"You are not that talented." He patted on her shoulder and continued cooking. Importantly he always stays by her side so 'who could compete with me?'
'Talent? How that came here?' Sky confusedly looked at him.
Arlo said that he would tell about Ryan in the evening and the rest of the day continued normally.
--
In the Harley corporation
Peter finished his video conference with Sky and removed his headphones.
"Brother Peter, How was it? Isn't sister Sky cool?" Clark passed him packed lunch and asked. Excluding Sam, others became all ears to listen to them.
"Kiddo! You were right. It wasn't been an hour I sent her proposal, she knows and understands so well." Peter kicked Sam's chair to get his attention, "Are you sure she didn't study tech?"
Sam kicked his chair back hard due to which water spill on Peter making his face dark. "I'm sure she spoke about features, not the technical concept. You are an intrapreneur, she cares as a CEO and as a user."
Peter wasn't convinced, "She used many techniques and processes."
Sam controlled his urge to beat him and wore his headphones back to get on to work. Maxwell heard about meeting from Peter and controlled himself from knocking him down.
"Brother Peter! Don't you think your IQ goes down whenever it's related Ms.Sky? She is sitting like terror in your mind."
Peter who had explained about the complete meeting was eating when Maxwell spoke. He grounded his teeth, "Why are you connecting both?" Peter glared at him.
Maxwell rolled his eyes and pointed out his project proposal file. "80% Whatever Ms.Sky said is in your proposal and 20% was from a user point of view which was professional, not technical. She is a quickie and understood soon."
Peter gave it a thought and nodded. "Our little President is indeed smart."
Maxwell rolled his eyes and left. Clark chuckled sitting in front of his hi-tech system.
--
In Harley Mansion
After finishing dinner and sitting a few minutes with David and Olivia, Arlo took Sky to Ryan's room.
Ryan was rearranging frames on the wall when they entered. He pulled Sky to help him before she sat with Arlo. He sat on the bed looking at Sky nestling in Arlo's arms facing him.
"Sky! Your image to the outside world is completely different from what you are with us. Like fire and water... Can stop being spoiled wife here?"
"Ryan, who told you to keep your room temperature so low?" It was four degrees lower to her room. Ryan wanted to increase the temperature but Arlo stopped saying he knows to keep his wife warm.
"Sky was asking about how we met. Do you want to tell yourself?"
Ryan passed a quilt to Sky, "There is nothing special in that. But Sky, you are not allowed to run away from me."
"Run away from you?" Sky was confused hearing him say so seriously.
"Are you a mafia?... or human trafficker?.... or an Alien?... or human eating beast?... or do you turn into any animal on full moon day as the movie shows?... or a mutant with cool superpowers?" Sky asked excitedly as she remembered one by one.
Both men were flabbergasted.
'Where does she gets all these?' Ryan looked at Arlo who was equally stunned.
"You have a vivid imagination." Ryan gave her thumbs up.
Sky leaned back on Arlo in disappointment. "I have never met that type of person. Anyway, you can't be a super-rich playboy and working here with Arlo. So don't worry I'll not run."
Arlo coughed lightly and Ryan scratched his head.
"Sh*t! I can't be true, right?" Sky got up to run away, "Why don't I meet simple people?" Arlo effortlessly pulled her back to him.
Sky turned gloomy. "So will you leave us soon to take care of another business company?"
"Never!" Both men said in unison. Their voice was loud enough for Sky to shrunk back covering her ears.
"Why are you two shouting at me? I didn't tell you to go. I don't want you to leave us." Hearing her whine, their tensed brows relaxed. They knew Sky didn't tell Ryan to leave.
Arlo would never let him go and Ryan never wanted to leave them.
Seeing both men go silent, Sky spoke, "You two love each other so much. No doubt I thought you guys..." Arlo covered her mouth immediately.
"What you thought?" Ryan asked not understanding why Arlo reacted that way.
Sky actioned Arlo she won't tell and spoke, "I thought you guys..."
"Sky!" Arlo called. Sky peeled his hand and spoke, "bromance each other."
Arlo relaxed.
Ryan rolled his eyes, "How can demon and angel bromance? Impossible!"
They started bantering for some time about Ryan as an angel before Ryan said his story.
-- Past --
Windsor family was a well off family in country P. They had a multinational company that was soaring high but their family was shattered into pieces.
Their only heir was just 7 years old when his mother caught having an affair with another rich handsome man. Then his parents filed a divorce and got separated.
But that boy needed both of his parents and he was tossed around like a useless piece thing between them for many months.
The livelier boy soon went into depression.
His mother got pregnant with another man and got to know the fetus was a boy. She stopped meeting her first son and focused on her second son.
Whereas the boy stayed with drunkard father who would beat him whenever he remembered the boy's mother.
Many times he was hospitalized by servants for blood loss due to cuts and losing consciousness after getting beaten for a long time. His father or mother never cared to look after him.
His father would repeat the same when he was discharging and returning home. It affected a lot on the boy's psychology including physical torture.
He had tried to run away from home multiple times but he was brought back home and beaten black and blue.
But one day it all stopped. His father stopped drinking and beating him but he didn't care about him either. He was sending the boy to school with his nanny who looked after him.
The boy was slowly recovering as he continued to mingle with his classmate, his nanny would try to accompany him more and would take him out for play and enjoy.