TIME (For A Taste )
CHAPTRE 118

Thank you for being faithful.

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Happy reading....

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MALIA

I thought about Reiji, when I finished texting him after the last five days, I broke off my phone with Reiji.

Yeah, like that. After my quarrel with Reiji five days ago, a cold aura dominated between me and Reiji.

Even Reiji became even more quiet.

Me and him just talk as necessary.

But somehow, if I think about it, it's like there's something I feel lost when Reiji gets quieter, and my phone is quieter than his chat messages, or all day I don't hear his voice - let alone chat, let alone chat, we met and were on the same roof, even though we only met face to face.

Our working time makes my face-to-face sessions and Reiji so short this week. Which seems to support my ‘cold war’ with Reiji, because of the work schedule Reiji - which I have not noticed anymore, it always seems ‘opposite’ with my presence at home.

Reiji arrived at the apartment always while I slept from the moment we had our quarrel.

Or go home when I'm off to work. And when we happened to meet at breakfast, we were both silent.

And talk, when it's me or Reiji who first left for work.

Just to say goodbye.

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It felt like half of my heart wanted Reiji to be by my side right now.

But I also have no power to deny the desire to spend more time with Irsyad.

But after getting a chat message from Reiji after five days we didn't communicate with each other, it made me think about Reiji a little bit.

Then in the end, I decided to cancel the plan to watch with Irsyad after we ate together at a Japanese restaurant that was in one Mall in South Jakarta.

And yes, if I think the real problem is not in my household and Reiji, but I am the one who is troubled, then impact on Reiji. Well, even though the trigger was Reiji, which until now I still consider carrying traces of his past with Shirly in our lives, which should have started from zero.

Since then, I think, my relationship with Reiji began to be problematic, then coupled with the presence of Irsyad. It makes my heart more troubled. But it was as if the matter evaporated when I was together with Irsyad.

I laughed more with him.

Well, at least I pretended that I was fine in front of Irsyad. Covering my anxiety in front of him.

Although a little, Irsyad is actually the source of my heart's anxiety.

However, I have always been unable to refuse if Irsyad invites me to meet - or maybe I am reluctant to refuse every invitation to meet.

And that's what's happened over the last few days.

The more intense the meeting between me and Irsyad, without thinking about my and Reiji's problems.

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Malia arrives at her apartment and Reiji at eight p.m.

A little surprised, because Malia found out that Reiji had been in their apartment.

“Malem, The.”

Reiji who was struggling in the pantry of the apartment immediately greeted Malia, when he realized his wife had arrived at the apartment.

“Malem, Rei.” Malia replied to Reiji.

“You've eaten?”

“Eenngg---“

Reiji immediately spoke again, answering his own question, when Malia seemed hesitant to answer.

“Pas really you sampoenya.” said Reiji while turning around and looking back in the pantry kitchen. “I make spaghetti----“

Malia also said oh just faintly.

“Yuk eat together----“

Take Reiji as he lifts up two containers filled with spaghetti he made.

“New mount mateng ..”

Reiji continued his words.

“Mm,” Malia murmuring. “Iya ..”

But then Malia agreed to Reiji's invitation in the end, although she felt that her stomach was full because she had not been eating with Irsyad for long.

“But I took a shower first ..”

“If you shower first, then this cold hunt spaghettinya, Which ..”

Reiji, who seemed to be drinking water, immediately said that Malia was trying to buy time to make room in her stomach for spaghetti cooked by Reiji.

Malia sighed faintly.

“But if indeed you do not want to eat, yes ---“

“I'm coming to eat.”

Finally without any more effort to resist, Malia caught up with Reiji to sit at the dining table after placing her bag on the living room sofa carelessly.

‘This is the name of the weapon eat sir...’.

Malia is resigned.

Self-conscious for lying to Reiji about his whereabouts.

Which inexplicably makes Malia feel - if she thinks again, lying to Reiji if she's with Irsyad right now.

He and Irsyad eat only.

Surely Reiji also likes to eat with Shirly, right?.

But yes already - Malia thought. He had lied to Reiji if he had been on the street when Reiji asked for his whereabouts.

Surely Reiji thought that he had not eaten.

And Reiji had already cooked that way.

Besides if Reiji might feel offended if Malia refused to be honest that she had eaten with Irsyad before returning home, Malia could not bear to give a rejection to Reiji who had been bothered to cook, just spaghetti though.

And again, it felt like Malia had felt quite guilty towards Reiji after all. How do you want? Malia also wants to feel happy spending time with the people she loves. Although just doing ordinary things, such as eating together, or going to watch occasionally.

Well, even as a married woman, it's not justified at all-spending time with other men whose status is not husband. And Malia knows it.

He knew he was being selfish with Reiji.

“Yang ....” call Reiji on his behalf and Malia is eating her spaghetti.

“Ya? ...” replied Malia.

“Where did you stop by before you went home?...”

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