Sleeping With The CEO
Chapter 193: Key To Happiness

Chapter 193: Key To Happiness

At any given point in time. There was always someone out there in the world being asked a simple question. And one of those simple questions happened to be this...What is the secret to a happy life?

Even though it was a simple enough question, short and straight to the point,

It had many answers and it always, always, depended on who was being asked, and what they were going through at that particular point in time. For example, most people who were having financial difficulties would often say that the secret to a happy life was money.

"If I had just a few more bucks to stretch... just a little bit more cash, then I would be happy," Those were the answers that people having problems with money gave.

And then of course there were the answers that were given by people who were in love. Those guys were funny. The answer was always something along the lines of,

"The secret to a happy life is being with the person you love as much as possible in this world"

But then when that love turned to hate as it often did. The answer changed as well.

The secret to a happy life then became things like " Being as far away from that waste of space as possible," And sometimes even age factored into what people saw as being the secret to a happy life. The elderly often said things like, " Do not go to bed angry," or "You have to learn to let things slide, If you hold on to hate, you hold on to rage, sadness or any other negative emotion for too long, then it builds. And once it builds, it is very difficult to get rid of. And you become this sad, miserable person for the rest of your life, all because you could not let things go,"

Those were the answers that people gave. But for Derek, he was one of the rare few whom no matter the situation , no matter the time. If he were to be asked what the secret to a happy life was. He was pretty sure that his answer would always be the same.

Sleep.

Because for Derek,he had money. He had power, and he also had family( he chose to focus on his mother more so than his uncle). He had a lot of what other people said was needed in order to be happy.

So as far as he was concerned , he had only been missing just one thing. One thing that had made other people complete without them even realizing it. And that thing, that one secret to happiness that Derek had believed would always be a constant in his life, was sleep.

Before the discovery that Emily was a cure to Derek’s insomnia, that had been his belief.

’If only I could get some sleep, then I will be happy,’

’If only I could get a few hours of good sleep in me at night, then I will be able to feel some joy,’ Those had always been his thoughts. And for the longest time, he had thought that, that was where they would die, in his mind being just sad unfulfilled wishes.

But then along had come Emily, and the wish had come true. And even after his wish had come true, Derek’s answer to what made a person happy in life was still the same.

It was still sleep, and Derek was of the firm belief that his answer would not be changing any time soon.

He had just come to work after days of nothing but good wholesome sleep, and he felt fantastic.

Derek had spent the day feeling as though he was riding a cloud.

And to make it even better, he had not been alone in his joy. All that he’d had to do was look over, and he would see Emily. Who was glowing with her own inner joy. And that had just added a whole new dimension to his contentment.

His happiness was so great that Derek had even spent a few hours of the day involved in a very strange game. One where he and Emily exchanged unbelievably horrible sleep-related jokes. Something that he had never done before, or even thought of doing.

But he was happy, and in his happiness. He found that he was more playful than usual( even if his playful side only ever seemed to show with Emily).

Not only was he more playful. Derek had also discovered that when well rested. He was actually very hard to make angry.

He had not even realized it, until just after the end of the working day. While he was in his office going through a few things, his uncle had let himself in, as he liked to do.

"Ah nephew..." He had said in greeting, looking around the office as though he was expecting some scantily dressed women to just come bursting out of the woodwork.

It was the sort of thing that normally happened when Derek’s uncle ’worked’ late,and the man seemed to think that the same was true for every other person in the company.

He was always disappointed when it turned out that he was one of the few perverts at Haven Group.

"I am shocked to find you still here. It is after hours. Are you aware of that?" Derek had simply nodded, not even bothering to ask his uncle why he was there. After all, the man loved talking. It would not take much for him to come out with whatever it is that he wanted. Sure enough, a few seconds later, Derek had been proven correct.

"I would have thought that with the recent acquisition of Olaf Group’s top clients, you would have run back to your mother and hidden under her skirts. Allowing her to be the one in charge, handling things so that you can come in and play CEO, pretending like you actually know what you are doing,"

It was a taunt as old as time. Clearly his uncle had come looking to rile Derek up for whatever reason. And normally such words would have had Derek’s heckles raising. And he would have been angered by the insinuation that he was not the one running the ship.

That he somehow still depended on his mother to make big decisions. While he just sat in the CEO chair like some sort of puppet. But that day Derek had done something totally out of character. Rather than getting angry, he had simply looked his uncle up and down and then laughed. The reaction had shocked even him, but he had been unable to stop himself. It was just too funny.

"Uncle, at my age do you really think that I can still hide behind my mother’s skirts? Come now old man.

We both know that I am too old for that,"

"You, on the other hand, do not seem to notice that the years are going by. Otherwise, you would not be still running after girls who are young enough to be your grandchildren,"

The counter-attack had come as easy as anything. Derek had not even been interested in seeing his uncle’s face drop. Before the words could register on the man, Derek had already turned back to his work and was busy typing away, pretending like he did not hear his uncle breathing angrily, at having been insulted so effortlessly.

Even when his uncle had left, Derek had not looked up. He had only paused in what he was doing once he’d heard the door close. And even though he had been smiling, it had not been because he had bested his uncle. Instead, Derek had been smiling because in just a few short days he would be sleeping with Emily again.

Which meant that this new and bothered state of his would continue.

Sleep really was the key to happiness.