rejection

Two years have passed...

Amanda sat in an outdoor restaurant on the upper floor, accompanied by Leo sitting across from her. The beautiful girl devoured her taco hungrily as if she were starved, perhaps because she had just come home from work, still wearing her black and white uniform with some of her hair clipped back.

"I don't want you to work anymore," Leo said.

"Why?"

"Because I will always provide for you, your sister, and the twins... Everything."

Amanda smiled faintly, looking at Leo sitting across from her, looking so neat and formal in his grey suit, his hair impeccably combed.

"I know you've been successful with your textile business, but I won't let you be the backbone of my family," she said.

"Your family is my family too," Leo replied.

"I know... We've been like family all this time, but I won't let you keep working so hard for us. I can't stay idle... I like working."

"But I can't bear to see you exhausted like this."

"Don't worry... Next year, I'll work as a lawyer. Ri