Not Ordinary Love

Make a Deal

The shopping center that morning was already crowded when the time just showed at eight in the morning. The girl pushed her trolley with the groceries already there. Naina recalled last night when she was starving and apparently the ingredients in the kitchen had to be updated because it was almost finished.

Naina stopped her steps as she felt pain in her leg. He forgot if the blisters on his leg had not received any treatment. Naina sighed, then continued to move towards the cashier when all the necessary groceries had been successfully obtained.

Two large plastic bags filled with groceries adorned both hands of Naina who had just come out of the supermarket. He stepped up his legs to stop the taxi to immediately go home and clean up his work.

But again the scuffles he could not be invited to compromise, spontaneously Naina sat down when the pain there increasingly became when forced to step foot, some of her groceries splattered below. While he himself grimaced with the pain.

The girl grimaced when she saw her swollen legs, until a hand suddenly touched her feet. Of course Naina was surprised and immediately dodged. But as soon as her eyes met the person who did the act, Naina pegged for a moment.

"Mas Rival ..," he said, who then regained consciousness and turned his gaze away from Rival.

"Yes, it's me." said the man who then returned to see the condition of Naina's legs, this time Naina could not avoid, he just let Rival.

"A moment, you wait here." said the man after seeing the condition of Naina's legs, Rival then moved, but before he had time to clean up Naina's messy groceries. Naina just stared at the passing of Rival who was walking towards a pharmacy in front of the supermarket, before long the man returned with a white plastic filled with medicine and an ointment.

"Let me see your feet." pinta Rival, half in doubt, Naina moved her legs towards Rival so that the man grabbed her and saw well the bruises there.

"Why did it get like this?" tanyanya while applying ointment on the bruised part of Naina's leg.

Naina did not reply, making Rival raise his gaze so that their views met. Rival refocused on Nain's legs and asked nothing more.

After treating the girl's leg, Rival handed her plastic bag from the pharmacy to Naina. "Don't forget the medicine is taken, the ointment is used when you want to sleep later." Rival message that immediately Naina responded with a nod.

"Let me take you home–"

"No need ...," Naina interjected quickly with a refusal.

Naina recalls the message Ethan delivered while they were in the Maldives if she didn't need to get too close to Rival to keep their secret safe. Rejecting Rival's call might make him act on her husband's orders.

"No need?" Rival's forehead frowned upon Naina's refusal.

"I can take a taxi." said the girl who then quickly sat down. Rival sighs, he takes Naina's plastic groceries and puts them in the car. Of course it made the master round his eyes in disbelief.

"Mas Rival!"

"Mas, what did Mas Rival do?"

"I'm helping you." the man replied with a casual gesture that looked annoying in Naina's eyes.

"Come, go home with me Naina. Then you'll be safe."

"Sad."

"Or do you want me to carry it."

Naina immediately stepped into the man's car as Rival's steps began to move towards Naina. Maybe the man would have really carried Naina if she had stayed in her place.

Rival smiles to see Naina who has entered his car. It seemed, the best way to persuade the girl was to force her.

Rival hastily gets into his car and immediately starts the car engine, drives forward his car and leaves the shopping center with Naina sitting sweetly beside him.

The girl remained silent throughout the journey. Several times Rival turned to him but Naina seemed to care less. Rival misses the girl a lot. He was happy because his housekeeper was not at home so the mother told him to deliver dirty clothes to the laundry not far from the supermarket.

Until fate then meets Naina who is in pain in front of the supermarket. Good destiny seems to be siding with Rival at the moment. He felt sad never to meet with Naina since returning home. Even lastly, the girl could not be contacted since last night.

"I'm trying to call you. But your hapndhone isn't active." Rival opens the conversation.

"You deliberately avoided me?"

"Because I'm bothering you?"

"Dan-shh!" Naina who was annoyed at the man's accusation hissed and turned to Rival. The man was spontaneously silent.

"Mas Rival can't ask you all right?" sambar Naina, looking upset.

"My phone broke and missed at the airport!" answer's short. But it managed to attract the attention of Rival even Naina just realized what she had said so she cursed herself.

"Airport?" the man asked, the speed of the car swallowed and the man looked curious.

"What did you do at the airport?"

"No, I mean in the village."

"Campaign?" asked Rival again with a wrinkle that became on his forehead.

"Yes, in my hometown." Naina clarified the answer she gave.

"Are you there?"

Naina nodded. "How many days?"

"Three days."

"Aren't you going to your brother's house out of town?"

"Who said? I don't have a family out of town!"

Rival fell silent, realizing if there was any awkwardness. Seeing Rival's reaction, Naina fell silent and looked misbehaved as if caught off guard. He decided to turn his attention in the other direction and not speak anymore, while Rival refocused on driving.

***

Zoya had been anxious when she and Ethan had sat long enough to wait for Edrin to arrive but the man never showed his nose. Zoya knew that Ethan beside her was desperately holding back.

Not only was Edrin wasting Ethan's time, but the man also seemed to be playing tricks on her husband and did not appreciate the time. Ethan's eye glint makes Zoya just be quiet and patient, hoping Edrin will appear before them soon or the man will make Ethan angry and make it difficult for them later.

Zoya is only able to breathe a sigh of relief as Edrin appears at the entrance followed by her manager. It was seen there was a conversation between them until then the manager Edrin stepped down and came back out. Edrin continues his steps into the restaurant and walks towards Ethan and Zoya's table with a smile that continues to be etched on his lips.

If Zoya feels that what the man is doing is a form of courtesy, then Ethan is not, he feels that Edrin is underestimating him with that smile. Ethan doesn't like to see it.

"Please sit down." Zoya told the man as soon as Edrin arrived at their table. Edrin nodded his head and sat down.

"Thank you Zoya."

Even Ethan doesn't like to hear other people call his name, especially that person is Edrin. Ethan doesn't like it.

"Hay Mr. Ethan." and the man's greeting to him made it clear that the man was indeed underestimating him. Under the table, Zoya clasps her husband's hand, causing Ethan to sigh in order to hold back his anger. He had promised Zoya that she would hold him back and not make any noise.

"Servant." the man called the servant instead, making the woman with the high posture approach their table.

"Order whatever you want." he told Edrin. Edrin smiled in anguish.

"I don't want it!"

"I have breakfast."

Ethan sighed, almost losing his temper had Zoya not been by his side.

"Let me just order Ma'am." Zoya takes over the menu book that was originally handed over to Edrin. Edrin leaned her head against the back of the chair and looked at Zoya who was reading the menu book with her hands folded on her chest.

Ethan squeaks at Edrin's annoying behavior. How could the man freely continue to look at Zoya without hesitation even though the woman was with her husband?

How is it that Ethan will let his wife play the role of the man and do some scenes that will surely make the jealous fire in Ethan's chest flare up.

"Get your eyes!" hiss Ethan. Edrin raised his eyebrows, then turned his gaze in the other direction. While Ethan looked at the man with a fierce gaze. As if ready to pounce on Edrin.

Zoya who had ordered a meal and let the waiter pass to bring her order stared at the two men in turn.

"It's a good step if your problem is solved quickly." Zoya spoke up.

"I don't feel like I have a problem with your husband" replied Edrin, Ethan smiling smirk.

"Listen to me carefully Edrin." Ethan to the point regardless of what Edrin said before.

"I don't agree with your partisanship in my wife's new movie." Ethan suppresses the word wife in his sentence in the hope that Edrin will be self-conscious and do not need to make any effort to get close to Zoya.

"participation? That vocabulary sounds unpleasant."

"Whatever it is I don't care. Bottom line I don't like to see you one frame with my wife."

"Is Mr Ethan currently using authority as the head of the agency building that houses Zoya?"

"I'm talking here as Zoya's husband!" firmly Ethan, Edrin shrugged both his shoulders indifferently then just nodded resignedly.

"With a great deal, I ask you not to take any form of approach to my wife!" ethan was firm.

"That doesn't make any sense. We are the main characters in our film. Impossible not to approach." denied Edrin.

"Outside of filming time!" Ethan interrupted quickly. Again Edrin just shrugged his shoulders indifferently.

"Are you afraid Zoya betrayed you? You seem to be very possessive and obsessive."

"I don't care what your response is. You should know the limits. You can't get into a scandal with someone's wife, can you?" Ethan gave a very dismissive look.

"I know you're a great actor who's professional, so you won't do anything low."

"That's a compliment?"

"Watch it like that if you want to!"

Edrin was silent, staring at Ethan in disbelief. The husband of his co-worker is truly magical. It's hard to believe that Zoya is capable of living with a human like her.

"Our talk is over. I hope you understand. I hear you're pretty smart, so I'll explain it enough once." said Ethan, who sounded very unpleasant in Edrin's ear.

"I haven't even been treated to a drink" the man refused to be expelled.

"I already offered it at the beginning but you refused arrogantly. No second chance."

"I can pay for it myself!"

"Please, you can go." Ethan drives away subtly. Edrin. Pulling one corner of her lips dismissive of Ethan, Zoya looks at him full of apologies.

Now Edrin was wondering. How can Zoya live with a man like Ethan?

TB

Hmm, Edrin doesn't know how Ethan went to Zoya.