Meet
1536 Words
Milan, Italy
Life isn't always a choice cycle.
"Mum!!!" She sighed, dropping her bags on the table and took off her heels, throwing them away in the corner while her manager watched her calmly keeping all the traveling bags at other end of the room.
"Fine! It's good you are back in Milan. Or your father would be furious if he would find you weren't there." She looks at finding her manager gesturing for his leave hand, she nods, getting up on her bare feet and giving him a side hug while communicating with her mother over the call.
"Why would Dad be furious? Did I miss something?" She asked the manager to walk out of the door while locking the apartment door and walking back into the living room.
"Yes, actually there is something you should know girl." She could hear her mother sigh over the call making her worry a little and ask again, taking a seat on the couch while keeping the Margherita pizza box over her lap.
"What?" She opened the box and smiled a little. Her mother Lila opens her mouth, which faded her all happiness.
"You have been arranged with someone." Her mother spoke while Astraea glanced at the white-painted wall with the classic painting against it in shock. Her heart skips the few best, making her body cold as ice.
"What do you mean I have been arranged? What about my choice Mum!" She demanded in one breath, all astounding while adrenaline pumped through her body.
"Oh, Girl! I mean you have not been completely arranged. You still have a choice left with you. You can try to talk with your father, but I can't help this time." Her mother explained to her with her tranquility.
"Why?" She again inquired in astonishment, not believing it was happening to her. She heard her mother again leaving a deep sigh as she battled herself whether to tell her or not.
"Mum!!" She demanded.
"It's László Michael Rodriguez!" Astraea sat in stupefaction.
"Listen, Love! You don't have to marry him. You still have a choice. You can say No your father." Her mother still explained and tried to calm the adrenaline inside her body.
"Where is Father!" Astraea demanded again while keeping herself calm. She was not ready to lash out at her parents for arranging her without her concern. She wanted this matter to end as soon as possible.
I will never marry Danger!
"He will be coming home tomorrow afternoon from Turin," Lila said, knowing she will regret it again.
"What?" A deep shock left her mouth in words. Astraea couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"He was here all this time, and he didn't bother to meet his daughter." She asked again and Lila speaks explaining her daughter again. She knew her daughter was the opposite her. Whenever there was a situation like this she tried to calm herself and look for a way her daughter was planning to run away.
"Astraea Listen, your father was at Rodriguez. You know how dangerous it is with them. He is keeping you, safe love." She gave a futile try to calm her already shocked and angry daughter.
"And the same part pushing me in dangerous arms named László Michael Rodriguez! Great Just Great!" Astraea loses her calmness. Her mother loses her temper, ready to lash out at her daughter, but she calms herself anyhow and finally informs her the main part of the information.
"Now, listen László Michael Rodriguez will be seeing you tomorrow at breakfast. His whole day plan is scheduled with you. Do not dare to run and displeasure him. He is Emperor!" She warned and explains in the same tone and sentence not ready to hear any feedback from her daughter.
"I am not doing this, Mother. I have University and Life. I am not meeting him nor saying Yes to this awful proposal. I will not marry the Danger!" She announced and hung up the call in anger, looking up at the walls and then at her lap.
There sat the Margarita Pizza.
"You know I love and I will never abolish you. off to László Danger Problem!" She smiled, picked up the pizza Slice and slowly munched, devouring the tomato, basil, and fresh mozzarella combo flavor.
Next Morning
She slipped into a pink cold-shoulder ruffled sheath dress, looking at herself in the big mirror against the wall in her big vanity room.
This looks fine for the day! She smiled and picked up a matching pair of heels to get herself ready. The apartment was in silence when she heard the door opening itself.
Meow!!!
Her lips immediately curled up watching the cat walking, taking a seat on a small stool watching her.
"Morning Cora!" She smiled and there was a response in the form of Meow!
Astraea puts her lipstick down and turns walking towards her cat and picking her in her arms glancing at her face.
"Missed Mommy?" She and Meyer was again in the room making her laugh loud and keep her back turning herself in the mirror and putting on the liner.
"I hate leaving you to the neighbor's, but you know! I have spicy news to tell. And It is that I am running away today. Yea, I know I should, Mr. Emperor but not forgetting to mention it. I have never seen him but heard enough from a trusted source that he is a danger we should never walk into, so I am not meeting him and not even going to university where they can find and kidnap me easily. So, I have another plan for us today" She smiled facing Cora. She was happy no doubt, and she planned so no one ruined her amazing plan.
"And we are enjoying our whole day together." She kissed Cora's lips and smiled, moving away picking her bags from the shelf and looking at herself in the mirror for a final glance.
"Let's Go!" She picked Cora in her arms and walked out of her bedroom.
The streets were busy and full of people, culture, food, and enjoyment around. The sun gazed heatedly over and around the earth.
He sat calmly in his chair looking at his cells and typing over the emails. It's been two hours he had been waiting for the mysterious daughter of Brian Vance.
What about people keeping me hungry these days? He calmly looked up glancing at Hector. He scaredly nods his head walking away to the chef in the back of the house of the Rodriguez restaurant.
The city looked big yet small from the top view of the restaurant where he was sitting currently watching the miniatures passing away.
It was an awfully busy day for everyone as the week had just begun and he was sitting ideally just for one woman who made him wait for more than enough.
Hector walked in pace with chefs behind him holding the big trays of buffet and covered dishes. The table was big enough for two. They slowly started keeping the dishes down and started serving.
"Thank you!" He said and started his meal of the day calmly munching slowly. They stood watching him scaredly and he looked up, nodding his head, and everyone sighed in relief. He keeps cutting and munching the breakfast for a while and slowly looks up again at Zale and Hector. He stops for a while and rests his back looking at them.
"Get her!" He ordered, and Hector nodded along with Zale, walking away and turning back to breakfast munching slowly and sipping on his juice.
At Night
"It was a peacefully tiring day. Wasn't It Cora!" Astraea smiled, keeping Cora down. Cora immediately runs to her bed, making her laugh loudly. She throws her purse on the couch, takes off her heels and throws them in another corner of her room. She was stepping over her barefoot when her eyes fell on her unpacked luggage with scattered clothes on it.
'I will do it tomorrow!' She thought about unzipping her dress and taking it off and throwing it somewhere in the bedroom standing in her undies.
"I am so tired and sleepy," she talks to herself, throwing herself on the bed and grabbing her abandoned phone on the bed, and switching it on. As the display brightened, thousands of messages and calls beeped over, and she signed it off again, throwing it somewhere on the bed.
"Will deal with it later!" She closed her eyes, taking a final stare at the ceiling.
The night was glimmering in the darkness of shining stars in oddly silent, peaceful surroundings, yet spine-chilling.
"Emperor, we are here!" The chauffeur pulled the black, expensive shiny Bugatti La Voiture in front of the Via Cappuccini in Lombardy. László gently nods while looking outside.
The security rushed all around running in their shoes, taking their position when his car door was open. He steps out, closes his suit and puts on his shades, stepping inside. The silence faded under the footsteps. People turned and watched him while he kept walking as Hector led his way.
They stepped inside together in the elevator by pressing the floor button.
- Writer
