Lies
Ways to Protect You

Raya doesn't know about it. The woman does not remember the injuries she received 12 years ago and how Karan was able to avenge them. Somehow, after meeting again now, Raya just easily forgot about it. Karan does not matter if Raya forgets the wounds that always adorn her body. But the most painful thing for Karan is Raya forgetting about herself. Raya never remembers how Karan feels about her, and vice versa. Karan's existence in the life Kingdom was as if there was nothing at all.

Let it. For a while Karan will remain patient with his wife. He did not want to act rashly at all. Their past, and this anger will keep Karan alone. The most important thing for Karan is to make Raya remember herself again. Any way it will take Karan so that Raya can reminisce about their good times in High School. So that the wounds and suffering were not only held by Karan alone. In order for Karan's hatred towards the woman to decrease. So that everyone can be happy, even though Karan himself does not know what happiness is.

With a steady step Karan approached Raya who was sitting on the floor of the plane. It had been more than ten minutes the woman was stunned there. Karan doesn't want to see her again. “Stand, sit anywhere as long as not on the floor,” he said. That floor, even though it was the floor of the plane, was still cold. Their air conditioners are set in minimal temperature because Karan likes the cold. The problem was, the clothes the Kingdom wore were not so thick that the woman had to find a place to warm her body.

Raya looked at Karan with nanar. He could never understand Karan's path of thought. To be seen from wherever Karan's attitude is really strange. Just a few minutes ago the man was like a ruthless monster who wanted to pounce on anyone. His face was so fierce and anger was on his face. But now, just a little over ten minutes away, Karan had already changed his facial water like a husband who was so considerate of his wife. What kind of side of Karan should Raya really trust? What is the real personality of this man?

“Why are you always so stubborn, Raya? Can't you listen to me just once?” karan said as soon as he saw the annoyed look that Raya threw at him.

“Listening you? Just once? Karan, I always listen to you. I obey your every word without complaining, including all your crazy commands. Is that not enough for you?” He answered with fury. Just now his emotions had subsided, but as soon as he saw Karan standing nearby within a meter while looking at him with such loving gaze, the anger of Kingdom again overflowed. She is not an actress and they are not playing a soap opera. Karan can't keep playing with her with such a drastic change of emotions.

“Then do what I said. Don't sit on the floor.”

“Why? Now you're acting like you care about me a lot when all this time you've treated me a lot worse than a prisoner.”

A rough gust came out of Karan's mouth. The man caught his breath first before he crouched down in front of his wife. “From then until now, for a second I never cared about you, Raya. I care so much. That's why I acted decisively to you because it's my way of protecting you.”

Raya laughed out loud. He never heard that protecting someone was a way of putting them under house arrest. Confining him, limiting him from the outside world even regulates every association. Compared to protection, Raya would rather call it torture. “One-time ridiculous. You didn't protect me, but tortured me, Karan.”

“Oh yes? So, what do you call protection, hm? What about rallying your fans to hate me, so?”

“You don't understand ‘kan? So do I, Raya. How can you understand if you're in my position? I've got information that your best friend, that dick model doesn't just watch over my wife and call her when I'm not around. He also sent out my wife's fans, pumping them into hate and moving them to the airport. Just so you know Raya, my company publicist is not that big until he managed to bring your fans to confront us at the airport. That's not what I did.”

That statement really surprised Raya. Karan, no matter how much he hated Reagan, could not possibly accuse Reagan of doing something without proof. Just like the way Karan got information about Reagan watching and calling him, the man must have also gotten evidence of Reagan deploying those fans. “Why did he do that?” raya is confused. It felt like he had no serious problems with Reagan to make the man want to take revenge on him. All right, Karan might have. Did Reagan know that Karan dropped his career a few weeks ago? Is that what made Reagan retaliate like this?

“You don't understand ‘kan? So do I, Raya. I've been trying to figure out why it made my head hurt. But one thing I realized. She likes you. The bastard dared to put his heart on my wife,” furious Karan annoyed.

“It's impossible. We were just friends all this time.” That's what Raya believed all along, as long as she knew Reagan.

“Fuck with friends, Kingdom! In this world there is no friendship between a sincere man and woman without involving feelings. It's up to you to believe it or not, but I can prove that what I'm saying is not nonsense.”

The state of Raya has started to soften now. His angry feelings slowly decreased, perhaps replaced with his chaotic mind thinking about the reason behind Reagan's actions. Raya really considers Reagan as her coworker and best friend in her agency first. It was unexpected that Reagan would attack him like this.

In the middle of his thought, suddenly Raya shouted, “Wah, what are you doing, Karan? Lower me!” His body floated in the air as Karan raised it abruptly.

“Because you won't listen to my words, then I have no choice but to force you, Raya. Like it or not, this is how I protect you.” Karan just wants to realize that he won't be able to hurt Raya. His attitude is rude, his personality is sometimes fickle and erratic. But since long ago, Karan would not be able to see Raya get hurt. That is why he can do anything to protect the Kingdom, including what he did 12 years ago. All for the first love.

Karan lowered Raya on the bed slowly, then wrapped his wife's body because he felt how cold her skin was when it accidentally came into contact with her skin. “I may not be like any other man out there, Raya. But all you have to know is that I'm the only man willing to do anything for you, even though I have to give up my own life. And it can never be done by that jerk, or any of the men around you,” pressed Karan while staring intently at his wife.