My husband is not the CEO

The Forty Seven

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The sound of the room light button surprised Rafka who was changing clothes, he suspected Caramel had just entered their apartment and immediately turned on the lights because he did not like dark—not dislike anymore but was afraid. Rafka instead of deliberately making the house go pitch black without lighting, he rushed to the room and changed clothes because of the sultry due to restraining emotions along the way from Grand Indonesia to the apartment.

"Rafka!"

Rafka ignores Caramel's call, sits quietly on the bed and turns on the television as usual after work. Rafka tried to focus on television news about the current condition of Jakarta.

"Rafka, I'm sorry." Caramel went into the room and immediately sat down beside Rafka with a sad face. Rafka did not know if Caramel was really sad or deliberately put on such a face for her to forgive him.

"Rafka, I'm wrong I'm sorry, please don't get mad like this." Caramel grabbed Rafka's arm and rubbed her gently.

"Does my words mean nothing to you now?" Rafka's cold voice made Caramel look stiff.

"It's not like you." Caramel swallows the saliva trying to find words that will not cause misunderstandings between them. But from the beginning Caramel was wrong so he did not know what to say. "I just want to know, I'm curious about the brand of lipstick your stepmom wears."

"If it was just lipstick I could buy her dozens of times as much as it would be with her lipstick, I don't know what makeup means to a woman so you ignore even lying to me."

"It's not a matter of you buying or not."

"What if Mama saw you earlier, she'd be more disappointed."

"I lied because I didn't want to hurt you, that's all."

"If you don't want to hurt me you should never go to see him secretly."

"I'm sorry, I was wrong I was selfish." Caramel slumped sitting on the floor holding Rafka's hand.

"You don't want to hurt me by lying?"

Caramel breathed out hard and looked down deeply, she was scared and wanted to cry but before Rafka gave her an apology she had to endure her cries.

"Why did you suddenly have Popolamama, you follow me?" Ask Caramel.

Rafka pursed her lips not answering Caramel's question, "eat you must be hungry." He moved from his seat past Caramel.

"Where are you going?" Caramel's views followed Rafka's departure. He saw Rafka in the bathroom.

Caramel rubbed his stomach, he was hungry but how could he eat well if his mood was in a state of turmoil like this. Food will not be able to pass through the esophagus smoothly to the stomach if Rafka is still angry.

Caramel discovers something she fears most besides ghosts in horror movies, or bathing herself in a strange place - Rafka's anger. Caramel can't overcome the fear of facing Rafka's anger easily. Moreover, this time he is indeed guilty, Caramel will remember this as something he should not do again in the future.

"Rafsa .... " Caramel tilts her head through the bathroom door. He saw Rafka's back filled with foam under the shower. Slowly the foam was shed along with the water that flushed Rafka's burly body.

Rafka did not answer Caramel's call, but she turned her back on him. He pretended not to hear the call.

Caramel again closed the bathroom door turning her step towards the walk in closet to change clothes. Instead of taking a shower, he prefers to go to the dining room to see if there is anything to eat. If it is not there, it will cook using the ingredients in the refrigerator. He will also prepare dinner for Rafka, who knows after that Rafka's emotions can be slightly subsided.

"Pasta?" Caramel frowned looking at the package on the dining table. From the smell Caramel could guess that it was a Spaghetti Carbonara with a smoked beef cut like the one he ordered in Popolamama just now.

Caramel vigorously grabbed the fork after opening the food box. He rolled up a lot of spaghetti and devoured it. Caramel closed her eyes feeling the cream of milk and cheese mixed with spaghetti so perfectly spoiled her tongue.

"What do you want to eat later let me buy you"

"Pasta and pasta."

Caramel stopped chewing given her brief conversation with Rafka this morning. That means Rafka went to Popolamama not for deliberately following him but to buy pasta.

Actually Caramel does not really want pasta, he just origin answer but Rafka still took time to fulfill the desire Caramel after work.

Suddenly Caramel hiccups resuscitate him from a brief daydream about Rafka. Guilt grew over Caramel for accusing the man of stalking her.

"It's so bad of me." Caramel was sitting on the dining table chair, the fork she had been holding slipping away.

Caramel wants to run away to a faraway place because she's too shy to meet Rafka face to face. He is wrong but can still accuse Rafka even though Rafka has been so good to buy him food.

Heavy rain flushed Jakarta ahead of the night, crammed vehicles wanted to precede each other amid traffic jams. Ringing the horn impatiently made the atmosphere more chaotic.

Caramel sat hugging her knees while looking at the raindrops that occasionally hit her balcony railing due to the wind. He cried in the rain mixed with lightning. The rain made his heart grow.

Maybe Caramel doesn't fully understand how Rafka feels because since childhood she lived in a peaceful family environment. As Adena said some time ago that Caramel would not understand his feelings because he did not have children.

The door opened a second later Rafka appeared with wet hair after a shower. Rafka turned to the right and left looking for Caramel. He stepped up to the dinner table and saw spaghetti that was only eaten a little.

Caramel's shadow was faintly visible against the large glass window covered in white curtains. The rumbling rain still sounded as though there were no signs of stopping.

Why would he let his body freeze out there? Inner Rafka.

Initially Rafka wanted to go to Caramel so that his wife would finish her meal but did not, she instead went back to the room and dried her hair with a hair dryer. They are not children anymore, Caramel will eat alone without being told when hungry later. After all Rafka was still reluctant to talk to Caramel, anger still dominating his heart at this moment.

The sky began to darken as Rafka closed the room curtains and opened the laptop to do the unfinished work. Rafka hears Caramel closing the door to the balcony. Rafka waits for a few minutes for Caramel to enter the room but the woman does not show up. Rafka guessed Caramel was finishing the pasta he bought earlier. Thankfully if Caramel wants to eat, Rafka does not want his wife to starve.

"The intensity of the rain is still high until tomorrow?" Rafka propped her chin with her hands watching her laptop screen. If it rains overnight then tomorrow it must be flooding, they will have trouble going to work if that happens.

"You haven't eaten, have you?" Caramel went into the room carrying a bowl of soto-flavored instant noodles with eggs and vegetables on top. "I make noodles."

Rafka looked at Caramel, don't you not like the smell of noodles?

Caramel hurriedly came out after putting the noodles on the nightstand otherwise he would vomit from inhaling the aroma of instant noodles for too long. He even used a clothespin during cooking.

Rafka can not pretend to refuse noodles that are so tempting let alone added eggs and vegetables his favorite. With a quick movement Rafka grabbed the noodles and sipped her warm broth. The food that was once the most avoided suddenly became his favorite menu at this time, the opposite of Caramel.

"Let me wash the bowl." Tukas Caramel sees Rafka coming out of the room carrying an empty bowl.

"No need." Rafka walks into the kitchen to wash the bowl of noodles. At first glance he saw the pasta wrap from the Popolamama restaurant in the trash, it means Caramel has finished the pasta.

"Do you want an apple?" Caramel offers a small plate of apples that have been peeled and chopped. He tried to melt the awkward atmosphere between them.

Why are your eyes soaked? how long have you been crying Cara?

"For you, thank you for cooking dinner for me." Reply Rafka with a flat face and then return to the room.

Caramel's face was grimly rejected by Rafka because it had never been like this before. From the beginning Rafka did accept Caramel as it is.

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With Caramel slowly moving up to the bed, the numbers on Caramel's phone screen still showed at half-time 8. But it looks like Rafka has fallen asleep with the room lights deliberately turned off. There were only dim rays from the sleeping lights on the left and right sides of the bed.

Caramel pulled the blanket that was still folded neatly, he also covered Rafka's body because his position was slightly bent with his hands hiding in the middle of the thigh looks like a cold person.

Gini it feels like fighting with your own husband, not very good vows!

Their position is both at the end of the bed leaving enough empty space in the middle.

Caramel glanced at Rafka who was consistently turning her back. Caramel can't sleep like this, she's used to sleeping in Rafka's arms. But tonight he had to go back like when he was not married, sleeping alone while hugging the bolster.

Actually Rafka woke up when Caramel covered him just now but he was reluctant to change position even though his body aches for a long time.

"Aah!" Caramel was surprised to hear the sound of lightning so loud as to hit the window.

Rafka was shocked not by the sound of lightning but by Caramel's screeches.

Caramel covered her mouth, she could wake Rafka up with her voice. Caramel hurriedly hid her head under the blanket.

"Fuck the hell out of lightning." Caramel nagged with a whisper. He pushed his body closer to Rafka in order to calm down a bit. He did not want to stay all night because it was far from Rafka.

"You have sinned against me." Smell again.

About half an hour later Rafka turned around after making sure Caramel was actually sleeping. Rafka sees Caramel's calm face while asleep. How'this? he could not stand Caramel for too long.

"Why did you make me angry today? I don't want to be mad at you." Rafka rubbed Caramel's head and then kissed her forehead slowly.

Compared to the anger that controlled his heart, Rafka's love was much greater to Caramel.

Caramel again upset because dicuekin babang Rafka 😥