Chapter 53: Chapter 53

Just like what I told Enver, I cooked food for him and went to his office.

And since Ferry and Castiel were already at my apartment, I told them to watch over Millie for a while. Well, they just slept with my daughter right after they cried so hard because of our drama earlier.

“You are really here,” Enver said as I entered his office. He looked surprised, especially when he saw the paper bag in my hand.

“I told you I will bring you food.” I put it on his table. “Did you finish your work?”

He nodded and showed me the folder in front of him. “This is the last one. Lucien is also here and dropped this.”

I took it and started reading its content. “This is not urgent so you can do this on Monday.” I put it back on his shelf. “And you will eat this.” I place the lunch box that contains the food I cooked. “It was just a simple pork and vegetable dish with rice.”

He smiled. “Did I ever mention that I also miss the food that you cook?”

“No,” I said. “But I know so here it is.” I took one of the chairs and placed it beside him. “So, I told you that I will stay here at Raiden to help you manage here, right?”

He nodded as he started to eat.

“But for this week, I might only stay at work half-day,” I said. “As I told you, I will be taking care of a lot of things, especially my business. I still want to continue that even though I am working here. It has helped me a lot for the past five years.”

“It is fine with me, as long as we will be together soon,” he said. He spooned rice with pork and gave it to me.

I didn’t hesitate to eat it. “And I have one thing to tell you.”

He frowned. “So serious, wifey.” He put down the utensils and faced me. “What is it?”

“I want to buy a house.”

He nodded. “You already told me that.”

“I mean…” I pointed at myself. “I will buy the house for us. But I want to use my own money.” I have enough savings to buy a house in a high-security subdivision.

Though, some parts of my savings that I am going to use were included in the money I saved for Millie's future. But I am still working and my business is giving me profit so I can still put it back after just a while.

Besides, Enver is already with us and I am sure he will do everything to provide for our daughter’s future once he learns about her.

So, I decided to use it for now to do the things that we need as our lives start to change.

He was stunned and stared at me. “W-why?”

“Well, I think your family is still hoping to take you back and I need some assets so they will not be able to push me into a corner again.”

He frowned again. “What do you mean?”

I sighed. I still haven’t told him anything about this because I don’t want to add another reason for him to get mad at his family. But I guess I don’t really have any choice now.

“I never really plan to hide from you. I will just leave you but there is no reason for me to exhaust myself just to hide from you,” I said. “But when your family learned about the problem we had, they started to ruin my life. You know, making me lose my job, pressuring all people who helped me, blocking every opportunity that I could get to provide for myself in the industry that might have crossed our paths.”

“What?”

“Ben was trying to help me but I don’t want to involve him too much and ruin his relationship with your father so I choose to hide. From you, from your family. From everyone.” I explained. “That is when I accidentally got into Mikea’s subdivision and hid there.”

“And what has something to do with you buying our house with your own money?”

“I want to show your family that I went back to you, not because of your money,” I said. “I want them to realize that I can provide for our house. That I can level myself to the state of your social life.”

I don’t need to please them. I just want them to know that they cannot bully me again. That I can protect myself against them.

I let them do what they want before but everything changed now. I won’t let my daughter see how his father’s family bullies me so I have to fight them.

“I need to build myself on my own beside you so they cannot destroy our family again.” I will not let them do something to ruin my marriage with Enver. I will not let us experience hell being apart from each other because of what they did to us.

Millie deserves a whole family.

“But I can protect you now.” He held my hand. “I have Raiden now. They cannot bully you again.”

“I know that you can protect me, En,” I said. “You have all the means to protect me but who will protect you this time? Don’t you see that they were targeting you because they failed all their plans to completely get rid of me in your life? I need to have assets under my name. I have to do this so please… Just let me do what I want and trust me that it's all for our family.”

Enver is not the only one I want to protect. I also want to secure Millie’s future with us. I want to ensure that she will remain in my custody.

Because I know Enver’s family, especially Don Emil Andrius. I know how they play their way just to get what they want.

They have been longing for a grandchild, one reason why they hate me is because I haven’t given birth to a child even though I have been married to their family for a long time. And once they learn about Millie, I am sure that they will do everything to take her away from me.

And I am sure that they will use every means to make that happen.

Once they file a custody case, they will make it look like I can’t provide for Millie’s needs. And if Enver tries to fight them, they will surely use his infidelity issue even though they were the ones who framed him to tie his hands.

So, I need to do something. I can’t just put this burden on Enver. I have to protect this second chance that we have.

“Please, trust me.”

He sighed in defeat and nodded. “Okay. Do what you have to do. Just tell me when you need anything.”

“Of course.” I smiled. “Thank you.”

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Just like what I told Enver, I have been busy the next day. I went to work every morning at Raiden and had lunch with my husband before I went home in the afternoon.

Then, I picked up Millie because she has been with me while we take care of everything related to her birthday party.

And I am glad that she behaved most of the time and never complained even though we had a long ride at each place we went. Well, I guess she also enjoys this preparation.

We already made invitations and gave them to the people we want to come.

And most of them confirmed their attendance at the party so I had to change my original plan for the venue. At first, I only planned to hold the party in the parking lot in front of our compound. But since we had so many visitors that day, I rented the clubhouse inside our subdivision.

I am just glad that it was available for my desired date so we started preparing everything.

“So, I will be with Millie tomorrow morning and you will take care of the remaining work we have here” Mikea confirmed while we are talking about the schedule we had for tomorrow. “Will you be there by afternoon?”

I nodded. “Yeah,” I answered. “Everything was already prepared for tomorrow. Even the things that she will wear and accessories that she wants.”

She smirked. “You planned everything, huh.”

“Well, it is for my daughter,” I said. “And a special occasion for our family.”

“It is nice to see that you will be together again after all the things that happened in your life.” I can see her happiness for me. “Though, are you still not going to announce your real relationship with the company?”

I chuckled. “It is not really necessary, Mikea,” I said. “Though, it is also not a secret. I just don’t want to announce it yet.”

“Oh.” She nodded. “You are saying that you don’t care if they learn about it or not. If they notice and confront you, you guys will not deny it?”

I nodded as I agreed with what she said. “It will be easy for us since our situation is hard to explain without exposing how mean Even’s family is.”

Even though those people did something bad to me, I don’t want people to hate them. They are still my husband’s family.

“Well, if that is what you want,” she said. “Then, are you going to leave your apartment?”

I smiled at her and kinda feel sad when he mentioned that. “I know this is too sudden but I already bought a house inside Green Meadows Heights. You know, I need to prepare my fight against Enver’s family if ever they learn about Millie’s existence.”

“You were lucky to have Sir Enver.” She looks like a child smiling from ear to ear. “He is always ready to fight you, even if it is against his own family.”

“I don’t want him to cut his ties with them because I know what it feels to lose one. But they were the ones who did something bad that made Enver leave them,” I said. “Besides, I don’t need them to accept me as part of their family. I just want them to respect my relationship with Enver. If they only gave me the respect that I deserve, I think things would be different in our lives.”

I want to convince Enver to go back to his family and patch things between them but I know he will not listen to me. Especially when they were the ones who broke his trust.

She sighed and leaned in her chair. “I wish the man that I love was like Sir Enver. You know, the one who will fight for me.”

I chuckled and tapped her shoulder. “Just wait for the right time. I am sure, Francis will fight for you.”

Her eyes widened and looked at me. “Hey!”

“Kidding!” I gave her a peace sign but she only glared at me. Well, she can’t really accept any jokes when it comes to Francis since they never had a chance to be with each other again after we hung out at a night market before.

And she doesn’t want to force her way to be with him again since she doesn’t want to give another heart attack to her mother.

I sighed. “Anyway, before asking for someone who will fight for you, why don’t you ask yourself if you are also ready to fight for your love?” I stood up and tapped her shoulder. “One is not enough to fight for the two of you.”

I know that she was being cornered by the things that happened in her family but she can’t hope for other people to save her, especially if she can’t even save herself.

That is one of the lessons I learned after what happened to me and Enver.

You can’t love someone without loving yourself first. You have to fight for yourself first before fighting for your love.