ARROGANT CEO IN LOVE
Melamine

"Thank you for helping me. I know confessing to me as your lover makes you very upset. I'm sorry" Daren said to Nora, who was still taking steps to talk.

"Why are you asking me to pretend to be your girlfriend?"

"Mom wants to match me with a foreign girl from abroad-"

"Wait, are you afraid of being betrothed to a foreign girl?"

Daren. "I'm not afraid. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life with a girl I don't know."

"Hey ... every girl will be foreign at first."

"Yes, but I don't want to find a way to adapt if anything has made me comfortable."

"Sneezes?" guess Nora.

Daren raised his shoulders. His lips were tightly locked. The look of her eyes shifted from Nora's face.

"Forget her. He has disappointed you. He doesn't deserve to be remembered."

Daren nodded small. "Mom always forbade me from being in touch with her. I'm sorry I never listened to her words before."

"What if now you'd regret not following his orders to be betrothed to a stranger?"

Daren looked at Nora again. "I'll marry that stranger as long as Micky also likes her as a sister-in-law."

The look of attention on Nora's face faded. Is that a code? Daren really wants to marry her? Nora tried to refute in her heart.

"I'm sorry, I think I'm talking too much. I'll take you home."

"Thank you, I can go home by myself."

"You didn't bring a car, did you?"

Nora shook her head.

"It's okay. I'll take you home." In fact, he actually wanted to find the location of Nora's true home.

Nora was not calm. Daren can tell Juan or Doni to drive him home, not himself to leave. There must be something that the man wanted from her.

Micky peeked out of the window with an enthusiastic smile as Nora and Daren got into the same car. Micky waved his hand, then the car walked out the gate.

***

"Thank you" said Nora. Walk up the path in front of the gate.

"Sama-sama," said Daren coldly. He doesn't run his car until Nora gets into the house. He could return home quietly after memorizing a bit of the road leading to Nora's house.

***

Ever since Nora did a bad review at Daisy's restaurant, and then she finally met Daren, her whole life seemed to turn into a pit of hell. Every time he came home from work, he did not miss soaking in a warm tub so that his mind could fres. Even the morning was blind after she had nightmares about her bleak future.

This is his first day coming to his own office after returning home from Dubai. His boss called several times and forced to come immediately because he wanted to tell the original version of the viral robbery.

When Nora arrived at the Beautiful room around nine o'clock, there was Oki who had been waiting for her arrival while watching a movie. He was just as enthusiastic about listening to stories about the robbery in Dubai, and everything that happened between him and Daren.

"You're drunk on the trip?" guess Oki after Nora starts her story at the meeting and she's not allowed in the room.

"Yes ..," Nora said in a shy tone.

"You always have been. Who helped you this time? Those two Daren's henchmen?"

Nora just remembered something. He's drunk on the trip, and he's taken Daren into the hotel. The only thing that flashed through his brain was Daren's close-eyed gaze and the immense warmth that was imprinted on his body. It turns out that she was once that close to Daren, she once hugged Daren and probably almost kissed him.

"No, no" said Nora.

"Forget it, then what happens after that? Where was your part attacked by the robbers?" I can't wait to hear more stories.

Nora continued to tell stories until she felt her mouth almost frothy. Of course she hid Nelan from the story, she remembered Daren asking her to keep this relationship a secret even though they were no longer together. Especially about the darkest secret, that Daren is actually almost a father. Nora had to be very careful not to mention any of the things that led up to the story.

Nora refused to answer Oki's questions after she finished telling her story. Beautiful and Oki are both satisfied after hearing the whole story in detail. Now Nora rose to prepare to return to her place of duty.

"I forgot I was a vlogger, not a reporter" Nora said as she bent her cramped waist.

"I hope you'll come back here again, instead of staying there forever as Daren's wife" Indah said, prompting Nora to stop her steps. "Your romance and ..."

"Tragic," interrupted Oki. "I felt sorry to hear about Isaiah losing his sister."

Nora looked in disbelief. He simply added a short one-sentence story that was highly unlikely to steal the show. Oki is always observant whenever he hears a male name.

Nora exits her office to go to Daren's office. He corrected his phone to make sure there was no immediate notice from Daren. Who knows, the man wants to tell her to pretend to be a future wife again like yesterday.

Nora's not-so-nice premonition finally got an answer. Nora had arrived at Daren's office, she immediately took the elevator to go to Daren's room. But after he arrived, he did not see Daren at all.

Is that guy still taking leave? Think Nora. He knew Daren was experiencing severe depression due to Nelan, and the coercion of his parents. He could imagine how difficult it would be to experience so much pressure at one time at a time.

Nora sat in her chair. Who knows, Daren will be here in a while. Or at least someone came in here and told him about Daren's absence.

Nora opened her laptop. The screen is full of news, one of the news reports about the events in Dubai that made Nora sick. He had heard the news many times everywhere, and he was interviewed by many people just to dispel their curiosity.

The door opens from the outside. Nora ogling. Hoping the incoming figure was Daren, but it turned out he was Juan. Nora is willing to hear orders from Juan to catch up with Daren at a company, but Juan just passes by to retrieve some important files on Daren's desk.

"Juan!" nora shouted as she approached Juan. "Talk to me, where's Daren?"

Juan stared sinisterly at Nora. "I don't understand why you're still here. Boss is going to your house."

Nora knitted her eyebrows in confusion. "My house? What's for?"

"To talk to your parents. He wants to propose to you."

It was as if an electric shock had struck Nora's entire body. Did he not hear wrong? Or is he still in his nightmares? He heard that Daren was going to his house to propose to him?