Ghost of My Heart - Chapter 107

Hue was so jealous that his plan to taint Little Veen’s name was foiled so easily. His wife defended the boy instead and blamed him for his boundless jealousy.

Why would a human fell so easily for such pretentious little boy who had lived much longer than the average life span of a human?

Hue rolled his eyes towards the boy, ahem, girl by his side. However, that beautiful deep blue eyes stared back at him as if challenging him.

A spark appeared as they stare among each other. It was frightening and maddening which had suddenly pulled the dark clouds into the heart of the city.

Jennet sensed the changes in the air. It was an eerie feeling to witness such an unnatural situation happening live.

Without hesitation, she knocked on Hue’s head and pinched on Little Veen’s cheek, forcing them away from each other.

“It’s time to go home.” She said, distracting them from their intense fight.

“No more fighting!” She added and opened the door and placed the child inside and put on the safety belt on him, “Be a good boy and stop provoking your daddy,” She reminded the boy. Little Veen nodded his head obediently.

Glancing menacingly towards Hue, she extended her hand out, “Give me the key. I’ll drive. You sit at the back and be a good husband and a good dad.”

Hue pouted and harrumphed before her. He tsked and looked away, showing his dissatisfaction openly. He won’t sit with that boy and his decision is fixed!

Jennet exhaled a deep sigh when she saw a lot of eyes were watching them from afar. Some stared at them with confused looks when they went to their cars.

Ignoring the stares from ever corners, she snatched the key from Hue’s hand and immediately pushed him to seat at the passenger’s seat at the back, beside Little Veen.

She got into the car and drove away from the compound of her company. However, they didn’t go straight to the villa but made a stop at a mall.

“I’m going in to buy something for us.” She said when she turned off the engine.

“I’m coming!” The two boys at the back said in union. They stared at each other and immediately looked away.

The three of them aligned from the car together. Jennet held Hue’s hand on one hand and the other handheld on Little Veen’s.

“Stop bickering for now. I want both of you to behave while we’re shopping here. You got me?” She shifted her glanced between the two of them. She played the role of a peacemaker for these two immature beings.

Each of the boys nodded their heads in agreement. But, their faces were still too sour and long. If Jennet could, she would smack their faces to sober each and every one of them. However, she could only play as a peacemaker at the moment. Their sour mood alone had created havoc to the weather in her world.

What a disastrous encounter…

The three of them walked into the mall together, hand in hand. They were the perfect family in the eyes of the bystanders. The son is so heavenly cute, the mother is super cute and the father is devilishly handsome!

They headed for the children clothes store and bought lots of new clothes for Little Veen. While shopping for the clothes, the two boys bickered again. Again, Jennet had to stop them by giving Hue a kiss on the lips and a kiss on the cheek for Little Veen.

“For goodness sake, both of you, please keep it down.” She nagged at them. She was like a mother hen, clucking nonstop before the two of them and the boys’ had nothing to do except for keeping to their silence.

After shopping, they went to the supermarket and bought some food supplies since are a new addition to the family.

Upon reaching the villa, the boys raced to help carry the shopping bags as well as the grocery bags into the villa. Each of them competes to gain attention from Jennet.

That night, after dinner, Jennet told Hue a very harsh decision. The decision was the worst news in his life. He had never wanted to hear her say it but, she had finally spoken of it clearly.

“Hue, from this day onward, you will be on your own.” She said at the entrance of their bedroom door.

“But, why?” Hue cried.

“You’re making me sadder day by day. I’ve better keep myself away from you. At least my babies in my belly could rest.” She said firmly. Her heart had been set to stick to this solution to make sure the boys could become friends with each other again.

“But, that doesn’t mean you have to stop me from sleeping together with you!” Hue cried even louder.

“I mean it, Hue. You are on your own from now on. There are two room downstairs and you can sleep in one. Much better if you can sleep together with Veen, have some nice boys talk, okay?” Jennet shooed him away by fanning her hand at him.

She was about to close the door but Hue stopped her, “No, I cannot sleep without you by my side. I apologized for making it hard for you but please, let me sleep here. Don’t chase me away from here. Have mercy on me, please…” He begged her wholeheartedly. His eyes gleamed with tears that were about to break.

“No, I can’t have mercy on you.” Jennet refused to show any mercy to him. If she kept on being soft-hearted, they would never be nice with each other. At least, once in a while, she wanted to be hard-hearted.

Hue bit his lips and his face puckered, “Then, I’ll cry,” He said, threatening her.

Jennet burst into muffled laughter. What kind of threat is this? Her own husband threatened her that he will cry if she refused him to sleep together in the same room.

“Hue, I don’t care. You refused to be nice with each other and since you wasted the chance, I refused to let you sleep with me.” She told him without an ounce of pity.

Hue’s face puckered and then he wailed out loud like how he was on their first meeting. His loud wail startled Little Veen who was fast asleep downstairs and the boy too started to cry even louder than Hue.

Their cries blasted out loud like the maddening thunders that broke through the night sky. Rain poured down heavily shortly after that.

After a few hours, the sound died, leaving only the sound of the rain hitting on the surface of the roof of the villa. The sounds of the rain washed away all of the troubles that brewed inside.

It was already deep in the night. Inside the bedroom, three figures were sleeping together on the big bed. The small one was being hugged from behind by the mother and the mother was being hugged from behind by the father. Their position looked just like triple crescent moons.

They are in such harmony and warmed the heart of Mother Nature who couldn’t stop crying happy tears which resulted in even heavier rainfall until the morn.

***

Jennet worked really hard for the entire week and on the last two days of the week, she handed a leave form to Jerome Banner.

“I need a few weeks leave.” She said to him.

Jerome Banner went through the leave request form and then nodded his head with a smile, “Okay, you can take as many leaves as you want. You’re the only one who hasn’t apply for any leave since the day you worked here. It’s good that you finally asked for it.”

“Thank you.” Jennet thanked him, “I finally have a reason for my leave.” She added with a meaningful smile.

She needed the leave because she wanted to visit her grandparents from her father’s side. She had to meet them and apologized and also to tell them the truth of what had been brewing in her family since so many years ago. She needed to clear her father’s name because her father did nothing wrong. He was just kept in the dark about the troubles inside the family.

“That’s great. Are you going to travel the world?” Jerome Banner asked her. “You must have lots of money now, right?” He winked at her with a smile.

“I do not have that much money to travel the world. You’re the one who must have lots and lots of money since your wife is working too.”

“Hahaha,” Jerome laughed, “We do not have that much money because we have been using them to pay for so many bills.” He explained.

They had to pay for the damages caused by their master. For any trouble caused in Reality, they had to pay the cost in Reality currency as well. It also means they have to be seen working in the human realm.

After their short chat, Jennet left and met Luca by accident. He was holding a magazine in his hand which he immediately hid behind his back before she could see it.

“Jennet, what are you doing here?” Luca was flustered and was in shock to see her. His face reddened as he tried to force a smile on his handsome face.

“I work here, remember?” Jennet said with a smile that was blended with a frown. He looked as if she was not supposed to be there before him.

“Ah, well, happy working to you.” He said and walked sideways, avoiding his back from her eyes. His smile was awkward and he acted strangely. He was super flustered which made his face turned into a shade of red.

“Thank you, I will,” Jennet replied but she still stared at him with a confused look.

Luca didn’t immediately leave but stare back at her, still refusing to turn his body around. “Well, go on to work. I’ll see you off.” He said with an even weird and wider smile. It was so obvious that he was trying to hide the magazine from her.

Jennet nodded her head in confusion and left. As soon as she disappeared inside her office, Luca dashed away while holding tightly on the magazine. He ran into his own office and locked the door. Then, he inhaled a deep breath of relief.

His black eyes gazed upon the magazine again. On the front cover, there was a beautiful blonde with jade-blue eyes, smiling beautifully.

“This is crazy. I’ve cancelled the cover but why did they still print it and make it the front page of my magazines?” He mumbled alone.

Ever since Hue backed out from the duel, he had no other choice but to cancel the cover. He had even specifically ordered his people to destroy the pictures. But he couldn’t understand why he had to see the same annoying face on the cover of his magazines?

He was about to make a phone call when a woman emerged from the resting room inside his office. She walked in and sat on one of the sofas.

“What are you doing in my office? No, how did you get here?” Luca glared at her. She was not supposed to be in his office.

She smiled sweetly at him and gave him an answer, “I came because I have some business here and there.”

“You better go home before people think you’re up to no good here,” Luca told her to go home.

“Up to no good?” The beautiful lady snorted in disbelief. “Well, what is wrong for me to visit my husband at work? Plus, I also need to meet someone in this company.” She explained herself.

“Hecara, you are not allowed to meet anyone in my company. No contact with each and every one of them.” His tone rose.

“Also, we are not officially married yet so don’t even dream of regarding me as your husband.” He corrected her with a shook on his head.

Hecara clapped her hands happily. “Then, that’s better. I can still meet anyone I want in this company because I’m not tied to you yet. You get what I mean?” Hecara smirked in mischief.

Luca bit his lips silently. Her cheekiness in answering him was so infuriating. If only he could, he would have tossed her out of the window, sending her far, far away from his place. Better yet to send her far away from the milky way galaxy.

Hecara popped out of nowhere at his mother’s place, scaring his mother near to death with her pregnancy news. Even more shocking, the silent and smiley Rapha had turned to stone and couldn’t be moved out of bed. The pitiful butler had a super high fever for the first time in his life working with his family.

Luca hasn’t been able to attend to his work because he had to nurse his sick mother at home. While Hecara had been poking her nose all around the house, like a lady boss, bossing everyone around and even pranked all of their maids with her sneaky tactics. Everyone in the house cannot handle her except for Luca.

Luca stormed towards her and slammed the magazine on top of the table. “This is all your doing, right?” He questioned her with a sharp glare that pierced through the heart.

“Why are you so restless over a picture? Did I remind you of somebody you shouldn’t remember?” Hecara asked him instead.

Pointing at the face on the magazine, Hecara said, “This is me in the picture and not that man.” Then leaning back she added, “Perhaps, you wanted his picture on this cover instead of mine?”

“Stop talking nonsense!” Luca fumed at her. She always brought the topics of the man who he didn’t want to be mentioned in his presence yet she has spoken of it freely.

Hecara laughed at him. Gleeful laughter. Her face was gleaming beautifully over her hearty laughter. “Ah, you should have seen your own face.” She said happily, teasing his burning heart.

“Hecara, you better leave right now!” He said, pressing in his tone, urging her to leave.

However, Hecara shook her head and lean leisurely on the sofa. “Not until you give me a passionate kiss, here,” she pointed her lips, “on my lips.”

That moment, Luca cursed her in gibberish words because he couldn’t talk properly due to the immense anger in him.