Chris faltered\u00a0<\/p>\n
Good question.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He used a different tactic. \u201cWell, more importantly, everyone\u2019s been working very hard these past few weeks, so they\u2019re all starting to fall sick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re strong and healthy, but they\u2019re all starting to lose hair from lack of sleep. They\u2019re only around 30 years old, but they have the physical condition of 80\u2013year\u2013olds. If anything happens to them, we\u2019re going to need to pay up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chris had picked up all his communication skills from William over the past few years. That was why he couldn\u2019t compare\u00a0<\/p>\n
when it came to William\u00a0<\/p>\n
William chuckled coldly. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong? Do you think I can\u2019t afford it?\u201c.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t what Chris meant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Helen wasn\u2019t wrong, William had become harder and harder to deal with every single passing day after their return to Lebavia. Chris had been his assistant for years and was able to figure out some of William\u2019s habits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chris silently chanted to himself, \u201cFor Bova Capital.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, he finally spoke, awaiting his death sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Cooper, are you not going home because you\u2019re scared?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A loud shattering noise from William\u2019s office made everyone freeze out of fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCrap! Is Mr. Hemworth going to die in there? Oh, no\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a moment, the door opened, and Chris walked out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Helen immediately asked worriedly, \u201cMr. Hemworth, are you okay?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m fine I just accidentally broke a teacup.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chris straightened his tie and let out a sigh before announcing, \u201cLet all the other departments know that Mr. Cooper\u2019s giving us three days off after all the hard work we\u2019ve done these last few weeks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The whole company erupted into cheers. Everyone left before it was time to clock out, and when William finally came out of his office, there was no one left except for Chris.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019d think there was a fire with how quickly they escaped,\u201d William said. Even the sight of Chris was enough to annoy him. \u201cYou, too. Get out of here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lester had caught a bad cold the day before, so William drove himself back from work. As he drove on the snow\u2013covered roads, he started feeling a strange sense of self\u2013pity, as if he had no home to return to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He ended up driving back to Wolke Bay anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When he entered, the house was as warm as a spring day, but it was empty.\u00a0<\/p>\n
William faltered in his steps and called out, \u201cScarlet?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He surprised himself with how cold and low his voice sounded. He could practically hear it echoing throughout the empty\u00a0<\/p>\n
house\u00a0<\/p>\n
He tossed his coat onto the couch and sped toward the bedroom on the second floor. His tense muscles only relaxed when he\u00a0<\/p>\n
DIABLO\u00a0<\/p>\n
HAVE RISEN\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
22\u00a0<\/p>\n
saw that Scarlet\u2019s clothes and belongings were still there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When he went hack downstairs, he heard the sound of cats meowing\u00a0<\/p>\n
He went to the room where they kept their cats. He had opened the door barely a crack when their calico cat came running out along with all her kittens. They began scurrying around and sniffing William\u2019s pant legs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
William wanted to use his foot to push them back into the room, but none of them stayed still long enough. They leaped over his foot and scurried outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The moment Ruth got back from grocery shopping, she spotted the cats running all over the living room. Two of them were even fighting on the couch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cat fur was flying all over the room. William was hiding far away from them in a corner while sneezing his nose off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ruth was shocked. \u201cOh my god! What are they all doing outside?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
William said, \u201cThe door wasn\u2019t shut properly. They were like this when I got back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ruth didn\u2019t dare argue with him, but she couldn\u2019t help wondering to herself. She had added child locks on the windows and the door. Had the calico cat evolved into being able to open locks? She could send that cat to talent shows at this rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She quickly tried to chase the cats back into the room, but despite their young age, the kittens were already starting to show signs of athletic prowess.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She only managed to catch two of them despite running all over the house. By the time she managed to catch the third, the other two had found a way to sneak back out of the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
William stood atop the stairs. \u201cCall Scarlet and ask her to come back and get them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ruth turned back with a cat toy in her hand. \u201cMrs. Cooper\u2019s out of town for a conference. She\u2019ll only be back the day after\u00a0<\/p>\n
tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
William stuck his hands into his pockets and said ambiguously, \u201cShe\u2019s a busy woman, huh?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chris faltered\u00a0 Good question.\u00a0 He used a different tactic. \u201cWell, more importantly, everyone\u2019s been working very hard these past few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-the-contractstart-of-his-obsession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}