Iori was in a fog when she left the president's office in a rush. All she could think about was his words. She had no choice, he gave her no choice...
His strange condition to have one request that she should listen to no matter what hadn't been as strange compared to the weird conditions in the contract.
She had been waiting for him to drop his impossible request anytime. Every time he summons her to his office she wonders if the time for payback was there. But it hadn't been back then. His request had to be the one thing that she couldn't do. The most difficult thing that she wasn't capable of...
To think that ha had the nerves to make something like this his request and then plead with her to deal with it. How dare he make that face? How dare he look at her as if he wasn't talking about her utmost inner fears? How dare he look at her as if he was asking and not ordering her?!
How dare he steal her choices away from her?!
Iori slammed her fist in
"I know you're hesitant because it's something that you would never consider under any circumstances. But, If you leave your fears aside for a moment and think about why you're against the idea what would you think?" Haruki said Iori thought about it for a moment, leaving her fear aside, which would normally lead her to think that it was impossible to live with another man just like that. It may be okay to have male roommates in this day and age, but Iori didn't even like the idea of having a roommate, not to mention if that roommate is an incorrigible annoying player who got on her nerves. "Ugh, I don't know... I don't like that guy in the first place, he's annoying and infuriating..." "You said that before, yet, you agreed to work with him because you had to. You're a professional, so your decisions when it comes to the president's demands had always been practical and based on your work ethic. This is why you were able to work with him for so long, and he
Iori was deep in her thoughts when she heard the door open, she looked up in time for Jun to turn the lights on blinding her with the sudden brightness. "Uhh, What are you doing sitting there in the dark?" Jun asked eyeing her with a perplexed gaze, "I was lost in thoughts and forgot to turn the lights on," Iori responded standing up and heading toward the kitchen to fetch a glass of water. Her brother's words swam in her head not leaving her to concentrate on anything else. Jun was different, she knew that, she knew that her focus on him as a writer made her forget her fears of his gender, but she still didn't want to admit it until now. As the two of them were alone in the suite, and she didn't even feel an inkling of fear or the urge to run away. "I didn't ask you this before, but, what do you think of the president's demand?" Iori asked turning toward him. He slowly walked toward the breakfast bar in the small kitchen and sat in fron
"Are you ready?" Iori asked Jun as she finished her coffee mug already making plans to stop on the way and get another one."Yeah," Jun said closing his laptop and taking it with him, "Whenever you are," He smiled, no... he smirked"You seem to be in high spirits today," She commented as they left the suit"I'm looking forward to seeing the old man's troubled expression again," Jun said, "To think that the day when he feels bad for his actions would come.""You're having way too much fun with that. Besides, I don't believe that he feels remorseful in any way, perhaps afraid that I would end the contract out of nowhere.""You're seriously thinking about ending the contract and paying the fine?!" Jun exclaimed looking at her in shock,"Well, let's say that this time he asked too much of me...""Yeah, even I know that, but to give it all up... The sum to pay for that is ridiculous,""That's what my lawyer said..." Iori responded
"On the count of three! One! Two! Three!" Jun said and the two of them flipped their notebooks at the same time revealing what they wrote in them to each other.One would wonder how they got to this silly childish method and for that, one needs to go back to a few minutes earlier, when the two of them sat down to decide on a title for the book...As expected from them things couldn't go over smoothly, even if it comes to something like the title of their book, they ended up at an impasse."What's that, could that even be considered a title?" Jun said mockingly,"Well at least it's more creative than "Their Murderous Love,", " Iori retorted eying his notebook with disdain. What do you expect from a frivolous romance writer anyway..."Oh! As in "Misconception in the night" Is a more relevant title?" Jun said"Well, at least it doesn't sound like a cheap romance column in a teenager's literary magazine..." Iori said and Jn raised an
Iori's hysterical laughter drew the customer's attention, but to his credit, Kazuma remained silently neutral as he patiently waited for her to finish. As Iori's laughter died down she still couldn't wipe the smile from her face."Kazuma, you're saying the funniest things. You could pass for a comedy skit any time by that sense of humor of yours." She said her last words hardening and sounding harsh."I do not understand where you're coming from Iori-sama," He said watching her with his unwavering neutral look. If it was any other person, he would've been successful in fooling them. But Iori knew the man too well. She grew up with him..."Kazuma, you were there when I left the main house. And you were there when my father openly cut me out of the family at the time in my life when I needed his support the most. So, It has been an understanding that I have no business with the main house and they don't have any business with me. So why do you think that you or Fa
if someone was to drop a pin in that conference room, Jun doubted that it would reach the floor. The room was flooded with reporters and cameramen to the brim. They were all squirming in their seats waiting for the big event to happen. Jun still wondered what they were waiting for. What could they be expecting? Were they all there to hear him and Iori say, yes we're dating, or no we're not dating? Was all this fuss over whether or not they were in a relationship. The notion of that was so ridiculous because even jun himself wouldn't have been as curious to know as them, even if it was about himself... To this moment he was still wondering how the old man managed to pull it off. It's been a week since their so-called scandal made the news. He would've understood why that caught the media's attention, Although they would never be on the same level as people from showbiz. They could still make a fuss over their affair if there was no other newsworthy scandal that day.
There was one thing that Iori hates about the media, and that's everything!They gather around news like sharks smelling blood from their prey. Then they keep ruthlessly tearing that prey apart until there's nothing left of it except for shreds of uneaten flesh and bones.That's how cruel media can be, and Iori had had a first-hand experience with that years ago. She had already been torn apart with what happened to her and then they came along and ripped apart every shred of dignity and self-respect she had left after the incident leaving her with nothing. That experience had destroyed her faith in the world and in their society and she still had yet to recover that lost faith...Seeing the reporters gather around in the spacious conference room like flies was a repulsing sigh. Some would say that after what had happened to her she would be afraid. Some even might judge that she was traumatized by them because of how she reacted at the restaurant.
When she went back to the room, Jun was watching the feed from the conference room transfixed. He turned around to see her walk-in then went back to his meditation-like state.Iori took a deep breath trying to calm the anger swirling in her, and went to sit beside him on the couch.Her conversation with her father was still playing in her mind. He was giving her that order as if he was confident that she would listen to it. As if the most obvious thing was to obey whenever he opened his mouth to give an order. That's what happened when someone had too much power and entitlement for too long...luckily, the president was here and he could deal with her father's messenger in case they came. Some would have taken her father's words as an empty threat and that would be a mistake. He was perfectly capable of forcing her to go back to the main house and getting away with it. That's why they had to stop his men before they got anywhere near her.The president ha