Black Swan's
Maybe I Love You (Fifthy Three)
Sian pov's
It's been two days since Eden disappeared, and since then I've seen my best friend who is also my boss turn into a very horrible man. Every day he always looks careless which leads to great anger on all his innocent subordinates. Sometimes I feel concerned about his life that has never been smooth. His attitude that was formed now was the result of his father's harsh upbringing.
I still clearly remember how devastated Aciel was when his parents separated because his father had another woman who was more loved. He did come from a distinguished family, so the problem of the third person like always shadowing the life of his rich family. At that time I actually did not understand the family problems experienced by Aciel because I met him in a very embarrassing state. I stole his wallet back then, and then I got caught and almost died silly because people were gonna beat me up. But Aciel chose to save me and continued to give me so much help that we were finally able to survive being an inseparable pair of friends. But as I slowly got to know Aciel, I began to realize that the man had such a big wound in his heart related to his parents' separation. Aciel, who was previously a spoiled man who was very close to his mother, becomes completely hurt when he learns of her father's affair. He then turns into a cold-hearted hard man who likes to play the heart of women after he realizes that love is just nonsense. Unlike me who has never had the love of a mother since long ago, because my mother died while giving birth to me. While I myself am not too close to my father, because my father is the type of stiff man who can not be warm to his son. I always wanted to be a rich man like Aciel because with a lot of money I didn't have to steal food or money from pedestrians to survive on the hard streets. I want to have a perfect family like Aciel's. But unfortunately the perfect family of Aciel that I think is absolutely perfect, in fact it was never perfect either. And when Aciel fails with his family, he decides to move to his grandfather's house because he is the only grandson who inherits all of his grandfather's wealth. Again I was envious of the life of Aciel, even when he failed with his family, he still had another life that was just as perfect, despite having to be without the warmth of the family, he said, but for me it doesn't matter because the family can be bought with the money that he
possess. But of course it was all my innocent thoughts while I was still in a life far from decent. At that time I did not really know how the rules of the world of rich people until now a little bit I know if love, affection, or family, they can not be bought with money. I proved it myself now. In one week I could change women dozens of times, but all that still could not fill the empty space that kept gaping in my heart.
Lately, I have been visiting Aciel's house more often after work. I played with Ciara, had dinner with Eden and of course Aciel, and sometimes stayed at Aciel's house until my goddamn best friend kicked me out of the blue because I was like a bum, who continues to live in his home. But as much as Aciel drove me away, so much so that Eden accepted me with open arms because Eden knew that we had each other as a family.
Then regarding the life of young Aciel, I actually didn't know too much, either,
but if you look at how Aciel's attitude so far, he seems to have been educated very hard by his father or by circumstances that have forced him to behave so. I used to see Aciel wake up with a zombie-like face because he was sleep deprived. Every day he was busy developing his grandfather's business and very ambitious to rival his father's company because he felt that his father had been underestimating his performance. In addition, Aciel also lives with a huge hatred of his father because his father had broken his dreams to have a perfect family.
Eight years later Aciel began to plant his powerful claws in the American business world. He with all his business instincts was able to make his grandfather's company become more successful and successful in the American market, even then his company has expanded to several regions in Asia. But Aciel also had time to fall into the radical group of America and he almost arrested by the police because he several times joined the syndicate to kill people who they think are guilty. But because of the power he had, Aciel finally escaped the law and the police never again put his name into the radical group. But Aciel is still Aciel, after he got a problem that is quite dangerous like that, he is not at all deterred. He then tried various other challenging things by becoming one of the regular players in the free-fighting arena with other thugs and assassins. Every morning, I would definitely find one or two bruises on his face. The rest I could see his left arm bandaged, his leg limped, or one of his ribs broken. Well, I can say that it was the turning point of Aciel Lutherford, where he usually lived his life in boredom, then he started trying something more challenging in his life. In fact, he was once famous for his image player who was incredibly crazy. In a day maybe he can date two or three women at once, all of whom are classy women who are usually the children of one of the officials, artists, or children of a grandfather's business partner. But I think that Aciel was just trying to play around with his life. He just wanted to feel what he had missed as long as he got a lot of restraint from his father.
As time went on and we got older, Aciel began to act more mature. He began to abandon his black life and began to focus on his seat of honor to continue the success of the Lutherford clan. At that time, whether our heads were being hit or what, we discussed the future of our company which had been abandoned for several years because of our stubbornness. Well of course it was after Aciel gave me the opportunity to own fifteen percent of the shares in his company. It's hard if Aciel is actually good enough, he has even considered me like his own brother even though I was once just a street kid who almost took his wallet. So we used to have discussions like two grown men who looked wise and full of overflowing ambition. Then from that moment I began to realize that we were really mature and mature to take care of the company seriously. We are no longer ten-year-old children who are always surrounded by sadness because they do not have parents or wild teenage children who often make noise to disturb others. We are grown men who have to work
hard to maintain the glory and honor of the Lutherford family. But the arrogant and cunning attitude of Aciel can not just disappear. The attitude that he brought from the radical group continues to stick in him, so that anyone who dared to block his steps, then he did not hesitate to kill the man. Till
one day Aciel was reunited with Brexton who was one of his business partners who at that time helped Aciel to open more businesses in the international market. Brexton, who is eight years older than us, has had a lot of great business experience. He joyfully shared his knowledge with us and often introduced us to his family, including introducing us to his beautiful daughter, Eden. The first time I met that beautiful girl when she was about five or six, I don't know if I forgot a little. But I still remember how the cheerful face of Eden when welcoming the arrival of her father's business friends at home and when the girl asked this it was with a typical question of children who are very adorable. At that time of course I never thought if Eden was cheerful
you will turn into a moody Eden, even a vengeful Eden like a few years ago, or a rough Eden like the days after he woke up from his coma. Many things happened to Eden to make the mental state of the little girl who has now been transformed as a mature woman was torn apart. One of the main culprits was of course Aciel, then his father, Brexton. I don't know, I always blame Brexton if I remember Eden's dark days of misfortune because he had to deal
with Aciel. But indeed, only Aciel had the great confidence of Brexton to educate Eden after the jerk died. Me? Of course Brexton wouldn't risk handing his daughter in the hands of a man whose origins are so obscure and who only grew up on the harsh streets of Vegas. Although sometimes I wonder enough with Brexton's real purpose why he handed Eden over to Aciel. Is it because Aciel is rich? Brexton knew that Eden could one day be someone who had so much influence on Aciel's life that he turned a ferocious Aciel into a weak Aciel after Eden had disappeared years ago.
Now I understand very well that Aciel loves his wife so much. Although Aciel never said clearly that he loved Eden, every action he showed his wife was more than enough to prove that he loved Eden. My friend who used to always close his heart to a woman, now feels the fatigue of having to deal with a hard woman who is not easily conquered. If all the women bowed down under his feet because of all the things he had, Eden spit on his face and absolutely did not want to submit under the dominating power of Aciel. As a witness and audience member of their complicated love story, I was actually very amazed by their struggle to fit in with each other because they basically had two very different personalities. They do it for the future of Ciara and their other children because they do not want their children to feel what their parents have been feeling. Aciel willingly lowered their ego for the sake of my adorable niece, Ciara and now Louise too. It could be said that Ciara was an angel who was sent down by God to extinguish the embers that had been stretched between the two hard men, Aciel and Eden. Now after all this time I don't
looking at Aciel's terrifying side, that side had now reappeared. Aciel returned to his former self, when he lost Eden. He returns to being a horrible cold man who is almost untouchable as he continues to dwell with his own anger.
“Daddy.. Uncle, why is daddy just sitting there doing nothing? Does daddy not love me anymore?”
“Uncle, do mommy and daddy not love each other anymore? Since mommy woke up from her long sleep Ciara never saw mommy being soft again on daddy, Ciara actually saw mommy getting angry at daddy.”
“They love each other, angel..”.
“But why mommy went?” cut Ciara quickly with an irritated face and almost shed tears because of my unsatisfactory answer and also because of the overflow of emotions when seeing her parents busy with their respective egos.
“Mommymu just want to clear his mind for a moment, he will definitely come back or your terrible daddy will drag your mommy back.” I replied finally in a frustrated tone. Honestly, I've run out of words to answer every critical question. And it inevitably made me think of Eden, because as far as I knew she turned out to be a very kind gentle woman. During this time he often visited me and brought a variety of delicious food results of his cooking because he was very smart to cook. I used to think that Eden was the same as **************** out there. But. I was wrong. I even really regret having judged her so badly, because Eden actually has a motherly side that has been covered by her hard side. And I think that's what makes Aciel can't turn away from Eden because since their relationship improved, Aciel is like finding his mother in Eden. Although several times they often do a fight, but still they will be fine again, he said, and just showing off the affection in front of me until I really envy their perfect home life. Maybe at this time God only wants to test the resilience of their love through an accident that befell Eden to culminate in the loss of memory of the woman.
“Sian, have you found where Anthony is?”
Suddenly, Aciel appeared before me, stroking the top of his son's head fondly. He then grabbed Ciara from my sling and tightly hugged her daughter while kissing the top of Ciara's head repeatedly. Maybe if I were a woman, I would have cried because I saw their interaction
very heart-slicing and also heartwarming. They must have lost the figure of Eden.
“So far my men are still looking, but according to my men at this time Anthony has not worked at the agency that used to be, but according to my men, he had already resigned two weeks before Eden's accident. But there was one thing that made me think Anthony was related to the accident that happened to Eden because of the cctv camera
installed in the supermarket captured a portrait of Anthony's face who was among the crowd of people who shrouded Eden, but after that he chose to leave and look like he never saw an accident that befell his former lover. What do you think happened to them? Could they have been involved in the previous conflict to cause Eden to run hastily in the supermarket and not see a fast-moving car in front of him?”
“Why do you think like that? You don't want to test my patience, do you? Losing Eden and knowing the fact that Eden forgot about me has made me very angry, now you just add to my problem with a new hypothesis about the proximity of Anthony and Eden behind me, you deliberately want to make me explode, huh?” hiss Aciel was full of warnings in front of me. I tried to calm her down by patting her back casually while warning her if Ciara was currently asleep in her arms. If she can't control her emotions and speaks too loudly, Ciara could wake up and cry in surprise.
“I don't want to make you explode, but I just want you to investigate further about Anthony because that guy is quite mysterious. He must have his own plan to repay you because he has been so persistent in building his life that you destroyed before. You better start
prepare yourself for the shocking things that will happen to your life.” my thoughts on him. Aciel looked pensively in front of me while tightening her jaws tightly. He must be holding back the overflowing anger within him, but his current state compels him to think with a cold head because if he only puts forward his anger, he will think with a cold head, he would be defeated by Anthony easily because the man had been thinking about this from the beginning, making Aciel angry and careless at the same time.
“I will certainly soon gather evidence regarding Anthony, and if Eden is indeed right with Anthony at this time, then I will let them be together for a while. Just a few moments before I separate them for eternity.”
I could see a flash of anger, resentment, and pain so intense in his eyes. Under these circumstances, Aciel would be extremely dangerous to anyone. And whoever dares to challenge Aciel under these circumstances, then that person must be prepared for the risk of death he will face.
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