Chapter 2
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"Good, very good." He smirks, with the corners of his mouth gently lifting.
Half a minute later, the car goes away.
Claudia stands on the roadside trembling, with her arms folding. She mutters a curse at the back of the car driving away and curses the whole family of Wen loudly.
Damn it!
It is astonishing that he actually leaves her on the roadside and says to her lightly before leaving, "Claudia, you make me sick!"
Ha ha, is it disgusting?
Does she not feel sick of herself?
Teeth chattering, Claudia moves forward. Her whole body is as painful as being pricked with needles.
When she finally stops a taxi and climbs onto it, she is almost unconscious.
The heating in the car makes her thaw?out. She tells the driver the name of the hotel slowly ping the words one by one. She is ready to revenge herself on Wen.
But when she returns to the hotel, she is awared that Wen has left for home half an hour ago.
Tomorrow is the business summit, but he returns home at this moment. It seems that he is very angry with her this time.
The hotel Wen stays in is the top in the North, costing tens of thousands of dollars a night. It doesn't matter if he leaves. The point is that he has checked out.
Claudia gets headache with anger, watching the waiter taking out her suitcase.
She picks up her phone and presses the buttons to call the cold－hearted man.
He doesn't answer!
Sitting on the soft leather sofa in the lounge area of the hotel lobby, without giving up pressing the redial button, Claudia blinks at the waiter "Please, can you give me a cup of hot water?"
The waiter gets weak by her ogle, nods with a red face, stands Claudia's big red suitcase beside the sofa, turns and runs to get water for her.
"Hello."
Wen's voice finally rings out from the cellphone.
Claudia grits her teeth, but says： "Dear, how did you have the heart to leave me here alone? I'm so afraid without you."
"Speak like a human being."
The three icy words turns Claudia back to who she is.
"Wen, you are cruel! You are narrow－minded! You are irresponsible! You are not a real man!"
###You have sacrificed too much for this family.
"Am I a real man? I thought you knew it very well. Did you not feel deep enough last night?"
Last night...
Thinking of what he did to herself last night, Claudia blushes and she grits her teeth and curses, " You're an animal!"
Wen grunts coldly and says slowly, "If there's nothing else, I'm going to hang up."
"Ah!" When Claudia stops the man who wants to hang up the phone, her tone becomes pitiful and wronged： "You really left, what should I do?"
"There are many men willing to take care of Miss Claudia."
Okay!
He is at odds with her?
"You're right, Wen, you go! Right after you leave, I'll go to another man's room. Well, who will serve me tonight? Let me think about it."
With her deliberate provocation, the call ends.
Wen stares at his cellphone and the blue veins stand out on his temples.
With a cold smile, he opens the window and throws his cellphone out the car.
… …
After more than ten hours of flight, Claudia returns to the 49 City.
Her slender and straight long legs are wrapped in black leather trousers. She wears a tank top on her upper body, with a half－long thick sweater, her face hiden behind the dark sunglasses and her hair down .
Alger greets her immediately, "Miss Claudia, welcome back."
"Alger, I miss you so much!" Claudia opens her arms to give her close secretary a hug, but he frowns and stays away from her.
She purses her red lips and says, "Oh, you are boring."
"Where is the luggage?"
She points behind her with a finger, there is a strong foreign man taiking a red suitcase of catching up.
Alger takes the suitcase and thanks the man with a nod.
The man looks at Claudia with obsession and says something to her in English in a low voice.
Claudia accepts the business card handed by the man with a smile and stands on tiptoe for cheek kissing.
After getting in the car, she throws the business card out of the window. She takes off her shoes and sits comfortably in the passenger seat. "Go to the company first."
"You don't want to go home?" Alger raises his eyebrows.
"I will later." She says and closes her eyes. "Wake me up when we arrive, now I'm gonna take a nap."
As soon as Claudia goes back to her company YuanYang, she calls a meeting of department managers with great speed. Everyone is used to her being able to take out valuable resources from time to time.
After all, the affair between Claudia and Wen is already an open secret.
When the meeting ends and the problems are solved, Claudia breathes a sigh of relief and happily asks Alger to drive her home.
"I might not be able to go to the company for the next two days. You should keep an eye on the company and call me if something happens."
"Since you want to have a rest, you should have a good rest. The company cannot fail without you for a day or two."
Sometimes, Alger actually feels pity for Claudia very much.
She pushes herself too hard and devotes all her time and energy to the company. She doesn't even have private time.
"Oh, Alger, you really touched me."
Claudia takes Alger's arm and keeeps on waving it.
Alger throws her off with a tut and gets off the car to carry her suitcase out.
Basically, no woman can survive around Claudia, so she asks Alger to be her secretary.
Speaking of Alger, he is also an unique and strange person. He is the only man who is not obsessed with Claudia being around her.
According to Claudia, they are "sisters".
After throwing Alger a kiss, Claudia takes her red suitcase and walks to her family's villa in a good mood.
Before entering the living room, she can hear Pamela and Martha talking and laughing, accompanied by Albert's occasional words, so happy that she can not bear to disturb them.
"Miss Claudia?" Behind her comes aunt Gui's voice with wonder, "why don't you go in?"
"Oh, I'm about to go in."
Even if they don't want to see her.
"I'm back." Pulling the suitcase, she walks in. As soon as she appears, there is a sudden silence.
Albert is the first to react and stands up to greet her. "Welcome back, Claudia. What a surprise!"
Claudia smiles and says, " Wen came back ahead of schedule, I just followed..."
"Bah!" Before she has finished her speech, she hears a mocking female voice.
She sneers and looks at Pamela. "Do you have any problem?"
###Difficult man is not easy to coax.
Pamela holds her shoulders with her arms and gives Claudia a contemptuous look： "I really admire how shameless you're for showing off that you're a mistress."
"Pamela!" Albert snaps at Pamela, "How can you talk to your sister like this?"
Pamela is unhappy. She bites her lip and mumbles, "I'did not say anything wrong, she is a mistress."
"Yes, I am." Claudia smiles, blinks her eyes and looks playful. "Miss Pamela , your bags, your clothes, your jewelry and everything else you have were eaned by me with this identity. If you don't want them, you can throw them away."
"You!" Pamela becomes angry from embarrassment and gets up to jump on Claudia.
Martha hurries to held her back. "All right, Pamela, all right."
Claudia sneers at Pamela's fighting capacity, which can not be compared with that of herself.
However, she casually glances at Albert and finds that his face looks sad.
Only then does she realize, the person who hurts the most by what she just said is him
"Dad..." she can't help calling him.
Albert smiles and pats her on the shoulder. "You must be tired since you just got back. Go upstairs to take a bath and have a rest. We'll have dinner later."
*
Comes out of the bathroom, Claudia digs out lady's cigarettes from the bottom drawer of the bedside table and knocks out one to light.
She is not addicted to cigarettes and even hates the smell of cigarettes, but when she is upset, cigarettes are the best tranquilizer.
Her stepmother and stepsister have been cynical and dissatisfied with her for several years. She has long been used to it.
No matter how strong she attackes them, it cannot be too strong.
But she can not forgive herself for unintentionally hurting her father.
"Knock, knock."
Hastily crushes the smoke out, she pushes the window open to let the smell of smoke disperse.
"Come in, please."
Albert pushes the door and enters, smiling at his daughter, "It's time for dinner."
Claudia nods and walks towards him. "Dad, I was just..."
She wants to apologize, but Albert interrupts her, "Claudia, you have sacrificed too much for this family. Dad is sorry to you."
"Dad, don't say that."
"Well, stop talking and go down to dinner." Albert pats her daughter on the arm. "Change clothes and Dad will wait for you to eat."
"Okay."
It's for Albert.
Early the next morning, Claudia drives to the mall and buys two of the latest bags from Pamela's favorite brand.
The little girl's face lights up with pleasure when she receives the bags. She falters uncomfortably to thank Claudia, but her self－esteem makes her unable to say it.
Claudia drinks the juice and sighs in her heart. If only that man has been so easy to coax like Pamela.
"I'll go out for a while." Standing up, she takes the car key and walks out.
In the Wen Group.
Claudia gets dizzy when she sees the building that almost towers up towards the sky.. She flicks her long hair off her shoulders and steps in.
No one in the Wen Group does not know her, so no one stops her from coming in, not to mention that she takes the president's exclusive elevator to here.
"Ding!" With a sound, the elevator door opens.
Seeing her coming, Wen's close secretary Wu Ruo welcomes her excitedly.
"Miss Claudia! You finally come here!"
Wu Ruo looks at her like a savior.
Claudia smiles, "What's the matter? Your boss goes crazy again?"
More than crazy, he is insane!
Taking Claudia's arm and walking to the president's office, Wu Ruo reports to her as they walks： "The boss came back for two days and put all the company's plans for half a year on the agenda. On average, two managers and three deputy managers a day, were slagged off one by one."
Hearing this, Claudia titters, "Is it true or not, is it so exaggerated?"
"There's no exaggeration.It was like a catastrophe in Wen Group for the past two days."
Standing in front of the president's office, Wu Ruo knocks the door, "Miss Claudia, we all depend on you."
"Come in." A low male voice comes from the other side of the door.
Claudia shudders abruptly.
Only to listen to his voice, she knows how angry he was.
Yet she smiles, pushes the door and goes in.
Wen looks up and see that it is her. His eyes flashes.
The surprise is fleeting, too fast to leave a trace on his face.
###It's up to you
She is wearing the pure white dress he likes the best, carrying a handbag in one hand and a delicately packed cake box in the other.
"Hi." Red lips raise to a bright shimmering smile.
Wen forces himself to withdraw his eyes from her pretty face and says coldly, "What are you doing here?"
"Apparently, I have come to apologize to Mr. Wen."
- Writer
