The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 44 - Assistant?

Beach …

Tiara immediately gasped as soon as she saw the sight before her. The car they rode was deliberately parked under a shady tree with no obstructions in front of their car. The black sand stretching from far right to the left is immeasurable, coupled with the waves that sweep the land-friendly beach that pamper the eyes of Tiara. Alfa smiled wryly as the attention of his wife who had not initially blinked to him now turned full on the panorama that was drawn before his eyes to not notice again that the man had now descended from car and open the door for him.

Tiara, knowing that the next door had opened, immediately looked towards Alfa and smiled, then descended from there excitedly. Alfa took his wife's hand so that she would follow where the man's feet would go.

Tiara's gaze was still not separated from the beach that lay beside her until a few steps ahead. However, instead of getting closer to the beach, Alfa instead took him further away from the black sand that made Tiara wonder.

“Where are we going?” The woman slightly shook her hand so that the man who had preceded the step but still held her hand turned his attention to her.

The man looked back with a smile. “Work,” he replied with his jail smile as he continued walking.

The ongoing question that was ready to come out from inside his mouth, Tiara puffed up, making him take a deep breath. In the end, as many questions as he struggled in his mind, he only answered with possibilities emerging from his heart. Alpha full of surprises is not likely to answer. He does not want to be surprised again with strange ideas that always just appear. Work it? Alfa may have an appointment with her client to hold a photo shoot at this place.

Tiara who was still daydreaming all over asked about their activities suddenly hit the arm of her husband who had stopped walking. The woman was stunned later, finding herself daydreaming for the second time. Alfa chuckled and then turned her body to her petite-looking wife in the clutches of her hands on her shoulders.

“You are my assistant now. I will never leave you alone Tiara again, you will come with me wherever I go, and I will accompany you wherever you go,” Alfa said full of earnestness, then the movement of his hand crept up to cupping Tiara's cheek gently. “And this..” The man kissed his wife's lips with one small kiss, “It is as his confirmation.” Alfa smiled back. “And this place..” Alfa turned her head momentarily to the right as if showing Tiara where they were, then re-locking her gaze, “It was as a witness, he said,” added that makes the woman widen the eyes. The first thing she was surprised at was that her husband suddenly kissed her in the open, and the second thing that once again managed to hypnotize Tiara was that they were both in the middle of the asphalt road that stretched wide and extended along the 500 meters, both of them.

Tiara remembered this place well after the memories of a few years ago brought her back. The memory of his departure to this place as the beginning of his meeting with Alfa. The woman was momentarily fixated on what she was thinking by turning her head, then also locking her eyes onto Alfa's shady eyes looking at her, “Assistant?” Tiara raised next to her eyebrows with a strange expression. “I'm your wife Alfa. You can ask me to do anything and accompany you anywhere.” The woman also cupped her husband's two hands attached to his cheek.

“I'm not kidding baby, Mama's planning something bad and I don't want Mama to know we're apart. I was so afraid that something untoward happened,” explained in a deep voice, rubbing his wife's cheek gently with his thumb.

Tiara frowned and her expression turned sour. There was a sense of unease that ran out in his heart looking at Alfa talking anxiously. Is there something threatening them? The woman involuntarily shrugged slightly, showing her fear at the possibility of criminal acts that would befall her once she heard the word ‘something bad’.

Just now Alfa was about to pull her woman in an embrace, the sound of screaming calls from a far enough direction yet still heard it undo her intentions.

“Alfa!” Brian waved his hand.

Alfa also reluctantly released both hands that were still attached to his wife's cheeks, then also waved one hand with a wide smile that re-reviewed on his lips.

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Tiara took shelter under a tree not far from the activities of photographers who were busy playing his camera. Alfa asks him to rest in the car, but Tiara resolutely refuses. She wanted to see with her own eyes how her husband worked. The woman drank a little water that had been brought as a provision, then put it back on the wooden bench that is now used to sit.

The time has shown at 4 pm when a pair of brides-to-be said a sentence of thanks and farewell. They look happy by returning to join hands and occasionally joking with each other after the prewedding photo session at the place was finished while they walk away from the photographers who still live in the place, clean up the properties they use as a complement to photos.

Alfa's gaze returned to Tiara who was sitting casually across the far side where he stood. The man then walked over and slammed his body on the bench where Tiara was sitting.

“Minum.” Tiara gave a bottle of mineral water to the tired, sweaty Alpha. With pleasure, Alfa accepted it and drank with a big gulp to wet her dry throat.

“You tired? Sorry to bore you,” regrets Alfa with a wrinkled facial expression.

Tiara exhaled a rough breath. “You're tired of working so hard for a few hours and even asked me if I'm tired?” Tiara looked randomly forward, then again looked at her husband, “I'm not tired Mr. Alfa. I'm just sitting around in this place watching how agile you take photos.” Tiara advanced her body and supported her palms, “As a selfless assistant, what exactly should I do for my boss while you work?” ask her in a joking tone.

“I just want you to stay with me like this. Do not let you feel tired in the slightest, because I will feel guilty if until your condition is not okay.” Alfa spoke with a loving expression.

Tiara looked at her husband with the same intensity until a smile widened at the corner of her lips. “I'll be fine. Thank you for watching me,”.

The color of the sky in the southern horizon became a beautiful backdrop for them at this time. Gleefully, Alfa took Tiara's hand and then they went hand in hand to approach the beach, coiled with sea water that swept her feet with her wave dance.

The beach has its own language. It is like a space that implies everything about beauty to its connoisseurs. Highlight his throne nailed anyone who came to meet him, as if sending a message so as never to get tired of coming back to see him. Enjoying the silhouette of life that looks sacred with the glitter of the sea that cheers welcome the stage drama of the beauty of its panorama.

For a moment, Tiara bent down, touched her fingertips to the warm sea water, then swept it slowly. A sneer emerged from his lips as it flashed through his mind to just play around with the water with Alpha. The man must have been tired and this sea water splash could have cooled him down. Can't wait for the man's reaction, immediately, he splashed the water in his handkerchief earlier, right about the shirt and half his face.

Alfa who was relaxing enjoyed a gust of wind and a supply of fresh air that flooded in her respiratory cavity was gasped. His eyes were wide open when in his glance, Tiara had been several steps further away from him with a mocking expression, successfully pranking the man with her joke. Alpha's smile widened. He immediately walked quickly after his wife who was shaking her waist in front of him. His wide, sturdy palm splashed water onto Tiara's body to the extent of half her dress. And, be they both soaked by the seawater thrown at each other. Not to forget, the sound of camera hiss is heard repeatedly. Alfa did not hesitate to take photos of Tiara with a variety of styles that look slick with the background of the sea panorama. Occasional, Tiara also took over the camera and flicked her fingers on the shutter button to capture the silhouette of Alfa that looks dazzling in the frame of the afternoon sky there.Tripod camera did not forget to be a loyal friend standing as photographer for both of them.

Soon the dusk arrives. The tide made Alfa and Tiara stop some distance from the beach, then just sit on the sand. Alfa clasped her hands and hugged tightly with her arm side.

“There will be no one to separate the beach, it will not be possible to be called a beach if there is no sea water that meets the circle of sand. They cannot unite Tiara, but, can produce a beautiful symphony with its blend. I want us to be like that. I don't want to part with you, and I hope you also understand how much I really need your presence beside me, you don't?” his words with a successful sentence left Tiara stunned.

The woman once again felt how possessive her husband was to her which made her heart touched. “Iya Alfa, I also do not want to part with you, whatever the reason.” Tiara rubbed the man's chest slowly in praise of all the comfort that her husband had given her.

Alfa looked up Tiara's face until the sight of the two met. The man pressed his lips against his wife's temple. It's closed in there. Enjoying a sense of calm and happiness that bursts in the recesses of his heart. Impregnating their beautiful unshadowed closeness with a breeze that hugged their bodies. She closed her eyes, feeling the same, love and sincerity.

Tiara hoped that their relationship was like this twilight before her. Make love and end until the time when they can no longer find the end, because twilight always teaches about how to welcome the dark night with happiness and welcome tomorrow with joy.

He wanted to be with Alfa until dusk picked her up ….