The Shackles of Aileen's Love

Hidden behind the gray cloud

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After retrieving his car parked in the Club basement, Cole immediately returned to the apartment.

Although still under the influence of alcohol, Cole can not just leave his favorite car.

Cole has worked hard to get what he dreamed of.

Although his family is fairly capable and since childhood Cole always lives well, but with his pride, Cole wants to have all with his own hard work.

That's why Cole works harder than everyone else and also has a little fun together with his best friends. Cole is enjoying life.

And it seems, now Cole has to rest his body. His body was too tired to go to work. At least for now.

After all that happened, Cole realized that he should not have been drunk to such an unconsciousness.

The party made Steve was a little excessive, but he was the one who could not control himself until out of control. Gravely.

"I think I should take a shower." Cole took off his clothes and went straight to the bathroom to clean his entire body that smelled of cigarette smoke and alcohol.

After being completely clean, Cole dried his body and only put on his pajamas, then returned to lay his body on the bed.

Relief breath immediately enveloped Cole's body as his back touched the soft and comfortable bed. It felt like last night his sleep wasn't good enough.

How to sleep, if in his dream Cole is doing something amazing. Cole dreams of Aileen, a wet dream that feels so real.

Cole smiled, "It looks like I miss that woman too much. Though we were not so close before, but still," Cole shook his head with a smile. He was transformed into a silly man.

"I'm crazy."

While lying down, Cole forces himself to sleep, but the drowsiness feels so hard to get and his little brain always orders Cole to do the one thing that really matters, which is to contact Aileen.

Not wanting to ignore the small warning on his brain, Cole took his cell phone and turned on the smartphone to find Aileen's number.

Cole smiled as he looked at the name he typed there, hurriedly pressing the dial. I can't wait to hear Aileen's voice.

And there's one thing to be made clear about what he realized this morning. Cole has one strange impulse in him that keeps saying that he has done something wrong before, even though Cole himself does not remember what something continues to prop up in his heart.

That's what makes Cole nervous. He wanted to make sure of everything by talking directly to Aileen.

"Hallo?" the voice across there answered Cole's call. But Cole knew that it wasn't Aileen's voice. "Where's Aileen?" tanyanya was feeling uneasy.

Cole even woke up from his initial position lying down while waiting for an answer from Sarah. Doesn't Aileen want to talk to me? is that why Sarah answered?

"Miss is in a meeting, sir. I'll tell you if you call miss" said Sarah, who is currently speaking in place of Aileen.

Mercifully. Cole's feeling was a little relieved, though not entirely. At least Aileen wasn't intentionally not answering her calls.

"really? alright. Tell him I'm waiting for his call back." Although feeling a little disappointed, but Cole could not do anything. Aileen is at work and they can't talk right now.

"Okay, sir, I'll say as you say."

After the call ended, Cole could only stare at his phone while wondering when Aileen would return her call.

"It's like you didn't listen to me." Cole muttered knowing that Aileen was busy with all her work even though Cole had said to take a leave sooner.

"Hey, it's me. I called you, but Sarah answered. Please call me when you're free. I miss you, ps. Don't get too tired." Cole wrote and sent it to Aileen.

After that, Cole felt that his eyes were heavy. Drowsiness invaded him unavoidably again, this time he was completely asleep.

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"Miss, I've done what you told me to do" Sarah said, returning the phone to its real owner. That phone was the one Cole had just contacted a while ago.

"Hem. Thanks Sarah. You can get out now. I'll call you back if Cole calls again." Aileen's orders ignore the fact that her future husband just found her. Aileen's feeling isn't okay.

It seems like his hormones are being disrupted, and he is currently feeling too emotional. Aileen didn't want to let chaos rule her.

"There's also a message from miss" Sarah said as she watched Aileen's phone screen turn back on. But Aileen was still silent.

The woman only busied herself by checking all the files that had previously even been completed.

Sarah could only observe. Seeing Aileen who did nothing and just kept quiet since morning made Sarah feel uncomfortable.

Her job was to protect Aileen and to take care of everything that was blocking her young lady.

"Are you okay, miss? is there anything else I can do for you? or maybe you're still thinking about what really happened to Mr. Cole."

"I can find out everything in detail, or maybe if you want, I can take care of the woman right now" Sarah said earnestly.

Sarah feels unwilling if anyone makes her lady what she is now.

Aileen who used to always laugh and also cheerful, although sometimes annoying, now turned into a very silent figure. And that worries Sarah compared to the time Aileen made a big deal with the clients.

For a moment Aileen let out a long sigh, then turned to look at Sarah with a meaningless blank look.

"Do you think I'm too weak as a woman, Sarah? or am I too easy to feel sorry for?" aileen asked with a difficult look for Sarah. Sarah flinching.

"No miss. I didn't mean that. It's just.."

"I'm okay Sarah. Anyway I don't have any feelings for Cole. Even if we were to get married just for the sake of her responsibility to this child, that's all." Obviously Aileen didn't want to argue.

"I'm not angry or hurt. Just a little bit, but it doesn't matter. I can handle it." Aileen's eyes started to glaze over.

He knew he should just shut up. Aileen should not have said anything, so her heart would not beat like this..

At least, if only his mouth remained silent, Aileen could endure all the disabling feelings that continued to plague his heart and mind.

"Cole can do anything she wants. Although I don't think this is the right thing, then what can I do? that's his right.

I'm a nobody. I'm just too stupid." Aileen covered her crying face.

"Miss,-

"Prepare the car for me" she said, preventing Sarah from making a sound. "We have to go to the airport. I'll go to the branch hotel that's in Boston. I'll calm myself down there." Aileen's orders shifted away from the previous topic.

All Aileen has in mind right now is about how she can not meet Cole. Aileen didn't want to talk or meet her future husband, that's all.

If he met or talked to Cole now, it was possible that Aileen would say something she would regret later on. That's why he has to leave now.

Aileen packed up the personal belongings she had brought this morning. Then contact his confidant..

"I can talk to Daddy Dave right now if I want Sarah." Aileen insisted.

"Just prepare all my needs. Let me take care of the rest." If it was like this, then Sarah could only obey the orders she received.

"Fine miss. I'll prepare it now."

After Sarah leaves, Aileen picks up another cell phone in her desk drawer. He turned on the phone and called his father, Dave Marsden.

"Hello papa Dave. I'm at the airport right now I'm going to Boston, I'm going to see papa there" Aileen said briefly. "alright sweetheart. Make sure Sarah's with you."

"Good papa Dave. See you later." After disconnecting the call, Aileen left the phone Cole had contacted earlier in the drawer and locked it. For a while, Aileen really wanted to keep her distance from the man named Cole Maxim.

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"I'm Cole Maxim. Is your director in place?" cole asked Aileen's hotel receptionist.

"Sorry sir. Miss hasn't returned from her service trip." again. Cole again got the same answer.

"really? Do you know where the service trip is?"

"No sir. Miss didn't tell us that." replied the attendant at the reception desk. This time, Cole was disappointed. As a result, Cole could only sigh heavily.

This is the third time Cole has gone to Aileen's hotel. He also went to several different hotels over the past two weeks to find where the woman was.

But the results Cole got were always the same. Aileen was nowhere near as hard as she searched for the woman. It doesn't matter if their wedding day is just a few days away.

Cole had also searched Aileen for the main house belonging to the Marsden family, but there he also met no one but the butler who guarded the house.

The number you are calling is not available. Please call in a few more moments..

"Where are you Aileen? why can't I call you at all." Cole felt like he was being dumped for some vague reason. He was thrown away without even knowing what was really going on.

"Did I really mess things up?" Not getting any results about Aileen, Cole decided to return to the office. He needs diversion, and Cole's only skill is to work.

But when he arrived in front of the office, Cole was awaited by someone he did not recognize..

"Sir, this woman insists on meeting you. Even he refused to wait in the waiting room." the security guard at the door told Cole.

Cole only frowned as the woman approached herself so boldly. "You..?" the woman was getting closer to Cole.

Her hair was light brown, with makeup that seemed to match what the woman was wearing on her body. Although it looks beautiful but can not match the beauty of Aileen.

Cole frowned, as he felt familiar with the woman's face..

"Call remember me? Megan." she said reaching out. And Cole remembered seeing the woman in the apartment that morning. When he woke up from his heavy drinking.

"You, what are you doing here?" cole said with a dislike look. But the woman in front of him did not feel intimidated in the slightest.

"Do you want us to talk here or outside?" megan said smiling seductively.

"Just get out." break up Cole. He did not want to invite much attention from his employees because of Megan's presence in his office.

"My car or your car?"

"Each car alone" said Cole cynically. "alright. You decide the place." Megan smiled as she got into the car.

After entering, Cole drove his car back out of the office. He went to a restaurant not far from his office.

Upon arriving at the restaurant, Cole and Megan enter separately..

"What are you looking for me for?" ask Cole without making small talk. Seeing Cole like that Megan immediately smiled.

"I like your way. At least I don't have to waste my time and also your precious time" he said.

"I need the money" Megan said in the belief that Cole would give her what she asked for. Cole frowned not liking to see the way the woman spoke to him.

"The money you gave me that day was enough. It's just that I need some more money."

"And why should I give you money?" cynical reply. Cole doesn't intend to do things like this.

His mind was already quite upset by Aileen, Cole did not want any other things to bother him anymore.

"Because you told me with your own mouth that I only needed to find you if I needed any more money" Megan insisted.

Hearing that Cole just laughed. It seemed like that day he was really too drunk. "Don't nothing happen between us? and I think the money I gave you was more than enough to pay for your services that night. Aren't we?"

This time it was Megan who laughed cynically at Cole's indirect rejection, "Cih. I know that men like you will run away easily, so I've prepared everything before men like you wash their hands without feeling guilty." Cole frowned in dislike as his pride began to be played.

"What do you mean?" Cole was not an easily intimidated man. But the words of the woman in front of him seemed to be humbling himself.

Megan pulls out her phone and shows Cole one short video. "Look at yourself, do you think that night didn't happen between us? just think for yourself." Megan turns on her cigarette and blows the smoke on Cole.

"And don't try to remove it. I've made copies of it in some places." - Megan smiled.

Cole clenched his hands angrily when he saw a video of himself making out with the woman being filmed and used as a weapon to blackmail her. God fucking..

That kind of video shouldn't be a problem for Megan. Because he himself did not know how often foreign men entered his room to warm the bed that always felt cold.

But Megan knew that the video would be useful if it was used on the right person, like Cole..

"How much do you want?" cole said with an angry voice.

"Give it as you gave it before. And maybe this isn't the last one" Megan said smiling happily as she got her wish easily.

Without saying much, Cole handed Megan a tissue and pen, "Just write your account number. I'll transfer it right now" Cole said. Without any lingering Megan did as Cole commanded.

And after that, Cole sent me some money like Megan asked for. "Thank you. It's a pleasure to work with you, Cole. Next time, you can come to me if you want to remember everything that happened to us that night. And one more thing.I like you so wild and domineering." Megan smiling.. "You know where to find me, don't you? adios.."

After getting her wish, Megan goes straight out of the restaurant leaving Cole alone.

Cole who was still inexhaustible with what happened to him at that time could only shake his head in wonder. As his mother said, all men have the potential to be assholes. And that's how he is now, then,

"I have to how?" Money is not everything to Cole, only what is the burden of his mind at this time is what if the video was scattered and increasingly destroyed.

Not to mention that he solved one problem, now another problem was entangling him..

Goddamnit!

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