Yes, my future wife is looking at me like a stranger; you should have seen her face. People meet people everyday but this was different.
Erica: "You are my what?"
Noah: "Solution, it was not my plan to eavesdrop on your conversation, as I don't even know you before and didn't know you will be here but I did."
Erica's gaze sharpening into a cold, defensive glare. "Hmmm what did you hear?"
Noah: "Go home. Apologize. Play the daughter she wants you to be. Start a Business, start a family, build something then we can talk to her about being lenient." I repeated with confidence. "I can help you with both of them."
Erica laughed a bit before answering, "If I need marriage I have other options."
Noah: "I believe you do but hear my proposal before you go your options." Said quickly before she gets up to move "I am Noah and I am an inventor, my latest invention will change the world, every camera on the planet is about to change. Let me show you" I take out my phone with Optic-Core attached to it and point it towards her and ask "May I" she nods and I snap a picture of her. "Please unlock your phone" she unlocks it and I use it to snap her. The partition was surrounded with curtains and thus less light but the difference was still clear.
I hand her both phones and she can see the clear difference even though her phone is more expensive and should have a higher mega pixel than mine. Erica stares for a second and with that I got my response, Optic-core is really a game changer.
She looks up to me and just as she is about to say something I give her the numbers. Noah: "Sell one million units of that with a profit of fifty dollars on each and you make Fifty Million dollars." A marketing technique I learnt online. Erica was still amazed at the picture as it showed more of her but now her eyes were wide open.
"I don't just want to make one million units I want to make enough for every device on the planet, I don't want to compete I want to partner with every device maker in the world, I want to start and claim the market the next day, I want everyone who thinks of competition to rather join me, In no way do I want to start small and that is where your money comes in."
"My proposal, a marriage and a business, when we get married you get your inheritance, you invest a good sum in my business, I make back your money when you investment has been paid in full we end the marriage with your inheritance intact and my business running at full speed. WIN, WIN."
Erica finally breathes out. Now she is looking at me differently and I am shocked at my confidence, I am still wondering where it came from obviously its Thrope's rejection has something to do with it but now I feel very good.
Erica was still thinking and it seems like she still had doubts, right then I reached out and held her hand, she shakes off and I reach again and look at her.
"I too do not know what my mother's will is but I don't want to wait and see, who knows how long before they leave this world. That is why I need to do this now, as soon as possible."
With that even Erica realizes herself that she is not sure of the future and need to do something. She composes before talking back to me.
Erica: "My mother is no fool, she will want to see proof that this is real."
Noah: "What do we have to do to make it real for her to see?"
Erica pauses, she doesn't say a word but her face says it all, she has so much to say but doesn't want to say it all now.
Noah: "Ok. Give me your phone, I will add my number and call to get yours, you think about what I said and if you get back to me, I will know you are interested and we can build something together and if I don't hear from you it's fine. I will send you the picture so that you can see what you are investing in." I sent the picture to her, smiled at her in a warm way and said "You look much better in person than your pictures online". She smiled back and I opened the curtains and walked out.
In there she must have been thinking but as I walked all the way to the exit and turned around I saw her looking at me then suddenly close the curtains back. Oh yes, she is interested.
I went all the way back to the Lab, and sat down thinking. "That was a negotiation and I killed it, does it mean rejection brings out the best in me. Hmmmmm" one thing was for sure I need a huge investment for Optic-Core.
Is she interested, yes I think so.
Will she call, yes I think so.
What if she doesn't call, I will give her a while then call her. So let's just be patient.
I go back online and research some more about her.
Damn, a lot more provocative pictures, she is not what I would call a wife; well at least the marriage is not forever so focus on that.
But wait I have to show her to my mother right?