TIME (For A Taste )
CHAPTRE 219

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“Alamak, what time is this???!!...”

A woman wakes up in a hurry from her sleep.

“Haaahhh. Fortunately it is still dawn,” he said with relief when he saw the wall clock in one part where he is now.

Then he picked up a cell phone located not far from his position that had been sitting leaning on a bed.

‘How to want to avoid Rei, I matiin phone without alarm settings first semalem..’.

It was Malia, that woman.

‘Eh by the way about Rei... He's been calling the party here and asking me about where I am?’

Malia had a monologue in her heart.

Then he glanced at a telephone plane that was above the nightstand of the bed where he was currently.

***

Meanwhile, somewhere else,

Because getting information if Malia has checked out from the hotel that Malia chose to take her to do candle light dinner and stay overnight there on the basis of celebrating her birthday on a small basis, Malia said, Reiji thinks Malia has returned to their apartment.

“But Mr. Reiji is safe now, if you are afraid to be taken with Ms. Malia if you get home on time .”

A receptionist who previously greeted and lightly chatted with Reiji to say a word, which made Reiji frown a little.

Then Reiji asked spontaneously to a receptionist who had been chatting lightly with him. “Amanya? ..”

“Ya Bu Malia seems not to have returned here .”

“Heu? ..”

“Taste – feels as I recall, indeed I have not seen Malia ma'am back here since yesterday morning deh pak.”

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MALIA

I glanced at a phone plane that was on the nightstand of the bed I was in at the moment when I remembered about Rei whom I did not tell whether I was going to go home or stay at a hotel I booked exclusively.

And until the morning that is still gray scenery outside, I did not tell what – what to Rei.

My upset mix made me deactivate my phone immediately after Rei called me last night.

Thinking about it anyway, Rei would have been very worried about me if he went home to our apartment unit and he didn't find me there.

Because I didn't go back to the apartment unit, where I and Rei lived. I stayed at the hotel which since the afternoon I prepared and dressed up beautifully for a husband who did not come at his own celebration, even though it was just a small celebration – little made.

But I was planning Rei's little – birthday celebration so nicely, anyway, until the moment Rei did not come even without news until two hours I waited and then canceled the restaurant reservation for a candle light dinner that I had arranged in such a way --- - I felt disappointed.

The growing disappointment, when I realized that Rei was lying to me about the reason he didn't come even to the point of not contacting me until after two hours when our candle light dinner reservation at the hotel that I had determined was over.

I don't know why Rei lied to me like that, obviously I want to ease my frustration first and not meet her face for a while even after coming home from work later I want to not go back to my apartment unit and Rei. I don't know if he went somewhere and lied to me again.

Ugh Rei, his lies create some perception in my brain which of course disturbs my mood. Fuuuuha.

Yes, I remember wanting to call. So I slightly shifted from my position and grabbed the handle of the phone that was on the bedside nightstand.

The hotel bed.

The hotel I've been in since last night's room.

The room I booked in the name of a small – little celebration I made for Rei which is free, because of the romantic and friendly session I imagined I would do with Rei gatot.

Ah never mind, annoy me again if I remember it. But I also want to find out about one thing.

“Halo, good morning,” my handkerchief to someone on the other end of the phone whom I little recognized his voice. Which I then spoke to after I said my name and room number.

And the guy who was a hotel receptionist actually still remembers me, on the basis that I sent him a message last night.

If my husband Reiji Shakeel comes or calls the hotel where I am, I ask him to tell me that I have checked out of this hotel.

The pressure?....

Stupid time. At least I feel a sense of satisfaction that can dampen my irritation just a little.

Then I smiled when I heard the receptionist's reply.

“Suami mom last night contacted here and it just so happened that I received. Then I tell her what I ordered earlier.”

Another satisfaction rippled in my heart.

Durhakim I'm the same husband then.

But I'm just an ordinary man, with all his flaws.

So the spontaneous retaliation I gave Rei----- even though I knew most likely it was a wrong and bad thing, still I did.

For her to feel what I felt last night, waiting worriedly with an erratic feeling as well. But was Rei worried about me last night not finding me in the apartment and having trouble contacting me right now, I don't know.

For now I'm a fool. Then hurried out of bed after I finished talking to the receptionist who had helped me.

Later I will give tips for him if when I check out the concerned is still there. Uh, but can't she take any tips if I give it to her at the reception desk?

Ah, look at it later. Now I better get up and do my duty first.

Well, I remember not carrying a face in my briefcase.

Because one face I live in the office, and one spare is in my car that I didn't bring yesterday.

Can the hotel not provide mukena if I ask?....

I just asked the receptionist. Maybe he can help me again.

And if there is, I will ask him to deliver it myself so that I can give him tips directly.

Aye, yes. Just like that.

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The problem with Mukena is over.

In this five-star hotel there is no special store equipment related to Muslims.

But the receptionist who helped me deliver my message to cover my whereabouts still in the hotel I was booking, helped me once again by lending me a meeting of her coworkers.

Which I used the opportunity to ask him to deliver himself to my room.

And it just so happened that the receptionist was about to change shift work, so he did not violate the SOP in his job.

After all, the receptionist in the context helps guests, right?....

I will give you a five star review later. Here I will praise – praise the staff in the review.

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It's time for me to take a shower to go to the office, and then I'll activate my phone there. Fortunately I have prepared one outfit that can double.

Semi-formal clothes, but still appropriate if I use to the office where my plan is to ditch today if my show and Rei run as they should. But in regards to my show and Rei gatot, so I'd better just go to the office.

Instead of me going back to the apartment and meeting Rei there, then for sure he'll ask this then it upsets my mood stability again which is a little better now ----- I better just go to the office, met with my coworkers who were mostly gokil and kocak.

Or do I need to skip work and go where?....

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REIJI

I let Malia down, I realized that.

And I had no intention of lying to him either.

But there was one compelling reason why I lied to her, which I would later tell her if I could confirm Lia's mood was moody plus sensitive.

Especially for one specific thing that was the reason why I couldn't come to the hotel where the romantic candlelight dinner had Lia prepared to celebrate my birthday.

Actually, I wanted to surprise her as well by coming early to the hotel and welcoming Lia when she arrived so I lied about my return time from Denpasar.

But the phone that delivered one piece of news stopped me from doing that because I was panicking.

Wanting to tell Lia, but my phone was really dying and dying before long I received a call for news that was hard for me to ignore.

Then the many things I took care of, made me forget about my candle light dinner and Lia where I only realized when the time had passed more than an hour from the schedule of the event.

And again my phone I live in the car.

No. I'm in a grab motion, because there's a pause in the things I've been doing for about half an hour.

Only after I was right – was a little free, I half ran towards my car to pick up the phone I didn't think I was charging in the car during my last night trip to a hospital.

Afterwards, I heard a tinge of disappointment in Lia's voice.

Sorry, Yang?

Which I also expressed many times – times to Lia for my regrets that disappointed her, considering how Lia had prepared so much our romantic candlelight dinner to celebrate my birthday.

Not only disappointed, I'm sure Lia was angry even though she didn't admit it.

But if looking from a few times he cut my words and answered with a normal tone of voice indeed, but I caught the annoyance in Lia's words.

I-i understand.

So when Lia delayed answering my question about where she was going to go home, I asked her to stay at the hotel, so I would just let her over there, because after all hours check out the hotel right at 12 noon while I can get to the hotel at 6 am ---- and say he will inform me later with emphasis, and he will inform me later, I kept quiet and then agreed.

Lia was disappointed, and I'm sure there was his frustration with me in that disappointment that made the candle light dinner event that he had prepared then fail because I couldn't come, plus without news. And I remember the words of my papa, “If the upset woman is good to be admitted to her nonsense, do not be denied a bit”

So I'll take care of Lia who she says will tell me where she's going home.

Up to a few hours and I could leave behind the thing that made me unable to see Lia, but I did not receive the news from Lia.

Fix, Lia lashing. The phone is also inactive.

So I went back to the apartment, because when I called the hotel Lia-appointed----the receptionist said that Lia had checked out from last night. And yes, I'm sure Lia's back at the apartment.

But when I got to our apartment and passed through the main lobby, I greeted the receptionist who was about to change shifts, I was surprised by what he said confidently, that Lia hasn't been back to the apartment since yesterday morning.

“Could you not see my wife come because with the time you went to the toilet?....”

I ambushed the greeting of the male receptionist – the man named Eka.

“Or could be my wife directly parked in unit F,” added me, who thinks yes like that.

Lia directly parked to the parking area which accesses directly to the floor where our apartment unit is located.

But I remember - remember again, Lia didn't bring a car when she left for work yesterday?....

“Oh Yes Sir. It could be so...“ said Eka who disperse a bit of my daydream.

Maybe he also doesn't remember if yesterday Lia and I left together.

“Ya already so, I went up first...”.

I say goodbye to Eka and then swing my steps to get into the elevator.

“Yang?...” I called Lia after I said my greetings when I entered our apartment unit, where my greeting was missed.

Until then I was wracked with a sense of uncertainty in my heart, because Lia was not in our unit. Curious, I just remembered the CCTV I installed on our apartment doorstep, and some of the corners.

And yes, I didn't see Lia coming home to our unit from the CCTV footage that the monitor was connected to my phone other than Lia's.

Yes Tuhaan.... Where's Lia?....

I'm panicking. Sure was!

Besides worrying so much.

More worried when Lia's phone is also not active.

The more panicked and worried, when after I contacted his parents' house even my parents and get a statement if Lia was not there or just stopped by.

Scroll down the clock on my phone, thinking that maybe Lia had already left for the office.

But it feels impossible, because it's only half seven in the morning.

But there is no harm in trying.

And yes, nil. The office hours are empty.

Even the cleaning service took my call to Lia's office.

I decided to wait for the active time to work, then I will contact Lia's office again while I check my phone including the liveliness of Lia's phone with frequent. I stopped for a moment when I took a shower and got dressed.

At 7:30, I called Lia's office again. A woman who received my call said Lia had not come.

I'll have a message if Lia comes, so she'll call me ---- - but for half an hour my phone's quiet.

Until I fall asleep, then wake up in shock and see if the time shows at 9:30 WIB --- - my chat still has not changed into two ticks.

I'm not active yet.

So I called Lia's office again.

“Mba Liona permission to sign today, Mr.”

But that answer is what I got.

Aargh!!

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