Niel groaned in distress as his mind rolled back to reality. He still remembered it quite clear that he had made a promise to Haylee before. He promised her that he would not date anyone else. Now, Brianna was trying to sabotage her at school and trying to make her high school life miserable because of him.
"No... I can't let that happen. Not after Haylee got abandoned like this. Her high school life should be great at least. She's suffering now. I can't just let her suffer at school as well. What should I do?" He grumbled alone inside his study office, having lost of what to do.
He knew what was the right choice for him, but it was also the wrong thing as well. He had never imagined being put in such a situation in which making the right decision was also like making the wrong one. It was too complicated, he ended up being stressed because of it.
"Ahhhh... I have a meeting tomorrow. I don't have time to think about this," He began to sigh over and over again.
"A dream? Why so?" Niel was confused, couldn't understand what she meant."Do you still remember that day when my mom chased me out from home?""Yes. Why?""That day... you took me to shop and bought me so many things, and then you showed me your penthouse and brought me to live at the lakehouse. Those moments... it felt like a dream. I really thought it was a dream because when I woke up the next morning, my mind seemed not to be able to process it. I screamed that morning and thought I was kidnapped by a stranger when I woke up in your bedroom," Haylee told him what she felt during the first time she slept in his lakehouse."I knew. Martha told me," Niel responded and chuckled a bit again."It took me days to finally realize that I was indeed living in your house and my mom really did chase me out. Sometimes, I even dreamt that I was sleeping inside my bedroom in my old house.""Did you still dream like that nowadays?""No," Haylee
As they walked past the entrance door, another few men dressed in black came to Niel as well and suddenly walked behind him in an orderly manner. Haylee got startled and quickly speed up her pace. She unconsciously bumped herself into Niel from behind.Niel stopped his steps abruptly. In an instant, all his subordinates behind him showed a tense expression on their faces. They were expecting Niel to get furious as someone just bumped into him. It was disrespectful behaviour, a big no to anyone who worked inside the building. 'That girl was done,' they thought internally, feeling sorry for Haylee and they assumed that in any seconds now, she would get scolded by Niel, the Chairman of the Anderson Global Corp."Oh, your coat got dirty! My make-up had stained it a little. Let me clean it a bit," Haylee said leisurely and rubbed Niel's back to remove the make-up stain from his coat.'That's a wrong move, Miss,' the subordinates thought almost similarly with their fa
"Well... sure! There were two bodies inside the Anderson Global Corp. The first one is the Anderson Industry that deals with any local business arrangements. The second one is Anderson International Cooperation. That one deals with the international business arrangements. Both are separate multibillion dollars companies but under the same entity which is the Anderson Global Corp. The Chairman, Mr Anderson, owned both of them and he was the one that control both companies," Susan gave her a brief explanation about Niel's company."Ooohhhh..." Haylee made a sound of amazement. Susan just smiled at her."How was he like when he was here inside this company before?" Haylee asked more."The Chairman is a very solemn person. To be honest, he rarely smiled. He was always looked so serious all the time," Susan leaned closer to her and whispered to her ear as if afraid that someone might hear them."Really? But he was quite friendly when he was at school. He likes
When the clock showed past twelve at noon, Niel finally returned to his office room. He entered his office room hastily without knocking on the door."Oh my goodness!" Haylee was utterly startled by his sudden arrival that she accidentally dropped the phone in her hands.Niel laughed seeing her reaction. He walked speedily to his office desk while shaking his head. Haylee was still laying on the sofa, relaxing by herself. She took her phone again that dropped on her stomach."What are you doing? Are you slacking off while I'm working to find money to feed you?" He mocked her lazy behaviour.He looked at Haylee, waiting for her to react. She focused her eyes on him, looking at him sharply."You're rich," Haylee replied scornfully to him.Niel laughed again at her words. He took a few papers from his desk and reviewed them. Then his eyes caught his brown leather journal was being put in a place that it was not supposed to be. He usually put it
After his evening meeting was done that day, Niel spent the rest of the day with Haylee. He took her to a mall to hang out and had fun. Then when it was almost dusk, he brought her to a fine dining restaurant to have dinner together. They only returned to the penthouse again after dinner. Both of them were too exhausted that by the time they arrived home, they took a shower and went to bed immediately.The following week, Niel dated Brianna officially. As promised, Haylee shouldn't know their relationship thus Niel made the decision to keep it a secret from anyone inside the school. He didn't even make any interaction with Brianna at school. They just simply exchanged glances once in a while without making them obvious to anyone else.Since now that Brianna was his girlfriend, Niel had no choice but to treat her like one. Even though he didn't like Brianna that much, he put up with her in order to make sure Brianna didn't try to mess with Haylee at school. He organized
However, she also had begun to notice some changes in Niel. He was always smiling while looking at his phone recently. He never did that before since he only looked at his phone to do his work. Sometimes, he also hindered her from coming to the penthouse during the weekend like she usually did. He gave excuses that he was busy and told her that he would come to the lakehouse during the night instead to spend time with her. Truthfully, Niel actually began to spend more time with Brianna. He started to go out with her on Saturday and Sunday as well. He felt so much fun hanging out with Brianna that he forgot his real intention of dating her. He began to cut down the time that he spent with Haylee so he would have more time with Brianna. It seemed that he didn't realize that it was wrong as he had forgotten his promise to Haylee before, that he won't date anyone. Niel thought that it was okay since he never really assumed that his relationship with Brianna was any near
Niel pushed the phone on his hand to Mike's chest, giving it back to him. Cold sweat began to run down his forehead. He wanted to approach Haylee, but his steps got halted when he saw her take her school bag and looked away from him. She walked out of the class to escape the situation."Haylee, where are you going? The bell almost rings," Helen asked in concern. She could see that Haylee didn't take the news pretty well. She turned to look to the front of the class, trying to find Niel as to check if that man would take concern about Haylee."Haylee! Haylee, the class has almost started!" Melly yelled a bit, calling out for her friend in distress too. She also turned her head to look at Niel and gave him a disgusted look as he had already played with her friend's feelings.Niel quickly caught his school bag from his seat and ran to the back door to exit the class. He got stopped by Helen and Melly as he was trying to pass through the back door. Both of them thre
Haylee put her phone away and scoffed in disbelief. She didn't want to look at all those irritating pictures anymore as she felt like her chest was about to burst. Funny thing was that she couldn't even bring herself to get jealous or angry about it. She was quite aware she didn't have the right to feel that way since she wasn't his girlfriend. She cried silently inside the bus like a broken girl, feeling trapped inside an invisible world that Niel created for her. Now that she came this far with Niel, she just realized that she had nowhere else to come home to. At the end of the day, she was bound to come back to Niel's house. How she wished she could just run away and disappear. Yet, she also knew that she only have a chance to have a brighter future if she stayed with Niel. The feeling of knowing that she had no one else to hold on to apart from Niel suffocated her. He really had tied her life with an invisible bond that she had no choice but to accept willingly.