My husband is not the CEO
The Forty Thirty
Let's meet at the restaurant downstairs, I'm waiting for you at 5 o'clock.
Rama restlessly reads the message Rafka sent him a few minutes ago, a short and dense but successful message makes Rama hot cold. This is the first time they will meet and speak with four eyes to discuss the continuation of the case of Adena and Caramel. The last time Adena and Rama knelt before Caramel for the woman to withdraw her demands. Rama is willing to ignore his pride in order to get an apology from a Caramel. Instead of getting sorry, Rama gets a hard slap that lands on his cheek.
"Rafka can't see you." Rama said to Adena who was accompanying Ara playing in the family room of their apartment.
"When?" Adena immediately looked up, she was so hoping Caramel dropped his demands.
Rama glanced at the wall clock above the television, at half-time 5. He will go to take a shower before meeting Rafka, at least it can be a little win his mind is upset.
"Mas." Adena held Rama's hand.
"Hm?"
Adena moved from her seat, holding Rama's hands, "thank you for sacrificing so much for our household."
Rama nodded slowly, what else he could do besides following Rafka's will. Rama had already entered into this marriage.
Since you've married Adena, you should take full responsibility for her, love her!
Caramel's words still ring in Rama's ears until now, it became a hard whip for him. Rama should have loved his current wife with all his heart regardless of the reason their marriage was money based on compulsion.
"I married you and I take full responsibility for you and Ara."
"Let's forgive each other."
"You're really ready to do anything as long as Caramel drops his charges?" Rama looked into Adena's teary eyes.
"I'm ready as long as I can stay here, nemenin Ara and you."
"All right."
"I'm sorry, I don't want to lose you, so I was emotional when I saw a photo of Caramel on your phone."
"I'm the one who's sorry." Rama rubbed Adena's head and stepped into the bathroom.
That day Rama was missing Caramel, he accidentally saw a photo of Caramel on Instagram explore. Unknowingly Rama had been looking at the photo for so long that Adena knew it. Adena was furious and grabbed a bottle of wine and scissors on the table, throwing it right at the door of Caramel's apartment. Rama did not expect that Adena would be so angry and cause major problems that have not been resolved to this day.
Rama flushed his body with water through the shower, hoping his mistake for Caramel to fall with the water flowing through his body. Although it's not that easy, Caramel will definitely not forgive him for life.
The regret was increasingly slicing hearts when Rama remembered the night where he went to Adena's boarding house and finally something happened that made him have to leave Caramel. Rama did not remember exactly, which obviously they woke up in the morning with a state of not wearing any clothes. Rama did not expect that their actions that night would make Adena pregnant.
Now Rama was ready to bury his feelings for Caramel even though it was the hardest thing in his life.
Rama spread his gaze throughout the Signature Restaurant looking for Rafka. Therehewas. Rama took a deep breath before stepping over to Rafka on one of the chairs in the corner of the room. He prepared for all the consequences that would be borne by him to solve this problem.
"Sorry I'm late." Rama sat in front of Rafka— turns out Rafka was the right person when he accidentally exited the apartment at 5 o'clock right so as not to wait for Rafka too long but the opposite happened, Rafka who was waiting for him.
"Please have something to help you with, our dinner menu is ready." A waitress approaches Rafka's desk preparing to record their order.
"I'll order later." Rafka said, he will ask Caramel to come down and have dinner here after his business with Rama is done.
"I'm americano." Rama's dream, "are you?"
"I don't drink coffee." Replied Rafka, after all he did not want to chat with Rama for long why he had to order all drinks.
"Oh." Rama nodded a few times.
"Well wait a minute, sir." The waitress left the table after slightly bowing politely.
Rafka and Caramel have been discussing the issue since their meeting with Rama and Adena at the police station a week ago.
"Caramel will drop his charges." Said Rafka to the point, he was reluctant to talk to Rama. Every time he saw that face made Rafka remember the times when he could only see Caramel and Rama joking around from afar. Rafka hated that moment so much because it couldn't be the reason Caramel laughed.
"Seriously you?" Rama turns his back, but Caramel is still kind to him and Adena.
"As long as you move out of this apartment." Tukas Rafka quickly before Rama had already expressed excessive happiness. There's no way Caramel would give this away for free. They must both benefit, than Caramel and Rafka who have to leave this apartment is not better if Rama did it.
One of them had to give up and leave this apartment. It is not healthy if you often meet someone who used to fill your life, it is not good if you continue to meet someone who has been in love with you. There is nothing good about meeting with the past, there are only two possibilities you will open old wounds or fall back in love.
"What?" Rama could not hide his surprise, he did not suspect that the condition that Caramel proposed was to have to move out of this apartment.
"Didn't you hear?" Rafka turned his head to the right and left, the restaurant was quite quiet because it had not entered the dinner hour. There was no way Rama had not heard his words just now.
"M. .. I mean nothing else?"
"Please." A waitress came back to their table carrying a glass of americano that Rama had ordered.
"You want another condition?" Rafka slightly tilted her head staring intently at Rama.
"No, not that." Rama gulped with difficulty like there was something in his throat that made it difficult for him to speak.
"Move out of here or we'll take the case to court." Rafka once again.
Rama looked down, looking at the americano that was still puffing smoke. He was not sure whether the thick coffee could still pass through his throat or not after hearing Rafka's sentence.
I'm ready as long as I can keep it here, Nemenin Ara and you.
"Well, I can move out of here." Rama finally agreed to the terms of Caramel, he could not choose. As long as Adena does not go to prison, Rama will do anything for the sake of their son Ara.
"You need to take care of this move as soon as possible." Rafka.
"Yes" Rama nodded, "thank you for forgiving us." Further.
"I didn't say anything about forgiving or not, which is for sure if you want this case to stop here then you have to do the terms I've given you."
"You can go." Rafka lets Rama go after feeling he has nothing to talk about anymore.
Rama meets Caramel in the corridor. No one wants to see each other, even lips clenched reluctant to say hello. Until finally—
"Caramel." Rama ventured to call Caramel to stop after passing each other several meters.
Caramel's feet spontaneously stopped despite refusing to turn to Rama who called him.
"After this we will never meet." Rama turned to Caramel.
"Want to?" They had no reason to meet, after all before this they had lived each other's lives without meeting at all. Though Caramel never knew that Rama had gone to see him, Rama was lost to the earth.
"You're still in love with me, aren't you?"
Caramel looked up, his eyes glaring at the words from Rama's mouth. Rama's brain is no longer functioning, without shame to say that to Caramel.
"I heard you guys got married because of an arranged marriage, you don't love Rafka?"
"Are you still sane?" Caramel turned her smiling eyeballs obliquely towards Rama.
"You are not married because of love, the proof until now you have not been pregnant."
Caramel laughed, it felt like he wanted to cram these wedges he was wearing into the mouth of Rama.
"Our household is full of love, as long as it is not married by accident I am very proud and happy with this marriage, the fruits of our love will be coming soon." Caramel stroking his stomach proves that Rama's speech was wrong.
Caramel immediately sauntered away leaving Rama who had lost terribly. After what Rama did to Caramel, he doesn't have enough shame to say that Caramel still loves him.
"I was just about to call you." Rafka notices Caramel's arrival after he sends a message to get down for dinner. Rafka rushes to pull the chair for Caramel.
"I'm old, huh?" Caramel sat down next to Rafka.
"No, I'm just a little worried." Rafka commented with a faint smile, "what do you want to eat?" He opened a menu book for Caramel.
"What's today mbak?" Caramel looked at the waitress approaching their table.
"We have pear and ginger malva pudding." Answer the waitress politely.
"I want that one, salmon teriyaki, lamb chops same beef burger."
"I have a rice barren." Rafka.
"Mojito's drink is yes." Caramel pointed to a photo of a glass of colorless mojito, just like plain water, just a few pieces of fruit and mint leaves.
"Can." Rafka.
"Udah mbak, that's it." Caramel smiled at the end of her food order. "You're a coffee pesser?" Caramel raised a glass that was still full of coffee viscous liquid.
"That's Rama's, he didn't have time to touch her before."
"Don't get to drink you, it's just like poison to you." Caramel shifts the coffee fear if Rafka accidentally drinks it, since the incident Rafka entered the Caramel hospital so more careful about eating and drinking Rafka. Caramel does not want Rafka to be on the verge of death for the second time, he is very traumatized by it.
"Not going to." Rafka smiled faintly.
During their stay, this was only their third time eating at the restaurant. This time Rafka who proposed dinner here because Caramel said he was lazy to cook so it's okay to eat outside even if you can choose Rafka prefer to eat home cooking. That's why Rafka ordered a traditional Indonesian menu in the form of barren rice.
"I asked for you." Caramel also scoops rice on Rafka's plate which looks full of sliced meat, eggs and tempeh and vegetables that are Rafka's favorite food. Though Caramel has ordered 3 menus at once but Rafka food looks more tempting. Rice is never wrong.
"It's for you." Rafka put one piece of meat on Caramel's plate, knowing Caramel wanted it.
"You?" Caramel gawked, though in her heart she cried out happily getting one meat.
"I eat vegetables, you need more nutrition than I do."
Oh my goodness, so good my husband, not strong God help me want to fall into his arms right now.
Caramel ate the beef with one meal to make his cheeks bulging plus a piece of lamb that so spoiled his tongue.
"Slowly." Tukas Rafka's. Caramel is at least able to slow down when eating food, like being chased by something. But that was Caramel's way of enjoying his food.
"I want to wrap the burger for the mallem." Caramel felt that his stomach was full and could not afford to eat a burger that had already been ordered.
"Don't order one or two more, will you eat one?" Lately Caramel is often starving at night so he will eat whatever is left in the refrigerator.
"It's two." Caramel replied quickly with a gleeful expression.
They finished dinner and returned to the apartment after asking waitress to wrap Caramel's beef burger plus 2 more burgers for dinner.
Rafka did not want Caramel to starve and ended up eating raw carrots in the refrigerator like a while ago. Caramel who had not liked vegetables would eat anything as long as it could fill his hungry stomach.
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"Where are you going?" Adena is surprised to see Rama suddenly get out of bed and out of the room.
"I forgot to pay for the coffee downstairs." Rama grabs the wallet on the table and exits the apartment half-run. Maybe he forgot not to pay for the coffee he had ordered earlier. Although Rama did not touch the coffee at all but still he was embarrassed because he left the restaurant just like that coffee alone.
"Sir, sorry I ordered americano at table twenty, I forgot not to pay." Regardless of his embarrassment, Rama approached the receptionist.
"Order what time if I can find out?" Ask the restaurant staff.
"About two hours ago."
"Americano's been paid in Rafka's name."
Rama closed his eyes, he patted his own eel because of the embarrassment that suddenly so controlled him. Want to put where Rama's face after this if you meet Rafka. In front of it.
