Chapter 06

Chapter 06

He couldn't believe his eyes so he looked up at his wife, demanding an explanation. He raised the pictures up to Helena who only bit her lips, embarrassed.

"Helena.." He called. She looked away, confirming his suspicions. He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe she would do this to him. Everything she had ever brought to his life was misery.

Mr. Saltzman got on his feet after seeing Kenzo's angry face, trying to calm him down.

"Sir..

"Is that why you came home?" Kenzo asked Helena.

She turned back to face him. She was full of guilt and if he didn't know her he would actually think she felt guilty and cared that he was hurt. She didn't. She never cared.

"Babe.." She tried to touch him but he moved back with a scoff.

"Babe?" He couldn't believe his ears.

"One minute you're asking for a reunion, the next this. Sabotaging a contract you know how much means to me because you didn't get what you wanted?"

"It's not that.."

"Then what is?!" He did it. He raised his voice at her for the first time ever, the first time he would ever raise his voice that usual too, ever, not since he started talking, not when his father had an accident. He was known to always be the "robot child" who barely felt emotions. But she, she brought a side of his he never knew he had. She hurts him every single time.

Helena was indeed startled back at his outburst, they all were. Mr. Saltzman rushed over to them. He turned to Helena. "You should leave, we'll continue this later" He said to her, then turned to Kenzo.

" You shouldn't do this here, and we would have figured all this out sooner or later. I'm sorry Mr Alfredo, the president can't entrust the building to you if your other projects had been failing. It would be such a great loss, it had nothing to do with Mrs Alfredo here, she just helped speed up the process." Mr. Saltzman tried to explain, which only angered him the more.

He scoffed then stepped back away from them. "Mrs Alfredo..." He muttered unbelievable, looking directly at Helena who only looked away in shame.

He then turned back and walked right out and Gianna followed behind.

Helena signed, dragging her fingers through her hair. She bit her lips in regret staring at the pictures on the table.

She shouldn't have went this far. She had no choice. She had to do what needed to be done. She wouldn't have gotten the contract if he hadn't used such measures, the presidentia office were so keen on giving the deal to Alfredo Enterprise as he was one of the most reliable company in the country. They couldn't find any fault in them and thought it was best to five them the contract.

She had to do that. Kenzo's dad had covered up the failed building projects from the public coverage so no one knew. Upon giving this information and evidences to the presidential office, they didn't think twice before canceling the contract.

Laurent Enterprise was fastly growing to be one of the new biggest Construction company in Canada anyways so tbey didn't waste any chance in giving the contract to them and Helena's dad also knew the president personally so it wasn't such a big deal.

'He hates me know, doesn't he?' Helena asked herself.

She walked over to the table and grabbed the pictures. "This stays away from the media. If it just as thinly gets to the media, I'll make sure you lose your job, is that understand Mr. Saltzman?" She commanded.

"Of course Mrs. trust me, we've been buddies for years now and I have never failed you" He said with a big smile.

Helena ignored him and walked right out.

Should she had say no to her dad? Helena thought on her ride home.

** One Day Ago **

It had been a day since her last conversation with Kenzo and he had flatly shut her out and denied her request. She needed to get pregnant and wanted it to be with him only and he was straight about how uninterested he was with that and she had been pondering all day long on how to get him to agree.

Her phone suddenly let out a beep, she picked it up and it was her dad calling her.

She sighed subconsciously. As much as she loved her dad, he was an handful. She wondered what else he wanted this time around.

She then remembered she hasn't informed him about her visit home and she sighed once again before sliding to the right and answering the call.

"Hey Dad" She sounded as normal as she could.

"You didn't think I deserved to know you went home to your husband?" He went straight to his point, he was exactly like that. Helena chuckled nervously.

"Well, I did. What's up? Are you calling me because of that? It's nothing, just had some things to do" She tried to played it off cool.

"You know I couldn't care less about whatever you do with him" He said flatly. Helena bit her lips then nodded in response like he could see her.

"So?"

"There's a contract I want.. and I want you to get it." He said, his tone got serious and Helena's face darkened.

"Which?" She got in work mode.

"The president's"

"The president's? Which president?" Helena asked, sounding confused.

"America's President. News just got to me yesterday that there's a construction contract ongoing and he needs a company to handle it for him, and we seem to be the perfect company for that, think about it Helena, how much spots we would jump if we got the deal. That's our secret to the top easily. You've done a lot already, think of this as an elevating stone and your work is done. We got the no 1 spot in the construction industry already, two no 1s, that's exactly what we want, isn't it?" Carmen said over the phone, practically laughing already in success. He knew it was his already. He had that much confidence in his daughter.

"I will get it" Helena said without a second thought and Carmen let out a smirk from the other side of the phone.

"I know you will, I trust you" He said and Helena nodded with a smirk.

"And if that's all.. "

"It's not" Carmen cuts in and Helena raised her brows.

"Your husband.." He started getting Helena's attention immediately.

"Yeah?"

"I was told he practically got the contract. he got the president under his fingers. You will have to go through..."

"I'll get it. It's ours." Helena cut him off.

Carmen let out a smirk. "Good" He said then hanged up.