MARRIAGES & BENEFITS
what was?

Alfin was still thinking about what secret was kept by the woman named Devina Mangkanti, who was none other than his own wife.

Although his lips were ordinary but his heart could not just forget about it. Moreover, the man in question is the brother of Edo the narcissist.

"Did I ask you directly?." The man often monologues with the same sentence.

"But it looks so good that I'm in!."

ASHHH!.

Alfin put his cigarette ash into an ashtray. The man was sitting casually in the club before performing a musical accompaniment to the door of immortality on the discotheque floor.

Not long after, Edo arrived with Kenzi, the older cousin of the man who is a photo-grapher.

"WIIH!, the new bride has gone!. No moon-moon lu Fin!?." Edo clashed fist with the newlyweds who look relaxed like single men.

"Moon-moon!. Moondur?."

"Or do you want to find another nest here?."

"Do, you ever bite a rubber shoe?."

"Sadisss, just dinged a little emotional. PMS YOU?." Edo punched Alfin's upper arm which was still irritated at him.

Alfin was quite aware that from then on the man who came with Edo was observing him even though he was not blatantly.

"Tumben you're spitting up?." Ask Edo curiously.

"There's no work for me."

"Emang the Vina doesn't say you're out at night?."

"She also went with my Alma ninggalin."

"Well?. Elaahh, it's the newlyweds why each one of them would be!."

"What's important hepi, you know how complicated it is to me?." Alfin seemed increasingly upset because of Edo's words that deliberately provoked his emotions.

On the sidelines of their debate Kenzi slipped with a sentence that was enough to make Alfin speechless.

"Congratulations on your marriage."

"Oh, thanks!." He narrowed his smile.

"Sory, yesterday I didn't get to congratulate you and go straight home after your show is over."

"It's Ok, I also thank you very much for helping me to celebrate Mr. Hamid's show." Alfin's words sounded so bad in both ears.

"So Mr Hamid?." Kenzi asked confusedly.

"His father made the reception." Edo explained with a slight smile imprinted on his face.

"Aah, yes yes." Kenzi chuckled after hearing the explanation from his cousin.

Alfin's mouth was so anxious and itchy that he wanted to ask the uneg-uneg on his head to the man with a little haircut of gondrong who was sitting next to Edo. But what power if a man's self-esteem remains the main one.

It is impossible to ask openly about the problems stored in his head without consideration from A to Z if not for important reasons.

A small chat occurred between the three without a main topic before Alfin finally chose to leave his place to start his action on stage.

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"So this is his job every night?." Kenzi spontaneously asked what he should not have ignored.

Edo nodded his head without seeing his interlocutor. But when he realized something, the man immediately turned to his cousin.

"Don't you ever know Alfin before?."

"No, I just talked to him."

"em." eemh." Edo nodded slowly.

As with Alfin, Edo seemed to see something unusual on the face of the handsome man beside him. Especially when Alfin asked about Kenzi's black and white photo before.

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"Aren't you sleeping here?." Devina asked before her sister-in-law left.

"Gue?. You mean what kind of mosquito repellent?."

"Well, isn't Alfin there?."

"Nothing?. He's still playing out?." Alma was obviously surprised to learn that her brother's routine had not changed despite being married.

"She just said come out anyway, didn't tell me what it was like."

"Basic, Alfin BEG♡."

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After Alma's departure, Devina tries to reconcile with her current state of being a wife, though not completely and only a title.

The woman recalled someone's eyes on her just as the contract was over. The figure that had once stopped in his heart but had to fall because of things he did not expect.

There are hearts that feel sore when their neutrals collide with each other in the sacred atmosphere of the agreement.

He knew Kenzi was looking at him with a smile even though it was not too obvious because the camera was blocking his view at that time.

Devina then bowed her head to cut off her gaze. While the man chose to leave his position and was replaced by his assistant until the event was over and Devina no longer found him.

That was all he could do when he was reunited with the same person.

Devina inhaled a deep breath and then took it out slowly to reduce the tightness in her chest.

He took a glass of water to dampen the turmoil in his chest. While turning on the television, the woman lay on the sofa with her eyes wet from the pain felt until she finally fell asleep in the cradle of the subconscious.

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At two o'clock in the morning, Alfin just checked his phone and found a missed call from Alma but none of Devina even though it was just a short message and it made him crunch thin.

Alfin then stood up and left his place after wearing black with the two men he had been with.

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There were not many conversations between him and Kenzi, only limited to YES or NO as an answer to every question that was present including. It was Edo who was fair to both of them. The narcissist becomes a mediator to break down the existing awkwardness.

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Alfin arrived at the apartment that looked clean and neat after Devina took part in the space. But there is one thing that makes him quite upset and wants to laugh when dealing with the woman. Namely the nature of indifference when invited to speak.

Devina seemed to never heed his words in any case including as it currently happens.

Alfin saw how the small body was curled up on a gray sofa with a television screen that lit up without sound.

Previously he had also told the woman to sleep in his room which was then rejected outright and said if he did not want to occupy it because he felt disgusted because he considered if the room with a large bed has been tarnished and become a silent witness to the deeds that the man had done with his lover first.

"Yes, if you say that anyway everything has also been stained times." Alfin who was upset answered his potluck and made Devina more patterned while horrified.

She then crouched down in front of Devina's face to see how the woman seemed to drop the standard she had set for becoming a Prambudi's wife.

His hand moved aside the mane of hair that covered the woman's eyes.

Alfin saw the clear sparkle that remained right in the eye and bridge of his nose.

"what's wrong?." One question popped into his head.

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tbc