Livid Guardian's Endless Coddling

Xoan was sitting in his office, laughing evilly looking at the news, "There goes my first strike." without caring he was going against Alan Morgan.

Alan always cleaned up without hyping up so the close business circle knew his power but Xoan had no idea and he forgot to know the enemy before striking.

Xoan had no idea, Alan had all his details except the picture of Xin who he was close to. Alan clearly guessed Xin as the hacker because when he tried to know about the hacker, it ended him at a dead end.

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Ziro village

Six strolled in the market of Ziro checking the handicrafts, wild fruits, exotic cuisine, and others.

Aria's mobile rang showing Levi's name on display. Aria answered, taking a step away from the other five.

"Hey!"

Levi's voice was hoarse, "President Cooper, Morgan Entertainment A list actor is caught doing drugs and our team member by coincidence caught the man after hearing them talk. What do you suggest?"

"Did you investigate who is behind it?" Aria realized why Alan sent her out when she wanted to stay with him.

She couldn't understand why he hides the problem away from her. She also knew he didn't want her to worry about his company problems.

Levi responded, "We aren't sure about President Morgan's plan so I thought to talk to you first."

Aria hummed, "Let me connect Alan to the call..." In no time she added Alan to the conference.

"Alan, Levi is on the line. My team member coincidentally heard a man talking about framing against the actor. So that man is under control, how do you want to handle it?"

Alan was quiet for a few seconds, "Hand him to police and we have the evidence saying the actor was targeted. The rest will be taken care of by my team."

Levi responded first, "Sure President Morgan."

"Thank you Levi, And yeah, enjoy your weekend with your fellows. It's on me."

"Thank you, President Cooper. Enjoy your holiday."

Aria hummed and Levi hung up the call. Aria spoke, "Alan..."

Her professional to helpless tone caused him to chuckle, "Sweetheart, a few minutes, let me wrap up and come, alright?"

Aria hummed and hung up the call. She saw Roxy and Eva standing close and watching somebody. She joined them to hear.

"He is so dashing."

"Dashing is an understatement. He is dazzling."

"His sharp jawline, his black eyes, thin brows, oh god his smile. He is just like in the novels."

Aria's lips twitched. She wanted to knock their heads and say that they weren't singles. Anyway, she saw their line of sight.

"He is good and can try modeling. But Alan is better. You just haven't seen his smile."

Eva and Roxy laughed at her, "Nobody is visible to you other than your husband."

Aria gritted her teeth, "Are you saying Alan isn't good?" She pulled her sleeves up ready to teach them but two girls rolled their eyes.

"Prince is above the best that doesn't mean this man isn't good."

"This man has his charms. His dazzling black diamond-like eyes are too attractive."

Aria was satisfied with Eva's response and didn't care about the man. She was about the check on three men, she heard Noah suppressing his laughter behind her and a mischievous smile appeared on her face.

"Actually, My Beauty, Comrade, and Cutie are better than him."

"Very funny." Roxy said while Eva laughed.

Rian and Issac gritted their teeth. They clearly heard everything. They badly wanted to knock some sense into their woman and were so jealous of Alan having Aria as his wife.

Noah pulled Aria behind and pointed at Rian and Isaac fuming. Both low fived each other and heard the girls.

"I don't think he is from the village."

"Let's talk to him. Arrie, do you want to come?"

"How about I join you Ms.Miller?"

Pfft -

"What about me Ms.Stephen?"

Roxy awkwardly laughed. 

While two were fuming, the other two were gritting teeth at Aria, The latter was laughing her heart out with Noah.

Isaac stepped near Eva, "Dazzling?"

"You like his smile?" Rian crossed his arms glaring at Roxy.

"We... we were just saying it."

"You- you are the best darling."

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Girls started to placate giving them compliments.

Aria and Noah couldn't hold their laughter looking at the dreaded face of Eva and Roxy, jealous faces of Isaac and Rian.

Not far away, a greek god-like man's attention moved to the girl's laughter. His eyes slightly widened identifying the girl.

"Little Bunny!" Escaped from his lips unknowingly.

He was seeing her directly after nearly eight years. He had thought she lost herself in the business and the photos she had updated were just showing off but she was the same without a hint of haughtiness or pretentiousness.

He wasn't sure if she could identify him or not so he just stood and watched her laughing as his lips curled up into a beautiful smile that Eva and Roxy missed.

While they walked ahead, he couldn't help but trace the path for some distance.

Unknown about the eyes on her, Aria was happy listening to reprimanding men and the sorry state of girls.

As they checked out, a little boy from the previous day who played in the water with the girls, pulled Aria's jacket down.

Aria sat down on one knee and received a pink Rosa 'Eden' flower. She smiled pinching the little boy's cheek, "Thank you, little boy."

He clumsily held her face and kissed her cheek before running away.

The other five laughed at her seeing that. Eva teased, "That boy must have seen your overflowing motherly love. Wifey, are you pregnant?"

Aria's lips twitched.

"Come to think of it, Arrie, you are married for two-plus years, where is my niece or nephew?"

"No, no, wait... Goddess, don't tell me you didn't let Prince get near you before you came here?"

Aria gritted her teeth controlling herself from slapping Eva's mouth for telling in front of all.

"Wow... Little Devil is so good at taming my brother."

Isaac didn't let the opportunity go, "Didn't you guys go on a honeymoon after your church wedding? You sent him off just like that?"

Noah commented, "Brother Isaac, If we didn't provoke you, you would have still helped yourself, you aren't in the place of teasing our goddess."

Isaac: ⦿_⦿

'Me again? This Fourie...'

Aria was flushed scarlet the whole time, "Guys, it's just a little boy giving me a rose. Stop connecting everything."

All burst into laughter.

She pouted as she smelled the rose. It was different from how it used to smell in the city. Due to her interest in perfume, she was peculiar about the smells of different roses but this was completely different.

It was very pleasant and calming. She sniffed again and took it near Eva, "Eva, try it. It's a little different, it will be good for the perfumes."

Eva chuckled, "Nose block... I think nature here is a little cool, it might be different."

Aria nodded and let Noah try it when he took. Noah hummed and they walked ahead.

Aria's eyes widened and her hands trembled. She regretted smelling the rose.

Without letting her mind-controlled by the powder she sniffed, she turned to see the boy but he wasn't in the sight. She tried to see if anybody was following her but failed and stumbled on the ground feeling dizzy.

She failed to call any of her friends and fell back. She didn't feel the pain and somebody carried her away.

Noah and Rian had tried the flower and were passing back to Aria to realize, she wasn't there.

It took time to realize 'Arrie is missing' until Noah said he was dizzy.