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The Immaculate Love 59

Sherin paused, her pair of eyes staring without a blink at what was happening before her eyes. Downstream of the truck carrying goods out of the factory. Since Sherin stood there, there have been 4 trucks out transporting goods, for each destination.

Alarik's wife smiled a happy smile. Because it is a sign that the problem of distributing goods that had been returned, has now found a way out.

He rushed into the factory area, and went straight to the office building. One of Sherin's goals, namely to meet her husband while carrying a paper bag containing a lunch menu. Because this morning, Alarik hastily left even without having time for breakfast.

Everyone who passed by him would give a smile and a friendly greeting. Because everyone knows, if the woman in purple hijab, is the wife of their master.

But, that smile and kind greeting, Sherin was not found in her husband's office. Alarik only saw a glimpse of his arrival, before returning to pursue some of the files he was reading.

“I brought lunch, Mas,” said Sherin while putting a paper bag on the table not far from Alarik sitting.

“Iya, Rin's. Thank you,” Alarik said without turning his head.

“Eat first, Mas. It's time for lunch ‘kan?”

ALarik. “In the meantime,” he said.

Sherin sat waiting on the sofa, not wanting to force Alarik who was still busy with his work. Until, about fifteen minutes later, Alarik approached him.

“We had lunch together, Rin,” his door to Sherin who was preparing the food menu he brought.

“I was just now, at home. Just eat, I'll accompany.”

Furthermore, Sherin just sat not far in front of Alarik who ate his menu quite greedily.

“We can already distribute the goods as usual yes, Mas.” Sherin opened the chat after Alarik finished his meal.

“Ya,” Reply Alarik briefly.

It only took two days, from the three days that Damaresh had asked Alarik to solve the problem. Earlier this morning, Aura's husband had contacted Alarik and mentioned some retail stores that would become factory work partners now. And that new co-worker, needs an immediate shipment of goods.

The handsome man who has placed his position as CEO of Pramudya Corp does have a smart business brain, able to make new breakthroughs that are not legible, and smart in solving existing problems, he said, without taking long.

Pramudya Corp must have lost the figure of a leader with cold hands like Damaresh, when the man chose to resign.

“I'm very happy, Mas, with all this. At least one problem has been resolved,” said Sherin, telling her her love for all of this.

Alarik just nodded while taking a sip of his drink. The joy Sherin felt, invisible on the man's face. Alarik's face remained flat as usual. There was even no word that he said as a form of appreciation to Sherin, who had also felt the joy and sorrow about her work taking care of the factory.

“Excess why?”

“I'm very happy with all this, but, you're not.”

“I'm happy Rin. The problem at the factory is done,” Alarik said, his lips slightly tilting a thin smile but only at a glance.

“What I see is not so, Mas. You look ordinary,” value Sherin while staring fixed face of her husband.

Alarik breathed a heavy sigh. “You know ‘kan? There are still things that are very burdensome to me,” he said in a soft voice.

“about your son, or his mother?” ask Sherin slowly.

“Both,” sahut Alarik without hesitation.

“Both, yes, Mas?” Sherin repeats Alarik's words in a soft voice, as her feelings are instantly clouded by pain.

“Yes, nothing weighs more on my mind, than about them,” restless Alarik with a blank stare that pierced through the void.

Sherin listens carefully to that, along with herself who feels marginalized by Alarik. Is it a fact, who is Sherin when compared to Kanaya?

The woman was also well aware of her position. But he also could not get rid of the pain in the chest, whenever Alarik reminded about the position of it— with his words—although unintentionally.

“Yes, Mas. I know, Kanaya and her son are your world. There is nothing more important in your life than them,” Sherin said as she cheered in her heart.

She was cheering for herself, who had never had a place in her husband's heart, until now.

What can a Sherin do now? When faced with reality must compete with the dead.

If only Kanaya were alive, maybe Sherin could emulate her style, her looks, and everything about Kanaya in order to win her husband's love. Even for that, in quotation marks, he had to turn into someone else, not himself.

But the fact is, Kanaya is gone. And his memory lives on in Alaric, and it may be forever.

So, is there anything more appropriate, that Sherin can do now, than to step back slowly?

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Should, Alarik and Sherin end up in divorce??