Their attention immediately went to where the voice came from and there stood the Xim Family's Genius Young Master, Leon Xim. He was trained to be the heir and deprived of freedom unlike the normal kid ever since he reached the age of 7, but their parents never made him feel unloved and pamper him with a lot of family time during the weekends which appeased the young lion's fury. He dotes on his little sister along with his younger brother that currently stays abroad but returns home for a visit time to time.
The other maids and servers immediately went away as Leon gestured to them to fled away from his sight. Lina relaxes when the watchful eyes went away, she thought that Edward can do whatever he wants. Edward was often the target of gossips among the maids and servers which made his action restricted, the head of the servers is hot on his tail, Lina doesn't want Edward to suffer under the mismanagement of the head server because of his own judgement.
"Look who decided to join, it's my beloved cousin. I thought you weren't here today because of a meeting with the Tan." David immediately went to Leon and put him in a headlocked as he ruffled the male's hair with a smile. Leon escaped and hugged the male while smiling, two males exchanges a playful banter. Lina sighed, relieved that the incoming fight wave was dissipated at the sight of his brother while Edward remained in silenced, still displeased about David's words earlier.
As much as Lina and David doesn't like each other's company, Leon is the bridge that connects the two and forces the them to be civil with each other when he's around. Lina loves his brother as much as he loves her and David is his brother's best friend. He was there when her brother needed help and vice versa, David became his right-hand man. The bond between the males is a beautiful sight, his brother is a wary man he never lets a single person be near him except his family and Edward. When David, a two-faced monkey broke down his walls despite of their polar personalities made their parents relieved because their eldest is a snowy mountain. They were also scared becaused they knew that once David broke Leon's trust it will be hard for him to recover.
Lina gave Edward a look to keep everything that happened between the three of them. Her brother became busy because of his hectic schedule made by his spartan female trainer made it hard for them to catch Leon free from business inclined activities and David decided to make it his goal to annoy Lina everyday by visiting her in the mansion like today.
"Hello, brother! I miss you~" Lina hugged Leon as the two males stopped their banter but didn't missed the chance to make an eye contact with David, silently making an agreement with each other. Edward on the other hand was ready to spill what happened when Leon asked again despite Lina's will to keep everything in secret but he was beaten by David.
"Nothing! The usual playful banter with little cousin which went to far. Hahahahaha, right little cousin?!' David lied flawlessly, faking a smile as he put an arm around Lina's shoulders pulling her close to him. She scoffed and rolled her eyes at David's response which she covered with a fake laugh when her brother's confused face landed on her seeking for an answer and David's arms tightened around her in warning.
"Yup! I'm sorry, big cousin. It seems like I went to far with my action earlier." Lina said apologetically while caressing the part where she slapped him earlier with her nail. She made sure to digged her nails on his cheek enough to make him feel the pain but not enough to draw blood. This was the exact reason why she loves to grow her nails and make them sharp, a loving gesture with pain such a perfect revenge. David grabbed her hand when the pain was becoming too much for him to handle and pinched her cheeks as a revenge. Edward was watching the scene with a deadpanned face, if others were to watch them it seems like a two loving cousin being intimate with each other. He knew better about the situation, landed on different scenarios that led him to not trust what he sees and he trusts his miss to handle the little monkey. If ever the situation becomes too much he will step in even if his miss won't talk to him.
"Big brother, come and join us in the living room." Leon asked Edward with puppy eyes while the other just smile and said no, immune to the other's puppy eyes. Leon treats Edward as an elder brother and acts like a puppy if he's in front of him. Leon clicked his tongue, annoyed but understood why the elder have to refuse.
The three went to the living room to spend quality time with other after Edward smacked . Edward went to the kitchen to store the cake for snacks and went to Yesha to report. He was Yesha's to command not the Xim Family's Current Head, he was still bitter about his childhood friend choice but contented with the result. The Xim Family's children became his life, even the little monkey because the male was a sweet kid but he doesn't know what made the male become an asshole to Lina. Edward sighed as he neared Yesha's office, clearing out every thoughts he had.
He knocked to announced his presence before entering the room for casualty sake, Yesha gave him a permission to go in and out of the office whenever he wants. He sat on the empty chair and watched Yesha worked on the new designs, Yesha was the older sister he never had, a mother he was not blessed to have. He never regrets his life choices and continues to follow her. Yesha treated him like a son which made his love for her unrequited and the idiot Xim Family's Head treated him like a son too because he dotes on his wife too much and gave Edward his own company that made him dumbfounded. He rejected it because he prefer to watch over his little miss rather than running a company which contains a witch but Yesha's husband still put the company under Edward's name and analyzed the situation as son throwing a tantrum. He never want to flaunt his relationship with the family because he vowed to be the walls and the floors that hears everything, he won't be able to catch the rats if he comes clean.
"Hi, Yesha." Edward was met with silenced which made him a bit taken a back because of the coldness. He continued to stare at her but didn't receive any reaction, he ponder for a moment what made her like this until he got an idea. He sighed and massaged his temples, if what he's thinking is correct he would not marched out of this room unscathed.
"Hey.....You are giving me the cold shoulders because I forgot to report to you yesterday." Edward said confidently, Yesha twitched at his reply but still continue to ignore him. He scratched his head, at lost why the girl was acting this way.
"Just say it to me directly instead of moping like that. This girl really is a pain in the head." He muttered the last part and was heard by Yesha which made her patience snapped.
"YOU!'
"W-what?!" Seeing dark cloud forming at the back of Yesha, he knew that whatever he did the bottom line is that he fucked up. The next line that Yesha said to him made him fall out his chair in a comical way.
"You didn't call me mommy!"
"Pardon?!" Yesha's eyes was ready to shed tears and Edward had the urged to slam his head on the wall. Their age gap was only 11 years, it was a small age gap for him but enough for the woman to call him his son. He had feelings for for godsake, he was 10 when he realized he actually had a feelings for the older woman, two years before she found the idiot, for others he was confusing love but for him he did not. This kind of thing though will not let him rethink his choices in life so he swallowed everything and kept a straight face.
"Where did the time went? Where is my little Eddie?" The woman continue on expressing her sadness and Edward had enough and reported instead of entertaining her.
"I found two rats in the mansion, one was following us and pretended to be a waiter and even dared to seduced the young miss. The other one is stucked at the current head's side." He disregarded the way Yesha looked at him and gave the information he had on the waiter earlier as well as the other rat. He didn't lied to his young miss, he said that the information will be available but he didn't said who's. Yesha pouted and dialed a number on her phone as she looked at the information given to her.
"Who are you calling now?" Edward went and grabbed himself a drink from the secret office fridge Yesha keeped. He opened the can and went back on his seat while using his phone to released the boredom and stress.
He was completely caught off guard when Yesha said," I'm calling your him so you can inform your daddy personally."
Edward never felt regretting his life choices like this before.