Chapter 6: A Minute Late

Bringing out his phone from his pocket, Edward quickly placed a call to his informant, who had told him about Amelia's return.

"Hello, sir," the informant's voice sounded through the phone after the call was picked up.

"Where is she?" Edward asked him immediately.

"Who, please, is it your wife?" the informant asked Edward, who scoffed in disbelief.

"And who the hell will I be asking about? Where the fuck is she, goddamnit?" Edward asked the informant with an angry tone.

"I'm sorry, sir, but I don't know where she is," the informant said to Edward with a low tone.

"And what exactly do you mean by you don't know where she is?" Edward asked him with a cold and menacing tone.

"Well, after I sent you her location, something came up, so I had to leave to attend to it. That's why I wasn't able to keep an eye on her until you met up with her. I thought she would be where she was until you arrived," the informant said to Edward, who sighed heavily in order to calm himself.

"Find her; you have exactly thirty minutes to find out where she is, or you will be the one they are looking for," Edward said to him with a menacing tone.

"I will find her right away, sir," the informant said to Edward with a frightened tone.

"Well, you better do, and also I want you to get for me every possible piece of information you can get on her," Edward said to the informant.

"I will, sir," the informant said to Edward with a trembling tone.

"Okay then, the thirty minutes is already counting," Edward said to the informant before hanging up the call and turning his gaze towards the driver, who was avoiding his gaze out of fear.

Without uttering a single word to him, Edward walked past him and got into the car, and without hesitating, the driver also rushed into the car and closed the door.

"Sir, where are we heading to?" The driver asked Edward as he got into the car.

"Back to the company," Edward said to the driver, who immediately ignited the car and drove off.

Getting to the company, Edward made his way to his office while ignoring the greetings of the employees who always greeted him despite the fact that he never responds to their greetings.

Getting into his office, he collapsed on his chair before taking a look at his wristwatch and muttering, "Fifteen minutes remaining."

Afterwards, he sat up on his chair and was about to switch on his computer when the door of his office suddenly burst open, and with that, a young man who probably had the same age as Edward walked inside while grinning ear to ear despite Edward's angry glare.

"Hey bro, you are back already," the man said to Edward as he walked towards the chair opposite him and sat down.

"Adrian, tell me, do you have a death wish?" Edward asked him with a fake smile that made him look like a maniac.

"No, of course not, and why the hell are you asking me that?" Adrian, who was Edward's personal assistant and also best and only friend, asked him with furrowed brows.

"Well next time, before you barge into my office without knocking, you better have a death wish," Edward said to him as his facial expression turned cold.

"Well, it wouldn't be a crime if I died in the hands of my best friend, so if you want me to be knocking before coming into your office, then you better think about something else more scary than death," Adrian said to Edward, whose gaze was fixed on his computer.

"By the way, how was your meeting with your mom?" Adrian asked Edward.

"Terrible as always," Edward said to him without sparing him a glance.

"Ooh, let me guess, she found you another bride," Adrian said to Edward, who lifted his head and looked at him before returning his gaze towards his computer.

"I knew it," Adrian muttered with a proud smile, as he knew that he was the only one who could guess correctly what Edward was thinking about; no one else aside from him can do that due to how unpredictable Edward was.

"But bro, don't you think it's time you finally get married so that the old woman would stop disturbing you every time? I don't know what spell that Amelia, put on you, but you need to snap out of it; you aren't getting any younger," Adrian said to Edward.

"And neither are you, and the last time I checked, you are still single just like me, and unlike me, who has once gotten married, you have never for once thought about it; the only thing you do is sleep around with different types of ladies every now and then," Edward said to Adrian, who scoffed at him.

"And who the hell said that I have never thought about getting married? We both know that the reason why I haven't yet gotten married is because I haven't yet found the right person. All the ladies I have been encountering on blind dates are nothing but gold diggers; all they want is my money and not me. Or would you give me your younger sister? At least she's from a wealthy family, so she won't be with me because of my money," Adrian said to Edward, who immediately shot him an angry glare.

"Chill, bro, I was just kidding. Don't kill me with those eyes of yours. Your sister is my sister too, and I haven't forgotten that," Adrian said to Edward and, at the same time, his phone.

After glaring at Adrian for some minutes, Edward shook his head in disbelief before taking his phone to check the caller ID. On seeing who was calling, Edward first of all checked the time before picking up the call and placing the phone on his ear.

"Hello, sir, I have found her," the informant's voice sounded through the phone.

"You are a minute late," Edward said to him while ignoring what he had. just said.

To be continued...