Time Management

After a long drive from the Romano main house to their mansion, Lorenzo and Sophia finally reached their house. Lorenzo stopped the car and turned right to look, only to see a sleeping Sophia on the seat. His lips slightly curled up into a smile.

Lorenzo parked the car and turned to see Sophia sleeping peacefully on the seat beside him. A small smile tugged at the corners of his lips as he looked at her. He took in her relaxed and peaceful expression, her hair framing her face in soft waves. It was a rare sight to see her completely at ease, and Lorenzo felt a warm feeling settle in his chest as he watched her.

Silently, he got out of the car and walked around to the passenger side. He opened the door carefully, trying not to wake her up.

Gently, he unbuckled her seatbelt and scooped her up into his arms, bridal style. She stirred a little but didn't wake up, just mumbled something incoherently and rested her head against his chest.

Fortunately, she wasn't much affected by today's incident. He thought to himself as he got up. The caretaker opened the mansion and greeted them as Lorenzo entered with a sleeping Sophia in his arms. He entered in Sophia's room and placed her on the bed carefully.

Indeed they were both living together but in separate rooms. The sole purpose of this living together idea was only for the comfort of Sophia. So that, Sophia could get accustomed to the different life, Lorenzo was leading and so that they could get to know more of each other. That excluded intimacy obviously as Lorenzo wouldn't even think of anything with her before marriage. And after marriage... he would think about it considering Sophia's side as well.

He was about to leave after covering Sophia with a blanket when she held his hand in a sleepy state, mumbling something. He got a little close so that he could hear her when she spoke,

"Thanks a lot, Loren."

That's the bare minimum. Lorenzo thought.

"I liked it when you said, I'm your wife loudly today. You were so cool." She giggled in groggy tone.

Isn't that the truth? Why would she find me claiming the truth, cool? Lorenzo couldn't help but only keep his thoughts in his head and left. Looking at his figure that was leaving, Sophia laughed.

"From tomorrow, I'll see how you don't melt at me. If you're cold, than I can obviously warm you up."

...Later, in the morning,...

Sophia squinted her eyes as sunlight kissed her face good morning. She rubbed her eyes and groaned in annoyance.

"My future husband should be kissing me good morning but instead I am getting up kissed by the sun." She sighed as she finally got up and sat on the bed. She glanced at her surroundings when her eyes landed on the figure, lying next to her. Her eyes squinted and then widened.

It was Lorenzo. They slept together last night! Although there was a boundary of pillows between them. She glanced at the bedside clock and saw it was 8 in the morning already. Realising Lorenzo is late for his office, she started shaking him.

"Lorenzo! Get up! Loren!!" But to no avail, he didn't even move.

"Loren! Hey, get up!" Her vigorous shaking worked and Lorenzo yawned and then looked at Sophia. Sophia smiled nervously and he again fell asleep. The smile dropped and soon turned into a frown and Sophia sat on the bed, with crossed arms looking at him.

Just a few mins later, the alarm rang and Sophia flinched. Lorenzo straightly woke up. She looked at him dumbfounded as he walked over to the bathroom like a robot. Soon, he came out of the bathroom, fully and properly dressed in his formal look. Sophia's mouth widened including her eyes in surprise.

"Um..you must be late for office." She said as Lorenzo looked at her. He pointed at something behind her. Sophia followed his hand and looked behind only to see a huge giant board above the bed, saying Lorenzo's Schedule.

"You have only one rule as my wife." He spoke, causing her eyes to move back to him.

"That is, to never disrupt my daily routine." Saying this, he left the room, leaving a messy Sophia on the bed, drawn to the schedule board.

How can a human maintain his life so much? He has schedule for literally every little thing from morning to night, everything time to time. Sophia thought.

"Seriously? That's why he didn't wake up when I called and just with the sound of alarm, he woke up like a machine." She said to herself. She looked and the schedule and started reading it.

"He has time schedule for everything. Sleep, shower, breakfast, reading newspaper, leaving house, everything!?"

"He just forgot to add the love making time.." she murmured with her lips pouted and rolling her eyes dramatically as she finally got up for washroom.

By the time, Sophia got ready and came downstairs for breakfast, Lorenzo had already finished eating. Sophia glanced at the clock and it was exactly 9:30. She was again surprised by his time management. Without saying anything, she sat down as the maid served her breakfast.

After she finished her breakfast, she walked to the living room and saw Lorenzo reading newspaper with his glasses on and one leg on top of another. It was his time to read newspaper though his office time at 10. Sophia didn't say anything and sat beside him.

"Where's the remote? I'm going to watch TV." She spoke.

Lorenzo pointed at the corner shelf without moving his gaze from the newspaper. Sophia smiled and turned on the TV. She started watching a movie while Lorenzo was in his own world, engrossed in the newspaper. Sophia side eyed him and wondered,

Doesn't he do anything fun in his life?

"Umm, Loren, should we watch a movie together?" She said but was replied with flat voice,

"Lower the volume."

Sophia felt dumb. She asked him to join with her but he just said to lower the volume instead? She continued to stare and watch the movie displayed on the wide screen. A scene appeared on the screen which made her feel more disappointed.

"Ugh. I don't know why in every marriage drama, the employees of the male lead misbehave with the female lead. Don't they get it that she's the female lead?!"

She felt the employees of the movie were very stupid and also felt sad to see the female lead breaking down because of them.

Lorenzo side eyed Sophia for a while from the corner of his eyes. His intense gaze travelling throughout her face, Sophia felt uneasy and her peripheral vision told her, she was being watched, no, gawked literally and she immediately shifted her gaze from the TV to Lorenzo, but Lorenzo was quick to move his eyes and folded the newspaper before keeping it down with a sigh.

"Get ready, we're leaving." he informed as he got up and left before Sophia could even say anything. She glanced at the clock and saw it was time to leave for office and smiled.

"Is he going to take me to his office today? How nice! I will get ready very special today then." She said, making her way to the room.

Lorenzo watched as Sophia hurried upstairs to get ready. He couldn't help but smirk at her childlike excitement. As she left, he stood up from the couch and began putting away the newspaper, his mind now on the work day ahead. Taking one last glance at the stairs, he let out a small sigh.

"She's like a child." he muttered to himself, as a small, amused smile tugged at his lips.

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