His Purchased Wife novel Chapter 117

"Excuse me, are you blind?" Susan snapped at the man who was standing beside her in the elevator.

Ralph turned his head a little and glanced at Susan, "what?" He asked.

"Are you blind that you can't see that you are about to step on my foot," she let out pointing at his shoe and her toe.

He stepped aside and once again started reading the meeting details he set for Liam with Italians.

Susan's phone rang at that time. It was Aurora who called. "Yes, love?"

"Are we going shopping? I want Em's birthday to be perfect," Aurora said, twirling a lock of hair on her.

"Yes we are going, I have ordered the cake for her, everything is done. So chill out." She told her as she stepped out of the elevator at the same time when Ralph was about to do it. He would have never used the staff elevator but his personal one was under servicing.

Susan was about to turn left at the same time Ralph was taking and they both bumped into each other again.

"Are you blind?" She snarled when her cell phone fell out of her hand while she landed flat on her arse.

Ralph frowned. "You bumped into me for the third time," he fired back. Susan frowned, "You need to join Kindergarten and learn how to count."

Ralph took a step in her direction. "Say that again."

Susan gave him a look of pure disgust. "You know what, go and see a doctor because I don't have time to waste on a man like you," saying that she took off leaving behind a raging Ralph. It was when the manager of the research team came to him.

"Is something amiss, Mr Knight?" He asked in a little shaking voice.

"Who was that girl?" He pointed at the departing figure of Susan.

"Her name is Susan. She is one of the new interns who won the contest."

Ralph's gaze on her sharpened. "What's her schedule for today?" He questioned the manager but his gaze was still fixed in the direction where Susan went.

"She asked for a half-day today after filing her research report on the new jewellery designs. Mr Knight," the manager replied with a frown of his own, not able to understand why his boss was suddenly interested in an intern's schedule.

The corner of Ralph's lips lifted upward and his gaze turned to the manager, "cancel her leave and ask her to submit the research once again with a more thorough study of the design. I want her to waste her time…"

"Waste her time, Mr Knight?" The manager asked.

Ralph glanced at him and nodded. "Do as I say," the manager nodded and Ralph walked away to talk with the Italians for a meeting over neutral territory. Because in the mafia world one can't live if he is not careful about his safety and Ralph was a calculating genius. He was a man of a sharp mind and just like his brother, cruelty runs in his veins.

Meanwhile, Liam was checking the accounts details of his last month's drug demands on the streets on his Ipad when his eyes went to Aurora on his laptop screen. She was smiling while talking to someone over the phone. Liam put his Ipad on his desk and called Kevin.

"Mr Knight?" He greeted Liam with a questioning tone.

"Send me the next design."

Kevin frowned. "But it's not ready yet sir."

"Send it to me in whatever stage it is," Liam ordered and ended the call.

He recalled her smile yesterday and fury ran through his body, he clutched the pen between his finger and thumb tightly. "I won't let you fly once you are in my clutches, butterfly. This smile of yours will come only when I allow it to come," the pen in his hand cracked and he threw it in the dustbin, leaned back in the chair and kept staring at the door in front of him.

On the other hand, Aurora was about to pack her stuff when the intercom in her cabin rang. "What now?" She whined and accepted the call.

"Hello," she greeted.

"Aurora, you need to take the new design to the CEO," Kevin stated at the other end.

Aurora looked at the receiver in her hand and scowled. "But the design is not ready yet, Mr Rawls. We are still in the initial stage of it."

"You think I don't know that," he snapped but then he took a deep breath to calm himself. "I know that Aurora but the thing is our boss wants to see the design in whatever form it is and you know if the boss wants something we have to do that, so please don't ask any question and go to him with the design," he said as if he was speaking to a child and that irked Aurora. She was a mature adult and she wanted to be treated like one and not as some witless child.

"Alright, Mr Rawls." She said in an over-sweet voice. If he wanted to treat her like a child even when she had proved herself to him then she would behave like one.

You get what you give. End of discussion!

Kevin on the other hand inhaled one more time, he understood that the tone he used was not liked by Aurora. "I apologize for that," he said. Kevin used to work like he wanted to, he was practically the boss of the designing team itself here but since Liam started coming here a lot of things have changed in The Belle.

"It's okay, Mr Rawls."

"Thanks, just go and take the design to him," saying that he ended the call. Aurora rolled her eyes before snatching her drawing book from the desk. The design was still in a rough phase and if he wanted to see it that way then who was she to deny him anything.

While in the elevator she called Susan who accepted the call on the fifth ring. "Hey," she greeted in a lazy tone.

"What's with you now?"

Susan who was trying to see what more she could do in the report sighed irritation. "I want to kill the boss!"

"Me too!"

"Huh! But why?" Susan asked.