Marrying a Cold Lecturer

Forced to Cancel

This morning Zea was so excited, after thinking all night, she finally decided to talk to Rey and apologize for yesterday's incident.

Zea walks cheerfully towards the dining table, hoping to meet the cold man, but it turns out there are only Mona and Roni.

"Rey hasn't come down yet, Tan?" ask Zea while wailing around.

"Rey didn't come home last night, Ze! He said he slept in the restaurant." replied Mona.

"Haa ... Which restaurant, Tan?" Zea asked again because as long as she never knew if her future husband had a restaurant.

"In Z. R Resto, it's Rey's restaurant." Mona said. "Om had contacted him, but Rey's phone seemed to be dead, so Om tried to contact the restaurant security, he said Rey had left the restaurant and returned around 01:00 in the morning and after that did not come out again."

Zea was silent for a moment and thought.

"So the Z.R Resto is his? He should have relaxed when I didn't pay for the food at the restaurant. I think I've managed to work on him. Why didn't he come home? I have to follow him there." Zea said inwardly.

"Comm ... Um, Auntie .. I asked Rey's restaurant for permission, huh?"

"Yes, but you have breakfast, huh, Ze?" Mona thrusts a plate of omelette and a glass of milk in front of Zea.

"Let's get the driver, make it safer!" Roni also spoke.

Zea just nodded in approval to Roni's decision while eating breakfast in front of her.

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Zea arrived at the Z.R Resto which is still closed, it is still too early for a restaurant and cafe to open.

A security guard approached Zea who looked puzzled in front of the locked entrance.

"Sorry, Whose mother? Can I help you?" The guard stared in surprise at Zea.

"Hemm .. I'm his future wife Rey, the owner of this restaurant. He's inside, isn't he, sir?"

"Oh ... would-be wife Mas Rey? There ... she's inside, but ..." The security guard scratched his non-itchy back head, hesitating to continue his speech.

"But what, sir?" ask Zea worriedly.

"Last night Mas Rey was drunk and angry, Ma'am. He seems to have a problem again. Hemm .. sorry .. I so gossiped about him." The guard was embarrassed.

Zea smiled, though her heart was worried. "It's okay, sir! Thanks for the information. Can I come in?"

"Please ... please, Ma'am!" The security guard opened the door of the restaurant he was holding.

Zea stepped slowly into the still dark and empty restaurant, she circulated her gaze in all directions, looking for that cold figure, but she did not find it.

Zea kept walking, until she stopped in front of a door near the kitchen. Zea slowly opened the door, as the smell of alcohol invaded her sense of smell. The room looked messy, stuff and papers were strewn everywhere.

Zea's eyes were perfectly rounded when she saw the figure she had been looking for sleeping on her back on the sofa, her appearance was chaotic.

"Rey? You all right?" Zea approached Rey with careful steps.

But Rey is flinching.

"Rey .. wake up!"

But again Rey did not respond let alone wake up.

Zea starts to get scared, she stares fixedly at Rey's chest, assuring herself that the man is still breathing, but she's not sure herself. Zea ventured to bring her ears closer to Rey's chest to make sure the man's heart was still beating.

"Thank God, he's alive."

But suddenly Zea screamed in shock as Rey's two hands quickly hugged her.

"You're all right, anyway? Unhand me!" Zea tries to escape from Rey's arms, but the man tightens his arms.

"Let me hold you for a little while, maybe this is the first and last time" Rey said.

"What do you mean?"

"There are wounds that cannot be said. Because I'm patient, because I'm loyal, I'm disappointed, and because of love I'm hurt." Rey said ambiguously.

"What are you really doing, anyway? The words are clear!"

"Even if in the end I have to give up, at least I've been desperate not to lose to the situation." Rey continued.

Once satisfied, Rey let go of her embrace. Zea got up and went from my side. Likewise with Rey, she sat on the sofa, her handsome face looks sad.

"Rey, why are you drunk like this?"

Rey forced a smile. "I've decided, I'll cancel our wedding!"

Zea's dumbfounded. "What ...?"

"I do not want to be selfish and destroy the happiness of others to maintain my happiness. I don't want to force anything else." Rey continued. He was desperately enduring the tightness and pain in his heart.

"Rey, I'm sorry!"

"You're not wrong, I'm wrong! It should be like this."

Zea breathed a heavy breath. "Well, if that's your decision, it'll be for the best. But we have to tell this to our parents, they have to know your decision, too."

"Well, I'll tell them!" Rey stepped up and left Zea in her study in tears.

Seeing Rey's departure, I don't know why Zea's heart ached and hurt. Unknowingly, her tears also fell.

"Why am I sad? Isn't this what I want?" muttered Zea while wiping her tears.

Zea decided to leave the place, but her eyes were fixed on a flat object lying on the floor.

"It's not Rey's phone, why is it here?" Zea picked up the phone. "Geez, the screen's cracked. Was he so angry that he threw his cell phone this broken? He was also drunk. I feel guilty."

Zea's tears fall again, then she hastily removes them and comes out of there with Rey's phone. But Rey has left the restaurant, she decides to go home.

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