She's My Sleeping Pill

Ingrid took a deep breath and sighed. She knew that Stefan was a troublesome person to stifle with – as far as his family concerns him. If it was a business issue, it wouldn\'t even escalate to this level. "Go ahead. You can do whatever you want. I\'ll give you thirty minutes."

"There\'s no need for that. Ten minutes would be enough."

"If you say so," Ingrid retorted and sat on the couch with her son. She didn\'t care about the guests anymore. All she cared about was her father who got involved in this matter. "Just tell them the truth of what you said in the video, Dad."

Tristan immediately recorded the statement of Ingrid\'s father about the latest video that one of the guests had uploaded on social media. Along with him, three bodyguards and Stefan\'s lawyer also joined in collecting pieces of evidence to speed up the process.

"Why am I going to be penalized when I just uploaded the truth of what Ingrid and her father talked about earlier?" retorted Mr. Sayo, the person who uploaded the video. "It was true that he talked negatively about Mrs. Dumrique. Aside from that, it wasn\'t my intention to ruin her name."

"So, what was your purpose for doing such a thing?" Rey asked and with his towering height, he looked even more intimidating as he looked down on the man. "If it wasn\'t your intention to ruin her name, whose name were you planning to ruin by spreading the video?

I thought you are a family friend which was the reason you got invited to attend this party?" Then, he narrowed his eyes at the man as if he discovered something. "Oh, no! Are you, by any chance, a spy? An enemy? Were you trying to befriend the people here so you could find something about them and spread it? Jesus!

You\'re evil!"

"I\'m not!" screamed Mr. Sayo with his red face. "Don\'t put words in my mouth! I\'m not that kind of person!"

"Of course, you are not. You\'re not even considered a person after the thing that you did. Anyway, we\'re done here. It\'s obvious that you were manipulating the people to ruin the madam\'s name. Just wait for your retribution, and I\'m telling you, it won\'t be sweet."

Everyone looked at the man as he stood in the middle after Rey left him alone. He became the center of everyone\'s attention as they whispered about his evil act. They all heard of Ingrid and her father\'s conversation about Cayenne and the former explained, along with her husband, that Cayenne came with her family to celebrate her little brother\'s birthday yesterday.

They all couldn\'t believe that someone would take a video of that conversation and even upload it on the internet. If it wasn\'t done against Cayenne, then it could only be used against Ingrid\'s family. Either way, Mr. Sayo shouldn\'t have done it in the first place.

The man couldn\'t take it anymore and left without saying a single word.

"Thank you all for your cooperation," Tristan said and even gave a gentleman bow in front of all the guests. "Don\'t worry, you\'ve got nothing to worry about if you didn\'t comment on the video that Mr. Sayo uploaded. Sir Reuben, this is the madam\'s second birthday gift for her little brother," Tristan added while giving the box that one of the bodyguards brought inside.

"She was supposed to send it here personally today on her way home, but things happened and our boss didn\'t want her to show up anymore. I hope you would still accept her gift."

"I apologize on behalf of my father," Ingrid said softly. "I already clarified this matter to him, but I wasn\'t aware that someone took advantage of us using the conversation I had with my father earlier."

"Our chairman is a fair man," Tristan answered which everybody disagreed in their minds.

Stefan was never fair when it comes to his wife.

Not long after they gathered the pieces of evidence and gave the gift away, Tristan left the mansion with the lawyer and the bodyguards. As soon as he got inside his car, he reported to Stefan the whole event that transpired before and after the video was taken.

Back at the party, Ingrid\'s and Reuben\'s family looked at them and to the gift that Ingrid was holding.

"So, your daughter gave her brother two gifts?" Don Roberto Montefalco asked the obvious. "What\'s the other one?"

"Jay\'s wearing the other gift now. It\'s the jade bangle," Reuben told his father which stunned everyone.

Ever since they arrived, including the guests, they already saw the jade bangle that the little celebrant was wearing. They all had one thing in mind – very expensive. They also thought that it was something that the couple bought for their son. They didn\'t expect that it was Cayenne Dumrique\'s gift.

"Are you sure?" Ingrid\'s father asked to make sure that he wasn\'t being played.

"You can ask our helpers. We\'ve all seen Cayenne put on the bangle to Jay," Ingrid retorted before turning around to bring her son to the play area for the kids. She opened the gift for him and thought it would be another expensive item. The first thing that Ingrid pulled out was a little hoodie. Next were three shirts followed by a pair of shoes, a pajama, and last was a letter.

It was typewritten with Cayenne\'s name signed at the bottom.

"I wish you a happy birthday, my dear little brother and I hope that we will have the chance to go out together. If you ever need help, I will always be here. I know that your parents would be able to buy these things for you, but I wanted to give you a little something that will remind you of me. I hope you will like them, though you don\'t have any choice since you can\'t choose them now.

Anyway, next time, let\'s go shopping together. I\'ll get you something of your choice. - Love, Yenyen"

Since Ingrid read the letter aloud, everyone heard Cayenne\'s words.

In truth, it was something that Stefan made up to retaliate against Ingrid\'s family. He wanted to show them that his wife was the most thoughtful person.

[They must be feeling apologetic now.] Stefan thought while tapping his fingers on his knee. He was already on his way to pick up his wife when he received Tristan\'s report and he was beaming with a bright smile upon hearing the whole event. This was what he wanted. He wanted them to feel like owing Cayenne something.