His Devious Rule

Anya was yet to pick up her evening dress when Rob rushed inside after a call. He knocked on the door for their attention and addressed Alvin while glancing at Anya, "Boss, the cops are in the main hall asking for you." He was oddly expecting Anya to be aware of it. "They are waiting for you and madam. Should we bring them here?"

For him and his Little Donut? Alvin hadn't planned anything with the cops. He recalled voice phishing to kidnap Zane and turned to Anya. Her action was going to ruin Gianna's reputation in front of the whole world.

Anya checked her wristwatch, the party was officially beginning in 10 minutes. As she had planned, the cops reached just before time. She wanted her and Alvin to be ready by this time. Unfortunately, she was late and her chipmunks were waiting for her.

She looked at her son who was standing on the bed waiting for his suit. She coaxed him as she will have to leave his side again, "Baby, be with Uncle Rob, Mommy and Dad will be back soon."

Zane had heard cops were asking for them. Considering it to be important, "Sure, Momma." He was obedient like always.

Rob didn't want to let Alvin go without security, nor wanted to leave Zane alone. So he looked at Alvin.

Alvin nodded at Rob, cuing him to listen to his wife. More than himself, he was worried about the little brat's safety. Anya was trained as a special officer, she might not be physically as strong as them, but she was undoubtedly better than them in tackling criminal activities. So they don't have to worry about their safety.

Thus they left the room. However, Mark was prepared to escort them with full security. Anya didn't mind as Alvin was a big shot now.

'Ring… ring…'

Anya was expecting Krystle's call so she answered and heard, "Girl, why are cops here? Everyone is saying Alvin chose unscrupulous methods with you to establish Skylark."

Anya was rendered speechless. How did it turn into detaining her and Alvin? Shouldn't the chaos be about Gianna?

Anyway, Anya didn't panic, "Watch the show, Krystie." She calmly said, making Krystle understand cops weren't there for her or Alvin.

Walking towards the main hall, Alvin caught her hand looking at the whole crowd of other halls outside the main hall. He had no plans to show his Little Donut's face to them, so he pulled her closer.

Anya glanced at Alvin and looked at the crowd. Most of them were ogling her sexy husband who was in simple leisure wear and layered with a warm coat that reached his knees.

Anya was like a side character next to Alvin. The crowd that was filled with entertainment circles was in a daze looking at the gorgeous face of the man. His cognac eyes were sparkling under the lights while his expression was deathly cold.

However, they got envious when they saw Alvin gently holding Anya's hand. Their eyes looked at Anya who was in brown winter boots and ripped jeans. She had topped her t-shirt with an expensive off-white knitted sweater that covered her fingers.  Wrapped in a thick plaid scarf, Anya looked too young to believe.

Was she a mother?

Aren't cops supposed to be taller and well-built?

However, whoever met Anya's steely gray eyes, feared to look back at her eyes. Unknowingly, they had expected to see a high-maintenance woman. Oddly, the distant-looking young lady complemented the coldness of the young man.

The security made way for Anya and Alvin to enter the main hall smoothly. The captain who turned around, identified Anya at first sight as he had worked with her once. Involuntarily, he greeted her with a salute forgetting he shouldn't recognize her, "Officer Owen."

Another hush fell over in the main hall and outside the hall. That was enough to tell the crowd the cops weren't there to arrest Alvin or Anya.

Anya wanted to smack his head. Anyway, she repeated plainly, "Captain Joseph, I have resigned."

Odd enough, the captain could guess it was a lie. She was an exceptional officer, why would the administration let her go so easily? Anyway, he came to the point.

"Mrs, Matthews, and Mr. Matthews, we had received the complaint from your butler that there was a call in Mrs. Matthews's voice asking to bring your son." Saying it, he gave her the file to take a look.

Gianna broke into cold sweat instantly. She had thought Alvin and Anya had offended someone. Looks like the cops wanted to report to Anya and Alvin… Wait, why were they reporting to Anya?

Did they find out it was me?

'No, no, no… It can't be.' Gianna tried to assure herself.

Meanwhile, the whole hall was shocked to hear somebody tried to kidnap young Matthews. While the men turned to Casper, women looked at Gianna with a hint of concern.

Nonetheless, Casper narrowed his eyes on Gianna. The only one who would want Zane dead would be Gianna. It was an easy guess. He couldn't believe Gianna was foolish enough to attack Zane even after knowing Anya wasn't a normal cop and had deep connections in her network.

He quickly approached the cops to take them out. If Gianna was caught, he wasn't going to let them arrest her in front of so many people.

Anya had instructed the butler to help her with the complaint. So she received the file. Captain Joseph didn't know Melvin was the one who found the evidence behind phishing and helped the cyber security. Anyway, she looked through the copy of the evidence to show it to Alvin.

Casper interrupted them like a conscious man, digging his grave next to Gianna's, "Alvin, Captain, there are so many people here. Why don't you speak outside?"

However, Anya shut the file and questioned Casper, "Chairman Matthews, let the people know how we deal with the ones who hold malice for our family." And her family didn't include the Matthews family.

She passed the file to the captain when Alvin coldly approved, "Arrest the criminal."

The cops had caught the people who had called the butler, those people led them to a university receptionist's husband who confessed everything to the cops.

Captain Joseph: "..."

He met them so that they could deal with their family matters on their own and take back the case if they wanted. Well, he didn't know Anya was in the picture at that time.

He signaled the lady cops to follow Anya while the whole hall discussed who could have planned against the Matthews.

"Alvin, let's deal with this silently." Casper gritted his teeth looking at Anya striding towards Gianna confidently.

However, Alvin sneered, "Casper Matthews, I visited your office." He simply went to Casper to make his wife a dean. But what did Casper do?

Casper brought those women to his Little Donut's new home and spoiled their housewarming, he sent an anti-corruption team to raid her new house.

​ Alvin would have silently dealt with Casper and the Matthews family if Casper hadn't dared to attack Anya and if Gianna had stayed low after Anya's warning. They had given them enough chances to redeem themselves. Anya tried hard to not hurt the Matthews family because he was born into that family.

Anya silently endured, focused on her recovery from PTSD, double-checking if she should harm Matthews or if she was being cruel. However, Gianna crossed her bottom line. Now, there was no turning back.

Talks were done. It was time for some action that will prove that they weren't just words.

'Pak.' A resounding slap sounded in the hall making the hall go pin drop silent.

'Thud,' Gianna, who stumbled on her heels, lost her balance, and fell to the floor.

She was sitting on the floor in shock, with unbearable stinging pain in her cheek. The large drops of tears rolled down on their own as her ear started to buzz with people's words.

"What is going on?"

"I can't believe Gianna tried to kidnap her grandson."

"Why will Gianna try to kidnap her grandson? That doesn't make any sense."

"Wasn't she pretending to be the best mother-in-law?"

"We can't believe anything nowadays."

Anya sat down on her toes and glared into Gianna's eyes. "I had asked you to sit and watch," Anya spoke through her teeth in a low and cold voice.

If Gianna had listened to Anya, Anya would have snatched her pride from Gianna but Gianna would have lived her life in the Matthews mansion in her comfort with her anger, and hatred towards Anya and Alvin. Anya gave her a chance to redeem. And Gianna proved that Anya was going easy on her.