Flash Marriage: The Domineering Wife

Chapter 437 Longing

That was all he said to Viktor before heading out of the alley. At the entrance to the street, Edward looked back again hoping to get a glimpse of that red hair and resume his chase, but all he saw was black and that kept him going forward, back to the hotel. 

In the hotel, Edward just picked up his phone from the table where he had left it with a plate half full of food.

He looked at the food, considered whether to carry it or not before deciding to just go to his room and sleep. 

”Are you okay, sir?” Holly stood to ask as Edward passed her the second time to leave the restaurant.

”I’m fine,” was his curt and half-hearted reply. 

Again, the two employees of Edward Wu exchanged looks between themselves as their boss walked out on them.

Viktor raised his brows at Holly who just shrugged in return. Solemnly, and begrudgingly on the secretary’s part she hadn’t finished her food and she was enjoying the meal quite alright the two followed Edward’s footsteps and caught up with him just before he walked onto the elevator. 

The ride up was slow, quiet and jerky. Edward just leaned against the cold metal wall of the car, his eyes searching the ground for something,someone he couldn’t reach.

His mind was clouded with so many thoughts that screamed confusion, hope and doubt. It couldn’t have been who he thought it was. It just couldn’t have been.

There were so many women with that colour of hair, so many women and it could have just been a shadow of his imagination. Because he’d longed for her too much, his mind was beginning to play tricks on him.

Edward was convinced that this was the explanation to what had happened that evening.

He didn’t even want to consider what had gone through the minds of onlookers as he ran down the streets of a city he was a guest in.

Only God knows what he might have looked like; a man in a tux and boots running with the wind ruffling his hair and the sole of his shoes slapping the tarred curbs.

His eyes had been wide open and Edward thought he might have cried at some point in the chase. Who even cried when they saw a ghost?

Ding!

The sound of the elevator coming to a stop on the floor of their room was all it took for Edward to come around from his thoughts.

He looked at his employees who were trying their best not to show that they were watching him closely before walking out.

His room was three doors down the left of the elevator and that was where he headed. 

”You guys can go to your rooms and stop casing me,” Edward suddenly said , coming to a stop.

He turned around to look at Holly and Viktor who were teetering a few steps behind him. “I’m not in danger of running out of the building again, do not worry.”

There were no windows to see anyone passing the street and once Edward got into his room, he was just going to let his bed take him to the land of nothingness. 

”Yes, sir.”

”Goodnight.”

The two of them chorused at the same time before turning around to find their rooms which were on the opposite end of the hallway. 

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According to the plan Viktor and Edward had fleshed out, that day was supposed to be for recon. They were going to tail Jinn Yang’s movements and find out what exactly he was up to.

Ever since Edward found out he had gotten invited to the same party as he and had even arrived the venue way before the scheduled date for the arrival of guests, the mafia boss had become very suspicious.

Of course, it could just be his paranoia. It was a distinct possibility that Jinn Yang was in Shanghai for pure leisurely reasons and staking him out would be nothing short of an invasion of privacy.

But in this business, one could never be too careful. 

That morning, Edward woke up earlier than usual probably because he hadn’t slept much the night before.

He had a long bath to clear his head and decked himself in casual clothes that spoke volumes about what exactly he’d come to Shanghai to do.

Edward decided that even though a part of him wasn’t relaxed because of everything that was going on, he could still look like the vacationer he was.

The upper half of his body was covered in a shirt he hadn’t worn since he ordered it from an online store two months ago and he paired the green cloth with brown khaki pants and a pair of converses.

He took nothing with him except his phone and shades before walking out to meet his right-hand man in the reception.

”I’m ready,” Edward said to Viktor who was dressed no differently from him.

”Yes, sir. The car we hired is here already.”

Edward nodded. “I asked Holly to fix a spa appointment for herself. That should keep her occupied while we work.”

Viktor nodded. He had seen the secretary leave in a cab already. 

”Let’s pick her up on our way back.” He was saying it out, just in case he forgot himself. 

Again, the bodyguard nodded before finally the two of them walked out to the Hyundai sedan waiting for them outside the hotel. Viktor went around to the driver’s seat while Edward got in the front. 

”According to our trackers, Yang is currently at one of the biggest resorts in Shanghai,” as he started the car, Viktor informed his boss. 

”Is he with Tai Pin?”

Viktor shook his head. “He is with his wife, for now. There’s a possibility Tai Pin has requested for a meet there, because everything he had ordered has been on Pin’s tab.”

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