BOYFRIENEMIES

ARNOLDO RICCI'S

Ethan and Chaerin stand in the midst of boisterous invited guests who alternately greet them to congratulate. There is nothing more to them than a feeling of happiness.

Ethan still shakes a guest's hand as his eyes catch a person he doesn't expect to come, the person walked towards him among the crowd of guests who were still enjoying the party with a glass of wine in their hands and also dancing.

A fat man wearing a monochrome suit stelan, he was hobbled with a cane as high as his thigh, the stick helped him to walk better because he had an injury to his leg that could not be healed.

Next to him, another much younger man, about the same age as Ethan, wore an ash T-shirt on a coat of Dongker's blue blezer and oversized jeans, an inappropriate outfit for a wedding. The other one is Brian, his son.

Ethan quickly calls Christina and tells her to take Chaerin away.

"What's wrong?" Chaerin was of course confused as to why he suddenly had to leave at that very instant.

"You should go back now, I'll explain why back home" Ethan tries to convince Chaerin to leave immediately.

"OK, but you have to really explain" Chaerin said briefly and left immediately with Christina.

"Basic you could've gotten married without inviting me and papa" Brian grabbed Ethan by the shoulder and snapped his head a few times.

"Stop your child-like behavior!" Ethan detaches himself from Brian and twists the man's hand until he grimaces in pain.

"Have not seen Mr. Arnoldo Ricci for a long time" Ethan reached out his hand to the monochrome-clothed old man and greeted the man with a smile.

"I'm sure you don't mean to forget me when there's an important event like this"

"Whatchu mean? I've been sending out invitations all day, you didn't accept them, Brian didn't?" Ethan lied with a confused face.

Ethan did not have the slightest intention to invite the father and son pair.

Ethan doesn't want Chaerin to meet them. It is possible that Chaerin will recognize Arnoldo Ricci who is actually Antoni Greco, the person he has been looking for, and again Arnoldo Ricci is not an easy person to deal with, Chaerin would probably be in danger if they met.

"Well, I said, Ethan can't forget us. You know papa was so angry before he got here, he said he'd break every bone in your body because you're the most ungrateful person he's been helping your business for years" brian Oceh.

"Yes, it seems like he's planning to do it right now by holding my hand very tightly" Ethan looked at his hand that was still shaking hands with Arnoldo.

The old man quickly withdrew his hand and cleared his throat with a loud voice.

"Well, you can understand, but at least you should call"

"I'm very busy, preparing for the wedding, and you know Nshade's demand has been on the rise lately"

Ethan's words were just a nod of understanding from Arnoldo.

"Where's your wife? I want to see how she is, is she prettier than Mona Shine, so you're willing to leave that perfect miss?" Back Brian blabbering with his stupid face.

"He was exhausted and went home first" Ethan said briefly.

"Well disappointing" complained Brian.

"At least invite him to dinner together tomorrow night, I'm also curious how he is" Arnoldo said in a commanding tone.

"You're planning to ruin our honeymoon with a dinner call that you can't refuse?" Ethan stared at Arnoldo's sharp sign that he was unwilling.

"You get angry easily after marriage. Well Ethan, I'm not going to bother you, you have to enjoy every second of your time together, before you get tired of waking up next to the same woman every day" Arnoldo chuckled.

"No no, I'm very curious and I'm almost crazy, please meet me with Chaerin just once" Brian whined.

Arnoldo's pupils dilated after Brian pronounced Chaerin's name. A flash of memory suddenly appeared in his head. Ethan watched Arnoldo's facial changes closely and waited for what the old man would do afterwards.

"You said his wife's name was Chaerin?" Arnoldo asked to make sure he didn't hear wrong.

"Yes, his name is Chaerin, Ethan often mutters his name"

"Why do you know him?" Ask Ethan full of questions.

"No, I just remembered someone who had died a long time ago, he had the same name, but I'm sure they were different people" Arnoldo chuckled again, and Ethan smiled with the answer Arnoldo gave.

"So he thought Chaerin was dead? Good thing, there's nothing I need to worry about" Ethan monologues in his heart.

"Then excuse me, my wife is waiting at home" Ethan looked down and turned to leave, leaving Arnoldo still standing resting on his stick and Brian who was still whining to be able to meet Chaerin.

*

"Gloria.

He was reading every word written on the paper that Sean had just handed over.

Arnoldo's presence was very disturbing his mind, he couldn't possibly hide Chaerin during his time.

He also believes that Arnoldo may be conducting a background investigation into Chaerin, Arnoldo's distrustful nature to others makes him always vigilant.

Arnoldo does look like a weak, ordinary old man with a cane that helps him to walk, but unlike it looks, Arnoldo is actually very dangerous, once Ethan almost died because Arnoldo drowned him in a lake half frozen in winter with his hands tied, so lucky Ethan can still live until now.

"I found nothing but that sir, finding out about Arnoldo was very difficult" Sean bowed before Ethan.

After Ethan finds out that Chaerin's man is Arnoldo, Ethan orders Sean to find out everything about Arnoldo, but unfortunately, he, not a single piece of information was useful against the old man.

"This woman is Arnoldo's wife, she is the son of the Ricci family's mafia chairman, after her parents died, now Arnoldo who took over the business and became the chairman, and, but power is still held by Gloria. He was a witness to a factory fire 20 years ago, he was also the one who managed to convince the judge that Clairine was the perpetrator of the factory arson" Sean explained while pointing at a photo of a slender-eyed woman wearing black clothes, at the death of her husband.

"Amazing woman" there was a hint of awe when Ethan said it.

"One year after Arnoldo's fake death, he remarried to Arnoldo who had changed his identity, Arnoldo officially became a member of the Ricci family since then" Sean continued.

"This woman sounds more dangerous than her husband, very attractive" Ethan said with a wry smile.

"I'll find out more" Sean said.

"You're not sleeping? It's 3 in the morning!" Chaerin suddenly walks into Ethan's study without knocking on the door first. Ethan and Sean tense up, fearing that what they were talking about earlier was heard by Chaerin.

"You miss me in honey's bed?" Ethan's temptation is to try to get rid of worry. Chaerin looked very sleepy, so it was very unlikely that Chaerin had heard her talk with Sean just now.

"I was just asking if you weren't sleeping, I felt pretty comfortable with my wide bed without you there" Chaerin closes the door to Ethan's study and returns to his room in a fit of annoyance.

"It's wedding night and she's in her study alone with the pale white guy, so I'm suspicious of their relationship" Chaerin grumbled softly all the way back to her room.

"Sorry honey, I have a job to do as soon as possible"

Ethan hugs Chaerin from behind, revealing Chaerin's hair covering his neck, Ethan slowly kisses the back of the woman's neck who has become his wife with passion.

"Even your back is very pretty" said Ethan, who now turns to bite Chaerin's ear.

"Less than 5 minutes ago I said, I love a big bed without you!" Chaerin wakes up and pushes Ethan until the man falls to the floor.

"Didn't your behavior go too far!" Ethan quickly stood up, ruffled his waist and raised his tone.

"Huh you fucking pervert!" Chaerin lay back down and covered her body with a blanket to the head.

"Essum?! I'm your husband, we just had a wedding a few hours ago, you forgot?"

Chaerin ignores Ethan and still tries to sleep back under his blanket.

"I'm sorry to ignore you, I didn't mean it at all, my mind was distracted for a moment" Ethan said.

"I don't accept apologies in oral form" Chaerin said in his blanket.

"You want me to write an apology?"

"Of course not, what's the point of a piece of paper with ink scratches on it"

"Do you want to buy a leather limited edition bag?" Ethan made an offer.

Chaerin did not answer anything, only shook his head under his blanket.

"Shoes, clocks, necklaces, rings, bracelets?" Ethan is still trying to make an offer.

"Noo"

"I'll give you my credit card and you can buy whatever you want, even you can buy a whole mall complete with employees"

Ethan's final offer makes Chaerin get up and out of his blanket.

"Seriously?"

Chaerin finally smiled when she heard Ethan's reply. He patted the place next to him, indicating that Ethan could sleep there.

"I think this bed is wide enough for both"

"Ck I don't think you're interested in money at all, but it looks like I'm gonna be a bum in a minute because of you"

Ethan climbed into the bed and lay facing the ceiling of the room, and Chaerin did the same.

"Why shut up, what are you thinking?" Chaerin looked at Ethan who was glued to the ceiling.

"I'll protect you, even if I have to die" Ethan smiled at Chaerin.

Chaerin did not understand the meaning of Ethan's sudden talk about protecting him, protecting him from what? it's just smiling back.

"The only person who is putting me at risk here is you, I was lucky not to die when you strangled me first" Chaerin brought up trouble on the yacht the other day.

"I deserve to die" Ethan said, clasping Chaerin's hand and kissing him, Ethan felt really guilty about the incident.

"That's it"

Chaerin turned his back to Ethan who was preparing to go to sleep. Ethan still sees the ceiling of the room with all sorts of terrible shadows about what would happen to Chaerin if he could not protect him.

*

Chaerin polished a bright red lipstick onto her lips, at which she saw the reflection of her beautiful face in the mirror and she smiled in satisfaction.

For more than an hour, Chaerin was picking what clothes he would wear in his row of expensive clothes on the walk in closet.

Marrying Ethan was a big win. How not, Chaerin who usually has to work hard to make money to be able to buy expensive bags and shoes his favorite, now only have to seduce Ethan and everything he wants is immediately available in an instant, like magic.

Chaerin did not even think that Ethan prepared a lot of wedding gifts in the form of jewelry and also beautiful clothes. Ethan also gave a new pink Gold sports car with his initials, CL.

Chaerin plans to take a walk with his new car this morning, Ethan gives him permission to go outside but he must remain accompanied by Christina and two bodyguards, who are also known to be his friends, chaerin's life slowly returns to its original state, he begins to regain his freedom, not completely free, but this is enough for him to enjoy life.

"For everyone" Chaerin greeted everyone in the dining room with a happy smile.

"You look so bright today Miss Chae" Christopher commented, Chaerin touched her cheek and smiled shyly.

"Where are Ethan and the pale white?"

Chaerin didn't see Ethan and Sean anywhere this morning. Even when he wakes up in the morning Ethan is no longer there beside him.

"Mr Ethan and Sean left early in the morning, he left this for you"

Christopher gives Chaerin a brown envelope.

Chaerin looked inside the brown envelope and a bright smile was instantly etched on her face.

A mobile phone, also a license driver on behalf of Clara Zie of course, and the most make Chaerin happy is a black card with a carved name and also a row of silver numbers.

"You can have breakfast without me Chris" Chaerin said with a flat face.

"Because I'm going to have fun!!" Chaerin screeched happily while jumping up and down, revealing his black card.

*

"I didn't think you'd come here, I thought you'd enjoy your days as a newlywed. Wh why? Is your wife getting boring"

Arnoldo was sitting on the balcony of the hotel room he was renting, accompanied by two young women who only wore underwear.

Arnoldo occasionally squeezes and licks the breasts of these women without worrying about the presence of Ethan, or the presence of his son, Brian.

"You want to too? I'll give you one of them, you'll get tired of just sleeping with one woman" Arnoldo's offer wasn't at all reviewed by Ethan.

Ethan still stands on the edge holding on to a balcony railing made of transparent glass.

"I don't like to wear someone else's ex, especially your ex, so disgusting" Ethan chuckled.

Arnoldo laughed at Ethan's words, only to stop laughing after a few seconds

"You're saying I'm disgusting, I hear your wife used to be a whore, how many men have slept with her? I can try it once"

Ethan takes a look at Arnoldo's insults, to hold back his anger.

"I don't know why you married that bitch, but you should have married a respectable woman to keep your reputation in the public eye, wouldn't you be an angel in the world's eyes" Arnoldo said.

Ethan takes a ceramic teapot on the table and hits it on the head of one of the women who is with Arnoldo. The woman fell to the floor with fresh blood flowing from the hole in her head, along with a loud scream from the other woman.

"You want me to hit you too?!" Ethan looked at the other woman still standing next to Arnold by showing a broken teapot covered in blood on her hand.

The woman reflexively shook her head quickly, the water of her face turned frightened and there was a slight puddle of tears in her eyes.

"Then go"

Ethan threw away the broken teapot he was holding, and sat down in front of Arnoldo, folded his legs casually and took Arnoldo's glass and drank his tea without excuse.

"Well, the difference between me and you is that we marry women of different backgrounds. You married a rich girl from an ambitious ruling family, but your life is miserable because you don't love her. And I'm very happy"

"Don't get me wrong, I've also been with the woman I love, but I realize that love only makes you weak, but money makes you stronger, love doesn't really matter to me"

"I didn't come here to hear you talk about the philosophy of love and money. I want to end our cooperation"

Arnoldo scrunched up his forehead marked that he did not understand.

Sean, who had been standing behind Ethan, took a step forward, carrying a black suitcase with a combination lock and placed it on the table.

Ethan opens the suitcase slowly and flips it over, allowing Arnoldo to see the contents.

"This thing is worth millions of dollars, it's the last thing I can give you. You don't have to pay me back, take this as a parting gift from me, then don't act like we've ever known"

Ethan's words immediately made Arnoldo agape, he had known Ethan for a long time and only this time Ethan dared to speak very rude and even wanted to break with him.

"Fuck you, you have no right to decide, here I am the boss!!" Arnoldo flips the table, making everything on it fall to the floor, including a suitcase filled with dozens of Nshade ampoules Ethan had just given him.

Arnoldo could no longer contain his anger. He had always considered Ethan as his son, no, rather a puppy, but Ethan instead wanted to turn from him and leave him. Arnoldo will not accept it all.

Sean swiftly pulled out a gun from behind his suit and pointed it at Arnoldo who was ready to hit Ethan the chair he had been sitting on.

Arnoldo suddenly lowered the chair he had lifted and laughed out loud as he sat back down, covering his eyes with his right hand filled with diamond rings.

"God, I've always been amazed by your idiot kid's attitude. He looks more like a dog, see how he growls when he sees his master being attacked, really a loyal dog. Unlike my dog who now turns around and wants to bite its master" Arnoldo quipped Ethan.

"You also have a useless idiot kid" Ethan points to Brian lying on the couch playing games on his phone.

Not that Brian was just lying there quietly without knowing the situation. He just pretended to wear earphones without any music playing. He had no interest in meddling in the quarrel between his father and his friend. Choosing to take sides between the two was extremely difficult, so Brian ignored them.

"I refrained from killing you just yet, but maybe I can't help myself anymore if you try to provoke me like this" Arnoldo looked at Ethan with his eyes reddened with anger, his hands even trembled as he held his staff.

"I'm no longer the person you can control, I'm not that stupid to always be submissive under your control. And also, I've decided to disband the Gold Dragon"

Arnoldo was once again surprised by Ethan's words.

"You won't be able to survive without the Gold Dragon, you forgot where you got the big bucks from and are in your current position? You think your stupid drug company will make you rich! If you don't want to, just give me the Gold Dragon, I'll make Nshade myself and continue the business!!"

"Let's Sean, our business here is done"

Sean nodded his head in understanding and followed Ethan from behind while remaining vigilant in case Arnoldo would attack his master from behind.

"Agh brash, I'm raising losers!" Arnoldo yelled out all his frustration from Ethan.

"You have to be careful, because maybe that woman you love, won't live long!" the old man clenched his teeth and a plan was slowly being stacked inside his head. Plans to get Ethan back to bow to him.

Hearing Arnoldi Ethan say undoes his intention to leave. He grabs the gun from Sean's hand and points it at Arnoldo.

"If you touch her, even just the end of her hair, I'll make sure you'll have nightmares for the rest of your life"