68. Apologies!

Author's POV 

Emerald was still in her bed, staring at the window lazily. 

Ruby came to check on her.

"What's wrong with you? Don't you want to go to work? You are already late!"

She has never seen her so demotivated.

Emerald sighed and sat up in her bed.

"I don't want to go to work today!"

Ruby raised her eyebrows amused.

"You don't want to see Egon? That's new! What went wrong?"

Emerald scowled.

"He thinks, I just want to climb his bed."

Ruby's eyes widened. 

"Shit! Did he say that to you?"

"Hmm!"

Emerald ran fingers through her hair.

"I want to beat the shit out of him..."

"What did you do then?"

Ruby asked shocked. Because she knows that Emerald won't take the disrespect.

"I slapped him!"

She said unbothered. 

Ruby's jaw dropped to the floor. 

"You did what?"

She gasped.

"Emerald, you slapped a mafia king. People can't even stand properly in front of him and you slapped him?"

"I am not scared of him, Ruby"

She snapped at her. 

"Stop acting like he will eat you alive... He deserved it. And if he wanted to, he would have hurt me by now, so shut up..."

Ruby calmed down when she realised that Emerald was not any random girl. Egon loves her and this slap would not hurt him. She cleared her throat and sat beside her. 

"You are right... I am sorry, I overreacted... But you can't give up like this."

Emerald shook her head.

"He disrespected me... Now I don't want him!... He can go to hell!"

Ruby could see a glimpse of the Queen in her. 

"You will let him go just like this? Just with one slap? I thought you would make his life hell for it."

She tried to cheer her up. 

"I don't know!"

She shrugged.

"I guess you were right... I shouldn't get involved with a toxic man like him... He is twisted! I need to rethink my choices. I felt really bad when he said that. I don't know why his words affected me so much."

Ruby sighed, thinking Egon had succeeded in pushing her away.

"Fine! You don't have to do anything which you don't like. Take a day off, I'll send Kathani to take your place and you don't have to see him again."

Emerald huffed and nodded.

"Thanks!"

Egon, on the other hand, was looking at the watch, waiting for her. She wasn't there and he was getting restless to see her. 

Her team had already started working but she was missing. 

He knows that he fucked up last time, pushing her away is a different thing and hurting her dignity is different. He knows that he very well deserved that slap. He wanted her to go away but now that she is not coming, he is feeling scared. He wants her around. 

He called Ruby to check on her. 

Ruby looked at Emerald when they saw Egon's name on the screen. Emerald frowned and put it on speaker. 

Ruby's stomach churned, scared that Egon would say something which he shouldn't. 

"Good morning, King..."

She sounded nervous. 

Egon could hear the bird chirping through her phone, realising that her phone was on speaker and Emerald must be listening to him. 

"The work hasn't started yet!"

He complained.

Ruby frowned. 

"But the team is already there, why haven't they started working... I'll check."

"Who will supervise them, you want me to do that?"

He scolded. 

Emerald scowled and rolled her eyes. 

"Kathani will be there in a few minutes, King... I apologise for the inconvenience!"

Ruby looked at Emerald who was mocking Egon silently. 

"What happened to that brat?"

He frowned. 

"Did she abscond or what?"

Emerald grabbed the knife from the fruit basket and tried to stab the phone. Ruby grabbed her hand and clapsed her mouth, restricting her from arguing with him. 

"King, she needs to take care of something else... Kathani will handle your work from now on."

"Who gave you permission to change the team?"

Egon scolded and Ruby gulped. 

"Changing people, changes vision... Ask Ms Abscond to come to the job in fifteen minutes."

Emerald was cursing him, and he could hear her muffled, mad voice, which made him smirk. 

"But King!"

Ruby was again caught between their quarrel. 

"If she doesn't want to come to work, then I'll cancel this project and will sue you for fraud..."

He threatened. 

"And your sister will be behind the bar for sexual harassment... She has fifteen minutes!"

He disconnected the call with a naughty smirk. 

Emerald removed her hand from her mouth.

"This motherfucker..."

She tried to call him again but Ruby stopped her. 

"He can do that!"

She said scared. 

Emerald scowled at her.

"Are you out of your mind... He is a mafia. Have you ever seen the mafia suing people... And people will laugh at him if he tells them that a girl sexually harassed him. He is making you fool and you are believing him."

Ruby sighed.

"True, but he can hold our payments, and if the word spreads out, then it can harm our reputation... We will lose projects..."

She requested her.

"You have to go back to work... It's a matter of a few days. And you are an expert in avoiding trouble."

Emerald groaned and tied her hair aggressively. 

"Fine! I am going there just for you... If he tries to mess with me again then I'll kill him."

She stormed towards the washroom. 

Ruby sighed and grabbed her head.

"These two will make me go crazy.... God!"

Egon was looking at the watch. He smirked when Emerald stepped inside his house exactly fifteen minutes later. 

She glared at him as she saw him in front of her. 

"I thought you didn't want me in your house."

He smirked.

"Right, but you have to pay for what you did last night... Apologies!"

Emerald gritted when he said that. 

"Make me do that, you have a week!"

She challenged. 

Egon's smirk widened.

"Challenge accepted!"