Forced Mate

Take Revenge

Ayu continued to follow Alex who had been pacing open every storage, be it in the drawers and refrigerator. The man had to check all of Ayu's equipment before he returned to Singapore.

"Why don't you have a check list?" pekik Ayu did not accept his belongings were dismantled.

"It's a good idea, but I don't have time to prepare the data, honey," Alex said.

The man opened the refrigerator again, looking at the groceries Ayu had. A new feeling a few days ago he filled that refrigerator with many ingredients, now it was greatly reduced.

"Alex, stop!" Ayu pulled Alex's arm, "I can take care of myself."

"No!" Alex shook his head, "a lot less."

Ayu gave a rough sigh at Alex's behavior. He was a spoiled child while living with his parents but, now he is used to taking care of his own life. The man did not have to bother checking his stock.

"You need fruit, vegetables, meat stock, too. In fact, the salt is gone. Oh, yes, your kitchen salt should be replaced the same as the himalaya, the sodium is lower. Pepper should also be added, garlic too, a lot of which is lacking.

"Oil is also replaced with olive, my dear. More healthy and delicious. Milk also remains one box, must be added.  Snacks that you like are also ready to run out, once the meal runs out."

Ayu walked in towards her room. He no longer wanted to follow Alex and hear the man's chatter. He's not a kid who can't take care of his own house.

"Well, there you go back to Singapore!" expel Ayu.

"We have to go shopping now." Alex ignored Ayu's ouster.

"Go it alone!" pekik Ayy.

"Take it again, huh?" alex asked to take a spot beside Ayu.

Ayu chose to lie down because all day she felt exhausted. He closed his eyes and did not respond to Alex's question.

"Yes, rest first. We can't leave for a minute" said Alex lying down.

Before long, Alex gets out of the room letting Ayu rest on her own. She goes into the kitchen and intends to make an afternoon snack for Ayu. That woman was just eating last lunch, she needed to eat a lot of food.

He decided to make tempura. There are shrimp tempura and a wide variety of vegetables. Fortunately there were still few groceries because they did not stay in the house for three days.

After cleaning all the cooking utensils, Alex went out into the living room and kept the produce on the table. Just now he had intended to call Ayu in the room, but, the woman had already gone out of the room.

"Away awake?" ask Alex.

"No, still sleeping!" ketus Ayy.

Alex gets closer to Ayu and embraces her. "Just woke up really hard."

"You finished ordering food?" tanya Ayu looked at the food on the table.

"Make it yourself, honey," Alex said.

One eyebrow Ayu raised looked at Alex. He sneered, then sat on the sofa. Alex followed him.

"It's safe, right?" tanya Ayu held one tempura that contained many types of vegetables.

Alex grabs one and eats it and is followed by Ayu.

"Don't you make it yourself?" say Ayu after finishing mebynyah a few bites.

"Bikin himself, just found out if your husband is a chef," replied Alex, "I want to register as a judge at the master chef, we need a lot of money to raise a child."

Regret Ayu praised Alex's cooking. The man is too narcissistic.

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Ayu had rejected Alex's invitation to shop for home needs, but the woman finally collapsed after a while persuaded. Tempura earlier was one of the bribes for him.

As before, Alex became a shopping cart. The whole thing in the basket was his choice. Ayu is not indifferent to the stock of goods for her house, she feels no need to make a lot of supplies because access to buy is not difficult, unless she does live in a remote place. Unlike the assumption Alex, according to the man is more efficient if providing some stock so it does not have to run out.

"Your soap is over, too, right?" alex asked Ayu who was standing with her hands folded.

"There is still," said Ayu, "I'm tired, let's go home!"

Ayu had complained and asked to go home. If Alex doesn't miscalculate, this is his third complaint.

"In a moment," Alex replied, "or you rest first, let me finish shopping."

Ayu shakes her head in rejecting Alex's idea. "No, when I'm hanging out by myself."

"Yes, be patient, yeah." Alex continued pushing the trolley.

Ayu just stared at Alex's back, a bright idea flashed through her mind. The man was very annoying and liked to nag him all this time, once he had to reply so Alex knew the taste. He turned towards the fruit spot. One corner of his lips was pulled to the side, staring at the small box covered in plastic. He took out a few boxes containing the red-colored fruit. This time he'll avenge Alex's prank, because the man will be home tonight so there's no chance.

then Ayu came back closer to Alex and put about four boxes of strawberries, see what he would do to the ignorant man. He gave a smile to Alex who was staring at the fruit with a worried face.

"No!" alex pushed Ayu's hand slowly as the woman thrust out a piece of strawberry as they reached home.

Ayu did not give up. "Let's eat! it's just strawberries."

"I'm full and don't like that weird fruit!"

Ayu saved the strawberry back. He stroked his stomach slowly, his gaze lowered and began to moody. "Propay ya!"

"You cravings?" asked Alex who could not bear to see Ayu's moody face while stroking her stomach.

"Yes." Yeah." Ayu nodded with a sad face.

"Can't it be replaced with another?"

"You don't want to be okay, too." Ayu looks resigned, "yes, son." she's still stroking her stomach.

Not bear to see Ayu who looked very sad, Alex grabbed the fork with a piece of strawberry.he continued to stare at the fruit while gulping heavy saliva, he did not like strawberries, precisely afraid of the fruit. What if he chokes and is out of breath from eating it?

"Not to be eaten if you don't want to." Ayu tries to play pull on Alex. Usually this trick always works on Father and his brothers.This is his mainstay style since childhood.

"I'm eating, really," Alex forced a smile, even though sweat spots started to appear on his forehead. 

"I told you not to do it." Ayu who keeps not giving up pumping Alex.

No, Alex couldn't possibly resist Ayu's craving. This is not only Ayu's wish, nor his son's. He also did not want to look weak in front of Ayu, the time of the mighty man seemed to be afraid of a little fruit like this.

Slowly, the strawberry began to approach in Alex's mouth. Ayu's eyes were wide open, she didn't expect Alex would actually eat the fruit she was so afraid of. He slammed, disappointed, after Alex kept that strawberry away again.

"I ... can't eat strawberries," Alex said.

"It's okay" said Ayu, "patience, yes!" Ayu again stroked her stomach with a disappointed look. No one thought Alex was strong enough to be conquered. Usually only once enough, and his wish for a bus instantly materialized.

Alex shifted his seat closer to Ayu who was still looking down while stroking her stomach. With a smile on her lips, she touched Ayu's hand and took hold of her belly.

"Take the other one, son!" please Alex in Ayu's stomach.

"Udah, it's okay. It's not important, is it?" Ayu still did not give up, however she had to make Alex eat the strawberry.

"It's not so, honey. I'm ...." Alex tries to give an excuse but is soon cut by Ayu,"it's okay."

Alex shuddered at the smile on Ayu's face. He would rather hear Ayu blabbering and getting angry, than smile like now. It was not that he did not want his wife to smile, but he knew that smile was only a hint of calm before the storm.

"I eat," said Alex, "it's because you're just as important our baby."

Alex grabbed the fork he had released earlier. After pulling and exhaling slowly, then put strawberry at the tip of the fork in his mouth little by little, almost like a slow motion scene.

'Finally!' muttered Ayu in the heart.

Closing his eyes, Alex chewed very slowly. He had forgotten the strawberry taste, since he was six years old he never ate the fruit again. So, like this it tastes, sour. After swallowing that piece of strawberry, he immediately got up and ran towards the bathroom.

Seeing Alex running, Ayu immediately followed him. He just looked at Alex who was coughing in front of the westafle.

"Are you okay?" ask Ayu who started to approach because she was worried about seeing Alex.

Alex did not answer because he was still coughing. He had to get that strawberry out of his throat. He's gonna be out of breath.

"Alex?" Ayu touched Alex's shoulder.

Alex's batik didn't stop, he pointed at his throat.

"You're choking?"

Alex nodded with a reddened face.

"The strawberry you chewed so long ago," said Ayu was astonished, "where might it choke, is your throat that narrow?"

Alex thought for a moment, he swallowed his saliva and there was no barrier at all. That meant he wasn't choking at all, it was just his head playing games that rewound his dark memory. He may have forgotten the strawberry taste, but he still vividly remembers the tightness due to a piece of strawberry lodged in his throat. He cleared his throat many times in an attempt to clear his throat, Da nothing there. Wash your face and come out of the bathroom without a word. How humiliating.

Ayu tailed and giggled behind Alex. "So you're really scared of strawberries?"

Alex who heard Ayu question immediately stopped and turned around. "You know?"

Ayu laughed as she uttered her mouth with one hand.

"You know and keep telling me to eat that fruit!" alex felt disbelief. Now he realized he was just being played.

"You should have seen your expression. Very funny," Ayu said in between her laughter.

"Not funny, Yu!" yell at Alex, "what if I'm claustrophobic and dead? You want to be a widow!"

Ayu shook her hand in front of Alex's face. "Game!"

"I'm serious, you saw it for yourself." Alex followed Ayu yanh's steps were folding hands.

"That's all right, right," Ayu said, "you should thank me for helping me fight phobias."

"You're getting ugly now!"

Ayu smiled and looked at Alex with one eyebrow raised. "I learned from the experts."

Damnit. Alex cursed inwardly, he did not expect that Ayu was on a revenge mission earlier. But the woman went too far. Alex wasn't kidding at all when he thought he was going to die out of breath earlier.

"You must have the upper hand by now" Alex muttered as they were in the room. He held a glass of milk that he made especially for Ayu. Even though she still felt resentful about being colonized, she still felt concerned about Ayu's pregnancy condition.

Ayu answered steadily, "of course. I'm designing a lot of things to get revenge."

Alex thrust the milk and was immediately grabbed by Ayu.

"You have to rethink about living together with me" Ayu said after spending her milk.

No matter what Ayu's plans are, Alex is not at all daunted by living with the woman. He will do anything to make his little family happy.

"I even did something that might kill me for you. Why am I backing out again?"

I agree with Alex. Maybe Alex is serious about all his words so far, that the man wants to build a household with him and live happily as a husband and wife until the end of their lives. Sounds very romantic indeed, but somehow there is always a sense of doubt in Ayu's mind.

"You need to pack up fast." Ayu stood up from the bed and started looking for Alex's bag.

Alex immediately approached and hugged Ayu from behind. He placed his chin on Ayu's neck basin. He closed his eyes, then kissed slowly the jawline of the woman he was holding.

Ayu's heart rate is not bad, his breathing also feels heavy. Alex's body felt warm on his back. The man's puff of breath was right on his neck, also the gentle touch of the man's lips gave a tingling sensation in his stomach, his calves also felt like jelly.

"Aren't you going with me? We can live together in Singapore. You don't have to work, I can meet all the needs of you and our child" Alex whispered.

Ayu just bit her lower lip. She used to have no interest in working at all, she just wanted to stay at home as a wife. Her husband will work to meet all her needs, she just stay shopping without worrying about anything because all the homework will be done by the housekeeper.  However, after many years of work, she began to love her job despite sometimes being physically and mentally exhausted.

"In addition, you are pregnant, you should not be too tired and stressed," Alex added, then kissed Ayu's cheek as well as her neck, "I can also kiss you like this."

Ah, Ayu doesn't know what's wrong with her, but she likes Alex's voice now, as well as every kiss of the guy. No, he can't fall that fast on Alex. She can't be a cheap woman, even if Alex is her husband.

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