26. Aylin's plan with Arzu

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Can wakes up just after sunrise that Saturday morning after a night of barely no sleep at all. It has always been difficult for him to be indoors but these days it was getting ridiculously impossible.

His brain was focused on nothing but Sanem when he was in his room - and remembering her in there wasn't helping him at all.

He attacks one of the tree branches in the backyard, using it to do multiple pullups. Then he drops to the grass for the same amount of pushups. He had too much excess energy to work off and he couldn't go to work this wound up.

It would be a disaster. For everyone.

**

Aylin looks at her purse on the cafe table next to her as she waits for Arzu to arrive. The waitress brings her coffee and she nods. Opening her purse, she takes out a photo and smiles. There was no way her plan could fail.

Five minutes later, Arzu Tash walks through the door and looks around with her nose in the air.

Aylin smiles at her and waves a hand. Arzu gently pushes her hair back over her shoulders, and then climbs the steps down like she was in a pageant. She always did think too much about what others thought of her. Knowing this, Aylin was even more sure of her plan.

"Good morning Aylin," Arzu greets, smiling when she gets to the table. Aylin stands and they kiss the air next to each other's cheeks.

"Arzu. You look great, as always."

"Of course," Arzu scoffs and sits down. "You don't look too bad yourself," Arzu looks at Aylin's outfit stiffly.

Letting it go, Aylin asks, "What will you drink dear?"

"Nothing for me. I'm detoxing. And when you called me last night saying it was urgent, I left right away even though I'm a very busy woman so this better be as important as you made it sound." Arzu takes out her phone and starts to scroll.

"I'm just as busy. I recently opened my own company."

"I know," Arzu says boredly. "I also heard that you had a disagreement with Mr Aziz at his party." Arzu glances up. "Nasty rumors going around about some shady business on your end."

"Complete and utter nonsense my dear, I was dragged through the mud without evidence...but I came out just fine... I'm the head of my own business now, I don't need Aziz for anything." Arzu lifts her brows, still scrolling through her phone. Aylin eyes it and purses her lips. "In fact, that's why I called you."

"I thought you weren't broke and still on your feet?" Arzu blinks and then starts laughing. Aylin tries to laugh like she understands whatever Arzu found so funny. "Let me guess, you're going to say, for the sake of our past history and all, let's work together but," Arzu shrugs and shakes her head, "darling, I don't work with small companies anymore. I'm Arzu Tash."

Aylin nods, sipping her tea with a small smile. Oh really?

"It's a waste of my time and my name." Arzu places her hand under her chin and then blinks at Aylin. "But let's not talk about business, I haven't seen you in so long, tell me how are you?" Aylin grimaces when Arzu just keeps talking before she can start. "Oh I almost forgot, I have a big meeting about a shoot I'm doing in America Monday, so I'm leaving tomorrow. It's going to make me into an international name."

Aylin places her cup down as Arzu picks up her phone again. "I'm happy for you."

"I know."

"And I'm glad you brought it up, Arzu, because I did actually call you to talk about old times." She had been willing to try and talk her into working with together without blackmail but since the woman was clearly still a brat..."We used to spend a lot of time together didn't we? When we were younger?"

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