Crashing into an Old Flame
Chapter 87: Chased by ghosts

Chapter 87: Chased by ghosts

Soon, the door opened and the girl appeared. Her usually flowery face was riddled with dark circles.

’’Uh... Sir?" Ivy blinked as she rubbed her eyes. She ended up playing games all night and only now did she realize that it was already dawn.

’’Take a nap before you prepare breakfast,’’ Maxim glanced at his watch, ’’And...’’

Ivy’s ears perked up at the ’and’ as she found the man’s expressions quite complicated like he was struggling between a life and death matter.

Asking her to make breakfast was already surprising enough. What more was left?

Normally, he was always straightforward and never beat around the bush like this.

When he remained quiet and stood there like a wood, Ivy was so intrigued that she started pestering Maxim, ’’What is it, Big Boss? You gonna tell me, aren’t you? I hate it when people start with a word and then say—’’

’’Leave it,’’ Maxim’s words interrupted the chatterbox as her worst nightmare came.

Wuwuwu~How was she going to take a nap when he did this? She hated it when people started topics without closing them. For someone like her who had an intensely curious and gossipy heart, it was practically torture to be left hanging like that.

The words ’prepare chocolate pastries’ rested on the tip of his tongue as Maxim stepped inside the Master bedroom.

The bedside lights were still on. Initially, he had gone to the garden yesterday to get some fresh air to flush out the ’I have now started seeing you as a man’.

It was his last resort. He had tried everything. But to him, those words were the lyric of a teenager’s favorite song, playing themselves again and again on a loop until they left him questioning his sanity.

Little did he expect that the instigator of all that would find her way to him again, magnifying those million little sparks in his heart.

Sitting with her, talking to her, talking about her... Had he not thought about those things in the past years?

He would be lying if he said no.

While Angel had slept peacefully in his arms, with a certain someone sniffing and licking him all night, Maxim had ended up staying as awake as an owl.

There was a very important surgery scheduled later this day so, despite the ’favorite lyric’ in his head and the ’exclusive celebrity autograph’ moment on his neck, he turned off the bedside lights.

As soon as his head hit the pillow, he closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep, thinking about every platonic thing that ever existed on Earth.

Maxim was planning for a short nap but thinking about how Diana had fled from the crime scene earlier, he ended up sleeping longer just so she would not feel weird.

By the time he woke up, took a shower, and went downstairs, the living room was empty.

Well, not really.

Logan was sitting on the dining table, flipping through the pages of some file in his hand.

Ivy was sitting on the couch with Angel on her lap. They watched some Disney movies together.

As for what he meant by ’empty’...

’’Is she not here?" he asked as he approached Ivy who just seemed to have noticed his presence.

Logan also raised his head from the file when he heard the man’s question.

’’Ah, who? Was someone supposed to be here? Ah, is it about Madam? Sir, are you still holding a grudge about us hiding Dee’s new job from you? I swear I only meant to help her and I meant no harm,’’ she knelt on the couch while holding Angel and she even pressed Angel’s palms together, ’’I just want Dee to be super rich so we can send our Little Angel to Hollywood. Oh my god, sir, did I tell you that I wanted to be an actress when I was young but my super-talented self settled on computers instead. But, the first dream is always the first dream. My maiden heart never got over it and I can only wish our Little Angel will walk on the path of stardom while I get showered in all the glitz and glamours of Hollywood alongside her. Of course, I will be her manager and...’’

Maxim pinched the spot between his brows.

Logan’s aloof face remained the same except the corner of his lips twitched imperceptibly.

A human being.... can talk that much?

In fact, contrary to the lie they had fed Diana initially, Logan and Ivy did not stay with Maxim at his place even though they did work for him.

Ivy went there only around weekends to clean his place and Logan did not come unless there was something up for him to handle. Hence, although they knew about each other’s existence, they did not each other personally. After Diana’s and Angel’s arrivals changed their itineraries, they were only recently interacting so much.

So, as concise of a person he was with his words, Logan found Ivy’s long-winded nature quite intolerable.

Unable to take the chatter any longer, Maxim interrupted her, ’’Diana. Where is she?"

Ivy did not think there was anything wrong with her discussing her sweet 16-year-old self’s maiden dreams with the two ice cubes but Maxim’s topics pleased her greatly.

As expected, a great man would never hold grudges against such petty things. He knew her emotions so he forgave her for hiding that she colluded with his mother to land Diana a job at his hospital. Touch to the point of crying, she hugged their cute exclusive plushie who looked at her adorably, ’’Dee has already left for work. She did not even stop to have breakfast together, she just made us sit as she ate hurriedly and left,’’ That confused Ivy.

Diana loved it when there were more people at the table. She seemed to hate eating alone. Even if no one ate with her, she wanted someone to sit there.

Yet, she just hurriedly stuffed food into her mouth and did not wait for anyone. She smothered Angel’s face with kisses and the little girl uttered a few syllables like ’Ma’ and ’Aa’ which shocked Ivy because she did not expect Angel to start speaking so fast. She took it upon herself to teach the girl more.

And even Diana seemed reluctant to leave Angel’s side but at the end of the day, she still rushed away like she was being chased by ghosts.

Ivy was about to babble about Diana’s strange behavior even further when she noticed that Maxim’s face was filled with black lines.

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