Gentleman Dignity
Chapters 1.3

Sugar Dating (Open Yericho)

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The sound of laughter was cheerful, mixed with a vague music. Yericho was sitting casually on the maroon color sofa. His right hand held a whiskey glass, while his finger clamped a cigarette.

From the sleeves of his rolled-up white shirt. Looks like his arm muscles are heavy. A woman in skimpy clothes was sitting on her lap. The woman seemed to casually place one arm over Yericho's shoulder. The other arm stroked the chest of the field belonging to the handsome doctor.

Yericho only sighed as the woman began to slit her neck. The woman looked offended and was about to move out of her lap. But before he left, Yericho wrapped one hand around the woman's waist and brought her back closer.

"Sorry Lucy, my mood is bad" Yericho said

"It's been a long time since you've been here. Are you bored of me?" The woman called Lucy pursed her lips. Yericho chuckled at that.

"I don't know if anyone misses me" Yericho said in a joking tone.

"Your sarcasm is useless on this heart sir." Lucy returned the joking of Yericho.

"You're right. You're great."

"Look around you, doctor. They've been very busy." Lucy gestured with her head.

Sure enough, all of his comrades who had been chatting merrily were already very busy. 'Busy' with their female escorts.

Yericho's eyes looked back at Lucy. Lucy blinked a few times at him.

"You're really bored of me?" Lucy widened her eyes in disbelief.

Yericho chuckled again, seeing Lucy's expression as his own entertainment.

"I'm more bored with my life." Yericho smiled slanted now. A smile spread charm with quite a pitiful look in Lucy's eyes.

"Still in the past?" Lucy asked while rolling her eyes.

Yericho smiled slightly. Somehow there was something more bitter than the alcohol he was gulping at the moment.

I don't know when she last hugged her son. I don't know since when Renata tried to keep Cadee hidden from him. And I don't know when Yericho will be able to make peace with the pain his ex-wife has caused.

"How about trying something new." Lusy said suddenly. Make Yericho raise his eyebrows.

"If you mean dating ...." Jericho was hesitant about what he was going to say. He is lazy to have a relationship.

"Not a regular date like that." Lucy interrupted quickly. Throw out Yericho's mind.

"I know, for now you don't want to be bothered by a lover or a date" Lucy said. Yericho was trying to guess where the conversation was going.

"I mean a date where you just have to spend money for the good of your date. Where he should respect your boundaries. And don't interfere with your privacy."

"Wow what kind of date is that?" Yericho chimed in, a little interested in what Lucy was going to say next.

"Sugar dating's. You just need to ... You know you're dating a young woman to be your sugar baby, a poor woman who has the potential to sponsor you." Lucy explained.

"Where can I find him?" yericho pretended to be interested.

"In this club many are looking for sugar daddy."

"Are you included?" Yericho nodded this time.

"A mother of two like me can't be a sugar baby." Lucy said it casually. But it brought a strange taste into the heart of Jericho. Sympathizing?

"Don't say that again" said Yericho quietly.

"From your cell phone." Pinta Lucy's.

Yericho was a bit confused but he obeyed the word 'his friend. Lucy downloaded a dating app.

"alright. Bio content, doctor, forty years ...."

"Three nines," sidelines Yericho flat.

"What a difference," Lucy replied quickly. "Income is infinite ...." Lucy muttered again.

"I'm on a salary every month. What do you mean infinite?"

"Isshh .. stop interrupting. That means you're very rich." Lucy seems to be very serious about this.

"What criteria are you looking for ... What do you want to look for?" ask Lucy.

"Hmm .. woman..." Jericho was a bit confused.

Lucy rolled her eyes hearing that.

"Specific sir."

"But I just need a woman." Yericho won't lose.

"alright. Women twenty-one to twenty-three years old, university students, virgins. Okay apply." Yericho only chuckles at seeing and hearing Lucy mutter what she typed or picked on Yericho's phone.

"Have you?" yericho asked, not really serious.

"Yes ... And here's a list that matches your criteria." Lucy's still invading Yericho's cell phone.

"How to choose this one. His name is Alexa, twenty-one years old, last year at university. Arts major. Wow ... She's beautiful." Lucy shows the photo on Yericho's phone, and pulls it back before Yericho can see it.

"His condition is he just wants a place to stay. Easy," said Lucy casually.

"The place to stay?" Yericho asked, repeating what Lucy said.

"He sounds desperate, right? And as a good person you have to help him. Trust me. It's based on experience." Lucy said that while looking directly into Yericho's eyes.

"Stop, dig your own wounds, baby," said Yericho softly.

Lucy smiled at her 'friend' that. "You know best that I'm okay" said Lucy slowly.

Yericho looked at Lucy gently, slowly advancing his face to get closer to the woman, at the same time the door was knocked from the outside. And a girl came in awkwardly. Make everyone in the room focus on it.

The girl has shoulder-brown hair. His black eyes are shining. The girl was wearing a slightly short black dress. One centi above his knee. The beautiful girl bit her lips while circulating her gaze the entire room. Sufficient gesture of waking the sleeping wolf.

One of Yericho's colleagues made a small cough-like sound, in exchange for a question.

"Sorry, I'm looking ... Mr Yericho?" said the girl in a question tone.

"Here !" exclaim Lucy tight.

Now everything in the room turned its eyes to the still-faced, confused Yericho. Lucy took a glass and a cigarette from Yericho's hand and kissed Yericho's lips noisily.

"Go away. Have fun" Lucy said with a smile.

Yericho stood up as Lucy came down from her lap. He put his cream coat on and approached the door.

"Yericho Adam" said Yericho, extending his hand.

"Alexa."

Yericho smiled kindly at Alexa. Alexa is more beautiful when viewed up close. Her makeup is also very fitting. Increasingly accentuate her beautiful facial features.

Alexa returned a nervous Yericho smile. She never expected him to get a sugar daddy candidate the day he signed up for the dating app. Sugar daddy candidates that exceed expectations

Yericho took Alexa by the hand, and ordered another vip room. So that they can talk freely. Really don't let go of his hands until they get into the vip room.

Alexa can't be nervous. All possibilities are in his head. But he must strengthen his heart. He had to think of something worse than this. If he had to live on the streets.

"You want to eat something?" Yericho asked softly.

Alexa bit her lower lip again. Gestur confused and awkward.

"Bring me some good food as usual." Yericho's instructions to the waiter who had been standing there. The waiter withdrew and closed the door.

Yericho sat next to Alexa. Their distance is that close. But no one moved. Yericho looked at the girl from the side. The view turns to Alexa's exposed back. And without realizing his hand was already there.

Alexa was a little shocked by Yericho's movements. Even though he predicted this would happen.

"I'm sorry but you have to do the Terms first ..." Alexa's great-granddaughter is embarrassed but she doesn't want to feel harmed.

"Oh ... Where to stay?" Yericho repeated the conditions Lucy had read earlier.

Alexa scrunched her lips again. Yericho suddenly remembered what Lucy had told him. Lucy's right this girl looks desperate.

"I'll find you a place to stay. But it can't be tonight, it's already night. How about staying at a hotel first. But I promise I'll help you find him or ... You got a place you think of?" Yericho tried to suppress whatever was in his head. Why should I have this conversation with this beautiful girl while she is drunk.

"Nothing ... The place I was thinking about ..." great-granddaughter Alexa. "I ... There really is no place to sleep tonight" he said. Kinda depressing.

Yericho sighed, feeling sympathy. He leaned his back again, it was really sad a few minutes ago that he felt like the saddest person in the world.

"Sorry sir, I'm not unwilling to do that ...."

"I understand ... You should have been on standby. Not looking for a way to harm. But what you're doing is pretty dangerous." Yericho doesn't know, he deserves this kind of advice or not.

"I'm confused, is wandering the streets and stopping to learn also a safer decision than this?" Alexa's question made Yericho aware. It is more dangerous to roam the streets. I don't know.

"You're right ... I don't know which is better." Yericho smiled slightly at Alexa.

"At least, Mr. Yericho looks like a good person," Alexa said, making Yericho laugh rather loudly.

"Good people won't come to a place like this, won't be with you either." Yericho stopped his laughter. "There are no good people you'll find here."

"I'm not a good person either ...." Alexa muttered awkwardly.

"Not so ...." Yericho looked at Alexa, the girl trying to smile at him. What makes Yericho so fixated on Alexa's face? Because she's beautiful? Yericho smiled obliquely, a smile spread its charm. Yang Yericho was sure of the effect on the girl. Seen from the red hue drawn on his cheek.

The waiter came to deliver the order. Dissipate what Jericho thinks. Alexa still sits awkwardly. Not moving from where he sat.

"Let's eat" Yericho said briefly.

"Eat. The food is quite good" Yericho said, sipping spaghetti.

"Good Sir." Alexa awkwardly obeyed the words of Yericho. He took a piece of fried chicken. There was a strange feeling as he chewed on the food. He even forgot the taste of other foods besides instant noodles. Alexa is holding back her shakiness. When a large hand rubs the top of his head.

"Eat the voracious baby." Yericho's smile rose beautifully in Alexa's eyes. Alexa can't remember the last time someone else gave her affection.

"Okay sir" replied Alexa softly as she tried not to cry.

Yericho's expression made Alexa who felt a little sad suddenly look trying to hold back her smile. The adult man frowned. Glancing here and there. And bite his lower lip.

"Sir." Alex called him again.

Still not looking at Alexa, Yericho said a little awkwardly.

"Tomorrow and so on, being able to find another call other than 'Sir', I find it difficult to accept" explained Yericho with a slight smile.

There's a strange sense of intruding into Alexa's heart. He was sure that with this man he would find a sense of security and comfort even though this was their first meeting. If asked if Alexa would see her again tomorrow. Alexa will do it.

"Yes daddy."

That Alexa call finally brought a subtle swish in the heart of Yericho. It's hard to interpret that swish. All he could do was nod and return the girl's smile.

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