The Secret of the Billionaire's Curse

Aren Recognition

After Claudia was taken away by two security guards, Frans walked into her study. He put his briefcase on the table and started picking up some documents that he had finished last night. These documents he will use for meeting materials with clients tomorrow morning.

Frans is not his name if he is not being perfectionist and doing work even before the end of time. The man is the type of man who always does all his work in accordance with the count and maturity. Where maybe he will use a job that is not thought of as a whole and only rely on the work of the deadline.

The famous man is very professional unfortunately today failed to do his habit. Due to an unlikely encounter with a girl Frans was unable to concentrate on her work. In fact, he often looks at the computer screen with a blank look because his mind is running around thinking about Kara. Plus, what he saw this morning really made him feel very upset.

Frans knows that Kara is a foreign girl to him. He also knew that the girl he had just met last night could have had a lover and was just in need of his help. But somehow Frans didn't like the idea. Frans did not like to be asked to imagine the girl had a lover.

Frans grabbed his cable phone and contacted one of his employees.

“Halo, good morning, Sir,” greet Frans officer.

“Where's the report I asked for?” frans spray without further ado.

“Sorry, Sir. But, yesterday you said the report can I collect later in the afternoon,” said Frans employee confused. Because, he has not completed the report because from yesterday he was busy working on other reports.

“I don't want to know. Anyway I want the report to be completed in thirty minutes. No more,” Frans's word firmly, making his employees panic instead of love.

“Thirty minutes, Sir?” tanyakanya.

“Iya. Do you mind?” frans asked, raising his eyebrows.

“Ah, no, Sir. Thirty minutes more reports will arrive at your desk, Sir,” replied the employee.

After hearing this, Frans turned off the phone unilaterally. Frans' thoughts today are so chaotic that his employees are easy targets. Not only asking for a report, Frans was also quite temperamental all day and gushed almost all the employees who came to his room.

“Sorry, Sir. I've heard a lot of complaints from employees about your behavior today. Are you okay?” ask Frans' personal assistant.

Frans glanced sharply at his assistant. “Who's talking about me in the back? Tell them you dare to speak in front of me!” exciting Frans.

Personal assistant Frans smiled faintly. “Pak, if you have a personal problem, you should calm yourself first, Sir,”. “Didn't you say that we should separate personal life from work?”

Frans took a long breath. What his personal assistant said was true. Frans should be as professional as ever. But today, he has acted the opposite.

‘Argh! I can go crazy thinking about that girl!’ frans said in his heart, condemning his folly that had allowed the foreign girl to rule his mind. ‘No, no! I better not think about him anymore. Anyway, I can't possibly meet with him anymore.’

*****

The night ....

Right now at the Nielsen family residence everyone was gathered in the dining room. While eating dinner, suddenly Frans' stepmother brought up Frans' attitude again at the party yesterday.

“Frans it's really disrespectful! Go without saying goodbye. Does he think we're not his family?” lulla asked, trying to cultivate hatred in Aren and Jorgie's heart to Frans.

The woman acted as if she was angry that Frans left the party without saying goodbye even though in reality, she was happy that she did not need to see Frans' face for too long. Moreover, Frans' presence attracted the attention of many people and it made Lulla sick because he wanted Aren to be the center of attention, not Frans.

“Frans no sudden business, Ma. Anyway, the important thing, right, Frans came. Isn't that what Papa wants too?” ask Aren, defend Frans. The man did not like that his mother abused his half-brother because he and Frans were on good terms.

“That's just an excuse. Frans really doesn't care about all of us. All Frans had in mind was his own interests,” Lulla's sneer then scooped food into his mouth.

Aren looked towards the mother. He looked at Lulla with a dislike gaze because Lulla often vilified Frans in front of his father. In fact, as far as Aren knows, Frans never did bad things to Lulla or his father. Moreover, with the curse upon him, Frans even relented to leave the Nielsen family home so as not to damage the image of the Nielsen family.

“Frans attitude like that does not mean he does not care about family,” reply Aren.

“Already, already. You guys don't argue anymore,” Lerai Jorgie. He knew that his wife might be disappointed with Frans' attitude, but on the other hand he couldn't blame Frans' attitude because Frans must have felt uncomfortable at the party.

“But, Mama should know that Frans is not as bad as Mama thought, Pa,” said Aren. The man turned his head towards Lulla again. “Even those who have helped the success of the projects I hold are Frans.”

Aren's words startled Jorgie and Lulla. So far, the other Nielsen family members no one knows that Frans has helped Aren to get investors to give advice and input on the steps Aren will take on his projects.

“Frans not only helped me find investors but also because of Frans' interference I was able to get big projects that made the success of Nielsen company increasing,” explained Aren.

Lulla stared intently at Aren. He felt very upset because Aren involuntarily admitted that he was no better than Frans. Aren even said as if there were no Frans then he would not be able to become a successful man. This certainly makes Lulla very angry because he wants Jorgie to see Aren as a successful man so that Jorgie does not regret having made Aren as a leader in his company.

“Aren, what are you saying?!” lulla doesn't like it. The woman glanced sharply at the son.

Aren who understood the meaning of his mother's sharp glances said, “All that is true, Ma. Frans is indeed superior to me.”

After saying this, Frans put down his tableware, stood up, and left the dining room without saying anything more.