17 It's not fine

"Stop it!!" Nadine jumped up, her breath was panting, her whole body trembled. She was scared so that she immediately covered her chest with her two hands. Did she just come back having a bad dream?

Damn Marcell...

In her heart, Nadine kept on swearing at Marcell.

"You woke up already." Sammy accelerated his pace when Nadine was conscious. Previously, Sammy only left her for a moment to get a medicine box and a glass of warm water.

The presence of Sammy makes Nadine realize that she was not on top of her bed, but in her office, on the sofa with Sammy's coat covering her knees.

"What happened?" Nadine asked after she drank the warm water Sammy gave her. Her breathing was still ragged but Nadine was starting to feel better now.

"You passed out in the elevator." Said Sammy who still looked worried because Nadine had never looked sick before, if Nadine was sick she usually goes straight to the hospital because Nadine never wants to look sick and weak in front of other people.

Nadine immediately covered her face with both hands and her hands moved up to grab her hair.

Am I so scared that it makes me pass out? Nadine thinks hard because all this time Nadine has never passed out even though the bad memories came and scared her half to death.

The nightmare occurs when she passes out or she was too scared to lose consciousness.

"Is your head dizzy?" Sammy asked.

Nadine immediately tried to smile, she then returned Sammy's coat and sat down gracefully as if she had never fainted before.

"I am fine," Nadine replied briefly.

"Sorry I came so late, did Marcell do something bad to you?" Sammy asked because even though Nadine was calm now, she still looked a little confused.

"He can't do anything that can hurt me anymore," Nadine replied lying.

"Thank goodness, I know you can handle it. I went to pick you up because Marcell was looking for you, I'm afraid he will hurt you again but you already left." Sammy explained, he felt sorry for not being able to accompany Nadine when Marcell came back to her.

"Your face is pale, have you had breakfast?" Sammy asked again, he had to make sure Nadine was okay now.

"I haven't eaten anything since last night."

Sammy immediately felt guilty because yesterday he took Nadine home without buying her a meal first.

"Then I'll buy breakfast for you. What do you want to eat?"

"Whatever, as long as it's spicy, and don't forget to buy me a new cell phone because mine is completely unusable now." Nadine doesn't mention what food she wants to eat she doesn't have an appetite but it looks like spicy food will make her think more clearly, and also her cellphone must be replaced because company officials and investors continue to contact her to ask for certainty on the continuity of her company.

"All right, wait here. I've postponed the meeting until you feel better."

Nadine doesn't like anyone to think that she is weak, she then gets up and Sammy immediately gets up to follow Nadine.

"I'll start the meeting without you."

"But your condition..."

"Me or you the boss here?"

Sammy immediately lowered his head when Nadine started to act fierce again, but not out of fear but to hide his smile because it is better for Nadine to be fierce and scold him than to be helpless like when he found Nadine in the elevator earlier.

Sammy only lied because he didn't want to add to Nadine's burden if he explained that Nadine was screaming hysterically and being a spectacle for several employees before finally, Nadine fell unconscious.

***

Justin was still staring at the dish on the pan that Nadine was cooking.

It was cold but Justin still put it on the plate and brought it to his dining table.

"This should be our first breakfast," Justin muttered softly, he took a fork and started eating Nadine's cooking while holding back his tears.

Justin remembers how they had been put together in the past to work on group assignments when he and Nadine were still not that close.

One group consists of two people and it feels very awkward because he never talks or greets Nadine even though Nadine is good friends with his best friend, all because Justin was embarrassed. He fell in love with Nadine at first sight, when he thought that Nadine was his best friend's lover, but not. But he had already been cold to Nadine before so it was very difficult to familiarize himself although the three of them often hang out together after school.

"I don't understand what we have to sell while we are only allowed to use 20 $ capital, isn't that too much?" Nadine complained, she was not a shy girl so she immediately sat right next to Justin when the group was determined.

This is the first time for Justin to sit next to Nadine because usually his best friend is in the middle of them and should Justin feel grateful for even though it's only the last year before they graduate, finally he and Nadine can be in the same class without his friends.

"Hey, are you always silent even when someone talks to you? Am I a statue here? Oh, you frustrate me." Nadine reprimanded, she looked very upset because Justin didn't respond to her words until Nadine finally gave up. This was a group assignment and she doesn't want to bother herself so Nadine finally falls silent.

Nadine then put her head on her straight arm on the table and closed her eyes, at first she wanted to turn her back to Justin but the position made her uncomfortable so she turned to face Justin.

"Are you mad at me?"

Nadine opened her eyes when she heard Justin's voice because it was the first time he had spoken to her.

Justin's face was very close to her, he rested his head in the same position as Nadine did, face her and stare at her closely.

"Your lashes are so beautiful ..." Nadine said unconsciously when her finger touched Justin's lashes. "Emm .. Sorry, I ..." Nadine was about to grab her hand but Justin held her back. Justin even grabbed it and put Nadine's hand on the table right under his hand.

Nadine didn't reject him, this beautiful girl in front of him was not angry as his hands continued to hold on to hers.

"We have known for a long time but we are not close, do you want to be close to me?" Justin asked in a low voice barely audible.

"Yes ... " Nadine replied with a shy smile.

Justin smiles unconsciously as he remembers the first time he and Nadine finally became close.

"Things won't be as easy as they used to be, but I won't give up."

Justin held a feeling of shortness of greeting his heart, he returned to continue eating, he did not want what Nadine had done to be in vain.

***

"I spent the night at my lover's house."

The words Nadine uttered over and over in Marcell's mind, making him feel angry.

He has destroyed his own office into a very messy, but his anger did not subside, especially since his secretary had not returned after he ordered his secretary to find Nadine's whereabouts last night.

Nadine was not at her father's house, Marcell knows that Nadine only has one house. Nadine doesn't like living in an apartment because there are many foreigners in the neighborhood so even though Nadine has money she never buys an apartment.

If Nadine was with Sammy last night they should have come together but Nadine came alone earlier and he met Sammy in the parking lot when he was about to leave when Sammy had just arrived.

Then where was Nadine last night? Who did she spend the night with? Oh, I can't imagine if another man touched Nadine.

"There must be no other man in your life except me ... Nadine I will not let you betray me," Marcell murmured, throwing his laptop at the door in a moment of rage.

Marcell was restless, he could not control the anger in his heart until he found the answer, and just when his secretary came, Marcell grabbed his secretary's shirt by the collar roughly.

"Why did it take so long for you to find out where Nadine was last night ?! WHAT YOU'RE PLAYING WITH MY ANGRY!" Marcell asked and at the end of his sentence, he shouted loudly and then pushed his secretary roughly to the floor.

With trembling hands, Marcell's secretary then tidied up the files he had brought back and the ones that had previously fallen were scattered because Marcell pushed him the farthest, then gave the file to Marcell.

"Just yesterday, Miss Nadine bought a penthouse unit in a special area. Looks like she moved there."

"Penthouse?" Marcell increasingly can't understand why Nadine was willing to leave her house just to move into an apartment.

"It was the most expensive apartment in the city and even the whole country, The area is the area with the most expensive residences and very high security, if they are not residents of the area, special access is needed to come to that place." Marcell's secretary.

Marcell immediately fell silent. "Did Nadine move on purpose because she wanted to make it difficult for me to see her?" Thought Marcell.

"Those are the files of the residents of the apartment where Miss Nadine lives now. Some of them are high-ranking officials as well as successful businessmen who are among the richest people in Asia. There is an heir to the INE Group's son also living there. "

"What did you say? Heir to the INE GROUP?"

"True, he is still an actor now but we can be sure that he will be the next leader of the INE Group. He is Justin Wang."

Marcell fell limp, Justin was in the same building as Nadine? Have they met or maybe Nadine moved away because she met Justin?

"No ... This is simply not true! I've erased Justin from Nadine's memory, how could Nadine recognize it ... No, none of that is possible."

Marcell immediately got up, he laughed to steel himself then a second later the anxiety was so great he hit the big frame that put a photo of him with Nadine so that the glass frame broke and made his knuckles injured and bleeding.

"I don't care what it takes, I have to move there. I have to be on the same floor as Nadine, do whatever it takes to get it if it doesn't work then you will pay for it with your own life." Marcell's words were accompanied by a threat that caused his secretary to be increasingly frightened and immediately came out of Marcell's room to immediately fulfill Marcell's orders before Marcell finished him off.

"No, I won't let you come back to that man. Never, Nadine. Forever you are mine."

***