"You've been watching me eat since before." Dakota put down his spoon, and he was done with his medium well steak.His hand touches the napkin beside his plate, then wipes his lips, sticky with oil. Melani watched him, her eyes focused on Dakota, who looked very annoying because he looked comfortable in that place and used to it.She did intend to treat Dakota, but she didn't expect that Dakota would choose such an expensive place. Melani sighed wearily, after all this was her choice, she was the one who insisted it wasn't Dakota's fault that she wanted to eat there.Melani twisted her fork and spoon. She didn't enjoy her food much as she realized that her month's salary would only pay for one dinner.She laughed bitterly silently. "I'm just seeing if you enjoy it or not." He made an excuse.Dakota snorts a laugh, mocking her. But Melani obviously didn't see it because she looked down. Dakota averted her eyes from Melani and then sipped her wine. "Are you sure?" He asked that in a lig
"Why is this place always crowded?" Dakota muttered. He sat on one of the long benches on the mall's first floor, observing the people crowded there while enjoying the Vienna coffee he had just brought from the coffee shop.He had nothing to do today, but it was too boring just relaxing at home, because when at home she couldn't rest. He must have been doing something with his computer, tinkering with something there and ended up watching the stocks again.Dakota took a sip of his coffee and cast his eyes around. As his eyes spotted a bag shop, he accidentally stared at a woman. Their eyes met glances, but unlike Dakota, the woman's reaction differed."Hey! What are you looking at?" The woman screamed as if she had been harassed.Dakota was dumbfounded. He didn't feel like he had done anything, that the woman could take offence to his words. She stared at those who approached her.The big man with tanned skin looked intimidating. He stood in front of Dakota with a sinister look on his
Dakota let out a long breath. It had been a long few days for her. "I've been really unlucky lately because I keep running into strange women." She then glanced at the woman, 'and ended up meeting unlucky women like her." He quipped at the woman in front of him, who seemed to be staring at him intently and looked very annoyed.Last night, at least, could still be counted as an incident. Melani was annoying because of her high ego, and she didn't want her pride to be hurt because of someone's favour, but she did not think about other people who didn't want to prolong the problem and just wanted to go home. She was also a typical woman who only thought about herself. But at least Melani is still on the side that Dakota can understand.Melani tries to protect herself, who has an inferior nature. She makes a high fortress for herself and does not allow other people to help her just like that because she feels like one day it will be brought up. She thinks that she doesn't deserve help tha
"Now explain what exactly happened? What caused the commotion between you?" asked the man who was the security guard there.With a large posture, the officer took Dakota along with the two other people involved in the problem with him. The three of them were taken to one of the rooms in the building, which was used as a room to monitor the security situation of the mall.Dakota sat in one of the chairs in front of the desk of the man on duty, next to him sat the man who was the woman's boyfriend. The woman had slightly raised his seat. He was getting ready to tell a story, judging from the enthusiastic look on her face. "That guy." He pointed at Dakota. "He was a stalker. He watched me with his dirty gaze. I went after him for it, but he wouldn't admit his mistake and made a scene." He explained.Hearing his explanation, Dakota rolled his eyes because the woman's words were a complete lie. The woman was obviously delusional about it because he never did what she accused him of, not ev
"I am the owner of this mall." He emphasized that to them.For a moment they looked dumbfounded, if that was true then they would be in trouble for involving an important person like him in such a trivial and frivolous matter. The woman became increasingly agitated when what she said was not proven to be true. As he had said earlier, she was already panicking because that meant Dakota might sue him and report her for defamation.She bit her finger, looking at Dakota anxiously. Dakota was the owner of the place, so she was in even more trouble. She didn't want to be completely banned from the mall, but as her eyes glanced at Dakota, and looked Dakota up and down, she knew that Dakota was talking nonsense.The woman then laughed. "Are you kidding me?" She underestimated Dakota through her gaze.From Dakota's casual-looking cut, it was clear that Dakota wasn't that rich at all. Je might be rich, judging by the branded clothes she wore. But many people, including that woman, weren't even
"Come to the watchdog room section. Some people are giving me a hard time in this place," Dakota said right after their call was connected."You're currently at the mall, sir?" the voice on the other end sounded panicked. Without giving Dakota a chance to answer his question, he spoke again, "Yes, sir, I'll be right there." He ended their phone call. He ended their phone call.Dakota contacted one of the highest-ranking staff in the mall. It was true that Dakota did have the largest share there. But he did not run it and take a position as one of the board of directors there because his work was already too much, and he just wanted to take his profit opportunities.Being an investor for them was much more flexible because he couldn't divide his time while he had a lot of work.As their call ended, the woman looked at him with a laugh. "What are you doing? Who did you call?" She chuckled. She really couldn't believe that Dakota was the one who owned such a big mall.Even being one of t
"Hands off!" she snapped at the officer loudly. "What are you doing?" he looked panicked and worriedly at Dakota. "Sorry I came late, sir."All of them looked shocked and couldn't believe what they saw, especially the manager and the security guard, who recognized the man with the cane as their senior officer in the mall. The man was the highest leader of their branch mall. He was the managing director.The manager looked nervous. He read the situation and tried to realize what was happening. "Mr. Director, what are you doing here?" he looked confused. "Don't you have an important meeting today? Why can't you?" Those questions came to mind.As he said them one by one, he was like getting the scattered puzzle pieces and being able to put them together clearly, then his face turned anxious and panicked looking at Dakota.He looked at Dakota with a fierce look. "No way, so he owns this mall, like he said? he's not lying?" the man thought to himself.Dakota glanced at him with a slight sn
"I got a lot done today." Dakota stretches his shoulders in the spinning chair before the computer screen.A few days ago, James had given him various assignments that suddenly became jobs he had to take care of and learn about.Starting with learning about their family tree, the company run by their family, and the people involved with their family, all Dakota learned because of James' orders to him.James wanted Dakota to know that as a basis, then after he understood it, James made Dakota tour each of their subsidiaries, but Dakota was there to accompany him and look around.For a whole week, Dakota's schedule was packed with things James had in mind after observing him. Dakota still remembers that just when he thought his schedule was over, James said, "It's time to introduce you to the public. You've prepared everything you need to know, and now it's time for you to emerge as the heir of the O'Connor family.""I have prepared the guest list. Mr. James said you need to look at it