Fake Smile

##2 — Widower Bilioner

##2 — Widower Bilioner

"Alexa, can you come with me for a while?" asked Aidan to Alexa who was about to leave after finishing the insignificant announcement made by Sean Linford.

"Fine, Aidan." Alexa finally followed Aidan. They go to the rector's room and Alexa again has to see the presence of Sean Linford who is now the chairman of the foundation at the music campus where he works.

"Linford, this is Alexa! Alexa, Linford wants to greet you personally. He said he had idolized you for a long time."

Alexa looked at Sean and the man calmly raised his left hand to shake hands. Alexa knew Sean was left-handed, so she greeted the handshake with a professional smile. "It's good to hear someone who idolizes me. This is an honor for me, Linford. Introducing my name Alexa Reinhard."

Sean's face looked displeased when Alexa pretended not to recognize him. But let's follow the direction of the women's game. He smiled back and then tightened his hand. "Sean Linford. You can call me Sean, Alexa."

Diego, who saw his boss's behavior, couldn't help but smile. Feeling his phone vibrating in his suit pocket, he immediately cleared his throat and approached Sean. "Linford, we should go to a meeting soon."

Sean woke up from his reverie and then released the momentary grasp of his hand from Alexa's. "I'll excuse you first, Alexa. We will meet again later!" After that, Sean walked away from the room with Diego.

Alexa sighed heavily. She clenched her fists because she didn't like Sean's hand grip that was too tight and then looked at Aidan with a stiff smile. "Then I'll excuse myself too, Aidan."

Aidan nodded his head. Not having time for Aidan to make small talk, Aidan saw Alexa pass away from the rector's room. The woman didn't even care when the rector who had just entered her study had just arrived.

Alexa just lowered her head respectfully for a moment, then stepped away again.

"Wow, she really has a star," said the rector with white hair. He sat on the single sofa and Aidan sat on the long sofa in the room. "By the way, I saw Sean leave first, after that, Alexa."

"I heard from the secretary, Sean has to go to a meeting. He is really a busy man."

Anthony chuckled softly. "You're right, it's the busyness that makes him easily sneak up and get inside the foundation. Who would have thought that the Scott family's foundation could be acquired by Linford. He really did a crazy thing."

"He must have gotten into trouble," Aidan muttered, commenting. "Linford and Scott have been competing for a long time, and now it is precisely Linford extending a favor to the Scott foundation."

"Yes, you're right. It's really a crazy thing made by a billionaire widower who is in demand all over New Island."

***

Sean Linford sat in the meeting room playing the latest mobile game belonging to a new company called Buldex Studio. He looked engrossed in himself while on his right and left side, several representatives from SL Finance and Buldex Studio looked seriously at the big screen where a man in front of him was explaining his presentation.

After the presentation was over, everyone looked at Sean who was still busy playing mobile games for a while. "It's good," Sean said judgingly.

"Thank you, Linford."

Sean put away the mobile phone he was playing games with and then asked the young man who was still standing in front of him. "Do you think this game will sell well on the market?"

The young man nodded steadily. "I'm very sure, for the game demo, it's quite trending on the market. That's why we need help from SL Finance to develop our game in the market. We believe that in the near future our game will be able to become the mobile game with the most users throughout New Island."

"I like your determination," Sean smiled faintly. He thought a while ago of using the mobile game again for a few minutes. Realizing the hard work of Buldex Studio, Sean also nodded. "Well. I will start cooperation with you guys."

The representative of Buldex Studio immediately looked relieved. They looked happy and signed the cooperation that very second in the meeting room.

After there was no more interest in the meeting room, Sean walked outside and entered the elevator. He checked his phone and found a message from his daughter, Beverly.

[ Dad, you're late again! I've been picked up by Mom. ]

Sean sighed heavily. He immediately contacted Beverly and waited for the princess to pick up her call.

"Hello?"

"My daughter, where are you? Dad will pick you up."

"You always forget me," Beverly grumbled, then turned off her phone call.

Sean snored in annoyance, but still tried to contact his daughter. "Daddy on the way, where are you?" he asked. He even had to lie to his daughter so as not to continue to be angry.

"I was in the salon with Mom."

"Okay princess, please send your location now and Dad will pick you up right away!"

"Well.... but it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, Dad should be here soon."

"Well. I'll try it, Beverly." Sean let out a sigh of relief. After getting the location of his only daughter, Sean forwarded it to Diego's cell phone number so that he drove to the salon where he had to pick up Beverly.

***

Sean got out of the car and walked towards his ex-wife's salon. He stepped in after pushing the glass door in front of him and then searched for Beverly's whereabouts.

"Dad!" Beverly folded her arms together as she approached Sean.

"I came in time, right? In less than 15 minutes, I arrived here," Sean said, rubbing Beverly's soft hair.

"Even though he didn't pick her up at school, he talked as if he had arrived on time! Tsk!" grumbled Emma, who was now on the chair. Her hair is being dyed fiery pink while her feet are being manicured by salon attendants.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. Dad was still in the meeting room when got a call from you, Beverly." Sean actually talks to Beverly. He just ignored Emma as if she were a transparent human. "How about we go home now? Hm, how about we stop by your favorite ice cream shop first?"

"Don't buy her ice cream too much, Beverly can have a cold!" complained Emma to her ex-husband.

"How about buying your painting tools? Remember, you wanted a new painting tool yesterday, right?" asked Sean attentively to his daughter. He left after Beverly took her school bag. Not saying goodbye to his ex-wife at all, Sean continued to invite Beverly to talk.

"Uncle Devin gave me a new painting tool as my birthday present, so Dad doesn't need to buy it anymore."

Sean cleared his throat. He didn't mind that his ex-wife's boyfriend wanted to give anything to his daughter. "Then we just go home directly?"

Beverly cleared her throat. She got in the car, sitting in the back seat with her father who was busy with his tablet. "Dad, why don't you just go back together with Mom?"

"I don't know, I just prefer this."

Sean and Emma's divorce has happened since Beverly was 3 years old. They eventually separated but Emma continued to act like his wife. It wasn't until Emma dated Devin Reinhard that she started acting more violent towards him.

"I heard that Dad likes women who can play the violin and piano, while Mom can only use the violin." Beverly continued to babble, interrupting her father's focus on working by checking his email.

"Maybe... your mother is right," Sean did not dodge, he even turned his attention from his tablet to Beverly. "Are you afraid that you will have a stepmother?"

Beverly snored. "I probably won't get along with her."

Sean nodded steadily. "It's okay. I won't ask you to get along with each other. It seems to be a difficult task."

Beverly pouted at her father's answer. She folded her hands together in front of her chest while Sean finally felt upset and rubbed his daughter's hair.

After no more conversation, Sean took hold of his tablet again and began researching important emails sent by his other secretary. He did have two secretaries, who used to come with him outside the office and who usually stayed in the office. The existence of two secretaries is enough to help his many jobs so far.

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