Luna eats her dinner with delight while both of her parents seems more quiet than usual. For Luna, she thought it probably because both of them have an argument, little that she knows, the argument they had is about her.
Late at night, Stella still standing at the balcony of their bedroom, looking at the dark sky. They both still haven't talked about the deal that the old lady offers them to Luna. It feels like it doesn't the right time to spill it out now. They need time to think this over. But, their time is ticking.
"Stella." a large hand landed on her shoulder to which she rubs it a little before she turns her body around.
"What should we do?" She sounded so terrified and so sad.
"I think, for her better future, maybe we should accept the offer," Adam said helplessly. It was his fault, to begin with. If only he can return back time, he would do whatever he can to avoid that from happening.
In the file that has both of their names when the old lady gave them, there is a case of hit and run in another city a few years ago. Inside, all of the proof were lead to both of them. In other word, if they both refuse to accept the deal, that old lady would put them both behind the bars for the rest of their life.
The dark secret they hold until this day has happened when Luna was three years old, she had a high fever and they were in another town at that time. In rushed wants to send her to the hospital, Adam sped up the car and run the red light.
Luna was crying in Stella's arm at the backseat and while he busies looking for milk bottle at the front passenger seat, he did not watch what at the front and he hit something on the road. The road they took is deserted and dark at that time and he did not stop the car as he still speeding up his car to the hospital.
When they arrive at the emergency unit late at night and Luna was safe under the care of a doctor, Adam went back to his car. He thought that he might hit the monkey on the road or maybe wild boar or something like that, but later he found that there's a fabric like clothes stuck under his car's bumper.
He washes his car like nothing happen the next day and in the afternoon, when he goes to the hospital after that to check on her daughter and wife in the ward, he heard the news that there's a case of hit and run on the road they took yesterday night.
The guilty feeling arouses when the culprit still remains unknown, the eye witness for the case has been asked to report on the nearest police station but no one ever shows up. The case closed until now and suddenly when that old lady brought that document, he already feel uneasy.
He doesn't want to lose both of his wife and daughter. He also doesn't want to look like a murderer in front of her daughter's eyes. What else can he do? The case has been closed long ago, and if that old lady wants to reopen the case, for sure he would have a death sentence or jail for the rest of his life.
A life for a life. Or he can choose, one life for one marriage. In this situation, all the good point will go to the marriage option. However, he knew he already hurt his wife's feeling. He never told her about that night and when he told her, he could see the light in her eyes suddenly turned cloudy.
"I'm sorry, Stella. I'm truly sorry." Adam hugged her and asking for his wife forgiveness. He knew his wife probably won't forgive him about this. That night, because he wants to save his daughter's life, he accidentally took another person's life.
Not only that, he didn't even surrender himself at the police station after he knew about it. He feels like he was a bad husband and dad.
Stella inhales and exhales for a several times before she hugs him back. "It's not entirely your fault. I was in wrong too. I noticed you hit something but I didn't ask you to stop. I pretend nothing odd happen and shut my eyes and cover my ears when the news starts going wild that time. I am a bad wife."
"Stella, I can't bear to lose you and Luna. Please. This is the option that we have and she said that this marriage won't hurt her, right?" he wipes her tears and hugs her tightly.
"Mm. Let me talk to her and we should never bring up this matter to her. Promise me. We can go through this. I love you, Adam. I don't want to lose both of you too."
"I promise you."
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The next day,
"I'm home." Luna greets her family like always, but this time, she could see there's something going on that she doesn't know.
"Welcome home, babe." Stella tries to smile to her like she always did.
"Hm, what's wrong? Did something happen?" she takes off her jacket and hangs at the coat hanger before she went to the living room where both of her parents sit there with their serious face.
"Luna. Can we have a talk?" Adam start.
"Sure." She took a seat on the single chair.
Once she sits down, Adam took out a file that has Luna's name on it. "Here." He handed it down to the girl.
"What is this?" She scrunches her eyebrow and took the file. It feels more weird with the whole situation now.
"A marriage proposal." Stella answer her question.
"Huh?"
"Open it. So we can know what it contains." Stella urges her daughter to open the file.
Without any delay, Luna open the file and took out a few documents inside it. From the look, it looks like an agreement letter.
She read at the details, it is a marriage proposal with benefits. She needs to marry the youngest son of James Wayne in secret where attended between the family only.
Once she legally becomes his wife, she will be gifted with 5% of Wayne Industries share without any involvement in the company. She will live in a mansion where her husband will be staying.
Taking care of her husband need is her responsibilities, she can't file a divorce if she doesn't have a child with him. Once she has a child and files a divorce, she will lose any right to the child in the future. The child will remain in Wayne's care.
If the divorce happens in the future, she also lost the right to request any amount of money as alimony from the husband. As long she held the title as Young Mistress of Wayne household, she would get a sum of money credited into her account every month.
And lastly, they have to share the same room no matter what.
"What's this with the rules?"