His Devious Rule

Before Ean could leave the study room, Rob entered the room, exhausted with loads of work.

Ean remarked as he kicked James Brown out of the room, "You guys are cooking a lot of things behind my back."

Alvin ignored his friend who wanted to listen to Rob. The latter waited at the door for Ean to leave. Alvin's intention wasn't to hide from Ean, the latter had a lot in his bag and he was busy establishing the foundation of their new company.

However, Rob didn't report anything glancing at Anya on Alvin's chair and Alvin who couldn't bring himself to ask her to leave.

Just looking at Rob, Anya could say it wasn't about work but something related to events happening recently. Eager to know about the person behind the attempt to murder, she pretended to read the room and left from there.

He wanted to solve the problems by himself without burdening her. He waited for her to ask him if she could stay or ask him to tell her if he gets to know anything. But she passed by him. His Foxy Kitten was playing tricks on him now.

He indifferently reminded her, "You forgot your mobile, Little Donut." Ignoring Anya's small actions even after knowing her identity would be stupidity.

Anya pouted as she returned to the desk, and grabbed her mobile which was on the voice recording. She was leaving when he commanded her, "Wait for me in my room."

Well, she went to speak with him but he was too busy to give her time and sent her out. So she went to Zane's room grumpily.

In the study, Rob reported as he passed a file to Alvin, "Miles Johnson is on <strong>Revir</strong> island. He is secretly interacting with the Johnson company legal team to transfer Harper's Johnson's assets to his name and selling the company resources."

Rob hesitated when Alvin's attention was on the file. He wasn't sure if Anya had shared about it with Alvin. Anyway, he reported, "Miles Johnson's personal secretary met Ms. Owen in the Coastal city." After that day, Miles people were following Anya but occasionally.

It didn't seem like Miles had any intention to hurt Anya or Zane. However, they couldn't know his motive either. About the details, they gathered… Alvin spun the file on his finger before tossing it back at Rob, "Send it anonymously to the Captain of PSR case." That way all the hard work Miles will go in vain as the government will confiscate it. That's the taste of retribution for following Anya.

Alvin wanted to meet Miles, not to chat but to warn him to stay away. But Alvin wasn't ready to leave Anya alone, especially when they hadn't found the attacker.

Rob continued with the next set of details and reported. "Gabriel Sallow isn't allowing us to adopt the girl Angela. We have filed the complaint as per your instructions." Either Gabriel has to let go of Angela for adoption or take care of her.

Alvin appeared indifferent to it. Anya was looking forward to bringing Angela. She had asked him a few times but things weren't solving without the involvement of the cops.

Rob came to the latest news that Alvin was waiting for, "We have looked into the two motorbike riders' details and activities, we found no clue." He paused, recalling another thing Alvin might want to know, "Other than cops, there is another team looking into the same."

Alvin's brows tightened hearing about another group. Anya had resigned from the job, so 'Jason!?'

Why would Jason help out a former employee? Because the Secret Service handled tricky massive cases, not something like this.

What if the attacker is looking into the same thing to erase the track?

He stood up as he instructed in his cold, daunting tone, "I don't care what you do, I want to know who tried to kill my son."

Alvin froze hearing himself. 'My son.' His eyes swirled with complex emotions. Past, present, if, what-ifs and uncertainties were becoming a mountain in his mind.

He tried to get happy thinking Anya's son was his. But he couldn't. He wasn't dejected but restless. A kind of anger against Anya always surfaced before he forced himself to stay calm.

Rob who just nodded, froze. Did Alvin mean his son? Or accepted Zane as his son? "Err- " He wasn't sure if he should ask.

Rob was Alvin's personal secretary who handled both work tasks and other tasks. Thus Alvin didn't hide, "I am the father." He flinched at his words as he walked out.

Rob just knew Alvin was drugged and Flora had taken advantage of it. Now all his thoughts became a mess. He forced himself to just keep in mind that Zane was their young master whose life was threatened by somebody.

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Checking his room, Alvin looked into Anya's room and stood at the door of Zane's room. Zane was busy with his studies while Anya was sitting and holding a book but her attention was elsewhere.

He went inside, she snapped out of her daze and finally gave him some attention, just to look away. He said nothing and scooped her into his arms.

"Put me down." She whispered as Zane might think Alvin was hurting her. And it will definitely delay him from accepting Alvin.

The man behaved deafly and went straight to his room and left her on the couch. He was expecting her to sit and explain like a good lady but Anya grabbed the cushion and hurled it at him.

Alvin: "…"

It didn't stop there. She clenched her teeth and pressed her lips to a thin line grabbing a small exquisite pot from the table.

"Little Donu…" She hurled it too, right on him, without flinching.

'Crash,' Alvin escaped and the pot broke into numerous pieces.

Why was she at his life again?

Is she mad at me for sending her away from the room?

"Anya Owen." He grunted to stop her.

Somehow his words seemed to make her angrier. She stood up to grab the vase when he caught her in time and pulled her on the couch as he sat down.

For odd reasons he wasn't annoyed as she wasn't angry but sad. She was foolishly displaying it as anger, trying to protect herself. Holding her hands in a hand, he brushed her hair away from her face, "What's wrong?"

Anya wanted to get angry, scold him, and throw a heap of tantrums but it was too hard when he patiently spoke to her. She muttered looking down at their hands, "You don't trust me anyway, there is nothing to talk about." She was just disturbed by his distrust.

Alvin couldn't understand why she even thought that when she was the one who hid from him, without trusting him to share it with him. He wouldn't have taken Zane away from her. He would have kept her close to him.

Anya squinted her eyes and met his gaze, "Alvin Matthews, bring me someone who would dare to jump into the ocean with you, without knowing anything. Tell me who will sacrifice their life just to let you survive longer?"

Trust is a very basic requirement in any kind of relationship. If they couldn't get over this, they would never be able to have a stable relationship.

The images of Anya, trying to drown, pale in his arms appeared in his mind.

Anya continued, "I trusted you with my life. I trusted you to take care of my baby if I wasn't there. You still asked me if I ever trusted you." Her tormented voice didn't hide how she was feeling.

Alvin opened his lips to say something but didn't know how to explain himself. He was aware she trusts him, on the day she jumped with him to the water, whenever she innocently curled up in his arms to sleep, when she shared what she went through after being pregnant.

It's just that he expected more. He wished she would have told him the truth. It might be because he didn't want to be like his father and she had to suffer alone all these years.

Anya's eyes started to water when she continued, "I already told you the situation I was in, the threats I received. And your engagement with Flora was announced. What do you even expect me to do?" She was scared to her wits. Other than knowing she has to protect the baby, she could think or do nothing in those days.

Alvin pulled her into his arms. He was aware of the struggles she had been through and that's more of a reason for him to get angry. If she had told him once, he would have done everything to stay beside and take care of her. He would have trusted her over everyone.

He shifted to the other important topic without knowing how to explain to her, "You have never been to a club. Why did you go there? Did Gianna Sallow fool you?"

He strongly doubted Gianna playing behind the scenes. She wouldn't have let him marry an heiress of the family and get control over a whole company that was in her name.

Anya furrowed hearing Alvin's point of view. It was the first time a group of seniors had taken half of her class for dinner and forced her to go to the karaoke bar.

'So it wasn't a coincidence?' Anya's eyes widened disbelief.