96 All That Youve Gone Through (1/2)

Jim sighed.

He looked at Miya's face, a plethora of emotions rising in him as he saw how peacefully she slept. He held her hand in his, and it gave him a strange sense of relief too. The young master closed his eyes.

Leaning against the headboard, he began to think.

It was strange.

Last night had been strange.

And he accepted the odd turn of events, he just couldn't understand how to feel about them. There was a woman lying beside him. And a child beside her. Two groupings that he had never really liked.

Yet, when he saw these two, he was okay.

More than anything else, he was at ease. Almost as if he wanted them to be there. And not just because of the Hunter Corporation, but because of feelings he didn't know how to place.

The kiss flashed in his head.

His lips burnt from the sheer thought of it, his mouth went dry. Jim swallowed, cursing aloud. He was so f***ing glad he hadn't blurted out ”I love you” to the missus in the heat of the moment.

Because things had somehow become clearer.

Miya had scared him senseless with her feat against Carver, but it had also made him realize. He had been standing behind a tree, hidden with a gun while the missus had been out on the battlefield.

That exactly, had made him grasp the huge difference that existed between them.

That, and the fact that he didn't know anything about her.

Still.

He had the reports from the investigations, and Miya's own word, both saying two different things about her very identity. However, Rebecca's appearance had cleared a thing or two. For one, in Miya's ten years of 'disappearance', she had met Rebecca Freeman for a while and even stayed at her house. Also, when Rebecca and Jim had been preparing the script for Miya, that she was supposed to say word to word to Carver on the phone, Jim had taken his chance.

He had asked Rebecca about Ben's father.

She had confirmed, that this 'Kasu' guy was known to them both. And he indeed, was Ben's father. Which again had Jimmy confused.

Because Charlie Swan Park was a researcher of top class.

How did she end up making that mistake? Or was it deliberate?

But… the Chairman too hadn't threatened him for his inheritance for quite some time. And he himself hadn't really heard any news about Amara. So either Charlie had made a huge mistake in her investigation, or she had let out false information on purpose.

Question was, who made her do it, if indeed the latter were true? If the Chairman was ready to hand over the Corporation to him, and he hadn't bought in Charlie, then who was the woman working for?

Or it could have been a simple mistake, on her part.

Jim didn't know what to believe.

Jim still couldn't point out what exactly it was, that the old Hunter was up to.

Lastly, Jimmy still hadn't given the wife a ring.

That were some of the problems he needed to deal with, right there.

Add to that the expansion he was planning into Country M.

The young master played with the girl's fingers absentmindedly, half wondering if he should simply slip the ring on her and let her be surprised in the morning. However, his gut told him that it wouldn't be a surprise to her. Rather, a shock. And not a pleasant one at that.

He sighed.

He was pretty sure the girl didn't 'love' him. He wasn't even sure that was exactly what he felt for her. He couldn't reason out why she had kissed him back, but nevertheless, his belief didn't waver that Miya would kick his face if he gave her a ring.