Chapter 386 - Sweet Dream (1/2)

A smile appeared on Alaric's face. Now he understood why Aleksis was very friendly towards Terry dan Nicolae. Terry was her brother, and Nicolae was the son of her godfather ...

Now Alaric could see how things were connected. He didn't need to worry about feeling jealous or anything...

”So how are you doing in England? When are you going home?” Aleksis asked him. ”Can we switch to video mode instead? I really really really miss seeing your face!”

”Why do you want to see me?” Alaric questioned, pretending not to understand her question. He started to enjoy teasing Aleksis.

”I'm a forgetful person, you know. If you don't want to talk via video don't blame me if you come back after one month and I couldn't remember what you look like anymore ...” Aleksis grumbled. Without waiting for Alaric's approval she pressed the projector button on Takeshi's cellphone. She wanted to see how Alaric was doing. Unfortunately, Alaric did not accept the video call from Aleksis, making the girl annoyed. ”Why did you reject my video call?”

The man coughed, ”Sorry I can't use projector mode here. I'm having a conference in the meeting room. People will pass out if they suddenly see your face appearing here.”

Aleksis subconsciously covered her mouth in surprise. Jeez ... Does it mean she was currently interrupting Alaric's meeting with other people, that she had bothered her husband without asking what he was doing?

”Gosh ... I'm sorry. You should have told me that you are busy so I wouldn't call you,” Aleksis murmured in guilt. ”Sorry, I didn't ask.”

”Ahaha ... it's okay. I told you to call me before you sleep. Since it's you, of course, I would have to pick up your call.” Alaric spoke soothingly.

”Yes, but I should have texted first to ask if you are busy or not. Hmm ... then tomorrow morning you should call me, it would be nighttime in your timezone. Once it's the evening in Singapore, I will call you. Hopefully tomorrow, we are both not busy,” replied Aleksis with finality in her voice. ”I'm not comfortable bothering you at work.”

Inwardly, she was actually embarrassed, she had been blabbering nonstop for almost 15 minutes before asking what Alaric was doing.

”Are you really fine with that? Have you talked enough?” Alaric asked her in a teasing tone.

”Yes, I have. Let's talk again tomorrow ... I will go to sleep now. Have a good meeting. Take good care of your health.” answered the girl before ending the call.

”That is all?” Alaric inquired again.

Aleksis smiled shyly as she whispered, ”I love you.”

”I love you too. Good night,” said her husband who was smiling on the other end of the line.

Alaric hung up and turned back toward the middle of the room, where his directors in the European Union countries had gathered in a conference call. All of the six people present were visibly shocked and puzzled because for 15 minutes their boss suddenly paused the meeting to receive a call, and he seemed to have smiled several times while speaking with the one who phoned him.

They almost never saw the man smiling, whether it be when he was still wearing his mask or today after taking it off in front of them. This was truly a rare sight.

Only Pavel could guess who had just called his boss.

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Aleksis woke up feeling happy. She did not expect that after listening to Alaric's voice, she would become so happy that she could sleep soundly and even had sweet dreams.