviving both the anesthetics and the smoke. However, some of them were still trying to resuscitate their loved ones. “Help… Please help me…” Someone called again. It was another heart-wrenching wail that Delta couldn’t endure right now. Despite his broken body, Wolfram got off Delta. He whispered, “Find a way to pry open the doors. I’ll see what I can do for them.” “But there’s nothing we can do
“Yeah. We should find the main entrance to leave. That couldn’t be their getaway spot.” He caught the gaze of the same child from earlier. He smiled and patted the child’s head. “They could have laid traps there, too, so we should be very careful.” Delta just got everyone to follow them again, but the parents somewhat grew terrified of Wolfram at that point. After all, they walked past the bodies of dead terrorists. They all died from fatal wounds of that long blade from Wolfram’s arm. The firefighter dad stared at the man walking behind them as if making sure nothing was tailing them. “You… can’t really be a robot from the future, right? How… Are you some kind of…?” “I can tell you the truth, but you’d still think I’m lying.” “No, I won’t.”
When Delta looked over her shoulder, she saw the beautiful Angeline in her full office lady glory. Compared to the haggard-looking Mrs. Colton, the woman was undeniably more worthy of praise. It’s just that behind Angeline’s frosty gaze was the same worry that Delta had in hers. “We collated a report about what happened yesterday. Would you like to hear about them?” Angeline didn’t even look at Delta. She just readied her tablet in her hand. “The supplier’s bazaar…” Delta asked. She already knew what happened to the toy convention. It was so heartbreaking that she kept on thinking how it would have been if she had been in the bazaar instead. If they were, there would be no children involved. Also, the Red Core was closely monitoring that event. “They had evacuated the bazaar as soon as the foreign contaminant ent
The room’s door opened again with a fast swing, and the two men in their thirties could only look when the person walked inside. Just like Finlay, the man had a suit on and an air of superiority. A fixed frown was also on his face as if it would never let up no matter what. He was followed by a woman with thick makeup and a little girl with a crocodile stuffed toy.“Are you Xander’s friends? I didn’t think he’d be friends with people way older than him…” Zenon came to see how Wolfram was doing, but the other adults in the place attracted his attention. Perhaps he could only recognize Sean if he thought hard enough.“They’re closer to Wolfram.” Xander brought his modules down. “Are you worried that Yuri will grade your hospital based on how much recovery Wolfram will have while staying here?”“Humph, is this really the time?” Trisha arched a brow and looked over the other adults. “This is Zenon Colton, Wolfram’s older brother. You must be from that chatroom Delta mentioned. Thank you f
Feet shuffled as someone ran up to the main lobby. There were giggles in her mouth as she ran around like a small child let loose in their new house. It was just that… it was not their new house. Delta just incredibly missed the majestic visage of the Blue Moon Estate.Instead of having the honeymoon right after the wedding, Delta asked to have it moved to another month—or even at the end of the year. After all, Wolfram was still undergoing physical therapy for his body. She also needed to catch up with work to snatch Zenon’s seat on the board.Nah, Trisha knew how to be kind even if she was like an old witch. Delta long forgot to zero in on Zenon’s seat. Yuri should just pick someone else’s.“Delta, aren’t you a little too giddy?” Wolfram laughed a little as he called out from the door. He was also caught perusing the door of his real house. Ever since they received that threat toward Eine and Foxley, they had relocated to the Willow House. It was nothing but a safe house prepared f
Even though the newlyweds escaped the church, Trisha was sure that they would return for the reception. She was making rounds to see the food served to the guests, but she only heard everyone discussing a few things about the wedding. They talked about the venue, the other guests, Delta’s angelic entrance… the children, the wedding vows, and the willful escape.Some matrons and maidens gossiped about the children a lot. It was evident in their vows that Delta’s little angels were not Wolfram’s children. However, the two kids would say ‘Daddy Wolfie’ every time.“Trisha, when are they returning?” Janelle stealthily went to her side and offered her a drink as an excuse. “We still have to tell Delta about the thing.”“Psh, do you think I’m not ready? Delta already knows about the plan.” Trisha huffed and still took the drink Janelle gave her. She sipped on it and waved her hand to make Janelle scarce. They shouldn’t be caught talking, or else people might get the wrong idea.Just as Jane
Chatters returned with squeals and cooing as the flower girls and the ringbearers came. Eine and Regina were like little fairies scattering the flower petals. Even if guests could not bring their children, the bride and groom’s family still had theirs. After all, these three had a role to play.Foxley walked next to Gulper, the dog carrying a pillow on its back. Gulper even had a suit that matched its owner’s clothes. The rings were on the pillow, encased in a glass box for people on the aisle to see. It was a pair of white rings with diamonds and gold linings.The music soon died down before the bridal theme started playing. However, instead of the normal song, what played was an old song only a few could recall. Wolfram figured it was that one song Delta liked listening to while she was waiting for Carolus to come home when they were still children.“Here she comes…” “Oh, my God… her gown is so gorgeous…”The people stood for the coming of the bride. When the doors opened again, the
The wares vendor hid behind her stand, but Delta still came to hand one to her. She didn’t do much for Delta’s mental well-being, but she was the first one who would lend Delta money when she needed to loan some to make ends meet.Delta still smiled at her, so the third vendor only chuckled nervously. “I’m really sorry. I just thought you grew so ungrateful and left without a word…”“A wedding? I guess you’re doing well. That’s good.” The man was eating the strawberries he bought while listening to them. He even offered some to Delta. “I’m also happy for you… even if you don’t know me at all.”“Don’t know? But I remember all my repeat customers. Thank you for buying a crate every time.” Delta also smiled at the man. However, she didn’t have any invitation for him. It was not like he expected one as well. She just indulged him by asking for one strawberry.…Days after…Delta kept on twirling in her room as she waited for the ceremony to start. She was already suited in her wedding gow
The solemn greeting of the maids echoed to the stairwell where Delta was. Instead of heading back to the home office, she changed direction and went to greet her husband. She descended the stairs and found him walking home after another day of physical therapy.Unlike what Delta thought, even his blades burned against his skin that time. Not only the obvious spot had third-degree burns. For Wolfram to regain his ambidexterity and attack speed, he needed to do a lot of physical therapy. Of course, it came with frustration and exhaustion.Wolfram walked with his eyes closed, so it was fairly easy for Delta to catch him with her own body. When he bumped into her, he only gasped softly and whined upon seeing the bright smile on her lips.“Delta, have you finished with the guest list?” Wolfram wrapped his arms around her shoulders as she did the same on his waist. “You also look mischievous. Are you doing something strange?”“No, nothing strange.” She giggled as she then moved to show him
The sound of papers shifting conquered the room as two men were looking through them. Some were letters of congratulations as if hoping they would be invited to the wedding. Yuri had devised this thing when he married Mariska. Only those who could give the nicest wedding gifts were allowed to come to his wedding. Since Zenon did the same, everyone assumed Wolfram would not break tradition.Delta was working on customizing the letters to respond to the rest, while Finlay and Gendry were on the soft carpet. The two were going through the offers; one was grading their realism, while the other was running checks on whoever sent them. Delta could ask Angeline to go through them, but she needed that secretary to handle more things required by the company.She then chuckled as she took a break from typing. Delta gazed at the two working hard on drawing out a list of candidates. The woman would have to run it through Colton Industries afterward. After all, she needed to see which were blackli
Carolus glared at him before shaking his head in helplessness. These old people should just have their fun from time to time if they like. Shezmu just laughed at the poor person before looking at the tombstones. “So, this is where you always go to when you vanish. Sheesh, if not for Red Core, we won’t even find you.”Carolus turned to his other side and watched Khepri slowly sit down because of his awful injuries. Babi was also there, as well as three more older members of the House of Ra. He all remembered them as active operatives even before he became one—aside from Babi. They were also well-acquainted with Kathy as if they all grew up under her care.Babi hugged her knees and placed her chin on them. “What kind of lady is Ms. Kathy? Since you’re not going back here anymore, I think today’s the only day worth talking about her. Also, we still have a lot of time before the sun sets.”“Yeah, it’s better than you speaking to a tombstone… unless we’re actually imposing on you.” Khepri
Yuri was the first one to react and laugh while the rest of the men’s brows furrowed deeper. Trisha’s eyes bulged out on Delta, while Mariska went straight to pinching the woman’s face. Janelle only covered her mouth with a hand as if she knew what was happening.“It’s nice to find that Delta is indeed mentally sound as well.” Yuri only giggled as he saw what the women did to the spoiled little sister. “We’ll just leave when your friends start coming. For now, let’s discuss a few things.”“Foxley, Eine, Regina, let’s find pretty flowers for these two. Look at how sad their room is.” Trisha gathered the kids, who were also concerned about the lack of flowers. They left the room in an instant as if on a mission. The second Mrs. Colton just whispered a few things to her husband before she walked out of the door entirely.Yuri eyed the door close before assuming a seat on the visitor stool no one was using. “Congratulations on completing one of your most difficult tasks, Delta. Now that y
Delta moved her weak hands to hold the phone on her own. She wanted to get into a more comfortable position than straining her neck. “Wolfie, how are you? Does anywhere hurt more than your heart? You didn’t ask the children to visit you, right?”[“No, Sobek made the call to the Willow House earlier. I spoke to them like this.”] Wolfram made a helpless sigh. [“Delta, you come back here walking and well, okay? Five weeks might not be enough for us to recover fully. If anything, I want to get married without any IV drips anywhere.”]“Oh, don’t worry. I’ll make sure to hide those under your clothes.” Delta laughed and made Wolfram pout bigger. She then moved her hand in front of the screen as if caressing his face without touching the screen. “I can’t wait to come back to you…”Wolfram dropped his sour face and smiled at his wife. [“If I recover faster than you, can I visit you there? It should be safe enough, yes?”]Delta shook her head. “I don’t want to get stuck here for days. Maybe we