16. [Bonus Chapter] Her sorrows and Tears

"huh? Where am I?" Reuel wondered as he opened his eyes and he was not in his bed. "It's this place again." He mutters, as he looked around him and recognized the bell-shaped mountain, and the trees, he was in the Meadow again.

*Fwish!* He flinched in fear as something moved fast in the grass under his feet. And he could hear the melodious whispers of the wind all around him, "huh?" he flinched again, as now he could see what ran under his feet.

"Helfer?" he called out, bending to the ground to pick up his iguana, and as he neared the lizard...

*Ring*Ring*Ring*

"urgh!!" The annoying sound of his phone ringing pulled him out of the dreamworld yet again. Burying his face deeper into his pillow with annoyance, he groaned as his fingers fumbled for the phone.

"Sir, you have an 8am flight for Unicorn City."

"Gary?"

"Yes sir?"

"If you weren't so good at your job, you'd have lost it a long time ago just for the calls you make."

"Thank you, sir, for finding me competent." Reuel groans and ends the call.

"Good morning Helfer," he smiles at the lizard who was out of its glass today and sat on the edge of his bed staring at him. "You came into my dream today." He strokes its back.

"Come to think of it, that's the first time I've seen you in my dreams."

He didn't know why, but for the past weeks, he's been having the same dreams, he was always standing in that Meadow, gazing out.

His name resounded in haunting whispers and it was almost like he was connected to every living thing in the dream, like he could always feel what they felt.

He scoffs "feel? As if they are humans." He laughs at himself.

But today, the dream was slightly different... Helfer was in it this time around.

"Hey Helfer," he picks up the iguana, as he slowly rose from the bed and walked over to the window, "What do you say we go visit the Old Man when we get to Unicorn City?"

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"Sir, may I know why you decided to travel with a public plane and not the jet?" Gary asks as they headed for the airport.

"I want Helfer to see other people who aren't me, you, or Gehen who's driving." He simply says. Dressed up in a black suit, a knee-length black-colored coat to top it up, and hair styled in a pattern that slightly covered his left eye. Oh, he was beautiful. And to top up the wicked aura that o ozed around him, he sat with Helfer placed over his lap as he stroked the lizard back and forth, it was a view worth the front covers of any men's magazine.

"Okay, hit me with the reports," Reuel tells Gary.

"I just received reports that four of the six managers you ordered for their dismissal have been dismissed and replaced."

"What happened to the rest two?" he didn't even wait for Gary to say the words completely before throwing his questions.

"They are working on it sir, since the other two are not in Black-Crust, it's taking a while, but it would be done before the end of today."

"Next,"

"Johan Corp has increased the purchase for her building by two hundred."

"Two hundred thousand?" Reuel asks, but by the silence that followed his question, he could tell the answer.

"Million?" Gary nods, and Reuel scoffs disdainfully. "that sleazy old bastard. What's the reason for his sudden change? He was willing to sell it off in a hurry before,"

"According to my sources sir, he was offered a better deal than what we offered him."

"What company is offering him such a deal for that ridiculous place? It has no close community around, the road up to that place is bad, and the building itself would need about a billion to bring it back to life, so what company is willing to make such a stupid deal with them?"

"It's Souls Tech sir," Gary says, and Reuel bursts out laughing at the name of the company. Now he understood why this was happening.

"It's Viola isn't it?" He simply asks. And Gary nods a yes.

He was not one to remember the names of the women he'd been with, but Souls Tech Viola was not a woman he could forget. At least she wouldn't let him forget. It's been ages since he broke up with the woman, and yet at every point, she had the chance, she always made sure to try and mess up with his business, even though most times she was the one always getting the backfire.

"Okay, you know what, raise the price by four hundred. And when Viola places a higher bid on it, increase it again, and when she stupidly raises it to almost a billion, let her have it. I know that woman, she competes blindly. Since she doesn't know when to quit and how to not mix business with pleasure, I'll make her purchase a worthless piece of garbage for the price of an entire city."

"Anything else?" he calmly asks, still stroking Helfer as gently as he could.

"What? Why do you look like you have something to say, but you don't want to say it?" Reuel notes, and Gary bit down hard on his lips, wondering whether it was necessary to report this to the man too. He should have given the report yesterday, but really didn't know if it was necessary.

"Are you going to make me ask again?" Reuel deadpans, and the tone of his voice carried so much authority that Gary instantly brought out his tab, clicked on some things on the screen, and with the intake of sharp breaths he says...

"W_Well sir," he starts. "You know how you had me keep an eye on the previous women in your life."

"Why do you make it sound like I've had a thousand women in my life... Just go straight to the point."

"Yes sir... Well so hmm, well I had someone watch Miss Erina, and this,"

"I never asked you to..." His words broke off, as his eyes fell on the screen of the tab, and for the first time since he entered the car, he stopped stroking Helfer, and his hands reached for the tab.

His eyes had instantly gone darker, even Helfer could feel the sickening aura that the man was giving as it voluntarily crawled off the man's lap and onto the chair.

A kind of fire was starting to burn inside of him as he watched the video play, and he didn't need a shaman to tell him who was in the posters on those walls in the video that played, and his hands tightened.

"What is this?"

"A_A_Apparently sir, the young man in the video was Miss Erina's ex-boyfriend, and those pictures were from when they were together..." He quickly explains as he had never seen his boss's demeanor go this dark before. "B_but, I don't think the miss knew about the existence of those pictures, she seemed rather petrified by it."

"I think the young man just did it as a prank on the... " Gary's words went straight back into his mouth, the look in Reuel's eyes seemed to be cutting the breath out of his lungs as the man could barely breathe as Reuel stared at him.

"A prank? Parading a person's nude pictures all over the place is a prank?"

Hell, even he was yet to see what her nakedness looked like, he'd only had dreams of it, never seen it in real life, and yet here was one bastard pasting her picture all over the place!!

``I mean I haven't even seen as much as her thigh`` he thought in his head. And here was some useless person who had the chance to touch the holiness of her skin, and this is what he did. And to think he was still thinking of ways to punish her for standing him up yesterday. The punishment for his time wasted should be given to someone else. ``oh, I want to burn him``

Now he understood why he met her like that yesterday, and why she said she didn't want him to know. "it's no surprise that she wouldn't want me to find out about such an embarrassing situation." He mutters to himself. ``but it's not my business``

It was one of his rules. Situations with the past of his women were not his business, and he never got involved, so this was no different. He wasn't going to get involved.

Closing his eyes, taking in deep, deep breaths so as to quench that burning fire inside of him. "it's not your business." He tells himself. He needed to stop breaking his own rules.

And so with a strong mind, hellbent on not interfering with someone from her past, he heads to the airport, clearing his head off every thought about Erina, and how annoying it felt to see her naked breasts in the hands and mouth of another man.

...

"Wait a minute!" A kind of light bulb suddenly turned on inside his brain as he settled down in the plane with Gary sitting across from him.

"White, she IS my current girlfriend isn't she?" Gary had no idea why he was suddenly asking him that question, but he nods a big yes.

"And this shit happened just yesterday, right?" he looks at Helfer and asks, and as if the Lizard could understand what he said, it nods too.

"and she was my girlfriend yesterday too, right?" he asks Gary again, and the man nods another yes.

"That means it isn't in the past!!" A crazy smirk was slowly forming on his lips. "I'm not breaking any of my rules this time."

"That freaking weasel refused to stay in the past, and he's in my own present, and he messed with my present girlfriend!!! Am I right?" He almost yelled, and Gary like a robot nods an even bigger yes.

"hahaha ahah hahaha haha" Reuel suddenly burst out laughing like a maniac, frightening not only Gary but the people who were settling into their VIP seats too. But his laughter suddenly stopped, and that dark aura filled the place again, and his hands formed a tight fist, his brows creased as his eyes grew darker.

"I don't think he had someone to teach him the basic values of life" he deadpans. "of not touching what doesn't belong to him,"

"How dare he make White miss our date?!! He's going to pay for wasting my time, and for making her cry."

"As long as she's mine, there should be only one person who causes her sorrows and tears... ME!" He states, and Gary had seen many sides of his boss before, but this... This was a new thing he hadn't seen before.

"No one else has that exclusive right... And I think someone needs to know that."

Gary could see it... His grooming obsession.

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Thanks for the powerstones everyone, keep them coming. As this is my WSA entry, so I'll need your help to make it.