Chapter 5: His feelings and reason

Danica didn't know if she was going to speak now or wait for the man to speak first and ask her, now that she was next to him it was like a melted ice her courage.

But until they came to the opposite side of a modest house, the man did not move, nor did he look at her as if she were just an air.

"Jiro," she called softly to the man but he didn't pay attention to her again and just continued walk toward the house. She immediately grabbed his hand and stopped him from walking. "Let's talk."

“Yes, we will talk, Danica but not here outside. I don't want my name to be tangled in the issue you have.” He said quietly and dismissed the woman's hands that were holding him.

Although the woman was embarrassed, she ignored it and followed the man into the house, it was not the house where the man was staying when they were still lovers. Danica could clearly see how much time had changed the man.

The blue color that used to be his favorite has turned gray, she can't see anything now about the music that if before the man's room was almost filled with about his piano lesson.

She heard the man sigh and sat down on a sofa, she just watched it as he irritably removed the neck tie. “What? Will you just stand there and watch me?” He frowned at her.

His eyes stared at her made her even more nervous, Danica gulped three times and stared at the man in front of her.

"I need your help." The word is short yet it explained what she needed to him.

Jiro couldn't help but to laugh loudly and repeatedly to what he heard, “you really want my help to save your fame? How funny when you just said that you don’t need anything from me earlier. What gotten into you to change your mind?”

“Nothing. I just can't afford to let my name be tarnished in the industry I have chosen and devoted all my time and sweat to.” Danica's serious answer with confident.

Even if it is a shame that she is back and forth in front of it as a poor exiled actress and people throw up, that is no longer important to her, the life of her mother is depends on it and she will prioritize that over her own.

"Then, how willing are you for this?" He smirked.

His insult smiles deliberately lowered Danica's pride, she answered the man's question with her eyes closed.

"Very."

“Very? Prove it then.”

"How?" Danica asked crookedly.

Jiro stood up and walked closer to her without even take his eyes off her. The woman swallowed the her own saliva again and held her breath when suddenly pulled her on waist by the man.

"Sign a contract to be my mistress." He whispered.

Even though the tone used by the man was low and gentle, she knew that something was not well planned and that there was a contract signing that wanted it to happen.

"Let me decide once I read the contract." She said ensured herself to the outcome.

Jiro can’t help himself to laughed again. "We don't need a formal contract to this," the man carelessly let go of her and took a bond paper and ball pen. "Here are the only rules I want." It said and it started to write.

Be my mistress

That's all and he signed at the bottom of the paper, he smiled at Danica and shrugged, "go ahead, put some rules if you want to put something."

Danica re-read what the man wrote in the middle part of the paper, he really just wanted the woman to be his mistress in exchange for its sponsorship. She just shook her head and signed opposite the man man's name.

"That's it, you can leave now." He said casually and turned his back to her. "Just sit and wait, you don't need to do anything."

Danica wanted to ask the man many more questions but she knew that he would not give good answers. "Then I'm leaving, I'll tell Shun that you accepted to be my sponsor."

"I doubt you need to tell him but, go do what you want." He said with no interest at all.

Danica did not answer, she just turned around to leave the house, Jiro didn't even look at her or take her to the gate.

The young man sighed and leaned back on the sofa, the stress obvious on his face but with an emotion dominating it. Concern!

"Tch!" He couldn’t help but click his tongue and immediately stood up and followed the woman who was now walking towards the gate of the villa to get to the most main road. "This woman never fails to make me feel frustrated."

He immediately removed the car lock and got inside it and drove, even though he couldn’t understand himself he let it follow what his body wanted to do.

He horn when he was in front of the woman who walk alone, the inside of the villa was safe, but it was different if a woman was walking alone.

He quickly grabbed the woman's attention and looked her to him, even though Danica tried to hide her shock, it was too late because Jiro could clearly see how her eyes widened in shock.

Aside from the woman's grooming and shape, Jiro didn't notice anything else that changed in the woman, especially now that Danica is in casual wear, he remembered the past reason to tighten his grip on the steering wheel.

If only it were possible for Jiro not to think about the past, he would have done it a long time ago, but destiny is very playful because when he was ready to let go of what happened eight years ago, the woman  appeared in front of him again.

The funny thing there is not because to explain or apologize for what she did, but to ask for help for its damaged fame. Now the man does not know which he will prioritize, the anger or the guilt he felt for the woman.

"Why are you here, did you forget to tell me something?" This question made Jiro upset.

“Get in. I just don't want to hear the news tomorrow morning that a famous actress was raped on the street after her name was tarnished.”

“No, the gate is near and there is a guard there. I'll just wait for a taxi to pass by to ride there.” Danica replied and continued walking.

“As my mistress, do you have any right to say no?” Although Jiro did not want to use the contract, he knew that the woman was stubborn and would not allow the him to take her lightly.

"I'm your mistress not your property, Jiro." She said it seriously.

“Oh! But your future is in my hands right now, Danica. Do you have to be so prideful right now?” The young man replied.

Her hands were numb and she immediately walked to the other side of the car and slammed the door open and got on, what she have right to against him who now hold her future in career and the mother who is in the hospital.

"Where is your home?" He asked, "nah never mind, just type it on the screen." He pointed the map in front of them.

Danica didn't waste any more and just did Jiro's order, even though one of them didn't want to talk. With the two of them, Danica felt more the awkwardness, because she knew that the man doesn’t want his name to be tangled with her anymore.

Maybe he was just forced to help her, because Shun was his friend and he asked him for help, if maybe Shun wasn’t the owner of the entertainment company, he wouldn’t help her.

“You have reached the destination” The map on the small screen said, make Danica to be thankful.

Jiro immediately stopped the car and looked at the woman, "I'll just be clear, from now on you can't flirt with any man."

"As if I'm going to do that, like I said I'm not that kind of person." She said and got out of the car and went straight into the building where the room given to her by the company.

Jiro's gaze just followed her, she hadn't even disappeared from his sight when his cellphone rang.

The expression on his face immediately changed, "Hello, Chairman." He said.

“Did you clean the mess I said? Make sure you clean up your brother's mess about the video that spreads where his face can be seen and the drugs he brought, it can't ruin the career he wants.” That immediately dawned on him from the father.

"I did, Chairman."

“Good! Very good! If you really want to prove that you deserve to be my elder son and your brother to accept you wholeheartedly, do everything for him, make sure you that the actress we made a scapegoat for your brother won’t do anything.”

He was not allowed to answer the person on the other line, and just immediately turned off the call, as illegitimate son of Chairman Cuenca, he was not accepted by anyone. Was it his fault that he was the result of his father's mistake?

He looked at the woman again, “now I don't know who should apologize to the two of us, Danica. Is it you or me?” He confused said.