
Please forgive me for just getting up again.
My job's piling up. Understandably, again pursue time for the final semester exam before the holidays later.
Let's continue Rihan's story.
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Jakarta, Rihan mansion.
Zant put on a sullen face, looking at Neo who was feeding Rihan with the voice that Neo brought from New York.
"I hope baby Zanri only likes this man for a while" Zant murmured inwardly.
Zant obviously does not like, if baby Zanri likes Neo until adulthood. Although he later became a godfather, Zant was jealous if his son was too close to others. Moreover, that person was Neo.
"That's enough, brother. I want something more spicy. Brother Neo should have bought a spicy salad." Rihan rubbed his stomach and smiled faintly.
"Sorry! What does baby Zanri want to eat?" Ask Neo gently.
Neo's hand was eager to stroke Rihan's distended stomach, but he still remembered the threat of the possessive husband of this person he loved. Zant did strictly forbid Neo stroking Rihan's stomach. Zant doesn't like Neo touching his wife's little body parts.
Threatened not to allow Neo to be the godfather of his son, so Neo with a faint face obeyed the words of Rihan's possessive husband.
"It's okay, if baby Zanri eats spicy food? I'm afraid something's happened to you guys" Zant asked worriedly.
"It's okay, brother."
"Yes, already. I'll buy it." Zant wants to leave, but is arrested by Rihan.
"I want Brother Neo to buy it for me. I want a spicy snack that we once bought at that time, in the garden of suropati. Brother Neo still remembers, right?"
"certain. I'll buy it. Wait for your father, Baby." Neo left with a faint smile.
"Why don't you want me to buy it?" Asked Zant with a frown. The man looked the other way.
Rihan smiled faintly at the pouting face of her husband.
CUPS
"I don't like to see this pouting face" Rihan said after peeping her husband's cheek.
"I want my husband to buy it. But..." Rihan hung up his words, making Zant look at him curiously.
"Indeed, Brother Zant wants me to be alone with Brother Neo?"
"yes too! The man must be happy, if I'm not next to my wife," Inner Zant only realized.
"Thank you for thinking about my feelings. I love you, My Queen. Baby Zanri too,"
CUPS
CUPS
Zant then kissed his wife's lips, then switched to kissing her stomach as well.
"We love you too,"
Zant with a happy smile, pulled his wife into his arms.
***
New York, Johnson's family home.
Telly was stunned to hear Alex's words. Didn't that guy just want to end this fake relationship? What does it mean to get engaged before marriage?
"I'm glad to hear that. So, when are you getting engaged?" Ask Papa Telly with a big smile.
Telly was still staring at Alex. Telly doesn't understand Alex's mind. This guy is hard to guess.
"Pa, I'd like to talk to Alex for a minute."
Without waiting for an answer from her papa, Telly had pulled the end of the suit that Alex was wearing. Both of them get out of there.
"What does Alex want? Didn't you want this relationship to end?"
"I changed my mind after seeing you tonight. And I'm serious about this engagement!"
"I don't know what Alex is thinking. But if Alex wants to add improvisation to the game, no problem!"
"You don't believe it?" Ask Alex flat.
"Indeed."
Alex grinned, then took a step closer to Telly, and without doing much movement, Alex immediately pulled Telly's nape and m****t gently with those natural red lips.
Telly stiffened in place. Her first kiss was taken for granted by a man she had only known for a few months.
"Still not believing?" Alex asked after their kiss came off. Don't forget to grin when staring at Telly's stiff face.
"You..."
BUGH
Telly angrily punched Alex in the stomach. After which, he rushed away from there with a dead red face restraining emotions. Alex just grimaced a little and let Telly go.
After that, Alex also goes inside, and continues their engagement plans. The engagement date is set next week.
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Alex is pensive in his room thinking about the decision he took to get engaged to the young girl who accidentally drags him into his game.
Early intentions wanted to end this relationship, but were undone because they did not like to hear the scorn of Telly's relatives and cousins. I don't know. Alex just doesn't like to hear it. In addition to that, there are also other considerations, Alex wants to be engaged to Telly.
The main reason, because Alex wants to bury his feelings that he only realized two years ago. Burying deeply his feelings that until anytime he will not be able to convey. Burying her feelings for him, the person Alex shouldn't have loved. The one he loved was silent.
Alex only realized that feeling, after the person he loved in silence, fell asleep for a long time. Alex was obviously in pain, looking at that pale face. Alex wants to feel that way. It
Alex thought, maybe his heart ached because he had known him long enough, who was always with him, looking after him, fulfilling all his needs. I am happy to see him happy, sad when he is sad too.
It turns out that the pain was not because of caring, but because Alex loved his own employer. Loving his own foster sister. Despite having to withstand the tightness in the chest because there are already better people, there are already people who deserve to keep the person he loves in silence.
Although his chest is tight, but for Alex it is nothing. As long as he saw that smile, seeing the person he loved happy, Alex was also happy.
Alex then picks up his phone, unlocks the screen with a few numbers. The man smiled faintly looking at the pretty face on his phone wallpaper that featured the sweet smile of the person he loved.
The photo Alex took secretly during Rihan and Zant's engagement. Alex then put it on his phone wallpaper.
"What's up, brother?"
"none. Just want to know how you are."
"I'm good, Brother."
"Hm."
"I know my sister's calling me isn't just asking me how I'm doing." Alen then chuckled softly.
At a time when everyone doesn't know what Alex is thinking and what Alex is feeling, only Alen knows that. Clearly knew, because he and his twin brother had been living together for a dozen years. Alen understood his brother's mind.
But Alen was silent. She doesn't want her brother to be ashamed of her, because Alen knows what her brother feels like to their employer. Alen also understands Alex's silence, and why his brother's feelings have been buried all this time.
"Why turn it into a video call?" Alex asked after answering a video call from Alen.
"Just want to see my sister's handsome face that's single."
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"Not found a suitable one yet, hehehe..."
"Just the same. But, next week brother's getting engaged to Telly."
"Huh! Seriously? Sis..." Alen's face turned sad.
"What's with your expression? You don't like the decision of your brother? Sorry for not asking your opinion just yet," Alex's tone sounded soft.
"Not that, brother. It's just... Brother is okay?"
"You mean?"
"I know the reason big brother did this," Alen's eyes glazed over. Without Alex explaining anything, Alen could already guess the reason his twin brother took this decision.
"That's just your mind. Brother felt, Telly seemed to fit in. What say?"
"If you feel that way, I'm fine. But I think Telly fits in with my sister-in-law." Alen smiled faintly at Alex who was also smiling across the street.
"It's good that you agree. Don't forget to tell miss,"
"Tell yourself to miss, sister."
"Hey.you just tell me." I don't know why Alex was suddenly nervous.
Be late. Rihan's face is already on Alex's phone screen.
Alex quickly got up and looked at his phone nervously.
"What's up, brother?" Rihan asked gently. Don't forget the sweet smile that made Alex's heart beat.
For a lifetime, this was the first time Alex had seen such a sweet smile. Unknowingly, Alex's hand moved to screenshoot his phone.
"Sister Alex why?" Rihan asked because Alex was still silent.
"Eum... ekhem... How are you, Miss?" Alex is trying to look like normal.
"I'm good, Brother. Alex's own brother, how are you? We haven't met for a long time. I'm missing you,"
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A miss?
Can Alex baper?
Of course Alex has to hold himself back from getting carried away. It's not good for his heart. But... Can he be happy because the word miss is the first word that sounds sweet from the person he loves?
Look at! Alex was like a statue on Alen's phone screen because the man was daydreaming.
"Is the network not good? Alex's brother doesn't seem to move at all." Rihan commented with a frown.
Alen was already chuckling next to Rihan. Clearly Alen knew why his brother was like a statue.
"Sorry, Miss. I'm good too. I just wanted to tell you, next week me and Telly are getting engaged. If miss has time, I want miss to be there."
"Of course I'll come! Well, it looks like Alex's sister is already in love with Telly. That's nice! I agree she's my sister-in-law."
Alex just smiled thinly at the phone screen.
"When will Alex get married?"
"That's. once everything's ready, miss."
"If it's because of money, it doesn't matter."
Nah! Not because of money. Alex is not a poor man. Alex has more than enough savings to make a big party that invites thousands of people. Alex also has a legacy business for both of his parents.
Alex is not ready to get married. Alex is not sure of his feelings. Alex just wants to get engaged first. Alex is trying to slowly bury her feelings before she's really ready to get married. Alex doesn't want to hurt Telly, if they're really married.
"It's not about the money, miss. I just want to get to know Telly more. I don't want to choose wrong." Reason that makes sense.
But it doesn't really make sense either, because Alex can figure out for himself what life is like and even the nature of Telly. It was all easy for him. Because Alex is over.
"Yes, already. It's up to Alex. I'm just waiting for the good news,"
"Yes, Miss."
"Already, yes, Brother. I need to rest. See you soon, brother. Bye-bye."
"Yes, Miss. I'll see you again."
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Switch to Rihan. After the call ended, he immediately returned the phone to Alen.
"Do you know how Alex feels?" Zant asked after Alen had left.
"Don't know. What kind of feeling is that?" Zant only smiled faintly because his wife did not know Alex's gaze at him.
As a fellow man, Zant knew very well Alex's gaze on his wife. But Zant appreciated his sister-in-law. Zant was not jealous either, as his brother-in-law did not show that he liked his wife.
"Good, if you don't know."
"Snack." Rihan could only mutter, making Zant chuckle funny.
Across the street, Alex breathed a sigh of relief because the call was over. Alex then laid his body back down.
"Happy always, Miss." Alex muttered then closed his eyes and fell asleep with a faint smile.
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