Chapter 156


    An unfamiliar feeling filled my chest and I struggled to


    figure out exactly what I was feeling. It felt like worry but much heavier. It


    felt like there was some fear mixed in as well. For some reason, it felt like I


    was saying good luck and goodbye to him before sending him off to some great


    war. I shook my head a little to clear my thoughts. What am I even thinking?


    He’s just going to go meet his father for a bit to discuss


    some business ns.


    “Have some trust in me, ok?” Ace teased before he shed me


    another confident smile.


    “Ok. Good luck…” I wished him luck before smiling sweetly at


    him.


    “Ace…” I whispered his name as I blushed.


    It was very sudden, but Ace had ced a very soft kiss on


    my forehead before he smiled down warmly at me. I wasn’t sure who needed more assurance


    or confidence at that point in time. It was probably me and not him if I had to


    take a guess.


    “This is my part of the mansion. Think of it as my set of


    rooms. As I told you before, I don’t really live here anymore but I did live


    here before. Basically, just think of it as your own ce and just rx while


    you wait for me toe back,” Ace said casually as he gestured with his hand


    at the living room around us.


    “Right. Ok…” I mumbled before nodding.


    With that, Ace turned and left. I watched his back as he


    walked away before I began praying that all would go well between him and his


    father. I was sure that Ace had a n and that whatever he had nned must be


    great. However, that didn’t mean that things would go well and end well with


    the Chairman.


    I had no idea how long Ace would be gone for, so I spent a


    while justzing around on the sofa while ying with my phone. After a


    while, I just got so bored and anxious that I had to stand up and start pacing


    around the living room.


    Although he told me that I should feel at home here and take


    a look around, it wasn’t easy for me to do that at all. Everything about the


    ce felt unfamiliar and it was clear that no one had lived there for a long


    time. Despite the fact that the room had many items that belongs to Ace like photos


    in frames, his books, and other things, there wasn’t anything that felt very


    personal. For instance, there wasn’t a single photo of Ace or anything along


    those lines. Perhaps, he moved all of his stuff out of the mansion when he


    moved out?


    I found myself standing in front of the bookcase filled with


    business-rted books on one side and art-rted books on the other. A grin


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    formed on my lips, I guess this was sort of like Ace dissected into two halves.


    He was a very good businessman for sure but also very creative in his work


    when. Now that I thought about it, I didn’t quite know much about Ace’s career.


    How did his career start? Was he always working in this field before?


    If I wasn’t mistaken, there was a time when he wasn’t at


    Jessen’s and Hill’s at all and had gone abroad to start his own businesses. I


    wondered how those businesses were going and was he still involved with them?


    Given his busy schedule as the current CEO, I doubt that he


    had the time to run his other businesses, though. If that was the case, I


    wondered what made hime back to work at Jessen’s and Hill’s. Then again,


    maybe it was because his father forced him toe back. The Chairman only has


    one son and heir so that might just be how things yed out.


    Without knowing it, I had been roaming around therge


    living room as those thoughts ran through my restless mind. I came to a stop in


    front of a door. He did tell me to take a look around so…


    He did mention that this is his part of the mansion so


    besides this living room there must be other room that belongs to him such as


    his bedroom and his working room. Considering that the Chairman had an office


    in his home, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ace had his own office too or at least a


    room that served a simr purpose.


    Is this his office or something?


    I turned the doorknob and found that the door was unlocked.


    For a moment, I felt guilty for intruding on someone else’s space but then Ace


    did say that it was fine for me to do this. So, please allow me to look around


    a bit. I pushed open the door without hesitation after that. The room was


    indeed a luxuriously decorated office with arge worktable. It wasn’t as


    grand as the Chairman’s office that I visited before, but it was no normal and


    in office either.


    Ace must have worked here before he moved out. I smiled a


    little to myself as I saw a mirage of Ace sitting behind the table with a stern


    expression on his face while he was working. Unlike the living room, there were


    more of Ace’s things in this room.


    “Wow…” I whispered in awe as my eyes fell to a photo of Ace.


    Ace looked amazingly charming now, but he was definitely a


    looker even when he was younger. This must have been from the time when he


    first started working. There was a photo of a younger Ace with the Chairman


    standing in front of Jessen’s and Hill’spany headquarters. The Chairman had


    a proud smile on his lips while Ace looked like he wished he could be somewhere


    else. I wondered if those two got along better back in the days or was their


    rtionship just as strained as it is now.


    The next thing that caught my attention was a metal te


    showcasing a few embossed logos. One of the logos caught my attention as one of


    the mediapanies that Ace had founded.


    --To be continued…