The Retaliation of the CEO's Wife and the Idol
CHAPTER 3: THE MIDNIGHT CALL

The woman rushed home, but Aluna held her back.

“Wait a minute, Brother Ega! May I ask you a favor?” aluna asked the woman.

“Ya?” answer Ega briefly.

“Can brother fix my hairdo again? I want to fill my friend's birthday,” pinta beautiful white girl to Ega. The hairdresser looked up at the circular watch on his left wrist, and the time showed at half-eleven p.m.

“This solvent?” ask Ega a little heartless because the girl he already considers as his own sister still has to sing after the end of the show.

“This is my friend's birthday sister, I do not feel good if it does not come,” concluded the girl. The two of them then re-entered the dressing room, and Ega had to return to take out some of the equipment he had saved to style the beautiful girl's hair.

“I want a hairstyle like having this sister Ega,” said the girl while showing a photo of Ega with her husband that she uploaded on social media. The photo was of their engagement. The girl really idolized the figure of Ega, the upperclassman who always protected her when she was bullied by her friends.

“You are strange,” said Ega while chuckling small.

“Any? Why?” aluna asked, not understanding. Ega started stroking the girl's beautiful hair, and styling it as Aluna wanted.

“You who became an idol, but instead idolized me,” continued Ega while slowly pulling Aluna's hair with a hair curler that had heated up. The beautiful girl smiled faintly as she glanced at Ega from the mirror before her.

“Kak Iko ..” he said disconnected, “I feel Kak Iko saw sister in a different way,” continued the girl who instantly made Ega stop her hand. Aluna bowed and Ega slowly raised her chin until she saw her reflection in the mirror.

“So that's why you always want to look like me?” ask the girl. Aluna fell silent as she looked back at Ega from the mirror.

“See yourself there, Al. You're beautiful. You're glowing. You are the idol. You just need to be yourself,” Ega told the girl.

“But ...,” refuted the girl tried to argue, which instantly made Ega turn the chair Aluna slowly faced her.

“Listen to me. Iko, he loves you so much. I'm sure it is. Maybe you think he saw me differently, because I worked for him so our relationship was close. But believe me, it's all just a working relationship, nothing more. Maybe he's not used to it because now I don't handle it anymore. Don't think too much,okey?” pinta Ega tried to calm the girl who started to lose her confidence. The girl was silent, unmoved.

“I don't care if you want to emulate anything like me, as long as it makes you comfortable. Because I know you're the star at the end. You are shining among thousands of lights. You should always be confident, understand?” Ega again tried to cultivate the girl's confidence. Aluna just gave a small nod while smiling faintly and hugging Ega.

“Now go, before it gets too late. Iko drove you, right?” ask the girl.

“Kak Iko? Ah no, tonight my friend will pick me up,” closed Aluna while saying thank you and say goodbye to Ega.

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The woman buried her body under a thick blanket. Today's work made his entire body feel heavy. He looked at the time marker on his phone, and the numbers showed it at half-twelve p.m. Ega began to worry because the husband did not come home. Soon the woman found her husband's number and contacted him.

“Hun, still overtime?” she asked her husband after his call was answered.

“Hm,” Ega replied briefly before ending that call. The woman put the phone back down and tilted her body to the right. His eyes focused on the shining sleeping lamp. His mind is again overpowered by the shadows of his memories with Iko, his white ash friend. His meeting with Iko today was enough to derail his efforts to get away from the man.

“I'm sorry, Ko,” ega said as she tried to close her heavy eyes.

Not long after he fell asleep, the sound of footsteps slowly entered the spacious room with the dim light of the lamp. A man in a white shirt and khaki pants walked up to sleeping Ega. The coat that drains on his right arm he just put it on the sofa located on one side of the room. The man stroked the soft forehead of the woman who was lying soundly on the bed, then slowly kissed her forehead. The kiss that actually makes Ega wake up again.

“You've come home?” asked Ega in a voice that had started to hoarse. The man nodded with a deep smile looking at the sleepy face before him.

“Sleep, Darling.” The man's pinta while thinning his wife's lips.

“You want me to make something?” haggard to her husband. The man shook his head.

“No need, continue your sleep. I will take a shower and rest,” replied the man gently as he moved to the bath. The half-conscious Ega finally chose to go back to sleep because of unstoppable sleepiness. But it was only a moment when he fell asleep again, the ringing of his smartphone made the woman back awake. He lazily grabbed the phone to make sure who was contacting him these nights. Some time he blinked his eyes because of the pain exposed to the screen, but immediately his eyes widened so knowing who contacted him.

“Iko?” whispered surprised. “How dare he call me these nights?” batin Ega while crying to make sure her husband does not listen to the ringing of the phone.

“Who calls these nights, Which?” ask Evan who just came out of the bathroom.

“Ah, this .. ehm,” Ega instantly stammered trying to answer. Evan stared softly waiting for an answer from the wife who looked panicked.

“Sarah, make up artist. There must be his goods left behind because I was the last to clean it up,” Ega lied to the husband to avoid disputes that he did not want. The man smiled warmly, “Why not lift?” the question that arises actually makes Ega look more confused, while the phone still continues to ring. Unexpectedly Evan grabbed the phone and immediately his face changed to find out who was contacting his wife. The man looked at Ega with a slightly disappointed look. He picked up the call, but was interrupted before he could say hello.

“Hun, I can explain,” said the woman as she moved from the collapse and walked up to the husband who was still holding his phone. The look in the male's eyes hinted at a disappointment that instantly left Ega overwhelmed with guilt.

“I, I don't know why he called me these nights. I-i

“Why should you lie, Which?” asked Evan in a firm tone. Instantly Ega grabbed the arm of the man who was still staring in front of him.

“Hun I'm sorry. I was wrong for lying. I just don't want any misunderstanding between us at midnight like this,” Ega said with regret. Uncompleted the couple had a disagreement, Ega's cell phone still in Evan's grasp rang again, from the same caller. Ega sighed, trying to free his sigh. While the husband looked at him sharply, while thrusting the phone at him.

“Thanks. I want to hear what you guys are talking about,” pinta Evan tries to hold back emotions. Ega shook his head slowly refusing the husband's request.

“No, Hun. You're the one who talked to him so as not to contact me again,” refused him subtly, reassuring the husband that there was nothing between him and Iko. The man then swiped up the call recipient button on the screen and tightened the loudspeaker.

“Halo?”

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