Lovely Grandpa

It was evening when Jami, Hani and I finally reached Grandpa's home. It's luxurious as usual with beautiful garden at the front gate with path leading to his mansion-like house. The security guards opened the gates for us the moment they saw my car. Jami drove in and parked at the porch. Both of us got out and Jami went to the backseat to carry Hani.

I could hear Grandpa's laughter getting closer from inside of the house.

"Oh, my little wolf! Finally you have come to visit this old man" he said, hugging me. A little tears of joy escaped my eyes when I hugged him back. Grandpa has the best comforting hug in the world which makes me feel like I'm back to being a little girl again.

"Oh, my sweet little wolf, look at you. if you miss me so much you should have visited me sooner. You wouldn't even let me come over to visit you." he complained while caressing my hair.

I wiped my tears and said, "It's not that I don't want to let you visit me Grandpa, but I don't know when I'll be home since, you know, me with my work and everything. I don't want to keep you waiting for me. Besides, you're busy yourself."

"Hahaha," He laughed with a booming laughter.

"You don't need to worry about my schedule my little wolf. I can always make time for my beautiful granddaughter." he said happily and as he looked over to Jami, his smile faded and frowned instead.

I suddenly felt cold sweat as my jovial looking Grandpa was glaring with murderous intent towards Jami.

It is known in the underworld that if Grandpa's aura turns dark, whoever it is should better start praying for he will be merciless. People call him the Beast King because rumours has it that during one of his fight he had in his youth, he massacred his enemy of 138 people all by himself like a beast would and when his people found him, he was just sitting in the middle of his battleground covered in their blood. Anyways, the last thing I want is for my Grandpa to tear apart my employee.

I turned around and looked at Jami frozen in place with Hani in his arms. Then it hit me. Grandpa is misunderstanding something. I turned back facing Grandpa to tell him to calm down first but before I could even opened my mouth, he pushed me behind him and questioned Jami menacingly,

"What have you done?"

"She's not mine." Jami answered calmly. He must be fully aware that Grandpa is misunderstanding the situation just as I did. Now Grandpa took his turn being frozen. I started to talk before he asks any weird questions in his anger.

"Grandpa, it's true. The baby is not his, it's..."

"Then is it yours?!" he interrupted grabbing my shoulders with alarmed look on his face before I could complete my words.

"No! Grandpa, calm down. The baby is neither of ours... She's Mia's daughter and she asked my help to babysit her."

"Oh." he said. Looks like Grandpa.exe has stopped working. Both Jami and I looked at each other, sighing in relief that Grandpa did not do anything rash. I looked at Hani and she seemed unbothered with everything that just happened in front of her and just playing with Jami's collar. I turned to look at Grandpa again.

"Grandpa, are you alright?" I asked shaking him from his long silence. He let out a sigh of relief.

"Hahahaha!... silly me, I should have known you better! Guess I'm growing old after all, to be jumping to conclusions like this."

"No, Grandpa, don't say that." I said holding his hand, looking at him endearingly.

He smiled and patted my head and continued, "Now, come on in, let's have some dinner together, shall we? Jamison, you should join us too. Hans will take care of the child."

Right after he said that, a big, muscular man in his late 40s came behind him and cleared his throat. Jami turned to look at him and then looked at me with a raised eyebrow. I chuckled.

"Don't worry Jami, she'll be safe with Hans. He might look scary but he took care of me when I was a kid too." Hani is already interested to Hans. Hans smiled and clapped at her and she started to laugh and reaching out for him to carry her. Jami, though looking slightly spooked, passed Hani to Hans. But what I said was true. Even though Hans seems big and mean with a long scar on his left eye, he is a huge softie at heart. He lovingly took care of me and my cousins who occasionally comes over when Grandpa is away for work.

He nodded at Jami and Jami followed behind Grandpa and myself. At the dining table, three of us sat together. Food was already prepared on the table for us. Judging from the feast in front of me, seems like Grandpa really looked forward for my visit. Jami was extra formal and more quite than usual. I don't blame him. He's dining with his boss afterall. Well, since he's working for me, I suppose Grandpa should be his ex-boss.

"So, Jamison, how is it going with work? I hope my little wolf is not giving you too much trouble." Grandpa asked Jami.

"Grandpa! I'm not a little girl anymore. Why would I trouble him?" I was flustered. Sometimes Grandpa forget that I am a full fledged adult.

"Not at all, Boss. It is all within the job scope." Jami answered.

"That's good. So, Arte, how did you end up with taking care of your friend's baby?"

"Yeah, about that... Mia, she kinda... had a.. she had Hani by accident during her man hunt." I blurted out, not knowing how to properly explain the awkward part. This earned both Grandpa and Jami to choke and coughing on their food. Both took the glass of water in front of them and drank it simultaneously. I just sat there flustered.

Grandpa cleared his throat and said, "Man hunt is not the right term to use, but I understand what you mean. Now, go on."

Ignoring both of their struggle in holding back their laughter, I continued. "Right. So, because the situation is a mess with her family because of her out-of- wedlock baby, she asked for my help to take care of her kid while she clears up her situation. I asked her of the child's father but she's not saying much about him."

At this point Grandpa has already stopped eating and listening to me carefully while Jami was still eating quitely since he already knows the story.

"But the thing is, when yesterday I called Mia, it was a man who answered the call first, which then Mia clarified hesitantly that he is Hani's father. What I don't understand is, why would she hide the fact that she is with Hani's father? Isn't it normal to meet up if they want to fix things together? I pondered at my last question.

"So, you need my help in finding out who this guy is?" Grandpa asked.

"Hehe... yes Grandpa." I said smiling sheepishly. "I'm just worried that Mia is in some kind of trouble, and I..."

"You want to make sure that your friend is okay. It's alright little wolf. I'll help you find out of this guy's background. But I'm not going to do it for free" Grandpa said. I was a bit surprised. What would Grandpa want me to do?

"You have to visit this old man more frequently. All of my children and my grandchildren rarely visit me since they all live so far away. I only got you staying nearby. So, can you fulfill this old man's one and only selfish wish?"

"Aw, Grandpa. Don't say that... I promise I'll visit you more often, okay?" I said, feeling slightly regretful that I didn't visit him often before. I went over to Grandpa an hugged him from the back and he smiled and reached is hand to pat my head. We stayed like that for a few minutes and I went back to my seat. We continued eating and chatted about other stuff.