
"There's Sean in front of the gate, he wants to talk to me" whispered Gloria making Owen frown.
"What's? What's for?"
"I don't know, but I'm sure he won't hurt me."
Owen clucked, not to mention his curiosity about what had happened between Sean and Gloria while on the island. Now the man came to talk to his wife. What the hell is it? Owen had heard that Sean wanted Gloria, but he thought it was just Sean's joke to shoot him.
"Can I see him?" gloria asked who saw Owen was silent.
"Is there a problem?" Apparently Jade chimed in because she saw the strange giraffe Owen and Gloria in her eyes.
"Sean is in front of the gate" said Owen. "He wants to talk to Gloria. What say?" tanyanya looked at Jade.
Jade shrugged her shoulders as she held her two hands to the side in another sense unable to respond to this.
"Gloria, honey... You know what happened this afternoon, don't you?" Owen reminds his wife of the shooting of Richard by Sean.
Gloria nodded.
"I won't let you meet him." Owen made a decision.
"Why?"
"I'm not sure about him. He must have had other intentions."
"He won't hurt me, Owen. I just want to know what he wants after this is all over."
Owen breathed a rough breath. "Why can you be so sure that he won't hurt you?"
"Because ... because...." Gloria hesitates to continue the sentence.
"Here you go, ask the guards in front to throw him out! We haven't even had time to let go of the longing.... You've been willing to meet another man, have you?"
Jade gave a smile, while Gloria seemed misbehaved with her husband's words.
"All right, I'm not going to see him. Finish your business now, after which we will let go of the longing," murmured Gloria with flushed cheeks, while Owen looked at her with a meaningful smile.
A minute later, the woman inched away leaving Owen and Jade in front of the study.
"Hhhhh!" Owen snorted softly. "Actually, what would Sean want with my wife!" grunts while shuffling his own hair.
Jade patted Owen on the shoulder. "I think Gloria was right, Sean couldn't have hurt. If he wanted to hurt Gloria, he would have done that a long time ago" he said.
"But still we don't know Sean's true motives. Sometimes it reminds me of Uncle Mark. They're hard to guess and fickle" Owen said.
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The day went on after one by one things began to be resolved, ranging from the problem of taking care of Richard's body, to those who had become his followers. Old house problems and all the evidence that can't leave a mark.
Owen entered the room Gloria had occupied during her stay at the Jade Mansion. He took a quick glance at Gloria who was arranging clothes into a suitcase because tomorrow they decided to return to their own residence.
"Is all his business done?" gloria asked from her position near the closet.
"Hmmm" said Owen slowly.
"Richard?"
"Today he was cremated by my men!"
Gloria got up from her seat, she walked over to Owen, wanting to help the man open his shoes. Gloria squatted down in front of her husband sitting on a sofa in the room.
"No, let me.." refused Owen.
Gloria did not heed, it felt like she had not devoted herself to her husband for a long time. He missed those moments.
"You know, I think a reunion between us would be a big surprise."
Gloria complained to Owen because of her husband's words.
"You mean?"
"I guess I'll surprise you. You'd be surprised to see me alive" Owen said.
"You're not really surprised and you're just plain ordinary!"
Somehow Gloria caught a disappointed tone in her husband's voice.
"You know, I was really surprised, but I thought Nico was you! So, don't make me angry because you've been lying to me all this time."
"really? But I didn't see the shock." said Owen lowered his gaze at Gloria who was still faithfully crouching in front of him. Owen held both sides of his wife's shoulders, then glanced at Gloria's irises with a full glance as if looking for something in her eyes.
"Didn't you miss me?" ask Owen again.
Gloria did not answer, but she returned the gaze her husband gave her, drowning in the glare of those sharp eyes. As if declaring a heavy longing from the eyes that collide.
"Don't tell me if now your heart has branched, Gloria.." Owen said.
Bugh
Gloria hit Owen in the stomach, making the man complain and stare at each other's actions collapsed instantly.
"It hurts, honey!" Owen grimaced holding his own stomach but Gloria did not care, instead taking a position next to Owen and sitting cross-legged on the same sofa.
"This is seriously sick! My stomach was pierced and you punched right in that part!" owen said again made Gloria's eyes bully and instantly confused for a moment.
"Ah, yes..your stomach! I saw that scar. Which one is sick? What is this? Or here? Am I too strong to hit him?" Gloria panics as she examines Owen's stomach, uncovers the shirt her husband is still wearing, and palpates the belly with the clay muscles with her fingers.
"Aisssh..." Owen was hissing. His intention to prank Gloria ended up waking up something that was asleep. Gloria's touch made her blood rustle.
Plaque!
Gloria instead hit Owen's arm when she realized something.
"You pranked me, right? It doesn't really hurt!" gloria's Scolding.
Owen chuckled, but held Gloria in one hand to stay in her stomach.
"That's it, I'm going to sleep!" gloria said scowling.
"Hey, why are you so angry? Am I the one who was hit? My stomach hurts!" grunts Owen.
"How can I not be angry! You said my heart was already branched! You are, arkh...." Gloria looked at Owen with an irritated look.
"You always don't answer when I ask what happened between you and Sean, so I'm concluding something happened between you guys."
"You're accusing me of treason? That so?" Gloria's voice intonation is rising.
"It's not so, baby!"
"That's how you think! Very funny of you. Fooled me! I can still think strangely of me! I've never had anything with Sean. Every day as long as we're apart, I'm always thinking of you. Spend time with the same activities. Thinking about your fate and Jeff's. You may consider me a traitor!" smirk Gloria vented her frustration.
Aih, why is it like this? His intention to let go of longing was actually sprayed with anger, so the inner Owen cursed himself.
"Yes, I'm sorry. I was wrong to talk. I'm just blind jealous. I couldn't think my sane mind when I saw how Sean looked at you. He wasn't when he looked at you, now I can feel something else in his eyes. So, forgive me for thinking too far." Owen hugged Gloria tightly, he was really afraid of losing Gloria.
Gloria understood Owen's jealousy. But does she have to be open to her husband, about Sean's true feelings for her?
"Actually, Sean did say that he had more feelings for me." Gloria lowered her face with a timid expression. How not, he was horrified to imagine the anger of Owen who knew this.
Owen broke his embrace. "I know, I told you I could see that from the look in his eyes, especially from his treatment of you."
"You angry?" ask Gloria.
Owen shook his head. "That's his right, I can't manage my own feelings of love that are so passionate to you. How can I manage the feeling of love that Sean has?"
Gloria smiled faintly. "So?"
"So, he could love you. Just don't want you, because you're mine!" Owen slashed the distance between them and scooped Gloria's lips with his. Ulumi and smack it gently and deeply.
"You must not be influenced by him either. Your heart can't move, I've been monitoring you. Remember that you are only mine!" owen said as he framed his wife's face with both hands, then stared fixedly at Gloria. Channeling all her love through the eyes, so that Gloria understands, that no other man has a deep sense of the woman.
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