Love Lanterns
CHAPTER 34 ”The Bride Who Didn't Miss”

"Darling... What do you think? Are you unhappy with our marriage"

"We're married?" How could I not know what he thought in his heart.

"Nathan isn't lying?"

"Nda... Yunda..." Alisa tries to wake up Ayunda who is messing around. "Yund... Ayunda Tiara" now sounds louder because the first call did not manage to wake Ayunda up.

Alisa's efforts succeed, Ayunda has opened her eyes. "Bang Nathan's.... Bang Nathan." said Alisa repeating what Ayunda had said.

"He said he had nothing to do but called his brother" explained Alisa.

Ayunda just kept quiet, she was still digesting what was happening until she could answer Alisa's words.

"That's a different Nathan, that's Nathan in my bed" Ayunda replied trying to explain.

"I don't know why the story could go on even if I'm married to her" Ayunda massaged her head in pain.

Alisa is silent, she has been told Erick that Ayunda can be in a different world if she sleeps or is unconscious. Seeing this anger of Alisa to Kevin getting bigger, all this time Ayunda did not tell the cause of her parting with Kevin, he just said that he could not be together.

Alisa thinks that it was Ayunda who betrayed Kevin for falling in love with Nathan, but Ayunda always denied that. Erick's story about Kevin that made Ayunda finally had an accident to justify Ayunda's speech, he was the one who was hurt by this situation.

"I will try to make Ayunda completely forget you Kevin" Alisa muttered inwardly as she clenched her hands.

"Lisa why are you just staying there? let's go back to sleep! it's still midnight" Alisa follows Ayunda's invitation and lies down on her side.

"Sorry to disturb your sleep Lis"

"Hemm"

Ayunda early in the morning already in his room, he went to work with Alisa who this morning there is a meeting in his division.

"Lisa.. You took me to the office too early" upset Ayunda when they arrived at the lobby that looked lonely.

Alisa's just grinning, she hasn't prepared the materials for this morning's meeting. Yesterday after returning from the hospital Dariel invited him to dinner after work, without thinking Alisa agreed to Dariel's invitation. Until the afternoon the work was not finished but Dariel had sent a message that he was waiting in the car, Alisa finally left her job just like that after receiving a message from Dariel.

"All right, we start working" said Ayunda comforting himself and busying himself with the computer in front of him.

"Good morning Mr. Nathan, Mr. El" Ayunda said as the two stood before him.

Nathan smiled with sharp eyes staring at Ayunda. "Finally there is a smile on his face for women" Dariel said in his heart, seeing his best friend and boss smiling. I don't know how long that smile has been lost when dealing with women.

"The room" Nathan replied and got a nod by Ayunda.

Nathan walked in front of the adjoining Ayunda and Dariel until they entered the supreme leadership room of the Adhipramana Group.

"Is there anything you want to tell El?" Nathan looked towards Dariel.

"Nothing, I'm back in the room" Dariel left Ayunda and Nathan.

"Sit down" Nathan clapped and asked Ayunda to sit next to him who was leaning on the sofa.

"What's my schedule today?" nathan asked after Ayunda sat next to him.

Ayunda explained all of Nathan's agenda today, fortunately he came early so he could finish all the necessary documents.

"We can talk" now Nathan looks at Ayunda's face that looks more beautiful with a top that is almost the same color as Nathan wears.

"I'll prepare the materials for this morning's meeting sir" elak Ayunda who doesn't want to be alone with Nathan.

Ayunda stood up to leave Nathan, and the man's voice stopped his movement.

"Rara" Ayunda looked at Nathan, the call leading her to the father who was the only one who called her Rara.

"Hey... What are you doing?" ask the boy who had noticed the girl sitting on the edge of the terrace without flinching.

"I see that brother" pointed it at the marching ants.

"Ats?" the boy was astonished, there was nothing special about the ants marching down the street, but the girl did not turn away in the slightest.

"Look, they love each other and work together" the girl pointed back to the ants who were carrying pieces of cake together.

"Let's see if I give you a piece of cake but it's not eaten immediately and it's taken by a little club there" he pointed at the hole where the ants disappeared.

"Keep why?" ask the boy.

"Said ma'am guru.The ants respect each other, like to cooperate, help each other and always together do anything" explained the boy following the explanation of his teacher.

"So I see, it turns out that the real teacher, he said we humans should also be like ants, loving each other, respecting each other, working together and helping" the girl smiled happily to see what her teacher had explained a few days ago.

The boy admired the girl and sat by her side, watching the ants marching.

"Rara.. let's go home" invited the dashing man called papa by the girl.

"Pamit same om first" asked his papa and followed Rara by touching the hand of his papa friend and kissed the hand. "Rara came home" he said.

His gaze shifted to the boy who was in front of his father. "Rara came home a good sister, don't forget like an ant huh.." she waved her hand and then turned to leave the boy who returned the wave of his hand.

"How did you know I was called Rara?" ayunda's question awakened Nathan's daydream which recalled his first encounter with Ayunda.

"I tried to follow your advice to be like ants" Nathan replied as Ayunda tried to recall her past memories.

"Father.." Ayunda's words stopped, was the good brother he continued in his heart because his words were cut off Nathan.

"You haven't changed, you're worried" said Nathan, who locked his gaze in Ayunda's eyes, Nathan brought his face closer to a distance of just a few milliseconds.

Tok. tok.. knocking on the door made Ayunda move away, then stand to open the door.

The sexy girl standing in front of the entrance barged in after Ayunda opened the door and closed it again after she stood outside walking back to her desk without saying goodbye to Nathan.

"Who's that hot girl?" thought. Ayunda shook her head, why did she have to think about who the girl was. It's not that it's common for people like Nathan to be visited by a girl like that.

Throwing away her thoughts about the sexy girl, Ayunda's memory returns when Nathan calls her Rara, she seems hypnotized because it's her papa's affectionate call.

"Papa.... Rara missed you"

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