THORNY ROSE
CHAPTER 109

After breakfast at Jerome's apartment, Roses returned home first. "You sure?" ask Jerome.

"Yes brother. Mama must have left for work."

Jerome wanted to spend more time with the Roses. But Jerome couldn't force a rose.

Jerome just wanted the Rose to feel comfortable beside him. Jerome would have shown Rose that he was not a selfish type of man. "All right." Jerome delivered the rose home.

On the way, the atmosphere in the car was silent. No one makes the slightest sound. Both the Roses and Jerome.

If the rose looks straight ahead. Different from Jerome. He glanced several times in the direction where the Rose was sitting. In the chair next to it.

"Was the rose angry, because of this morning?" jerome asked in his heart. Trying to figure out what happened to the rose.

Though the Rose had no thought at all about the incident where Jerome suddenly kissed her. The rose thinks of Amel.

"Roses.."

"Sister Jerome.."

The two call each other. Jerome and the Roses looked at each other, albeit at a glance. They both laughed, and felt funny. "What's wrong?" ask Jerome.

"No. Brother Jerome, why call the rose?" not saying what he wanted to say. The rose asked Jerome.

"It doesn't matter either. You, do you have anything you want to say?"

"Sir Jerome knew Amel. Rose's coworker at the boutique?"

Jerome nodded. "Yes, he was one of the members of the group that Luck attacked last night" Jerome explained.

Jerome was convinced that the rose actually knew this. But not telling himself. "Sister Jerome knows?" ask the surprised rose.

How could. Where did Jerome know it. Of course the rose was curious. The rose looked towards Jerome, moving both of her eyelids comically.

Jerome smiled. "Why? Wonder, where do I know?"

The rose quickly. "Yes." Yeah."

"From Luck." Jerome explained briefly. No more explaining in detail. For all that is to be said is surely a lie.

Jerome let the Rose think for himself. Whatever the Rose thinks is not true. Jerome until anytime does not want if the Rose knows who he is.

"Then why is Jerome silent?"

"You yourself, why be quiet. Hiding from me?" Jerome asked back, and instead cornered the Rose.

The rose thins his lips. Sighing in violently. "During this time, Mbak Amel was kind to Rose. Not just with the rose, but with all the others." The rose paused his sentence.

At first glance the shadow of Amel once saved him from the slander of Dona, until Amel fighting with Raka's friend crossed his mind.

"Bak Amel also always helped the Roses. Treating the rose like her sister. After all, the Rose had no business with the group either. Means Rose also no problem with Mbak Amel." great-granddaughter Rose.

Rose's cell phone rang, indicating someone was contacting her. "Who?" jerome asked, as Rose did not immediately answer a phone call from someone Jerome did not know who he was.

"Selly." clearly Rose. "What's up?" soon Rose picked up a phone call from Selly.

"What's Sell..?" ask Roses to Selly across the phone.

"Yes, this is me on my way home" said Rose, before closing the conversation on a mobile phone.

"Why?" jerome asked the Rose, after the Rose had put her phone back in her pocket.

"Selly's at home. With Mira."

"Ooo...."

"Sister.." call the Roses.

"Why?"

"Wait Roses for what reason?" ask the confused rose.

Jerome fell silent, thinking about what reason they would tell Mira and Selly. The two of them will ask about the Rose that came with Jerome.

"Any rose down on the street. Then the Roses will take public transport." suggested the Roses.

"No,, no... No." insisted Jerome, still worried, if something happened to the Rose.

"Keep how?" ask the worried rose.

"Like you lied to mom. Tell me you're staying at your coworker's boarding house. Then on the way we meet. Beres." Jerome suggested.

"It's okay. All your lies are for the good. Don't think too much. Who would lie." Jerome tried to tense up the guilt-ridden Rose.

Is correct. After all, it was impossible for the Rose to tell the truth. Surely they will all be more excited and worried about the Rose.

As the Rose had guessed

"Drink first." The rose lowered three glasses of drinking water on the table. For Jerome, Mira, and Selly.

Mira and Selly looked intensely at Jerome and the Roses in turn. "Yes, I'll explain. You look at me like a criminal suspect." said Rose with a small oddity.

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"Why turned off. And just now, like a picture of people's skin." muttered Madam Utami. Looking at the husband's cell phone.

Mr. Joko was in the bathroom when his cell phone rang. Madam Utami, who had just entered the room, stared at the phone.

Afraid that the caller was an important person, and also had an interest in the husband, Mrs Utami decided to raise the video call.

Where the video call to the phone belongs to the husband, but no name on the screen. Only numbers are listed without ID.

"But why turn it off." muttered Madam Utami, putting her husband's phone back on the table as before.

Mrs Utami's mind still remembered the fleeting image she had seen on the husband's mobile screen. "Maybe I saw it wrong." he murmured.

The door opened from inside the bathroom. Madam Utami smiled warmly at the husband. "Papa must be tired."

Mr. Joko kissed the wife gently. "Tumben's not going to the boutique?"

"To the boutique, but it's noon." Madam Utami paused her speech. "Can you help me?"

"Alright, get me a change of clothes for papa." said Mr. Joko, who still wears a towel wrapped around his waist.

Madam Utami walked into the dressing room. Take what the husband needs. After his wife died, Mr. Joko looked in the direction where he put the cell phone.

He knew someone had just contacted him. And he can guess. Who is the caller.

But Mr. Joko is indifferent. As if he knew nothing. "This" Madam Utami gave the husband a change of clothes.

Casually, Mr. Joko took off the towel in front of Mrs Utami "Pa, did anyone call?"

"Who?" asked Mr. Joko with his hands busy wearing clothes.

Madam Utami shrugged both of her shoulders. Signs if you don't know. "There is no name. Mom asked. But there's no answer. Ehh, it's turned off" said Mrs Utami.

"Leave it. If it's important it'll be another phone call."

"Don't you call back?"

"No need to ma. Papa is tired anyway. Just go to sleep." Mr. Joko laid his body on a large and soft bed.

"Why not eat first?"

"No. It was breakfast on the plane" he told a lie. "Just wake up at lunch" he continued.

Cup...... Madam Utami kissed the husband's cheek. "Yes, papa rest first. Mama's out."

Dingy. Surely, last night playing horses with Madam Puri until he did not know the time. In fact, the morning before parting ways, the two also took the time to repeat what their alley did last night.

Mr. Joko closed his eyes, with his mind fixed on Mrs Puri. "If you were here. Surely now we sleep together again" he said, taking a roll and hugging it tightly.

Below, Madam Utami was replacing the flowers she had placed in the vase. "Mrs, is madam okay?" ask one of the maids at Mr. Joko's house.

He saw the master as if he were daydreaming. In fact, this morning he was still excited when making breakfast with other helpers in the kitchen.

Madam Utami smiled. "good. Just a little tired."

"Better Mistress break. Let me continue this work." suggested the maid.

"alright. Thank you." great-granddaughter Mrs Utami.

Mrs Utami went to the room where she usually does yoga. "Who knows my mind can be clear" he murmured.

Still thinking about the picture on the screen of the husband's phone. "I didn't see it wrong" he said, looking up at his own chest.

"God. Don't think anything like Utami. If your husband cheated on you, he'd take his cell phone with him everywhere. You even know what the password is."

Madam Utami dispels her bad thoughts about her husband.