SOME THINGS ARE MEANT TO BE

CHAPTER 55

“Cousin, your document.” He walked closer and placed the file on Diego’s table, and he then sat down by the side. Diego remained silent and scanned the contract quickly like a machine. His expression was evidently much darker than before, and he was much more silent.

He was obviously conveying his anger, and if anyone dared to provoke him, he would choke that person to death.

Anton let out a sigh. “Cousin, the amount of money you have now is more than enough for your grandchildren to spend. Why are you still working so desperately for?”

“Yes.” The Hanson’s Group was already huge and powerful. In just a few years, it had become a listed transnational corporation. He only knew work but not know to enjoy life, which was an ultimate waste. He was wasting away his expressions, his glory, and his happiness.

“If you’re too free, I can send you on a business trip.” The extremely cold voice made Anton shut his mouth immediately. By ‘business trip’, he actually meant a trip to a deserted place where no birds defecate, no chicken laid eggs, and no turtles went on-shore. He would rather get killed by Diego’s laser-beam eyes than go there.

“Okay, pretend I didn’t say anything. I still have work to do so I’m leaving.”

Anton stood up and walked to the door in a hurry as if he was escaping from a crisis. However, when he placed his hand on the door, he hesitated... as if he was about to say something. However, in the end, he still opened the door and left.

He actually wanted to ask about Julianna, but he chose to remain silent in the end; he understood his cousin too well. If he accidentally triggered Diego, it would affect not only Anton but the poor girl as well. He’d rather search for the answer himself directly, which was more convenient and straightforward, than asking him.

The moment the door closed, Diego flung the pen out of his hand, his extremely cold eyes narrowing at the closed door. He placed a hand on his forehead.

He knew his mood was horrible recently. This has never happened before. Even when Diana passed away, he was in pain. However, he didn’t let it affect his work... like now. He even made a few careless blunders on some contracts, and he had never committed such a low-level mistake before.

“Ruby...” His lips slightly parted and closed, but only he knew that she was not the one he was thinking of. Another tear-streaked face often shocked him awake from his dreams when he slept. He hated that face, and he loathed that woman’s tears.

He pined after one woman, but his lips called for another. He closed his eyes, sinking into the backrest of his seat. His stiff muscles made his body extremely uncomfortable.

“Julianna, help me massage my shoulders.” When the words left his mouth, his eyes flew open; and the light in his eyes darkened. He picked up his office phone and dialed.

“Hello. I’m looking for Ruby. What? She’s not in?”

Diego hung up the phone and crossed his arms in front of his chest. She seemed to be avoiding him and had stopped contacting him since some time ago. This understanding made his temper even worse. She must be the reason his mood was so bad recently.

That was what he thought, but he had overlooked the woman who appeared in his dreams at that time. Maybe deliberately, maybe on purpose.

He rejected any possibility of her entering his body.

He rejected her name, her face, and her everything.

“No one forgave her—not even her parents, for she destroyed someone’s family and ruined a woman’s life. If no one accused her, it would be so unfair to the woman. She would really be pitiful.”

Marta said and sighed several times. Ruby’s face was pale and void of color. She clenched the newspaper in her hand and walked into her room.

Marta, the housekeeper, just looked at her retreating figure strangely, not understanding what was going on with Ruby and why she asked such a strange question.

Ruby closed the door and bowed her head, looking at the newspaper in closer detail. Marta was absolutely right. The woman in the article was really the daughter of a certain corporation, and she could only stay abroad for the long term now. The scandal even brought shame upon her family.

She rubbed the newspaper tightly in her hands. It was as if she had become the person in the article and was the one being sneered at by the people. She threw down the newspaper immediately and hugged her body tightly. It was too scary. She and Diego met up in secret, and so until now, not many knew about their relationship.

Her father and her mother had just thought that he was a regular man. If they knew that she had fallen for a married man and if their relationship was exposed, she really did not know what would happen to her.

...

She would always be ashamed for the rest of her life.

Her phone rang suddenly, surprising her and making her shudder. She took out her phone in a hurry. When she saw the telephone number on the screen, she immediately hung up. However, the moment she pressed the button, she regretted instantly. What should she do? What should she do?

Let him go? She couldn’t... because it would hurt.

Don’t let him go? She couldn’t either. She was scared of being mocked.

She loved him dearly, even more so than that woman.

She covered her face. She had never felt so helpless and conflicted in her life.

Diego’s face was dark as he looked at the phone in his hand, and he threw that phone to the side. This woman dared to hang up on him. Did she think that he wouldn’t be able to find her that way? He wanted to protect her and not trouble the people around her, and so he is always careful when meeting up with her.

Did she really think that Diego was the kind who would let go easily?

At that point, his heart had no room left for Julianna , only Ruby.

Ruby fell asleep drowsily, but she was awoken by her ringtone. She opened her eyes in a daze and took the phone on her bed. She had not turned the device off, almost as if she was anticipating some things subconsciously. She warned herself constantly, but she was still unable to leave him.

After much hesitation, she pressed the ‘answer’ button.

“I’m downstairs at your house right now. Do you want to come down, or should I go up?” The cold, hard voice rang from the phone. Ruby sat up immediately and ran to the window in a hurry, her eyes widening suddenly. The car was his, Diego’s. He didn’t lie to her. He was really here.

She knew that this man always meant what he said, and he would really come up.

No, he couldn’t. She opened the door in a hurry and ran out, forgetting that she was clad in pajamas.

Diego put down the phone and squinted at the door, waiting for Ruby to come out. He knew that she would definitely come out.

He took a cigarette stick out of his pocket, and very soon, the car was filled with the smell of tobacco.