The Man Full of Wounds
Chapter 71

Finished finishing her breakfast, Alanna decided to sit back in the living room while watching a television show.

The effect of the calm and achy home atmosphere that he still felt made drowsiness come, without Alanna realizing she was asleep on the sofa in front of the television.

Zack returns home early and finds Alanna sleeping on the living room couch.

"Why did he fall asleep here ?" Zack talked to himself and saw the television on.

Aunt Ijah walked past Zack towards the kitchen. "Bi Ijah." Zack calls Bi Ijah's plan, afraid to wake up Alanna who is asleep.

Bi Ijah's steps stopped hearing Zack's call. "Yes, what's wrong, sir ?" bi Ijah asked as he turned around.

"From that time Alanna fell asleep here ?" Zack asked back.

"Sorry sir, Auntie doesn't know. Aunt just finished cleaning upstairs."

"So, it's okay Bi. Just keep doing Auntie's job."

"Good sir." Said Aunt Ijah.

"Wait a minute !." Zack suddenly said, stopping Bi Ijah's movement who was about to return to the kitchen.

"What's up, sir ?" Bi Ijah asked again.

"Please get me a blanket in my room."

"Good sir." Bi Ijah, according to him, went upstairs to pick up a blanket and came down shortly afterwards with a blanket Zack asked for. "This is Mr. blanket."

Zack picked up the blanket Bi Ijah gave him. "Thank you Bi, Auntie can keep Aunt's workers." Zack.

With his hand holding the blanket, Zack walked up to Alanna who was sleeping. Zack enveloped Alanna's body carefully so as not to wake her up. The room temperature is rather cold, Zack set the AC temperature in the middle room so as not to be too cold.

Zack comes home fast wanting to work at home in his study but seeing Alanna sleeping alone in the living room makes Zack change his mind and decide to work in the living room accompanying Alanna.

Zack takes his laptop in the study and returns to the living room, sits on the couch under Alanna's feet with the laptop on his lap and starts to seriously work.

Bi Mun passed by and saw Zack who was seriously working. "Young master wants Auntie to make hot coffee ?" Bi Mun approached Zack and asked.

Without looking over from his laptop screen, Zack replied. "May Bi."

"Auntie will make it soon." Say it before you turn to the kitchen. Not long after, Aunt Mun returned with a cup of hot coffee. "This is young master." Aunt Mun put it on the table.

"Yes, thank you Bi." Zack said, moving to take his coffee with the laptop still on his lap. "So when she woke up, Alanna drank her milk ?" Zack asked as he sipped his coffee.

"Yes, sir, Miss Alanna finished her milk."

"Good, get back to work."

"Anu..... Young master." Aunt Mun hesitated to tell a story.

"Why Bi Mun ?" zack asked curiously at Aunt Mun's attitude.

"So morning at breakfast Aunt heard the young master's conversation with the great Lord and the great Madam." Aunt Mun started telling stories.

"Then why ?" Zack asked in surprise as he felt it was no problem.

"So morning when Miss Alanna had breakfast in the kitchen, Aunt told her." Said Aunt with a guilty face.

"It doesn't matter Aunt Mun, I did plan on telling Alanna that." Zack calms Aunt Mun down.

"Yes Bi, get back to work."

Alanna moved to wake up from her sleep, hearing the sounds of people's conversations. Alanna opened her eyes and looked at Zack who was sitting under her feet with a laptop on her lap and just realized she was wrapped in a blanket.

"Mas Zack." Alanna's hoarse voice upon waking up.

Zack looked over at Alanna's voice calling out to him. "You're awake." Say Zack while putting the laptop on the table next to the coffee cup.

"Don't Zack's mas still supposed to be in the office ?" Alanna asked astonished at Zack's presence while getting up and sitting cross-legged on the sofa facing Zack.

"Mas came home to accompany you to lunch because mom and dad might not have come home this afternoon."

"I can have my own lunch, this morning I also had my own breakfast because of the tiredness to sleep bad luck and no one woke up." Alanna said she was insinuating Zack.

Zack is used to hearing Alanna's innuendo, telling Alanna who is still angry with him. "Mas deliberately didn't wake you because I knew you must be tired and needed rest. Incidentally this morning after talking to papa mas had a meeting with some hotel staff discussing some things for the event to be held tomorrow night in this house." Zack explained to Alanna.

"Papa's birthday ?"

"Yes, we need a lot of waiters as well as hotel staff who will organize the event tomorrow night. The event will be made in the yard and inside the house to keep if the weather is not possible."

Zack's words horrified Alanna, as if tomorrow's event wasn't just a birthday party to hear from Zack's explanation.

"How many people will be invited ?"

"At least maybe about two hundred people, I don't know exactly how much because mama took care of the invitation."

"It looks like it's gonna be crowded." Alanna's comment heard Zack's words.

"Why dear ? You nervous ?" Zack asked.

"Little." Alanna admitted. "Just yesterday I attended an event like this and was humiliated. I'm afraid yesterday's events are repeated because people don't like my existence." Alanna added with a wry smile.

Zack felt guilty hearing Alanna's words. "The promise of such a thing will never be repeated again." Zack convinces Alanna with a serious look.

"Sometimes things happen out of our control mas." Alanna said grimly. "It's like someone's feeling for us, be it hate or like."

"Such things are out of my control but not with you, I'll make sure everything is in my control."

But my feelings for you, Zack, you can't control in my heart, Alanna said, turning to look at the television so that Zack wouldn't see the hurt look on his face.

Zack looked at his watch. "It's almost lunchtime."

Alanna got up, put the blanket on the sofa. "I'll go to the kitchen first, see if the food's ready or not."

Alanna walked towards the dining room and saw Bi Mun and Bi Ijah who were arranging the food at the dining table.

"The lunch was just the two of us. Mom and Dad had lunch outside." Alanna told me.

"Non Good." Reply Bi Ijah and Bi Mun together.

Alanna then returned to the living room to meet Zack.

"Mas Zack, the food's ready." Alanna.

"All right." Zack stood up, walking towards the dining room.