TIME (For A Taste )
CHAPTRE 155

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REIJI

I trust Lia.

Well, at least I tried for it. Always was.

So, even though Lia was with other men in my view, I did not widen the pace to pull Lia from the man I thought was strong, was the man from Lia's past, whom my wife had loved.

Come to think of it, I'm being stepped over right now by that man. Like once I visited Lia in her office to pick her up and go home together, or once came to take lunch, when I knew that the man from Lia's past had returned.

And at that time, I found Lia had gone home or had gone to lunch with someone I believed was the seedling. Even they felt like they had met every day since the man had returned in Lia's life.

But at that time I tried to resist not getting emotional. Think positive if Lia is certainly still aware of boundaries and norms even though she still loves the man from her past. So, I believe in Lia.

Stupid one?..

Yes, I may be stupid as a man, especially as a husband who seems silent knowing his wife often spends time with other men.

Stupid also let Lia just leave to meet the man, even to the point of blatantly telling me.  And I just keep quiet.

If I confide in my male friends, sure is very sure if they will be a hustle to beat the seedling pebinor.

But no, I didn't say anything about the condition of my household and Lia to anyone. Not Avi and my parents. I swallowed it myself.

But I was silent not because I resigned, let alone afraid of the seedling pebinor who from the glance of his appearance I saw, like a beautiful man.

Rather than me wasting my energy furiously even to the point of beating the seedling, it was better for me to win Lia by focusing on my attitude towards her. Awakening Lia from her past love encounter, other than I do want to maintain my marriage with Lia.

I love Lia, and want to make her completely mine.

But I also do not want to be selfish, thinking only of my happiness.

Do not want to also be tacky by making a scene in a public place with the seedling pebinor.

Well, as long as the seedling's not really provoking my emotions.

Kissing Lia's lips, for example.

--

Back to Lia and the man she was with.

I remained unmoved where I was staring at the departure of the two from where I was standing, which the two of them were unaware of.

I'm a little burned out anyway. But I keep trying to be calm. Back to self-suggestion, if Lia really loves me.

And for that, I placed a high degree of trust in Lia. So I just let Lia go with the man with her, who I believe is the seedling.

If Lia loves me, maybe Lia will go with her to settle their past affairs.

So, I better give them some space for a while. And I'll wait for Lia to come back here, and then say hello to her.

I gave up on winning at the moment. And I'm sure I'm the one who ultimately wins over Lia and her heart.

I believe that.

And again, if my eyes don't catch me wrong, Lia seems to look a little surprised when the man appears before her.

So chances are, actually Lia didn't make a deal with the man first.

I really wish it was like that.

--

A little agitated, I waited for Lia at a contemporary coffee shop in the lobby area of my wife's office building.

I haven't had lunch, but my stomach isn't hungry yet. So a glass of dark cappucino I ordered while I waited for Lia to come back.

I just hold my anxiety while sitting quietly in a contemporary coffee shop that is not too big and loss without a door, and take a seat that should immediately catch everyone who goes in and out there.

“Reiji Shakeel?..”

A voice made me turn to the source, because it said my name.

I cringed a little. “Weh!” but soon I smiled widely, because I recognized who the person who called me was. “Andra Salim!”

I immediately also stood up from my seat and greeted one of my old friends, by linking fists like a boyfriend if I met.

Andra Salim, a young CEO who was a member of a Car Club a few years ago. We used to be quite familiar, but when Andra and I were both inactive again in the Club, I just met him again.

--

Andra joined me at the coffee shop I was at when we finished greeting each other. Then offered me to go to her private office, because Andra felt more comfortable chatting there.

I refused because I was waiting for Lia.

An hour will join also if not a word, although maybe I can kill time by fiddling with what is in my phone.

Play games for example.

But swipe has a mouth, it turns out the world of this novelty as wide as the leaves of moringa.

The world, that is.

Andra is actually Lia's boss, as well as the owner of the company where Lia works. After I found out about it, I told her about Lia.

Which makes Andra quite surprised, and said he regretted ignoring the invitation from Lia for him who was then Andra was still in America. Though Andra said, he already had the intention to contact the members of our Car Club first and plan a reunion.

And maybe after our meeting, the intention to hold a reunion with the children who had joined the Car Club with us first will be me and Andra carefully planned to be realized.

--

In the end I received a more compelling invitation from Andra after knowing that one of his employees was my wife, who indeed Andra knew exactly Lia for her performance in the Andra family-owned Company that she managed. Even Andra often interacts with Lia in work.

I squinted my eyes as if suspicious when Andra told me about Lia during Andra knew her in the office after Andra really focused on her family's company.

But Andra chuckled as I squinted my eyes at her, which was not serious either.

“Lo please do not I bulol Rei, but I love to die as much as me. I'm so dead-kalo love I'm not busy, and although busy, as soon as one hour I chat cake, phone even VC, just check her existence, just check her, again why-even though I have installed tracker on his phone without him tau.“

And so after that, what Andra told me.

One server turned out to be with me the Andra.

Bulol!

Bucin moron.

Just a belom as extreme as Andra who once an hour phone his wife, continue to be installed tracker also his phone.

But I think I'll think again about the masang tracker on Lia's phone. Hmm?....

It can also seem like.

Okay, noted.

--

Then Andra left a message to the receptionist to tell me where I was in his office.

Andra had invited me to enter a room called the Lounge, because her private room was being cleaned.

But after one of his office staff said that if Andra's private room had been cleaned, Andra invited me to her private room.

And I'm waiting for Lia there.

“Lo ga contact your wife let her cepet-cepet dateng here?”

“Ga. Let alone. I don't want him to rush instead eat it.Ga want to also disturb the time he's the same friends.”

I answered Andra's question.

“Lo if busy, feel free to continue the work of lo Dra. I have no problem waiting in the waiting room kok –“

I should know myself to Andra who I'm sure is a busy CEO. I didn't tell her I actually saw Lia.

“Bos, why do I ngoyo really work together,” seloroh Andra. And I snorted amusedly. “Btw, lo if you don't make a deal with your wife, why do you bother coming here abis narik?-“

“Lo think I'm an angkot driver, narik?!”

Andra was laughing after I had a slur.

“Sama-sama driver right?... different vehicles doang...”.

And I chuckled at the babbling of my old friend.

--

“Kalo lo ga no intentionan maksi with your wife, why do you come directly here abis kesdas? Instead of going straight back to your apartment and break then dateng here to pick up Malia at the time of the office?..”

“Same weight kangen bini Mabro!”

“Bucin can be kayak I also lo?!”

Then me and Andra also chuckled together.

“Terus lo plan abis meet Malia?-“ ask Andra again. “Balik?..”

“Maybe I wait until the working time is finished Dra..... giggly want to go back. no problem right? I'll wait outside..”.

“Alah! What the hell lo?!” sergeant Andra. “Mau spread the same charm my nuns do you sit in the waiting room?!”

I chuckle again.

“Lo here only. I also relaxed in the afternoon. In fact, the plan I want to return the spit because again loose business Company.”

“Ya lo if you want to go back, just go back... woles,” tukasku.

“Ga lah-“

Andra attacked again.

“There is a long time, my ga time benefit this meeting of ours? Tomorrow-tomorrow I am sure we will have to take time if you want to gather again.... Your flight schedule is the same schedule of my business in the Company in the future can be difficult to synchronize.”

“Iya anyway..”.

I too am a mangosteen.

“Ya we have maksi together later.”

I agree with Andra's invitation. “Lo set aja.”

“Bentar-“ Andra said as the intercom above her desk rang.

“Take your time,”.

“Malia has arrived. Wait here, I need to have my secretary in front...”.

I nodded to confirm Andrea.

Not long after, my phone vibrated.

There's a chat from Lia.

Which I did not open immediately, but the short chat message can be read from the floating screen of my phone.

Rei, are you in my office?

As soon as the sound of Lia's message that I deliberately ignored, because I wanted to surprise her.

Lebay, her husband Lia.

Haha.

--

And shortly afterwards, I heard the voice of the figure I longed for, who entered Andra's office with a straight forward look, with his professional demeanor.

Who then looked so shocked that she gave a small shriek, when Lia heard my voice, and turned to look at me.

Wonder why I could be in the private workspace of his boss, which I then told Lia if me and Andra had known for a long time.

Then I did wait for Lia who I told to go back to work as usual, while I waited for work hours to be completed.

What, for the sake of my beloved wife.

--

In short, I still went to lunch with Andra.

After returning to my old friend's office - and how understanding that Andra was, by giving Lia permission to go home a little faster than the usual time to go home. Then Lia and I will avoid the hectic streets when the time comes home from work.

And this is where I and Lia are now. In our apartment unit.

After a while, Lia was suspicious of me when we ran into a woman in the hallway to my unit and Lia.

I don't know that woman at all, nor do I care.

All I care about is my wife, my wife Malia.

The one I saw was a little agitated in the parking lot of his office.

Is there that pebinor seedling there?.

Did they actually make a promise to go home together?.

Well, I was just waiting for Lia to be honest with me, about her meeting with the seedling.

Because if Lia wasn't honest with me about it which I already knew and saw with my own eyes, then....

--

Seriate....

Thank you for being faithful.