Mummy I got you a new husband

KARL’S POV

As soon as I have instructions about the parcel to Ryan, I went directly to my office. I had to meet with Mr Micheal who I had been informed was waiting for me. My phone beeped as I entered the office, it was a message from the CEO of a company we were about to do business with too. I turned my gaze to my phone to check the message as I walked to where Mr Micheal was sitted.

” Hello Mr Karl.” He stood up to greet me as soon as I entered the office. Even though Mr Michael appeared irritated that I had kept him waiting for so long, he faked a grin extended his hands to shake me as soon as I entered. I could not help it as I had forgotten I had a meeting with him and gone to attend to other things.

” This should be fine.” I muttered inaudibly still engrossed with my phone. As soon as I was done I turned to face him, I guess he dropped his hand after a while as he noticed I was not paying attention to him. Athough Mr Micheal was family every one knew I did not joke about my company or business and accorded me with the respect I deserved.

” He should be flattered I considered doing business with him.” I whispered to myself as I saw how angry he looked when I turned to face him for a moment even though he tried to fake a grin to hide it. I reasoned that he would be delighted that I had dropped something crucial to have a conversation.

Even though I wanted nothing to do with Claire or her family after the divorce, but I had to put up with her family for business reasons. My business was priority and not even a divorce was going to interfere with it. The fact that everyone pretended to be unaware of our divorced state made it easier to work together. I suppose I just liked the thought of having more money so I was willing to put up with them.

“I had an emergency to attend too hope you did not wait too long?” I inquired as I sat down still attending to my phone. Soon enough I raised my head to face him ignoring the looking his face.

“I understand you are a busy man.” Mr. Micheal extended his hands to shake mine again and I took his hand. He appeared annoyed that he had to wait for me which he did not disguise since a scowl on his face revealed it. I grinned as I proceeded to business.

“I assume you are here because of the contract we are going to sign, so let us not waste any more time and get down to business.”I remarked as I looked through the contract files on my table. A unexpected realisation struck me after going over the files on my desk.

“Oh…” I exclaimed as i picked up my phone to call my secretary. I had just realised that I had assigned her to work on some adjustments I wanted to suggest to Mr Micheal. It was a terrific bargain, but I think I expected more for our mutual benefit.Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“Bring me the file I discussed with you this morning.” I said and ended the call as she replied in the affirmative. I smirked again at Mr Micheal growing rather impatient. I ignored him and focused on the other files on my desk. He motioned that he wanted some coffee.

“Can I have some coffee please?” I looked away from him, absorbed on the paperwork on my desk. She brought the paperwork with her a few minutes later, and I requested her to make Mr. Michael some coffee. She handed me the files and left to get the Coffee.

“Here is the contract; I was ready to mail it to your office before you arrived. I made some adjustments to the previous copy you sent.”

My secretary brought in the coffee and handed it to Mr. Michael. He sipped from it and returned his gaze to the contract; he did not appear to be paying close attention to it; instead it was more like he looked at it because he needed too not necessarily because the wanted too perhaps he simply wanted us to do business.

” Okay, I suppose we have a deal. We would finalise the paperwork on our end and submit it to you.” He remarked as he stretched his hands and handed over the files to me after the quick perusal. He seemed overjoyed about the collaboration since he had wanted to this deal to pull through for a longest time. His eagerness irked me, and I looked at him with contempt. He extended his hands to shake me once more, but this time I declined. I ignored him for a bit, and he eventually lowered his hands.

” We should celebrate, have Claire come with Davis so we can celebrate at the house. I have some fine wine to celebrate this. I stared at him wondering why he was asking about Claire.

” Was he going to act like he did not know about the divorce? I mumbled as I concentrated on the files on my desk. He asked me another question after I did not answer his first.

“Should we anticipate your arrival? He asked again as he stood up to leave my office. I turned to face him and stared at him for a while before responding.

“I doubt if that would be possible. I dnt know where your daughter is as I haven’t heard from Claire in a while. We are divorced.” I responded and turned back to the files I was working on.

“What do you mean by that? When did that happen? How come I did not hear of it?” He asked seemingly astonished that the divorce had gone through without him knowing about it. Claire had told him about wanting a divorce but it seemed she did not tell him it had gone through. I just concentrated on the files on my desk as he questioned.

” I guess it was not meant to be. I will be getting married in a few weeks.” I responded eventually after a while and Mr Micheal just stood and stared at me.

” So soon!!! I will call Claire and get to the bottom of this.” He said as he motioned to leave the office seemingly annoyed.

” There would be no need for that, I have a wife already.” I said already annoyed at his persistence. I was done with Claire and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

I was annoyed and needed to cool off. I picked up my phone to make a call.

” Hey, wrap up with whatever you are doing and meet me at the bar.” I said as Max picked up.

“Alright then. I will meet you in the office in few minutes, so we can head there together.” He responded and I ended the call.

” This should be perfect.” I muttered as I had decided on what to do about Claire.” The thought about the perfect plan for Sophie and how well to deal with Claire had just come to mind.

I smiled as I stood up motioning to head out of the office.