Chapter 102: Chapter 102

Author's POV

After disconnecting the call, Eric went toward the stairs to check on Angela. If she's finished her breakfast or not.

But as soon as he stood in front of the bedroom door, his phone rang again, and he looked at the phone screen only to get Jack a call.

He frowned to see him calling, as they talked just one hour ago.

He turned back to his study room and responded to his call.

"Hello…"

"Hello, Boss!" Jack's voice is a little serious and Eric immediately notices that as he said next later, "What happened?"

"Boss! Our one of the E.K restaurants which are just in the center of the city caught on fire!"

"What?" Eric greeted his teeth to hear the bad news.

"Yes, Boss, I just got a call a few minutes ago from our restaurant manager!" Jack informed him.

"Damn it!" Eric cussed between his breaths and questioned, "Did you inform dad about the fire?"

"No Boss! I just called you first!" Eric breathed out in relaxation. He doesn't want his parents to get more worried.

"Good, you don't need to inform him! And make sure the reporters don't publish news about this…"

"Alright, sir!" Jack replied.

"What is the condition of the fire? Are there any people in the restaurant?" Eric raised a question.

"Boss, there was no customer when the fire took place."

"The fire almost took three floors beneath it while staff already called the fire brigade. I think they have already reached this time…" Jack explained while Eric replied in fast motion, "Alright, I'm going to the restaurant, you just take care of work in the office."

"Alright Boss! Be careful!" Jack said as Eric finally disconnected the call.

Eric went towards the stairs and stopped one of the maids to tell her to take care of Angela in his absence and the maid nodded immediately.

Angela who is in the front of the window saw Eric's figure go somewhere in a hurry as he didn't turn back at all to see her window side, he just rushed towards the car and immediately drove out.

Angela's brows raised, as she could sense something happened but what?

When she was in chaos, the door opened behind her.

She turned to look at the maid who was smiling at her as soon as she came inside.

"Good morning, Mam! I just came here to take the plate…"

Angela calmly nodded, but deep inside, she wanted to ask about Eric.

She's thinking, should she ask or not? And at last, she made up her mind not to ask, as she doesn't want to connect with him anyway.

The maid took the plate and looked at Angela one last time, "Mam, if you need anything let me know, now!"

"No! You can go." She responded plainly while the maid nodded to her before turning to take steps towards the door to leave the room.

But soon Angela realized she wanted to know, so she immediately called out to the maid, "Wait!"

The maid turned to look at Angela," Yes, Mam…"

She waited for her to complete her words, while Angela moved toward her and stopped a few meters away.

"I saw Eric going somewhere in a hurry, did you know what happened?" She calmly asked.

"No madam, I don't know where Sir waved, but yes, Sir, is in a hurry when he is leaving the house and he told one of the maids before leaving to take care of you in his absence."

Angela nodded lightly to get information and ordered, "Okay, now you can go…"

The maid bowed lightly and left the room, locking the door from outside.

Angela sighed and went to sit on the bed.

"What happened suddenly?" She mumbled.

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Eric comes back home sweating all over the body. The fire is so wild that it takes almost half a day to take out completely and for news, all the news is blocked by Jack. As Eric ordered.

He went to his room first to get a fresh bath while changing his clothes into light ones for nighttime.

It's already late 10 pm. When he watches the wall clock.

He thought to check on Angela as he didn't see her for the whole day.

However, as soon as he walked out, the one maid came into his view and bowed in front of him before asking.

"Sir, should we bring your dinner here or put it on the dining table?"

"I don't want to eat, did Angela have her dinner?" He flatly asked.

"Yes, Sir! Madam already ate her dinner!" She informed him.

"Alright, you can go now!"

The maid understood and bid goodnight before leaving him alone.

Eric again started his steps to go toward the master bedroom.

He looked at the door with a deep gaze as he slowly moved his fingers to move on the doorknob and push down lightly.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw the light was already turned off, the window was open only to show the moon shining inside the room and Angela fell asleep on the bed.

He sighed and moved slowly towards her bed so as not to wake her while he seated beside her head and gazed at her sleeping face silently.

A few moments later, he found himself touching her cheeks while he tucked her hair strands behind her ears which covered her face because of the breeze coming from the window.

"Angela…" He whispered tenderly her name while contained with his talk in a soft and just a little hearing voice.

"Why…"

"Why can't you just let me explain myself...if you accept my request...I would never go this far…" His eyes filled completely with emptiness. While he continued.

"Don't be so harsh on me, don't hate me, Angela...you don't know how much I felt broken to see you distance yourself from me."

"It always hurts me to see you coldly looking at me…" His eyes got tears.

"Believe me, Angela, I never wanted to hurt you...All I want you to do is love. The unconditional love."

"I always feel guilty to marry you like this but never got the courage to say that. I can't look at your hurt or pain in your eyes to know the truth! My love overpowers me to delay the truth!"

Angela still didn't flinch at all as he touched her hand lightly and continued his words.

"I know, I deserve your anger and your punishment but don't just go away from me. I can't take that...my heart can't take that…"

"When in college time I loved you and left you because I was not the one you wanted! Trust me that time is also so hard for me to let you go for my brother and leave the country."

"I never thought to come back completely because it's hard! Forgetting you hard... But when I come back and get married to you in that emergency situation. I was all in hell because I knew that if I got closer to you, it was going to be hard for me to leave you at last. But seeing you breaking in front of me because of my ignorance, eventually, I crossed the boundaries and let you feel my real love for you, which I wanted to show you always.

"But now…." His voice broke down suddenly.

"Seeing you hate me, my heart shatters every time. I'm always in pain, Angela. Trust me!"

"Living as my brother's name, not getting the guts to tell you the truth because of mom dad's face is just so hard for me…"

"I can bear any punishment but not this… please hear me out...please give me a chance." He opened his heart in front of her as she couldn't listen to him in sleep.

"I'm sorry for my deeds but I hope you can hear me out once, and I promised to let you go from this bedroom and take any punishment from you…because I love you, Angela..."

His tears fell out while he bent to kiss her lips lightly and rested her hand on the bed again releasing her from his warm palms.

He put a duvet above to cover her body properly so she doesn't get cold.

"Good night..love.." He smiled weakly as he left the room hurriedly and closed the door.

Hearing the door is finally closed, Angela opened her closing eyes which already turned red with grief to hear his all words.

She never slept when he came into her room. But when he started talking, she let herself look like she was falling asleep. And next, later all she listened to was Eric and his little words until he finally kissed her and went out.

Her tears fell out emotionally while she touched her cheek were some tears of wetness came from Eric. She couldn't help herself but felt an ache at this moment.

She now remembered how he always stay far from her but she was the one who shouted at him and finally let him love her.

"Why?" Suddenly, she brokenly voices out.

"Why do you need to say all of this now? Why?" She yelled crying feeling angrily frustrated while deep inside the pain, the hidden love which she's still trying to ignore harder. For him.