Chapter 234 - Skipping Lunch

"Busy?" Emily questioned as she looked at Shadow curiously. She could not think of any reason for being too busy during the coming winter season.

Her company was thriving flawlessly, and so was her comic. More or less, the current period was the most relaxing time she had got to enjoy her youth with her loved ones.

"You will find out soon. The coming winter is bringing a lot of work for you. Just be patient for the time being. For now, take a look at this." Shadow pushed the book, that he had been reading, towards her and tapped a particular paragraph at the bottom of the page.

As Emily read the text, she realized that Shadow had finally found the spell that he was looking for. "So.... what am I supposed to do now? Should I call out my three little treasures and cast this spell on them? What to do after that?" She asked him as she was completely clueless about what to do.

"We can't use this spell right now. It's not the time yet." Shadow told her as he took out his phone to click a photo of the page on which the spell was written. 

After that, he assembled all the books, and with a single click of his fingers, they all disappeared into thin air, leaving firey red particles behind but they too vanished after a second or two. If she was not wrong, then all the books were already placed in their respective places in the upper compartment of the library. 

"Let's wait for the full moon to use this fusion spell. The full moonlight will help the elemental powers to reach their parks during the fusion. So, it's better to wait at the moment. Until then, you are free to worry about other matters." He told her as he browsed through the gallery of his phone, searching for only God knew what.

Emily nodded her head in understanding as she let out a small sigh. Seeing Shadow using his powers so effortlessly, she was suddenly feeling a little down.

When would she be able to use her powers too without worrying about getting attacked by her enemies? And would that day arrive at all? 

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ALESSANDRO CORPORATION -

Domenic walked out of the meeting room after spending over an hour discussing the hotel project that they had started a few months ago.

"You are looking so haggard. Is the project that difficult to handle? Or did you skip your lunch again? I know that you left home early this morning and didn't eat any breakfast either." Daniel questioned as he followed his brother towards the CEO's office.

"Don't even remind me of the hotel project. It's a big mess. The more I'm looking into it, the more problems seem to be there. If I'm not wrong then someone has planned all this to create trouble for us. Let's have a meeting with others at home tonight after dinner. I can't believe that we won't be able to sort this out." Domenic replied with a sigh.

Daniel nodded his head in acknowledgment as he gave another glance to his brother. It had been over one and a half decades since Domenic took over the command of the company and in all these years, he never stopped working hard to thrive for a better future.

Sometimes, looking at how hard his brother had been working all this time, Daniel started feeling burdened. It seemed like he failed in shouldering the responsibilities with Domenic even when trying his best. As the second eldest in the family, he was supposed to share equal burdens and duties. However, what he was doing couldn't even match ten percent of what Domenic had to do. 

"Don't think too much about this. We will get through this... together." He finally told his brother, squeezing his shoulder lightly to assure Domenic that he wasn't alone. That he had his family backing him up at every step.

Domenic nodded his head in response as his shoulders relaxed a little, tension leaving his body as he thought about his family and their unconditional support to him. Daniel was right, they would get through this trouble too.

The two of them entered the spacious office, only to find almost half of their family sitting inside the office as they chatted about something that made all of them chuckle.

Mark, Crist, Emily, and Shadow were there while the entire coffee table was loaded with lunch boxes and drinks.

"What's going on here?" Domenic asked as he approached his siblings.

"I received the news that both of you have become too busy to pay attention to your meals. I just wanted to see exactly what is so important that you can even spare ten minutes to grab a quick meal." There was no sarcasm in her tone even though her words sounded like she was teasing them. 

Domenic turned his face to look at Daniel while arching one of his eyebrows in question.

"Don't look at me like that. I just skipped lunch but I still drank a cup of coffee. You should be more worried about since you missed both breakfast and lunch." Daniel hurriedly defended himself as he moved to sit next to Mark before grabbing one of the lunch boxes to see what dishes his sister had brought for them.

"Look at you two. How come you both are acting so carelessly at such a mature age?" Emily huffed as she squared her shoulders and glared at her brothers. 

"Alright, don't be angry anymore. I'll eat immediately." Domenic told her as he took a seat beside Shadow who passed him a lunchbox filled with freshly made dumplings that still appeared warm. 

"What about you guys? Why are the two of you here too?" Daniel asked Mark and Crist after a few minutes.

"Shadow called us here. He said that he's something important to tell all of us." Mark answered and everyone's attention turned towards Shadow.

Even Emily looked surprised as she had no idea about what Shadow was planning to do.