Shadow From the Past
Chapter 104

Elvina walked quickly with a vision that began to blur because of the tears that tried to hold her pace.

Vano has already hurt his heart today. To drive away, not drive him home, then to snap at him just for closing the door of his room violently. After that he thought Vano would approach him.

Previously, if Vano felt he had made a mistake, Vano must have approached him, apologized, and persuaded him not to be upset again. But this isn't. Even displaying a little stick of his nose just isn't at all.

“I'm so angry with you, Mom. I can see more and more that you've changed. Why anyway? Why are you so? After coming home after a week of leaving, you've turned into that and I hate it so much. It was even me who looked weak!”

Elvina never seemed to have been made this tangle by Ken. Usually he is the dominant, Vano who is forced to understand. But this time it was just like Vano being turned upside down.

Vano wants him to understand that he does not like his closeness with Jona, Vano forces him to understand that Vano does not want to be disturbed until Vano expels him.

Elvina stops a taxi that happens to be driving in front of the office where Vano works. After that he went inside and mentioned his home address.

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It was nine o'clock in the evening Elvina had not seen any sign of her husband coming home. Elvina had been waiting for him ever since. Even Elvina was hoping to have dinner together and they could have a heated conversation again. Elvina wants to forget the incident where she was once expelled by her own husband from his office. After all, he was once more rude than Vano. He was aware of it and did not want to extend it again. He will also apologize to Vano who may have changed because he had it wrong.

“Bu, why haven't you slept?”

“Later, Mih. Mas Vano hasn't come home,”

“His romantic waiting for husband to come home,”

Amih seduces Elvina who wants to wait for her husband to arrive home. Elvina simply replied to him with a smile. Elvina is now worried because Vano has not yet returned when it is quite night. It is usually late at eight in the evening, and the afternoon often reaches home. Now it's nine o'clock more yet to show the trunk of his nose.

“I rest first yes, Mom,”

“Iya, Mih, please,”

Elvina chose to wait in the living room while Amih rushed to her resting place.

It has been nine o'clock and all the work has been completed, so there is nothing Amih wants to do other than sleep because his eyes also feel quite heavy.

Elvina sat in the living room while sitting on the sofa. She would check her cell phone every now and then maybe Vano would send a message about the delay home today, but in reality there was no message from her husband.

“Mas Vano where the hell? Don't let him go home like that,”

Elvina suddenly thought that her husband deliberately did not return home like some time ago where he chose a hotel as a place to stay for one week.

Elvina contacted Vano five times but there was no answer, Elvina also sent a message with the same sound that asked where Vano was, but there was no answer at all.

“Should if I didn't go home say dong. Let me sleep,”

“Where have I not had dinner, how outrageous is he,”

Elvina delayed her dinner because she wanted to eat with Vano but it turned out that Vano was even late to come home this way, or maybe Vano did not come home. I don't know why Elvina thinks that.

Waiting for Vamo did not come home until touching ten o'clock at night, finally Elvina fell asleep on the sofa still sitting. He was no longer able to endure his drowsiness.

Arriving at eleven o'clock at night Vano finally set foot in his house with a tired face and tangled clothes.

“Pak, the tumben came home last night,” asked security house who also realized that tonight Vano came home quite late at night.

“Iya, just finished the work, I first entered yes,”

“Iya, Sir,”

Vano opened the door of the house that was not actually locked. He was stunned when greeted with a sight that made his heart warm. He found the figure of Elvina sitting on the living room sofa with a sitting position.

“This is Elvina waiting for me or what? If so, I am very happy,” murmured in my heart while smiling thinly. Without further ado He approached his wife who was sound asleep as it seemed. With both hands folded over her stomach, Elvina fell asleep even though she was sitting and it definitely made her uncomfortable.

Vano draped a few strands of Anatha's hair that fell behind her ears after which Ken touched Elvina's cheek. They had been involved in the cold war, then greeted by Elvina who fell asleep while waiting for him to get home, it was a very happy thing for Vano.

The touch on the cheeks and the coldness that felt piercing the skin of his face made Elvina blink her eyes. He nodded for a while while continuing to collect lives.

Seeing there was a figure that He had been waiting for his arrival since, He immediately straightened his body.

“You just got home?”

Elvina felt stupid because she was still asking when it was clear she could see Ken who was still wearing his work clothes, of course Vano just came home from work. But what's wrong with asking to be more convincing.

“Iya, I just got home,”

“Kok really late night home?” Elvina asked after looking at the wall clock. Vano really came home late and without any news anyway.

“I called and sent a message 'no one you responded to one,”

“Iya I'm sorry, just finished my work, Na,”

“I waited for you from last night, until not dinner because I was going to have dinner with you, uh don't know you until home 'already at this hour,”

Vano felt unbearable to Elvina who did not eat dinner because she wanted to have dinner with him last night. He would not let Elvina sleep with a hungry stomach.

“Come eat with me,”

“No ah, it's really late at night, I'm lazy to eat if it's already this hour,” said Elvina while rushing to the kitchen to save the side dishes that have been cold and do not make her taste again to eat it.

“But I'm hungry,”

“Who told you not to eat at the office?”

“I also wanted to eat with you anyway. By the way I'm glad you're waiting for me,”

“Because I want us to be all right. I'm sorry if I was wrong and I made you change,”

“Hah? Changed?”

“What you know is what you usually hurt, do not you appreciate, which you often treat badly, is that it? Sorry, I was trying to be myself who was not very bego-bego because of love,” Vano told his wife. She does love Elvina but she does not want to look weak anymore, does not want to look stupid anymore while Elvina is the opposite of it all.

“After all my changes ‘kan not too yes? At most it's more fun, I've changed even you still can't appreciate me. The proof is still the same way Jona. Yes, I give permission, but I don't think so. Maybe you still walk with him while I'm your husband already obviously will not like his wife walk with another, but you ‘kan do not accept if I say so. So yeah, I won't talk about it again. I am also tired of the storm continues, I want after returning to our house peacefully, but apparently there is still a problem,” said Vano at length.

“Do not save the side dish, I have eaten and you also have to eat, were you waiting for me to eat with ‘kan? So wait especially? Let's eat together,” said Vano firmly. He did not want Elvina to avoid when he invited her to dinner together.

Elvina finally did not save all the side dishes, but there was already something that He stored at the end He served again at the dinner table.

While putting a plate filled with food for Vano, Elvina frowned when she found another scent from her husband's body. It's not sour or anything, but it's a woman's perfume scent that's definitely not hers.

Elvina was instantly made to freeze. Vano who saw that immediately reprimanded him. “Kok standing? Let's sit down, eat,” Vano said to his wife whom he saw silently staring at him flat.

Elvina sat down, He took a fork and a spoon and then He began to feed food into the mouth with a mind that was still wandering in an uncertain direction. It's natural that he feels confused. I don't know where Vano got that perfume. A hug with who is that guy? Or do something else?

Elvina shook her head. He shouldn't have such bad thoughts. And why is he so worried anyway? Usually I don't care either.

Positive things He planted in his brain and heart but still He could not calm down. In his heart he kept wondering about the perfume and also attributed it to Vano's late return home.

Elvina cleared her throat and jerked her cutlery on the plate to the point that surprised Vano.

“Why the hell? Ngagetin aja,”

Elvina cleared her throat before being absolutely sure to find out what made her have bad thoughts about her own husband.

“You really just finished the job so just came home from work? Or because of something else?”

“Indeed new kelar, earlier I ‘kan already said the same you,”

“Okay, keep asking,”

Elvina swallowed the food that was still in her mouth, she sipped some water, then raised her voice again. Vano was waiting for what his wife would ask.

“I can breathe the scent of female perfume on your body and it is definitely not my perfume. Can I ask you a question? Whose perfume is that? And why is it in your body?” Elvina asked with a gaze demanding an answer. The tone of speech sounds different too. Not memebntak, just slow but sharp piercing. If Vano was anything behind him, Ken would be performing another gesture, and Elvina would be able to see it. Now Elvina was observing well.

“Female perfume?”

“Yes, answer me now! I can tell if it's a woman's perfume, it's obviously very fragrant it's typical of women's perfume, Mas,”

Vano smiled hearing that. He remained relaxed. Even bribing food again greedily, without answering anything. His attitude during the bodo period made Elvina ride apitam. But he asked well.

“Mas, answer me! Whose perfume is on your body?”

“Why the hell? Very suspicious just because of the perfume, just calm down, I'm not messing around behind you,”

Vano's answer like that did not make Elvina satisfied. Moreover, seeing the face of Vano who was too relaxed.

“Obviously I suspect. You are the perfume of other women know not?! You realize that no, anyway? Or intentionally so? Bring that scent home? Huh huh? Ih unclean tau enggak!”

“Lho? How sewot? Since when do you take care of things like this, El? Hmm?”

Vano finished his meal. Now he folded his hands on the dining table and stared at Elvina flatly.

“You jealous or how?”

“Not a jealous issue or anything! Natural ‘kan if I suspect?!”

“It is natural for a wife who loves her husband, but for you who do not love me, it seems unnatural. It's not that you always say yes, I want to do it out there whatever, because it's my business and there's nothing to do with you. So why are you taking care of this now? Huh?”

Elvina with hunting breath stared at Vano sharply. He was made to lose by Vano's speech. It's true what Ken just said. All this time he never wanted to know Vano's business. He frees Vano to do anything out there, he doesn't care because he doesn't love Vano.

“The problem is, you are very smart to forbid me to be close to people, turn—“

“No, I'm not banned. Go ahead, I told you. But what I hope is that you appreciate my feelings. That's all, and you always fail. You were unable to appreciate my feelings from the beginning, you could not appreciate my presence in your life. So I'm a little confused now, why suddenly so acting like a wife who loves the same husband? Actually we are separated or not?”

“Kok you so discuss split? I'm not talking about that anymore, Mom! You don't get tangled with looking for another discussion yes,”

“I'm not kelit, I'm not cheating! I'm not playing behind your back. So just calm down, do not be jealous,” said Vano while smiling obliquely.

His words made Elvina grit her teeth. He suddenly hit the dining table to make Vano gasp in shock.

“I'm not jealous. I don't care if you want to cheat though, it's your business,”

“Ya continues why the aroma of perfume just makes you so angry like this? You should not need dong. ‘Kan is none of your business,”

“You lied to me and that's what I don't like,”

“Oh you want me to cheat and I'm honest with you? That's what it means?”

Elvina got up from the chair she had been sitting in, and left Vano, who was still in the dining room with a dizzy head.

Just returned home, had been directly involved in a debate with his wife who concerned about the smell of female perfume even though he said he did not want to care about anything about it.

“Any, why so complicated about perfume? If this is another woman's perfume then why? He ‘kan emang want me to cheat like so he can get away from me. But it's my turn to discuss separation and I want to submit first, he's angry 'do not accept,”

Looks like Elvina doesn't want to be the one left behind, but the one who left. Therefore he did not want Vano to bid farewell first.

“Try me earlier he said that if he was jealous, he did not want me to cheat with others, I am very happy, but in fact he just wanted to find a fuss so ask about perfume, but the truth is he just wanted to find a fuss, not because of jealousy,”

Elvina takes care of her food and Vano. He kept the dishes that were still there. Dipping the dining table also after washing dirty eating utensils. Elvina had entered the room with a boiling heart, she was even left at the dinner table when she said she wanted to eat together.

“Gue tired actually. Fatigued the storm. Especially the same storm as the person I love. He's always been luring me. I don't know when I'm the same he can really get along, like other couples and live a loving marriage is not full of problems like this. I'm really sick of it!”

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