My Wife is a Sassy Queen

Liliana was unfazed on seeing the posts.

She instead forwarded the post showing their wedding photo that Rose had supplied to Jonathan and asked, “Mr. Smith, you never told me you were married.”

Jonathan was amused seeing her text.

“My dear Lil, I seem to recall talking about a certain Mrs. Smith quite often in your presence.” He replied to Liliana’s text very cheekily.

“Ah, Mr. Smith, you are no fun. I was having such a blast looking at all this nonsense.” She replied unamused with his reaction.

“Sorry to ruin your fun, but I would rather focus on my work and go home early to accompany my Mrs. Smith,” Jonathan replied ending their flirting.

As much as he wanted to flirt with his wife, Liliana had texted at a rather bad time. He was on his way to a board meeting and unfortunately he had no time to entertain her.

One board member had mistakenly assumed that since Jonathan was busy dangling with two women, he would be lax in his work and would be an easy target to pick.

“President Smith, we have never questioned your unorthodox ways of running the company. We have supported every decision you have made, but the current public mood is rather different.”

“Our Stock prices have been fluctuating heavily these days. Our company’s reputation is in shambles and we have received calls from many of our long-term clients about the certainty of the future.”

“This is the worst situation we have seen in over a decade and for a worthless cause at that.”

“I think we should trust President Smith to handle this scenario just like he has handled everything well since he took up his position.”

“I agree. Every company has to face some storm and bad publicity from time to time.”

“My thoughts exactly! This also gives us the chance to vet out the bad actors be it within the company or with the partners and collaborators.”

“Good idea! It was an excellent move from President Smith to publicly fire three people for spying on him. We should use this opportunity to remove the corrupted ones.”

“We can’t fire any employees just because they have doubts. They also have a family to feed after all and need to be cautious lest they be left stranded. But I agree that this is a good opportunity to vet out compromising people in positions.”

And so the arguments went on. The shareholder who had been trying to make trouble for Jonathan had been drowned out by others.

Jonathan had yet to make a statement. But most shareholders were of the option that they should leave Jonathan to handle his private matters as he sees fit. He had earned that right over the years by making them significantly richer than they already were.

The arguments paused as they heard a message tone.

Jonathan was very strict about keeping their phones on silent mode during meetings, so everyone was rather curious about who had dared to miss it that time.

The spectators looked at each other only to be dumbfounded as Jonathan mumbled a perfunctory ‘sorry’ before looking at his phone.

His face remained impassive but his eyes had a certain glow to them as he read the text.

‘Mr. Husband, come home early today. Let’s go night fishing. Book a private restaurant for a private dinner please.’

Jonathan could barely suppress his glee on reading the text. He read and re-read it multiple times before replying.

‘As you wish, Mrs. Smith. Is this a date or family outing?’

‘It’s not a family outing.’ She replied promptly.

Jonathan took that to mean it was a date but Liliana seemed to have read his mind from across the phone as she sent another text.

‘Mr. Husband, you have never asked me on a date. And yet I gave you two kids. How lucky you are?’

Jonathan had to bite the inside of his mouth to stop his smile.

His wife was expressing her grievances. He could only reassure her and make it up to her.

‘My mistake, Mrs. Smith. Be prepared for the surprises that will follow. I promise to make it up to you.’

‘Keep your words, Mr. Husband.’

‘You can use this as evidence, M’Lady. I will text you later, in a meeting now.’

‘Keep up the good work, Mr. Husband. Your wife and kids are very high maintenance.’Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

‘I am up for the challenge.’

Jonathan put down his phone and schooled his expressions before looking up.

All the shareholders were looking at him agape.