Loving Paralyzed Men
Meet Daniel

Akira looks hard to breathe, he feels that his stomach is hit by something. But Akira tries to be strong in front of Sofia.

"We'll see everything later!" Akira.

Sofia walked out of the kitchen.

"Oh yeah, my God I forgot. I need to get to the airport quickly. Call me a cab, baby." Sofia.

"Call your own taxi! I have important business to do!" Jerky Akira.

Akira walks past Sofia who is standing at the door, Akira's teeth sound rustling, he walks towards Dimas' room, and yells at him.

"Guard....!" Akira.

"Come in! I have a surprise for you."

Akira walked in with a face full of anger.

"I'm sick of all the surprises you've given me! I don't need any more surprises!"

"What's? You why?" Ask Dimas in surprise.

"Sofia and I had a casual chat earlier. He bet a billion on me that you're the owner of Alpha Corp, which means you're my investor."

"What?" Dimas's facial sharpness changed instantly.

"You heard me Dimas. Are you Mr Alpha Corp?"

"Ah, Akira, let me explain." Dimas tried to explain, he turned the wheel of his chair about to approach Akira.

"Explain what? You planned everything months ago. Fooled me all this time by coming to this town. If you hadn't tried to interfere with my worship, you would have been lying sick in your own city. So you won't be a problem for anyone else here.

Akira saw the shock from Dimas's face at his rant.

"I never wanted anything from you Dimas. But you stabbed me in the back and you intended to buy my business instead. Business, Dimas! I started it. I built it myself."

"But you need investors." Dimas said softly, trying to calm Akira down.

"That's all my problem. I don't want you in it."

"On the contract it says you can take back all your parts within five years."

"I don't want to wait that long." Akira said.

"Then you can pay for the compensation at any time."

"You know I don't have that kind of money."

"Then let's just cancel the contract, and you can keep all that money." Said Dimas calmly.

"Hahaha you're so funny. But no thanks! I'll pay you as soon as I can. Now I just want to get away from you."

Anger was evident from Dimas's eyes.

"I just want to help you, Akira. I want you to be free."

"And you have five days to clean your things and get out of my house. Get out of my life. I'm going out of town for business. When I get back, I don't want any more of your trash here."

Akira looked at Dimas, hoping this was the last time he saw Dimas and was inside his living room.

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The next morning, Akira sat in his lawyer's room.

"I've decided to divorce Mr. William immediately. Everything will be simple. We just don't want to be together as husband and wife any longer."

"Have you discussed the division further?" As Akira's forehead shriveled, Mr. William explained his words. "Have you agreed on how much of a share will be given to you about gono gini treasures during these seven years?"

"We don't want to share anything. We'll bring what we each have."

"Are you sure? You'll probably get a really big part."

"I have signed an agreement to divorce. I don't want to sign anything more. I don't want anything else from that man, other than divorce."

"Does he agree with that?"

"He suggested it" Akira replied.

"I understand. Means he'll sign everything without any constraint."

"I want it to end as soon as possible."

Akira smiled and walked out of his lawyer's room.

'Only sixty days left. Then I will be free from you Dimas.' Akira said in his heart.

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Akira sat in a garden, contemplating all the problems he was facing.

"Now what should I do? The contract with Alpha Corp has clearly failed. Where else do I need to find investors? I obviously don't want to accept anything else from Dimas." Akira.

From a distance a man walked over towards Akira who was sitting leaning against a long bench while closing his eyes.

"Hey, you're Akira Olivia, right?" Ask the man wearing the black suit.

"Daniel? You're Daniel, right?" Akira.

The man smiled as he nodded.

"Can I sit?"

"Of course." Akira shifted his body.

Daniel sat down next to Akira.

"What are you doing in town?" Ask Daniel. "Since you decided to get married after you graduated from college, I haven't seen you anymore,"

Akira smiled bitterly, not answering Daniel's question.

"I'm sorry I bothered you." Say Daniel again.

"It's okay. Eh, by the way, what are you doing to this park in your neat clothes?" Akira asked back.

"I'm again reviewing the construction of my new hotel near this park. Because it's nice and it needs fresh air after lunch, yes I stopped by here. Don't know to meet you." Said Daniel.

Daniel was Akira's male friend in college. Several times the dimpled man tried to express his feelings for Akira, but he never had time to tell Akira until finally Akira was married to Dimas.

"Are you married?" Ask Akira. "Where's your wife?"

"Until now I'm not married, my heart still finds it hard to find a replacement for the woman I've loved long ago." Daniel said as he looked at Akira.

Akira was misbehaving.

"That woman must be very lucky to get love from you." Akira smiled awkwardly.

"How are you? Where's husband? How many kids already? If it's not wrong now it's been seven years you've been married."

Akira smiled bitterly.

"I don't have any children yet. Day. . . ."

'Ah I don't seem to have to tell you.' murmured Akira.

"And what?"

"Mmmmm . . . . That's. . . ."

"Sir Daniel I'm sorry, it's time to go back to the office, there's still a meeting you have to do." Said a man who suddenly appeared.

Daniel's disappointed face. He moved his hand like he was driving the man away.

Daniel stands followed by Akira, making the map in Akira's lap fall. Daniel quickly picked it up and accidentally saw the writing on a paper that read 'Religious Court'.

'Is Akira getting a divorce or even getting a divorce?' thought Daniel.

"If you have time, can I take you to dinner tonight?" Ask Daniel.

Akira seemed to doubt.

"I beg. Think of it as our meeting as an old friend." Daniel tries to convince Akira.

Akira finally nodded.

"Alright, please write down your mobile number so I can inform you where we'll meet."

Akira then writes his mobile number on Daniel's cell phone.

"See you tonight Akira." Daniel said as he waved his hand and left to call Akira.