70 Happy? (1/2)

Gradis stared at her phone for a second before letting a small satisfied smile creep onto her face and turned off her phone.

'What do I do now?' she pondered to herself, while twirling her phone in her hand.

She was supposed to be working right now but… she was in no mood to work after that. Her body felt relaxed and calm like it was ready to fall on her bed and snuggle under her covers.

She wasn't sure what to make of the conversation earlier. Happy? Sad? Informed? That hour she had spent with Julian with Matheio now felt like it was 5 minutes total. A very cramped, information-filled 5 minutes.

”An adopted son in a huge, super established family filled business people and a mastermind leader… how interesting,” she chuckled to herself.

The family was something she needed to invade and topple but it seemed like the family wasn't that put together as she thought. The house of cards she was so excited to join as the last card to bring it doubling down was in fact individual towers that surrounded one big mountain.

The more she thought about that analogy… the more it fit. 'He really must be a genius,' she thought to herself as she unconsciously started packing up the papers she had pushed aside before the face time with Julian and Matheio.

”A bit intimidating tho…” she muttered to herself as she put her papers into her work-bag.

'Though his father's thinking it meant to help his company and the people around him, it also makes him come across as distant and unapproachable by many people in his family and outsiders that have gotten a glimpse of his family life,' she thought to herself as she put her computer in her bag.

”I guess that's why he works so hard on his reputation, to salvage and maintain the things he can keep,” she sighed.

She paused as she was about to close the work-bag and then went back to closing the bag. 'I don't really like that though.'

'Because of him and his ideologies, Julian and Matheio ended up the way they are. Julian has no expectations for his father and now sees him with a villain mindset and Matheio, who has literally only been in a one-sentence conversation with Julian's father, was already scared of him to his core,' she pondered, remembering Matheio's bright smile. Just imagining a cute little thing like him getting manipulated by his so-called 'father' made her jaws clench. It was sickening.

Maybe it was something Julian said or the way Matheio's face lit up when he laid his eyes on her, but her heart had skipped a beat. It was a rush of emotions she wanted to take and lock up in her heart for them. She didn't know this emotion but could remember a faded memory of it. One covered in so many cobwebs that she couldn't fully grasp it, though it was at her fingertips. She was sure of one thing though, she didn't like the way she wasn't beside them in the presence of that beast of a father.