Keith got out of the cab, which had now disappeared from his path, dropping it off in the parking lot of the Clark Corp. building—his wife's company—which he had not had a chance to visit since their wedding. For a moment, he spent his time staring at the majestic building. He tightened the oversized white jacket with the accent straps around his shoulders and arms, which was quite successful in dispelling the cold air around him, remembering that the season was now entering autumn, then entering the building. A black-and-white short-collared sweater with upside-down small black triangles patterns, black semi-formal trousers and ankle boots made of vegan leather made his appearance look much younger than his actual age. So many times he found people there looking at him in astonishment. Some even greeted him in a friendly contrived voice, asking the reason for his presence in the building. Many of them thought he was visiting the building to meet his parents. He only rep
He snapped out of his mind when he heard Marie's voice calling out to him, running quickly over to him in his high heels (which always amazed him how all the women did without falling). The woman's bright smile behind her tired face made him feel even more guilty."Gosh! I'm sorry to make you come here," the woman immediately hugged him tightly, then kissed him on the cheek as if they had not seen him in a long time. "My iPhone's battery is dead, so I can't reply to your text earlier. I was just about to go to your cafe when Felicia announced your arrival. Did you wait long?"For now, it was better to pretend he did not know the matter, afraid of hurting Marie's high self-esteem. "No. I just came.""Oh, that is good. I th
The Saturday he had not been waiting for had finally arrived.At his family home, which the last time he had visited his parent was two months after his marriage to Marie, he found his house much busier when they entered the house. Then they greeted by both of his parents, who immediately hugged them full of excessive enthusiasm, especially from his mother."My son doesn't make any trouble for you, Marie?" his mother suddenly coming up with that question while throwing a sharp gaze that always succeeded in making him unable to move when he tried to refute his mother's question."No. Absolutely not, Ma," Marie laughed softly in response to his mother's question. Instead, he found Marie successfully adapting to his family very quickly, seeing how Marie addressed his parents with 'Mama' and 'Papa' without hesitation, while he himself still had trouble addressing his father-in-law as 'Dad'. But considering Marie's family background
Keith returned to mingling into the crowd of people parties, still finding that Marie was strangely able to keep up with the conversation his parents always managed to bore him, but not with Marie. His eyes returned to their task of searching for Caleb's whereabouts near the glass door connected to the back garden, which was also busy and crowded. No need to wait too long for him to find the whereabouts of his younger brother, who apparently brought his friends to the house — including Thomas.As soon as he called out his younger brother's name, his younger brother immediately distracted himself from his friends and jumped into his arms as soon as he spread his arms, welcoming his little brother warmly."I really miss you, Keith!""I remember that the last time we spoke was last week over a video call, Caleb. How exaggerated are you…," he said, rubbing the top of his younger brother's head, only realizing that compared to the last time they met, his
Aura closed the book she had just finished reading entitled Looking For Dragon's Bone, then smiled a little. Although the novel was not exactly her favourite genre (she preferred darker stories like Stephen King), she had to admit that she really enjoyed the story. The story was about a female commander-in-chief at the palace, who was looking for a dragon bone to give to the king. The dragon bone was used to cure ailments the illness that the king had suffered for a long time. The protagonist of the story had only three months to find the Dragon's bone due to the king's increasingly critical condition of health to live. While sticking to her mission, she tried to find the dragon's hiding place. On the way, she met a beautiful woman who caught her eye while wearing a pink hanfu that matched well her skin tone. She was complacent, forgot her quest to find dragon bones and instead spent her time approaching the mysterious woman. In the end, she just f
Marie took a sip of champagne in her third glass while listening intently to the conversation of her husband's parents—Ernest Gilbert and Cornelia Gilbert—who invited her to chat with their friends. In her heart, she began to question the gloomy attitude that Keith always showed at the beginning of their marriage that she just realized was indeed strange. How could these two people who have a cheerful, with their warm personality and always welcome whatever awaits them with high enthusiasm (it could even go to an exaggerated stage; it was her temporarily guessing) could give birth to a cute-faced man with a super gloomy and stiff personality like Keith Gilbert?It was weird enough for her. Fate was indeed moving in unpredictable directions.That was the only conclusion she came to after she met her husband's parents several times.Correction. More precisely, after she spent four hours talking to her parents-in-law today. The last time she met her husban
Marie saw that her husband rolled his eyes after his parent left him, then facing her."They didn't say anything weird about me during my absence, did they?""As far as I know," she said, laughing with amusement at Keith's cute reaction. "Apart from telling you how bad you were at school, nothing. Really""Oh, shit… even though I want you to only know my good side. My mom always likes to get involved in people's business," Keith took a deep breath for a moment, then took her hand. "Well, whatever. We'd better go somewhere quieter. Come with me.""I have no problem staying here.""No problem?" the man frowned, looking her up and down. The man's non-gripping hand touched her cheek, channelling the man's warm temperature over her body. "With this pale, looking tired face?""I thought my makeup could cover it up.""It might be able to trick everyone's eyes, but not mine," Keith took her hand, led her out of the hallwa
Keith froze when he heard the words that had just slipped out of Marie's lips, which were smeared with the dark red lip cream. He swallowed hard repeatedly, staring at Marie, who was waiting anxiously for his answer."Has something been on your mind recently, Marie?" he said after he had recovered from his shock, tried to dodge her question. "I told you earlier. You can tell me anything, and I will try—"“Don't try to dodge my question just now, Keith. Just answer my question earlier," Marie snapped harshly. This was the first time she had done to him. It seemed that the woman was losing her temper and needed an immediate answer. The problem was, what kind of answer should he give to Marie? All the choices he had were difficult for him.If he said yes to the promise she made, it meant that he would have to tell his wife about another identity as the leader of the Aldebrando mafia group that he has been trying to hide tightly from her, at the risk of the
Aura's eyes flickered as she turned and found Patricia coming out of her room, wearing a midi dress with a light blue flare skirt that matched the woman's spring-type skin tone, light beige wedges, and a small bag that matched the colour of her wedges, which hung over the woman's left shoulder, perfecting her appearance.At least, her struggle to wait for the woman for twenty minutes—while she was also using that time to looking for the information Keith requested the other day through her smartphone with an application she created by herself so that she could stay connected to her computer at home all the day—was not in vain. It all paid off with Patricia's appearance that was so charming in her eyes until she did not know what to say to compliment her perfect appearance.Patricia's short, light brown shoulder-length hair was only pinned on the right side with a butterfly-shaped clip, after styling it with a hair iron to make it slightly wavy. The make-up