The Story Of Bunny And Fox

Vol 1: Week 2 (1)

The second meeting happens on an unscheduled day. It's the afternoon after a meeting with a client at Connaught Hotel, not far from his family house in Mayfair.

Karlyle's schedule is supposed to end with him having dinner at the Michelin-starred restaurant in the hotel. Since his mother is an official board member of the hotel, he doesn't need to make reservations. He can just leisurely go down to eat.

At that moment, his phone rings. He puts the phone used for personal purposes in the pocket inside the outerwear of his suit. He quietly takes out his phone. It's Ash's name on the screen.

[Good evening, Karlyle. Do you have time today?]

He didn't expect to receive a text from Ash. He looks at his phone in surprise. Seeing him like that, his father Jonathan turns his eyes to him. Jonathan often goes on business trips outside England like him. Today, he's with Karlyle on his way back to London to see his mother Alice after a long time. His gray eyes, which Karlyle's inherited, studies him for a few seconds.

"It looks like you have an urgent call."

Karlyle raises his gaze at his low voice. The client is also looking at him.

Karlyle's family runs two businesses. One is the real estate that the Frost family owns and has been passed down from generations to generations. The other is an investment company owned by Jonathan.

Since the 19th century, his ancestors have gained enormous wealth through lands that now make up London's most expensive areas. They also own a lot of land in Canada. His mother Alice, coming from that background, and his father Jonathan, the CEO of an investment company, met each other and gave birth to Karlyle and Kyle. Their marriage wasn't normal.

Jonathan is not an aristocrat, and above all, both Alice and Jonathan are Alphas. Marriages between Alphas are not forbidden, but the upper classes have always taken it for granted that Alphas must be connected to Omegas.

So Alice's marriage made his grandfather blow a gasketin. And that anger led to his strict control over his grandchildren. He supervises his grandchildren in everything so that they would not follow in the same footsteps. And he's particularly strict with Karlyle. Because unlike Kyle who is a dominant Alpha, Karlyle is only a normal Alpha.

From generation to generation in aristocrat society, dominant Alphas inherit the family business and most of the wealth. Karlyle is just a normal Alpha while his younger brother Kyle is the dominant one, so the role of a family leader is supposed to belong to Kyle, not Karlyle.

However, his lovely brother was kidnapped at the age of 13 by a gang of criminals who was anonimous for kidnapping dominant Alphas for ransom. As a result, even after having been rescued, Kyle went through his adolescence suffering from serious mental trauma.

Because the health condition of the official heir was not yet stable, Karlyle "temporarily" played the role for Kyle. He has never complained about that. Since he was born, he has known how his family tradition is. And above all, his brother's happiness is more important than anything else.

And so, ever since he was 16, Karlyle has prepared to lead the business, making his social debut and building connections. In the past few years, he and his father Jonathan have been focusing on setting up a corporate spin-off in Qatar.

Currently, the client in front of him is the chief of the East London real estate development business whose stock price is steadily rising. This person has a wide range of connections and Karlyle needs to make a good impression on him. So he pretends to be nice to the opponent to some extent.

The smile that he only shows at business meetings appears on his face. A smile under a pair of eyes that isn't smiling. This look of his is awkward but familiar at the same time.