But Tremaine never left for work.
He seemed to have been staying at the house all the time. Although he usually stayed in the study, he never went out.
Yesseca thought that as a president, even if his working hours were flexible, shouldn't he still be going to the company? How could a president stay at home all day like how Tremaine did?
Yesseca had been here for a few days, and she had never seen Tremaine going to the office before. He stayed in his study all day instead.
Yesseca asked casually, "Montez, what does your Daddy do?"
Montez's dark and big eyes rolled around, "Yesseca, do you really want to know?"
Yesseca nodded.
She was a curious person. Of course, she wanted to know.
Just as Montez was about to speak, he suddenly stopped.
He chuckled instead, "Yesseca, I can't tell you for the time being. This is a secret topic. I promise that I will tell you in the future, but you'll have to
wait."
Yesseca was speechless.
Oh dear, how is he so mysterious?
Yesseca simply said, "Since it's a secret, I shouldn't know about it then."
After a while, Montez went to the study to look for Tremaine.
Tremaine was sitting behind a large desk, looking at some documents.
Seeing Montez coming in, he put down the documents in his hand and asked, "What's the matter?"
Montez blinked at his father, "Daddy, Yesseca asked me earlier about what do you do. I wanted to tell her, but I didn't in the end. I thought that I should get your permission first. Daddy, can I tell Yesseca? Yesseca is going to be my wife anyway, so we are family. It shouldn't be a problem to tell her, right?"
Tremaine's face sank instantly.
Did Yesseca ask about him?
Why would she suddenly ask about these?
Or, what was her purpose in doing so?
As he thought about how Yesseca met Montez, making Montez favour her, the gaze in Tremaine's eyes became darker even more.
After a while, he looked straight at Montez with his cold eyes. "If you want to tell her, you and her could both get out of the Quartley family right away."
But a glimmer appeared in Montez's eyes. "Is that true, Daddy? Did you just agree to me running away with Yesseca? Thank you so much, Daddy. I'll tell Yesseca about that right away that you agreed to us running away together. We'll leave right away!"
Tremaine was speechless.
He added coldly, "You're not allowed to bring along a single penny with you!"
Montez didn't know what to say.
He was like a deflated balloon, looking down and depressed.
If it wasn't because he was too young, not having the ability to earn money, he wouldn't have been afraid of anything at all!
At noon, Yesseca followed Montez into the Quartley family's dining room.
This time, Yesseca could feel the gazes from three different people wandering around her.
One was as if it was trying to find out about something out of curiosity. It was Montez's great grandmother, the old lady with a kind face.
Another had a sense of contempt and disgust. That was the First Madame of the Quartley family, Yuliana, who was mean.
The other one was from Tremaine.
The look in his eyes was complicated, and Yesseca could not seem to understand it.
Since she couldn't understand it, Yesseca decided that she should ignore it as she proceeded to continue feeding Montez.
Perhaps because Montez had some snacks in the morning, he was eating slowly. When everyone was done, Montez was still eating, and Yesseca was there accompanying him.
The rest of them went out of the dining hall.
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