Asa (Paying Wife Only)

(season 2) chapter 5

"Hi, Richie. I didn't think you'd come." Moza is now sitting on the sofa.

"Sorry last night I couldn't come, Za. You know, now I have to take a vacuum from the entertainment world. I have to continue Papa's business in Korea." Richie said. But the look in his eyes was staring at the entire room as if he was looking for someone.

"I know, aren't you also engaged to a Korean? I heard the news. You should invite us to your wedding Rich."

Richie smiled faintly and nodded his head. "I'm stepping down from my marriage, Za. I want to explore the business I'm managing first." Richie's face looked so moody when it came to his marriage.

Moza frowned. "Drawn? Why do I feel like you're the same as Dea. You guys express the same when I mention marriage. Papa is currently dating Dea to a man. But Dea says she doesn't want to get married, but they're a compatible couple. They have also been close in recent days" said Moza. But that made Richie speechless. His chest was so tight that he heard Dea being close to a man. If only he could have achieved the love of Dea. But that is impossible, because it is very difficult to reach the love of Dea. Especially Dea who always said ketus to him.

Richie's view is diverted to the dea that goes down the stairs. That girl looks so pretty. Long time no see makes Dea look so beautiful according to Richie.

Moza followed Richie's line of sight. Then he turned his head to Dea.

"Dea, where are you going? You look so pretty today." asked Moza.

"I want to buy some souvenirs for Celine, Za. Tomorrow I have to go back." Dea said.

Moza was surprised, because Dea said he would return to Indonesia with Moza one week later. "Don't you say you're coming home with me in a week?"

"I'm sorry, Za. But there was a sudden job at the office. And I don't want to trouble Celine." - Dea.

"Who are you going with, Dea? I'll take you." Richie said.

"No, I asked Arsen to come get me" Dea said.

"Arsen?"

The sound of car horns is heard from the yard. "That car has arrived. Za, I'll go first."

Moza followed Dea's steps to escort Dea out of the house. Richie headed towards the window. He was shocked to see Arsen pick Dea up. He was Arsen his cousin's best friend. Richie looked at Arsen who was smiling warmly as Dea approached him, and it made his chest so riled up.

Why did Richie dislike Arsen being so familiar with Dea and Moza?. While he saw Hye Jin close to many men he was just acting ordinary and stupid.

Richie was so jealous of Arsen and Dea's closeness, so jealous.

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Richie returns to his apartment he once occupied. His brain was filled with the meeting of Arsen and Dea.

Richie pulls his tie rough and then throws it away. He took the alcohol he collected. Then he poured it into a glass.

Richie gulped down the drink, then put the glass in its place. His sight was empty at this moment. The shadow of Arsen and Dea kept ringing in his brain. He knows everything they talk about and do.

His phone rang making him wake up from his daydream. Hye Jin's name is on her phone screen. Richie was so lazy to pick up the call. But the phone did not stop to ring, he finally with emotion raised the call.

"Richie, why didn't you go to Singapore tell me?"

"I've asked permission from aunty and also grandma. I told them, then why did I tell you again?" Richie gulped back the remaining alcohol in his glass.

"Rich...!" Hye Jin's voice sounded angry. "Are you there to see that woman?" Hye Jin knows that Richie likes women who come from there. Richie used to say the name Dea when they were fighting.

"You're not my wife yet. Don't act like you've become my wife, Hye Jin. We're not married yet, so don't ever interfere in my life's affairs, I hate that so much!"

"You've always been like this, Richie. You've not always been so kind to me. Didn't I just ask? I have never interfered with your problems either. You even backtracked on our marriage without asking me. I'm not protesting with all that. Then right now I'm just asking you, is that wrong?!"

"Yes, that's so wrong. Everything about you is so wrong. Your biggest mistake was getting into my life. So you have to accept the consequences. If you don't like all this, then you please go!" Richie ends the call unilaterally before Hye Jin replies.

The glass he held was his target. Richie throws the glass until it breaks apart. Richie's really fucked up. He cannot control his emotions well.

"What's this, Richie?" The voice of a middle-aged man suddenly entered without knocking on the door. He stared at the whole room that looked so chaotic.

Richie's gaze was distracted at the middle-aged man who walked up to him and avoided the broken glass on his floor.

"Uncle." Yes, he is Uncle Richie named Gemal. She is the husband of Rebecca, Aunty Richie. Gemal loved Richie as much as his own son, remembering himself who had no children.

"Sorry Uncle, my apartment is so messy. I accidentally nudged the glass until it broke. Why didn't Uncle come here to tell me?"

"You go back to Singapore and you don't tell your Uncle this either. Even Uncle knows from your aunty. That's why Uncle came here."

"I'm sorry Richie, Uncle. I forgot to tell uncle." Richie smiled, but in a split second the smile was gone.

Uncle Gemal noticed Richie's face which could not lie to him. "Do you have a problem, son?" Then Uncle Gemal patted Richie on the shoulder and invited him to sit on the sofa.

"Nothing, Uncle."

"You can't lie to Uncle. It's been Uncle raising you all along, so Uncle knows you're lying. Tell me, what's your problem, son."

"What would it be if it wasn't Hye jin, Uncle." Richie sighed saying it.

"What happened to Hye Jin?"

"Actually I was so lazy to marry her, Uncle. He was always being possessive of me. He always asks me where I am and where I am. I'm really bothered by that."

"That's because Hye Jin loves you, son."

"But I never loved her, Uncle. But grandma and Aunty...." His words stopped with his breath again.

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