The next day after finalizing the book publisher Ash went to his company. Serena had already approved the additional budget so Ash had called Jason to start editing as soon as possible and to his surprise, Jason arrived right after he called and was eager to do his work. So Ash joined him right away and they got busy editing.
The next day. Ash received a call from Alfred and was informed that his novel is going to receive a mass release of 50,000 copies on the first day.
Ash was not surprised by this and his thoughts were, 'It looks like someone has finally read the manuscript.'
He was also informed that the book will be released in 4 days on 24 July Tuesday. And this surprised Ash because he didn't think that they will release it so soon. When Ash heard that date Ash decided to release the trailer of his movie on the same day too.
So he once again got busy. Since he wanted to use his song in the trailer he also called Joy. Joy said to him that she was working on it day and night. She will be able to complete it before Monday.
Everything was going perfectly for Ash and he was busy preparing for it.
In the last few days, Ash was so busy that he had completely forgotten about the engagement. He only remembered it when May called him to confirm if he was coming to her engagement or not.
Ash told her that he will definitely come because wanted to give May a final gift on behalf of former Ash.
Now Ash was regretting that he booked the same date as the engagement. But in the end, Ash decided to miss the release.
Ash went back to his apartment to get ready but soon he realized that he didn't have anything suitable to wear for the occasion. So he borrowed Serena's car and went shopping.
He bought a high brand suit and shoes. He prepared a special gift for May because of which he got late for the party.
When he arrived the party had already begun. May and James were the center of attraction but when Ash arrived he became the Center of attraction immediately. All the high-end society was invited to the party and most of them knew about Ash.
Due to Ash's arrival at the engagement party, many whispers and speculations were made about him. Some were pitying him and some were criticizing him for coming But Ash ignored all of them and looked at May and Smiled at her as a form of greeting. May also smiled at him and winked her eyes at him as a sign of accepting his greeting. James was watching and felt rage.
Butch was also invited to the party James. So James instructed Butch to humiliate Ash.
Ash saw Cyrus so he want to greet him but Butch blocked him and said, "It looks like an uninvited guest has decided to join in. Some people like to be humiliated," Butch said loudly so everyone around him could hear it but Ash completely ignored him and maintained his cool and calm demeanor and walked passed him.
He reached Cyrus. Cyrus was standing there with his cold stoic face. He controlled the biggest media conglomerate in the world and he was exactly like one could imagine a man with a power like his, Cold and domineering.
Ash stood in front of Cyrus. He felt a lot of complicated feelings inside of him but the most common was a sense of inferiority. He felt like Cyrus was like a big and old mountain that can't be rivaled.
The Next moment Cyrus's gaze fell on Ash. In front of his gaze, Ash felt like he was burdened with a lot of weight and wanted to lower his head but Ash didn't yield. Ash stood tall in front of him, face to face, and said in his British accent Just like his mother," How have you been father?"
"I have been great. why do you ask?" Cyrus felt that the question Ash asked was a little weird.
"I just thought you weren't feeling well." Ash said that with a smirk and then looked at Butch, "Since you are raising dogs who chew their owner's hand." Everyone was surprised to hear Ash talk like that in front of Cyrus. Butch knew that Ash was directing the insults at him so he got red with anger and shouted, "Ash! Is that how..."
But before he could finish Cyrus glanced at him like he was telling him to stop.
Ash once again looked at Butch then turned to Cyrus and said, "Ah! father, Let him bark some more. After all, some dogs liked to be humiliated."
Butch was utterly raged right now but he could not say anything with Cyrus present.
When James saw Butch failing completely he came there and said, "Hey, Ash, glad you came. How you doing these days," He said this to distract everything that occurred earlier.
Ash looked at James and his face formed another smirk again and he said, "Me? I am doing absolutely great these days, In fact just you tonight is a night for me too. After all, my first novel is released with over 50,000 copies, and the trailer for my first was also released just now. I even recently made a profit of millions out of almost nothing," Ash said that all in one breath and continued, "Anyways, enough about me, how are you doing these days with a multi-billion dollar company."
When Ash said that James almost choked on his breath. He didn't know how to answer it and got annoyed. He thought Ash was calling himself better than him so he asked, "What are you trying to prove?"
Ash smirked and looked at Butch once again who was trying to slip away for a while now and said, "With people like him, following you around I won't need to prove myself anyways."
James has been silenced once again. May's father Dave Wallace was watching this whole fiasco and couldn't help himself and said, "You should stay within your limit kid."
Ash answered him immediately like he was rea for it. His gaze turned cold as looked at Dave Wallace and said," For that, I have to know my limits first."
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