His Devious Rule

At Imperial Hospital,

Rob and Alvin rushed out of the elevator on the top VIP floor. Benson, who was instructing the nurses, noticed them and received them. "Mr. Matthews," He guided them towards a room as he reported, "Due to the impact of a car collision, Mr.Watson had lost consciousness. There are no outer injuries other than superficial scratches. We are running tests to find out the internal damages."

He paused at the door and added, "As of now, we aren\'t finding any complications. But I can only give you a full report by the evening."

Alvin nodded and entered the room. Ean was wearing neck support that completely avoided his neck movement. There were light bandages on his arms and a small cut on his cheekbone. Despite all that, he was busy with his laptop while his secretary was edgy next to him.

Hearing the door open, Ean complained, "Doctor Benson, could you remove this neck support? This is making me uncomfortable."

Rob breathed a sigh as he closed the door. Alvin shut the laptop and threw it on the couch without bothering if it was going to fall and break. He couldn\'t believe Ean was in the mood to work when he was in the car that toppled over twice on the road. They should be glad that the safety features of the car were good enough to keep him alive.

Ean met the cold eyes of his friend and pretended to be in pain by groaning and pressing his body here and there, "Ahh… Argh… Alvin, my body is damaged. Argh… Don\'t ask me for compensation." He was driving Alvin\'s car.

Alvin crossed his arms. He didn\'t care about his car, rather he was itching to snap Ean\'s head. It was winter and mornings aren\'t preferable for commuting due to thick fog. Much less notice a truck in the junction, one couldn\'t see the road properly. It was a miracle, he was still alive.

"Where were you going so early?" Alvin\'s intimidating voice was thick with coldness.

Ean looked here and there and continued to pretend he was in pain. If he says he went out to grab his favorite coffee to start his morning, Alvin was going to close all his favorite cafes in the capital.

Anyway, Rob voiced his suspicion, "The attack target might be you, Boss."

Ean always preferred to use his sports cars. If he picked from Alvin\'s collection it would always be a sports car. Due to the event, he wanted to use a brand new edition of Rolls Royce Phantom Alvin recently bought. Anybody would think Alvin would use it, not Ean.

Ean furrowed. He didn\'t want to make things complicated due to his stupidity. So he confessed, "There were no vehicles on the road other than early birds on the footpath. I wasted time at two signals so I jumped two signals. At the third one, a truck ran over me. The cops confirmed it\'s my mistake and the truck was following the traffic rules."

It might be the truth but Rob wasn\'t ready to drop his guard down about Alvin\'s safety. The Matthews family was going crazy. He wasn\'t sure if they were aiming for Alvin\'s life, they didn\'t want Alvin to make his comeback.

Alvin also didn\'t take Rob\'s suspicion lightly. Many rooms at the hotel were reserved in the name of Skylark. Ean was staying at the hotel to entertain some guests instead of going to his home. There were chances of misidentifying Ean as him.

He didn\'t want the inauguration conference or party without Ean. He would rather prefer to stay behind the scenes. So he bluntly instructed Rob, "Cancel the events." Then he instructed Ean\'s secretary, "Make sure he doesn\'t run around."

Ean and Rob were in complete shock. The foreign delegates, clients, and many big profile people were already in the city to attend the Skylark events. Media and uninvited people were going crazy to get the entry card. They couldn\'t believe Alvin just canceled without batting an eyelid.

Rob knew Alvin was doing it for Ean. And Ean was pissed hearing Alvin, "Alvin, you nut-headed, if you ruin my all hard work, I will put you in the car and roll the car a hundred times."

Then he threatened Rob, "Don\'t you dare cancel the party. He is a fool. We will do it without your boss."

Rob: "…"

Alvin turned to his friend and crossed his arms. Any normal person would be frightened and stay on the bed and his friend was threatening him. "I don\'t want a crippled man to host my events." Of course, how could he be sweet to anybody but his wife? "Forget about getting out of bed."

"What the f**k." Ean roared for being called crippled. He got off the bed to show he was perfectly fine. "Have you lost your eyes or brain after getting married? You better get it checked."

Before Alvin put his concern in more awful words, Rob quickly interjected to cool the friends, "If we consider this as an attack, it is to stop the Skylark events." If they cancel it, the opposition will achieve their goal.

Ean scoffed at his friend, completely agreeing with Rob. If it wasn\'t an attack, the hard work of so many days wouldn\'t reap the same result as today. Timing is very crucial in the business.

Rob continued, "Since Mr. Watson looks fine, let\'s have the conference and send him back to the hospital." The conference will have a presentation, a small interview, and a few talks. It wouldn\'t be stressful.

Ean:

Rob ignored Ean who rolled his eyes. He was trying to deal with both friends. He added to keep Alvin\'s head cool, "We will get the report in the evening. If there is any complication, we will ask Mr. Collins to host the party." Linus was good at events and hosting them. So they could manage without Ean\'s presence.

Ean got back on the bed and sneered, "You prove your loyalty to your boss every time. Don\'t you?"

Rob:

Ean wanted to attend the party so he planned to lure a doctor or nurse before evening. Benson was his cousin but he doubted Benson listening to him. He had to beg him to stop reporting to his family. Keeping his condition from Alvin would be next to impossible.

Alvin was still reluctant to let Ean attend the conference. However, Ean will go berserk if he cancels the events. So he agreed it was the best choice at the moment.

Since the accident took place early in the morning, the scene was cleared as soon as there was no crowd to disrupt. Anyway, they will have to take care of Ean\'s visit to the hospital. "Get his name changed in the hospital list."

The media couldn\'t enter the top floor of the hospital but they could get the information from reception. "Inform the PR department to bury any news about his hospitalization."

Ean\'s secretary made note of it and went out of the room to make calls.

Ean pretended to go to sleep when Alvin turned to him. If wanted these few hours to go without staring at the ceiling, he better behave in front of Alvin.

The latter knew he would start working as soon as he steps out. More than him, Ean was excited about the company so he let him do whatever he wanted and went out of the room.

"Ask Mark to look into the accident." He wouldn\'t believe cops unless it was his wife.

Thinking of his wife, he knew Anya could dig out faster than them but he didn\'t want to trouble her.

Checking the time, "Hotel." Alvin instructed as he went to the elevator. They need to prepare some shocking news for Casper. And if Casper had a hand in Ean\'s accident, he swore to place Ean in the CEO seat of Matthews Industries.