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"What are you doing here?" Aphrodite asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"Of course to pick you up. Because you're gonna be my wife soon enough" Francisco puts his smile on it.
"Well, so you're really getting married? I really didn't expect it," said Jenia who made the focus of Francisco and Aphrodite turn to look at him.
"J-jen. T-no Bu—"
"Yes, right. Oh, and if it's not wrong you were that woman, right?" Francisco snatched quickly there, cutting off Aphrodite's evasive speech.
"really. Long time no see."
"Woah, Jenia. You've met him before?" Ask one of his office friends.
"You are how! Of course they must have met. Jenia and Aphrodite are best friends!" One of his friends answered.
"Oh yeah. I forgot about that."
"Yes, she happens to be a friend of my boyfriend" said Jenia as she looked at the two women who had originally asked her.
"uh? Really true?"
"It's amazing."
"It's hard to believe."
They can't believe they saw Jenia there.
"Oh yeah, how? Are you done packing?" Francisco's question distracted everyone there. Francisco stared at Aphrodite who was carrying a large cardboard box filled with her work items.
"I've gotten over it," Jenia cut off quickly before Aphrodite could throw her sentence out of her already open mouth.
"good. Then let's go, "Fransisco grabbed the cardboard in Aphrodite's hand and carried it in her hand.
"H-huh?" Aphrodite looked at him with a puzzled look.
"You're leaving now?" Jenia looked at Aphrodite there.
"Of course, there's something we need to talk about. So sorry, we'll excuse you first" said Francisco, turning to him.
"I haven't even said goodbye yet."
"really. We are, too" said his other friends.
"Later on. If necessary I will hold a special event after work to release the departure of my future wife," Francisco glanced at Aphrodite who had been about to speak but kept cutting.
"What a great idea" said one of the employees there.
"Wait. There's something I have to explain to Jenia" said Aphrodite, who tried to quit.
"Later. Now we have to go" said Francisco, now walking next to his personal assistant, and one hand pulling Aphrodite to the elevator.
"Wait!" Aphrodite stopped her steps as soon as she arrived in front of her office. Francisco was still clutching his wrist tightly, like a mother who did not want to lose her child in a shopping mall.
"You go home first to the office. I had to go home first to take care of some things with my dad" Francisco told his assistant.
"Ah. Well, sir, if you'll excuse me, then" the assistant replied and left them both there.
"Let go of my hand!" Aphrodite throws down Francisco's hand.
"What's wrong?" Francisco asked softly as he let go of the grip of his hand. Staring at Aphrodite there.
"What the fuck are you really?! Why did you suddenly come and casually ask me to forcibly quit my job?" Aphrodite said. He was upset not playing when he found something this big suddenly.
"Of course because soon you'll marry me. You need to focus on our wedding preparations, so I don't want you to work. Because it's gonna be so hard on you, so I'm asking your boss to get you out of here."
"What did you say?! God, I don't understand your way of thinking. Why did you organize my work? Hear that! Besides if I marry you, I will be able to deal with both of them simultaneously!"
"But I still don't want you to work too much. So I asked you to stop. Never mind. For now don't talk about this. Better now we go to my house."
"uh? What for?!"
"Of course to talk about all our wedding plans. Oh, and again. Today my mother will come specifically to meet her future daughter-in-law. Come on!" Francisco pulled Aphrodite's hand quickly toward her car. He then opened the door of his car and asked Aphrodite to sit there while he opened the trunk behind the car to put Aphrodite's work items that had been packed in the cardboard he carried.
Previously, his mother Francisco was one of the famous artists who spent more time abroad. The woman who became her mother had been divorced from her father since Francisco was twelve years old. And after her divorce, her mom decided to stay and settle down abroad for her more job demands. That's what makes Francisco rarely meet his mother.
Finished putting his belongings in the trunk of the car, Francisco then walked up to the front door of his car. Sit in the driver's seat and don't forget to wear a seatbelt before they leave.
Francisco turned his head for a moment towards Aphrodite who looked upset there. The woman seemed to be dislikeful of the way she suddenly asked him to quit his job.
"Don't frown like that" Francisco grabbed Aphrodite's chin, making their faces look at each other directly. "You have to smile so that your beauty doesn't disappear" she said.
"I don't want to joke with you" retorted Aphrodite who then turned her face the other way while rolling her lazy eyeballs.
"I'm not kidding, I'm serious. If you frown like this, your beauty could fade."
"It's better let's go!" Aphrodite.
"All right, then let's go." Francisco started the engine of his car and began to drive the engine out of the parking lot there.
Aphrodite actually did not want to follow the invitation from Francisco to come to her house, especially at this early hour. But as soon as he remembered his agreement with Antonio, it made him quite afraid to refuse. Moreover, in the agreement he agreed, he had to marry Francisco and in return. Antonio will return his house and consider paid off all debts owed by him.
In addition, if you remember that Antonio is a mafia. It felt like it was more than enough to make him afraid to refuse. Unfortunately his life is valuable if he has to be gambled just because he does not want to accept all the decisions he has made.
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