Because of their cold war, Stefan didn’t inform her about her approved switch schedule. He didn’t give her the phone that he bought and he didn’t let her eat. When he realized what he did, it was already Monday morning. Cayenne didn’t say anything about getting hungry or blamed him for not getting any food to eat.

She chose to stay silent and prepared for her other work. “Can you wait a bit? I’ll just coo breakfast for us.” Stefan told her but Cayenne just gave him a smile.

“There’s no need to trouble yourself with that. I can eat at home.”

“Then, who will eat breakfast with me?”

“You can ask Chris to eat with you. I’ll just ask the taxi driver to come and pick me up.”

“No way. You need to eat with me.”

“I will be late.”

“I will just pay for your late hours. You need to eat with me.”

Cayenne looked at him with an expressionless face. “Okay. Let me cook breakfast first.”

“No, I’ll cook for us.”

“I’m the employee, remember? Don’t forget that, sir.”

Stefan stood rooted on the floor. He watched her walk out of the room with her things and went to the kitchen. Their happy moments started not long ago and it ended very soon. Not even a month has passed.

Chris also noticed the cold air between them. Stefan didn’t drop her near her house instead, he dropped her at the bus station. Cayenne left without looking back and every step she took, it was another stomp on his heart. He was getting scared every time she walks away from him.

“Sir, did you have a fight with Cayenne?”

“No, I don’t. She’s just having a bad day.”

That day, he decided not to work in his company. He went to the hotel to think of what he and Cayenne talked about yesterday. He didn’t want to think about her blood relationship with them but if in case he wasn’t really their parents, it would be great. He started to think that someone tampered with the DNA test he did years ago.

Five years after his brother died, Stefan asked Travis for help. He borrowed some money from him to conduct a DNA test with his parents secretly. The result turned out positive. The thought of having your biological parents hate you, it hurts him so much and it still hurts now. The pain wouldn’t of being rejected wouldn’t just go away.

After Cayenne questioned him last night, another doubt rose from the bottom of his heart. His parents were rich and it wasn’t impossible that they tampered with the test.

He made up his mind and asked Chris to find a chance to get another sample of her parents’ DNA. He wanted to run another test between the three of them.

On the other hand, Cayenne was indeed late for work. She arrived half an hour after the start of shift. Celine scolded her a little for being late but at the same time, she briefed her of that day’s work. They needed to make sure that everything will be done accordingly to make their customer’s happy with their housekeeping service.

During lunch, Manager Kim told her that her request to switch schedule was approved. She didn’t tell her that it was their boss who personally requested it on her behalf.

Cayenne worked like usual. She sent messages to her brothers to make sure that they won’t worry and she also informed her mother that they will visit her stepfather on the next weekend.

They still needed to inform him of the worsening condition of their mother even if he couldn’t do anything for her.

The cold war continued for several days. Cayenne would go to work in the hotel during the day and come back to their rendezvous in the evening. It had been three days since she had dinner with him.

Monday, he ate dinner in the hotel’s restaurant. Tuesday, he had dinner meeting with a client. Wednesday, he had dinner with a woman that people were talking about now. It wasn’t long ago that he went out with someone. 

Although the news lasted for several days, he still changed to another woman after getting bored with her. That’s what people thought of him. In these three days, Cayenne had been skipping her dinner as well. She always leaves early to make sure that she’d arrive early but Stefan would send her a message that he would be eating dinner outside.

The woman she had dinner with, received a phone from him. When Cayenne heard about that from her colleagues, she remembered the phone that he bought over the weekend. There was a little disappointment in her heart but she dismissed it right away. She had no time to think about any other things.

Jessie and Manager Kim had no idea what was going on but they couldn’t ask Cayenne or else, she would know that they knew about her secret relationship with the boss.

They even thought that boss was just having dinner with someone else to divert the attention of the crowd away from Cayenne. Little did they know, Stefan was having dinner with someone, and even gave the phone which was really for Cayenne, just to make her jealous. He failed in this game though, because Cayenne wasn’t the least bit jealous of what he was doing.

When he got home around ten in the evening, Cayenne was still awake and was playing a snake game with her old phone. “Welcome home, sir.”

‘Welcome home.’ He had been hearing these two cold words in the past few days and today was no different from any other day. She was no longer smiling to him either. He just nodded his head and prepared to take a shower so that they can sleep.

Cayenne went to the kitchen to drink a glass of warm water and went back inside the room with a pitcher of water and a glass. Stefan didn’t take so much time either. As soon as he finished drying his hair, he slept beside her.

In the middle of the night, Cayenne clutched her stomach from so much pain. It was so painful that she wanted to scream. However, she needed to endure it or Stefan will wake up. She had a job she needed to do. She took several deep breaths while letting it out slowly. Her lashes were wet with tears already. It wasn’t the first time she felt so much pain but, she had no idea what to do to prevent him from waking up.

Stefan noticed that she was moving so much. Even though she was trying to move slowly, making sure that she won’t disturb his sleep, he still felt her movement because he was hugging her. Cayenne’s hands were pressing her stomach, just few inches where his hand was holding her.

Every time she pressed her stomach, he would feel her movement and that’s when he realized how flat her stomach was. “Ayen?” Cayenne stiffened when she heard him calling her name. She thought he was just calling her subconsciously since she didn’t see his face. In the past few days, she had been sleeping with her back facing him.

Stefan waited for her response but she didn’t say anything. After few minutes, he noticed that she was pressing her stomach deeper than before and she even curled her body. “Ayen, are you okay?”

“Hn. I’m fine. Just go back to sleep. Sorry for disturbing you.” Even though she was curling her body from pain she still chose to lie to him. Well, it was an obvious lie.

Stefan woke up and turned on the light to see her clearly. Her forehead was covered with cold sweats and her lips was looking pale. “I’m really fine. Don’t worry about me.”

“No, you’re not fine.” Stefan looked for a coat, helped her sit on the bed and let her wear his own coat. He looked for another one and wore it himself. “We’re going to the nearest hospital.”

“No, we can’t.”

“You are already pale and you don’t want to go? Are you planning to die?”

“I won’t die. But if we go to the hospital, I might die from shame on the next day. It’s in the middle of the night and if we will go to the hospital, what if people will find out about me?”

Stefan was also worried about this. “I’ll call for a doctor instead.” He was just about to dial the doctor he knew when he noticed that Cayenne slumped back on the bed. She fainted.