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16

"Would you have some wine, miss?"

"Nope. I was leaving."

I stand up, ready to go and not let myself be humiliated by this pair of assholes. What's even worse is that, when I glance sideways, my boyfriend asks Leonardo if he should go or is Ferrari going, to which the tycoon pushes him to get up from his chair. Assshhh!

"Iggi!"

"No, Joshua!

"But...!"

He stands in front of me as I try to get closer to the door. To tell the truth, I don't totally dislike him trying to play something for me that serves to protect my dignity. I'm furious and indignant.

I stare at him like I have one last chance, knowing that all around us we may be making a scene.

"It was just a joke," he apologizes.

"Joke? You just got a check from another guy in exchange for giving me up like I was your property. What the hell is in your head?"

He picks up the paper and shakes it.

"This! Ha! It's false!"

"Oh yeah? Then tear it."

"What?"

"Tear it."

"Er... Ahem... Iggi, we should talk about it."

"You see? You're an Idiot. Don't you realize what he is doing to us?" I say these words obtaining a curious effect of listening to myself, realizing that it is really me who does not realize what is happening, since I already know Leonardo.

It's what he wants.

I look for him in the place in question, sensing that he is watching us carefully while we fight.

We are giving him exactly what he intends to achieve, that my boyfriend and I fight as we have since the first PlayStation gift."

"Iggi," Joshua insists. "If you want... I can give this back and we can go home. And you know, maybe you're right, I'm a fool.

"I just thought better of it and maybe you should accept it."

"What did you say?"

"Because you obviously can't throw that money away."

"I-it's too much."

"Yes, that's why I said it."

"But I don't want you to go with another man tonight, Iggi. I don't want you to be with someone else."

"You're going to take that money and we'll see how it goes, okay?"

He looks like a scared child as he holds in his hand the blessed check with the money to be withdrawn in cash.

"Do you trust me?" I ask, looking into his eyes.

He appears to be shivering.

I don't like that this has to be in a way that makes it hard for me to believe even my own words.

"Yes love. I trust you," he finally says.

"Then let's go back to that table and let me handle it."

He nods, I rest a kiss on his lips and we go back. I can see that Leonardo is glaring at us as we get closer, knowing that it must not have been to his liking to have seen this complicated situation of flirting with my own boyfriend.

"We agree," I finally tell him.

He straightens up in the chair. What were you planning while you were alone, you crazy manipulator?

"Oh yeah? Do we have an agreement?" he asks, hiding a small smile that disgusts me.

"And it is. In fact, that money will be deposited in cash, but you have no right to object to anything later. The only rule is that I go with you when I leave."

Leonardo appears to look at Joshua, who shrugs.

"If that's what you want."

"She wants it." Joshua blames me."

"Fine," Leonard agrees. "Then the girl leaves with me. Do we toast?"

'The girl' as if it were a thing.

You'll pay me.

I'll make you regret auctioning off this girl tonight.