
"You're done with it?" Tanya Ima saw Karina had cleared her desk.
"Yes mbak, I have a need, so permission to go home quickly. I told the boss." Karina.
"Oh.."
"I was first, mbak."
"Yes, be careful."
Karina stepped towards the elevator to immediately leave the office. Actually he lied permission to go home quickly, he was also not the actual permission because the office hours at four in the afternoon if there is no overtime. But Karina's non-urgent work was done. Karina needed a moment of calmness to recover her heart for some reason.
He didn't even have lunch because he didn't taste it. Her mood deteriorated thinking of her husband's suddenly cold attitude as to his employees alone as before. Karina is a little sensitive about it because of the rejection reactions she often experienced since childhood because of her unclear origins as an orphanage child.
"Until when are you gonna avoid it?" Ask Aldi after lunch.
"I didn't avoid it." Rey replied indifferently turning her gaze in any evasive direction about it.
"Three days you avoided him, even you said you didn't say anything like before. Even impressed to ignore it." Aldi's heart is Rey's.
"Don't talk shit!" Rey protested because she wasn't entirely like that. She had indeed avoided Karina these three days, she could not afford to stare at her for long afraid she would be reckless.
"I'm friends with you not for a moment Rey, even though I don't have a wife yet. I know how women feel. Women ask for attention and again you suddenly ignore and avoid it."
"I told you I'm not like that!" Rey protested sternly looking at Aldi sharply.
"But your attitude is doing just that!" The protest back Aldi.
"You think too much, we're fine. Well.. even though it's just like playing house." Rey complains unconsciously.
"Huff.. It's up to you, the important thing is I've reminded you, don't be sorry." Aldi also came out of Rey's workspace after the discussion of the meeting was completed.
He saw Karina and Ima were already there that meant they had finished their lunch. Aldi glanced briefly at Karina who was busy staring at her laptop making Aldi exhale long. Ima just frowned not understanding and Aldi went to his own study.
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Karina reached her destination. He also walked into the building that had begun to be fragile eaten that age. Karina breathed a rough feeling of guilt for putting her sisters inside a building that could have collapsed at any time.
"I'm sorry, I have a lot of work to do." The voice of a person who was about to come out from inside the parlour building in his formal suit lowered politely on the middle-aged man and the mother of the parlour.
"Thank you for visiting us. May the rejeknya be waged." Said Mr. Hartono as the husband of the orphanage mother.
"Karin?" Call Miss the parlour saw Karina just standing under the tree looking at the body of the man she knew. The young man turned his head towards the mother of the parlour to say Karina's name.
"How are you, ma'am?" Sapa Karina smiled seeing the mother of the parlour so enthusiastically greeting her. Karina also smiled and felt sorry for her and her husband. His eyes unintentionally crossed with the eyes of the young man who had been staring at him intensely since earlier.
"Oh yeah, Bryan's son just visited." Tell Mira to smile, pointing at Bryan who just silently looked at Karina clingy. Karina did not dare to look at Bryan's face, she was busy turning her eyes while carrying her luggage for her sisters.
"Oh... How are you?" Karina asked pleasantries without looking at Bryan face.
"Good." Bryan replied still calmly looking at Karina's face. Sensitive Ms. Mira immediately invited Karina in.
"Oh, he's busy. He'll come get me." Karina replied that she felt uncomfortable because Bryan was there.
"Oh so. Come inside, your sisters will be pleased with your arrival." Invite Mira to go inside because the atmosphere starts to arkward. Bryan, who was planning to go home, decided to lower his intention and follow Karina in.
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"You happy?" Bryan asked as the two sat together in the gazebo beside the building.
At first Karina was playing with her sisters, because it was time to take a bath they also say goodbye one by one. Karina froze because she was alone with Bryan. His heart beat fast because after all Bryan was still the only man who ruled his heart.
"That's how." An ambiguous Karina answered smilingly looking forward unwilling to turn her head as Bryan's eyes glared sharply at her sitting by his side.
"Thank God." Replied Bryan exhaling a long breath of pain in his chest. Even though she knew that Karina was lying.
"You love her?" Bryan again began to interrogate.
"Huffs... Bry... Can we forget our past?"
Deg
Bryan's heart was not okay to hear the words of Karina who was now staring at him even though she felt reluctant because she did not want her heart to waver. She had already promised to learn to love her now angry husband.
"You think it's that easy?" Bryan asked, looking at the face of the woman he loved.
"Maybe it wasn't easy at first but if you try it. maybe..."
"Is it because he's rich? Is it because he's better than me? What did you see him so that he wasn't there for me and made you choose him? You didn't seduce her, did you?"
Plaques
Karina's hand-fingered reflex floated on Bryan's cheek with all her might. Bryan's last words were so audible that he was so low. Although she was poor who came from an orphanage, she still had the pride to seduce a rich man. In the past he did not know who Bryan's parents were, even though he was poor or rich, Karina did not care because the poor rich were determined by them later when married.
If only Karina knew who Bryan's parents were, she would probably have refused to have a relationship with Bryan from the beginning. Or actually he who is stupid think Bryan is a plain young man not from the upper middle class. He should have known Bryan's clothes weren't an indiscriminate brand, they were all branded. In the past because he loved her so much and sincerely he who always came to the orphanage to give a little fortune to his sisters made moved and accepted his love.
"I have to go home."
Grep
"Say Karin! Is it because he is richer? You want treasure? I can give you more if it turns out it could get you married to me. I don't care about my mother's blessing, I'll fight for you first." Said Bryan blocking Karina's wrist who turned back to look at his hand and turned to look at Bryan sharply because the smudge of his hand hurt him, Karina's grimacing face.
"Take off Bry!" Lirih Karina while rebelling released her handcuff while shaking her head begging to be released.
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