Meanwhile, Lucas has to find a way to persuade Lucy, who has been sulking since what happened at the parking area before. He takes her to Johnson’s Pleasantry, even though Lucy has been declining his proposal so far. “I still have dreams that I want to achieve. I'm not ready to get married yet. If you want to get married that bad, just ask that Emma,” Lucy insists on declining. “I admit it that I have an issue with another girl, but it’s all in the past, before you were back to this town,” replies Lucas. “Heh? So, it’s that so easy for you to just leave a woman, huh?” Lucy replies with a contorted face. “For you? Well, yeah! It's a no-brainer. Any man would be more than happy to leave his girl if it’s to get you. So please, come with me. It’s just a gift before you go back to New York. You can pick whatever you want,” Lucas persuades her to visit Johnson’s Pleasantry. “Whatever I want? Are you serious?” asks Lucy with squinted eyes. “Yeah! But you can only pick one!” Lucas is so
Mr. Bermer gets out of his office. Immediately, he finds another couple who have a quarrel in his shop. Now he is busy trying to calm those two down, not wanting their quarrel to affect his business. Lucas has also noticed that all the eyes are on them at the moment. He forces his beautiful mind, who is always good at flattering a girl, to find a way to calm Lucy down. “Come on, Honey! Of course, I know! When did I call you a gold digger? After all, you’ve always denied my gift so far, right? How a Hollywood star like you could be a gold digger?” explains Lucas by holding his voice, trying to win Lucy’s trust. It manages to change Lucy’s mind. In the end, she is calmed down by how sweet Lucas’s words are in flattering her. “You mean it?” she asks with a bit of a sulking face. “Yeah! Well, not about that 2 Million dollar ring that you asked back at the auction,” says Lucas. “That one ring is a different story,” Lucy interrupts immediately. “Don’t blame me for asking you to buy it
Martin backs to his house, still with the 2 Million dollar lingering around in his head. Before getting inside his house, he averts his attention back to Victor and Viona. “Please!” Both Victor and Viona ask him at the same time. “Oh? Yeah, yeah! I’ll get inside now!” After Martin gets inside his house, only then Viona starts expressing her objection, for receiving 2 Million dollars through her mobile banking. Well, it’s only around 1.8 Million dollars, after the tax and a few cuts for several parties involved in the auction. “What’s the meaning of this?” she asks. “Sorry, I forgot to tell you before. I asked them to transfer the money to your bank account,” says Victor. “Why?” “You see, I don’t want the money to be disputed by Emma later. That’s the only money I have since my dad has put the ban on using the other bank account,” says Victor. “Oh, why don’t you just transfer all the money from your second bank account to me then?” asks Viona with a taunting smile. “I don’t thin
Lucy is a bit confused about what her friend just said. She looks behind, seeming so curious who the devil she just mentioned. “Who?” she mumbles with a confused face. The same with Lucas, averting his attention to where Emma went. But Lucy’s friend just takes their attention again, trying to invite them back to the conversation. “Nah, just forget about it!” she says, putting on an uninterested look on her face regarding Emma’s coming. And so, Lucy also ignores it. The same with Lucas, who is looking so ignorant with Emma’s existence inside the bar. The truth is, Lucas was actually looking at Emma just now. It’s just that he only saw her back, with Emma having already put on her uniform and a hat for a drive thru operator. Right now, without so much care, Emma greets Robert who is just coming out of the kitchen. She then keeps walking toward her post like how she usually did in the past few days. Since working at “Peccato Legale”, she has always looked out of place. She is ofte
Every desire does require sacrifice. It seems to be a standard formula, where one needs to sacrifice happiness to get happiness. Sacrifice money to get money. Or maybe, those who don’t want to take the risk of losing anything, might find the need to sacrifice others’ for their own gains. Squeezing other’s sweat and blood for their own pleasure. Countless people have thrown away most of their lives, only to feel the thrill of victory and the satisfaction of momentary success. It’s almost like the climax in sex. Three minutes, five minutes, or maybe you have to sweat for a matter of hours. But in the end, the pleasure of the climax is only momentary. After that, you will be exhausted, then sleep and find peace. The same anxiety is currently haunting Victor. The fact that he now has already had a lot of money makes him uneasy. It can be said that he had lost his family life and other kinds of effort to get that 2 Million dollars. And that’s what he feels now, that people might do more
They both are not stupid. They are people with good educational backgrounds, and both are high-ranking officials in a large company. But that strangeness is completely beyond their reason.Precisely because of their sanity, the two couldn't come to a conclusion. It's not clear whether it was someone who had bad intentions towards Victor, or maybe, someone who only tried to help him by setting those CCTV cameras with a better angle.After all, Victor couldn't forget about the two robbers who had previously pointed their guns at him. He feels like he can’t be too naive, thinking that it was a work of someone who tried to help him.On the contrary, Victor feels that the person was making fun of him by teaching him how to install a CCTV camera in the right way.It has been a few minutes, they are still there looking so dumb with that kind of weirdness. Until Mrs. Greta passes by with her little pet dog, greeting Victor and distracting him from all that oddities.“Did you just wake up, Vic
Victor and Viona are now so quiet, and can't get enough thinking about Jimmy’s odd decision. The car moves so slow due to Viona who still hasn’t cleared her mind yet.After all, she doesn’t want her windshield to be broken again by a bird or whatever would come to her car.And then, Viona remembers about Victor's money that has been transferred to her bank account. After all, Victor deliberately left his car at the company, for his worry of not having enough money until the next month.That’s also why Viona was a bit startled before, when she found Victor bought three CCTV cameras. She believes those cameras were not that cheap for someone who had claimed to be broke.“Do you have enough money with you?” asks Viona.“Nope! The bank account I use for daily needs has been empty for some time. Not completely empty yet. But I can’t take money from that account anymore. What I have now is the little dollar in my pocket,” explains Victor.“And you call yourself the President of Counterbrand
Viona might have known him for a long time. But there are also times when she is confused with Victor. Sometimes he acts so mature like an adult, while other times he is as naive as a kid, looking so carefree with his problems. The truth is, one of the tasks that Charles William entrusted to her is to keep a close look at Victor’s growth as a business professional. But sometimes, she finds it hard to make her judgement on him. “Oh?! I haven't told you before. But your father tried to call you several times, right after the meeting at the marketing department,” Viona informs. “I turned my phone into a silent mode that time, and forgot to turn it back to normal. I only found the notification later,” replies Victor. “Where were you at that time? Your dad had asked the receptionist to connect the call to your office before trying to contact your phone number. But you weren't there.” “Sleeping in the storeroom,” replies Victor with a childish laugh. And there, Viona’s brows are twitc