Xander wasn't sure if he felt shock or surprised at that new announcement. Maybe he felt another unexplainable emotion that was followed with anger.
"Next month? I heard both of you just got together" Xander asked with a forced smile.
"Not really" Mike said and leaned closer "We've been together for eight month" he whispered and chuckled to him.
The new chairman felt like he had recieve a slap on his face. He never noticed it, he was so blinded his love to notice it. Xander got used to his wife never returning his affection but it never came to his mind that she could be cheating on her.
How could he be so stupid. She is a human being and would have desires. He never felt so dumb in his life. He is also a human being and has desire but he couldn't look outside his marriage, he thought his wife would respect that even if she didn't respect him.
"Sir, Are you alright" Hunter asked from behind him, making Xander give Mike an excuse and left the track. He also felt his boss pain and wondered how he had endured. He wished he could see this woman and give her a pieces of his mind or rather stop her new wedding.
Who knew if she would be faithful to her new husband.
"I would take this" Hunter said to Mike and collected the wedding invitation.
Xander left without his assistant, he was not in the to have any human interaction. He felt angry and useless like he doesn't have the right to be angry. She would never acknowledge him because he was poor. He didn't asked her to like or respect him but acknowledge he existed was enough for him.
He kept his anger at bay until he got to his room. He unleased the anger that he kept bottled up since the day Hermia gave him a divorce letter.
He felt a surge of strength along with his anger and started punching the wall and shoutin in anger. He felt pain on his knuckles but those pain felt nothing compared to what his heart was feeling.
He didn't hear someone calling him until they grabbed his hands and pinned him to the wall. He struggled to free to the hold but the person did not bulge until his anger dissipated and tear followed free from his eyes.
"I'm nothing" his voice was croaked from so much shouting.
"You not nothing, you are something, you are my boss, the chairman of XL conglomerate and member of the Cage family, that means a lot so you are not nothing" the person voice brought him to his sense and he noticed his environment.
Hunter was pinning him down with so much strength he didn't expect a normal person to have and Trente was few steps away from them sobbing silently.
"But she never regarded me as something and it hurt, I loved her sincerely with all my heart and she took it as nothing, I'm worthless, I'm useless, I'm just a waste of space, I shouldn't be breathing the same air everyone breath, I would be better of dead" Xander confessed in tears while hitting his chest.
"She is the one who so blind not to see you, not to notice you and acknowledge you and she should suffer for using and hurting you. You are not to be blame you were just someone in love and people in love to stupid things, so calm down and focus on making her pay" Hunter said sincerely, he never had to handle someone this broken before but he was happy to try.
"I'm tried and hurt" Xander said tiredly
"I understand, it's alright to feel like that" Hunter assured
"No, I'm hurt" Xander said, slightly shaking his wrist. It was then Hunter understood that he was referring to his wrist.
"Oh, Trente get the first aid kit quick" the younger brother wiped his tears and hurried out of the room to do as he was told while Hunter help his boss slide down from the wall to the ground.
Xander felt so exhausted that he struggled to keep his eyes open and Hunter wondered how long Xander have kept his anger fir him to explode like this.
He looked at the wall that was stained with blood, if one look closely they would see little crack on it.
Trente soon arrived with the kit and Hunter helped him dress his wounded and help him to the bed. Soon Xander was asleep under his covers in comfortable clothes.
"Are you alright?" Hunter asked Trente who was still shaken up my his brother behavior.
"I would be" he responded and wrapped his hand around the cold glass of water.
The both of them sat in the kitchen after Xander slept off.
After Xander left the track, he alert Trente would told him that he might be at home since he there wasn't anywhere else he would be. They lucky to meet Xander at home even though he wasn't in a good state.
"Do want to eat?" Hunter asked again and Trente shook his head. The assistant realize that maybe he underestimated Trente reaction.
"Okay, go to bed I would watch over your brother" Hunter suggested
"He won't die, right?" Trente finally said.
"Who?"
"Xander, won't die right?"
"No, he is not, I won't let him, if dies I'm going to wake up from death" Hunter said jokingly and the younger brother smiled before heading to his room.
Hunter watched him leave and wondered what the young boy had face to make him think of death.
Xander woke up early the next morning and saw Hunter sleeping on his couch in the seating room. He remembered everything that happen the previous night and groaned in embarrassment. His new assistant had to see him in that form he wondered how he would face him at office.
Xander felt hungry so he moved quietly to the kitchen, careful not to wake Hunter up. He opened the fridge and realized it was almost empty. He cursed Trente in his head for eating too much.
He took his wallet and phone then sneak out of the house finding the nearest open store since the grocery store in the estate won't have opened by that time.
This led to him leaving the estate in search of where to eat. The sun was already rising and stores where opening up for business. He went to a small noodles restaurant and eat his breakfast. He also for a take out for both Trente and Hunter, he actually hoped Hunter had left because he couldn't face him.
"Keep the change" he said to the woman who gave him his take out in a white plastic bag.
He didn't change out of his clothes so he was like every normal class citizen. He walked out of the restaurant and took out his phone to check the time on it only to realize that it was switch off.
He switched on his phone and a call immediately came in. It was Trente, it was surprising because he wasn't someone who calls, he preferred texting.
"Hello" he answered the call
"Xander, why did you leave the house without telling anyone. Where did you go to that early and why the hell is your phone switched off" Trente sounded off and worried, maybe more than worried. This is the first time he is seeing Trente react like this.
"Trente, breathe. I'm alright. I only went out to get some food since you emptied the fridge" that got Trente to calm down.
Suddenly he felt someone pull his phone out of his hand and turned to see who it was.
"Hermia?"
"Thief" She stated after examining the phone, it was the latest Samsung phone.
"What!"