Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Despite that the doctors already told him that some of her organs were loosing function, Sterling didn’t lose hope that she would wake up one day.

He brought out the necklace in it’s package and placed it on her neck. The red color shone brightly on her neck and he smiled.

“I wish you could open your eyes to see this, Mum.” He placed another kiss on her forehead.

Sterling took back the necklace inside the package and shoved it inside his pocket. He would give it to her when she wakes up one day.

“I have to go now, Mum. I’ll be back tomorrow.” He fixed his eyes on her, hoping she would open her eyes at that moment but she didn’t.

Sterling touched her forehead, placed a kiss on her cheek before leaving the VIP ward.

Outside the ward, a young man dressed in black suit and a blue tie stood facing the door with papers in his hands.

“Mr. Hawthorn.” He bowed his head but Sterling only nodded his head. “Here are the papers you requested, Boss.”

Sterling took the papers from him, glanced at them for a while and then gave it back to him.

“Reading through the first line, I can already see grammatical errors in it. Return it back to the secretary, I want it to be edited and sent to me by 2am.”

His Assistant bowed his head. The secretary was even lucky that he said 2am and not 3am.

He could count the number of Secretaries that has resigned that week and those that were fired for not working well.

Sitting on the armchair in his study room in the mansion, Sterling couldn’t take his mind off the woman he saw earlier.

Who was she and where was she from? Sterling didn’t know. But the more he tried to brush her thought aside, the more his mind tells him she was in trouble and needed his help.

Beep! Beep!

He called Assistant Li on the phone. Assistant Li was his Home’s Assistant while Assistant Mike was his Office’s Assistant.

“Come in to the study room.” Sterling instructed and dropped the phone.

As soon as the phone touched the desk, the door to the study room opened slowly and a young lad already in his pajamas hurried inside.

“You called, Boss.” He bowed his head. Sterling nodded his head in affirmation. He did called and what he wanted him to do for him was an important one.

“I want you to…” He was interrupted by his own thought. Sterling was going to order him to find out who the woman he saw at the store was, but the Assistant wasn’t with him at that moment.

None of his entourages were with him, he went alone and returned alone.

“No need.” He gestured to him to leave the study room. “Boss, tell me what it is and I’ll do it right away.” He adjusted the glass on his face.

“Leave,” Sterling said under his breath. “Boss I assure you I’ll ...”

“Leave!” Sterling thundered. Assistant Li took a pace and ran out of the study room.

He could swear his legs didn’t touch the ground when he was running because his Boss’s voice was so loud and sounded like a thunder.

Sterling sighed deeply, he stood up from the arm chair and exited the study room.

Thinking about that woman wouldn’t do him any good as he didn’t even know how he was going to find her.

He didn’t even see her face well. All he saw was her sparkling eyes that had a hint of hardship in them.

Maybe that was why he fell in love with her, he didn’t know. But who is she? Where can he find her?

Sterling had no idea. He had bumped in to countless women before but the way that lady behaved, it attracted him towards her.

She wasn’t rough, full of herself or like other women would do whenever they saw him.

“I’ll find you, my mysterious woman.” a smile escaped the side of his lips.

( Not getting a divorce)

As Vivienne lay on the bed that morning, she couldn’t help but remembered what Sebastian did to her the previous night.

Their one year wedding anniversary just ended that way in a horrible state. Who does that? Shouldn’t they have at least celebrated it for the sake of the love they once shared?

But he decided to humiliate her using Sabrina, the slut. She sighed for the Tenth time in five minutes.

“Are you awake, babe?” Came Sebastian’s husky voice. When they still shared love, his voice wasn’t horrible to her.

She always found it to be so soothing whenever he opened his mouth to speak to her.

But now at that moment, Vivienne wished he wasn’t even talking. His voice was so horrible that she could throw up.

And he called her babe? What an audacity. Doesn’t he have any shame?

“If you are awake, sit upright. We need to talk.” Vivienne’s heart skipped a beat.

We need to talk? Would he talk to her about getting a divorce? Is he going to marry that wretched bitch? Or what does he want to do?

Vivienne couldn’t fathom. But she wouldn’t agree to him if he would file for a divorce.

No, she rather stay with him and endure the hardship than become the laughing stock of her family and other people in the industry.

Still, she sat upright to hear whatever he would say to her.

“Look at your face, did you cry last night?” Sebastian mocked her but she ignored him.

She just wanted him to say whatever he wanted to say so she would leave the room for him.

“What happened last night,” she interrupted him.

“You think it’s because of what happened last night?” she chuckled. “Things like that don’t get in to my head,” she smiled at him.

Sebastian lifted a brow. He was surprised by her sudden change. Or wasn’t she the Vivienne with a soft heart that he knew?

Nevertheless, he brushed that aside and picked up a document from the dressing table.

When Vivienne saw the document, she was convinced Sebastian was filing for a divorce. But would she sign it? No, she won’t.

“Here, take this.” He put his hands inside his pants pocket, looking at her.

“I want you to…” she interrupted him once again.

“If you think I’ll sign this, then wake up from your slumber,” she snapped.

Sebastian was taken aback. Sign what? He thought.

“You aren’t signing anything. What do you think this is?” He picked up the document.

“Forget about that,” he sighed. He threw the paper in front of her on the bed and leaned a side on the dressing table.

“I want you to take this document to a business partner…” She lifted up her eyes but took them back to the document in front of her.

That was when she discovered it wasn’t for divorce as she has thought. It was a business document from PENELOPE’S wORLD.

She tightened her lips, cursing herself inside her head for being so stupid.

“I’ll drop the address before I leave. Make sure he signs this document before you return home.” He gave her his last instruction before stepping out of the room.

Vivienne was out of words. Sebastian had never given her anything concerning his company. Why then would he want her to take the document to a business partner when he can take it himself?

Well, she didn’t mind. After all, he’s her husband and she’s a submissive wife.

He can make her do whatever he wants. Who knows, their love would blossom again by doing the things he want.

She shrugged her shoulders, put down the document and found her way in to the bathroom.

No one was in the living room when she came out from the room. She wasn’t surprised because that was the daily routine in that house.

She retrieved the paper he has dropped for her from the TV stand and unfolded it.

“LILLY’S room 109” she read it aloud. That hotel wasn’t the one she didn’t know, it was the hotel business people used for their business transactions.

Many illegal things go on there. From exchanging bribes, dealing in drugs and so on.

She let out a sigh. Why would Sebastian wants his wife to go to that kind of a place? Vivienne shook her head.

But she has to go, because it was her husband’s order. Vivienne stretched her hand to pick the car keys but remembered she abandoned the car last night.

“Great, I’ll take the taxi for the first time in my life.” She patted her forehead.

But as soon as she stepped out of the mansion, the first thing she landed her eyes on was the car.

It was neatly parked at the parking space. Vivienne furrowed her brows in to a frown.

She knew that would happen. Why are people that way? Can’t they just leave the car out there and allow the people that want it to take?

Because the plate number was there, they knew where it came from and so, they returned it back to the house.

She hissed at the car, cursed it and walked out of the house.

“Young Madam, are you leaving without the car?” the security man at the gate asked her.

That was the title they referred to her as. Vivienne smiled and nodded at him.

He got the message, opened the gate for her and bowed his head in respect.

“Shouldn’t I just walk? The LILLY’S isn’t far from here.” Vivienne thought as she walked away from the house.

But since it was a business, she knew the other business partner would be waiting for her already at the hotel.

It would be a waste of time walking there and who knows, he might cancelled the business with her husband if she didn’t take it there in time.

When she slowed down a taxi, her phone beeped. She checked the notification and it was a message from Sebastian reminding her to go there fast as the man was already impatient.

She sighed deeply, entered the taxi and gave him the address.

( Her mistake)

It wasn’t hard for her to locate the room when she entered the hotel. As usual, business men in suits were Roaming around the corridors, holding a suitcase.

Some of them has women walking behind them. While in some other rooms, you could hear loud moaning, men laughing and coins clattering.

Vivienne shook her head, she didn’t expect Sebastian would engage in to such an act.

Maybe that was why he sent her, because he wouldn’t want to step in that kind of a place.

She adjusted the scarf on her face when she came in front of the room she was supposed to hand over the document to.

Knock! Knock!

She knocked on the door but then, the door opened by itself.

“You are finally here.” Vivienne looked around to locate where the voice came from and there, sitting on an armchair behind the wall, a man sat there.

She examined his body. He has a long leg and rough moustache all over his face. One could mistake him for a Hobo if not for the suit he was putting on.

She looked at the shoes in his legs but they were made of fine leathers which mean, he was also a CEO of his own company.

“Good day…” Vivienne didn’t know the Tittle she would refer to him as and so, she only dropped the document on the desk in front of him.

“I think he already told you I’ll bring this for you. So, you are needed to sign it.” She pointed at the document on the table.

He glanced at the document and then at Vivienne who was eagerly waiting for him to sign it so she would leave as that room reeked of cigarettes.