Chapter 237 - Seems So Real

Adam was sitting on the couch while Stella was busy going through some emails while occupying the CEO's chair. Doing work while being pregnant wasn't an easy job for her as she was almost always either tired or sleepy. She still couldn't believe that she had slept for three hours straight, that too during the day time. As a result of her sleepiness, the office hours were over a long while ago and she was stuck in here, finishing off her pending work. 

Her eyes drifted off across the table, landing on the couch which was on the other side of the room. A faint smile hugged her lips as she gazed at her man who was helping her out with her work. 'It's actually his work that you are doing right now.' Her subconscious decided to take a peek out and nagged her. 

She frowned as she scolded her subconscious for being so bad with her timing. She just wanted to steal a look at him every now and then while he was oblivious of it. But Adam was very much aware of those little glances that his dear little wife was stealing. He just decided to turn a blind eye towards her actions, letting her enjoy her time as she continued to work. 

A light knock on the door disturbed the duo and brought them out of their own thoughts which were occupied by their better halves. Stella looked up from the table, her eyes landing on Adam, only to find that he was already staring back at her. 

She was about to ask him who might be knocking at the door at this hour since except the security guards everyone else must have left by now as it was already late in the evening. The words got stuck at the back of her throat when she saw him silently asking her to stay quiet as he pressed his index finger against his thin lips. 

Adam got up from the couch and walked up to her desk, keeping his steps as light as he could. He walked around the desk and came to a halt when he was next to her. He pressed a number of keys and the screen on the monitor changed to a CCTV footage showing multiple angles and multiple corridors in small windows. He again pressed some other keys and the footage of the corridor before her office was pulled over the screen, showing in a much bigger window. 

There stood a man dressed in a completely black attire and a black leather briefcase in his hands. He didn't move from his spot or tried to knock at the dark wood door again. He just stood there motionless. One could even mistake him as a mannequin which was mistakenly placed there. 

Pressing a few more keys, Adam zoomed in on his face and his facial expressions relaxed a little bit when he saw the familiar side profile. The man finally turned his head to his left and looked directly at the CCTV camera, nodding his head as if he was greeting the person on the other end. 

"It's alright. I know him." Adam patted the back of her head as he walked to the door and opened it. He made sure to open it in such a way that he himself wasn't exposed to the corridor before the office room. He wouldn't like it if someone hacked into the company's security system and got a proof about him being alive. He couldn't let it happen, at least not yet. 

The man looked at the door which opened from the inside and walked inside in silence. He himself didn't turn or speak, until the door was closed. He looked ahead towards the woman who was sitting behind the desk and gave her a firm nod. 

Before he could greet Stella, Adam stepped forward and blocked his view. He put forward his hand and motioned towards the bag, silently asking the man to pass it to him, to which the man complied right away before he turned around and walked out of the office without waiting for Adam to say anything. 

With the briefcase in his hands, Adam walked inside the resting lounge while Stella continued to look at the bizarre scenario which was unfolding right before her eyes. She wanted to get done with her work as soon as possible so that she could go back home and rest. But she could no longer focus on the emails as her curiosity was getting the best of her mind. 

Shrugging her shoulders, she gave up on her work and decided to follow Adam inside the room as he had left the door open on his way in. Once she was inside the confinements of the room, she closed the door and locked it from the inside. She heaves out a loud sigh as her eyes roamed around the room, looking for Adam. Her eyebrows furrowed when she didn't see him inside. 

Before she could call for him, the bathroom door unlocked with a click sound and flew open. "What were you doing in there? And what was with all that staying quiet? And who was that man? How do you know him and how did he know where to find you?" She threw a series of questions his way, not bothering to lower her voice as she knew that the room was soundproof. It was one of the changes that she had made to the office.  

Her voice got lost when her eyes landed on his face which wasn't not so familiar to her. She pursed his lips in a pout when she saw 'David' walking towards her direction. 

"Hey, Boss." He addressed her in his own voice as he walked towards her with a smirk resting on his face. 

"Don't call me Boss." Stella rolled her eyes at him as she began to walk towards him. She came to a halt right before him and wrapped her arms around his neck as she gazed into his gray orbs. "It feels so weird seeing you like this." She commented. It was indeed weird for him to see him like this after knowing about the truth. It was a good thing that he was using his own voice and was not wearing lenses to hide those gray irises of his, or else she wouldn't have been able to even get close to him. 

"That man is from the same group I told you about earlier. He's sort of the delivery guy and delvers me a new mask everytime I ruin the one I own." He chuckled lightly as she hugged her closer, wrapping his arms around her lower back. 

"They are definitely damn good with their job." Stella spoke up as her fingers traced over the mask. "Seems so real." 

"Don't." Adam spoke up when he saw her moving her fingers away. He grabbed her hand and leaned his face in her open palm as he held it in place. "It's just a really thin silicone mask with some nanobots inside it which let it adhere firmly to my real skin, making it seem so real. And those nanobots allow me to feel as well, even through the mask." He explained it to her as he rubbed his cheek against her palm. 

"My dear little wife, you have to get used to seeing me like this. It's important to hide about me being alive from the person who's behind all of this." He patted the top of her head before shifting the topic to something less intense. 

"By the way, you have made some changes around her. This room is soundproof, isn't it?" He questioned her as he looked around the room. He was about to continue but stopped himself when he saw the lost look on her face as her eyes were fixed somewhere else. Following her line of sight, his eyes landed on a blinking red light which was barely the size of a medium sized watch dial. 

"What's that?" He questioned her as he shifted his eyes from the small blinking bulb to the woman who was in his embrace. 

*******

Join on discord: https://discord.gg/jgP7D

If you are reading the story on some other site besides W e b n o v e l. com, then the content is stolen. [https://dynamic.w e b n o v e l.com/book/14227206905696705?utm_source=writerShare&utm_campaign=4301672609]