Chapter 579 - Always been waiting

"Stop the car."

When Jeric heard it, he pulled the car on the side immediately and came into a halt. "Did you forgot something, Sir?" Jeric asked while looking behind him through the mirror.

"No," Alex replied.

Alex and Jeric remained in the car doing nothing. Jeric didn't have to ask, it was obvious that Alex Ogden is deliberately trying to extend their travel time.

After thirty minutes.

"Let's go," Alex said.

Then Jeric started to drive back in the road.

Thirty minutes.

It has been thirty minutes and they haven't arrived yet. And Senator Rizza is starting to get pissed off, but she cannot let it affect her mood.

She was tightening and loosening her fist, her legs that were crossed were jiggling. She is getting impatient. It is now obvious in her face.

Another thirty minutes past and finally she heard the door opens. She glanced at her shoulder. When she saw Alex Ogden enters followed by his assistant Jeric, her face brightens.

She stood up and plastered a sweet smile on her face. "Alex." She called his name ever so sweetly.

But the man paid her no attention at all as he was saying something to his assistant.

Senator Rizza frowned slightly. But she thought that maybe he was just preoccupied and didn't hear her. So she waited for him to settle down first.

As soon as Alex was seated in the armchair behind the office desk and his assistant left the room, Senator Rizza walked and takes a seat in front of Alex's desk.

That was the only time that Alex looked at her. "Senator Paz, you're still here," Alex stated impassively showing that he didn't care that he let a beautiful senator wait for him for two hours.

The corner of Senator Rizza's lips twitched and Alex noticed it.

"Of course, I waited for you, Alex. Like I always did." Senator Rizza's word had another meaning.

It was years ago when they met, Senator Rizza back then was just starting to make a name in the politics while Alex Ogden has started to take over Novus Rex.

They met through Senator Rizza's grandfather who was then establishing their connections with Novus Rex.

Ever since she met Alex Ogden, she has already set her eyes on him and only to him. But the man heeds no attention towards her. For him, she was just someone he knows.

Senator Rizza has set a high standard in men because of Alex Ogden. There were only a few who met that standard and that includes Jacob Parker. That is why she also eyed Jacob Parker but she never had an interest in him like the way she did towards Alex maybe because Alex is too mysterious.

For her, Alex Ogden is the perfect definition of husband material. But it was obvious that her sky-high standard is based purely on his looks and status.

Because she never really know him at all. Over the years, she could count to her fingers the time that she was left alone with him. And during those times, Alex barely paid her any attention.

When she received no reply from him, her eyes roamed around the office. "I didn't know you owned a private resort, Alex." She says his name casually as if they have been closely acquainted.

But what she didn't know is how Alex hated it every time she calls him by his name.

"Is that why you waited?" He asked in a cold demeanor.

Senator Rizza obviously didn't like it when she is treated like she is of no value. "So you deliberately did that?" She asked sounding displeased.

"I thought it was already obvious," Alex replied sarcastically.

Senator Rizza frowned, she hates it when Alex is being straightforward in showing his disinterest to her. Can't he be at least act politely?

So, instead of going around the bush, she decided to get straight to the point and tell him the reason why she wanted to meet him. But of course, she wouldn't let this chance to seduce him slip off her hands.

She'll lighten the mood between them first.

"I want to hire an assassin." She said as if she was just ordering her favorite dish in a restaurant.

When Alex heard it, his fist tightened its grip on his chair. He feels like he doesn't like the sound of it.

He has been following the scandal involving the Senator and something tells him that The Robin Hood Society is behind it.

"Who you wanted dead?" He asked impassively hiding his real emotion.

"The heiress of the Robin Hood Society, Jenny Do-Parker." She replied while looking straight in Alex's eyes.