“What about the kid?” I asked him. I couldn’t believe that he wanted me to come. I want to, of course. It’s just that I’m not used to it.
“We will take him to Sara’s.” He answered. It looked like he already thought about it, so who am I to refuse? I hope that one day, we can bring our son as well.
We are now on our way to Haden’s private plane. In the car, he held my hand using his free hand and squeezed it lightly. He then smiled at me and I smiled back. We traveled in silence after that. The kind of silence that will not make you uncomfortable. Instead, it made me so comfortable that I didn’t mean to sleep.
When we arrived, Haden hurriedly got out of the car and told me to hold on. I was confused by his action but obliged. When he turned around and walked to my side, that’s when I knew what he was about to do. He opened the car door for me!
After we got out, we were escorted by his assistant Harry, and Bella.
We greeted each other and made our way to sit on the plane. Haden and Bella began to discuss the work arrangements for this trip.
They talked about business, which I know nothing about and just busied myself. I couldn’t get involved so I just sat quietly drinking my juice and eating a small dessert.
Haden may think that I’m bored so he occasionally turned to me and said a few words.
“Are you bored?” He asked.
“Don’t worry about me, you guys need to talk business, I’m not bored.” I replied, assuring him that he didn’t need to worry about me.
Time passed and it was already evening when we arrived at the hotel. I decided to shower then after I’m done, I came out of the bathroom. Haden was already still sitting on the couch arranging papers for tomorrow’s meeting.
“Do you have any plans later?” I asked to make small talk.
“No.” He said not looking at me.
“Good. You don’t need to be busy tonight. You can just rest.” I said, making my way to him.
He finally looked at me and took my wrist. “Do you have something to tell me?” He asked sincerely.
I hesitated for a moment, and then said, as if to chat, “I heard that you and Bella are brother and sister?”
“Well, she and I had the same tutor in college. “Haden smirked.
“You seem to get along well.”
Haden heard the wrong flavor of the words. This made him raise his eyebrows slightly, “Yeah, there’s a tacit understanding between us, after all we’ve been working together for many years.” He said, clearing my thoughts.
“Oh.” I replied in a low voice, adding, “She seemed to be on business with you a lot during the time of our divorce?”
“There was something like that.”
I hung my head, “Why that look?”
“Don’t think about it so much, Bella and I aren’t the kind of people who like each other.” He assured me.
“I’ve been thinking about it too, brother and I aren’t the kind of people who like each other too.” I uttered.
“……”
Haden said to me in a particularly serious tone, “I’m yours and yours alone.” He spoke in a reassuring tone that I couldn’t resist but believe him. It made my heart flutter and felt many butterflies in my stomach.
He hugged me and squeezed me against him.
“Anyway, that means no one can take me away from you.” He added which made me fall for him even more. I couldn’t speak. Couldn’t even think of anything but him, and the feelings I have for him.
“I’m going to a meeting, you stay here for now and come back with me tonight.” Haden spoke after he looked at his watch, a few minutes after waiting for my response, but none came.
“And when will you be back?” I asked.
“Should I wait for you to have dinner?” I added hoping that he would say yes.
“No need.” He told me after thinking about it for a second.
“Take your phone with you,” Haden added, deliberately petulant.
“Okay, got it.” I was a little disappointed but I decided to hide it.
Haden gave me a kiss on the forehead and left.
I felt lazy to go down and eat so I went to the bedside table and dialed the number for room service. I heard it rang and someone immediately asked what I needed.
“Hello, how can I help you?”
I told them that I will order a meal then released the call. When I was busy surfing on my phone, I heard the doorbell. It must be the room service. I thought. I placed my phone down and headed to the door. As expected, it’s the room service so I invited them in and let them prepare it. When they left, I looked at the meal and it looked delish. I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.
After some time after finishing my meal, I was already bored so I decided to go out. As I came down the stairs, someone else was suddenly beside me.
“Elena.” A voice called.
I turned around and was quite surprised to see who the person was, it was Elizebeth.
“Why are you here?” I asked. I don’t really want to see her here. Even see her anywhere at all.
“What a coincidence.” She said. If I didn’t know better, I would think that she’s not being sarcastic.
I was surprised to see that she was here. This country wasn’t a particularly well-known tourist spot, and most people’s first choice to go abroad wouldn’t be here. Did she really come to take a vacation?
Not only had she randomly chosen this place for her vacation, but she had randomly stumbled upon me here?
It seemed like she’s randomly mumbling about something beside me, but I don’t want to hear it.
“Are you here with Haden?” She asked suddenly. I was thankful she already stopped talking about something that I didn’t care about.
“It’s none of your business who I came with, is it?” I deadpanned.
Elizebeth looked at me up and down. Not saying anything.
I spoke again, “My husband and I have nothing to do with you, can you leave me alone?”
Elizebeth was so thick skinned that she could not see I didn’t want to talk to her anymore.
She went on to say.
“Didn’t you notice that he was on a drug called olanzapine, among other things? Haden is schizophrenic and violent, so you should think about your child if not yourself.” Elizebeth said with a warning tone. What is she talking about?
“It’s my freedom to leave my husband or not, that’s not for others to decide.” Especially you. I want to add but held myself back.
“What’s the matter with you? Aren’t you afraid Haden will go crazy and hit you and the kid?”
“Pop!”
There was a crisp sound, a slap thrown across Elizebeth’s face. Yes, I just slapped her. She deserved it.
“How dare you hit me?” She asked, confused. Anger was clearly shown on her face.
“So what if I hit you. If you dare say another word about my husband being crazy, I’ll hit you until you shut up.”
Elizabeth gritted her teeth angrily, waving her hand away as I grabbed her by the wrist.
“Stop it!”
Hearing that voice, we turned our heads to see Haden standing in the corner, his eyes were cold, his face were tense, and his body was giving off a feeling of stormy heaviness.
“When did you get here?” I asked. A little startled that he’s already here.
“I just got here.” He said then looked at me.
“Have you eaten? “Haden asked, disregarding the woman beside us.
“I already ate, I’m here to look for you, let’s go.”
We didn’t say another word and walked away together.
Before we could walk away, he looked at Elizabeth one more time. Haden’s ice-cold eyes full of killing intent told her she was about to be finished.
Elizabeth trembled, looking at our backs, leaving together.
Haden walked me back to my room, I felt the arms around my waist so tight they were starting to hurt.
“Do you want me to do something with Elizebeth?” He suddenly asked. I was startled with his question. His aura screamed that he’s ready to deal with her anytime. His menacing eyes show wrath and fury which I didn’t see from him before. I started to get nervous.
I rushed to him and hugged his shoulders, hoping that it would calm him.
“Haden, we have a child. We are a good family, I just want to live our own happy life.” I said wanting him to think about our family. Maybe, just maybe, it would calm him a little bit.
“Good. I’m glad that you are here. I won’t know what to do if you are not. I really like you Elena. Thank you for being here.”
His tone was slightly shaky, but clearly contained a smile.
I clasped his face and rubbed my thumbs over his skin, “Brother, you’re so handsome.”
I whispered to him.