The Man Full of Wounds
Chapter 44

They chose a restaurant that was not far from the Hospital, because the lunch hour so the restaurant was a little more crowded. They order their lunch and service brings their order to the kitchen section.

Seeing a crowded situation does not allow to tell something serious.

"Later to talk at home while in Jakarta alone mas, like his situation here does not allow to tell a story." Alanna suggested while twirling the wedding ring on her ring finger on the table.

"All right." Zack agreed.

"So Mas Zack when to go back to Jakarta ?"

"We go home together."

"But maybe I'm still a few days here, mas must be a lot of work."

"Here also mas work, control the state of management of the hotel that is here." Zack explained and was nodding in understanding by Alanna. His attention was turned to Alanna's involuntary movements twirling her ring. "Mom didn't ask about your wedding ring ?"

"Mom hasn't noticed it yet." Alanna answered while watching her wedding ring. "If she asks, I don't know what to answer." Alanna was confused.

The waiter approaches their table with their order and then arranges it on the table.

"Is there anything you need ?" ask the waiter before leaving.

"Nothing, thank you." Answer Alanna.

"Then enjoy your food." Said the restaurant waiter before turning towards another guest who had just arrived.

They ate lunch without speaking. Zack calls the waiter to pay for their lunch using a credit card while waiting for the service to return Alanna booked a taxi through an online app.

"From here, straight back to the hotel ?" alanna asked when the waiter had returned Zack's credit card.

"I'll take you back to the hospital." Zack answered. Standing up from the chair did not forget to bring Alanna's clothes bag.

Alanna followed Zack. "But I still want to go home and get clean clothes."

"I'm coming along." Zack walks out in the follow Alanna. "Have you booked a taxi ?" ask Zack when they're outside.

"It's a car, it's a taxi." Alanna pointed to a taxi parked near them.

Taxi stops in front of Alanna's house, Alanna comes out first at Zack's. Zack observes Alanna's house and the surrounding neighborhood while waiting for Alanna to open the door.

"Big in." Invite Alanna when opening the door and then enter after Zack. "My house is very much different from the house of Mas Zack." Alanna added as they had been in the midfield.

"But it's comfortable and clean." Zack commented while observing Alanna's house.

Alanna was happy to hear Zack's words that didn't compare. " Would I make you some coffee ?"

"May but a little." Zack said as he sat on the sofa that was in the living room. "Where's your room, Alanna ?" zack asked as Alanna walked into the kitchen.

Alanna looked around for a moment. "The door behind the mas." Alanna answered and walked back to the kitchen.

Zack stood up to walk towards the door of Alanna's room, opened the door and went inside. Zack admits Alanna's room size is only half the size of their room in Jakarta but looks comfortable. Observe photos of Alanna hanging on the bedroom wall and neatly arranged on the bookshelf and on her dressing table. Zack smiles at some photos of Alanna as a child and some photos of her wearing a high school uniform. Some of the photos that Zack suspected were taken during college, in the photo already looks the charm that Alanna has.

"This is your coffee." Alanna appeared at the door of the room with a cup of coffee in her hand.

"Just put it on the middle room table." Zack then took a picture frame and showed Alanna a picture of Alanna in college. "Don't forget you brought this photo back to Jakarta."

"Why are you going to Jakarta ?" ask Alanna wonder.

"Let me keep it on my desk at home." Answer Zack.

"Well, I'll bring it back to Jakarta." Alanna agreed to Zack's wishes. Heading to the couch to put Zack's coffee on the table.

Alanna sat down to join Zack on the couch. "Very fun." Alanna smiled as she reminisced about the time when she was in college.

"Many people ask you to please ?" ask Zack curiously.

"There are a few." Alanna admitted. "Dating in general, going to watch or just sitting in a cafe while telling stories about many things." Alanna added. "How about mas, college time mas fun ?" ask Alanna curious."

"Mas has forgotten a little." Zack answered. "That was twelve years ago."

"How many years is it now ?" Alanna suddenly asked, only to realize that she did not know the date of birth of her own husband.

"You didn't read the contents of the marriage book ?" zack asked back, surprised by Alanna's question.

"No, it didn't take me to think about it." Alanna answered wrongly.

"Thirty-five years." Zack says. "My wife is insensitive, not even her own husband's age is known." Zack scolds Alanna.

"Mas himself must not know my date of birth either." Alanna accuses Zack of not liking Zack's words to her.

"The twelve-month eleven-year nineties-eight was your date of birth, which is the same as your apartment door code." Zack said he surprised Alanna, not expecting Zack to know something as small as his date of birth.

"Mas knows it."

"About you there's nothing I don't know. Even I, who was the first man to touch you, knew."

"Know where ?" Alanna asked curiously though a little awkwardly about that right.

"The bloodstains on the bedsheets, the next morning when the mas woke up after the incident that night." Zack replied a little grimly. "Alanna, I'm not a man who carelessly touches women." Zack explained. "That night mas was being affected by the stimulant drug Maya gave me in my drink when she invited me to meet me at a restaurant."

"Why did you come to see him ? didn't you not like it ?" alanna asked in surprise and began to understand a little of what happened that night.

"She wanted to talk about something about Mariana, so I had to meet her and eat her trap. Lucky for me and probably unlucky for you to come to my room that night so I was free of it and it happened to you." Zack explained.

"Maybe it's my destiny like this mas, I didn't expect it to happen to me either." Alanna said resignedly. "I am angry and blame fate is useless because it has happened and it is impossible to return."

Hearing Alanna's words makes Zack hug Alanna. "I'm sorry for that incident. Actually behind the incident I'm grateful."

"Thankful ?" alanna asked in surprise, still in Zack's arms.

"You came that night to my room and the woman I touched was you and not Maya." Zack explained while letting go of his embrace.

"Maya seems very interested in you."

"I don't care about that." Zack said ketus. "We don't have to talk about that woman anymore." Zack added with a look of dislike.

"I remember seeing a beautiful woman's wallpaper on your phone, what was that woman named Mariana ?" ask Alanna.

"Yes, she's called Mariana but I've removed it. All the pictures I've deleted since that night." Zack acknowledged.

"Where is Mariana mas ? you guys still in touch ?"

"We're out of touch because he's dead." Zack said grimly.

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