I Fell For The Boy His Daddy Was A Bonus

The next day, Kaleb was busy at work, listening to a new investment proposal from inside a conference room at the Wright Diamond Corporation.

He noticed his phone vibrating inside the pocket of his trousers, but considering how important the meeting was, he ignored the calls. After some time, however, the trunk line to the conference rang, disturbing the presentation.

Kaleb’s eyes narrowed, wondering how important it was for his assistant to forward the call. No one else knew about the meeting, except for his assistant, and of course, the CEO, his brother.

One of the managers took the call, and then he turned to Kaleb. “Mister Wright, it’s an emergency from the Third Diamond Hotel.”

‘Emergency?’ Kaleb took a second to grab the handset and another moment to scan the team of employees who were equally curious about the emergency. “Hello.”

“Mister Wright. I’m very sorry to disturb you, but we have a situation.” Kaleb was familiar with the voice of the hotel’s General Manager, Mister Stevens.

“What is it, Mister Stevens?” Kaleb said in his deep voice.

There was a sudden dead air, making Kaleb frown. The next thing he knew, he heard his son on the other line. “Daddy.”

Kaleb’s eyes grew wide. He marveled at how his General Manager became powerless over his six-year-old son. He asked, “Liam? Why did you use the emergency trunk line of the hotel?”

“Daddy, I’m not going to the doctor,” Liam revealed. “I ran to Mister Steven’s office because you did not answer uncle Boris’ calls. If you want me to go see my doctor, meet my demand.”

Kaleb groaned in annoyance. He did not need this right now, but his son’s vaccination had been postponed five times already. He shook his head and asked, “What is your demand?”

“I will only see the Doctor with my Beauty,” Liam finally said.

Silenced stretched between the father and son before enlightenment came into Kaleb. It was a perfect excuse to see Scarlett.

“Wait for me.” He answered.

After ending the call, he instructed his assistant to delay his son’s doctor’s appointment for another hour. Only after wrapping up his meeting did he leave to pick up Liam and then. Both left for the Herbal Twist Restaurant, with Boris driving them there.

***

Outside the restaurant where Scarlett was working, two frames could be seen in a serious conversation.

hundred dollars?” Scarlett let out a sigh of disbelief. She shook her head as she ran her slender fingers through her dark hair. “You know clients pay you more than ten times the amount, right? You should give me

Scarlett, I’m the licensed attorney here. You are just technically an undeclared clerk. And mind you, if Luca ever finds out that I am giving you a side-job, he would get me fired from my office too!” The girl named Ciera said,

She accepted the money, for she needed it badly. Her

worked for three nights, writing those legal documents for Ciera, a classmate of hers back in law school. Yet, she was

lot,” she muttered

struggle to find a stable job, Scarlett occasionally accepted writing jobs from her classmates or anyone who was too lazy

She hated Luca more for it was he, his influence, and his father’s firm that had blocked her from taking the board exams, suggesting that

threw on her face the pending assault lawsuit, one that Luca never really pursued. There were also pieces of evidence that suggested Scarlett had

wondered when her life

Beep!

as if answering her silent call to the heavens. She then saw a luxury black car, making her lips form into a

dream armored car. It has got to be the biggest, baddest beast

vehicle’s car window rolled down, revealing her adorable young suitor.

eyes sparkled at the sight of Scarlett,

her head gazing up to level with the

was sitting next to Liam in the backseat of the really expensive car. He

just finished my shift. I

“It was my father’s gift. Each of us, his children,

awe. She snorted while thinking inwardly, ‘I’d like to

you know, my Beauty, I am the only heir of my

and Scarlett wound up looking at the boy, perplexed at his words. When Liam winked at Scarlett, she laughed thoroughly, finally understanding what this little boy meant. “Okay, Liam. I got

Then, she pointed out, “But I thought we already clarified this. My name

you Beauty. Dad made a poor excuse to call you Beauty, but I want to be the first to tell you that the name fits

was trying to calm her wild heart, Kaleb was throwing daggers with his eyes

seconds of silence followed, with both Kaleb and Scarlett, trying to recover from

down at the road and attempted to divert the discussion. She asked, “What –

son has a request,” Kaleb replied in

she heard the boy say, “I want to see the doctor with

hope you don’t mind.” Kaleb exhaled deeply before he pleaded, “I would really appreciate it, especially since

added, “Then, after the doctor’s visit, we

five-star buffet restaurant of the