Chapter 05

Chapter 05

She never cared about him nor his feelings. A part of him had assumed her return was to reconcile with him and correct her mistakes, but he now knew better. He knew damn well why she truly was back.

An heir, her father must have asked her to produce an heir. Then she must have remembered he existed.

Kenzo stepped backwards, trying really hard to conceal the look of disappointment on his face. He let out an almost sad smile, he didn't want her to get a reaction out of him or for her to think her hurtful words bothered him that much.

"Is that it, Helena?" He muttered, Helena rose her brows.

"Is that why you're here? An heir? Is that what your dad asked of you this time around? Is that.." His broken voice gave him away. He couldn't stop himself from feeling that way.

"Is that all you think about me? Someone you can use and dump and then come back to when you need me? Helena, are you serious?"Helena stared on in confusion. She couldn't understand what was going on. He was misunderstanding her and was overthinking.

"Kenzo.." She tried to move over to him but he stopped her.

"Forget it, Helena. If that's why you're here, then forget it. Cause it's never happening. I won't be used by you once again, never. You might as well leave and go back to Canada" He said and then walked away leaving Helena alone to her thoughts and in confusion.

"He's never going to agree, would he?" She muttered to herself as she walked back into the room, laying in the bed alone and in silence, her mind replaying Kenzo's words.

Kenzo's flashback ended and he continued with the day's work.

** Two days later **

Gianna rushed in alerting Kenzo immediately and he raised his brows in confusion.

"Sir.." She started, visibly fidgeting.

Kenzo deepened his brows getting impatient already.

"The deal fell off" She muttered, after finally mustering courage. Kenzo's eyes widened in shock.

"The deal?" He asked, once again to be sure and Gianna only nodded in confirmation.

Kenzo got up on his feet and paced round his office three times with his hands on his chin.

"But we were this close.. what went wrong, Gianna?" He asked with a disturbed look on.

The deal was one they had been working on for years. It was a construction contract for the President of the country who wanted to start a new project and Alfredo Enterprise being the biggest construction company was undoubtedly their first choice but there were other big contenders too so the president office announced they would take their time choosing and just three weeks ago, Alfredo Enterprise got an email that they had been chosen and all that was needed was just to finalize the contract, so what went wrong now was the first question on Kenzo's mind.

"Actually.." Gianna started, bringing him out of his thoughts, he raised his left brow giving her his attention.

"An inside source said Laurent Enterprise got the deal" She dropped the bombshell.

Kenzo's brows deepened in confusion as he adjusted his stance, now moving from his initial position, straightening his positions.

"Laurent?" He asked, almost in a mocking tone. It was an unbelievable take.

Laurent Enterprise only dealt with Marketing, so what was she talking about?

But.. two years ago when they had met at the get together, the ladies did mention Laurent Enterprise were venturing into construction. But that was back home in Canada right?

He was confused, he took a side glance at Gianna and she nodded in confirmation.

But he still couldn't bring himself to believe it.

"Get ready" He said suddenly getting on his feet. Gianna straightened her posture with a confused look on as she watched Kenzo put on his coat.

"To where?" She asked.

"The presidential office in charge" He muttered as he walked out of his office and she followed suit.

***

"Sir? I'm sorry but you can't go in there" The security stopped them from the umpteenth time.

Kenzo's guard got in between them, preventing the security from touching his boss.

Gianna also jumped into action. "Do you know who this is?" She asked, almost getting angry.

Kenzo sighed, straightened his suit where the security had touched him.

"Get out of my way." He said with a straight face.

The security man also sighed in frustration.

"Sir, I truly understand how important you are and how close you are to Mr Saltzman, but I really am not allowed to have anyone in his office." He explained.

"And why's that?" Gianna asked, now calming down.

"There's an important guest in there" He muttered.

Gianna scoffed. She couldn't believe him. Important? Who was more important than the Kenzo Alfredo himself.

"Sir?" She turned to meet Kenzo's gaze and he only gestured to her with an arched brow and Gianna nodded, understanding him immediately.

"Get him out of our way" She ordered the guard and he sprut into action immediately grabbing the man out of the way and Gianna pushed the door open and Kenzo stepped in.

He walked almost fully into Mr Saltzman office only to stop fully on his tracks at the unbelievable scene in front of him.

Seated there in front of Mr. Saltzman with her legs crossed on top of each other, in her usual red sleeveless gown, her red lipstick sitting gracefully on her lips, was his wife, Helena.

After their last banter two nights ago, he hadn't seen her at home. She hadn't come home and he had brushed it off, thinking she had left as usual after she failed to get what she wanted. He should have known she never stopped until she got what she wanted.

He took a glance a the papers on the table, not papers, pictures. It was.. he couldn't believe what he was seeing from afar, so he walked closer to them. Helena got on her feet slowly. "Hey.." He ignored her as he picked up one of the pictures.

It was his buildings. The one that had collapsed. All three, three pictures of them on sight. Before they collapsed and after.