Trapped in Chain Love
Strange attitude.

...Julian invited Elise to chat first was beyond the BMKG estimate, but now he even offered his help? Seriously? The arrogant Julian Eldegar and not liking it that initiative helps? The world is not okay!...

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It's been almost a week Elise was in Osaka. This job takes a lot of time and effort, it feels like he wants to go home right now.

"Ughs. Are my eyes starting to get myopic?"

Elise rubbed her eyes slowly, staring at the laptop screen that was still lit in front of her. The file contains the results of the meeting he had to finish two more days, but Elise wanted to finish it today so she could have some free time to rest.

His eyes felt sore. It's just natural. Elise was deprived of sleep there, but she was also overworked late into the night.

"I feel myself to be five years older."

"Yes. It's worth your face looking ugly and tangled"

Without turning around, Elise already knew who the unfiltered person was.

"Hahaha, very funny evening joke Mr. Julian."

Elise answered him blandly. He wondered, why does Julian always talk like that every chance he gets? The mouth needs to be stuffed or stitched together!

"Are you not done yet?"

He walked up to Elise, staring at the laptop screen intently.

"Do you think I'll be here if my job is done?"

Julian ignored Elise's words. He took over the woman's laptop, read it at a glance and then spoke.

"Do you want to help me?"

Uhuk!

Elise choked on her own saliva. He looked at Julian with a stark expression of surprise, not intending to hide it in the least.

'Did he eat wrong?'

Julian invited Elise to chat first was beyond the BMKG estimate, but now he even offered his help? Seriously? The arrogant Julian Eldegar and not liking it that initiative helps? The world is not okay!

"Why? You don't want me to help you?"

The man's eyes glared. He was actually not aware of offering his help to Elise, when he saw his unfinished work too when the day was late making him want to help—how Elise is still an employee who works for him.

"I'll be very grateful if you want to help."

Elise was tired. Bringing his work to the hotel to stay up late to finish it makes Elise's body tired, he also wants to sleep even if only two hours.

Julian's help helped him a lot, but he still didn't know what the motive was.

'It is impossible for a Julian Eldegar to help without gaining an advantage,'

He wanted to ask Julian, but the man went to the top of his laptop, took the electronics to the sofa where Elise used to sleep and sat there.

"For today alone, you sleep in bed"

Elise blinked her eyes a few times. Huh!? What the hell is wrong with this boss!?

Suspicious behavior. She does things she's not used to, Elise would rather accept Julian's usual treatment of her than be treated like this. It feels so weird.

"Why? You don't want to sleep in bed?"

Soon Elise shook her head. Sleeping on a soft mattress is more comfortable than the narrow sofa, he can relax his body from all the fatigue he feels.

"Thank you Mr. Julian. Then, I'll let you sleep first!"

Without waiting for an answer from Julian he immediately went to bed, slept covered in thick and then headed to dreamland quickly—his habit when tired, very easy to sleep when the head touches the pillow.

Julian stared in disbelief at the sleeping Elise, but only a few minutes had passed since he gave Elise permission to sleep in her bed.

While completing the task owned by Elise, his brain again remembered the back of the memory of Nicolas's words to him this afternoon.

"You should be able to choose one of them"

Julian halted his steps when Nicolas suddenly told him that. He looked at Nicolas for a moment, then asked while putting on a confused face.

"What do you mean?" He asked briefly.

Nicolas looked at Julian. He answered the question with his face.

"Elise and Fiona. You should be able to pick one of them."

"Why do you ask that? Of course I'll choose Fiona"

He said with great certainty. Fiona has been her lover for the past two years, while Elise is just a fake fiance that she will leave behind so, it's clear that Julian must choose Fiona.

But Nicolas doesn't think so. He gave a short snort, a small laugh that seemed dismissive.

"I'm not sure you'll be able to keep that choice."

His answer was ridiculed which made Julian annoyed to hear it. He looked up at the old friend who was his assistant with a flat look.

"And why?"

Nicolas points at his own eyes, which makes Julian even more clueless.

"That's because your look at Elise has changed."

Nicolas answered him with a firm answer. He had noticed Julian's gaze while working with Elise, from his point of view Julian's gaze when he saw Elise clearly looked like an interested person.

"Omong empty. I still don't like Elise Anderson,"

Julian scoffs at Nicolas's answer. Disagreeing with his words, he thinks he still treats Elise the same as he used to.

"Gtts. The words and looks of your eyes have different answers"

"Your nature is too melancholy Nicolas. Besides, how did I look when I looked at Elise Anderson?"

Nicolas could not answer for sure. He fell silent, recalling how the way he looked at Elise all this time— was so gentle and caring, he always fell in love again and again while staring at the woman.

"Your eyes look the same as when I look at her."

He answered slowly. Julian did not have time to hear an answer from Nicolas because there was a bit noisy earlier, so he asked his best friend again.

"Huh? What did you say?"

Julian asked for a repetition, but Nicolas instead smiled in a knot and walked away leaving him behind.

"I don't want to answer. You find out for yourself."

He answered that before leaving, making Julian feel bad for not getting the answer he wanted.

"Indeed, how do I look at him?"

Returning to the present, Julian looked at Elise who was asleep in her bed. He stood up, stepped closer to Elise and then looked at the face of the woman who fell asleep— did not feel the slightest alert, even though they were alone in the room.

His sleeping face looked calm, very different from his waking self. Julian thought, it's not bad to see his face like this either.

A second later he slapped his own cheek, only to realize what thoughts he had now.

'Realise 'em! She is the woman that Fiona hates, after all I only love Fiona!'

He reassured himself, after which Julian returned to his original place, working on a task that was not all completed.

The thought was for a moment. But, when staring at her sleeping face Julian's heart was racing like when he thought about Fiona—Julian should not feel that feeling, his heart belongs to Fiona and until anytime it will be like that.

'I'm just mistaken'

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The last love that made Elise entangled in a love chain began to look like this. Julian, who initially dislikes Elise, becomes smitten as well, will he lick his own saliva and turn away from the Fiona he loves so much?

We'll wait at eps later! Hehe

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