Sunday

It was as Athena had predicted. Xuan was rehired by her father.

Xuan had contacted Han in the morning at 8.00 clock ruining his Sunday. He was planning to sleep in more, because last night he had overworked himself with Maria. There nightly had gone longer than planned.

Xuan had purposely called early in the morning, he knew that Han liked to wake up late in the morning on Sundays.

The conversation between the two only lasted for two minutes.

Xuan apologized for not coming to work earlier, because of some family issues. This was just an excuse, Xuan had no family problems he was just upset of getting married so quickly and did not want to work under Han.

Han also knew that very well, Han also knew that the steward was well respected within the directors board. So he knew that he had to respect the steward and bring him back.

He also needed to find ways to obtain that six percent of shares from Xuan. It might not seem like 6% of shares was a lot. But Han had a competitor who was trying to acquire the company. HIs competitor had already bought 20% of the shares. Han had the most shares within the director's board, his shares percent was of 24.

But if the Xuan was pissed off because of Han, the steward could sell those shares to his competitor or other people.

The result of the phone conversation, was that Han would come back to work to do his usual job. He would come back to work tomorrow, on Monday.

The phone call conversation had also woken up Maria and she quickly went to the bathroom to clean up and put some makeup on.

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When the couple went downstairs the two siblings were already ready and were sitting down to start their breakfast.

The day carried out as usual, the 'family' of four decided to stay at home and just spend some time together at home. The family had a casual breakfast.

The family also hung out in the garden, where the adults were having tea and enjoyed the weather. The two girls played ball with each other. Helen was genuinely having fun catching and throwing the ball to her sister. Athena was acting as if she was having fun. She getting tired of just throwing and catching a bloody ball.

The garden was quite big, there were flowers at the corner and the edge of the garden, the flowers were freshly planted because Maria had asked for new flowers to be planted. The previous flowers were planted by the hands of Helen's mother.

There was space for the kids to play around and a small white table with four chairs was planted quite close to the house. It was well taken care of.

Soon after playing and staying outside, they went back and ate an early lunch.

Everyone went to their room, because there was not all of things to do together as a family. Even if everyone looked happy and the atmosphere between the family looked harmonious, but in reality mostly everyone felt awkwardness.

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The girls went to their own room. But afterwards Helen quietly went to Athena's room.

Inside the room Helen was chattering on about her school and how fun it would be. She was introducing her friends and classes. She was telling Athena about her favorite teachers and her least favorite teacher.

Then Helen asked "Will dad let grandpa Xuan come back… to work here?"

Athena answered the girl's question "of course, don't worry about it, tomorrow or within this week Xuan will be back at work.

"Are you sure? How do you know?" Helen asked, she wanted to meet grandpa Xuan again. He just like her real grandfather and was always nice to her.

"Because steward Xuan is very important to father right now." Athena replied and gave Helen a slight wink.

Helen was confused what did grandpa Xuan have that was important to father. At the end she didn't pry into the matter, it probably wasn't important. If it was her sister would tell her.

It wasn't like Athena didn't want to tell Helen. She wanted to tell Helen and help her grow and teach her to fight the nasty people in this dark world.

But she also wanted for Helen to live a normal and happy childhood.

The sisters talked till it was dinner time.

A maid had come to tell them that the food was ready and to ask them to come and have dinner.

When they reached downstairs, the food was served and waited for a while until the couple came downstairs to eat dinner.

At the end of dinner Han told everyone that Xuan was coming back to work and that he had some family issues and therefore could not come to work earlier.

Maria didn't have much of a reaction, thinking that was just a mere servant.

Athena also didn't show much of a reaction either.

But Helen looked very happy hearing the news, she was also relieved.

Han also told the girls to sleep early because they had school tomorrow. The girls would have to sleep early and wake up early tomorrow morning.

Han told them the driver would drop them off to school, tomorrow morning.

After dinner and a little chat. The sister went to their own room and slept early to wake up early in the morning.

Athena had already been given a uniform for school and did not really worry about her school.