My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

"Isn't that your employee's job?"

I placed a grape into my mouth and chewed it as I said this..

"You're such a workaholic. You do everything by yourself, twenty-four hours a day isn't enough for you. As Freya said, money makes money. There is no end to earning money. With our current assets, we won' have to worry about food and clothing, we can simply rely on our dividends."

"Don't forget, you said you'd stay by my side for the rest of our lives. You told me you'd take care of me and protect me. If this continues, you'll be gone long before me."

That would be much too cruel.

I suddenly remembered a summer from my childhood. My grandmother would hold me in her arms in the garden every night. She would tell the same story about Mr. Edward and about a woman who was their neighbor over and over again.

that she was

their families. But Mr. Edward's death gave everyone a wake-up call. We live in a very big world. Even if men are more capable than women, women still play an essential role in a family. This was why Madam Petty's death brought the collapse of their family.

didn't understand what this meant. All I knew was that people would leave when they've reached old age, some just left

Marriage was what tied them together as

had changed a

l.ne

him from being stubborn. Even if I told him about it directly, he. would find an excuse to justify¶t. I could only use roundabout ways to

wanted him to be with me

much calmer than the first half of my life, and that it might pass in the blink of an eye,, every time Hendrix held back from me, I'd end up thinking that I'd have

thought of this, I

were, they would still be