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Appointments

"Sir, there's a guest who wants to see you."

I heard Jared's voice speak flat, without even seeing him I knew that he was standing on the doorstep of my room.

"Who?" ask me without diverting attention from the front of the tab that I'm looking at.

"Mr Jensen."

At once I looked up to look at Jared's face, and the assistant nodded as if understanding my concern.

"Tell him I'm busy and can't be bothered. Meet me when you make an appointment. Divert him! I don't want to see him" I said firmly.

"Good, Sir."

After Jared closed the door of my room, I also massaged the temple that felt dizzy. I myself do not know why I should be such a coward by avoiding meeting with Richard. Is this a risk if I want someone else's?

I'm upset, of course. I don't know what Richard's coming to my office this afternoon. Even though the Real Estate project has only gone half way, I should still be able to calmly meet the man because my time with Gloria also seems to be long, even if Richard really kept his promise to bring Gloria after the project was completely finished.

Why am I overreacting? Why would I be a coward to see him? His arrival to my office was impossible to discuss about Gloria. There's still plenty of time, she'll be home with him in about 4 to 5 months, and if I allow it, because as I will, Gloria won't move on from my side before I decide everything about the fate of our unclear relationship.

I glanced at the tablephone on my left side, pressing the line to connect the call to the Receptionist section.

"Is Mr Jensen still there?"

"Just left after he left a written message on our table, sir." The answer from across the call left me speechless for a moment.

"All right," I said indifferently. As my call closed, the door to my room was knocked back and I knew it was Jared.

"Lake in."

"Mr Jensen is gone. He's adamant about seeing you today, sir." Jared tried to explain to me what he knew.

"...i heard Laura ask Mr. Jensen to leave a message on the Receptionist's desk" Jared said, pointing to the guest in front of my office lobby.

"Hmmm..." I shook my hand at Jared as a signal to get him out of my room. I need to be alone and think for a few moments about what important things Richard wants to say so he has to come to my office like this.

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My work hours are up, I go down to the lobby with Jared faithfully walking behind me. I also found Laura standing behind the Receptionist's desk.

"Where's the message Mr. Jensen left me?" tanyaku.

Laura immediately handed me a guestbook, I opened it and read the short message Richard had attached there.

"FGH street's. At 18:00, this afternoon. We need to talk, Mr. Zwart!"

My instincts tell me if something is urgent or not right. I really need to see this guy. Eliminate the cowardice inside me. Because Richard isn't someone who can scare me. He was just a small pebble, not a stumbling block that could make me fall. I could even very easily get him knocked out - if I wanted to.

"Jared, I'll drive myself. You go home" I said as I glanced at Jared by my side.

"But, Mister...." Jared wanted to protest, but I immediately raised my hand to stop talking.

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At 18:00 local time, I arrived at FGH Street, where Richard had made my appointment. This place is quite quiet, either because of the evening or because I rarely go to places like this.

This place cannot even be said to be like a city park anymore, but it is abandoned and not worth visiting. Why didn't Richard just meet me at the restaurant or at the cafe? I don't know...

"You're coming, Mr. Zwart...?"

I turned around and found Richard who was putting on a slanted smile.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" ask me to the point.

Richard sat on the bench across from me.

"As our Project has run its half, now I want my wife to return home."

Is this guy kidding? Tsk... It was as if he was arranging me!

"Isn't that too soon? Our deal, Gloria's gonna be back once the project's done."

"No."

"Mr Zwart, did you forget? The profit I got from this project was only half. You halved the profits for each of us. I don't think you forgot about it."

"Then? What does that gain have to do with Gloria's return?" tanyaku cynical, although I can already guess where the direction of the talk of this beng sek.

"That means, Gloria also has to go home when the project is half over."

"Damned.." I murmured. I thought I was the one who was a coward for not meeting this guy. In fact Richard is worse than me, because he's just a loser trying to play with me. It seems like he's wrong this time.

I shook my head, inexhaustible with the ruse that Rihard was playing to me.

"I think you're content to have fun with my wife. Hows it? Does he want to play with you? I think not! It's impossible unless you force it" Richard said confidently. Maybe he was too sure that Gloria had rejected me all along.

"If I don't want to get Gloria back to you, how about it?" many challenging.

"That advantage will belong to my company completely."

"Oh, so is that only profit you want? Not because you want your wife back?" my sarcasm.

"Gloria will come back to me on her own, but that's later after this profit I've actually made it completely. If you don't agree, it's okay... Gloria can go home right now because we've both benefited, right?"

I was about to refute this man before me, but he resumed the sentence that made me chuckle blandly.

"Although I'm not sure if you can get Gloria," he continued.

"You're overconfident, Mr. Jensen!"

"Yes, since Gloria only has me, she can't possibly betray me."

"really? Can't you say? What's impossible after your wife stayed with another man for two months and you delivered her yourself?"

"I don't care, actually I don't care. Whatever it is, this advantage is more important to me. So... how? Can I get all the benefits?"

"Maybe!"

Richard smiled triumphantly.

"But..." I purposely hung my sentence in the air.

"But what?" tanyanya looked curious.

"Take Gloria off for me!"

Richard laughed loudly. "Are you kidding me? I won't!" firmly answer.

"What do you defend from him? While touching it you never. Indirectly you even sold your wife to me."

Richard smiled in anguish. "You've come that far apparently, until you find out I never touched her!"

"of course! I told you before if anything could happen if your wife lived with a man, let alone that man like me!" Now it is my turn to answer with confidence.

"Alright," Richard sighed for a moment. "Take him, but give me your shares, how?"

The basis of the cunning rat, he actually considered his wife some sort of item to be bartered with wealth. The woman I wanted was lucky to be married to a man like Richard.

"I'm not going to give Gloria back to you! I don't want to follow any of your deals either! Who are you to dare to set me up, huh?"

Richard chuckled softly, a moment later he clapped and some people came to swarm me alone.

Oh, come on! It's like dejavu for me. Like the old incident that repeated again, if I was the one who ordered the men to beat and gang up others, then, unfortunately now I'm the one who's the other person - who seems to be feeling what it's like to be mobbed.

I quit that kind of world. Focus on developing a business that is still running. But now? Do I have to feel this kind of thing? Just because of a woman? Maintaining profits and women? Which two of them I can't take off for Richard's screwball?

Actually I still had a choice, let go of Gloria and avoid giving Richard unreasonable profits. However, I can't. To be more precise, I don't want to let go of Gloria, I won't!

Is this some kind of karma that came to me?

Or the....

The revenge of the universe for me? For past actions and actions?

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