Tucking a strand of hair across her face, Xaden smiled before he placed another kiss on her hand.
He was quiet for a long while as he just continued staring at her, squeezing her palms gently.
Just then,a soft knock came on the door breaking his intense gaze on his wife,he turned to look at the door and when the knock came again,he stood up and strolled towards the door to open it,upon opening it he found a handsome Shawn dressed in formals and hurriedly fixing his cufflinks, it seemed he was heading to the office today despite it being a Saturday.
" Hey man,good morning" Shawn greeted as soon as the door opened.
" Heyyyyyy, morning" Xaden replied responding to their famous brotherly handshake and shoulder hug.
Shawn was all smiles as he retreated from the shoulder hug,he was glad his friend wasn't looking downcast anymore. " So, h-how's she doing,is she awake yet " he asked peeping into the room to see if Mira was awake.
Xaden sighed heavily before he moved aside " Nope,not yet " he replied in a low voice walking back to his position.
Shawn followed inside and stopped at the foot of the bed, while Xaden took his seat and resumed caressing Mira's hand.
" I guess it's because of that injection"
" Yeah..."
The two were silent for a long while as Shawn didn't know what to say, he didn't have any words of reassurance for Xaden that Mira would get better soon as that had been his anthem for over the past one year now and yet things were still the same and with last night's incident,Shawn had almost lost hope but he knew he couldn't ,he knew he had to stay strong and hopeful for his friend and help see him through this phase,this was just a storm in his life and he knew the sun would be out one day.
" Sooo " Xaden spoke out after few minutes of akward silence, jolting Shawn from his thoughts. " It appears you're going to the office " he questioned throwing the latter a glance before his eyes returned back to the one whom it was made for.
" Yyyyeah " Shawn straightened up clearing his throat softly before he continued " well actually,there are some technical issues or something with the construction machines we received the other day so I have a meeting with their engineers today "
Xaden's face upon hearing the word ' Technical issues ' immediately curved into a frown. " Technical what!!! " he questioned with arched eyebrows as he suddenly stopped caressing Mira's hand. " What do you mean by technical issues,they are newly made and imported for crying out loud "
" Yep, even I was surprised as well after finding out that some machines were faulty, it's a good thing I had inspected the machines the next day they arrived or else it would have been a serious problem, well after finding out that some of the machines were faulty,I spoke with the Ceo's assistant,they came over to inspect the machines last week and it turned out that in their rush to supply us that much machines on the designated date,they ended up making some errors in the arrangement process and some machines were sent half done "
" And what sort of silly mistake was that huh,I purposely didn't want any shit like this to happen and that was why I gave him the contract a long time ago,if they knew they couldn't supply us that much machines within that period of time why didn't they say, why send me half built machines and why are you telling me about this only now " Xaden queried in anger,he was sure that it was because of his long term absence in the office that was why they had dared to make such a mistake,in his years of business in the office such a thing had never happened before.
" Because I was worried about getting this reaction from you man and look that's exactly how you're behaving " Shawn explained
" How many of the machines are faulty " he questioned completely ignoring Shawn's reply
" Ermmm,I think about 57 out of 200, yeah "
" Fifty seve....." he almost exclaimed,that was a whole lot and the project was to kick off in two weeks time, Xaden's lips twitched in utmost annoyance as he let go of Mira's hand,he looked pissed, really pissed,this was a nationwide project personally contracted to him by the president himself and some lazy ass tech company was trying to ruin it for him.
Shawn seeing Xaden's business temper rise immediately added the reassuring part. " They already apologised though and offered a solution to it "
" And what would that be " Xaden replied sarcastically,it was evident he was only containing his rage because of his still sleeping wife.
" Well,they offered for their engineers to come down to the machine locations and work on them,they promised that all machines will be ready and healthy a week before the project day "
" Yeah the same way they promised that they'll be available a month before the project " he retorted jerking up from his seat ' How could Lit Tech behave so unprofessionally, what if Shawn hadn't discovered the faulty machines before the day of the project,the project would have surely been put on hold ,
After receiving a huge sum of advance payment, they had the effontery to relax and then provide incomplete machines two weeks to the project,it seems they think he had gone soft '.
" Look calm down , Xaden, they're gonna start working on the machines today and they promised in less than a week they'll be ready,no need to get upset anymore man " Shawn pleaded trying to calm down an extremely pissed Xaden who was busy scrambling for his phone on the bedside table.
He was gonna put a call to that bastard Lit Tech CEO because this was so unprofessional and certainly not the way to do things,the contract agreement in which they had signed 8 months ago was that all 200 machines were to be ready at most three weeks prior to the project kick off date, tomorrow was gonna make it exactly two weeks to the date and son of a bitch still had 57 fucking machines to work on, what guarantee was there that the machines after being redone in a hurry won't have problems.
As Shawn watched Xaden take out his phone,he soon began to regret telling him,he knew it wasn't gonna be good for CEO Chen if Xaden made that call.
But just as Xaden found his phone and was about to dial the number,a soft voice reached his ears and in the blink of an eye,his anger evaporated.
" Hubby " came the small voice.