MARIED CAMUCHO

11. Now the Future

Sleep soundly Dayana must be awakened by the ringing of her cell phone placed on the nightstand. He groaned angrily looking for that flat object to pick up a call from someone.

Arturo was there, looking in the mirror wearing his shirt and moving to take Dayana's phone that kept ringing to receive calls.

"Hello?" greet Arturo.

Hearing Arturo's voice raising his call made Dayana complain with her life still half collected.

"Remove my phone" Dayana yelled at Arturo's shirt tip.

"Wow. Whoareyou? Why are you holding my girlfriend's phone?"

Arturo looked down at Dayana who was back to sleep.

"I'm her husband" I'm Arturo who made the person on the phone surprised.

"What's? Where's my beloved Dayana? How dare you-"

Arturo kept the phone away from his ears as he squatted down slightly to talk to Dayana.

"It's from your lover."

Both of Dayana's eyes suddenly opened and immediately woke up and took over the phone from Arturo's hands. A call from William is still connected.

"William!" call Dayana smiling awkwardly though she won't see.

Meanwhile, Arturo again reflected on the glass cabinet to adjust its appearance.

"Who was that guy? He said he was your husband. Whatisthis? Can you explain it?"

Next to Dayana's hand moved massaging the temple. "No, honey. It was just a sassy hotel waitress picking up my call."

"You're at the hotel?"

Dayana closed her eyes because she had taken the wrong excuse.

"Y-yes. I went with Miley for a walk together and we stayed at the hotel."

"I'm home and I'm going to your apartment soon."

"What?" Dayana's body shuffled from the bed in surprise. Because, he no longer lives in Damien's apartment after they cut off the relationship.

"No! No, honey. L'm... I'll go see you. You must be tired right after a long trip? So, I'll come there."

"alright. Hurry here. I miss you so much."

"Me too" Dayana replied and the call ended.

"Honestly, Miss Harvey..." Arturo turned towards Dayana who hurriedly went to the bathroom to clean up.

"What?" Dayana threw her lazy gaze.

"I don't like it when you come back to my house with the smell of another man's body."

"What's the deal with you? I wouldn't care if you came here and brought another woman to sleep together even once. Our main point right now is not to take care of each other's lives."

"It looks like you forgot who set foot in whose house" Arturo said.

"It's up to you" Dayana growled.

Amidst the debate, Dayana's phone rang again. He raised the call without seeing the contact on the screen.

"Miss Harvey?"

Dayana kept her phone away to see the row of numbers she had felt she had been in.

"Yes. Who'sis this?" Dayana wants to make sure.

"Sebastian Reeves."

"Ow, Mr. Reeves!" dayana exclamation that makes Arturo look as if interested in something.

"I just want to make sure you're gonna come to the concert or not. I don't want you to waste money if it ends up not coming."

"Sure. I'm gonna come. I bought the ticket too. So we can meet up tonight."

"See you, Mr. Reeves."

Dayana gave a happy smile after getting a call from Sebastian.

"It looks like you have a lot of lovers out there" Arturo said.

"Come on. Until when do you want to take care of the number of lovers I have?" Dayana. "You start acting like a husband who wants to catch his wife cheating."

"That's the truth" Arturo said casually. His feet stepped out of the room, leaving Dayana in place with the man's response.

"What's wrong with her? He gives me goosebumps."

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With wide but calm steps, Arturo began to enter a Chinese restaurant that was quite large and popular among high-status people.

Not only does Arturo want to have dinner, he goes there to see Rebecca just like Dayana asked him to.

"That!" call Rebecca up from her seat to greet Arturo who entered the closed VIP room of the restaurant so that the two of them can eat and talk quietly.

Rebecca's life as a model as well as a famous actress made him chased by the media to find news. Not infrequently Rebecca had to settle down, hide, even disguise only to go somewhere if she wanted to relax or play, including when she wanted to date Arturo.

"I'm glad you came here. I miss you so much, Art."

Arturo sat on a chair with a dining table divider round in the middle of himself with Rebecca. As if knowing if their lives now also have to be limited after not having each other.

"I'm here because Dayana asked for it" Arturo said.

Rebecca's face looks like she doesn't like to hear it, but she tries to hide it with a smile.

"We order some food first, okay? You always liked Jian Bing here. You remember the first time we came here-"

"Rebecca, I'm not here to reminisce with you," Arturo cut down that made Rebecca's facial features change. His hand that was about to open the menu book was now slowly closing it.

"Art, aren't you outrageous?" Rebecca stared at me softly. "I can't help but miss you, so I'm taking my guilt away from wanting to see you. All my memories with you will always be remembered, including in this place."

"I also remember all the memories with you here. But now I have no right to review the past. I now have my own future, Rebecca. You don't remember that you were the one who delivered Dayana to me? He's the one with me now. So I wouldn't be interested in hearing the longing of someone who's been toying with my sincere feelings of wanting to have it. Sheltering it. With him" Arturo said at length.

Rebecca's two eyes were already glazed as she scanned Arturo's serious face with all her sentences.

"All right, I'll just go right ahead." Arturo arranged sitting to be more comfortable and intense.

"I want us to take each other off well. I'm not going to talk about why you just left on your wedding day and told your own sister to marry me. I won't blame you again. I just wanted to tell you that my life is fine now. You should also be fine and focus on what you're fighting for."

"Art.." shrieked Rebecca after pensively withholding a cry. "Do you have feelings for Dayana? My sister?"

Arturo breathed a small breath and got up from his seat. "Well, she's my wife now."

Rebecca got up quickly. "But you know Dayana, Art. He'll never love you. He's got a lot of guys out there even sleeping with them just to dredge his money. She's not a good woman. She lives off her job as a cheap-woman"

Arturo immediately turned his head with a sharp glare as if he wanted to kill someone who made Rebecca speechless.

"Never demean my wife!" firmly Arturo bluffing.

Rebecca smiled smirkingly. "You just want to use it to please your mom, right? Eat it you don't care how bad and disgusting Dayana is."

"I'm more disgusted at someone who talks badly about his own family shamelessly" Arturo replies.

"This is one of the reasons I'm in the chest to let you go, Rebecca. Your pride and selfishness."

"Figured? Selfish?" Rebecca laughed bitterly. "At least I keep my chastity well from your wife who to and fro seduces many men. It's disgusting!"

"I am impressed by your title as a holy virgin goddess. You lived it so much" Arturo said.

"I don't want to argue with you anymore, Rebecca. I'm leaving," she said, leaving Rebecca with a breath of emotion hunting at her.

Loud cries of anger were heard in the room. Rebecca ruffled all the stuff on the table with her talk with Arturo.

"Damn!" rebecca kicked the table pretty hard.

For the umpteenth time, he felt very angry because what should have been his now went back to Dayana.