Chapter 156
Chapter 156
An unfamiliar feeling filled my chest and I struggled to
figure out exactly what I was feeling. It felt like worry but much heavier. It
felt like there was some fear mixed in as well. For some reason, it felt like I
was saying good luck and goodbye to him before sending him off to some great
war. I shook my head a little to clear my thoughts. What am I even thinking?
He’s just going to go meet his father for a bit to discuss
some business plans.
“Have some trust in me, ok?” Ace teased before he flashed me
another confident smile.
“Ok. Good luck…” I wished him luck before smiling sweetly at
him.
“Ace…” I whispered his name as I blushed.
It was very sudden, but Ace had placed a very soft kiss on
my forehead before he smiled down warmly at me. I wasn’t sure who needed more assurance
or confidence at that point in time. It was probably me and not him if I had to
take a guess.
“This is my part of the mansion. Think of it as my set of
rooms. As I told you before, I don’t really live here anymore but I did live
here before. Basically, just think of it as your own place and just relax while
you wait for me to come back,” Ace said casually as he gestured with his hand
at the living room around us.
“Right. Ok…” I mumbled before nodding.
With that, Ace turned and left. I watched his back as he
walked away before I began praying that all would go well between him and his
father. I was sure that Ace had a plan and that whatever he had planned must be
great. However, that didn’t mean that things would go well and end well with
the Chairman.
I had no idea how long Ace would be gone for, so I spent a
while just lazing around on the sofa while playing with my phone. After a
while, I just got so bored and anxious that I had to stand up and start pacing
around the living room.
Although he told me that I should feel at home here and take
a look around, it wasn’t easy for me to do that at all. Everything about the
place felt unfamiliar and it was clear that no one had lived there for a long
time. Despite the fact that the room had many items that belongs to Ace like photos
in frames, his books, and other things, there wasn’t anything that felt very
personal. For instance, there wasn’t a single photo of Ace or anything along
those lines. Perhaps, he moved all of his stuff out of the mansion when he
moved out?
I found myself standing in front of the bookcase filled with
business-related books on one side and art-related books on the other. A grin
formed on my lips, I guess this was sort of like Ace dissected into two halves.
He was a very good businessman for sure but also very creative in his work
when. Now that I thought about it, I didn’t quite know much about Ace’s career.
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If I wasn’t mistaken, there was a time when he wasn’t at
Jessen’s and Hill’s at all and had gone abroad to start his own businesses. I
wondered how those businesses were going and was he still involved with them?
Given his busy schedule as the current CEO, I doubt that he
had the time to run his other businesses, though. If that was the case, I
wondered what made him come back to work at Jessen’s and Hill’s. Then again,
maybe it was because his father forced him to come back. The Chairman only has
one son and heir so that might just be how things played out.
Without knowing it, I had been roaming around the large
living room as those thoughts ran through my restless mind. I came to a stop in
front of a door. He did tell me to take a look around so…
He did mention that this is his part of the mansion so
besides this living room there must be other room that belongs to him such as
his bedroom and his working room. Considering that the Chairman had an office
in his home, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ace had his own office too or at least a
room that served a similar purpose.
Is this his office or something?
I turned the doorknob and found that the door was unlocked.
For a moment, I felt guilty for intruding on someone else’s space but then Ace
did say that it was fine for me to do this. So, please allow me to look around
a bit. I pushed open the door without hesitation after that. The room was
indeed a luxuriously decorated office with a large worktable. It wasn’t as
grand as the Chairman’s office that I visited before, but it was no normal and
plain office either.
Ace must have worked here before he moved out. I smiled a
little to myself as I saw a mirage of Ace sitting behind the table with a stern
expression on his face while he was working. Unlike the living room, there were
more of Ace’s things in this room.
“Wow…” I whispered in awe as my eyes fell to a photo of Ace.
Ace looked amazingly charming now, but he was definitely a
looker even when he was younger. This must have been from the time when he
first started working. There was a photo of a younger Ace with the Chairman
standing in front of Jessen’s and Hill’s company headquarters. The Chairman had
a proud smile on his lips while Ace looked like he wished he could be somewhere
else. I wondered if those two got along better back in the days or was their
relationship just as strained as it is now.
The next thing that caught my attention was a metal plate
showcasing a few embossed logos. One of the logos caught my attention as one of
the media companies that Ace had founded.
--To be continued…