“Mr. Kirkland, here’s the quarterly report for this quarter, take a look at it and see if there’s anything you want to change …”
“Get out! Get the hell out of here!” Brayden heaved his hand, and the papers handed up by the secretary were flung mercilessly to the floor, a stack of A4 papers scattered all over the place.
The secretary began to hand and foot began to clean up the floor of the manuscript, forehead are fine sweat, Brayden although not very good-tempered, but never to the people under the hands of such a big temper, such a big action, so she was scared even dare not raise her head, completely do not care what sequence neatly, casually grabbed a sheet on the folder to stuff.
The fire in Brayden’s heart had no place to be discharged, and he was getting more and more upset when he looked at the various reports waiting for approval on the table, and picked up a cup from the corner of the table and slammed it on the floor.
In a flash, the tea splashed everywhere, seemingly indicating the shocking waves set off by the calm sea.
The secretary crouched on the floor to pick up the report shivered, swiftly stood up and rushed towards the door, just in time to collide with the person who pushed the door in at this time.
After seeing who was there, the secretary nodded respectfully at him, and the man didn’t say anything, but just waved her hand and indicated her to get out quickly.
The sound of the visitor’s footsteps was clear, Brayden did not have to look up to understand, his emotions were still very intense, the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder thickening.
“You too, get lost!”
Leon kicked away the report on the floor, because the secretary just walked too fast, half a footprint stuck on it, looking at Brayden who buried himself in the manuscript, Leon’s heart guilt is more intense, but also full of tangles and struggles.
“Boss, what are you embarrassing yourself for again.” Leon lowered his high octave voice deliberately, not knowing if it was because of a weak heart or some other reason.
“How many storms have been solved over the years, how come this time such a small matter, you made yourself into such a state?”
Brayden let out a soft chortle: “A little thing?” The depth of the voice was full of sadness, “If you were cheated twice by your beloved, Leon, would you still be able to stand in front of me like this without any emotion and tell me it was just a small thing!”
Seeing that Leon did not say anything, Brayden then asked, “Let me ask you, did you already know!”
He closed the cap of a signature pen back and forth, “In the past, when I asked you to find out who started any of these things, no matter what the result was, you would tell me what you had inquired about at the first opportunity, but this time you didn’t.”
“I’ve thought about a lot of possibilities, Leon, and we’re brothers who’ve been out of life and into death, so the only other possibility that could get you so torn up is a Dolly.”
Leon’s throat slides, his throat seems to be glued by something, really there is this person in this world, without his own words, he can easily read what is in his mind.
Brayden, somewhat calmer by this point, snapped his black signature pen upside down on the desk, stepped over the papers he’d flung across the floor, walked over to Leon, looked at the old wound on the corner of his forehead from his training years ago, and spat out a few words.
“I won’t make it difficult for you, just tell me yes, or no.”
The office is still uncomfortably silent, Leon’s silence at the moment, only to make Brayden feel that his heart between the sky, suddenly collapsed.
He averted his gaze from the old wound on Leon’s face and walked around to brush up against him.
The two men, one in a suit and the other plainly sporting, both have the same ineffable expression.
It seems as if you are standing with me, a reach back to the old days of celebration on the battlefield, yet it seems as if you are far away from me as soon as you reach out.
The moment Brayden’s hand rested on the doorknob, Leon’s raspy voice sounded behind him.
“Dolly had dinner with that guy at the restaurant earlier.” As if he didn’t believe him, Leon paused for a moment and then said, “I saw it with my own eyes.”
This time it was Brayden’s turn to be silent, he had not thought of when a person’s sadness, heartbreak, doubts, anger intertwined, actually can not express, he showed only a terrible silence and calm.
Dolly’s state of mind was no better, as she barricaded herself in the house, sending a leave of absence to the school and leaving her phone far behind.
She surprisingly blamed her inattentive self for not paying attention and letting the note be exposed to Brayden’s eyes.
She shook her head hard, trying to put this unimaginable thought out of her mind. What she should be thinking about is why Brayden reacted so much to her once she saw the note, when there was nothing on it.
The previous fake news with Archie Webb, even if it made the headlines, Brayden was only very methodical in arranging for Leon to investigate the originator of the incident, and did not lash out at her without any warning, as she did now.
Brayden is always looking for Leon when something happens …
That’s right! Leon! He must have gotten Leon this time too!
Dolly’s eyes snapped open and after finding Leon’s contact information in her phone, she thought for a moment and finally chose to call this number to Skyler.
Perhaps women can communicate better with each other. Leon and Brayden are life-and-death friends, and if she goes to ask Leon, not only will the scene be awkward, but it is uncertain that Leon is not going to tell her what she wants to know.
Skyler was a different story. She was not that far apart from her in age, and on the day of the wedding ceremony, Skyler wished her well so sincerely, Dolly thought, and dialed her number.
“Is it Dolly?”
Before she could speak, Skyler’s beautiful voice came from the other end, and she couldn’t wait to respond to her like a lifeline: “Yes, it’s me!”
“Dolly, I know what you’re calling for, I don’t know how to tell you, all I can tell you is that Leon and I were both present that day when you and Mr. Ling were eating at the Western restaurant, only Leon didn’t tell Brayden about it then.”
“But yesterday, after Brayden came to Leon and asked him to investigate this matter carefully, Leon kind of uneasiness and anxiety I saw, so he probably has told Brayden about this matter.”
After Skyler busied himself with a long speech, both men were silent.
Dolly struggled to digest all the information in the passage, as the occasional car coming up with its horn blaring clamored for the downtown and disturbed her heart.
“Dolly, what the hell is Jayden …?” Skyler, not being a very good talker, was so direct upon his exit.