Taken by Control (Mircaualus Soulmate AU)

Movement

It had been a month since Adrien had become the official owner but the paperwork took a bit longer to get finalized. Adrien was in his office looking at the paper, a paper that at one point was everything he wanted. He laughed at his memory of wanting to be the first model CEO. He sat at his desk, for a moment reminiscing. 

 Adrien stared at the papers in front of him. He owned the company. The company he no longer wanted. It stood for everything he now hated. One paper he had the official document of his ownership of the company and another paper showed an offer he had for his cousin Felix. 

As much as he wanted to just sell the company to his cousin, he needed to have everything else in place first, but a conversation with him couldn't hurt, right? He shot his cousin an email asking for a phone meeting. Felix agreed that that would be nice. So they booked it for early next week and Adrien headed home. 

As he walked in the door Mari meant him at the door, "My parents want us to come over for dinner tonight? Do you mind?" She stood on her tiptoes to kiss him.

"See mom and dad? Never turn that one down. Can I wash up first?" 

"Only if I get to join you." She winked and raced him to the shower. 

20 minutes later they were headed out the door. "So why the change in nights? Not that I mind but family dinner is almost always Sunday night. And we've never had it on Thursday before." 

"Mom didn't say. She just asked us to come over." Mari shrugged as Adrien drove. 

The walked in the house and shared hugged and sat around the table quickly. "So mom, dad what's up?" Mari leaned in eager to know more. 

"Ya, don't keep us waiting!" Adrien was bursting with interest. 

"Always right to the point with you kids." Tom laughed. 

"Oh come on now dear just tell them the news." Sabine smiled. 

"Oh alright. Well, Sabine and I have decided to close down the bakery. And Within the year sell it and move into something smaller. Will will still over our full menu just on a per order system. Over the past year, we've gotten more wedding orders and big work events and less everyday treats. So it's just not worth the upkeep." 

"Oh wow that happened faster then I thought it would." Mari was happy for her parents but the sting of her childhood home being sold burned her a little.

"It's hard to image this street without your bakery on it." Adrien said sadly. But then he realized this was just what he needed to get the next step of his plan. He needed to talk to Tom ASAP. 

The rest of the night went well, they talked about Adrien's recent job change and how busy that made him. As they were getting ready to leave Sabine got an email, "Oh! Marinette it's from your grandmother in China. She has invited you and I to come to China for three weeks!" 

"Oh mom that would be lovely, but I can't just leave Adrien without a head designer for three weeks. Nor can you just leave dad while your closing down the company." Mari sighed.  She would have loved to see her cousins again. Her mom's brother couldn't travel easily with his five kids. Especially when two had gotten married. And had needed his help with all that went along with that.

"Sabine, I think you should go, I'm sure Adrien could help me close down the store. We already started the paperwork we could have it done before leave." 

"It's true, and she already bought the tickets and they are for... this weekend! Could we get the paper work done in time?" Sabine smiled.

"With my lawyers, you can!" Adrien smiled, "Mari you should go. This could be the last time you get to go before we start a family. It's the slow season for fashion right now, I'll be fine. Besides I've learned to handle myself. I think I could manage without my assistant for three weeks." He winked.