Shopping (1)
Belle and Yasmin decided to shop. Or so to say, Yasmin decided to shop and dragged Belle out of the palace.
She brought Belle to the central district where the mall and the shopping plaza stood.
"Dear... Has that child shown you to this place?" Yasmin suddenly asked. She noticed the peculiar reaction of Belle so she could not help but ask her that.
"No... I mean..." Belle wanted to explain but even before she could, Yasmin already called Mikhail.
"Hey... Why did you neglect my daughter-in-law? Are you that busy? You didn't even took her to shop!" without intending to stop, Yasmin scolded Mikhail with so much justice.
She knew that women love to shop and Belle should love it too.
Mikhail did not talk on the other end and just let his mother scold him.
"I'm sorry... It won't happen next time..." Mikhail said after a long scold from his mother.
"Better be or else, I'll bring Belle to shop in Paris..." Yasmin threatened. She knew that Mikhail could not stand being apart from the woman like Amir to her.
"Yes mother..." he could only sigh in resolution. He knew that Belle did not have any interest in branded things as she had that when she was still in China. She lived her life comfortably after she took over of Yang Corporation and made it as the second largest conglomerate in the world.
But, his mother not knew this and she assumed that he did not spoil Belle enough.
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As the two women shopped, the two men were left in the palace talking about serious things.
"Who's really is she?" Amir asked his son with directness.
"She's the woman I hoped to have in this entire lifetime...." Mikhail sounded so forlorn and such ambiguity made Amir frown.
He knew that Belle is not that simple. His son will not be interested in something common and Belle is not some woman whom he easily found in the capital.
Mikhail clearly saw his father's thoughts and he had not said anything either.
"So... What's the real situation?" Amir referred to the upcoming war Lyndon had mentioned.
"Some of the Underworld factions sided with the Kings." Mikhail answered directly.
When he gathered information about the Kings in the underworld, he was schocked by the news. They had been strengthening their factions to rival the Khaled's underground army.
"Hmm... Is Lyndon will be helping this time?" Amir thought about the situation at hand.
"Yes... He was the one who informed me about their movements because his twin brother is involved this time..." Mikhaid said coldly. A glint of light flashed on his eyes and his father noticed this.
"Then have you summoned back your team?" Amir never wanted to have any war with the Kings. If worst comes to worst, he will not have second thoughts of warring with them as what they have wanted. This preparation is only for defending their territories and not for warring with the Kings this time.
"Yes. They're with me... I have added someone new this time and I'll let you meet him." Mikhail said while leading his father to a different section in the palace.
Amir did not have anything to say to his son as he knew his capability.
He followed him in silence.
Mikhail ushered him to a conference room and when he opened, a group of five met with his eyes. The men abruptly stood up and bowed.
"Greetings Patriarch!" the five men uniformly said.
"Sit." Amir said with authority.
The five men knew who the man is. The men knew that Amir Khaled, former ring leader of the Khaled underground faction and the leader of the entire Underworld before the Yang's messed up the balance.
He held great impression towards the young men inside the room and it made them boil with pride and confidence.
"Ren Tao come forward..." Mikhail said after a long silence.
Ren wore the same shirt and ripped jeans and the baseball cap on him like when he had found by Mikhail on that particular alleyway.
"Father... This is Ren Tao... He was an assassin and a great right-hand man of Belle Yang..." Mikhail introduced.
Amir was stunned when the name of Belle had been mentioned by his son. It really seemed that the woman is not that simple as it was.