Married To A CEO. Omega
Chapter 48 - Forty-Two

Chapter 48: Chapter Forty-Two

LEO

I hate being sick. Laying in your bed all day and feeling like shit. It’s even shittier when no one is there to look after you when you are ill. It feels cold. So cold, enough to freeze your heart. But this entire week has changed my mindset. Just for a little.

From now on if Erwin is there then I wouldn’t mind falling sick one or two times throughout the year. I never knew a person can be this caring. All this time Erwin sat by my side and held my hand, so that I wouldn’t feel cold. I wouldn’t feel lonely. Almost as if he knows how it feels like being alone when you are already feeling like shit. As if he knows how it feels to not have someone by your side who can talk to you and make you feel like you are not all alone in this cruel world.

Other than that John and Ruth visited almost every day. Every fucking single day. But what made me happier is John brought Steve with him when he came to visit. I love Steve. He is such an obedient cute child that I can’t get enough of him. But whenever I look at him my heart aches. I start wondering if the child that was supposed to be born seven months later would be like him. It’s an ugly scar across my heart that I know will never fade.

Erwin interrogated John and Ruth about the other day and Ruth gave him a clumsy explanation that he has grown a bad habit of kissing his girlfriend goodbye before leaving, so the other day in the hospital he slipped in the moment of impulse.

And believe me this is the most inaccurate explanation I have ever heard from someone. And I can’t believe that Erwin actually, I mean actually bought it. Maybe because he is mentally too exhausted to press on about this anymore. But I still don’t know how he will react to their relationship when he knows about it. It will be a thorough disaster. Just the thought of it gives me a headache. And let alone the possibility that they will fall apart by that time. I think the earth is going to end that day when Erwin knows about it.

Guess I will have to talk about it with Ruth and John before any of them actually happens. But right now Let us handle the thing that is giving me a hell of a time right now.

The bruises on my face and stomach have started to fade. The large bruise is still scattered over the left side of my face but it will soon completely fade. But the bruises on my stomach are much denser and painful to touch. Though it is very stubborn, Erwin’s regular ointment application is very effective and it has started to fade slowly but steadily. It will eventually fade too. But the scare the incident left my heart will never fade. It’s stringing now, that is why I am raging at the moment but it will go numb after a while and leave me with some broken pieces that will never be fixed again. Even if they do, the scare will forever be there and remind me of that nightmare.

And I will never forgive the one who gave me the scare. Nor will I forgive the people involved with them.

I am currently stomping down toward the room where the urgent board meeting is held. I am deliberately late today because I have zero desire to have a chit chat with my blood relative today.

I barrel open the black wooden double wooden door and storm inside, startling everyone in the room out of their skins.

I sweep my eyes over the whole room without moving my head. Leon is as expected sitting at the end of the black table, where the chairman sits, eyes slightly widened in shock. My father, sitting in his usual seat, was equally stunned. But there is nothing really notable in Jean’s expression, almost as if he was expecting me.

"You are late my dear." Jean greets, all smiles. He is sitting on the other end of the table.

I scrunch my nose in disgust. "Not apologizing for that." I walk over to my chair and let Kevin slide it out for me to flop into.

My answer gives the whole room another shock.

"This is not the right thing to say, Leo." Jeans chides sweetly.

"Are you lecturing me now?" I snap, "Then why don’t you lecture your rapist son, Jean?"

Jean’s eyes darken and my father opens his mouth to snap back right at me but Jeans beats him to it, "That’s right. I believe there are a few words that need to be exchanged regarding the matter."

"There is nothing to talk about anymore." I say as ice pours out of my mouth, decreasing the temperature in the room by a few degrees.

"There is." Jean retorts, "Were you the one who leaked the incident to the media?"

"Yes." I respond nonchalantly.

"May I know the reason?" Jean asks calmly, "It was just a trivial matter. Why need to involve the media? My son was just acting on impulse. He didn’t mean any of it. It’s just a family matter, why involve outsiders here?"

As his words reach my ears, anger and fury erupts inside my chest. I am so furious that a predatory laugh escapes my chest, "Huh, a trivial matter?" I scoff sarcastically then a snarl takes over my face, "Kidnaping me, trying to rape me and then killing my child was just a trivial matter to you? Are you bullshitting me, Jean? Do you think I am as brainless as my brother?"

"As I just said, it was such a trivial matter." Jean refuses to back down, "This proves how incapable you are for the chairman seat. Polluting our company’s reputation like this. Over that you knew that you couldn’t give birth to a child this is why you framed my son. What a dirty scheme, Leo. I didn’t expect it from you, Leo."

And the volcano erupts. So he is trying to pin it on me.

"So, what are you going to do now?" I sniff.

"We are planning to make Leon the chairman and I will bail my son out." Jean concludes.

"Fine then." I push up from my seat, "Fine by me." My answer stun everyone but for not so long, "I am withdrawing my shares from this company."

Everyone’s face whitens, including Jean’s. "Y-You are not doing this." My father staggers, his face as white as a blank sheet.

"I am." I shake my head, "And maybe I don’t need to remind you just how much my share is in this company. If I withdraw all of them then you guys are done for. Let alone have the company you are not even getting a brick out of. And don’t worry about me. I have enough wealth that my next hundred generations can live a luxurious life without lifting a finger. But what will happen to you guys? I will drag all of you through mud until there is nothing left to your bones." I bite out, my heart thundering against my chest from the increasing anger.

"You are not doing this Leo." Jean forces a strained smile, "This is your grandma’s built company, remember?"

"Huh." I scoff, "And as if I give a fuck about that. All I care about now is my life and the people who hold me precious to them, who are certainly not you or any of my family members, Jean. So, if I can’t have company then no one can. And work out of the line once again and you guys will know that I don’t bluff. I will make your life a living hell." I enunciate every one of my words with rage pouring out of my eyes.

"You are being inappropriate, Leo." Leon calmly pipes in, "You are unable to state anything coherent. Erwin has made you go crazy."

My head snaps toward him at the mention of Erwin’s name, "Don’t. You. Dare. Mention. Erwin’s. Name." I grit, fighting with my inner urge not to lose my cool and raise my voice. Leon flinched at my murderous gesture. "You are not capable of saying my husband’s name. And do not forget that my accomplishments are far greater than you to replace me, so watch your tongue while you talk to me, Jean’s dog. And while we are at it," I smirk, "aren’t you the one who is unable of any consistent thought?"

"You!" Louis jumps off his seat, his bloodshot with anger and limbs are trembling.

I give him a look and his mouth snaps shut. Then I smile, "So, I think I have made myself clear. I will be taking my leave now. And, Jean," I glare at Jean, who is sitting with a grim expression on his face, lips pressed into thin lines, "try to defend your son again and you will suffer the consequences. I didn’t do anything up until now. It doesn’t mean I will never do anything. Mind it."

I leave just the way I came in. Like a whirlwind. But my footsteps are more ferocious and heavier than before as I struggle to control the tsunami rising in my chest.

I step out of the building and I feel the storm inside me die down when my eyes snag on a particular silver head. Erwin. He is leaning against a car, seemingly another one from my collection. His eyes fall over me just at the same time. We pause then he smiles at me and my heart skips a beat. He has the strangest magic power to change the rhythm of my heart with his looks and expressions.

Erwin strides towards me. "Let’s go." He extends a hand to me to take.