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Third Marriage Proposal Chapter 9
"What's up?" Joseph sent Lisa a message which created an intersection between two parallel lines, life indeed was full of coincidence. Everything was in a thorough mess for Lisa after Ella left the country with her newly husband. The new girl Janine who covered for Ella was a scheming girl and she did not get along with Lisa at all, but the guys in the office seemed to like her very much. And Lisa did not want to find a replacement as a roommate. It was a humid evening on work day, she had nothing better to do when a message came in, it was Joseph. It was a message even more casual and meaningless than any words, yet, somehow, it was a consolation. By the time she was unable to find anyone else to talk with, Lisa replied immediately, he was a talkative guy and she struck up a conversation with him. They spent hours talking about their dreams, how she wanted to see the world, his of being a new CEO in the family business. Sometimes those that put on the happiest of faces all the t
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"Adieu! Adieu! Janine." Lisa hoped not to see her again. It took two days for the work handover, then Janine was transferred to Marketing because Peter thought her skills might best be used in the new department. Lisa had been so busy that she had neither the time nor the inclination to think of other things, though she had to work harder than before, she felt no fatigue. Suddenly the air in the office was as fresh as ever, with Alex and William in the office treated her as before like Janine had not been there. It was not that Lisa did not hold grudges against them, she just did want to struggle and only Peter mattered. It wasn't until Ella had gone that she realized, for her at least, being friends with colleagues didn't emerge as a priority at all. Life was once again very hectic but empty. At the start, Ella chat with Lisa online very often, lately they did not talk at all, Lisa took it for granted that life moved forward. She was very concerned about Leopold, she initiated
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"Have you heard the news? Janine and Charles are having an affair."The breaking news went viral in the company almost overnight; today's careers offered more opportunity for extramarital affairs, for example Charles as the vice CEO and the head of Marketing and his newly young and beautiful Secretary-Janine.It didn't occur to Lisa that Janine would tolerate a man older than her father, besides Charles was neither sexy nor funny.Unlike talking about the gossip of Joseph, people were being judgmental and critical about Janine, using the worst swearword in the world. One of the most elementary rules of life was never hit a man when he was down-in other words, never took advantage of a person's misfortune. Although what had happened in the office caused Lisa and Janine were not incompatible, Lisa did not want to talk about Janine behind her back for this matter.Lisa was too busy to studying at night and occasional weekends to get a MBA degree with Peter's recommendation, she was so th
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Lisa is thinking about buying a more suitable couch if they are getting spontaneous again. When he is done his cheeks is flushed and he looks triumphant, the colour upon Lisa' spread over her face to her body. One of Joseph's hobbies is purchasing houses, this is an instance of childhood trauma and it is pretty commonplace in other families in the country. "What first put you onto texting me? I mean the message comes from nowhere."Joseph is a cuddle-a big surprise; the emotional wounds of early childhood leave ineradicable scars. He is lying on the couch with Lisa in his arms and a guilty look on his face. His mind travels back to the hot sultry day at the airport four years ago.After his mother Lucy named him CEO of the family business, he thought it would be a great time for him to do some actual work for the company. It turned out he was too naïve, Lucy disapproved all his ideas, then they started to argue about how the company would grow. Finally, he yielded the palm to her, in
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Lisa truly understood the unpredictability of life, which often changed within an instant without being noticed. Just when it seemed life was going well, Peter's sudden death from acute myocardial infarction was devastating.Sometimes life hit you in head with a brick, two days later Charles took his place as the CEO of the company.The day before it all happened, Peter felt uncomfortable because he got a cold. Lisa asked him if he need to take the day off to go to the hospital, Peter interpreted his illness as being less severe. So he took some cold medicine and went back to work.Peter took good care of his body, he did not smoke or drink, eating healthy food and doing sports twice a week. When Lisa was about to go off work, she found out that Peter was fall sleep on the sofa in his office, she knew it was the pill so she did not care to wake him up.She had class the night and she told Alex that Peter was asleep, then Lisa left the company. The next day morning she had been told th
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"If you ever kiss my finance again, I will destroy you." Penny went around to see Lisa on Sunday afternoon, they talked about what happened last night. Lisa had vague memories of Joseph coming under the influence of alcohol, a certain hollowness that she tried to stifle. To think that she had kissed Raymond wildly, a wave of nausea and disgusting swept over her. But what Penny had said aroused her. "Penny, are you trying to make welcome with the usual pantomime of exaggerated words and gestures?" "Lisa, those are his very words. He was so cool when he said it. Since when are you and Joseph engaged? The story has taken a huge twist, one minute you and Raymond are enamored, next minute Joseph appears as your finance. Is there something going on between you and Joseph?" "Don't be ridiculous, we are just friends. What did Raymond say? Did he misunderstand my intentions? I am so embarrassed." "Don't worry about him. He had worse. He can survive that one of his ex-girlfriend cheated on
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Lisa began to walk faster to catch up to Penny and Rebecca, finally she caught them before they had gone far. Penny was both sad and angry, Rebecca patted her back and tried to comfort her."Penny, are you all right? I swear to God I don't know how this will happen. I felt awfully guilty for not helping you." Said Lisa who was still trying to gulp air after running."Lisa, things had moved too fast for my mind to keep up. But I think Kenny did not really like you. Penny, listen to me. What I have found was that Kenny knew that you would ask him, but he was too afraid to facing you. I have a friend who had a great tactic for dealing with unwanted chat ups -go nuclear early by saying her husband was a mercenary. Kenny went first in order to shut you up. According to my observation, he was very avoidant. Normally avoidant people want to be in relationships-because we are all programmed to get attached to other people- but they acted weird when they get close to a person. You can't hold b
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"Hi, Joseph, I have a good piece of news to tell you. I am not single anymore and I have a boyfriend whose name was Joseph."After knowing Joseph for three years, being friends with him over two years, Lisa was ready to update her relationship status. But when she texted Joseph the good news after work, there was no reply from him at all. While waiting at home in hopes that Joseph would show up next minutes, she did not hear from Joseph until she went to bed.If Lisa had ever had crush on a person, even if the man was her neighbor who grew up at the same neighborhood, she might suffer from the nostalgic was how of reverential awe and swayed lost. But she knew Joseph well and Lisa was aware that Joseph must be fully occupied by work. During these waits, her brain slipped away from the body and wandered about the sweetest dreams.The next morning Lisa wake up at six thirty, she checked her phone and found out there was no messages or calls. She had to get ready for work because it was M
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Joseph's arrival would be an ideal opportunity to cut short of the last leg of their on-going tour; Rebecca took to her heels once she heard that Joseph was coming. Neither Lisa nor Rebecca would admit that this trip was a totally disaster.There were three of the most common health problems that one might experience during traveling was jet lag, altitude sickness and diarrhea. Lisa and Rebecca suffered all of them during this long journey, when they first landed the state which was the Plateau regions, they couldn’t sleep well at night for the time difference. Due to climate on the highland always changed unpredictably, Lisa had trouble with diarrhea and Rebecca got the flu.It seemed they got off on the wrong foot when they started to practice the plan of travelling around the world.They had to stay in the hotel for five days to recover themselves fully before climbing the mountains. One of the most common dangers to climbers was altitude sickness, which could affect even very expe
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"I guess we’ve already talked about this but I’ll ask you again just in case. Lisa, do you want to move in and work with me?"Joseph always assumed that if he had ever asked a girl to move in with him, she would be thrilled and accepted his proposal at once; but Lisa didn’t say anything which was an added complication.By knowing her so well, he was convinced that she wasn’t playing hard to get.There was an almost complete lack of awareness of the issues involved; it was important that she realized how much he had given up for her by asking. Lisa was his best choice, but she was not his only alternative.He was very popular when it came to dating.They talked every day through video chat, he liked to chatting with her, sometimes he would wait for her online when he couldn’t pay her a visit. She was a very original and creative thinker who looked at things from a unique perspective and he found it interesting and educating.Nowadays Lisa was busy with the handover, it would take place
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"Thank you for the update, Boss. It was a pleasure to work for you, but I have made my mind to quit the job. Please accept my resignation."It took her long enough to summon the courage to tell Charles about her decision, life at the company had not be as lucrative or as fun as it was in the past ever since Peter had gone. Only those who loved their work could enjoy the delight in work, however Lisa hated working for Charles. Lisa wished she could say that it was unfair to judge him on such a brief acquaintanceship. "You are doing a great job. Lisa, are there any special reasons for leaving the job?""There were no left speculating about other motives behind the moves, I resigned for personal reasons. That I need to move to the city where my boyfriend was, a long-distance relationship is really hard and both of us think it is time for a change."Lisa had a hard time express what she really thought, she could not tell Charles that she left the desk because Charles was disgusting and h
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"We should work out some ground rules for meeting the other sex, if we're gonna be a couple. "Lisa managed to drop off wake in the early hours, Joseph was holding her tightly even as he slept. Lisa chewed on her lip and stared at his angular face with chiseled jaw, she felt for his sleeping looks and gorgeous pectorals. She tried to get off the bed but her action waked him, he held her down, kissed her on the forehand and let go of her.She was held back by some sense of self-preservation; he wasn't slow to realize what was going on; he closed his eyes and started talking."Like what? Joseph, It's Monday morning-one of the busiest times of the week. Don't you need to go back to be the boss? I need to take a shower before duty. ""I am taking the day off, but I can join you in the bath.""Don't get your hopes up. Enough chitchat, I will be late."Lisa went to wash herself up, she paid scant attention to what Joseph was acting. The best part about being Lisa was that she left all the u
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What happened to Penny did not always happened to her, even death was not guaranteed for a cancer. Lisa wasn't going to demean herself by acting like a suspicious lover, she could lose her perspective. When she behaved this way, her spouse and herself would feel suffocated. She could not let her imagination ran away with her, she lacked trust on Joseph.How could she put her trust in him?Lisa called Rebecca and told her that her main reservation about him was that he was a man about town. But Rebecca said it was fear of vulnerability, and when Lisa could not deal with the factor that she may even long for closeness, so she frequently pushed her partner away."Lisa, as your shrink and your best friend, I would not allow you sabotage your love relationship in any ways. You deserve happiness, I don't know if Joseph was the one, but he can cure you. Just try to trust him.""Rebecca, what do you think I should do?""Don't hesitate to ask if you have any doubts. Good Communication is the k
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"I am going to move to Thuong city next week. All the people in the building would come to give me a rousing send-off, Lisa, would you like to come to have a drink with us this Sunday?" Penny said it on the phone."Why not? I will see you this weekend, Penny."Lisa and Penny didn't get to see each other too much these days, for Penny was busy in love with Kenny and Lisa spent her time with Joseph. Lisa still didn't tell Penny that she was dating Joseph, Penny thought very badly for Joseph since last camping trip and Lisa didn't have to make excuses for him.The class they have together was already finished after two years' study, the toughest challenge came after the MBA training course had ended, they need to pass the exam to get the degree. Penny had only a slim chance of passing it, but Lisa thought she would pass the exam because she applied herself. There was no magic formula for passing tests- only hard work."Penny, What's going down? Why are you suddenly leaving town?""Lisa,
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Joseph's Mother-Lucy looked very grave when she waltzed into the house as if she owned it and threw off her coat. As soon as she saw Joseph and Lisa she knew what was going on, she walked towards the sofa and sat down. Joseph and Lisa were standing in front of the sofa.Lucy was small, plainly dressed and wore no make-up, she managed to impart great elegance to the unpretentious dress she was wearing, as a veteran cadre still remained her philosophy of hard work and plain-living. Lisa could not gather form her expression whether she was happy or angry, it was tightly locked down. However, her tone was cutting and haughty. She managed to produce a dim, watery smile while speaking."Son, it seems that she is the reason you come to Dong city so often. "Lisa had never met Lucy or saw her picture, but Joseph would not stop talking about his bossy mother. From his story she was capable of being very difficult, and that was the understatement of the year. It was unfair to judge her on such
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Waking up with the pain in the part of her body she never experienced before, Lisa saw Joseph lying beside her completely naked in her bed. She was doubled over with pain and sore, but she still noticed the sheet was stained with drops of blood. Right off the bat she knew what had happened last night.It was beyond exciting. Often by the time people need to accept the truth that they were past being able to put words to feelings. It was just a sensation that Lisa had never felt before, the problem was, she had no remembrance of the process at all. How is that possible?Then a thrill of alarm ran through her.She put some clothes on and walked to the bathroom, she could barely maintain her balance and moved in a wobbly fashion. looking over the agonizing face in the mirror, she had forgotten what it was like to be that frightened for such a seemingly small matter. You would never know if you were drugged or not, but she didn't have any of the after-effects she would expect.Joseph was
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"Hello, Haven't seen you for a long time. How are you doing? Lisa."Joseph was standing in front of her desk at the office, looking at Lisa with the smile showed he had got his way. Lisa felt shocked and totally disorientated by his unexpected arrival. They had agreed to keep a secret about their relationship until it was the right time. Lisa gave him a challenging look and stood up. Before she could say anything, Joseph walked pass her desk and went to Charles's office, Lisa took a few deep breaths to steady her nerves and went back on working.Joseph's visit would provide some juicy gossip in the tea room for a few days. Lisa pretended she wasn't interested but the expression on her face was a dead giveaway. Psychologist would say that women made better liars because they were psychologically more sophisticated, they made plans and have strategies whereas men were more impulsive. The biggest difference, however, was that women were much better at keeping their affairs a secret."I w
