You Can Run But You Can't Hide My Contractual Wife novel Chapter 272

“Arabella… Where are you, Arabella… Please answer. Please answer the phone.” Eric was in the middle of an important meeting with his subordinates but he had to dismiss it quickly after reading Arabella’s message.

He tried to call her so many times but there was no answer.

She didn’t pick up his call.

He was already pissed as his nervousness was slowly killing him inside.

“Arabella… why are you so stubborn?” Eric sat on his swivel chair in his office but quickly got up walked and sat again.

He could not gain his calm with Arabella’s message.

He knew there was something in her message.

He felt he could not see her again.

Then Eric quickly called his secretary.

“Arrange a flight back to Capital Z today.” He ordered with no spirit in his tone.

His mind was preoccupied with Arabella.

He was very worried about her.

Just when the door of his office opened.

He was stunned looking at the person who just entered his office.

“Eric, I’m here… I’m here to apologize.” Lyndon Byer, Rosy’s father came.

It was an expected visit from him.

He looked tired and he was like an animal without a home.

He was very different from the nobleman he once knew.

Eric sat on the couch as he pointed to the sofa in front of him.

“Have a seat Uncle Byer.” Eric could not be rude to the man who he owed for his success now.

Without him, Eric could not reach his wealthy status right now.

Mr. Byer sat on the sofa with lowered head and shoulder.

He seemed to be so sorry for what he had done.

“What happened, Uncle Byer? What you did to our company was not acceptable. Coming from you? Not in my wildest mind could think that you will betray me and my company.” Though he was trying his best not to explode in front of him, Eric couldn’t still hold his dismay towards the man he looked up to.

He couldn’t believe in just an instant, he changed.

He changed a lot to the point of leaving his family for sluts and gambling.

“Trust me, Eric… It wasn’t my plan at all. I met a woman who is very beautiful on one of my family’s cruises. She likes to play a lot in casinos. As a man I did everything to make her happy and for her to be my woman. I know it’s wrong but I cannot control myself, Eric. I was hypnotized by her beauty and her smile to me was divine!” Mr. Byer shook his head slowly like he still remembered the girl they first met.

He seemed to be so in loved and fond of the girl.

Eric couldn't believe what he was hearing but he listened.

He eagerly wanted to know what made a nobleman change that sudden.

What made him give up her family and what made him embezzle funds in his company?

He wanted to know everything from scratch.

“She loved me too. We traveled together everywhere where we can play casino with her friends. Of course, I have to pay for everything. I have to sustain her happiness.” Mr. Byer continued then he stopped with a gloomy face.

“Then what happened?” Though he knew it already, Eric asked just to make him realize what he had lost.

“He left me with another rich man when she heard me talking to Rosy. She heard me stole funds then she thought I’m broke.” Mr. Byer answered with full of bitterness in his tone. “I’m sorry Eric.” He said full of regrets.

Eric looked at him seriously.

In his mind, his uncle Byer just wasted his money for a gold climber slut.

It was the money of his company.

He couldn’t help to heave a very deep sigh to control his anger.

“Where’s the girl now? What is her name?” Eric was determined to teach the girl a lesson.

She had to pay what she owed him.

She had to pay all his money.

“I don’t know… and I just found out that the name she gave to me wasn’t true.” With full of disappointment in his tone, Mr. Byer answered. “She told me her name is Stephanie Collins.” Mr. Byer added.

“Well then, you are deceived by a gold digger, uncle Byer,” Eric concluded with full of irritation in his tone.

The girl’s name alone made him very disgusted.

The person he hated the most was gold diggers.

He would definitely find this woman to appease his intensifying irk inside.

He would never let this woman go until she would see what she destroyed in her hand.

She destroyed a family.

She is a homewrecker.

This kind of people should be taught a lesson.

“I will take care of this woman, uncle Byer. Don’t worry, I will make sure she will get her karma for tricking you. Go home now to your family. You belong nowhere but to your family.” Eric treated Mr. Byer’s family as his own so their matter was also his.

“Eric, I am really sorry.” Mr. Byer uttered again. “I… I swore, I wanted to pay you but I still didn’t have the money but I have a proposal for you.” Mr. Byer conveyed with full of seriousness in his tone.

He looked at Eric trying to get his approval for his proposal.

“What is your proposal?” Eric had no idea what Mr. Byer was trying to say.

Puzzled, he eagerly waited to hear his proposal.

“I… I want you to marry my daughter Rosy. Take Rosy as your wife. That is to show you how sorry I am that even my dearest wife, I will entrust her to you.” Mr. Byer answered directly.

Eric was suddenly taken aback.

This just meant that Mr. Byer was paying him with his daughter, Rosy.

If only Rosy would know this, she would probably have gone mad.

“I can’t.” Eric quickly answered. “I can’t marry Rosy.” He strongly refused with the respect of her best friend.

“But Eric, don’t take it wrongly. My daughter had loved you for a very long time. She was madly in love with you. If you make her your wife, she would be the happiest girl.” Mr. Byer defended his argument.

“No. I can’t. I can’t because I have already a woman that I love and I am already married to her.” Eric answered back.

Hearing Eric, Mr. Byer was in awe.

He couldn’t believe what he heard.

“Is that true?” He wanted to confirm if he was hearing it right.

“Yes. And Rosy knows about it.” Eric answered directly.

“But…what about my daughter?” Mr. Byer’s tone was full of worries. “Don’t you know that she loves you very much? She had no boyfriend since birth because she was waiting for you, Eric. She was waiting for you to love her back.” Mr. Byer continued with a sincere and dismayed expression.

“I know,” Eric answered honestly. Ever since he knew Rosy loves him more than a best friend but it was unfair for her if he would just teach his heart to love her because he knew she loved him. Nevertheless, the heart couldn’t be deceived and couldn’t be taught. It has its own mind and feelings. “I know from the very start, Mr. Byer but my heart belongs to somebody else,” Eric added with firmness in his tone.