TYCOON SYSTEM: THE INCREDIBLE BILLIONAIRE

Signing a deal with the enemy

“Edmond?! Lucas?! Just tell me why you're doing all this to me?!”

She grabbed his shirt and shook him hard. The frustration and pain seared in her veins and she let it all out, her tears overflowing like a stream.

The neighbors would probably hear the couple screaming at the top of their voice and going wild.

“Freya, calm down. That photo was an old photo, long before I knew you. Edmond… uhm, he was my course mate in the university and a business partner…”

“So you're doing business with him?!”

She paced around the room endlessly, her head suddenly burning hot, just as if it was about to explode. Her hand pressed her hair hard, as she tried to process the whole thing.

“I'm not doing business with him again, I mean I did, and I stopped after I met you, after I heard what he did to you, you have to understand. I wouldn't do anything to hurt you.”

She looked straight into his eyes and saw the load of lies that hovered in those black balls. She felt like she should just pull it out, like she should just slap the evil that had taken over him out of him, if only it was possible.

‘This isn't the husband I married, what has suddenly come over him? God, please help me!’

Her mimd screamed with words, words that haunted her and broke her.

“You wouldn't do anything to hurt me right?”

He buried his head in shame.

‘Damn it. Why did it have to show me now? Why now? Shit!!’

“I'm sorry. I know I've wronged you in many ways, I just need you to listen…”

He rose softly to his feet, his eyes locked on her. She had known better, the charm wasn't going to work this time around.

He held her hands but she pushed him hard back to the bed. The sound of his body thudding against the bed, alongside the creaking sound of the wood and the rustling of the sheets filled the air.

“Freya!!”

“Don't you ever touch me again in your life! I hate you!!”

She leaned against the wall, her face soaked in shame as she reflected the trauma Edmond caused her, and now, Lucas was toeing that same path.

‘Why do I always get unlucky in love?’

The pain burned in her heart. Her soul was shattered, countless times, as everything just seemed to follow the same pattern.

The thought of losing Lucas pained her so much. Like, after everything they've built together, after how they've suffered together, so this was how he planned to repay her…

Yes, she always wanted peace, but why stand with Edmond, the one man that shattered her soul and he knew all about it.

“Freya, I'm sorry. I just have to complete one last deal with him and then, it'll be over…”

She turned to him with cold eyes, her mind had pictured how she strangled him, but she couldn't. Instead, she sobbed endlessly and dropped to the ground.

“Lucas, I never believed you could do this to me. You're just so manipulative! I hate you! I hate you!!”

Lucas buried his face in shame, but the word manipulative hit him hard. It sliced through his heart like a blade and destroyed his self control.

“Manipulative right? You know what, you're just being paranoid!”

His cold words were things he never meant, if only Freya understood it that way, that she had pushed him too far.

“Paranoid right?!” She cried, her heart completely destroyed. “You know, I'm done. This, it's over!”

Her feets echoed loudly in the room as she stormed out angrily to her room.

He didn't even know what to think or how to feel. If he tried to go apologize, she may do something crazy, something both of them will surely regret. He had no choice but to give her some space.

The night wore on, the couple broken and praying for the next day to never come.

As early as possible, Lucas had already showered and gotten dressed. Freya didn't even stand up from her bed. She had cried all night and sleep finally found her in the morning. She was still snoring when Lucas left the house, unbothered about food, hunger was far from him.

All his workers noticed his tired look. His angry face, they just gave him his way. No one dared talk to him, or do anything to piss him off.

The way he looked, it was as if he could kill someone with his bare hands, which of course, he could.

He crashed into his chair, his chest loaded with heat and pain.

To even make it worse, he heated it up with the whiskey he was pouring down his throat.

His glass was filled to the brim and he just gulped everything once.

He drank all alone in the office, from large gulps to little sips. All in a bid to forget everything, but that was impossible for him. His system would neautralize the alcohol as it would take as a poisonous toxin.

So even if he drank twenty bottles of whiskey and scotch, he wouldn't feel the effect.

He pounded his fists into the table as it sent him a reminder.

“Failure to complete current task will remove your company's best deal…” the warning pricked his heart as he shattered the glass into the wall.

He grabbed the bottle at once and gulped in everything angrily, forcing it down his throat just as if it was mere water and thereafter, slammed the bottle into the wall.

The system has already arranged the meeting with Edmond. He just needed to get himself there and finalize everything, something he was still struggling to do.

His company's best deal… if it was taken away, he would go bankrupt.

“It's all for the best. Everything I do, I do it for us. You just wouldn't understand…” he spoke into his phone, looking at Freya's picture that was his wallpaper, just as if she could hear him.

“Hello, Edmond, I'm on my way…”

With that, he grabbed his briefcase and headed out. His car sped off into the distance. It was already getting late, he had to hurry.

When he got to the house, Edmond was just at the verge of going out.

“Hey, Edmond! Sorry I'm late, let's do it…”

Edmond frowned, but since he had showed up, after all, it was just to sign papers.

Their footsteps echoed in the distance as they walked in. The scribbling sound of the pen against the paper was all that could be heard between the two enemies.

When everything was done, Edmond shook hands with him.

“It's a pleasure doing business with you, old friend…” the handshake was firm with unspoken words, burning hate and fueled rage.

Thereafter, Lucas headed back to his car in frustration and drove him.

“Are you happy now?!!!” He cried at the system as it clicked the check mark, signifying the task was completed.

It didn't even give him any bonus it reward for this task.

His engine hummed silently into the garage and the door bounced open. His legs burned with rage as he walked into the house. Freya was in her room and heard when he banged the door hard and walked into his room.

It was just as if that act of his confirmed it.

“He had signed it…nonsense”

Her clothes rustled softly as she stuffed them carefully into the box, drops of tears escaped from her eyelids and trickled down her cheek.