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The proposal

Author: Luna Phoenix
last update Last Updated: 2023-10-07 20:19:20

Chapter 18

The proposal

Serkan

It was impossible to be more direct. I wanted to get to know Giulia on a deeper level. Maybe she was everything I needed to calm my life down, maybe not. But I needed to get to know her better. She was beautiful and hot. But a relationship isn't just about beauty and sex. At the end of the day, after work, we want to come home and know that we can have an intelligent conversation with our spouse, that there won't be fights about everything, that she won't be an angry, jealous madwoman. I was terrified of women like that.

After lunch, I took her home with her suitcase. As soon as we got inside, she went straight to her room and I called her.

"Giulia, do you want to watch a movie with me to unwind from the day?"

She stopped in the doorway and looked at me. It took her a while to answer, she must have been processing that invitation and what it meant.

"Of course."

The kiss must have touched her. I wasn't good at this romance stuff and I didn't know how to
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