Chapter 165 - 165 ( Gossip )

"We're not that close to talking to each other about personal things. As you know, we just met and worked together recently. I didn't know anything about him before. And this time he seems to have managed to get a lot of attention from me. Until even his children. So how can I pretend that I don't want to know anything about him?" said Harry which had a deep meaning to a hidden meaning.

Cleo certainly didn't get the point because she didn't know that Willy's father was the mastermind behind the other day's construction case.

Harry hadn't also planned on bringing up the matter so as not to burden Cleo. Harry didn't like his children who were like a swarm of nuisance flies. Their families would really be blacklisted by him from the list of people he needed to meet.

Cleo looked indifferent to Harry's argument which she couldn't understand. Harry then looked at Cleo's mouth which was a little messed up because of the sauce from her food. Harry reflexively tried to clean it. But Cleo actually retreated a few centimeters from him.

Harry raised his eyebrows.

"Did you think I would hit you?" 

Cleo replied with a faint smile. Harry still moved to once again reached out his hand to brush the leftover food off the edge of her mouth.

Cleo studied Harry's face as he did so.

"Am I handsome?" 

Cleo suddenly raised an eyebrow.

"Are you kidding me?" Cleo replied, unsure.

Harry then lowered his hand and smiled.

"Then why do you keep looking at me like that?" asked Harry who actually expected Cleo to answer his question with a 'yes' answer.

Cleo laughed at Harry.

"Do you have an acute self-confidence disease? Why do you ask about something like that? Aren't you too confident?" Cleo meant half-joking. Harry looked at her lazily instead.

"I'm just assuming based on what I've heard. Didn't a lot of people say that?" Harry asked back with a straight face as if he wasn't bragging but just talking as usual.

Cleo laughed mockingly at him.

"So do you really want me to tell you that 'you are a handsome man' like they say? Like that?" Cleo was deliberately teasing.

Harry certainly didn't return the joke. And even pinched Cleo's nose.

Cleo reflexively scowled.

"Why are you even pinching me?" Cleo protested uncomfortably.

Harry looked indifferent.

"Stop making fun of me! And say whatever you want as long as it comes from inside of your heart. So you don't have to say nice things to please me. I need more honesty," Harry made Cleo quite sympathetic to him.

Cleo looked at him with a smile.

"Where did you get that advice from? Why are you acting so pretty today?" Cleo threw assumptions quickly while half-joking but she was serious.

Harry said his grandmother's name in his heart.

Of, course My grandma!

Harry replied Cleo's suspicion with a joke too.

"So am I actually handsome or pretty?"

Cleo stares at him for a long time.

"Did you take the wrong medicine?" asked Cleo spontaneously.

How could a Harry Miles be able to tell a joke that was more of a line of gibberish? Could he be possessed??

Harry didn't take Cleo's question seriously.

Harry even casually picked up some side dishes to serve on Cleo's plate which was getting empty. Told her to eat more to grow better. He was also even willing to add anything if Cleo mentioned what she wanted to eat right now. Cleo watched the movement closely.

"You're will not asking me to do something, are you?"

Cleo tried to guess what might have made Harry so different or even changed after the time she had known him. Harry had certainly never done that in front of other people.

Seemed to pay more attention to her and also used subtle words in almost every one of his words. Harry now even often took her out to eat, even though Cleo knew he was very busy.

Harry also reportedly had never gone out of town or abroad on his business affairs because he had given the task to someone else.

Until Cleo could even hear the slightest whispers that she heard in the toilet. Harry's employees seemed quite interested in the change of their boss attitude. And gossiped about all their amazement in secret.

Then they certainly didn't know Cleo was in one of the toilet cubicles and kept talking. They all seemed to doubt their own eyes.

"Do you feel that there is something different about our Young Master?" asked one of the female employees who was adjusting her make-up. Public toilets had always been a place to reveal everything and overheard many things.

Cleo certainly couldn't go out right away, because she didn't want to break their enjoyment of chatting. Until, of course, she was also a little curious about the discussion. Cleo will not waste a very rare opportunity.

Another woman replied to the first woman's words in surprise.

"What's the difference?" the second employee asked her friend. It also represented Cleo's question which was in her heart.

The first employee started to explain.

"About our Mr. Harry who suddenly is more often in the office and rarely out of the office. So happy to be in his room for hours. Even only going out if there is a really important meeting or just accompanying his wife to lunch. Our boss indeed usually can comfortable in front of the computer for a long time, but he never able to endure trapped in it. Don't you feel it?"

Cleo seemed to recognize the first female voice. She was Angella, one of Harry's female secretaries who usually took care of the affairs of the spokesman to communicate with outsiders. Cleo also seemed to recognize the second woman as Sasya who was also one of Dirga's assistants.

Sasya seemed to agree with Angela's words.

"I don't really often work with him directly. But seem I can also realize that because I often walk from my place to his office room to submit a report given by my superior, Secretary Dirga. I also seem to have often seen him inside. So the news is true?" asked Sasya who was curious. Sasya again revealed other news.

Angella looked confused, "What news?" 

Cleo was also curious, in her place.

"News of Mr. Harry Miles that subdued by his wife. In fact, he was so obedient to her that he didn't want to leave her. Haven't you heard of that?" Sasya giggled a little at her own words.

Cleo seemed stunned. What kind of news was that? What did they just say?

Harry Miles subdued to his wife? For God's sake! That was definitely not possible!!

Cleo groaned inwardly. Then confused.

Why did all those stories could spread?

Was there one unscrupulous person who spread it as they please?

Cleo shook her head in disbelief and acceptance.

Angella seemed to laugh at the news. Until Sasya looked at her in surprise.

"Why are you even laughing?" asked Sasya, not understanding and even confused to see her office friend laughing. Sasya had not felt anything funny in her words. Including Cleo who was listening in the toilet cubicle.

Angela seemed to be trying to hold back her amusement no matter what.

"Sorry. I just can't imagine that such a cold man could submit to a woman. Isn't that gossiper being too much?"

Cleo agreed a thousand percent with Angella's words. Cleo subconsciously nodded a few times confidently when she heard all of her words.

Until Sasya started to insist again.

"Oh come on Angella! Didn't you say yourself that your boss doesn't look like his usual self?" Sasya deliberately reminded.

Angella withdrew her words.

"You seem right. And it still leaves a question mark in my mind. Can a man change so drastically just because he has a woman and is married?"

Sasya added.

"Especially with his partner who only comes from ordinary circles," Sasya subconsciously made Angella immediately ask her to stop talking and be careful to pay attention to the situation around her.

They looked at one toilet cubicle that was closed.

Didn't know who was in it, or no one was there. Angella gave a stern warning for Sasya not to talk carelessly. Sasya seemed to agree.

Cleo even became a little surprised by the attitude of the two.

"Never forget about the incident that happened in the office pantry that day," Angel's words made Cleo put her ear to the doorway.

Sasya was frightened after remembering the incident. And without realizing it, she covered her mouth tightly in hurry, with her both hands so as not to slipped the other words.

Angel was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief because Sasya quickly understood what she meant. But instead, Cleo wanted to walk out of her hiding room to ask what incident they were referring to.

Cleo decided to just keep her ears wide open, listened faithfully until they spoke out loud of what they were saying.

Angella seemed impatient to continue her warning.

"If anyone in this office spreads rumors of Young Madam and even talks behind her back until the issue is heard directly by the person concerned or her husband. They all will get a cruel penalty from the owner of this company. So, you can't possibly want to take the risk, can you?" Angella said in horror as she explained in more detail even though Sasya of course might also already knew about it.

Cleo felt something was wrong with her words.

What did that mean?

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