TIME (For A Taste )
CHAPTRE 220

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

Reiji was stunned when the speech was triggered by a receptionist of the apartment where he and Malia lived since they married.

A little, there was a sense of was – was that directly infiltrated Reiji's heart. “Could you not see my wife come because with the time you went to the toilet?....”

But Reiji quickly cleared it, because Reiji still remembered very well before he contacted the hotel that Malia had booked yesterday - and then the receptionist said that Malia had checked out from last night.

So, Malia must have gone back to their apartment. “Or could be my wife directly parking in unit F....”

Yang Reiji believed, if when Malia arrived at the apartment building -- the receptionist in question was not behind his desk.

‘Eh but Lia did not bring a car yesterday?...’

Then there was a disturbance that perched in Reiji's heart.

‘Ah who knows Lia come back here first take a car. Could be so.’

But even then Reiji removed with a presumption of one possibility.

**

REIJI

I say goodbye to Eka and then swing my steps to get into the elevator, ignoring my – was was about what the man whose age was still below me said about Lia who he felt had not returned to our apartment unit.

I'm confident in my opinion that I don't think Eka might have seen when Lia returned to this apartment building that we've lived in since marriage. That Eka wasn't twenty-four hours behind her desk, was it?

Unless he's a private security guard I hired to stand in front of my apartment unit who certainly knows very well about Lia whether it's been here or not since last night, and then I'll believe 100 percent of what Eka said that Lia hasn't returned to our apartment.

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People say, ‘Don't like kepedean’.

That word now I think it's on me.

Because in fact, what the apartment receptionist told me about Lia not returning to the apartment -- is true.

My greeting got no answer from Lia, and here's the guy I didn't meet in every room in our apartment. Everything seemed to remain in place before Lia and I left yesterday morning.

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

--

I was panicking and worried too.

I tried to call Lia's phone almost without pause, not connected either.

Still inactive if I see a tick on the message I sent him in the private room chat number of my contact and Lia.

I called her and my parents' house with my alibi and I just got to Jakarta and asked if Lia was there so that if I didn't go back to the apartment, nothing.

Lia wasn't there.

Thinking what might Lia have left for the office?....

I guess not, considering it's still half-seven in the morning.

But still I called to Lia's office rather than being curious.

“No one's office has arrived yet, Mr.”

The words from the person who received my call to Lia's office, who is a cleaning service officer.

Until the time I got to the numbers that I thought the employees in Lia's office had arrived - and maybe Lia had also come, I called back there to find out where Lia was.

--

“Mba Liona permission to sign today, Mr.”

Aargh!!

The answer from the woman I believed was Lia's office receptionist was frustrating.

Yang, where?

There are about ten lines of the same question I sent to Lia's phone, from the moment I didn't find my wife's whereabouts where – where--- in – place I thought where could Lia be if not in the apartment.

There's only one person I haven't called.

Avi.

My sister's.

But Avi is in Jogja?....

Time yes Lia brought her snack to me who did not come to the candle light dinner that she prepared for me it to Jogja?....

Hishh! Forgive me, Lia!

Angry is angry.

But it doesn't create panic like this either.

Talk well is it hard?!

In this case, am I not upset as well?!

**

MALIA

I was thinking about ditching the office and going where I am today.

Visiting Avi to Jogja maybe?....

“Mba Lia's. Just recently her husband called...”.

But in fact I stopped to skip work, because I thought my personal affairs should not affect the professionalism of my work as an employee.

And now I'm in my cubicle, taking the call that goes into the intercom that's on my cubicle table.

**

Malia smiles at her place, when she hears an answer from her office receptionist who she asks to lie if Reiji is looking for her by calling her office phone number.

“Udah I told you like Mba Lia pesenin to me...”.

“Still cantiik---“

“Again yak hubbynya?...”

Malia chuckles at the question from her office receptionist.

“Lambe turah mode on.”

Then Malia joked, and the receptionist Malia always called beautiful giggled at the end of the intercom connection.

“Yes Yes, Mba Lia. There's a phone coming in,” said the receptionist later. “There are more who want to be dipesenin if there is another nyari?....”

“Ga. Make it a father pilot it pesennya,” replied Malia. “Just until you come home later, if he calls again, yes say the same reason as I pesenin it.”

“OK, sip,” says the receptionist. “Wes, I received a phone call first,” he said again.

“Iya,” sahut Malia. “Thank you once again well?”

“Sama-sama...”.

“Later to receive...”.

**

Malia returns to her job after talking to her office receptionist, who reports to Malia that Reiji contacted her office and found her.

And just as Malia asks the hotel receptionist to lie, her office receptionist is asked to do the same - that is, to lie to Reiji about her whereabouts.

Then Malia's reward goes to those who launch her lie, to prevent her from talking let alone meeting Reiji although most likely when she comes home later, she will definitely meet her husband.

Although it feels like Malia is still lazy to meet Reiji.

But yes let it be, see later how he will behave if he meets Reiji in their apartment unit.

But for now, Malia avoids communicating with Reiji.

His heart was unstable, disappointed to learn that Reiji had lied to him, for some reason.

Even his phone is still Malia let his condition die. Purposefully.

Let Reiji know what it's like to wait for news restlessly for hours, just like he did last night.

That's it, Reiji added dishonestly.

To her worries Malia turned upset.

Let it be, if it is said so boyish his attitude.

His name is angry, how?......

**

MALIA

Time seems to pass faster than usual, I think today.

Because I knew the time to come home from work had arrived, and I still felt at home sitting around in my work chair.

Although this afternoon I did not go out to lunch even, and ordered food online so I was lazy to get out of my work chair.

And since I had promised to treat my office reception lunch, I asked him to order the food he wanted and then I just took the order at the place that the beauty chose.

I just gave him money to pay.

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Making the next excuse for my co-worker who was about to eat outside, I chose to stay in my cubicle when lunch arrived.

Every now and then I glance at my phone that I still have not activated, though it feels itchy to know whether Rei sent me many chat messages to question my whereabouts or not.

But I was curious to lose to my strength that was upset at this Rei. So I persevered to leave my phone inactive until the clock came home.

Some are lazy also if if the chat message from Rei is in fact a sentence that describes him most likely also angry because I seem to avoid it.

Until I had waited for the elevator to get to the lobby and ordered a taxi, my phone had not activated. Later on, if I don't get a direct taxi - then I'll turn on my phone to order a taxi online.

Where I was thinking, I didn't want to go straight to the apartment.

Play first to the Mall, buy time to meet Rei at our residence.

Hm, that seems like a good idea to improve my mood.

Shopping can be a calming therapy for women, right?...

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My heart is steady not to go straight to the apartment, but want to spend time first in a Mall that is not far from the office building where I work.

I'm already in the main lobby of the building right now, and I opened my bag to pick up the phone in preparation for not getting a taxi in person. But my plan of snacking seemed to fail, when I caught a figure standing near the reception desk of the main lobby.

And he saw me too.

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