Refusing the Love of a Mafia Boss
9. Shopping Together

"Hey! It's salt! Salt! You're asked to make coffee, not stir-fry!"

Can he shut up? Ilina touched the salt jar to find out. How could he know instantly that it was salt or sugar if it was not confirmed up close first?

The coffee he made was taken for granted, and Marissa went to bring it to Noah as if she had made it. Ilina really didn't mind but then again, could they meet in the room instead of there?

He wanted to sleep to recover now.

"Noah, do you think Lucas was murdered?"

Noah watched the show without much noise. "Of course."

"This is the first murder case that happened in your family. I can't sleep thinking if they're after you sometime. You need strength, Noah."

Looks like he's got a little brain.

Ilina quietly went into the bathroom, it was better to be alone there until the Marissa came home. Her ears were sensitive a long time ago, especially when her eyes started to malfunction. Her shrill voice made Ilina disturbed.

Grateful it only took him two and a half hours until Noah came, telling him to get out.

"Marissa talks a lot. He didn't mean anything bad. I'm sorry, Lia."

"No problem." Ilina could also tell which ones were bad intentions, which ones were unimportant.

The people who mean it badly to him are all hanging in hell. So when the girl was alive, she didn't mean anything bad.

She jealous.

Didn't like Ilina's presence here, it seems.

"Instead, has there not been any response from the Palmer family?"

Noah sits in front of the television and turns off his channel for fear of Ilina being distracted. Apparently he understood he didn't like the sound. "Yet. At least, to me."

Did ya?

Ilina did not forget that this person was actually suspicious as well.

There was something he had hidden in his dramatic story. But there have been no reports of anything from Harja to say even if there is a reaction, it is not too important.

Anyway, this is still the beginning. There was no way they suddenly knew it was Ilina and Noah.

The game's tempo is still in Ilina's hands. He will ruin it as he pleases.

...*...

Noah took her away.

Early in the morning when Ilina had just finished bathing, the man came out of his room and said, "Let's go out and buy your glasses and your needs."

So suddenly. But Ilina saw there was another intention in her invitation until after considering, she agreed to come along.

Ilina only realized that she only put two sheets of clothes in her shabby bag so inevitably she did wear clothes that did not look beautiful.

It did not matter at all when reflecting in front of the glass of his house in the village, but it turned out differently when he reflected in a luxurious bathroom.

It's showy. A handsome man like Noah's street with the village-clothed girl was very striking.

"Wear this."

Ilina did not expect the man to think the same. He handed the clothes that were likely his own clothes to Ilina.

"It's a man's shirt, but unisex on a woman's body. The picture is not flashy. I think it fits in your body."

Taken the clothes without saying much, Ilina returned to reflect and found a foreign form.

The shirt was indeed super long, coupled with a giant jacket hugging Ilina to the middle of the thigh.

Is it okay to wear clothes like this?

Well, but Noah did, so it shouldn't matter.

Just a day too. Ilina just bought some appropriate women's clothes.

...*...

She was actually wearing the clothes Noah gave her without even giving a single comment. The oversized sweatshirt that was even oversized on Noah's body was clearly even bigger on a woman's body.

It does look like a casual minidress, but knowing this village girl is wearing it, somehow becomes a bit funny.

Except to offend his completely flat-looking facial expression.

They rushed out and went down into the lobby. If there was just one expression Lia had that was obvious enough to her, it was a foreign expression she was staring around.

Could it be that the daughter of the conglomerate didn't even know about the city at all? Feels impossible. Noah knows he's hiding but he's pretty sure Ilina isn't as sedeso as Lia in staring.

Although it couldn't be a reason to say he wasn't Ilina or he was completely innocent.

Noah wears a hat and mask to avoid his face being made public. For now it may be quite safe, the troublesome thing is fans do not know the time and situation.

They just keep on—

"Lia?"

When Noah turned his head, the girl was left far behind.

Busy staring at the pavement floor with eyes narrowed sharply to the point that it was hard to believe she was the same girl who killed the intruder that night.

The eyes of Ilina Bumantara may not be myopic and then not given handling. They are different people, right?

"Get your hand." Noah reached out his hand.

"For?"

"Your eyes are troubled and the places around us you are less familiar with. Different from the village, you can't walk here with your eyes closed."

Funny thing is he was a bit hesitant, although then still gave his hand to hold.

Noah in the head thought.

The hand that nearly killed him with the needle turned out to be smoother than a strand of silk thread.

*

Mahesa Mahardika once said, The pretence that is done in hypocrisy is genius.

That is, people who pretend and then look to believe the pretense is a genius.

This guy looks like that.

Ilina would not have forgotten how she could actually break Ilina's hand back then, but seeing that she now seemed a little harmless, it was actually frightening.

He helped Ilina walk. Stepping slow enough for a tall male step size so that the female Ilina could catch up to him without difficulty due to poor vision.

They did not ride in any vehicles, because Noah's apartment tower was quite close to the shopping center he wanted to go to.

Amidst that stifling foreign crowd, someone suddenly walked behind him, silently touching Ilina's ungrasped hand.

Of course he understood it was a signal.

Apparently Ayana.

"What do you want to buy?"

Ilina just put on a flat face. "Not knowing."

"That's your need, Lia. I don't know what to buy either."

Ilina silently glanced around. He memorized the posture of Ayana and some of Harja's men, so knew they were wandering around to keep an eye on Ilina and Noah.

This place is too big. Before thinking what she needed, Ilina already had a headache first seeing humans wandering everywhere.

"Shirt." At least that's the main one.

But actually maybe not too necessary because Ayana has prepared it.

If only he did not take Ilina out, then Ayana could deliver clothes and necessities on the grounds 'Miss Ilina' ordered 'Lia' to wear them during the mission.

...*...