Awakening of the Scheming Wife
Chapter 78: Call? Yes!

Chapter 78: Call? Yes!

He had a mischievous smile and used his own phone to dial the number.

But before the phone could ring, he hung up.

"Boss?" His assistant looked at him in confusion.

Merlin sighed before looking at him and asked, "Did you see what the time is right now? She should be asleep by now. How can I disturb her at this hour? I didn’t realize but why didn’t you stop me?"

"..." ’You wanted to call. How can I stop you as your assistant? I want to live, alright?’

He grumbled to himself but on the surface, he lowered his head and apologized immediately, "I am sorry, Boss. I didn’t notice the time either."

Merlin did not care and calmly took another skewer of shrimps and started munching on them.

The sky was dark. It was in the middle of the night. Just because he was awake doesn’t mean that a young lady like Helena would be up as well, right?

***

He did not have to wait too much. In just a few hours, the sun rose and it was the next day. He waited for a few more hours just in case and immediately dialed Helena’s number.

The phone rang but Helena did not answer the call immediately.

It wasn’t because she was still sleeping. But when she saw the caller id on her screen, she was too stunned to react.

Merlin understood what she would be thinking as well and couldn’t help but chuckle.

His assistant really never understood his boss’s thoughts. The other person wasn’t answering his call. What was there in it for him to laugh about?

Has his boss gone crazy?

Should he consult a psychiatrist behind his boss’s back?

He had many such weird thoughts and Merlin did not know about any of them and he was busy waiting for Helena to answer the call with excitement and amusement mixed together.

"Hello? Who is this?" Helena’s voice with hesitation clearly evident was heard through the speaker once the call was answered.

Merlin heard her voice and her words and laughed out loud. After a couple of seconds, he stopped and asked her, "Don’t you already have my number on your phone?"

"Umm... what? I don’t understand what you are talking about. Who are you?" She continued pretending and asked him.

Merlin once again laughed, "Sure sure. You don’t know me. Anyway, I called you to thank you and your husband."

"Thank us? Why?" Helena asked in confusion.

"Didn’t your husband call me to give me a heads up? That was very helpful. So, of course, I have to thank you both sincerely," Merlin said seriously.

He was sincere when he said he was thankful. If not for Vernon’s call that day, he might have found Jim’s conspiracy with the drugs but not about his plan to kill him using an accident.

Finding that was purely because of Vernon’s words of ’advice’. So, he was thankful and he wanted to thank him personally as well.

"What? You mean that something really happened to you? I mean, almost?" Helena asked in shock.

She remembered that whatever was supposed to happen to Merlin would happen in four days to come.

If Merlin found out about that prior to that day, what does it mean?

She is not an idiot. She could easily connect the dots and her look turned into one of panic.

"Are you okay? Someone wanted to harm you? Who is he? Did you deal with him? Did something happen to you while finding out about this?" She asked a few questions in a hurry while her voice was thickly laced with concern for him and his safety.

Merlin’s heart melted listening to her concern. His smile became more genuine as he continued listening to her.

"Yes. I am fine. I have dealt with that man as well. You shouldn’t worry. Thank you for your concern, though," He smiled.

"What is there to thank for? How can I not worry when someone wants to harm you? Are you sure you really are fine? No injuries or anything during the entire matter?" She asked with worry.

She conscientiously did not ask him how he dealt with that man who tried to harm him. She knows that everyone has their own ways of dealing with people.

The moment she found that someone wanted to harm Merlin, she understood that Merlin wasn’t a normal person. So she did not delve into some things that she shouldn’t.

But she was concerned for him and that- she showed without hiding anything.

Merlin chuckled and asked, "So, you are not pretending not to know me anymore?"

"..." Helena was stunned. She really forgot all about that, "Umm."

Not knowing what to say, she just hummed casually and looked around the room as if she couldn’t hear him anymore.

"Ha ha ha... Fine. I won’t tease you anymore. Stop pretending like you can’t hear me." He laughed and spoke in a doting manner.

"How did you find my number? And how did you find that it was me and my husband that called you?" Helena couldn’t help but ask.

Just because she didn’t want Merlin to know that Vernon was the one who called, she stopped herself from calling him despite having his number with her.

"If you can find my number, why can’t I find yours? So, you want to hide that your husband called, so you didn’t call me even though you have my number?" He asked with a knowing smile.

"Um," She softly uttered while nodding. Even though he couldn’t see her nod, he could somehow imagine her doing that.

He did not know why. At most, they have known each other and talked for a whole of two hours. They should still be considered strangers to each other.

They never even introduced each other with their names. And yet, he felt she was too familiar to him. Like he could read her expressions and her thoughts like the back of his hand. He did not understand where this connection came about from.

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