Facade Love: Marrying A Perfect Husband

"So did you accept his love or not?" Harry asked with big curiosity. Without a care about the rest of Cleo's story about her female friend.

Cleo finally had to answer.

"I-didn't-receive-his-love-of course," Cleo was emphasizing her words.

Harry drew his lips slightly.

"Then after that?"

"I certainly can't accept that guy's feelings because I purely only think of him as a friend that I know well. And I couldn't possibly snatch that guy from my best friend either. Then my jealous friend didn't even believe my words and thought that I had snatched him. I've explained many times that it's not true and I have no relationship whatsoever with that man. A catastrophe happened after that."

Cleo seemed to deliberately pause. So that Harry tilted his head to the left.

"Did she threaten you like this too?" asked Harry who was quickly able to come to a conclusion regarding their problem in the first place.

Harry certainly never thought that such a simple thing could lead to a big problem since they were teenagers then and so narrow-minded...? Or was it too narrow?

Cleo continued her story.

"My friend didn't make this kind of threat. But she got me dropped out of school at that time. I was badly beaten by my uncle when he thought I had caused such a big problem in public."

Harry looked displeased when he heard this section of the story. Cleo ignored him.

"I still remember the stifling incident that happened at that time even some time ago, due to the actions of my female friend who I know has a mental disorder. I don't want the sender of the message to be as crazy as my friend who looks normal at first. Can you confirm that I will be safe?" asked Cleo anxiously and groaned because her misfortune was more likely to repeat itself.

Cleo obviously could only ask Harry for help on this matter since he was also involved.

And Harry seemed to want to know more details about Cleo's past.

He then asked her how things were going with her friend.

"Did she do something bad to you?" asked Harry anxiously and had no idea what the girl had done to make Cleo frighten so much.

"I can only tell this past until here. The point is, what she did was not good and it punished me a lot. Because after that incident, I gave up getting too close to a female friend."

If Harry had a dark past about women. Cleo of course has a dark past also about women. They have a few similarities but were quite different in their problems.

Cleo honestly didn't really want to bring up the bad past. But had to tell this a little bit to get Harry serious about following up on the subject of threats and someone's jealousy.

Cleo certainly didn't want to be harmed in that person's troubles. Didn't want to spawn enemies or add them if they already exist.

"I don't want to because of the jealousy of someone who doesn't want to see us happy. Made me go through bad things again. I can only entrust this matter to you because you are also involved in it."

Cleo asked again.

"So perhaps, this matter comes from the people around you. So that, are you sure that you can handle this?"

Harry kept trying to calm her down.

"Don't worry and don't be afraid. Although I don't know what bad things have happened to you in the past because you didn't want to tell me. I'll make sure that whatever bad thing doesn't happen. And make sure to always keep me informed of anything if that person texts you again."

Cleo then nodded in agreement. Chose to entrust this matter to Harry as he had said.

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After that incident, Harry assigned several people to guard around Cleo. Following her everywhere if she was going somewhere or coming to any place.

Harry asked his men to look after his wife for 24 hours and without rest while taking turns secretly. Because he knew that Cleo would have rejected him outright if he had said that he was going to put a heavy guard on her.

Harry was also sure about Cleo didn't like to bother by other people and would be uncomfortable if there were so many people watching her without being able to do other more serious and independent things.

Harry had also ordered someone to trace the identity of the mysterious number. But, the team he had dispatched to investigate could only say things that disappointed him.

"The number was randomly obtained by stealing a number from an unknown person. Stealing secretly or taking by force without the knowledge of the original owner. The GPS point of the number's whereabouts has now disappeared in the middle of the sea. Had deleted the entire history of the phone as well as trace history which can make it easier for us to find its location. The perpetrator this time seems quite shrewd in tricking the opponent," explained the secret team he appointed secretly.

Harry narrowed his eyes with enthusiasm.

It was very difficult for him to guess who the real terrorist was.

Not sure if Aretta had the skills that sophisticated enough to outwit his team. And then brought up an idea that made it difficult for anyone to trace her identity and whereabouts.

Harry looked at his men angrily.

"Is that all you can tell me?" asked Harry anxiously and also very annoyed.

Even though, he had paid them very dearly. But when Harry required their expertise.

The secret team he formed couldn't do anything? Even just to checking the position of the terrorist, they can't even do it? Unfortunately, why did the terrorist throw the card number deep into the sea, if the terrorist could throw it into the middle of the lake?

To show how much he hated the people he terrorized? What did they do wrong to make that person hate them so much? Until even targeting Cleo to be a target.

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