Shall we grab a drink to console each other?

Tanya got home that day look very downcast. Without speaking much to him, she had he dinner and got prepared for bed.

Kenneth could noticed something off in her and decided to start a conversation before she departed to her room.

"I won't ask if you're okay when I know you're not" he started and walked to the drinks cabinet and grabbed some bottles of alcohol, "Why don't we chat over some drinks?"

Tanya felt like she needed it at that moment to deal with the mental stress Bianca put her through. She nodded in agreement.

They settled down at the balcony while watching the stary sky. There was a long moment of silence between them.

Just drinking and watching the sky and sighing simultaneously.

After what seems like ages spent with sighing, Kenneth spoke first, "Well, I agree that we might be married for some certain reasons but we could share personal problems and concerns to each other. Don't you think the silence between us when we're not talking about work is precarious?"

Tanya gulped the drink in her cup in one go and replied, "Can we do that? I mean, we agreed that we shouldn't interfere in each other's personal bussiness unless the one concerning the two of us?"

"Did we? Well, it's just an opinion, it doesn't seem like the public will forget about us that quickly, we can be friends at least?"

Tanya smiled, "You know when we're at China, I was very scared when confronting those people and Mr Li?"

"Why you look so confident and determined?" Kenneth asked.

She smiled and gulped another shot, "I don't know, I just feel that what if something went wrong? Then you'll be in a tight spot because of me. Without telling me I know your family will scold you for what happened but..."

Tanya sobbed again and drank another shot.

Kenneth stretched his hand and cleaned the tear on her face as he said, "No no, you don't have feel too bad, either it went well or not, I know that they'll throw fit for the fact that you followed me. It's not as if Ryan is serious about joining the company he's always looking for trouble"

"Today, Bianca apologize for everything she did to me so that I can help sign a guarantor form for the new job she just got, did you know I feel when signing the papers?" she scoffed, "I secretly wished she could honor her promise not to cause any troubles but not the Bianca that know"

She smiled sadly and drowned another shot not minding getting drunk.

Kenneth can't take his eyes off her as she lamented and sobed, she looked so vulnerable snd precious that he wanted to pay her head like he always did when they are still school. So he stretched his hand to touch her face but she stepped back ad composed herself.

"I envy you Ken" she suddenly said.

Kenneth's brows furrowed, "What did you mean?"

She smiled sadly again, "I mean it that I envy you so much Kenneth that even though you and your brother aren't that close and always fight, at least you're not poor like ours. Bianca and I are the most foolish step siblings ever I guess, it sounds awful right? We're poor and we still fight with each other"

Kenneth smiled at her speech. "You're lucky that at least your stepfather is not wicked anymore" He said.

"That doesn't change the fact that we're poor. If we're rich Ken, I'll have run away from all these. If we're rich, Bianca won't be so greedy to the extent of snatching my husband to be"

"Only if... Tanya" he started, "Only you know how I wished I was as free as you Tanya. How much I wished I had a loving mother or even a stepmother. Or freedom to do anything, to eat anything and to go anywhere without getting caught on camera"

Tanya looked at him as he speak, a lone tear ran down her face. Kenneth continued, "Only if I had the Freedom to choose the career if my choice, freedom to stay for a day without talking about money and bussines or about files. Freedom to tell my father what I want and get it... Tanya, you should be grateful that your family aren't rich as ours. If it was, then your life would have been more miserable"

Still yet she argued, "But not as miserable as it is now"

"Then you're free to spend my money, spend it on whatever you want and if you don't want, you can stop working, I'll raise you. Life doesn't give us two chances, you have choose only one from life. I have money but I don't want it, you want money but you don't have it, so spend my money Tanya, I didn't say you're greedy or whatsoever but at least fulfil your wish of living a wealthy life" He said to her and he stood up and walked to her side then hugged her.

Tanya was caught off guard with his sudden hug but still hugged him back and cried in his arms, "Ken you can't know how much I wished Bianca and I could be real sisters. You can't know how long I have been waiting for someone that can give me what I want. Someone that can pacify me. I wish Bianca could do that since we're sisters but it's the other way round. Since I was young, I hate eating alone, sleeping alone, reading alone, walking alone and even bathing alone"

Kenneth hugged her tightly, he felt his heart thumped heavily in his chest. Keeping this woman safe is the first thing he wished to do.

Fulfilling all her wishes suddenly hungered him. Seeing her genuine and happy smile suddenly thirsted him.

He whispered into her ears and said, "Then I will make sure you're not lonely anymore. Let's eat every meal together, let's go to work together, let's share thesame room together. Forget the contract terms as long as we don't cross the line, I'll give you what you want Tanya, Just be happy that's all I want in return"

"Thank you so much. Let's be happy together and enjoy the only choice life offered" She sobbed again.

Kenneth released her and said with glee in his voice, "Shall we go somewhere?"