CHAPTER 10 MARRIAGE? Samuel Ricardo is the husband of Mrs. Anna and father of Alex. After receiving a call from his wife, he followed her to the villa. "What's wrong?" the man asked breaking the silence of the living room. He looked at everything in the room one by one. There were Alex, Jessica, and Mrs. Anna. They were sitting quietly busy with their respective thoughts. Obviously Alex couldn't doing something. He didn't like this kind of atmosphere. "Look! Alex doesn't want to take responsibility! Your son won't marry Jessica," Mrs. Anna told her husband even though she knew it was useless. Since Alex's first wife, Anita died, he had never wanted to hear the advice from not only his mother, but also his father. "What am I responsible for? I've spent a lot of money on my one night stand with that girl! After all, nowadays there are many girls out there who have that relationship freely," Alex said relaxed without feeling the slightest guilt. He felt that he got entitled to what he
CHAPTER 11OFFERThere was a sky full of stars. Their light spread and decorated the darkness of the night. The full moon reigned being like the king of the night with its brightest light.Lexi was sitting, he had returned to Jakarta with Arsene that afternoon. Arsene went home, so Lexi did. He went to his apartment to prepare for tomorrow. On Monday, he had to be back to work.Lexi was waiting. He repeatedly looked at the screen of his phone. He was waiting a call from his parents who asked him to go home. Jessica was still in the main house. Unfortunately, he couldn't meet the girl until he was ready to get married.It's not that I don't want to marry Jessica, but there was a sense of trauma and fear inside Lexi. He was very scared. He was afraid that it would happen again. When she saw his late wife, Anita had been lying stiff on the bathroom floor because she scratched her wrist. It was a terrible memory that he couldn't forget."Shit!"Lexi said.Jessica's face, soft fingers
CHAPTER 12 RUN AWAY Jessica decided to go to Chelsea's house. Jessica's two closest friends are Chelsea and Beryl. Because Beryl was in Singapore for her college registration, Jessica chose to go to Chelsea's house. “So, you ran away because you didn't want to marry him?” Chelsea asked after she heard the story from Jessica. She poured a glass of orange juice. She also put ice cubes into it. She made her friend's favorite drink. “No, you know, I still have a lot of desires that I haven't had time to strive for," Jessica looked ahead with a look of despair. “How much money do you need to return that crazy man?!" Chelsea called Lexi with the name that Jessica told her. “So much, I also don't know if I can return it in how long," said Jessica. It was no secret that Chelsea's foster parents were wealthy people, her father worked in a large company. Jessica also knew it. Even until now Mr. Arman, a person who always donated at the Kasih Bunda orphanage. “How much is it?" Chelsea ask
CHAPTER 13IS IT MY FAULT?A black Ferrari car driving at medium speed cut through the city streets. Ronald, the driver was focused on running the car. He didn't care about the conflicts and the cold war going on in the back seat.Jessica clasped her hands. She looked down and didn't dare to look to the right, where Lexi was sitting and stared at her. Sometimes, the girl looked out the glass observing the crowded street."You're wrong to think of Arman as a God who will help you get away from me Jessica," Lexi began the conversation. He stared intently at Jessica. It was just sitting next to him, made him already very desiring.“Since childhood, I considered Mr. Arman a very rich man because he worked in a large company, and now I met the owner of that company," Jessica said flatly. She glanced at him. Although for a moment, her eyes and Lexi's eyes met.“Let's make a deal, Jessica,” Lexi offered, not once he took her eyes off Jessica's face."Make a deal?” this time Jessica dar
CHAPTER 14A RUDE MAN“Mr. Lexi, doesn't that mean you always take what you want towards me? I am also human, even what you have forcibly taken from me is priceless, it cannot be replaced with your one billion!" Jessica answered in between sobs.“What did you say Jessica?" Lexi heard Jessica's answer. He felt guilty, slowly his lust disappeared.“I told you, sir, it can't be replaced with anything!" Jessica took her head up as if against Lexi who had always humiliated her.Lexi grabbed Jessica's arm, pulling it roughly, to very close. "Listen to me, I will never let you go. To the end of the world or to hell, I assure you. I'll get you again Jessica! You're mine!” Lexi firmly gripped Jessica's arm stronger than ever.“Oh, it hurts!" Jessica screamed. "Please let go," Jessica whispered, trying to get out of Lexi's hand.Seeing Jessica in pain, Lexi immediately let his hands go off from Jessica.Jessica gently rubbed Lexi's finger marks, trying to ease the pain.She looked to th
CHAPTER 15RECONCILE?Lexi slowly opened his eyes. He saw the two people standing next to him. Arsene and Jessica. Then his eyes closed again."Miss, I'll call the nurse first”" Arsene said, hurriedly leaving Lexi's room and calling the nurse."Jessica, are you hurt?” Lexi asked after he could remember the incident a few hours ago.“No sir, the injured one is Sir, not me!" Jessica lowered her head.“You fool, I don't want you to do such a silly thing again Jess. You got it?" Lexi firmed, although his voice is low and still weak due to the loss of a lot of blood.Jessica was silent this time. She cursed in her heart. 'Yes, I am fool, Mr. Lexi Ricardo. I was stupid for worrying about you. Look at it now! I just realized you've been treating me like a stupid. Not only crazy, but also you're rude and greedy! You are arrogant!’"I'm sorry sir, I'll never do that again, and I'm sorry too, you got hurt because of ....," Jessica stopped, what came out of her mouth was contradiction with her
CHAPTER 16SELFISHAt noon after finishing work and meeting with an investor from Singapore, Arsene came to the hospital. As his the plan, he would bring Jessica with dr. Sham.The man got out of the elevator and immediately walked to Mr. Lexi's room.(sound of the door opened)Arsene opened the door and looked across the room.“Where is Jessica?” Arsene asked, there was no one there except the boss."Jessica is out, wait a minute. She is buying cold drinks at canteen. Why are you looking for her instead of asking my condition?" Lexi protested.“As planned, I will take Jessica to the doctor Sham, " Arsene said, sitting on the sofa beside Lexi's bed.“Good, I called the doctor Sham. I've asked her to persuade Jessica to help me get rid of the disease," Lexi wanted to recover from his trauma about that night, recover from the disease, then he would open his heart and fall in love again.“Sir, doesn't that mean you are very selfish?" Arsene shook his head. Lexi's decision was biased and
CHAPTER 17MARRIED SOONJessica just finished taking a shower. She wore cute pajamas, then she leaned her head on the wall. She looked towards the wall clock that already showed seven o'clock at night.Jessica's eyes were closed. She was remembering that misfortune has followed her since this morning. Starting from being scolded by the head chef, cause it had been three days she didn't come to work. She was given a warning letter by his manager. Finally, she had to go home from work on foot because she got no money.She didn't know where her phone was. To be honest, she needed that communication device to contact Chelsea, Beryl, and Mrs. Grace. Perhaps, after getting a salary, Jessica would immediately buy it.Jessica got used to it, not having a penny, even before the end of the month. Complaining was useless, she needed learn to bear of her own life.She could have asked Lexi or Mrs. Anna for money. However, Jessica didn't want to lower her self-esteem anymore. Sleeping and eating