The Love I Don't Miss
Part 68 (Rival? )

Shock when it suddenly saw Zio behind him, making Calina suddenly look a little stiff and half nervous. Moreover, there are their husbands and children who are out of nowhere.

"We're married?" zio asked with a voice that sounded very soft in the ears. It was as if there was a vibration trying to cover up.

Seeing the dominant shaving foam belonging to men, as well as a few snacks of small children made Zio feel claustrophobic himself.

There was a time when he hated the woman in front of him. There was also a time when he was lulled by the night that made him forget himself. And lastly there was a time where he regretted losing the Village Flower whose natural beauty was the style of a village girl.

Nodding softly, "already, Mas.." Calina replied without looking at Zio's pair of eyes.

The heart that was normal - normal, now beats faster. Rumbled inside the chest upon hearing the shocking news.

Smiling dimly, Zio only dreamed if he deserved to find this reality. Where the woman he could not forget was married to another man who did not know who.

"Congratulations Calina.." said Zio smiling faintly and holding back miserably.

"Hopefully you will also find a replacement for Naura, Mas.." replied Calina.

Nodding, "Hm.yes." she replied while forcing a smile to remain visible from her lips that seemed stiff.

"You... You're not working, are you?" calina asked after seeing the appearance of Zio who only wears casual clothes.

"I'm on leave," Zio replied, "there's something I have to finish outside the office!"

"Oh..." Calina nodded in understanding.

"You alone?" asked Zio did not see the figure that seemed to accompany the former.

"I'm with my husband and son, Mom. It's just I don't know where they are." Calina answered looking right left with her chest pounding. Worried that Zio and Kenzo will meet in her husband's unprepared state.

"Oh!" Zio nodded. "Yes already, you.. Can continue shopping." said Zio with a forced smile. "I'm sorry that it's interrupting your time" he continued.

"No problem, Mom! It's nice to meet you!"

This time Zio smiled softly, "me too"." he looked down at Calina's pair of eyes that had once washed away him on one night.... Is beautiful.

Smiling again, "bye.." said Zio as he slowly stepped out of Calina's position standing in the row of soap shelves.

Calina stared at Zio's steadfast back with mixed feelings. Between recalling the past, and remembering her husband's worries. Also the future of his daughter.

But after all, didn't Zio have the right to know if he had a child?

And wouldn't Clarice ever need a biological father as a guardian if she married?

Calina's mind kept turning. Ready not to be ready, all of that will be revealed. And Zio will know everything.

Before turning into the gondola hallway on his left side, Zio looked back. Actually from now on, his instincts said if there were eyes that still see him.

And when she looked back at her slanted body to enter the hallway, her gaze was met with Calina's gaze again, which in the next second Calina threw a friendly smile at her.

Replying with the same smile, then Zio nodded as a sign of farewell.

' May you be happy, Cal. I-i'm sorry! '

His mind and then he stepped back. Leaving behind a figure that had been present in his past. The figure that he had been in vain, and the figure that he had ever regretted his disappearance.

After Zio disappeared from sight, Calina lowered her head. Look at the trolley containing Kenzo and Clarice's stuff.

Thinking back, what if Zio knew that her husband was Kenzo. The one who is none other than Zio's own boss.

So after he felt normal again, Calina again stared at the row of needs of the house in front of him. Take what he needs with a slightly limp hand.

And at that very moment, "sorry.." the voice of the man who had been with him for almost 6 years was heard from behind with a burly hand that touched his left shoulder.

"I saw it, but I left on purpose!" answer Kenzo.

Smiling softly, "no problem, Mas.." replied Calina. "I'm sorry, I've been talking to other men without your permission.."

Kenzo shook his head weakly, "we can go home now?" ask Kenzo. "Wouldn't we drive Mama Shinta home tonight?"

"Yes, Mom!" answer Calina.

Kenzo pushed a trolley full of Calina, Kenzo and Clarice's groceries.

"Clarice, we go home, okay?" kenzo asked his stepdaughter.

"Okay, Daddy!" exciting Clarice.

Calina brought the trolley into the cashier line. While Kenzo brought Calina to buy snacks in the food court line in front of the super market.

Finished with the payment, Calina again pushed the trolley to be carried to the border between the mall and the apartment. Kenzo and Clarice followed the housewife.

The little family steps into the apartment. Kenzo with luggage, while Calina held Clarice and one small pouch in her other hand.

They entered the elevator to get to their apartment. Until they get back out on the floor where their apartment is.

"Galen! Brother's got a lot of snacks for us!" clarice said hello to Galen sitting with Mama Shinta in the living room.

"I want to!" galen Briefly replied with his distinctive voice.

"Mas, I'm helping!" calina grabbed two bags from Kenzo.

"No need, honey!" kenzo refused to give his wife two bags. He decided to take her straight to the kitchen. So that Mbak Irah is easier to arrange.

"You're back at the office, Mom?" tanya Calina tried to fix Kenzo's tie.

"No need, my dear! Let's finish Venom!" kenzo replied back to disarm his tie until he was released.

"All right, I'll make you some coffee!" calina walked towards the kitchen. "Clarice, get changed, kid!" calina's word to Clarice who is issuing all her hunting results in the super market.

"Yes, Mommy!" clarice answered immediately up to the second floor, where her room was.

As Calina prepares the coffee, and Kenzo takes off her shoes in the front room. The bell rings several times. But it sounds pretty polite.

Kenzo, who was closest to the door, immediately stood up and opened the door without peeking who had come.

"Good day, Mr Kenzo?" said someone who was now standing at the door.

Where the body of the owner of the Apartment now feels frozen like a chunk of ice floating in the sea of ice.

"Zuo!" pekik Kenzo tried to neutralize himself.

Didn't everyone convince him that his world would not just collapse when Zio learned all these secrets.

And didn't everyone say that his position in Clarice's heart wouldn't be that easily shifted?

But all are just words, not really proven.

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