The Devil's Touch
#113
Maxime clasped Milan's hands down, at the dining table there were already Ara, Miwa, Arsen and Tessa who secretly glanced at the stairs while drinking a glass of milk.
"Again .." said Maxime.
"Morning .." answered them all.
Maxime pulled a chair to let Milan sit down and that made Tessa jealous. The woman turned her head for a moment and chose to take the bread and smeared it with jam.
"Bread alone won't be full, Tess." Miwa said as she took the chicken thigh and kept it on her plate.
Tessa smiled faintly. "I'm on a diet" he said.
"You afraid of fat?" ask Miwa again.
Tessa nodded. While Milan was just staring alternately at the two busy women chatting, Arsen and Ara seemed to focus on the breakfast alone.
"Don't diet, you're too skinny Tessa." Maxime said while saving some side dishes to Milan dishes.
Tessa did not listen to Maxime's words instead she focused on Maxime's busy hand taking a side dish for Milan.
"Eating dear .." said Maxime softly to Milan with a smile.
And that smile, that sweet smile that Tessa just saw from a cold guy like Maxime. Maxime is also friendly to him, always smiling every time he talks to her. But the smile Maxime gave Milan felt different. Looks so sincere.
And again, he did not mishear Maxime calling the girl dear.
Arsen who was chewing rice paused for a moment to look at the astonished Tessa who kept looking at Maxime.
"You okay?" ask Arsen to Tessa.
Arsen's voice not only resuscitated Tessa, but also Maxime and the others. Now they all look towards Tessa.
"I-I'm fine." Tessa immediately chewed the bread in her hands.
Arsen turned to look at Maxime with a look in the eye questioning the strangeness of Tessa. Maxime just shook his head in order not to know why Tessa was like that.
Similarly, Ara who can only look at them alternately with eyes full of question marks. Miwa Bodo just eat.
Arsen sighed and refocused on his breakfast. Milan himself was silent with his food.
Arsen again stopped chewing when he felt something was touching his feet under the table. He slowly lowered his head and widened his eyes when he found Miwa's legs playing with her feet.
Arsen was lazy to respond, he preferred to eat again.
"Maxime, are you going back to the company?" ask Ara.
"Looks, yeah. From tomorrow I'll be back in the company."
Ara nodded. "Good."
"Stop being Arsen's secretary and just shut up at the mansion."
"Yeahhh ..." Milan looked disappointed. "Don't want ah Brother, I'm fit to be Secretary of Arsen."
Arsen himself secretly smiled happily. He knows he is learning to love Miwa, but to be honest Miwa's presence in the company makes it difficult to focus because Miwa always disturbs him.
"I'm done .. I go to the room first ..." Tessa got up from her seat walking briskly up the stairs leaving them all in confusion.
"Ishhh .. That kid why else." Miwa said as she shook her head. "Lately it's like avoiding all of us. Aye right?" ask Miwa to the others.
Maxime sighed looking at the door of Tessa's already closed room. Milan who do not know anything also felt astonished by the attitude of Tessa. Previously met with Tessa the woman also looks indifferent with her, so Milan itself does not know what to behave like.
"Did he have a problem with someone?" ask Ara.
"No, aunty. Uh but I don't know either" said Miwa.
"Try me to ask Max" Pinta Arsen.
"So morning I went to his room, he said it was fine" Maxime said.
"He was like that, he used to love to hide problems from us. Back in school he was in the bully, and someone was silent and wouldn't tell us."
Miwa recalls the events of her school days. Tessa is often bullied because it is difficult to get along with others and again the children at school no one knows that Tessa's father is part of the Yakuza.
However, Tessa prefers to hold everything without telling Maxime or others.
"Once, finish the breakfast. Let him be alone for a while" said Maxime, who was answered with a nod from those still at the dinner table.
Finished breakfast Maxime was about to take Milan to Glory's cage. The girl's hand continues to be pulled by Maxime but Milan continues to hold her.
He really did not want to meet the lion and leopard who almost ate him while in the forest. Although actually Glory just playing around not really want to eat Milan.
"I don't want to ..."
"Come on baby ..." Maxime continues to pull Milan's hand. "They're good."
"No, you're lying. They wanted to eat me that day!!" Milan continued to hold himself back so as not to be dragged Maxime into the Glory cage.
They were in the hallway to Glory's cage just to open the door and could see the two lions and leopards.
Maxime chuckled softly. "They don't like tomboyish chick meat like you!"
Because there was no other way to escape the grip of Maxime, Milan bit the man's hand until Maxime let go of his hand. The girl immediately ran away leaving Maxime who could only laugh.
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