Forty Six

I am now walking towards the gate. And the guard opened it for me to enter. I proceeded to enter the front door and went straight to my room. I laid down for a while to rest a little. I want to take a bath because I feel sticky. My phone rang, but I ignored it. I felt like I was deaf from the repeated calls, so I took it out of my bag and looked at it. I saw Aunt Bettina calling, so I answered it.
"Hello, Aunt. How are you there? " I asked her on the other line.
“I'm fine. How are you there?” She asked me.
"I'm okay. So far I haven't found a job." My answer.
"Your baby, how is it?" I asked her again.
"Healthy and cute." My aunt replied that she was obviously overjoyed because she had a child.
“Why don’t you try to apply to Marcus company, Gianna? I think she still has a lot of empty slots for employees who want to apply. " She told me.
Suddenly, my eyebrows rose at my aunt's suggestion. She told me that I couldn't be involved with Marcus, but why is she now bringing me closer to that old man?
“But Aunt, don't you want me to link to him?” I ask.
"That was then, but not now." My aunt answered and laughed on the other line.
“I know he was pissed off about my comment on his personality. I was beyond the belt. I almost forgot that he was my husband’s brother. I have yet to hear an apology from him. I called him last time and I asked him where you were because I couldn’t contact you. He told me why I'm looking for you from him: he's not your boyfriend. " Aunt exclaimed, laughing.
"You went too far and the man got angry with you. You are too concerned for me. You have crossed the line. " My answer.
“Of course, I didn't know that he was so deadly in love with you. You are beautiful, Gianna, even a billionaire captured by your beauty." My aunt praised me. I haven't commented yet.
"You take care of that first, because we can't return to the Philippines yet." She told me.
"Yes."
"Be careful there." My aunt told me this and then hung up the phone.
I immediately went to the bathroom and took a shower. I want to go to bed early now because I feel so tired physically. I am in bed now, lying down while reading a novel online. Sometimes when I'm bored, this is what my past time. But now my eye suddenly hurt, so I stopped reading and put the phone on the table. I turned off the light and opened the lampshade. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
The next day, I woke up with my head so sore that it would break in extreme pain. I feel so hungover just because of that flashy picture. I was about to get up when suddenly a hand stopped me. I think it was Natasha staring at me.
"Don't get up, Marcus. I know your head still hurts." Natasha stopped me.
Suddenly, my forehead furrowed in astonishment. As I remembered last night, Aldo was with me at the bar, but why is this woman here at home? Natasha was about to fed me when I shook my head and avoided her.
“I'm just drunk, Natasha, but I'm not crippled. " I told her. She was a little embarrassed by my attitude.
"Let me take care of you, even now," She said to me.
I suddenly clenched my fist. Because when I'm okay, she will come back. I wanted to ask her where she was when I needed her, but I chose to keep quiet because it's not right to talk about things that have been over for a long time.
"I'm fine, Natasha. You can leave." I pushed her away. She suddenly became silent and I could see the pain in her eyes. But I won't send those eyes anymore.
Natasha had left, but I was still lying in bed. The door opened, but I didn’t bother to look at who had entered.
"You're awake, Marcus." Lance told me.
"Why is that woman is here?" I asked him.
"I don't know, I called Gianna last night, but Natasha came." Lance replied.
What else can I expect from Gianna? I know that woman hates me because of what I did to her.
"Where is Gianna right now?" I asked Lance.
"I don't know. Carl didn't say where Gianna was when he came to the bar last night." Aldo replied.
"Where is Carl now?"
 "In the guest room, I let him slept in your house because it was dangerous for him to come home last night."
I left him sitting on the bed and exited the room while Lance followed me.
I found Carl sitting in the living room.
"How are you, sir?" he asked me as I sat on the couch.
“I’m fine. Where is Gianna?”
"She directly went home, and didn’t go inside the bar because she doesn't seem to want to be with you." Carl replied.
I glared at him, but he did not move and continued speaking.
"Who would be happy with what you did to her? You drag her into the house. And I feel like you drag her hard because of the reaction on her face. Even if you are dying, I will not help you. " said Carl.
When I looked at Lance, he looked at me emphatically and asked a lot of questions.
"I'm going back to the beach house, sir." Carl said goodbye to me as we walked out of the house.
"What happened? Did it have anything to do with your drinking last night?" Lance asked me.
I did not answer. “We’re friends, Lance. Are you still going to keep it a secret from me?"
I picked up my phone for a moment in the bedroom and went back to the living room. I showed Lance the photo Thompson had given me.
"Who's that man?" Lance asked.
"He's Geoff Gianna's ex-boyfriend." My answer.
"She's avoiding that man, but I don't know why they're kissing." I said.
"And it's really outside that someone can see them."
"Are you really thinking? If you look them closely, They’re not kissing, you're just really crazy. Where did you get that picture? " Lance asked me.
Suddenly, I fell silent.
“Thompson sent that to me." My answer.
Lance nodded.
“And then about what Carl say? That you dragged Gianna? When did you became violent? You really gave her a reason to dislike you forever. " He told me.
I sighed. Suddenly, my head shook because I suddenly woke up to the truth. When I get older, my brain becomes closed. And add more, the return of Natasha.
"Can you call Aurora for me?" I ordered Lance.
Aldo picked up his phone and called Gianna, but he could not contact the woman. Lance shrugged his shoulders.
“Her phone is off. Maybe low battery or maybe she’s avoiding you again. You will return into chasing her." She told me.
So I got up and went out of the house, got in the car and drove it away from my house. I am already outside Darius' mansion. I rang the doorbell, and the guard came out.
“Good morning, sir. Do you need anything?” The guard asked me,
"Is Gianna isn’t here?”
“Yes, sir. She left early, and I don't know where she went." Answer of the guard.
"When she comes, please call me. This is my number.”
I exited the room and went to the living room, where I found someone preparing snacks on the table. I took a slice of cake and carried it out of the house when I noticed the guard approaching me.
"Ma'am, your boyfriend came here." said the guard, my forehead wrinkled.
"Who is that? I don't have a boyfriend." I replied, laughing.
“What you told me I will not say is that you are here, so I followed your command." He says.
“Thank you. What did he say?"
"Nothing, I'm looking for you. He even left a number in case you go home. I will call him.”
I laughed. "Thank you." The guard nodded and returned to his seat.
I was left confused. What else does that man need? Won't he stop me?

I can't understand why that old man is always looking for me. I didn't charm him in the first place. I went back inside the house and sat in the living room. I ate the snacks the maid had prepared for me. My phone rang, which was in the pocket of my dress, so I picked it up and looked at who was calling. Harley’s name was what I saw on the screen, so I answered it.
"Hello, Harley." I told her.
“Gianna, tomorrow is daddy’s birthday. You go. We have a surprise birthday for him. "Said Winter on the other line."

I didn’t say a word because I knew in myself that I wasn’t going because I knew their mother would show up. I wouldn’t be coming tomorrow. I don't want to get involved in their family trouble.
"I'll try to go, Winter." My answer.
"All right! I will expect you tomorrow to come, Gianna. Bye. " She said, once Winter cut the phone line.
I’m not going, even if Harley gets mad at me.
I'm in the office now. Here I go straight after I get back from Darius' mansion to go to Gianna. Where did that woman go? The door opened and my secretary entered.
"Happy birthday, sir, for tomorrow. Is there a party? I hope we are all invited. " My secretary said with a smile.
“Is that tomorrow? I think I forgot. " I just said that.
She rolled her eyes at me.I
“I will leave it to you, sir. It's as if you've gone to another universe.”
I snatched my credit card from the wallet and handed it to her.
"Order food for all the staff of the company. Just bring the food to the office here. Next time we will all have a drink outside. " I said at once, handing her the card.
"Sure, thank you, sir." She said once out the door.
The door opened again and Natasha entered. Everywhere I go, this woman will definitely follow me.
“What are you doing here? " I asked her. She frowned as it sat on the couch.
“Tomorrow is your birthday. What do you plan to do?” She asked me.
“I'm not having a birthday, Natasha, so you don't have to come here to ask that. Why don't you visit your children there and grandchildren? " I told her.
“Don't say you're afraid to face them. And why is that? You leave them. I hope you have the courage to face them in a few years. " I said.
“That happened a long time ago, Marcus. Why don't we forget and start anew?" asked Natasha.
“What are you trying to say? That we can go back? "
"Exactly."
I'm laughing. "Not everyone broke up. Natasha can come back. If others are, yes, but for us that will not happen. And then it doesn't matter. " I told her.
I saw her in a hurtful reactions when I face her.
"I still love you, Marcus," she told me in a sad voice.
“I do not love you anymore. And then the relationship between the two of us will remain a memory. It was a closed book. " I said.
“I will not give up, Marcus! I will fight." She told me.
“let's see. If you succeed,” I said.
"Go home. I had many things to do here. " I pushed her away.
It came out of my office. I was left sighing. My secretary texted me to see if I would deliver food inside the office. I told her no. It's like I don't want to eat now. five o'clock in the afternoon. It's like I don't want to go home; I'd rather just sleep here in the office. I know that all my employees have been home. I went into the room I had made here in my office and laid down on the bed and slept.
The next day, I woke up with a headache and thought I would have a fever on my birthday. I looked at the phone. I missed many missed calls from my children. I got up and left the room. I found my secretary in my swivel chair sitting.