205: Chapter 205

Chapter 205

3—3

"Just stay in the apartment, Ma'am. I will pick you up and drive you to search for Mr. Grant, okay?"

"You don't need to accompany me, Michael. The thunderstorm is severe, it's too dangerous," Kate said without thinking about her safety. All she had in mind right now was to ensure Henry was safe and secure because that guy might drink too much because he was upset. 

"Ma'am—that's the point! I have to go there to pick you up, because we have a bad thunderstorm right now!" Michael insisted. "Mr. Grant instructed me to keep you safe, so if he knows that I allow you to go in this weather alone, then he will definitely kill me!"

"So stay right there, Ma'am! I will be there as soon as possible!"

"Wait—"

Beep.

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Kate was speechless when Michael hung up the call before she could say no as if his whole life depended on whether he could safely escort Kate to the bar to meet Henry. 

"Maybe I should just go alone. I don't want to implicate someone else in this problem between Henry and I," Kate murmured as she stared at the thunderstorm from the glass pane, but her body froze when there was a bright flash from the lightning, followed by the deafening strike of the thunder. 

"Ah!" Kate jolted when she heard the loud rumbling sound of the thunder. Her legs became weak because she was scared. 

She sat back on the sofa, trying to calm herself down before getting the hell away from the living room.

"M—Michael is right, I don't think I can drive alone," Kate told herself. "I can't even stop shaking right now."

She had a fear of thunder when she was young. All of those flashes and loud rumbles scared her. But she wasn't allowed to go to her parent's room because they didn't want to get disturbed by her presence.

Her parents would always say that Kate was making a ruckus and she should suck it up and stop being a kid when she was only four. 

'Which is funny, because Erin also had a fear of thunder when she was a kid, but Mom and Dad always cuddled with her whenever there is a thunderstorm like this….'

Eventually, Kate got used to fight her fear of thunder. 

But that didn't make her immune to it.

When the thunder was so loud, her body would froze for a while, and she'd feel weak all over. 

It took a while for Kate to recover from the shock. She then grabbed her phone and wallet and wore a windbreaker as she left the apartment.

She went to the lobby and waited until she saw Michael's car parked in front of the lobby.

Michael opened the door for Kate, and Kate sat in the backseat while Michael returned to the driver's seat.

There was silence as Michael drove the car to The Bahamas, the bar near the apartment. Michael was fully focused on the road because the heavy thunderstorm made it hard for him to drive faster. 

"Sorry for forcing you to drive me during a thunderstorm like this, Michael," Kate sincerely apologized, thinking she was being a burden. "I had a fight with Henry about my meeting with Graham, and I'm so scared that he might drive drunk in a thunderstorm."

"You should've listened to my warning before, Ma'am," Michael said while his eyes were still on the road. "I've known Henry since we were toddlers. He was a kid who would punch other kids in the face for touching his toys or any of his belongings. He'd constantly pick a fight with other kids even if they were bigger than him just because that kid touched his favorite thing."

"He was a little monster back then, indeed," Michael murmured as he recalled his childhood memories with Henry. "And though he has matured a lot, that doesn't mean that he lost all of his childhood traits."

"What I mean is, Henry is extremely possessive, Ma'am," Michael said. He scolded Kate for triggering Henry, but he knew Henry was also at fault for overreacting and probably said some fucked-up things to Kate during the fight. 

"I know that you're not cheating on him, nor are you trying to trigger his anger, but I think you should understand that you're partly responsible for this meltdown."

Michael had no intention of trying to be gentle with Kate.

He thought the entire situation was stupid and easily avoidable, but these two were idiots with big egos. 

…

Kate sighed.

She knew that she didn't handle this well. 

She should've talked to Henry first about her meeting with Graham. 

She knew she shouldn't try to push him away from joining the meeting with Graham. It wouldn't hurt to set up a meeting according to Henry's schedule as well. They could always set the meeting during the lunch break, so Henry could come in. 

"I didn't try hard enough to understand him," Kate said. "I should've listened to his plea first."

"Ma'am, I know it's not my right to say this, but…" Michael took a deep breath as he was about to lecture a woman who might be his female boss in the future. "You should realize that you're committed to a relationship right now. Henry is not a pushover like your soon-to-be ex husband. He is stubborn and can be immature at times."

"I think, when you're in a relationship with someone, he will be part of your everyday life, including all the decision making that you do," Michael lectured.

He didn't know if Kate would take his advice nicely, but he just wanted her to include Henry in her life, "Henry puts you in basically every part of his life right now, Ma'am. You are a huge change in his life, and I expect you to do the same for him."

"I know that you don't believe him everytime he mentions how important you are in his life. But I hope you believe me, Henry is truly in love with you, Ma'am."

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