Heart Darkness
Chapter 96 Unknown Feeling ....

"You coming, brother?"

Arumi Chavez looked overjoyed when she saw her older sister Aruhi.

"Hmm, yeah, I'm worried about you. Are you all right? What's wrong with you, Arumi?" Marya hugged Arumi warmly and stroked her sister's hair which looked very pretty with natural makeup on her face. Marya wears an underwear and sleeping pajamas before returning to lay Arumi down.

"Em, karma it seems. I made you miserable, so, I accept the consequences." His voice came down and was full of deep regret.

"Stop talking the no-no. Did someone set you up?" Marya put a damp towel on Arumi's forehead, remove the hair from it and gently stroke Arumi's head.

"I signed a contract with a production house, but it looks like they tricked me." Laughs bitterly.

"You're short of money, Arumi?" ask Marya ketus. "You're almost colonized by people" he added, and the sound of water from a wet, squeezed cloth rattled over the bucket.

"I hurt you and I deserve it. I'm sorry, Brother. I'm really sorry," said Arumi, tears breaking. "The man licked my body, brother."

Marya stroked Arumi's crown and calmed her down.

"Did he hurt you?"

"I almost got raped" said Arumi. "Oh, can I go take a shower? I feel so disgusted." Arumi is goosebumps and Marya wants to switch the conversation. Marya experienced the same trauma, though every time she remembered the incident, she replaced it with a memory of Elgio and it was quite successful. However, Marya did not expect the incident to happen to her sister even though she was very upset at the evil actions of Arumi.

"Take it easy, and forget it! Maybe you need to soak in warm water to get your body better, but I'm not sure, your body temperature is not normal. Are we going to the doctor?"

"No, Brother. I'll take my medicine and get well soon. Brother can go home, I'm fine alone," said Arumi believed Marya.

"Is Mom still angry?" ask Marya.

"Hmmm, I don't know. Maybe, I don't want to see me and don't want to deal with me. Mom doesn't want me to go home either. Anyway, I have to study independently. You can do that for years, I'll learn from you!" His voice sounded full of determination.

Elgio and Ethan enter the room.

"Are you feeling better, Arumi?" ask Elgio concerned.

"Yes, Brother. Thanks for stopping by. Forgive me for the stupid things I did to you and brother in the past. I'm really sorry."

"Just relax, Arumi, you'll pay later! I still haven't forgotten," replied Elgio with a small smile.

"Yes, I'll take my punishment. You can take my brother home, I'll be fine." When the girl calls Marya her sister, something sweet happens between them and Marya knows, the two will have each other like Mom and Aunty Sunny.

"Can we take him home, Elgio. No one noticed her here," pinta Marya with a wistful look on her husband.

"No! I don't want to go anywhere," Arumi's cut shook her head. He is comfortable living alone. "I'll be fine, brother," he added.

"You sure?"

"Yes, go, brother!" Encouraged Marya's body to wake up immediately.

"Go Marya, I'll accompany Arumi here." Ethan says to Marya who looks like she doesn't want to leave. "I'll take care of him! You don't have to be afraid of me touching Arumi, you know me well. I'm not interested in a stupid girl even if she's not dressed. I called you earlier because someone had to put him on clothes." Ethan spoke seriously, glancing at Elgio who continued to be suspicious of him.

"Alright, Ethan. I'm going to find a nanny's aunt and send her here to accompany Arumi" Marya said, turning to Elgio.

"Yes, of course, baby. I'll have someone from Durante Land come here! It is not good for a girl to be left alone even with a smart man who always uses logic. He never knew when he fell in love, his logic vanished" Elgio commented with a nosy smile at Ethan Sanchez.

"We can bet" Ethan challenged. "You don't have to send a nanny. I'll take care of Arumi," Ethan said more firmly and Marya narrowed at the sight of Arumi's happy expression. Well, his sister likes Ethan Sanchez. "Don't get me wrong, I get paid to take care of it," Ethan continued as Marya smiled at him.

"You're serious Ethan?"

"Yes, gohome! Don't let my boyfriend get sick!" ethan said he started to come back.

"Boyfriend?!" ask Marya astonishment.

"Yes, my boyfriend is in there," said Ethan lightly nodding at Marya's stomach.

"Eh?! I think you're starting to go crazy, Ethan Sanchez."

"Go back!" have Ethan Sanchez push Marya slowly on Elgio. "If I knew your condition, I wouldn't have asked you to come. I'm sorry, Marya."

Marya looks heavy-hearted leaving Arumi, but Ethan drives her away. Marya and Elgio finally return to Durante.

"You're serious about keeping me here?" asked Arumi, although he was very happy, Arumi was a bit uncomfortable.

"Yes, you have to eat first and then rest. My brother's gonna bring us food."

Shortly afterwards, voices of feet climbed the stairs to Arumi's flat.

"Ethan Sanchez, I brought you an order! Where's my pay?"

A young girl stood in the threshold as the door opened. In his hands, two food challengers stuck out to Ethan and the other hand looked up, asking for compensation.

"How much do you ask?"

"As much as I can spit my mouth out, brother. You asked me to come night and night bring you and your girlfriend some food. I have to keep secrets from Mom too. Here-there, so many requests. You know my mouth is hard to close." The brother grumbled at the door.

"Go back!" ethan exclaims rudely, throwing a wad of money at his chatty little sister. "That's enough to clog your mouth."

"Don't you introduce me, your boyfriend?" ask the girl to stare at the money given by Ethan and then try to look into the room.

Aaaakkkkk!!! The door closed hard until the sister held the almost dislodged heart.

"He must be ugly because you hid him from me! Is she the rich stupid girl you're so upset with?" his sister shouted from outside before going down the stairs and disappeared.

"Is that your sister?" ask Arumi slowly.

"Eat! Don't talk to me let alone try to seduce me, Arumi Chavez," Ethan said and offered a bowl full of delicious-scented food.

"I think I'm in love with you, Ethan Sanchez." Arumi suddenly bluntly. Ethan was silent for a moment before frowning.

"Yes, I've gotten used to receiving a lot of love, Arumi! You may like me or be crazy about me, but I don't fall for idiots like you very easily."

"alright. I will learn to be kind and smart. You'll come after me one day" Arumi looked at Ethan straight, swearing. Ethan stared back at the girl with a flat face and a typical evil smile.

"Please try, don't try too hard, Arumi Chavez!"

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"Did you find anything interesting?" lucky asked whispered to Reinha beside him in the meeting room. Reinha looked at her handsome man in a black blazer pack, smiling as she shook her head.

"Not yet for now," Reinha replied back and forth checking the catalog.

"I'm sorry, we should be dating, but instead work and have a meeting." Lucky grabbed Reinha's hand and hooked their fingers under the table, peeling for a bit. He looked seriously at the laptop. They were in the Double L staff meeting room.

Reinha attended a meeting with Lucky Luciano after taking a bath and swapping with the latest dress from the production section of Double L. The managers came in one by one, quite surprised when they found out, their boss's lover, Reinha Durante was present in the meeting room. Some of them look nervous. Reinha is quite famous because Dream Fashion, one of the fashion outlets that have a place in the hearts of customers. Customers talk about fashion, trends, quality and that refers to Dream Fashion. And speaking of Dream Fashion is synonymous with Elgio Durante and his beautiful little sister, Reinha Durante. The 17-year-old girl was also very famous by her proud achievements in school and her many contributions to the city's medals.

"Can we start?" ask Lucky.

"We will launch the latest catalog, woman attributes, Double L to be sent to regular customers and choose artists for endorsements. Our selection of three public figures that may be suitable for endorsements with a good track record, good branding without sensation and is on the rise at this time."

"Who are they?"

"The profile can be seen by the boss. Penelope Diaz, Amanda Lunar, Vaiya Con Dioz. They are artists who have millions of followers, all three best fit the artist's image for our products to be advertised."

Lucky glanced at Reinha who was just silently watching them.

"Well, so which of the three models best describes Double L?" ask Lucky Luciano. "I want to hear your opinion Enya?"

Lucky Luciano looks at his girlfriend. Reinha observes all three models with classic beauty that thrills the heart. Exclusively expensive smiles are also thin-mouthed faces with beautiful feminine bones.

"Our teamwork may be similar, Lucky. We both introduce products and sell products. But, my advice is, you should trust your staff, I'll only come as your lover" Reinha refused.

"Come, Honey. I think you're also on the staff list because ENYA is one of Double L's most beautiful products." Lucky looked at him with a soft look that made Reinha quickly melt on him. Will the man come to her with the same look in his eyes, carrying another woman's baby in his cradle? Reinha breathed a heavy breath. He almost sounded as hot and involuntarily shivered.

"His?! Are you sick?" lucky asked worriedly, touching Reinha's forehead. The velvet dress Reinha wears is very warm and covered up to the neck but the AC may be too cold. Lucky takes off his black blazer and blankets Reinha. Lucky attitude for other staff in the meeting room fascinated, especially the staff is dominated by women.

"Guard, Lucky. I'm fine" said Reinha. "What do you want to hear?"

"Endorsement artist and all three ad models" Lucky said.

"Endorsement artists are becoming a popular form of marketing these days. Frankly, your staff is very up to date," said Reinha. "Extreme marketing strategy is very efficient, Lucky. There are many advantages to using public figure services for Double L product endorsements when compared to conventional advertising, endorsements are more affordable. The cost of endorse artists may be expensive but will increase sales especially if the artist you use has a lot of followers on their social media. The public will get to know Double L products, familiar before finally hunting Double L products. This is the advantage of marketing endorsement strategy."

"You're right Miss Durante. One of the contract agreements, artists must include social media, business websites, blogs to create brand awareness."

"But there are drawbacks" Reinha continued. "Artist rate is usually different. Penelope Diaz must have a high rate because the number of followers is many and the woman has a very strong image. Vaiya doesn't really care about Instagram but she is very popular because of her amazing fashion style. As for Amanda Lunar, I think the Division team needs to think about Amanda once more. He is often endorsed for fashion products from many brands. After all, the target market Double L seems to have a clear direction, Amanda will even release her own fashion product, The Lunar." Reinha thought for a moment.

"Another lack of endorsements, ads that won't last long. You know better, there's money no service. The duration of an ad on an artist tends to be shorter, in contrast to conventional ads that are usually contractually bound for a certain period of time and usually with a longer duration. This is because artists usually advertise our products on the social media they have. Most endorsements are displayed on temporary posts such as insta stories on Instagram. It does not matter if we want longer airtime, with additional costs that must certainly be incurred. My advice, just investigate with maximum limited duration to advertise. Give a kind of short, solid and clear summary, straight to the point on the artist when doing endorsements.

There are still other endorsement constraints, I'm sure the marketing division team knows for sure. We tend to be difficult to monitor because the artist management may provide a limit on the time of advertising of our products. They will probably adjust to the busyness of the artist, so, sometimes we have to deal with a shifting ad show schedule.

This is the last one, usually after being posted on the artist's social media account, we cannot immediately monitor engagement rate because all product advertising activity is on the artist's account in question, we have to wait for the progress report from the artist to know, how the public reaction to our products advertised. I think as long as we get the advantage by cooperating with the artist, the lack of endorsement can be anticipated. The marketing team's job might be to find a solution to this problem."

Those present in the meeting room could not hide their admiration for Reinha Durante. The girl understood correctly the ins and outs of marketing and spoke easy-to-understand language. So, the news out there about Reinha Durante is not a hoax. Moreover, Lucky Luciano who was glued to his seat was astonished and out of words. He loved the girl inexhaustibly even though the girl continued to doubt his love.

Proud when the eyes full of amazed gazes of his staff were fixed on Reinha. The girl is young but very amazing. When it comes to endorsements, she looks more like a true career woman than a third-rate girl.

"That's what we're going to talk about? Didn't you?" lucky asked without taking his eyes off Reinha.

The staff nodded. "Yes, Boss."

"Okay, so who's our choice?" ask Lucky again. Glanced at the brilliant Reinha. "That's your business! Tell me, later! I have to go out with my girlfriend" Lucky said, not caring about the smiles of his staff. He grabbed Reinha and left from there.

"I adore you Reinha Durante" said Lucky Luciano, pushing the girl into the elevator into his office.

"Emm, yes, even though I continue to doubt you," Reinha lamented. September is about to give birth to a baby and Reinha will not stop fidgeting. If her lover saw the baby, could it be that her heart remained frozen? Or will the man change? Melting like an iceberg exposed to sunlight. Reinha looks at her lover in the elevator. Lucky Luciano is great with his Double L, can't believe the man led a closed meeting with the staff and he was so handsome behind a body-fitting black blazer that showed off his muscles even though he wasn't as handsome as he held a gun.

"Enya, don't look at me like that? You know, lately I haven't been very good at managing my brain. I easily panic ... "

One quick kiss and the man was silenced.

"What would I do if you changed one day?" ask Reinha.

"You keep talking about it Anya?!"

Lucky shriveled and did not want to talk about the baby, they returned to the office space. Lucky still has to deal with some problems and Reinha accompanies him from the couch. They are not dating again.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear, how much I love you

Please don't take my sunshine away

The song plays in Double L, visitors are still arriving. Lucky behind the desk is busy checking products. It's new and exhausting for him Francis is sending a baby box and hasn't come back yet. What was that assistant doing at the September home? It's midnight tonight. The man stood up and thrust his hand at Reinha who was exploring the e-catalogue.

"You dance?"

The legs moved slowly along with You Are My Sunshine.

"Why did Francis deliver the box so long?" ask Reinha.

"I don't know, Enya! Can we stop talking about babies when we're just the two of us?" lucky asks, they lost the romance due to September and also the baby.

"Isn't it night?"

Lucky's phone rings. Francis called. Lucky kept Reinha dancing and used one hand to pick up the phone.

"You've been Francis for a long time?" lucky asked, "I had to meet alone earlier, thankfully Enya was with me!"

"Boss ...." Francis' voice was not pleasant to hear.

"Yes, what what? I'm on a date."

"Can you come here?"

"Did something happen?" tanya Lucky stiffened. His feet stopped moving. His embrace on Reinha's waist became stiff.

The noise following the slammed glassware sounded from the end of the connection.

"Can you just come here?!"

"No, Francis. I'll be with Enya," Lucky refused to look at the expressionless Reinha.

"I'm afraid September hurts himself and risks the baby" complained Francis from across the street, sounding helpless.

"What's going on, Francis?" lucky asked and his embrace came off. The man looked very frustrated.

"This one time, meet September!"

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