Husband With Benefits-Chapter 596: A Shock

"Did you know he was married?" Gragory Savoy entered the office as he gently closed the door behind him, locking it with a soft click.

Autumn stiffened and looked up, at the man who was walking towards her desk as if he owned the place. She narrowed her eyes and instinctively started to search for another escape route, as her fingers tightened on the folder she was holding it. She would smack him with it if she needed to protect herself.

"How did you get in here?" she demanded, her voice tinged with a mix of caution and irritation. "And why the hell did you lock the door?"

Gragory raised an eyebrow, his demeanor unapologetic. "I like to ensure privacy when discussing sensitive matters," he replied smoothly, moving closer to her desk. "You understand, I’m sure. The last time I failed to lock the door when we were together, it did not quite go well for me, as you must remember..."

Autumn froze. She knew quite well what he was trying to get at. The last time, she had been barely an adult and... He was trying to intimidate her. Did he really think that she would be the same scared little girl.

"I remember quite well." She watched as his eyes gleamed with satisfaction over her acceptance of this and then she continued," I remember the urge to claw your eyes out and feed them to the birds... Would you like to help me fulfill the wish?"

Gregory Savoy stiffened as he stared at the girl in front of him. She even dared to threaten him," Tsk tsk. You always were a violent girl. But don’t worry. I’ll teach you to be docile."

Autumn scoffed at that and watched as he sat down. She could feel the fear inside her. The cold sweat running down her back and her shivering legs reminded her that she still feared him. She wanted to pick up the phone and call Gabe. Not for help. This time, if this man tried to do something, she was determined to kill him. What she needed was to hear his voice and calm herself...

"Don’t look at me like that baby. It makes me want to hold you and do things. Anyway, I am not here to discuss the past. I came to discuss the present... in truth your husband- Gabe Frost."

"Gabe is none of your concern," she snapped, her voice low but steady, masking the turmoil within.

Gragory leaned back in his chair, a smirk playing on his lips. "Oh, but he is my concern now, isn’t he? Considering he has something that I want. Something I’ve been wanting for a while..."

Autumn’s grip tightened on the folder, her knuckles turning white. "What are you getting at?"

"Nothing. I’m just wondering if he’s taken hus pleasure yet... The one you denied me..."

Autumn clenched her teeth and bit out," Get out of here."

"Tsk tsk. I’m not going anywhere. Anyway. Since you seem angry, I won’t talk about the past. So,did you know your dear husband was married?" freeweɓnovel.cøm

Autumn clenched her teeth. "It is none of your business. But as a matter of fact... I knew that he was married."

Autumn watched as his smile disappeared and continued, " Whatever game you are thinking of playing, I am not going to let you win. So, don’t waste your time here and get out."

"But you’re underestimating the gravity of the situation, Autumn. I don’t understand."

Autumn met his gaze defiantly, refusing to flinch under his scrutiny even as she cut him off. "I don’t underestimate anything, Gragory. Least of all you."

He leaned forward again, his tone lowering to a dangerous whisper. "Did you really fall in love with that man? Is that why you are not bothered..." And then he paused as if something seemed to have struck him suddenly," You don’t know."

Autumn said nothing as she stared at this man. What was it that she did not know. Gabe had warned her that Gregory was looking into his past. And today, Gregory had come in asking her about Gabe’s previous marriage.

"You’re not saying anything. It means I’m right..."

"I don’t care if you’re right or wrong. Just get out, Gregory."

"I will. But let me finish."

"Your dear husband was married to his childhood sweetheart. The girl he lifed since he was a young... much like you are young... and like him... But their match was not ordinary, you know. Soon after their marriage, his wife fell sick and he disappeared from the public eye, with his wife."

"And then he reappeared in the publci a few months ago... a grieving widower."

As he said this, Gregory threw a few pictures on the table. Even as she tried to not look at what he was showing her, her gaze fell on the pictures. The first that caught her eye was an engagement picture...another one seemed to be of a wedding and then the last picture made her beat still. It was from a funeral. She could feel the despair in the picture even from here. And the contrast. How happy he looked at the time of the engagement and how devastated he looked in the last picture. He’d even lost weight and seemed to have aged suddenly.

Even from here she could feel his pain. So engrossed was she in the pictures that she almost forgot that Gregory Savoy was still in the room.

"I see you can see the picture too. How desolate he looks. What I find hard to believe is a man like Gabe Frost who looked as if he would rather be buried with his wife, suddenly turned around and married you? There had to be a catch... And guess what I found it..."

Autumn stood up now. Her patience at an end. " Get out. I don’t want to listen to your prattle."

Savoy stood up as well. His short height, though did nothing to make him intimidating as he looked up at Autumn and smirked," Don’t worry. I’m leaving. The next time we meet, will be when you come crawling to me... But just as a sort of my well meaning advice to you... Ask Gabe Frost his wife’s name..."

Autumn watched as he stood to leave and breathed a sigh of relief. But it had been too soon for the man paused at the door and turned back," Gabe loves Arabelle a lot...And I don’t mean my daughter Arabelle..."

With that, Gregory Savoy left the office, leaving behind a shocked Autumn and the echo of his evil laughter.