56. Giving Up

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It was already nine in the evening. And Savannah just finished tidying up his desk, before she finally will came to Duke and talked a lot about Jamie who had so much meddled into life his love that no one should have the right to participate mix in it. But now, the threat is actually being behind her and seemed ready to stab her at any moment she was wrong make decisions.

Irina, the co-worker who had gone home earlier. Make Savannah felt a little free to be able to talk to Duke. After getting up from his chair, she stepped out towards Duke's room while thinking in his heart that she must have the courage to talk things through and find solutions as well the best way out for her.

"Hey, Duke. Is your work finished?” asked Savannah while approached the whereabouts of Duke who was in his chair.

"Hmm..., some more work. What is going on?"

“Can we talk? This is very important, Duke.”

"Yes, of course. We talk at the club? I'm in the mood for a drink."

"Yes. I'll take it first."

"Five minutes, okay?"

"Okay."

After that, Savannah walked back to her room to pick up her bag, and contact Dylan first to tell the man that tonight she can't go home together and will came home a little late to his apartment.

“Hey, my work here is done? How about you?" Dylan said there when the phone call that Savannah made was he lifted.

“Hmm…, actually I still have some work here. And looks like I'll be late going home. Is it okay, Dy?"

"I can wait for you, Darling."

"No need, Dy. I can go home alone, and you can go first to rest more quickly. Or cook some food for me.”

"Like that?"

"Yes. Don't worry too much about me. I will be fine. okay?”

"Okay. Then I'll wait for you to come home."

"Okay. Until next time, Dy. I love you."

"I love you too, Darling." Reply Dylan on the other end who made Savannah smiled at that.

After ending the phone call, Savannah was direct grabbed his bag and stepped back into the Duke's room to approached the man so that both of them could quickly go to the club because Savannah who really couldn't delay the conversation any longer want to do that later. But when Savannah was about to step up headed back to Duke's room, suddenly she was confronted by that man who apparently also wanted to go to the woman's room.

"Can we leave now?"

The question that Savannah threw, was not answered by the current Duke It fell silent as the two faced each other. But unexpectedly because after that, Duke quickly pulled Savannah's body to in his arms and Duke gave a kiss on the lips. That kiss demanding and seeming rude and aggressive, took Savannah by surprise so that she could not reply or balance the kiss that man give it to her. Until the confusion that woman still feels throughout the kiss, in the end Duke ended it with a bit of a breath.

"Duke, what's wrong with you?" asked a very requesting Savannah explanation from the man.

"Marry me."

"WHAT!?" Exclaimed the woman with screams of surprise.

"Marry me, Savannah."

"Could you say it one more time."

“Savannah, marry me. Accept me as your life companion in my future. I want to be your husband. I want to be able to spend the rest of my life together with you. The woman I want and who I love. That is you, Savannah.”

“Why get married, Duke? Do you know that this is what I want talk to you? Marriage, between you and me.”

"So, you accept my proposal?"

"It's not like that, Duke."

"Then?"

“We really need to talk about it right now. And I think we are no need to go to the club because we can't delay things like this anymore we will talked about."

"Okay. We'll talk about it in my room," said Duke who made the two of them headed straight for the man's office.

"Do you know? Your daddy said something like that?” Savannah asked after the two were already sitting side by side on the chair sofa, which is in the room.

"Wedding?"

"Yes. At dinner yesterday and at the same time as you too was going to the toilet, he said his wish was directly in front of me. Can I ask, have you ever told your Daddy to express your desire to marry me?”

"Of course not. What do you mean, Savannah? Are you accusing me of already using my Daddy to get what I want?”

“He threatened me, Duke. If I don't end the relationship together with the man I love and refused to choose you to be your lover, he will ruin all my career dreams, what I've built so far. Not a few sacrifices I'm doing to build on this career I've built, Duke. I risked my whole life for this career of mine. So I can't simply ruin it.”

“So you really actually have those thoughts of me? Utilizing my Dad power. Really, Savannah?”

“Judging from your attitude that I've known so far, huh. You are a type someone like that, Duke. You are an arrogant, selfish, ambitious. It's all inside you, Duke. Which is not much different with the traits possessed by your Dad, which damn it is has great power. I'm sorry if my words can hurt your feelings. However, I don't want to ruin my career. So is with a love that I don't want to betray because I've been selfish. Maybe I wouldn't be so selfish if I wasn't being cornered and suppressed by a situation of conditions that made me not a figure a real Savannah.”

There was silence between the two of them. Savannah was calming down after expressing things that were a burden that thought, and while Duke who was thinking about all the things that he heard from the woman. Make some silence really happen moment. Until, in the end, Duke began to speak up for his response to Savannah's expression to him earlier.

“Since earlier I haven't answered any of your questions, Savannah. And now, I will answer everything so that the situation between us can be getting clearer. First of all, I never asked my Dad who have the power to ask you to accept my love with all the threats he has given to you. Which secondly, my feelings and desires for you are not playing at all, Savannah. Do you think with me being the type of man to have arrogant, selfish, ambitious as you think it is, I'm just just playing you? Do I always play with love that I have against a woman? You're wrong, Savannah. I don't play with my feelings at all. And lastly, if you think that I am not much different from the character that my Dad has. So, do I. You've managed to open my mind that has been still have pity in me for others. In that way, I will never give up to be able to get you. Even if you don't wanted it and refused it. And it seems, a threat is a new way for me to get the things I want. Savannah, I love you. And one way or another, I will get you. Nice talking to you, Savannah. And you can go home already. Good night."

The ending of the sentence that Duke said made him jump leaving Savannah in her seat. And make the women became to feel sorry for talking about something like that, because where she actually gets a situation that is getting worse after the completion of the conversation, the truth is not yet ended it. And now the problem is already getting worse this worsened, making Savannah completely resigned to the situation who was whacking her. Situation that has made her must think more using the mind in making decisions, rather than use heart.

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To be continued . . .