His Devious Rule

Harrison: "..."

Harrison watched the butler run inside the mansion. He turned to Rob who had a sly smile on his face.

The butler just passed him the instructions of Casper that the interior of the mansion should be changed as soon as possible. It should be brighter with some pop-up colors. At the same time, it should be spacious enough for kids to play.

Harrison guessed this couldn\'t be Anya and Alvin. Their little master was fooling the old lady and she was ordering around, dancing little one\'s terms without awareness.

"What is the Second Young Master\'s plan?" Alvin\'s silence was making him go crazy. Alvin would rather ignore them like flies or get rid of them quickly. He would never waste his time so much.

Rob looked at the secretary. He indeed knew Alvin\'s grand plan, "There will be no fun if you know it soon."

Harrison: "..."

It wasn\'t about fun, he will have to live on the sharp edge of the knife watching Casper\'s pride being stabbed again and again.

He was sure of one thing, The redemption or the destruction of the three inside were in Alvin and Anya\'s hands.

But why was he already feeling a sense of crisis?

Harrison wanted to contact Liam. Looking at him, Alvin might soften a bit.

He went aside to make the calls to invite the interior designing companies to head to the Matthews mansion by morning. If the design is selected, then the mansion will be renovated in 2 or 3 days.

He also reached out to Liam Matthews, asking him to return soon by finding an excuse.

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Inside the mansion,

Anya stopped at the door of Alvin\'s bedroom that was in the Mathews mansion. Nothing had changed in his room. It was speck and span as if somebody was living there every day.

Alvin turned around when Anya didn\'t enter with him. Her eyes were glued to the bed as cold beads of sweat started forming on her forehead.

He should be the one to recall his bad memories but she was the one who had the worst experience in that room.

Tugging her inside, he asked. "Little Donut, did you think I will be safe if you don\'t meet me?"

Unfortunately, Anya was too naive then. So she hummed as she nodded to his question. She was freaked out compared to the day she got to know she was pregnant.

"Goof…" Anya kicked his leg before he could complete it.

Narrowing her eyes at the man, she sarcastically said, "A certain someone left his startup and the country, thinking I will be safe. Such a clever move." She clapped for him. She scoffed, "Duffer."

Alvin bit his tongue, hearing her. Both were stupid and learned it the hard way. Or… Alvin doubted if he ran away from the country for Anya\'s safety or marriage.

From his childhood, he wanted to get rid of the shackles called the Matthews. He had tried it too but Casper\'s men always brought him home. And wherever he went, he was identified as a Matthews.

Anya and her safety were like a hard push on his back to go far away where Matthews couldn\'t reach him. If he hadn\'t left that day, probably Casper would still be controlling him without letting him live his life and have his Little Donut.

Even if the past filled them with ugly scars, they wouldn\'t have achieved and gained so much without it.

Anya was checking the Rubix cubes collection, Alvin tugged her into his arms as he sat on the bed with her on his lap. Wrapping his arms, he placed his chin on her shoulder without letting her move.

Anya could feel Alvin wasn\'t feeling good about returning to the mansion. She kind of felt bad for bringing him back to the place he ran away from.

To change his mood, she quickly shuffled the mirror cube as she asked, "Alvin, do you remember solving this?"

Assuming Anya doesn\'t know it, Alvin held the cube over her hands and slowly started solving it, letting her learn in silence.

Anya made herself comfortable in his arms, leaning against his chest without moving her hands. She didn\'t know what to solve when she was studying but she never said she didn\'t learn it later.

"Shuffle it. I want to try." She handed him the cube hiding her mischievous smile.

Alvin obliged. As soon as she started to solve the tricky cube so easily, he understood she fooled him just like how she stayed quiet with him while he was teaching her skating.

Before she could complete, "You Little Rascal," He tickled her waist, causing her to jump, "Alvin." Anya looked at the man in disbelief. "Are you a kid?"

Who tickles adults?

He only did it once for fooling him. Who said only kids tickle? He flipped her down on the bed and started the tickle fight.

Anya squeaked, "All… Ahh... Alvin…" Then she started giggling with a burst of emotions. She squirmed on the bed like a fish out of the water. The more she tried to escape, his nibble fingers caused her to squeal and flipping side to side.

….

The maids informed Gianna about the dinner and stood at Alvin\'s wide-open bedroom door. Those were new maids and seeing the swoon-worthy second son for the first time.

They silently laughed, catching the glimpse of the couple having fun. They wanted to inform them about the dinner but didn\'t know if they should disturb them.

Gianna who went out of her bedroom was going towards the stairs when she noticed the maids giggling in front of Bartard\'s room. "What\'s happening?" Her grave voice sounded.

As went closer, she heard the light melodious repeated laughter with the small squeaks of a name. \'Alvin.\'

\'Disgusting.\' That\'s what Gianna thought. Well, she was trying not to get jealous or feel the loss of seeing them so happy in their life.

But how could one control how they feel?

Gianna was feeling awful, "Get them…" Her words paused as the maid\'s back stiffened when the laughter abruptly stopped and pin drop silence followed.

Any sensible person could guess what the couple was doing inside. The young maids flushed bright red while Gianna stormed away. A moan was the last thing she would want to hear. \'Shameless.\'

…..

Inside the room,

\'Ring… ring…\'

Alvin unwillingly pulled away from her lips when his mobile kept ringing.

Why in the world does everyone disturb them as soon as he gets a bit intimate with his Little Donut?

Pecking on the delicious lips, he pulled hazy Anya to sit as he answered the call from Ean. He grunted, "Hm!?"

[Alvin, one down. The next target isn\'t in the country. I am flying there tonight. I will cover three more in the meantime and return before the banquet.]

Alvin\'s plan got a good kick-start.

There was a pause before Ean added, [You will have to get busy.] He was indirectly saying that Alvin can\'t follow around his girlfriend anymore.

Alvin expected to get busy soon but wasn\'t prepared to leave the country for business trips. He wasn\'t ready to leave his Little Donut alone as it wasn\'t fixed when he would be back. A few days or more.

He snapped out when Anya\'s cold fingers caressed his cheek, "What\'s wrong?" She whispered seeing his expression turn grave. There was no hint of desire or playfulness that she had seen before the call.

Alvin responded to Ean and ended the call. His fingers ran through her hair to fix it as he asked, "Didn\'t you want a vacation? Let\'s go." He doesn\'t have to sit and think about something happening to her.

Anya squinted her eyes suspiciously. If it was something like a vacation, he wouldn\'t have asked her so seriously. "You took me on a date to talk with Linus. Are you taking me on a vacation for your business trip?"

Alvin: "..."

Isn\'t going to a different place called vacation?

He will show her his museums… Err, she will have to check out the museums on her own as he will be dead busy.

Anyway, does it matter if it\'s his work trip?

"Err- Brother Liam took his wife and their baby on a business trip." They are checking out places in their free time. They were together even during work.

Anya giggled realizing he didn\'t want to leave her alone so he brought up vacation. She wasn\'t sure what worried him so she tried to relax him before he could cancel his work.

"Alvin, I would have joined you with our baby but he has exams from tomorrow." She wasn\'t going to be the type to leave her little boy behind and go around the globe.

Although Alvin had a cold displeased look as if he was going to murder someone, Anya was finding him cute. She tried to pull his cheeks but he caught her hands.

"Didn\'t you bring us here to silence Casper Matthews? I will be alright. Nothing will happen to Zane." She assured him.

Alvin had always seen Gianna attending to every small detail of Liam\'s life, while Alvin used to feel emptiness whether he was scoring well or giving in the empty test papers. So he didn\'t insist on taking her away.

However, the words that came to his lips were, "Little Enemy never fails to ruin my plans."