The footsteps were extremely heavy, each step stepping on the heavy wooden floor, indicating that its owner was not in a good mood.
Carrie put the medical kit aside, stood up from the sofa, and just as she did, the two brown wooden doors were opened by the bodyguard at the door.
Sunlight slanted in, agitating the thin window screen, falling on the slender figure of the man and spreading a chill throughout the room.
Carrie stood there, watching Enrico walk in expressionlessly, followed by Paige with a slightly furrowed brow.
The bodyguard closed the door again, leaving them in silence.
“Sister Paige, brother-in-law,” Carrie said, bowing her head towards them.
Paige nodded to her before looking at Rafael, who was still sitting at his desk in his usual attire, watching them walk in.
Enrico stopped in front of the desk and looked at Rafael with his dark eyes, extremely sinister.
Their gazes locked.
There was a silent tension.
After a while, Rafael smiled and stood up to greet him, “Enrico, you’re here, sit down.”
Seeing that he could still smile, Enrico sneered, ‘Rafael, don’t you think you owe me an explanation?”
Rafael rested his hands on the edge of the table, ‘Yes, I was inconsiderate back then, and I apologize. I really didn’t know at the time that you loved Paige that much…”
Before he could finish, he heard a loud bang as Enrico casually swept the wooden globe on the table onto the floor with his hand.
The globe cracked when it hit the ground.
Rafael’s expression froze, and he looked at Enrico in disbelief. His voice suddenly dropped as he said, “What are you doing?”
He knew full well that the globe was his favorite object!
“No, I don’t. I don’t think much of the apology routine for doing something wrong.” Enrico’s eyes flicked with contempt.
“…”
Rafael’s forehead veins jumped, and his whole face tightened up.
The air suddenly became tense.
Carrie stood aside and watched, looking at Paige with some concern. Paige stepped forward, “Okay, what’s the point of arguing like a couple of schoolchildren, let’s sit down and talk.”
Apologies aren’t allowed yet.
Enrico stood still, and was only pulled along by Paige before he turned with her.
Carrie looked at Rafael, who was staring at the globe on the floor, his face growing more and more unpleasant as he forced himself to hold back.
The four of them sat down on the sofa, the pattern on the carpet a little dark.
The door opened and the butler walked in from outside, serving floral tea and setting out a box of expensive cigars. He said ingratiatingly, “Mr. Gustin, these are the President’s personal stash. He knew you were coming and asked me to bring them out especially.”
Enrico didn’t even look at them. “I’m not interested.”
“…”
Rafael’s face twitched again, and he forced himself to turn to the butler and look at him.
The butler immediately respectfully handed over a box of cigarettes, the brand Enrico was used to smoking, and said, “The president also told me to prepare these.”
After these words, Rafael leaned forward and took the cigarette box from him and handed it to Enrico.
This action was also meant to please him.
Enrico looked at him for a moment, his eyes uncertain, and after a long while, he gave a low, somewhat sarcastic laugh and took a cigarette between his thin lips.
Rafael took the lighter from the butler, and as the flame jumped and burned the tense atmosphere, the wheel of the lighter passed between his fingers.
He lit Enrico’s cigarette.
Finally, Rafael lit one for himself, sat back, took a deep breath, removed the cigarette from his fingers, exhaled a puff of smoke, and his emotions stabilized considerably. “Anyway, I did make a mistake back then. I formally apologize to you both here. I have always felt bad about it. Paige, just tell me what you want me to do to make it up to you.”
Paige sat on the side, looking at Enrico, whose eyes were slightly reddened from the smoke. She just gave a faint smile and didn’t say a word.
Enrico leaned back, took a puff of the cigarette, and then stopped. He reached out one hand to the armrest of the sofa, twirling the cigarette in his hand, as the scarlet end of the cigarette jumped around between his fingers.
“I can forgive you for whatever you did before you knew the kind of weight she has on me,”
Enrico said nonchalantly, looking down at the cigarette in his hand, “I just want to ask one question. Back then, after I called, did you still feed her medicine?”
“…”
Rafael’s hand holding the cigarette froze, and the ashes trembled.
Not only did he feed her, he also increased the dosage, feeding her five at a time. I heard that she fainted several times from the pain.
Seeing him like this, what did Enrico not understand? “How many?”
“…”
Rafael pursed his lips and couldn’t say.
Carrie took a silent breath. It would have been better if Enrico had just come in and hit him, but this conversation was even more chilling.
Paige spoke up to persuade, “Enrico, we’ve come all this way, so why don’t we talk about something more…”
Before she could finish speaking, Enrico suddenly let out another low laugh.
The laugh was chilling.
Paige looked at Enrico worriedly and saw him looking at the cigarette in his hand and saying slowly, “Rafael, don’t forget, you were brought up by me. Without me, Enrico, you would still be a young master in the Deleon family who is not appreciated. How dare you play me false?”
As he spoke, he suddenly looked up, his eyes full of coldness.
Hearing this, Rafael’s face also fell. “Yes, I can become president all thanks to you, but Enrico, ask yourself, in all these years, which one of the things I didn’t listen to you? You were able to go all the way to the top in Country A, and I didn’t contribute a single bit? Just this one thing that happened before, you have to argue with me here?”
“I never said that, no matter how long it takes, it will never pass.”
Enrico directly smashed the cigarette in his hand.
Seeing this, Rafael was completely annoyed and stood up from the sofa, “What do you want?”
“Pop!”
Enrico placed a bottle of medicine heavily on the coffee table, “Swallow the whole bottle to let this go.”
Rafael looked over and saw that the bottle of medicine was none other than TP1314, a whole bottle with dozens of pills. If he were to swallow them all, he would die instantly.
Outside the door, the two bodyguards stood quietly, looking at each other.
Suddenly, the sound of something being smashed came from inside the closed door, followed by Rafael’s furious growl, “Enrico, don’t go too far! Even if I, Rafael, am just your dog, I have shown you loyalty over the years. I have done my part, even if I don’t deserve it. Now you want me dead?”
“…”
They got into an argument.
The two bodyguards drew in a breath, unsure whether to call for help, so they both leaned their ears against the door at the same time. They could only hear Enrico’s mocking sneer, “You still know that you are only my dog.”
“Bang!”
Something heavy fell over.
It’s over.
Mr. Gustin and President Rafael have fallen out!
Inside the door, the whole coffee table was overturned by Rafael, and the flower tea and cigars all fell to the ground.
Rafael stood there with a pale face, “Enrico, over the years, I have tried my best to take care of our friendship as childhood friends. Even when I was re-elected to fight for equal rights and marry a commoner, I listened to you in everything. I quit!”