Married To Mr Arrogant

written by : marvy hyacinth

after they ate, they both sat down to discuss about different stuff.

“that was deliciously great.” alexa complimented jace and he smiled as she made good remarks about his cooking.

jace stood to clear the plates from the table and take them to the kitchen, and alexa offered him some help.

“let me help you with that.” alexa offered and held a plate.

“no. don’t worry. i can handle this.” jace refused.

“i want to help, whether you can handle it or not.” alexa said firmly.

“i said i…”

“whatever you said about this doesn’t matter.” alexa interrupted him.

“i’m helping and that’s final.” she chipped.

“alright… you won, but next time you’re not gonna win so easy .” jace said with a hint of seriousness around his tone.

alexa smiled.

“let that time come and we’ll see.” she smirked to which jace rolled his eyes at her.

“ugh! you’re annoying.” jace muttered.

“i heard that.” alexa shot at him with a glare and she slowly smiled.

“not that i don’t know though.” she smirked and jace ran into the kitchen frustrated.

he dropped the dishes in the sink and started washing them.

alexa helped out by cleaning the dishes dry and placing them in the cupboard.

soon, they were through.

jace used one of the dish towels to wipe his hands dry and walked out of the kitchen. he was almost at the door when he sighted the trash can.

it was full, not really full but it could be taken out.

“lexie, should i go throw this out or you have something else to trash?” jace asked his sister.

“i don’t have anything to trash. you can go throw it out.” alexa answered.

“ok then.” jace replied.

he picked up the trash can, a pair of hand gloves and exited the house.

he walked a few meters before getting to the dump truck.

he wore the hand gloves and started emptying the contents of the trash can into the dump truck.

as he raised up the trash can over the truck, some piece of trash fell out.

he emptied the ones in the can and after placing it down, he bent down to pick up the ones that had fallen out.

he picked some trash up and tossed it into the dump truck before bending down again to pick the rest.

“what’s this?” he thought as his gaze stuck to a piece of paper on the floor.

he picked it up and studied it.

it was no ordinary paper.

this looked a lot like the business cards he usually saw on his books.

he turned the other side of the card to find out who or what owned it.

“green empire. green company. anderson green. managing director. +01 5214 096115.” jace read out and stood.

“what the! this is a business card really. and not any business card, its for one of the top five companies in new york. to top it all, this is a business card for the heir on green co! omg! i’m so excited.” jace jumped out of excitement.

“but wait.” he stopped jumping.

“why would this card be in our trashcan? who the heck doesn’t know the importance and rarity of this precious item to us commoners? is the person insane or what?” jace questioned.

“if this was in our trashcan, then someone from my family must have put it inside. we don’t get visitors, and i didn’t trash the card, so it must be… alexa?” jace was shocked and confused at the same time.

“why would alexa trash this? it could change our lives forever. maybe i’m mistaken. i’ll go ask her.” he said.

jace threw out the rest of the trash, went to a nearby tap, washed the trashcan and headed for home, after slipping the card safely into his shorts pocket that is.

“hey lexie.” he greeted alexa who was on the couch circling job ads on a newspaper.

“hey jace. you’re back.” alexa said without looking up from what she was doing.

“yeah. i am.” jace replied, went into the kitchen to drop the trashcan and came right out.

“i see you’re busy.” jace said as he walked towards her and alexa hmmed in agreement.

“can i talk to you about something?” jace asked.

“go on jace.”

“ok. so i was disposing the trash in our trash can and i found this.” jace said, slipped his hand in his pocket and pulled out the business card.

“What’s that?” Alexa asked and raised up her head to look at what he was referring to. and when her gaze locked on the piece of paper in jace’s hand, she froze.

Alexa froze.

“Why ain’t you speaking Alexa?” Jace asked and rested on the wall.

“Ughm… Jace, where’d you get that from?” Alexa asked in a dumbfounded state.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

“Like I said, it was in our trashcan and I picked it.” Jace replied.

“Are you sure you didn’t pick it up from the floor, because I’m sure I didn’t put that in the trashcan.” Alexa lied.

If Jace found out she had gotten a way to contact the heir to a business mogul and she trashed it, he sure won’t be happy.

But there was something she forgot.

She may lie, but her fingers don’t.

Jace contemplated on whether to believe her or not and decided to do one thing. Finding out if Alexa was lying or not was easy for those who closely knew her.

“You’re lying.” Jace bluntly said.

“No. No I’m not!” Alexa tried to deny, but it was futile.

“Why do you lie when you know your fingers don’t.” Jace asked. He was clearly getting angry.

She may be older than him with 9 years, but that didn’t mean she’d take him for a senseless fool.

He was 10, yes, but he was smart.

He remembered his teacher at the school he used to attend telling him that almost all the time, at some point he got bored of it.