Replacement Bride
Lexya

''What's wrong with me, why do I feel strange about what I have said, and why I feel pain, '' Zoya murmured in her heart.

Alex does not respond to Zoya's remarks, he just looks at her so intensely that it leaves Zoya speechless with nervous trembling lips.

''It's not that easy that you end this relationship, Zoya.'' Alex with warm eyes.

''After what we went through you asked me to divorce you. Is that what you want?'' Furthermore, Alex's voice was getting smaller, Zoya who heard him felt that there was something strange about him, then what was this? even his mouth was very difficult to answer.

Alex sighed for a moment and continued. ''Look, we're gonna give each other time to think, I know you say that because of emotion. If one of us has found a bright spot, no one should be ashamed to start first to talk, hmmm?'' Zoya looks into Alex's eyes alternately, why Alex's rough figure seems to disappear this time. Why do I see the warmth in Alex, Zoya wonders.

''Never leave the house, let me temporarily stay in the office.'' Alex turns around and steps away from Zoya but her steps come to a standstill and turns to look back at Zoya who is still silent looking at her.

Alex took off the jacket he was wearing and stepped closer towards Zoya, putting it on Zoya's body because the sea breeze was blowing strong while saying. ''This kind of wind is not good for health.'' Said Alex who then passed away from there.

A drop of tear falls unexcusedly through Zoya's smooth cheeks without that makeup polish. Why did she now really feel something hurt stuck in her heart, hearing Alex's words that didn't even say anything made her hurt even more.

''Am I overdoing it?'' Zoya muttered.

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For days the couple lived apart, Zoya who was still in the apartment and Alex who lived in his office because he also had a special room to just rest there.

Each calmed himself down, even on the day that his product was launched, the two men did not attend the event and Mark was the representative director to inaugurate the new product from Violet Brand in the form of a perfume with the Lexya brand.

Some days Zoya did not go into the office, inexplicably her heart continues to be restless, especially when she woke up from her sleep. What he usually sees when his eyes open is Alex but not for a few days.

Likewise Alex, although he busy himself with work but still his mind continues to be fixed on Zoya's words the other day, asking to part with her, but still his mind continues to be fixed, it makes him always disturbed by the shadow of Zoya's voice saying 'Divorce'.

''Enough! I can't stand it, said Alex who was just about to move from his seat But the door that was knocked from the outside made him undo his intentions.

''Lexya's market is growing rapidly, perfume enthusiasts are switching to our new products. And there are orders with large quantities for the USA.'' Obviously Mark. They also take the product very seriously.

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At Zoya's apartment who also feels the same way as Alex, decides to go to the office, somehow later and what he will say, but, right now all he wants is to see Alex.

Go by public bus and stop right at the front stop of the Gilbert family-owned office. Stepping in hesitantly because a few days he Alpa entered the office. But as he was about to board the elevator his eyes saw someone he knew very well was talking to someone behind the wall.

Not intending to eavesdrop on their conversation but hearing Alex's name makes Zoya forced to eavesdrop on their conversation as well.

The formally dressed man in a brown suit was talking to that person .''You've done your job, right, to sabotage their product order right?''

''After all, they will suffer a great loss. You calm down, sir. This time you must be satisfied with my performance.'' Her speech.

''Good, I assure you, Alex will fall into a very dirty mud until embarrassed to rise again.''

''Yes, it must be sir.

''It's not in vain that I pretended to approach Zoya to distract the foolish man so as not to focus too much on the results that have been arrogant all this time.''

Zoya covered her mouth with both hands feeling distrustful of what she heard, the person she had always thought was an angel even there for her was not far from the word traitor.

''Sister Aiden, ''' she wrote in her heart. Her tears trickled down feeling guilty for being close to her and also feeling that she was the one responsible for what Alex would experience later if she did not tell Alex as soon as possible.

Zoya walks into the elevator, which she starts to take, and finally chooses to climb the emergency stairs to the floor where Alex is.

So this is where Aiden's goal has always been, where Zoya is, aiden's innocent face is even able to hide the hidden cunning and make Zoya not realize it all if he is used as a tool for Aiden to disturb Alex's mind so that he can wait for there to be a gap in Alex's time off guard.