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Bab 48: Advice

"Are you going to tell me why Cain Fay is looking at you the whole time?"

Uncle Luke and I were currently having lunch inside his office when he asked me this question.

"He's just curious as to why a sixteen-year-old girl is at a billion-dollar project meeting, like everyone else," I said, slicing my meat and ate it.

Raising an eyebrow, he stared at me with probing eyes.

"You've never been a good liar."

I stopped chewing and returned his stare. Realizing that he wouldn't let me off if I didn't give him a satisfactory answer, I swallowed the meat and drank a glass of water before I narrated how I first met Cain Fay and his confession.

"Well, someone is popular," he said with a teasing tone.

I frowned. "He'll get over it. His pride and ego are just looking for a challenge."

I didn't know that I was cutting the meat with so much force until screeching noises of the knife against the plate hurt my ears.

"Is it unbelievable that someone would like you?"

"No, it's unbelievable that someone like Cain Fay would like me. That guy has everything, why me exactly?" I hid my irritation beneath the calmness of my tone.

Uncle Luke stopped eating. His face serious as he said with a gentle tone, "Why not you?"

I lost my appetite.

I met his gaze, confused. What exactly is he trying to say?

Reading my expression, Uncle Luke supported his chin with one hand. "Why don't you try and experience love?"

Try it? I've already done it, and I don't want to experience it again.

With a disgusted face, I took a deep breath. My attention flickered over the skyline. My mind drifting to that time.

. . .

. . .

"As long as I don't fall in love, I will not be hurt. As long as I am indifferent to feelings, I will not be pained . . . ," I whispered, talking to myself.

. . .

. . .

Uncle Luke briefly closed his eyes.

"You speak as if love is not worth the heartache and the pain . . ." He smiled, wrinkling the lines around his eyes.

"My dear Leanna . . . it's not love that cause the heartache and the pain. It's the wrong man you choose to give it to."

". . ."

I was speechless.

I couldn't believe that this intimidating old man was so passionate about love.

"And Cain Fay is not the wrong man? He's still engaged when he confessed to me. He just broke off his five long years' engagement just like that." I snapped my fingers, my irritation and grievances broke the calmness of my voice. The feelings I suppressed broke free.

Realizing what I said, I lowered my head, feeling embarrassed with my sudden outburst.

"You should know that sometimes, engagement is a form of business transaction."

I sighed. "I don't care about it anymore. Once I'm in New Haven, he'll find someone else who'll entertain him. I'm just a passing character in his li––"

"Did you know that Cain Fay was labeled asexual?" he cut in.

I was quiet for a moment, trying to process what he said, and was shocked when my brain finally responded.

"Interested now?"

Taking the chance of my silence, he continued, "He was diagnosed as asexual, that's why his family proposed marriage between their longtime business partners, the Goldwood. He called off his engagement maybe because he met you. The woman who made him fall in love for the first time."

I huffed a dry laugh.

"Uncle Luke, why do you defend the guy so much?"

He grinned. "Aside from the reason that our families were longtime friends, Cain Fay is a decent man." He drank his tea and added, "And a nice catch," he teased.

I massaged the center of my brows. "I don't want to think of that right now. I'm still young."

I could only make this excuse for him to let me off. I didn't know why he insisted on matching me with Cain Fay.

Uncle Luke sighed as he shook his head.

"If you don't fight for it now, don't cry for what you'll lose later."


Bab 49: Shattered 1  

A/N

Sorry for the deleted chapters. We'll just gonna edit some things and will post them again ^^

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[Backstory]

"I'm serious about you. This is a first that I've ever felt like this," Tristan said with a tender voice and adoring face.

We were having dinner together. This was happening months now after I started my first day at work. Tristan Clark is my boss and the son of the owner of Clark's Construction Company, where I work.

"Don't you know that I had to take your whole team to dinner so that I can take you to dinner as well?"

I knew. I didn't want to go out with anyone if it was just going to be the two of us. Thus, for me to come, he always invited the whole team. I was touch and felt that he was willing to go such lengths just to please me.

So after just months, I went out to dinner with him –– only the two of us. And we had been together ever since.

"I know," I whispered as I caressed his handsome face, smiling at him with so much love.

"Hi guys, sorry I'm late!"

A cheerful voice pulled us out from our lover's sanctuary.

I turned and saw my best friend since college, Cristy Holm.

"Hey! You're finally here," I greeted and faced Tristan.

"This is Cristy, my other half," I said and glanced at Cristy. "Cris, this is Tristan, my––"

"The boyfriend!" Christy chimed in. "It's nice to finally meet you!" She shot Tristan and me a meaningful look, and the smile on her face widened when heat rushed to my cheeks.

After the introductions, Cristy and I lost ourselves in memory lane.

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"You want to resign?" Tristan was dumbfounded. "But you've only been here for ten months. Why?"

I faced his shock look and the accusation in his voice. "You know why. I can't work here anymore. Your father doesn't like me. Your people talk behind my back."

I sighed. "It's wrong of me to fall in love with my boss."

". . ."

". . ."

"So you're just going to leave me?" he said, tone low and condemning.

"No! I'm just going to apply at an architectural firm near my place," I said.

"Near your place, but it's two hours from mine!"

Clark's construction office and his house were far from my rented apartment and the company I planned to work. I had been staying at Clark's employee dorm during my work here and just went back to my rented apartment every now and then.

"It's just for two hours. We can do something about it," I said, a bit guilty and sorry for him.

After so much pleading, he reluctantly agreed.

After I resigned and moved back to my rented apartment, Tristan helped me move my remaining things. It was already evening when we reached the area where I stayed. But instead of going to my apartment, he stopped in front of a hotel.

"What are we doing here?" I asked, hiding my nervousness beneath an innocent tone.

Tristan looked at me with unconcealed desire and lust.

"It's almost a year that we have been together. I don't want to be separated from you."

He cupped my face between the palm of his hands. "I'm anxious at us being apart like this. Please . . . let me have something of you, so I'll feel reassured."

I knew what he wanted. He was direct with his actions in these past few months. His constant deep kisses and caresses on my body. We didn't break the last step because I was hesitant. But seeing him like this. Like the world ended before him because of our parting, I felt warm and nervous . . . and a bit scared.

I nodded.


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