After a long debate, Jack finally relented. He let Anne do a maternity photo using the concept of an ancient Greek goddess who only wore a thin cloth that covered her body. Jack chose to let Anne do the photo shoot as she wished rather than having to see her take the second option, namely a maternity photo without clothes that would make her whole body exposed to everyone, that was why Jack chose the first option.
During the photo shoot, Jack seemed to be holding back his emotions. There was no smile at all on his face which made everyone in the room feel depressed, especially the photographer, who was the only man in the room apart from Jack. The cold aura from Jack's body completely enveloped him while he was directing Anne in various poses.
"Two more poses then we will finish, Madam..."
"What!!! Why are there still two more poses? Haven't you been directing a lot of force on my wife?!"Jack immediately cut off the photographer's words with a rising voice that made the photographer surprised. Fortunately, the camera in his hand did not fall.
"Jack, come on..."
"No babe, you've been posing too many times. You've done more than twenty poses, so that's enough. I'm sure you must be tired by now too, right?"
Anne did not answer Jack's question. She took a breath to get rid of all the annoyance that was in her chest at this time. Jack really ruined the event she had made. Anne slowly got off the chair assisted by a maid. She then approached the photographer who was looking at the photos on his laptop. All of Anne's annoyance disappeared when she saw the photographer's extraordinary photos. Anne absolutely loved all the photos.
"I'll take them all," said Anne quietly to the photographer. "But for those who are holding their stomachs with their eyes closed, I want you to print it big. I want to display it in the room."
"No, I don't agree that ..."
Jack couldn't finish his sentence because Anne had already raised her hand in front of his face, forbidding him to speak.
"What's wrong? Can I not print it?" asked Anne curtly.
"Why would a photo like this be printed? Aren't we going to print a photo of the three of us with Christian?"
Anne immediately crossed her arms across her chest. "Yeah, we'll print that one and these photos of course. Besides, I'm enlarging one of these photos for me to keep in my room,"
"If we print this photo of you, then those who work in photo printing will see your beautiful body, babe. I'm afraid one of them will keep one of them and make it the object of his crazy fantasy. Do you know that there are many sick people like to fantasize with weird photos like pictures of pregnant women, photos of small children and many others? I don't want that and unwilling if you become one of the victims, so it's better if we don't print this one. We'd better save it and if for example you want to see it then we can see it from the file without having to print it, enlarge it, and display it like that, dear, I really don't want to share the beauty of your body with others," said Jack at length with a hoarse voice.
Anne moistened her lower lip with her tongue, she really couldn't understand Jack who would think that far, but on the other hand Anne was also happy because Jack really cared about her. After taking a deep breath, Anne finally relented and agreed to Jack's proposal.
Since the photo session was over, Anne then headed to the dressing room to put her clothes back on. She was a little disappointed that her beautiful photos wearing Greek goddess costumes were not printed. Helped by two maids to change clothes, Anne finally rejoined Jack and the photographer who looked very confused.
"Just write how much everything, I'll replace it with the highest series," said Jack quietly without guilt.
"But sir, all these tools..."
"I will replace everything, from the camera, laptop, lighting cables and everything in this room." Jack interrupted the photographer's words again while looking at the photos of the three of them from the camera he had just taken from the photographer.
"It's not a question of money, sir. But all these tools have historical value which is very important to me because all these tools accompany me to work from scratch," said the photographer again. He didn't want Jack to take his equipments.
Jack turned and glared at the photographer. "You dare to go against my orders?"
"No sir, that's not it...I just..."
"What's this?"Anne, who had just arrived, suddenly interrupted the conversation of the two men.
Seeing Anne came, photographer immediately ran to her and told her everything that happened. The photographer's voice was hoarse when he spoke to Anne because he was holding back his tears. Even though he was a professional photographer, being under pressure by Jackson Knight Clarke made him unable to do anything. What's more, he was currently in the big house of the number one businessman who had dozens of big bodyguards who were ready to carry out any orders given by his master.
Anne massaged her forehead which hurt to hear the photographer speak. She then turned her gaze to her husband who looked still engrossed in their photos one by one from the camera he was holding.
"Daddy..."
Jack immediately turned his head when he heard Anne's call. He then handed the camera he was holding to Anne. "Oh you've changed, take a look at this. Christian looks absolutely amazing in this photo. He's going to be the most handsome man ever when he grows up. My proud son is Christian Clarke."
Anne smiled when she saw the photo Jack was referring to. "Yeah, he's really amazing. He'll be a good big brother to the princess later on."
"Of course, the princess will have two special bodyguards. Christian and I, we won't let other men hurt or approach the princess without my permission," said Jack excitedly, his eyes blazing as he spoke as if his favorite princess was in their midst right now.
"You're going to do that later when the princess is growing up?"
"Yes, of course. Princess is mine, nobody can touch her without my permission!" answered Jack firmly.
Anne chuckled. "Okay, okay... you can do that, you can do whatever you want when the princess is an adult. But now, return the photographer's camera, the camera is very valuable to him, Jack. Just like you, who really love the princess, for the photographer, his camera is like a child to him."
"Is that true?"
"Of course, just like policemen and soldiers, their first wife is their weapon and then their partner. The same goes for photographers, they've worked for years with their beloved camera which has brought them countless awards, money, memories and beautiful moments. So you can't just take a memory of someone like that, Daddy. Trust me if the princess knew she wouldn't like it, you don't want to disappoint the princess, right?"
Jack's whole body stiffened, his eyes were perfectly rounded. Without a word, Jack immediately approached the photographer and immediately returned the camera he had been holding.
"This is yours, I'm returning it, sorry I had intended to take it earlier," said Jack firmly with authority.
The photographer looked confused at the drastic change in Jack's attitude, while Anne just smiled in amusement at Jack's attitude.
Well, it looked like Jack wanted to be the perfect first love for his daughter later.
To be continued
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