"She didn't?" There was a soft buzzing in her head when Matthew's expression remained passive. He could lie with a straight face, that's for sure. She saw her mother come out of his office twenty minutes ago. She bit the inside of her cheeks and exhaled a soft breath.
"You need something else?"
Lilly gritted her teeth with how Matthew was acting like he couldn't wait for her to leave. The audacity of this man to treat her in such a manner. He was the one who asked her to come every freaking Monday to get her weekly allowance. And now, he's acting as if he was a disturbance that he couldn't wait to disappear from his sight.
Her graduation is next week. Right after, she and her friends would fly to Mykonos for their graduation trip. Afterward, she was planning to distance herself from her friends to focus on university. And she needed to clear the issues about her wedding for her to do that.
That's why, even though Matthew was making her feel so unwelcome, she gritted her teeth and asked. "What is your plan for our wedding?"
She clenched her hands into a ball when she saw his jawline ticked. He looked so pissed.
"You can have it any way you want it."
Lilly felt a new hole was drilled in her heart. She couldn't believe him. She knew that their marriage was nothing but just a business deal but she had a bit of hope since he requested her to come and meet him at least once a week, even though the purpose was to get her allowance from him, at least Matthew wanted to see her.
But now, she was no longer sure.
"That's good." She smiled, faking indifference. "If that's the case, I want our wedding to be nothing but a piece of paper that I have to sign."
She didn't wait for Matthew's reply. She got up from the chair, leaving the first credit card—the one with his name on top of the coffee table.
"Sorry for taking your time. My graduation is next week. I heard that you don't want to marry a high school kid, but by next week that's no longer the case."
Matthew's eyebrows were knitted so tightly and his mouth was pulled into a thin line when she turned on her heels and left his office without a glance.
When the door of his office closed behind Lilly, he scoffed and chuckled sarcastically. He couldn't believe her to be so sly. He thought she was innocent but he was just deceived by her innocent look.
"William, I need you in my office." He said on the intercom and opened one of the glass panels in the window. He lit up a cigarette and puffed furiously.
Last night, Lilly's father called for him for an emergency meeting. Thinking that it was something important, he left his parent's house in the middle of dinner to meet him. But he never expected the emergency meeting that his future father-in-law called him for. He demanded that he sign another contract to protect his daughter's future. His exact words. As if he was marrying Lilly to ruin his life.
The old man had the nerve to act as if he was victimizing Lilly by marrying him. He must have forgotten that it was him who offered the deal to his father! The two bastards—Mr. Morgan and his own father had a deal for the Gray Empire to buy out the sinking company of Mr. Morgan in exchange for him marrying his daughter.
His father's reason for wanting him to marry Lilly was because he didn't want him to be the CEO of a Gray Empire as a bachelor. The deal that his father gave him to get the CEO position was for him to marry.
"Matthew."
"I want you to find out more about my future wife." His thoughts were disrupted when Mr. Gallard entered his office.
"Miss Morgan?"
"Why? Is there another girl that my father wanted me to marry?" He snapped with sarcasm.
However, Mr. Gallard just laughed.
"Lilly is young, but I'd say she's a good match for you."
Matthew narrowed his eyes on the old man. Mr. Gallard had been his secretary since he started working in the company and they developed a friendly relationship and not just as employer-employee one. It was surprising to hear from him that he likes Lilly for him.
"But I don't like the sly and cunning Mr. Morgan."
"You are going to marry his daughter, not him," he said with a knowing smile on his lips. He knew Matthew from the day that he was still wet between ears to now that he's the CEO of his father's empire.
And he never saw Matthew be interested in girls. He dated a lot of girls but they come and go for Matthew never exert any effort of keeping them. Not even sending them flowers or anything that girls find romantic.
"William, the reason why I want you to investigate Lilly was that I want to know what was her part in her father's plan to manipulate me into submission."
"You are talking about that special contract that Mr. Morgan wanted you to sign?" He asked carefully. The content of the documents was what ruined Matthew's day. Mr. Morgan was quite insistent for Matthew to sign it.
"It was laughable! Why in the world would he think that I would sign those documents?"
"It seems that he got the idea from your father."
Matthew slammed the folder on his desk, making the other files on a pile scattered all over the floor. "Fcvk! My old man would stop at nothing to screw me and watch me fail." He shook his head and with a new determination in his eyes gave William another order. "Get me an appointment with my future father-in-law and prepare the papers for my wedding."
"Should I also prepare a gift for your future wife?"
He creased his forehead and asked. "Gift for what?"