My Belittled Husband Is A Billionaire

Themis’ POV

“I’m really sorry, Matthew. I shouldn’t have come here in the first place. Now you have an argument with your wife because of me.” said Summer.

I shook my head. “No, it’s alright. I’ll just be the one to apologize to you for what Winter did. You know, her job is too tough and depressing. You just came at the wrong time.”

“You don’t have to apologize to me, Matthew. By the way, may I know who this kid is?” she asked while looking at Elisse.

“O-Oh. She’s the daughter of a friend. She doesn’t have anywhere to go right now, so we just took her in.”

Summer nodded her head slowly, then she walked towards Elisse and bent down to meet her eyes. “Hello there. May I know your name?”

“I-I’m Elisse..”

“Elisse. I’m Summer. It’s nice meeting you. I hope we could also be friends. And, I’m sorry if Winter is kind of cruel. But she’s-

“No. Miss Winter is not cruel. I like her very much!” Elisse suddenly exclaimed.

Summer’s eyes widened as she stood up straight. O-Oh, really? Then good for you. Winter isn’t really fond of kids, so it’s surprising to know that you find her approachable.”

Elisse didn’t speak anymore. She just turned her back on Summer and then ran upstairs, straight to her room. I faced Summer. “I’m sorry for how Elisse acted just now. I know it’s quite surprising, but Winter seems to like the kid, too. Although she acts cold towards all of us here, I think she calms down a little whenever Elisse is around.”

“That’s very rare to see. Anyway, I think that’s good news, isn’t it?”

“Yes. It is. We don’t know, maybe one of these days Elisse and Winter become best friends.” I said with a smile on my face.

Summer nodded. “I see. I think I should go now. I’ll visit here again some other time.”

“Thanks for visiting Winter today.”

“Of course.”

As soon as Summer left, I went upstairs straight to Elisse’s room. I had to knock a few times before she finally opened the door. I saw her sitting on the side of her bed with her brows furrowed at me.

“Huh? Wait, are you mad at me? Why? What did I do wrong?”

“That woman made Miss Winter cry. I don’t like her.”

I sat beside her. “You mean, Summer? But she is her younger sister. You’ll need to call her your sister, too.”

“I don’t want to call her sister. Miss Winter is my only sister. Not that woman who made her cry.”

“Wait, what did you say? She made Winter what?”

“She made her cry. I saw her crying as she ran upstairs to her room a while ago. But you got mad at her, too. Now, everyone’s mad at her. She must be so sad….” Elisse said, then her eyes filled with tears.

I immediately hugged her. “Ssssh… Don’t cry now. I’m sorry for what I did. I’m sorry for making your sister Winter cry. Don’t worry, I’ll make it up to her. What do you think should I do for her to forgive me?”

Elisse gently moved away from me. I wiped the tears from her eyes as she looked up at me. “You need to apologize to her.”

“But, what if she doesn’t want to talk to me?”

“Then say sorry until she finally talks to you. The mother duck from the book that I have read before said that to her baby duck.”

I nodded my head. “Is that so? Then I’ll do it. I have a plan, can you help me with it?”

“Yes!”

Later that night, we tried to talk to Winter and even brought dinner to her room. But she just won’t open the door. That is why in the end I just told Elisse that maybe we could just continue tomorrow, which she immediately agreed to.

***

“Good morning, Miss Winter!” Elisse and I greeted her as soon as she opened the door of her room.

Her brows immediately wrinkled upon seeing the two of us standing by the doorway, holding a tray of food.

“What do you want from me?” she coldly asked.

“Well… we actually prepared breakfast for you…”

“Miss Winter, brother was the one who cooked that just for you!” Elisse added.

Winter looked at me again. And for the first time in my life, I felt nervous and embarrassed at the same time that I couldn’t even look her in the eye.

“Really? Then tell him to eat it by himself. Or better yet, give her to Summer since he believes that woman more than he does with me.” she hissed, then she walked away bringing her things with her.

I was about to follow her, but then I changed my mind. Elisse then looked up at me again with disappointment all over her face. “She’s still mad at you, brother.”

“Right. Of course. I guess that was the wrong timing.”

“What are we going to do now, brother? Maybe Miss Winter would no longer talk to us again!”

“Don’t worry. I’ll think of another plan. For now, let’s just have our breakfast and I’ll go to work while you go to school. Tomorrow, we’ll go somewhere.”

Her eyes widened. “Where are we going, brother?! Are we going to an amusement park?”

“Do you think that would make your sister happy?”

“Yes! I’m sure she would be so happy there!”

“Then, let’s go there. But today, make sure to behave at school, okay?”This is from NôvelDrama.Org.

“Yes! I’m so excited for tomorrow already!”

I just smiled and then pat her head. “You should be, because we’ll be going on an adventure tomorrow. And of course, our plan is to make Winter smile and talk to us again.”

“Aye, aye, captain!”

I drove Elisse to her school before I went to work. I guess it was really wrong for me to yell at Winter like that. After all, I didn’t know what really happened.