Husband With Benefits-Chapter 540: Crazy

Jack paced his office and stared at the file on his table as if it were a snake. Just then, he received a notification on his laptop and hurried to his chair. Thankfully, all the Frosts appeared on the screen. He’d sent them an SOS call and they’d answered. He looked at their concerned faces and felt a glimmer of hope. Maybe they would be able to resolve this mess.

Sitting on his chair with a thump he looked at the camera and announced hurriedly," Boss has definitely lost his sanity."

Sebastian Frost chuckled at that and shook his head," Jack. Your boss was never sane. What is wrong with him this time?"

"I don’t know." Jack muttered under his breath and then looked up as Ian asked impatiently," Did you send us an urgent message for this? To tell us that he is cray cray?"

Jack sent another glance at the file behind his laptop and then shook his head," He’s being more than the usual crazy..."

"What did he do, Jack? Stop being so overdramatic and tell us." Demetri sighed, not wanting to waste his time on Jack’s dramatics.

Scared of angering the Demon, he quickly muttered," Recently, Boss seemed different. I mean it hasn’t been a week since he’s come here, but he has been behaving oddly. The other day, he was talking about finding a girlfriend. And then he was out all night on Friday after leaving in the middle of a speech. Then, this morning, he seemed too happy!"

Jack waited expectantly as he finished his rant. But none of the Frost brothers gave a reaction to that. They’d asked him to give them updates about the Boss but now that he was, they could not be bothered? What was wrong with them.

When he continued to stare at their faces on the screen, Lucien finally asked," So, him being too happy is what makes you think that he is not sane anymore?"

Jack sighed. Why did these people not understand. Fine. He would throw the file at them and then see. With a determined shake of his head, he grabbed the file and waved it in front of the camera," This is the reason I am saying that he has gone insane."

"Seriously, Jack! Just come out with it! What does the file have now? It’s not like we have X ray vision and can read it through the hard casing. Just spit everything out!"

"Fine, this morning, the boss was relatively normal. He went about doing his work, even though he seemed a bit too cheery. Then, in the afternoon, he was supposed to go to the courthouse to register the trust and the shelter details that he is establishing in the memort of Mrs Arabelle."

The name Arabelle seemed to somber their mood and he continued," He came back later in the afternoon, and seemed a little distracted and focused on finishing his pending work. I thought nothing of it, of course. But then later, I asked him to give me the paperwork, to file it, he said, he didn’t do it because he was side tracked."

Jack waited after that announcement. Now these people understood the seriousness of it! It was impossible to side track Gabe if he had decided on something. "And then, instead of offering an explanation, he said that he had a date tonight! A date."

"But that is a good thing, Jack. If he is willing to go on a date..." Ian tried to speak but was cut off when Jack interrupted," That is not it. He said he had a date with his wife!"

Finally, after making the announcement of the news that was almost killing him, he glanced in triumph at the Frost brothers on the screen and frowned. Did the internet disconnect? Their faces were all frozen on the screen? It was only when they made several exclamations a few minutes later that he realized he’d shocked them into stillness!

"Jack, did you just say he had a date with his wife?"

"Yes."

"He’s dating a ghost now? Or a spirit? Or an apparition?" Lucien asked slowly...

Jack looked at the man and continued dejectedly," I don’t think he meant Arabelle. He.. said this file has his marriage certificate and I should update the human resources department about his ’new’ status."

Another moment of stillness. This time, they brothers exchanged a glance and Jack grimaced. He knew that they could talk like this without a word, but he would rather like some clue on what the Boss was thinking.

While he was thinking all this, Seb leaned towards the camera, as if he wanted to peep into the file in his hand. He clutched the file tighter in his hand, feeling foolish. It wasn’t as if he could take it through the computer.

"So?" Seb asked quietly and Jack could only repeat it in confusion," So?" What did he mean by so? Did he not care that the boss had apparently gone crazy!

Seb cast him an impatient glance," So? Who did Gabe marry?"

"I don’t know." Jack answered, the confusion still evident on his face until Ian burst out," I swear, Jack, if you were my assistant, I’d be bald by now! Open the darn file and see, whose name is on the certificate. If you’ve heard of the name or the person on the so called certificate or Gabe pulled a fast one on you!"

"Oh." It didn’t strike him that the boss could be pranking him. Feeling a bit reassured, he opened the file quickly, only to be shocked once again. It was not a prank. There, in bold ink was the court stamp with today’s date and the boss’ signature. The name of the boss’ new wife was...

Meanwhile, Ian, Seb, Lucien and Demetri exchanged glances. They wanted to know too! "Speak up the name of the girl, Jack!"

"Autumn." The sense of anticipation that had been built suddenly deflated. "So he was pranking you. He’s gone and married a season? He was just pulling your leg..."

"No no! Autumn is a girl. Her name is Autumn Savoy... now Autumn Frost..."