My Wild Rose's
ALWAYS WANTED TO BE CLOSE TO YOU
Lunch at the cafe was no more than 30 minutes, but for Cladia, it felt like she had been stuck in an uncomfortable atmosphere at the cafe table for hours. How not, for 30 minutes he often had to hold his breath because the gaze of Ornado, actually not a sharp gaze like Ornado staring at Robi, but still for Cladia that gaze was enough to make her a little misbehaved and nervous. Cladia herself could not interpret the meaning of the gaze from Ornado that was intermittently focused towards her, and it was enough to make some people observe the strange actions of the two of them and start whispering to each other guessing what kind of relationship Cladia and their CEO had.
“Ok, I'm done, I will go first, please if you still want to enjoy your rest time here. Ms. Cladia, I hope you finish lunch you can go back to the office, there are some things we need to discuss,” Without waiting for Cladia's answer, Cladia said, Ornado got up from his seat and smiled at the people sitting at the table with him before he finally left his desk, Cladia breathed a sigh of relief while holding her chest with her right hand, but he hastily stopped his actions fearing people realizing what he had just done and they would be increasingly wondering. But, of course Cladia's actions were seen by Robi who only smiled thinly, Cladia's actions that showed her discomfort near Ornado made Robi feel a little happy.
“Ah, ok, we also have to come back soon, continue the discussion about the stage design that we have to finish today,” Robi put away the plate in front of her that was empty and stood ready to leave the cafe followed by Cladia and the others.
Ornado glanced at the clock on his left wrist, the clock was already showing at 13:30, the break should have ended 30 minutes ago, but he looked towards the door of his room and there was no sign of Cladia returning to his office. Ornado glanced at his phone lying on the table, a moment later he had already grabbed it and contacted someone.
“What is Cladia with you?” Not yet had his interlocutor to speak, Ornado immediately asked Cladia's position, James who had just received a call immediately turned to Cladia who was discussing with his team.
Ah, there must be something happening again, James said inwardly with a smile.
“We were in a meeting, talking about the stage design for the event we had to finish today and we sent it to the team in Italy. Is there anything urgent?” Not to mention James got an answer, Ornado had already decided on his phone, James looked at his phone with a slight frown, but a moment later he smiled to see who had suddenly come walking into the room.
“Siang Mr. Ornado,” Everyone in the room immediately gave a respectful greeting as soon as Ornado entered the room and walked towards Cladia.
“All of you, Ms Cladia, instead of earlier we have made an appointment to discuss something after the break?” Cladia who had previously stood slightly bent over to read the file on the table before her, moved to straighten her body and looked towards Ornado.
“Sorry sir, before I had time to answer Mr. has gone, I have to finish the meeting that we have scheduled since yesterday, after this I will go to the room Mr.”
“Mother Cladia may be able to leave the meeting first if there is an important thing to discuss with Mr. Ornado, let me handle the meeting here,” James walked close to the two of them, he said, trying to find a middle ground, Ornado waved his hand to signal he disagreed with what James said.
“It's okay, finish this meeting first, what I need to discuss with Ms Cladia can be postponed for a while, I will wait,” Ornado said while turning her body, he said, looking towards James who could only shrug his shoulders, holding his lips back from smiling at how Ornado had acted just now.
“Thank you sir, we will finish this meeting soon,” Cladia re-read the files in front of her, but when at a glance she glanced to the right, it was not as she expected, but, so that made him slightly furrow his eyebrows. He hoped that Ornado who said he would wait for him meant waiting in his own room, it turned out that Ornado had taken a seat in the right seat not far from Cladia while watching their meeting.
It was really going to be a tiring day, Cladia whispered inwardly, while James just shrugged his shoulders with a smile as Cladia glanced at him, as if giving a sign he questioned Ornado's actions and James could not give an explanation to him.
“Cla,” Robi approaches Cladia, while carrying an open map, Cladia immediately takes her eyes off James.
“Yes, why Brother Robi?” Robi hands the map she brought into Cladia's hands.
“Try you see this, out of these 3 designs, which one do you choose?” Cladia moved her hand, her index finger pointing towards one of the designs depicted on the map she was holding.
“This design concept is good, but the position of the floodlight on the left right should be shifted a little more to the middle, but the position of the spotlight on the left should be shifted a little more to the middle,” Cladia's forefinger moves to the right and to the left explaining the picture she meant to Robi, Robi who was originally standing in front of Cladia shifted her position so that she was on the left side of Cladia.
“O, do you mean shifted this position?” Robi said as her body moved closer to Cladia, and her index finger pointed towards the design of the image so that their hands were almost touching, Ornado was ready to stand looking at the incident, but unexpectedly Cladia moved faster. Unknowingly Cladia immediately walked backwards away from Robi and slightly threw the map she was holding so that it fell.
“Sorry, I did not accidentally,” Cladia hastily picked up the dropped map and placed it on the table, while a slightly surprised Robi just fell silent in her position, leaving her, James who happened to be standing not far away from them turned his head in shock.
“What's Mother Cladia?” As soon as James approached Cladia, about to pat her on the shoulder, Ornado was already standing between Cladia and James.
“James, you handle the first meeting today, it looks like Mother Cladia is a little less well, let her rest for a while,” Ornado directly patted James' shoulder. James and Robi glanced at Cladia who did look a little pale, James hurriedly nodded.
“Drink a little to calm down,” Ornado thrust a glass of water to Cladia who sat on the sofa located in front of the Ornado workbench.
“Thank you,” Cladia's voice sounded vibrating, her hand grabbed the glass from Ornado's hand and sipped the water in it slowly with a blank eye gaze.
“Pacify yourself first, it's okay, nothing will happen” Cladia averted her eyes, her sad eyes staring at Ornado, she said, Ornado grabbed back the glass in Cladia's hand and placed it on the table.
“Don't be afraid, there I am, there won't be anything that can hurt you,” Ornado looked at Cladia's face deeply, trying to give Cladia peace through her gentle but firm gaze, assuring that he can protect Cladia and that Cladia can trust him.
A knock from the direction of the door seemed to resuscitate Cladia and Ornado, disturbing the silence between them.
“Sign in,” Ornado gave permission for the person who knocked on the door to enter. When the door opened Fred was carrying a neatly wrapped 1 x 1.5 meter object.
“Siang sir, father's order was delivered this afternoon,” Ornado nodded his head, then got up to his feet.
“While put it near here, you may leave the room, please message to office girl to bring a glass of warm chocolate to Ms. Cladia,”
“Good sir,” Without waiting twice to be ordered Fred directly leave the room, Ornado looked at Cladia's face which seemed to gradually begin to turn red, it was no longer pale.
“After this drink warm chocolate to calm your mind, the content of tryptophan and phenylethylalanine can help you a little to calm down.” Ornado walked up to the parcel that Fred had just handed and opened it, Cladia's eyes that followed Ornado's movements were slightly widened to see what was behind the parcel, a pigora with a photo of her wedding with Ornado.
“Al, why is there a photo here?” Ornado who was originally standing looking at the photo before him turned to look at Cladia.
“You need me to install in this office, so that people no longer wonder who my legal wife is,” Cladia immediately stood up to hear the words of Ornado.
“Al, no,” Cladia walking closer to the pigora.
“Why? This way people will not dare to talk about you anymore,” Cladia immediately shook her head.
“Not Al, I don't deserve to be called your wife, I..”.
“Already, do not continue, I'm just kidding, this I will put in our room,” Ornado smiled, this afternoon after the incident in the canteen he immediately ordered Fred to prepare the photo. Had it not been for the incident between Robi and Cladia in the meeting room, Ornado would have actually posted the photo in his office, but with the incident earlier this afternoon, Ornado was completely convinced that Cladia had not harbored the slightest feeling towards Robi, and remembering that made her smile happily at the moment.
“But Cla, can I ask you something?” Ornado turned her body from the photo until now she and Cladia were standing face to face.
“What Al?” Cladia looked up at Ornado whose face suddenly turned serious.
“Please don't get too close to Robi, or any man, I don't want something like that to happen this afternoon. If only I hadn't been there, wouldn't it be impossible that James who doesn't know your condition would have patted you on the shoulder? Because for us Europeans it is common to try to calm someone by patting the shoulder, making physical contact,” Ornado tried to give understanding to Cladia, he said, although the real essence of her request is that she doesn't want Cladia to be close to any man but her. Cladia sighed for a while, before finally saying something that made Ornado gasp in shock.
“Al, are you sure you want to keep our wedding?” If Ornado had not remembered Cladia's condition, his hands would have immediately moved to hug Cladia and stroke her hair, kissed her, and would not have let her go until Cladia knew that she loved her so much, and whatever happened, she said, he'll never let go of Cladia.
