5. Soon To be Husband

"Miss Nadine.... What are you doing now?"

Nadine still sits in her chair thinking about what we should do to confront Adrian for cancelling their wedding.

"Anna, can you help me?"

Anna looks at her boss with confusion. This is the first time she has heard Nadine wants some help from her. 

Usually she will say, 

'I can handle it' or 'I'll do it myself'.

She didn't get any response from Anna. Nadine looked at her again and called her name several times.

"Anna..."

Anna came to her senses and began to focus on Nadine's order.

"Did I say something wrong?"

Anna begin to get confused again.

"Wrong? Huh? There is no such word in your dictionary."

Didn't realize that she said it out of loud. She gasped and immediately closed her mouth. Nadine just chuckled and then gave her a warm smile.

"Ha ha... Then let me add that word to my dictionary today."

Anna feels a little bit embarrassed about her words. A girl who's 8 years younger than her is teasing her now. Usually she likes to boss around and never make a joke at anybody. Never give her employees a warm smile and never reply to their greeting whenever they pass her at the office. Even when she meets her client or her ex-lover. 

She will only smile when her father compliments her job, which is so rare to be seen. And the last time she saw her smile was when she was planning her wedding with Adrian. She looked happy and content even though it was just a forced wedding for Adrian. She smiles a lot after she meets Adrian and becomes obsessed with him. That was the beginning of her wicked plan for winning him and getting him to marry her.

"Sorry... I didn't mean to mock you. It's just rare to see your smile."

Nadine seemed to be thinking about what Anna had said. And begin to smile again.

"Did I? Then I'll smile more from now on."

Anna was shocked again by Nadine's words. Her cute face looks in trouble right now. 

"Am I fired?"

Nadine gives a puzzled look and when she realizes something, she begins to laugh again.

"You're the second person who asked me that question. Ha ha ha.."

Anna is still confused about that answer.

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna fire you if you help me."

Anna nodded her head.

"Anna, don't prepare the contract. I still want to cancel the wedding. Help me to clear my schedule, I'm gonna meet Adrian."

Anna wants to refuse her idea when she remembers what her father did to her before. But Nadine gave her a sweet smile again.

"Don't worry... Just stay here until I call you. And about my father...."

Nadine is still thinking about how to tame her father.

"He will be fine. He's just mad because we've lost and the one who beat us is a small resort like Miller. If I can bring him a good deal, he will be fine."

Anna still wants to refuse Nadine's idea. But when she looks at Nadine, she is confident she can't reject her.

"Okay... Just make sure you can finish that before eight o'clock tonight because Mr. Henry wants to process it tonight."

This is the first time Nadine feels so glad that she feels like jumping over.

"You are the best Ann!!! I love you cutie!!"

Anna was just dumbfounded by Nadine's hug and word. 

"Since when have you become a huggy person?"

Nadine just tightened her hug and made her tiny figure sink at Nadine's tall figure.

"Ooh... You cutie pie."

Anna feels annoyed now. She doesn't like it if someone calls her cute because it makes her feel so tiny.

"Stop calling me cutie. Or I'll tell your father about your stupid plan."

Nadine releases her hug from Anna. And made an apologetic face.

"But you are cute."

Anna gave her a heavy sigh.

"Are you sick or something? You're weird from this morning."

Nadine already reaches the door but she turns her head and gives Anna a big smile.

"Just consider that I've been reborn again as a new person."

Anna chuckled and gave her reply that made Nadine laugh harder.

"Then I'll note that you've gone insane."

Nadine leaves her father's office. She greets everyone and smiles at them. In her previous life she never did that. She thinks that they're just like air. 

When her husband treats her like that, she feels so miserable. Even a little snicker from her husband for mocking her makes her feel she exists in front of him. 

Her husband's scandal with many women makes people talk behind her back. They assume that she deserves that because she is never good to people and likes to ruin people's lives.

So she wants to treat other people the way she wants to be treated. Her drastic change made people in her office look confused. They just nervously greet her back.

"What is wrong with her suddenly? Maybe because of her wedding?"

Nadine just ignores that. And like her father said.

"Just stick to your plan, Nadine."

At the front gate Jim was already waiting for her.

"Jim... Please send me to Miller's mansion."

Jim looked so tense that he blurted out a word.

"Miss Nadine, you don't have to be so polite to me... It scares me."

Nadine laughs again. She realizes now that in the past she was a cold hearted person.

"Then prepare yourself. I'll be more polite from now on."

Jim just let out a sigh again. Hoping that's not a temporary kindness from his young miss.

They arrived at Miller's mansion 20 minutes later. When Nadine wants to get off she sees something that will burn her jealousy, like in the past. 

"Oh... Olivia is here too."

Jim looked so nervous seeing the view in front of him.

"Hmm... Miss Nadine should go back to the office."

Nadine just gave Jim a small smile.

"No... I came here not to separate them. I wanna get them back together as lover again."

"Huh? Miss.... A... Are..."

Nadine chuckled when seeing Jim hanging his mouth open.

"Close your mouth Jim."

Nadine comes to look again at that ex-couple. A sad gaze still lingering in her eyes, but she just decided to let Adrian go. 

Adrian's eyes look warm when he is around Olivia. He looks frustrated but still so gentle with her. So different when she met him at her office today. Suddenly a stinging feeling hit her, not knowing if it was from her small cut or from her broken heart.

"They look like they suit each other, right?"

Jim didn't have the guts to answer her question and just remained silent. True, they look so good together. But his young miss doesn't look ugly either with him, on the contrary, she is too good for him.

"You look good too, Miss."

Nadine gave him a small smile. 

"You flatter me Jim. But I've heard this word somewhere. If you try to ruin other relationship, someday my relationship will be ruined in the same way."

Jim looked a bit shocked by Nadine's statement. He gathered his courage and gave Nadine a question.

"Miss Nadine. Are you sure this is okay?"

Nadine didn't answer his question because, honestly, this was not okay with her.

Not taking a long time, Olivia leaves that place. And then Nadine comes to approach Adrian as if nothing happened before.

Adrian looked a little bit shocked to see Nadine.

"Hello Adrian? Can we talk a little bit?"