(A/N: Bad news, guys! After this one, I think I need to temporarily stop updating because I need to redo my assignment and another due to the deadline is near. And here I thought I could finish one arc before midterm, maybe the possibility is not big in the current situation. See ya in 3 weeks??)
The next day afternoon, Ivan woke up in the arm of Fredrick. Ivan looked at the handsome face of his future husband. The more he looked, the deeper he sank into his handsomeness. Ivan couldn't help but leaned forward to plant a kiss on Fredrick's forehead.
The person who was being kissed suddenly open his eyes, he kissed back on Ivan's forehead. The sexy voice of the man echoed in a low tone, "Good morning, Darling!"
Ivan shyly said good morning back to Fredrick. Even though they said good morning, the time right now was nearly in the afternoon.
Ivan tried to get off the bed but his legs gave out. Ivan nearly fell flat on his face but before it could happen, an arm circled around his waist and pulled him back to the bed.
Ivan looked back at his helper, he pretended to cough with a slight blush on his ear tip.
"Thanks! I didn't know this could happen."
Fredrick just amusingly smirked, he got off the bed and pick Ivan up in a princess carry, and walked toward the bathroom. Seeing this, Ivan tried to get down but stopped when he heard Fredrick said.
"Didn't you just fell down? Just stay still, let your husband serve you."
Now the only thing Ivan could do was, just stayed still and relaxed and let the man served him. Fredrick bathed him and washed his hair, Ivan brushed his teeth himself. After Fredrick finished bathing Ivan, He went to wash up himself.
Ivan went to the closet and grabbed a navy suit and another black suit out of it. He laid the black one on the bed, and he proceeded to wear the navy one.
A few minutes later, Fredrick finished his bath and happened to see this alluring scene. Ivan was putting on his pants and his butt was up in the air. This position made Fredrick suddenly hardened.
Fredrick walked quickly over to where Ivan was standing. He pulled Ivan's waist and turned him around. Without saying anything, Fredrick planted a kiss on Ivan's soft lips, started with a gentle deep kiss to a passionate deep kiss.
After had a couple of breathless kisses, Fredrick was satisfied, he wanted to continue but he scared of Ivan became angry, he put a stop to it. and helped Ivan wearing his suit.
"Geez! You really..."
"Hmmm, it can't help who told you to seduce me!"
"Excuse me! When did I seduce you?"
Ivan exclaimed surprisingly at Fredrick's remark.
"All the times, every action that you do make me lose control."
'Stop it! We got work to do."
"Alright, I'll send you to your company."
They had some lunch when the maid from the mansion came to do the cleaning and delivering lunch to them. Then they took the elevator to the parking lot under the building.
While Fredrick was driving, Ivan told him a piece of unbelievable news.
"I'm going to resign when the new year comes."
"What?"
'Well, I have a husband now to provide me for the rest of my life. Why do I need to go to work?"
"That's true. your husband here can provide you with anything."
"Yes, my husband is so awesome."
Fredrick grinned from ear to ear like a fool when he got praised by his wife. he turned to his wife and said, "Where do you want to go after we have a wedding?"
Ivan paused a little and took some time before he answered Fredrick. At the same time, the car had arrived in the underground parking lot of the Godrick Group building.
"Up to you, I'll go wherever you go."
"Good! I love you! I will pick you up after work."
"Okay!"
Ivan got of the car because they had already arrived at his company for some time. He waved his hand to Fredrick and when he saw that the car had disappeared into the crowd, he went into the building and to his office.
Ever since Harley came back, the office never regained its former peace. He never had to deal with her directly only when she came to the office without an appointment.
Although she didn't cause trouble like that time, she came here every day, delivering lunch to Andres, making coffee for him, and she would go anywhere that Andres went.
She was the most clingy and persistent person that Ivan had ever seen. She was literally everywhere whenever you saw Andres except the male restroom, even though she didn't go in she still waited outside.
Ivan knew that Andres was already annoyed by her, it was just he didn't say out loud. He once heard Andres called his family about annulling his engagement with Harley because he had found the person he liked.
From the conversation, Ivan heard that they planned to announce it after the annual party held. They seemed to want to make sure of something but he didn't know what it was, so he just shrugged it off. It was good enough that they would announce it.
As for the female lead, she seemed to be okay, not affected by this plunge when she didn't get any attention from Andres. However, he knew that the two of them had talked it out, so they didn't have any misunderstandings about each other regarding Harley's action.
Belinda knew about the annulling engagement between Andres and Harley from her father, the perfect insider in Godrick's family. That was the reason why she didn't get offended by Harley.
The annual party of Godrick Group was held on 24 December, Christmas eve, which was in a few days. They gave a day off after the party which was on 25 December. On 26 December, Radford Group's annual party was held.
The earliest annual party among the Giant Three Group was Schneider Group held on 22 December which would be tomorrow if Ivan calculated the date from today.
They were quite busy these days. despite the fact that Ivan wasn't part of the internal auditor of the company, he still needed to look and check the prepared financial statement that they made.
After Ivan checked it, he would hand it to Lance to check it again, then they could submit it to the CEO and let the external auditor do the checking again. They did it like this because they wanted to make sure that the financial statement of their company was compliant with both national law and international law and followed the international financial reporting standard.
(A/N: if you study accounting, you'll know what I mean in this paragraph)
Moreover, it was also in order to avoid any fraud happening to the financial statement because the punishment was quite serious. This also prevented any illegal action that the board of directors could make or those in the management.
Ivan missed those days he spent time with Fredrick. He suddenly wanted to stop working now and went home, sleeping and watching TV.
While he was planning what to do when he got home, he sensed that he seemed to forget something important. As he was trying to remember what the thing he had forgotten about, he received a message from Fredrick.
"Did you submit your resignation paper?"
'That's it'. He logged in to his computer, opened the program, and started writing his resignation letter. He finished it in 30 mins, then he went to his boss's office. He knocked on the door three times before he entered.
He stood in front of Andres's desk, then he handed him the resignation letter which he put on the desk. Andres looked at Ivan when he saw the resignation letter.
"Is there something wrong?"
"No, sir."
"Then why do you want to resign?"
"It's my personal reason. It doesn't relate to the company's treatment or anything."
"I see, Do you really want to resign?"
"Yes. Could you grant my permission before 25 December?"
"Why don't you wait until the new year?"
"Well, I don't think there isn't anybody that cannot replace me, right?"
Andres was stunned by Ivan's remark about this. What he said was the truth. If Ivan left, the company had no problem finding a new one, especially, Andres himself has a candidate for his place.
"However, boss, If you get married, don't forget to invite me."
"Alright! I will grant your resignation before 25. Thank you for working hard with me all this time, Ivan." Andres smiled as he stood up to shake hands with Ivan.
"You're welcome, boss!"
Before Ivan closed the door, he threw another sentence to Andres, who was after hearing it, was laughing out loud.
"I expect good news soon, boss!"
Ivan returned to his desk, took out his phone, and messaged to someone, "I miss you!". Then he got a reply back saying, "I miss you too!"
Then the day that Godrick Group held its annual party arrived.
(A/N: Do you want me to give you some spoilers about Arc 2? Nahhhh... I change my mind I'll tell you once I finish this arc, XD)