My husband is not the CEO

Sixty Four

Smoke billowing from Indomie kuah tomyam newly served by waiter. The saliva immediately filled Rafka's mouth when he saw the noodles with the shrimp topping. He stirred the noodles before eating them.

It did not take long for Rafka to find what's up cafe because he uses google maps, besides the location of the cafe is still around where he lives.

Rafka closed his eyes to enjoy Indomie combined with thick and savory shrimp sauce, it looks like this will be his favorite food after the asem vegetables from now on.

"Why did I just know there was such good food." Rafka smiled happily, not in vain recommend this place to him because the food did fit on Rafka's tongue. Too bad Caramel can not eat with Rafka here because he is most anti-smelling instant noodle aroma.

"Hi, we just happened to meet here." A woman approaches Rafka's desk. "Rapha?"

The owner of the name who was busy enjoying noodles was forced to stop his activity looking up to see someone who greeted him just now. Rafka doesn't have many friends so she doesn't care about her.

"I don't intend to call this a meeting." Rafka puts on a flat face as usual when she finds out the woman is Elsa.

"May I sit here?" Elsa ignores Rafka's facial features that show her dislike. As long as she can sit at a table with Rafka, Elsa is willing to throw away her pride.

Rafka turned to the right, he saw many empty tables there.

"No." Rafka answered but again Elsa ignored him. The woman sat in front of Rafka and called the waiter to order food.

"How are you, we haven't seen you in a long time." Elsa looked straight at Rafka and spread a sweet smile, she propped her chin with both hands on the table to get closer to Rafka.

"Don't act like we know each other." Rafka said coldly without seeing Elsa. "Shut up if you want to sit here."

Elsa clenched her lips and lowered her hand from the table. Elsa regrets to have greeted Rafka first, if she knew Rafka's attitude would be this cold she would have sat at a separate table. Elsa thinks Rafka has forgotten the incident where she insulted Caramel but it's not at all.

Rafka spends his meal quickly, not wanting to make Caramel wait too long at home. Caramel is waiting for Rafka to come home. Especially last night Caramel watched a horror movie until late, so Rafka had to go home quickly.

Rafka left after spending Indomie until she was not left, she went to the toilet with her briefcase. Rafka will change clothes because the smell of noodles must have stuck to his body. Caramel will definitely be able to immediately smell the smell of noodles attached to Rafka's clothes.

While Elsa's attention is distracted on Rafka's phone screen, she quickly grabs the phone Rafka left on the table.

"The caramel?" Elsa tilted her head, "no call dear what? so stiff." Elsa's flickering finger moved gracefully typing the green color phone icon answering Caramel's phone.

"Hello." Elsa deliberately made her voice as sweet as possible.

"Hello hello, Irene this is Irene right, I'm asking for Rafka to come home right now I beg Irene!"

"I'm not Irene." Answer Elsa.

"Please anyone, I need help telling Rafka to come home right now I beg you."

"Rafka ain't there, no more in the toilet." Elsa played her newly painted nails in bright red.

"Rafka hasn't come home from the office yet?"

"Rafka same me again at what's up cafe, we really enjoyed the food." Elsa held back a laugh, it turned out that she was very good at theatrics.  "Have you forgotten my voice?" They had met several times and Elsa had given Caramel a bad impression, there was no way she could be easily forgotten.

"I don't care who you are, I want to talk to Rafka."

"I'm Elsa, don't interrupt our meal." Elsa disconnects with a satisfied smile, she has no idea what happened to Caramel. But it seems that the woman is in danger, Elsa doesn't care. "Rafka is no nok nyolot." He put Rafka's phone into place, afraid that the owner might come.

"Please Mommy." A waiter puts down Elsa's order and picks up Rafka's empty Indomie bowl.

"Thank you." Elsa spread a smile, she did like to spread smiles to everyone.

Elsa sees Rafka back in a different outfit, the man picks up his left-behind phone and leaves immediately without saying anything more.

"Gee!" Elsa was about to tell Rafka that Caramel called but the man was out of the cafe.

Rafka drives his car at high speed splitting the congested streets of Jakarta in the afternoon. Rafka is not a person who likes speeding on the streets but somehow he wants to get home soon. Maybe because the day after Caramel was about to go to Bali so Rafka wanted to always be near the wife.

The apartment corridor was quiet as usual as Rafka walked past. Some apartment residents are office workers so they are rarely at home. Even on weekends, they use it to go to the nearest tourist spot just to treat fatigue after a week of work.

Rafka was astonished to see her apartment in a mess, some items that were usually on the dining table were also thrown to the floor. Rafka opens the shoes quickly and finds a man in the living room.

Without thinking about Rafka pulling on the man's shirt, he also saw Caramel lying on the sofa with a bathrobe that had fallen apart. Rafka is further enraged when he learns that the man is Rama.

"Damn you!" Rafka, he punches and kicks Rama's body mercilessly. How dare Rama do that to Caramel. This time Rafka will not forgive Rama, he regrets because it was too good for Rama by freeing his wife from the punishment.

******

"I'm sorry I'm late." Rafka pulled Caramel into his arms, he could feel Caramel's body trembling. Caramel sobbing in Rafka's arms, she could not imagine what would happen if Rafka did not come. Caramel doesn't know what his life will be like after this if Rafka is a little late.

"Are you okay?" Rafka examines Caramel's entire body from top to bottom, allowing Caramel's bathrobe to open.

Rafka moves Caramel into the room, dragging the unconscious Rama out of the apartment. Rafka calls the police and reports Rama with a case of sexual harassment. Rafka will later provide evidence of CCTV footage to police, now the most important thing is to calm Caramel. Now surely Caramel is devastated to be treated like this from an ex-boyfriend who was once the biggest trauma for the woman.

"Don't cry anymore, there's me." Rafka rubbed Caramel's back slowly. "Better now you change clothes first." Rafka got out of bed to pick up Caramel's clothes.

Rafka helps Caramel change clothes, she cleans the dirt on Caramel's hands painstakingly. He also brushed his wife's messy hair.

"Where are you going?" Caramel held off Rafka's hand as she was about to leave the room.

"I'll take a drink for a second."

Caramel shook his head, he did not want to be left by Rafka even if only for a moment.

"Just for a minute." Rafka undoes his intention to see Caramel again shook his head, finally he lies down next to Caramel.

Caramel has calmed down and stopped crying, now for Caramel humans are much scarier than ghosts. He did not want to remember the incident but everything just popped into his mind. Starting from the arms and kisses of Rama that happened suddenly, Caramel was disgusted to remember it all.

Finally Caramel fell asleep, slowly Rafka shifted her body and took off Caramel's embrace. Rafka gave a soft peck on Caramel's forehead before he got out of bed.

Rafka began to put all the items on the floor to their original place, ranging from sofa pillows, tablecloths and flower vases. Because the living room and dining room are not separated by walls, items that should be on the dining table are thrown up to the living room sofa.

"Caramel hasn't eaten?" Rafka looked at the taichan satay scattered on the floor along with the broken plates. Rafka gathered all of them and put them in a garbage bag. He used a vacuum cleaner to clean out the smaller dirt before mopping the floor.

Rafka's gaze swept across the room, now that the apartment was better. He took the chicken out of the refrigerator to make his own satay taichan. It was one of Caramel's favorite foods, Rafka will try to make it himself.

Unlike Caramel who likes to search for recipes on google or YouTube, Rafka makes it based on his experience eating tichan satay all along.

"Rafka!"

Rafka stops her activity of roasting the chicken hearing Caramel call her.

"In the kitchen, baby." Rafka said half-screaming.

Caramel stepped into the kitchen, she could smell the roasted chicken from inside. Caramel's stomach has been rumbling because he hasn't eaten since last afternoon.

"You cook?"

Rafka turned to look at Caramel who was walking towards him, he nodded slowly answering the wife's question.

"You're better?" Rafka wanted to rub Caramel's head and tidy up her hair but she just held the chicken. "It's just getting ripe, you haven't eaten yet, have you?"

Caramel hugged Rafka's waist from the side, sticking like a postage stamp.

"Thank you, yeah." Caramel kissed Rafka's cheek for a moment, not knowing how else to thank Rafka.

Rafka just smiled, he raised the ripe satay and moved it to the plate.

"Take this into the dining room, I'll wash my hands first and make some sambal." Pinta Rafka's.

"No need to sambel, this is all." Caramel has lost his appetite, if not pregnant he must have missed dinner tonight and slept until tomorrow.

"Why did you bring Rama here?" Rafka followed Caramel into the dining room after washing his hands.

"Hm?" Caramel frowned, she placed a plate of freshly cooked taichan satay on the table. "You mean?" He did not understand the purpose of the question Rafka—no, he understood it's just that Caramel wanted Rafka to clarify the question.

"You know Rama can't forget you but why did you bring him here?" Rafka explained the question, he had not thought about this because he was too panicked. But the longer he thought why Rama could enter their apartment if Caramel did not allow it. No one knows the password to enter the apartment except Rafka and Caramel.

"So you think I brought Rama into the apartment?"

"Then?"

"He went in by himself."

Rafka sees Caramel in disbelief, "How come, does that make sense?"

Caramel closed her eyes in a deep breath, "don't you believe me?" He threw a sharp look at Rafka.

"It's not that I don't believe it, but it's impossible that Rama entered on his own without the help of someone who knows the password to enter our apartment, and it's just you and me."

"Rafka, I can't bring Rama in here!" Caramel raised her voice.

"So Rama came in here without your knowledge?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"But why didn't you call me earlier?" Rafka sat on the dining room chair looking up at Caramel who was still standing.

"Obviously I called you, but the one who picked up the phone was Elsa, I didn't want to think macem-macem but now I should be suspicious of you."

"I didn't know you called." Rafka shook his head, if he knew Caramel was calling, he would go straight home.

"You don't know because you're going to the toilet, so you're the reason you want to eat noodles because you want to see Elsa?" Caramel's eyes heat up, his emotions peak when he remembers his chat with Elsa on the phone earlier. He turned around to leave the dining room, he did not want to argue with Rafka anymore.

"Why do you think that?" Rafka followed Caramel to the room, "so I did eat noodles myself, Elsa suddenly came and forced a table seat with me, I went to the toilet to change after eating because I know you don't like the smell of instant noodles."

Caramel ignores Rafka's explanation, he goes into a walk in closet and comes out with his suitcase.

"Caramel, you know I never lie!" Rafka held Caramel's hand but was brushed off quickly.

Caramel grabbed her car keys on the dresser, "so the only one who never lied was you? everyone in the world is a liar?" He saw Rafka with tears that began to pool, his heart ached because Rafka accused him of bringing Rama in.

"Caramel, where are you going?"

"Please don't go after me, you and I need some alone time." Caramel closed the door hard.

Rafka comes out and sees Caramel in a private elevator. He also brought his car keys, exiting through the main door.

Rafka couldn't have let Caramel go on his own. Although Caramel asks Rafka not to pursue him but Rafka will still follow him because everything that happens to Caramel is his responsibility.

The white Honda Civic owned by Caramel drove not too fast past Jl. The window. Sudirman as Rafka follows him from behind.

While driving Caramel's fingers moving agilely on his phone screen, he searched for the fastest plane ticket to Bali. Caramel must make Rafka reflect on this incident that sometimes something unreasonable is very likely to happen.

Caramel pressed his chest that felt pain, should in this case Rafka be a reinforcement for him. But Rafka accused Caramel of that. Rafka's mistrust made Caramel very sick to stifle his chest. He has been devastated by the abuse Rama did and now Rafka accuses him of it was intentional.