Chapter 34 - Quite An Adventure (1/2)

'She isn't an artifact to store on your shelf until you get bored of it.' Ean's words hit Alvin a little harder than they should.

Was he considering the lady as an artifact he was fascinated about?

He was always attracted to the things which were rare and unique of their kind. The Young Mommy definitely fitted that list according to him, she wasn't like other women he met. She makes him feel grounded and light which he hadn't felt in the past five years. In the past five years of rigorous and nonstop work, the first time he craved to pause and breathe after meeting her.

Was he selfish to desire some more time? If he was, then he wanted to be more greedy and pause his life there and enjoy it. So the young lady resting in his bedroom wasn't really the lifeless thing he excavated.

”Hadn't you left her back? Why did you kidnap her?” Bernard's irritated question followed by Ean's high-pitched voice brought Alvin back to reality, ”Kidnap!?” The revelation blew Ean's mind.

Alvin stood up and shoved his hands in his pockets. He didn't kidnap her, if he had followed Bernad's plan then that would have been a kidnapping. He saved her when Harper's men were going to make her life a living hell.

”Uncle Bernard,” He uttered slowly and coldly as he turned his gaze to Bernard, ”Who planned 'HER' kidnapping?” He stressed the word 'Her' to let them know he couldn't be tricked so easily.

Bernard: ”...”

Alvin glanced at his friend and walked towards the stairs, ”Find the mole.” His words were more like an order when he walked away.

Bernard was working on finding the mole so his attention went on 'Her.' He glanced at Ean who was probably in the same dilemma as him, ”Ean, do you think he identified Anya?”

Ean watched Alvin ascend the last steps before he disappeared from their sight, ”President Collins, Alvin is definitely not a fool.”

Taking Alvin's personality, he wasn't pressing them to tell about Anya because their actions were already giving them out. Alvin was probably mentally preparing himself to accept what he had long found out.

'Perhaps having an internal argument if he was wishing for Puffyball or the lady…' Ean shifted his bewildered gaze on Bernard, ”President Collins, is Anya Owen a divorcee? A widow? Or had a child out of wedlock?”

Bernard paused his thoughts on the mole and became confused about how does that matters to Ean or Alvin, ”Why are you asking this?”

Ean smoothly revealed all his thoughts to Bernard as the latter was like a father figure to Alvin, ”I guess this idiot has fallen for her… Probably five years ago and hadn't realized it.” Even after completing their graduation, Alvin hardly missed any day and frequently dropped by at the university library for her.

'I suppose... He still doesn't understand yet.' Ean felt like pulling his hair out.

Bernard didn't know if he should be happy or not. He liked Anya and wished somebody like her to be his daughter-in-law but Zane's presence had stopped him. So he wasn't sure how to react to Alvin liking Anya.

”Anya has a son.” She rejected her suitors for five years who were ready to accept her with Zane. She would never put her son at any kind of disadvantage. So Bernard thought Alvin might not succeed in wooing her.

Back in his mind, Bernard was aware that he honestly didn't like the idea of Alvin looking after somebody's child. Although he didn't judge Anya for having a baby, he wasn't ready to let society judge Alvin and their family due to her. ”Chairman Matthews will never agree.”

Ean shrugged his shoulders as he leaned back on the couch. Alvin's father would spit fire on Alvin and Anya, ”A big battle is up ahead.”