TIME (For A Taste )
CHAPTRE 120

Thank you for being faithful.

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MALIA

“I'll go with you tomorrow, on your show with Irsyad..”.

And my knees were limp, hearing Reiji say he wanted to go with me tomorrow, where I had an appointment with Irsyad.

“Well you are not there an event that you said it?..” I said later, then, after I calmed down to my shock from Reiji saying he wanted to come with me on my appointment with Irsyad.

Reiji still seems busy in the sink.

While I was still flinching where I sat.

“*Tau what means**Family Gathering**?*”

Reiji answered me, asking back.

“Events to strengthen between employees with employees following their families.”

Which question Reiji asked me, he answered himself.

“So on that basis, those who have a family come by bringing their family, at least a wife if the child does not have ---“

Then Reiji turned around and looked at me after he finished washing the dishes and then put them on the dryer rack, but Reiji remained in place while leaning on the sink cabinet while he lay across.

“To here, understand?” said Reiji. “If I wasn't married and came alone to the show, people wouldn't look at me weird. But if now I were the one they knew to have had this wife come alone, they would wonder, and perhaps speculate on their own. Which speculation they really want me to avoid.“.

Then Reiji spoke at length, without giving me a chance to speak.

“I don't think of others' thoughts about me. But I refuse to answer their questions later if you don't come, and I keep coming. I'm lazy to lie, because my brain is lazy to think of a replacement reason if someone asks, ‘Kok came alone Mr Reiji?. His wife why didn't she come?’. I may not answer, ‘Oh my wife is meeting men from her past --“

“Stop!”

I quickly ambushed Reiji to say more, as my heart began to feel uneasy.

Reiji's insinuation was so sharp. And it's too much for me.

I was struck by Reiji's words, but I also didn't accept him being cornered like this.

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I shook my head after I stopped Reiji from speaking at length while narrowing down the innuendo in his sentence, before he finished his words.

“If I don't want to come to your show, you can't force me to Rei. Know?”

I said flatly while looking at Reiji's dislike.

Because I didn't like hearing Reiji's words before.

“Which part of what I said forced you to come to my office, Yang?..”

Reiji relaxed.

I'm speechless.

I remember Reiji didn't force me to come along.

But didn't he say that he wanted to come with me where I would meet Irsyad after I told him I was going to run for Reiji's office, is it another form of coercion for me to accompany Reiji at his office?.

“Oh, because I said I wanted to come with you to meet the Irsyad that made your skeptical brain think that I was forcing you to come with me?”

Reiji seemed to be able to read my mind.

And with the rest too, Reiji again – again using the word skeptic for me.

“As far as you want to say what, if I say I don't want to come, yes I won't go to your family gathering office or wherever I don't want. And you, have no right to interfere with my business ---“

“I'm entitled..” Reiji interrupted my words.

His eyes were sharply glaring at me, with Reiji's face now a flat expression.

“Ga, you have no right to interfere in my affairs even though you are my husband Rei-“

“Once again I'm entitled, Lia.” Cut Reiji off, and there's emphasis on his speech. And I've been reluctant to argue with Reiji any longer now.

“You are not entitled, because we are married is not purely my desire.”.

Reiji was silent, but I noticed his jaw was starting to harden.

“And for that, I love you the right to interfere in my-“ affairs

I immediately walked away from the dining table, then grabbed my bag and went straight into the room.

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I was reluctant to get out of the room after I left the dining table and from Reiji in the pantry of our apartment. Reiji did not catch up with me as I passed from his presence after I gave him the pressure not to interfere in my affairs.

Which I can imagine if most likely Reiji would have been furious after hearing that remark.

I thought, Reiji will come after me outraged and dissatisfied at my sharp statement, and then we'll come back for an argument in the room.

But no, Reiji wasn't after me.

It was possible that Reiji thought that if I locked our room after I entered it, just like a while ago, when we were also out of an argument.

I don't know.

What is clear is that I feel my body is quite sultry and sticky, even though it has been caught by the cold in my room and Reiji in our apartment.

But still does not eliminate the sultry and sticky feeling in my body.

And I decided to take a shower, no matter if I bumped into Reiji when I got out of the room, or maybe Reiji would pull me over to talk.

Stupid, see later how, obviously I was right – really need to take a shower.

So I immediately picked up a change of clothes and a new towel from inside the walk in closet in my room and Reiji, and rushed out of the room afterwards.

“.......”

At the moment where I heard sayup – sayup Reiji's voice from the multipurpose room – which is more accurately referred to as Reiji's reading room.

“Gue Just wanted to say.”

It seemed like Reiji was talking to someone on his phone.

Which made me wonder who Reiji was talking to.

Where my skeptical brain thinks, if most likely Reiji is on the phone with Shirly.

And somehow how my heart has the desire to investigate, what the hell does Reiji usually talk to his female friends if they are on the phone?.

“*Gue isn't coming tomorrow. **There is something I want to take care of. Say hello to others....*”

But it doesn't seem to be Shirly, Reiji is on the phone right now.

“I'll talk to Jill later..”.

Because the name of the person Reiji mentioned I know who.

I remember it was the name of one of the staff at the Airline office where Reiji was staying during his time as a Pilot.

At that time Reiji showed me a chat message from the man named Jill, when Reiji and I had a fight before we had a cold war.

And somehow my heart felt relieved to know that Reiji was not on the phone with Shirly.

But nevermind.

Because it has paid off my curiosity, I also want to continue the step to the bathroom which is quite close to the reading room.

But my steps stopped immediately, and my body seemed to freeze when I heard Reiji say,

“You give me the same lesson someone who annoys mine ---“

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