Chapter 150: How to fix it?
Azrael paced back and forth in the living room, the phone next to his ear and his other hand on his waist, clutching it as if it would help him relieve his tension and subdued anger. He wanted to call his father and scream at him, but there was someone more important he needed to reach.
"Answer it, Knox Arden..." he muttered. He couldn’t help but worry after the news broke. He began to feel nervous. His agitation only doubled after he remembered bits of his dream.
The ringtone ended and he was sent to voicemail instead. Azrael ran his hand over his face in frustration. He swept his hair back and yanked on it after the phone rang again, but this time it wasn’t Knox, but Lyssana.
He contemplated whether to answer or not. Seconds later, the phone was back on his ear, and beyond a worried voice came out.
"Are you okay, young master? I saw the news. I’m sorry about this. I feel like I’ve wronged you greatly. Your father only wanted confirmation, and that’s what he told me. I didn’t expect him to do this! If I had known, I would have talked him out of it. You—
"Enough, Lyssana. I don’t want to hear anything about him right now," Azrael spat angrily and ended the call. He then muttered sarcastically, "She didn’t know? She’s been working under him for two decades already and she still dared to say she was not aware?!"
He should have known! Why did he leave that place without hearing his father’s plan first? Maybe if he listened to it and pretended like he was so interested, his father would have given him a heads-up first before releasing it to the public.
And why is the public so invested in his life?! Azrael thought that once Diva was no longer involved with him, the public’s interest would shift towards her and leave him alone. Yet the recent events, the kidnapping, the identity reveal, and even the buried issue of his fight with Athan Horace were resurfacing.
"It says, ’the truth behind the dispute that almost led to a fiery court trial between two opposing powerful and influential families had been revealed! The reason was zeroed into none other than the illegitimate son of Chairman Horace, Knox Arden, who was then working as Athan Horace’s secretary. Is CEO Del Valle claiming his lover and his hidden son back, and the HZCB President Horace objecting their union be the cause of the royal squabble?’. Pfft, royal, my ass," Diva sniggered after reading a paragraph on one of the showbiz news online.
She scrolled through the comments and shook her head, "Geez, Azi, you dumbass, look at all the comments showing their support in this drama-like love story of the century. So, why the hell are you so mad about all this?"
Kayden snatched the tablet to Diva and zoomed the comments. He wasn’t wearing his glasses or contact lenses so he had to squint his eyes to see it properly, "The majority are cheering for your love story, but there are also bad comments insulting Knox, saying..."