All Chapters of Being Mr. Hunt's Wife : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

It was finally the end of the week, and it was the Hunt Group’s mandatory quarterly company dinner. All employees of Hunt Group were strictly required to attend the dinner, from the lowest junior assistants all the way up to the CEO. The dinner was hosted in one of Lucuis' grand restaurants. Golden Prime Steakhouse.It was decorated in a way that screamed old money.Alura sat quietly at a large, round table near the very back of the room, along with other assistants."To earth Alura," a voice broke through her thoughts.Alura blinked, looking up to see Emily sliding a tall, frosted glass of golden beer across the smooth wooden table."You are zoning out," Emily laughed, dropping into the chair beside her. "Drink this. You look like you need it."Alura stared at the bubbling foam. "I don't really drink, Emily. I have zero alcohol tolerance.""Oh, come on!" Emily insisted, nudging Alura’s shoulder playfully. "One drink will not kill you. You have survived an entire month working dir

It was finally Monday.Alura stood in front of her bathroom mirror and seriously considered faking her own death. Or maybe she should pack a small bag and move to a different country. It honestly sounded much easier than walking into the Hunt Group building today.She stared at her pale reflection. The memory of Friday night played in her head on a repeating loop. She had announced her secret marriage to a room full of gossips. And worse she insulted her boss, right to his face.Her phone buzzed loudly on the counter. Reminding her that she was already late for work.But she ended up sitting on her bathroom floor for an extra hour, she decided to go to work very late, hopefully he would be trapped in a board meeting by the time she arrives.When Alura finally got to Hunt Group, the atmosphere at the lobby felt toxic.She kept her head down, walking quickly toward the elevator banks. But she could feel eyes burning straight into her back. As she passed a group of junior marketing st

ASHFORD BAY.The hormone treatments were taking a huge toll on Abigail’s body.By her fourth morning of receiving the daily injection, she felt miserable. A dull ache settled deep in her lower abdomen. Her head throbbed with persistent migraine, the nausea made the thought of food unbearable. And even though the weather was really warm she wore a thick wool cardigan over her shivering shoulders.She walked slowly into the dining area of the Grey's penthouse.He was already sitting at the long glass table, dressed casually in a dark blue turtleneck and trousers, and drinking a cup of black coffee while scrolling through his tablet.Abigail paused by the doorway, looking confused. She checked the clock on the wall. It was 9:50 AM. Grey was a man who practically worshipped his schedule. He never left for the office a single minute past seven o'clock."You are still here?," Abigail murmured softly, pulling out a chair and sitting down.Grey didn't look up from his screen. "I cleared my mo

Over the rest of the week, the executive floor became a living nightmare for Alura.Ethan made it his personal mission to interact with her as much as possible. His harassment was deliberate and perfectly masked behind a fake, smile. He found a dozen different excuses to come up to the fortieth floor. He dropped off basic printed files that could easily have been sent via a simple email. He hovered near the copy machine whenever she walked down the hall. He would always rush into the elevator when ever she was already in, trapping both if them in, and those few minutes she had to share the same space with him and breath the same air with him were the most annoying and uncomfortable moments of her life.The worst part was the way he spoke to her."Good morning, Alura dear," Ethan would say, leaning against the edge of her desk with a familiarity that made her skin literally crawl.He always said it just loud enough for the other junior secretaries to hear. He wanted everyone to thin

"....Did something happen?"Alura whispered to herself.The first thing she noticed immediately she entered the lobby was the whispers. It was not the usual gossiping whispers or work discussion, it was something else. The ground floor was buzzing with tension, Junior secretaries huddled in small clusters. Head of departments stood in the hallways, their heads joined together as they stared wide eyed at their glowing phone screens.She shrugged it off as she walked past them, heading for the fortieth floor. Alura set her purse down on her desk, She opened the desktop to check her morning emails, but there were no urgent work emails. So she pulled out her phone to check for personal messages, but a notification from the local Cedarville news app popped up on the screen.Sitting at the very top of the most popular gossip forum was a post that had already gone viral. The bold, red text practically screamed off the screen.*$100 MILLION REWARD for verified information about CEO Lucius Hu