All Chapters of Humble son-in-law in the day, Billionaire at night : Chapter 31
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“I'm sorry about your father,” Aiden says. Beatrice darts a glance at him. “You haven't answered my question, sir.”“My goodness, Beatrice, I thought we dropped these formalities a while ago.” “Mr Aiden?” Aiden looks out through the window. “I'm sorry, I can't tell you what you want to hear.” “I have been working for you for more than two years now and I still don't deserve to know why all those things happened back in my house?” Aiden wants to tell her that sometimes some things are best left unknown but with the relationship he has had with women so far, saying something like that will only spark their curiosity. “I'm working on creating a game,” he lies. “What you just saw is the concept of the game. I'm sorry for not telling you earlier. I wanted to kind of see your reaction.” Beatrice's heart sinks. Aiden is lying to her again. “It must be a really fascinating game then,” she plays along. “I'm sorry for startling you.”“That was the reason why you didn't tell me beforehan
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“Okay.” Beatrice stares at Aiden in disbelief. Why does everything Aiden keeps on taking her by surprise? He even came here to get a ring just to make her believe he is not lying about being married? This is so crazy. Yeah…she gets that Aiden might not want to have anything to do with his workers but this is just getting too far and making his lies harder to believe. About five minutes later, they are paying with Aiden's card for the limited edition cloth she bought. “You really had me scared for a moment. I thought I was going to have my credit card maxed out,” Aiden says. Beatrice rolls her eyes. “There will be a real problem if I spend money to the extent that an unlimited card gets maxed out.” Aiden chuckles. At another section of the shopping mall, Wesley hears a familiar voice. The voice sounds like Aiden's voice. He looks around. There is no way Aiden will be here, right? Everything here is above a thousand dollars and unless Aiden has stolen Harper's card, there is no
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Aiden takes a deep breath to assure himself everything is okay before answering the call. “Good afternoon—”“Where are you?”“I'm…I'll be back home soon, I'm in the cab—”“Meet me at the Vicholas restaurant, I'll be waiting for you.” Then the line goes dead. Even after the call ends, Aiden still has the phone against his ear. When has his father-in-law ever spoken to him in such a calm voice? Wait a minute…people actually become calm when they are about to die. Aiden quickly takes his other phone, he dials a number. As much as he despise his father in-law, the last thing he wants is for the old man to die. Why? Because out of everyone that Harper thinks as a family, the only person that will be alive when Aiden is done with his revenge is that old man. “There is a man wearing glasses at the Vicholas restaurant right now,” Aiden says as soon as there is an answer at the other end, “can you see him?” “Give me a second, sir.” Thirty seconds later, the man's voice comes on the l
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Aiden frowns. “A meeting? With Harper?” “As I said, I only gave you this opportunity to prove yourself. The young man is friends with Wesley and just a call from Wesley is all that is needed. You can't figure out a way to set up the meeting?” “Not that, sir. Why does Harper have to meet with him?” “For business purposes.” “Sir—”“Aiden stop asking me questions. Can you do it or you can't?” “I will try my best but first, Harper is not meeting with him for marriage reasons, right?” Aiden's father-in-law smiles. “You have such a low self esteem. I'm not sure you know how much Harper…” he shakes his head. “Look, I don't have enough time, just a yes or no. If no, get ready to pack out of the house. I need a responsible son-in-law.” “I'll try my best, sir.” Aiden's father-in-law stares at Aiden for some seconds. He sighs. Why is he suddenly feeling sorry for Aiden? He didn't give a crap about the poor boy but now, seeing how pitiful he looks, he wants to reach out to him and give hi
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Harper drove all the way home in a trance, she's still in the trance as she gets out of the car and goes inside. She sees Bryan on the sofa, playing some video game like his life depends on it. She goes straight to the socket and yanks the plug off. “What the fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!” His scream is all it takes for Harper to finally realize she's not imagining things. “Are you out of your fucking mind?!” He yells, his voice bouncing across the whole street. Harper rushes to him and gives him a tight hug. “Mom! Harper has run mad! She's crazy right now,” he yells louder. “What are you two up to again?” Harper hears her father's voice across the room. She dashes over to him, giving him a tight hug too. “Dad…” she cries into his shoulder. “See? I told you. Dad, this is what I have been saying. Too much work has an effect on the brain, now see, Harper has run insane,” Bryan says. “
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“Thank you, sir.” His father in-law pats Aiden on the back as he goes inside. Taking a deep breath, Aiden goes inside the room he shares with Harper. She's drying her hair in front of the mirror when he gets inside. Swifty, he walks over to her to help her get it done—just like he always does. She takes a step away from him just because he can collect the towel from her. “Let me help you,” he attempts to collect it again but she takes another step backward, staring at him with no expression on her face. “I…” he smiles nervously. Two things he can never get used; Harper's silence and her expressionless face. No way he's able to figure out what she's thinking when she does those two things. “Are you okay?” He tries but still no answer, just blank stares. “Well…last night. I'm sorry. I…kind of…um…something came up so—” the rest of the words trails off his lips as Harper leaves him standing in the room.
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Across the table, Aiden takes a drumstick. He tears it into pieces with his hands. It doesn't calm his rage. What a joke? Little sister? Walmer has no fucking little anything. He's the fucking last child in his family! “What is going on?” Hannah asks. “Is big sis going on a date with him?” “Yes, dear. I'm so proud of you for mentioning your sister. Who knew such a thing could happen?” Aiden's mother-in-law says, grinning on the table. Beside Aiden, Aiden's father-in-law drops his spoon. He gets up. “I need to go to bed now.” “I'll join you soon. First, let me do some online shopping. Harper must look hot tomorrow.” She waltzes out of the sitting room. “Hannah, I have something to show you when you are done eating,” Bryan says. “I'm done already. What?” “It's a surprise. You are going to be grateful to me for it for the rest of your life,” Bryan says childishly, causing Hannah to giggle. Aiden watches the
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“Wha…what…?” She's already unbuttoning his shirt. “Harper, stop,” he can't figure out why his voice is shaky all of a sudden but why won't it be?!“What? You don't want us to have a baby yet? Oh, you're worried about the money? Don't worry, I'll —”“What the hell is going on?” He cups her face in his hands. “What do you mean what's going on?” “You have been ignoring me since I came and now…you're doing this.” Harper slaps his hands off and pushes him unexpectedly on the bed. She rolls off him to the bed and grabs the duvet to herself. Aiden closes his eyes. Shit. “Babe—”“Let's talk tomorrow, I'm tired.” “We are going to have a baby but—”“But what?” She fires, turning to face him. “Did I do anything wrong?” Without saying anything, she grabs her phone on the table and throws it at him.Slowly, Aiden takes the phone. His hands tremble, cold sweat breaks on his forehead
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“Wha…what did you just say?” Harper asks, her body cold all of a sudden. “Will I be lying to you? He bought Miss Beatrice a ring and proposed to her in the hotel. Only the heavens know what happened in the hotel.”“Why didn't you tell me all these earlier?” “Because…well, I was hoping Aiden would deny it and then I'd have to keep this as a secret forever.” Harper falls against a wall, weak all of a sudden. “Are you okay? Should I come over?” Wesley asks at the other end. “No…I'm fine.” “You know, girl, there is a saying that you know who someone is when they have money. This is just who Aiden is, I hope you'll be careful around him.” Tears roll down Harper's face. “I'll see you tomorrow. For now, let's not inform your parents about what is going on. That won't do any good, they are not young anymore and news like this can have a bad effect.” ****Aiden takes another drag from
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The whole family looks back and forth between the two of them. “Are you two having a fight?” Bryan asks. “This is the first time you two are looking…” “Dear, could you drive her there then?” Mr Lincoln asks his wife. “We need to have someone in the family on standby in case there is anything Harper might need.” “I need to do some shopping with Hannah. All her clothes are already too old,” Mrs Lincoln replies. “I'd have driven her myself but I have an important meeting with the board of members today.”Bryan stands up and stretches his limbs seeing how the task is slowly being pushed to him. “I should go see Mr Bag. I can't keep him waiting.”“Who is Mr Bag?” Hannah asks. Bryan winks at her to keep quiet but it's too late, his father is now looking at him.“You don't have to know about him. He's just someone I'm grateful to.”“You can play games later, for now, drive Harper to where she's meeting Wa
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