The Proposal Part 1

Ares just got home from their mansion in Batangas to see her daughter's doing when there is a young man waiting outside the house on their big lawn. It was already seven in the evening but he had recognized the young man.

"Mr. James." The young man nods.

"You're here...." He looked around to see if he was with someone or a bodyguard.

"I just got here and I am here for..." he was explaining but Ares had raised his hand in front of the young man to stop him from whatever he will say.

"Let's talk in my office." He said strictly as he gestured to him inside the house. The young man followed him inside the mansion. The lights are dimmed and only the lanterns are giving a little light, but it still showed how passionate they are about French-style houses. "Let there be light," Ares said and the lights in the living room turned on through voice recognition.

They looked at the young lady who was lying on the sofa with an open book over her face while on the carpet is an Irish wolfhound dog lying. The dog's head lifted in their direction.

"That is Prince and my youngest daughter."

His heart skips a beat when Ares removed the book from his daughter's face. It was love at first sight when the first time he saw her and now he was struck by that love at first sight again. He still wants to watch the girl asleep but Ares told him to follow him in his office. The young man followed him as his neck twisted to gaze at the Sleeping Beauty on the sofa.

Ares sat on his swivel chair in front of the big desk and signed him to sit on the comfortable armchair in front of him. He sat down in a formal way.

"Is this about the Proposal?" Ares asked.

"Yes sir. I would like to settle a formal co~~"

Ares raised his hand a second time to stop him from whatever he is going to say.

"Before that, there are things you should know about my youngest daughter. But I want you to ascertain things you want from my daughter and I have to consult my wife about this."

"Yes Sir." He nodded.

Prince woke his master who was still sleeping on the sofa. Prince is the only one who can wake her up. She has had a hard time waking up since she was just a baby. He bit the blanket and he pulled it off. She moaned when Prince leaned his front feet on the sofa and started licking her cheek. He barks two times and she opens her eyes.

"Good morning lazy head." His dad greeted him. She scratched her eyes and pulled the blanket from the floor covering her face. "Sorry if I came back without your mother. They had a conference last night."

"Okay..." She murmurs and moans closing her eyes again.

"Get up now, please. I have something for you."

"Yeah..." She moans and yawns still not getting up.

"Vitoria." He said in a little husky voice.

She got up and scratched her eyes and faced his father.

"Just so you know dad, I'm so sick in here where I had finished the series of Sherlock Holmes all day and I am sick of being bored staying here."

"Okay. Just be ready for our breakfast so we can talk."

In the dining room, her face is on the glass table while her father is watching the morning news. She is not eating her breakfast and her dog is down her side eating the dog food on his bowl.

"Vitoria please sit up straight. We are in front of the food."

She did sit up but her brows are furrows and her lips are pouting.

"Dad is there a chance that I can get to DIA?" she asked with a little sad sound.

"Honey you are unwell. There's a possibility that you will fall asleep everywhere or in the middle of the mission. You might jeopardize yourself."

"But dad..." She said childishly.

"Your Kuya is still working on the Nurse Body Scanner and we are still working on your sleeping syndrome and narcolepsy."

"Okay." She pouted and played on her food. "But I can have my own adventure?" A glimpse of a smile draws on her lips.

"As long as you got someone with you. Simoun's sons are your Ate and Kuya's own right hand now and I am still looking for someone whom you can trust."

Simoun was Ares' bodyguard and butler when he was young and now Simoun is his personal lawyer and everything. And his two sons are Victoria and Alex's personal lawyer and bodyguard.

"So you need to hire one for me?" She asked. He nodded and then shrugged. "What's that even mean? You keep things complicated." She snorted.

"Someone had volunteered."

"Oh-kay." She ate her pancake and drank her orange juice. "I'll run to the book store today."

"I'll go with you."

"Okay, no problem."

"Don't forget to drink your vitamins." She groans. She wasn't that really sick.

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Ares accompanied her to the bookstore and he went to the hardware to buy something for Alex's invention. When she bought her books she put them all in her backpack and walked around to look for another bookstore. But a black van from Lawrence's and her father's design which is an anti-gravity car stopped in front of her. There are strange and armed men who went out of the car holding electric guns. She stepped back. The big men grabbed her arm but she elbowed their nose and their crotch kicking their asses.

When she had resisted herself from them they pointed the electric gun at her. Before they had fired someone had kicked the gun and he dropped the gun. He was good at shooting them with their own guns and defending himself with martial arts. She studied his moves. She nods bouncing her head while pouting.

He's quite good. She thought.

Their eyes met and he got those wide hazel eyes. His nose is pointed and perfect. The shape of his face is like a diamond and his chin is broken. She raised her eyebrow to him folding her arms. The young man grabbed her hand and they ran.

"Hey!" She tried to resist but he just held her hand tight and they ran. She watched him while they were running and those armed men were chasing them. The sports car in anti-gravity is waiting for them.

The car opened without any command from the owner and he pushed her forcing her to get in. She was about to hop out of the car but the seat belt wrapped around her. When the young man had got inside, he stopped on the gas and drove it fast. She raises her eyebrow again.

"I can say that this is a kidnapping." She scolded him.