The Struggle for Wife Love
Bag 124

I stepped quickly into the building, the weather was already a bit cold and I had to get used to this. After dealing with the HRD and signing the contract, I was brought by the head of the department to my desk.

"This is your desk, if there are things you want to ask later can ask directly to the leader here. Looks like he's out, you can wonder with them later." explained the section chief.

"Good thank you" I said, nodding my head.

I tidied up my desk and put some of my stuff on that table, including putting a picture of me and Zean on the corner of the table. So that when tired I can see the photo and become more excited again. As I packed, someone greeted me from behind.

"Hy... Are you new?" greet a woman to me.

"Hy. yes, I'm Tiara." I said as I introduced myself.

"Owh, I'm Carlo. I'm sitting right next to your desk. I hope I can be a good partner" he said.

I nodded my head with a smile towards Carlo and we talked and before long he suddenly fell silent like he was looking at an angel of death. I turned my face back and saw someone I knew approaching our table.

"Have you guys finished gossiping? I hope you know your limits in the office" said the man who was none other than Arnold.

I just kept quiet to hear his words and seemed to lack confidence that I would meet him in this office.

"He's the leader here, the guy's so cold." Carlo whispered to me.

"You're the new kid, right? You can already work today, so grab that file right there and work on it. If you don't understand, you ask Carlo." he ordered.

As soon as possible I took the files that were not yet entered into the system, and helped Carlo put them on my desk.

"Crazy, guys, I'm just doing this job. Basic psychopath" upat me in the heart.

Arnold passed from our table and I was helped by Carlo to arrange some files that were still messy. I don't know if I could dream of a job with this ice man Arnold.

Arnold sat at his desk and opened his computer, occasionally observing Tiara from a distance.

"Indeed the horrible woman, she could have just one day to get here had been staying with her boyfriend in the apartment. I don't know what Zean thought of marrying such a woman, easily forgetting someone and dating another man in such a short time as well. It was fortunate that Zean had chosen to leave" Inner Arnold.

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I looked at the clock on my computer, I was about to get in for lunch. Because I was just trying to get Carlo to have lunch together.

"Carlo, have lunch with yuk." take me

"Let's go out together, I'll get to know other friends" said Carlo eagerly.

Sure enough, I was invited by Carlo to join his friends and they welcomed me warmly. As I was about to have a chat I saw Arnold who had just taken his food, because he himself I took the initiative to invite him to join us.

"Arnold.... Here eat with us." invite me spontaneously.

Arnold was silent at my invitation, even Carlo and his friends who had been boisterous were suddenly silent for a moment. Arnold just went past me without a word coming out of his mouth. I could only fall silent feeling strange with my invitation.

"Stop being nice to her, she's an icy person" Carlo said.

"Yes-iya, I've heard rumors that he deliberately seduced women but after the woman fell in love he just left." continued Carlo's friend named Lhyn.

"Is he that bad? I'll just offer to eat together because he helped me yesterday" I said.

"Have you met him before?" ask Carlo.

"Yes... He's a neighbor of my apartment, at first I didn't know that he worked here either." I explained

"Again, I think so too. It's a pity that you get a stone man" said Carlo and we laughed at his words.

On the other hand Arnold who heard little gossip from the women felt very furious. He did not expect if his cool attitude all this time even in another sense by these women.

"Should the women tell the wickedness of the people when they are together. They didn't even turn down the sound to dampen it." Arnold muttered annoyedly.

After work I was waiting for Ian in front of the office, and suddenly Ian pulled something out of his car. It was a cream-colored scarf, he wrapped it around my neck while grumbling.

"I told you the day is coming into winter, you must dress even thicker if you don't want to freeze to death" she said, confirming my scarf.

"Thank you.... I'm still not used to the atmosphere here" I said.

"Let's go in, with clothes like that later I will be killed by the chairman because his nephew died frozen" said Ian who called his father the chairman.

I just laughed and said to get in the car. Ian took me to the bakery, he bought a lot of bread and milk. Maybe because it was going to be winter, so her mother told me to buy all of this, but it turned out that my guess was wrong. We stopped by an orphanage and Ian asked me to come inside.

"Why did we come here...?" ask me curious.

"We bring this food into first, I'll tell you ok" said Ian excited.

Sure enough, the food purchased by Ian was donated to this orphanage. I went around looking at the situation of the parlour, and looked through the visitor's book list. Suddenly my eyes were fixed on a name that was very familiar to me "Zean Akbar". I was silent to see the name on the visitor list and thought maybe it was not the same person. Soon Ian surprised me and invited me home. In the car I was still thinking about the name written on the list of visitors.

"Why are you suddenly so quiet?" tany Ian's.

"Owh, I just came to the orphanage." I replied briefly.

"It's a tradition of the family mommy, for a moment going into winter mommy must have me buy food to take to the orphanage" said Ian.

"Why....?" ask me curious.

"Because that's where my older sister's house was adopted" said Ian again

I frowned as if I did not understand, because as I remember his son Pak le Nandar there was only one man. And I don't understand what Ian's saying at all.

"Before I was born, the mother and the dady adopted a daughter from this orphanage. Since they had not been given children, they planned like that. It turned out that it was true that before long my sister was adopted, my mother was pregnant with me and very happy about it. Mami thinks of brother as the bearer of good fortune in our family, even sister helped mom take care of me. But fate says something else, my brother is sick with leukemia and dies at a time like this. When going into the winter, and mami is very hit will hel. So every winter I'm going to have to ask me to buy a lot of food like that and give it to the orphanage." Ian told me at length.

"Ok, it makes sense. Means when your parents come to Indonesia and you don't go home it's your brother who takes care of you?" ask me.

"Not so, at that time the plan was to go back there all. But my brother's condition is down and I have to stay in the hospital, so I accompany him here" Ian explained.

I nodded in understanding with such a situation, it was only natural that Ian was very attentive to me. Maybe I reminded her of her brother first, I suddenly remembered something I really wanted to ask earlier.

"So, that visitor list why didn't you fill it up?" ask me.

"I wasn't there to adopt a child, they knew me anyway. Why do I fill it so." he explained.

"Is that filling it just to adopt a child?" ask me curious.

"Yeah.... Not really, but almost average like that. Wh why? You want to adopt a child apparently?" I asked Ian suddenly.

"No, I'm just wondering" I said, looking away.

I thought maybe it was just a coincidence with the same name but a different person, and I had to learn to accept Zean's departure.