Not Ordinary Love

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Selin's four-monthly event was held simply at the woman's parents' residence, at first Selin did not want to do so and would only hold a seven-month thanksgiving later. But her husband and parents wanted her so much that Selin just handed over all the business to her husband and parents. He did not even know what and only participated during the event.

Throughout the event, Zoya helped a lot, one of which welcomed the arrival of the guests. Although sometimes he felt troubled because many asked to take pictures with him. Of course Zoya cannot resist, welcoming the arrival of the invited guests and making them happy will definitely also make the host happy so Zoya feels no objection to it.

On the sidelines of his busy life, he sought the whereabouts of the husband. Until his eyes catch Ethan who seems to pull Naina's hand to get closer to him. Zoya carved out a thin smile even though there was something unusual with her heart when she saw that.

After that, he set foot to approach the two men. Ethan greeted him with a smile when he arrived. Zoya whispered softly to the man.

"Don't be too obvious or people will be suspicious." he warned his husband that Ethan was taking his distance from Naina. Naina who understood what the two people were talking about only nodded faintly.

A few minutes ago, he got a message from Rival, the man asking for his whereabouts. When Naina says that she is at Selin's parents' house and is attending Selin's four-month-long celebration, the man asks to pick her up, so Naina chooses to meet Ethan and ask permission from her husband.

"Rival will pick you up?" ethan asks after Naina says the contents of the message that Rival sent. Naina nodded, while Ethan was silent, to be honest he did not want to give permission. But considering that maybe Rival wants to see the situation of the girl who is pregnant with her child, Ethan does not dare to prevent Naina.

He also deliberately pulled Naina because the insistence of people made the girl almost several times hit. He does not know if Zoya will see the incident.

"Aren't you happy, Zoy?" selin asked after her four-monthly core event held at her parents' house was over. But some of the guests were close relatives and the neighbors were still there.

"When, aja, yah." Zoya's subtle rejection even though it makes both parents Selin appear to throw a disappointed look at him. They of course missed his adopted daughter to stay there.

"Where is naina?" zoya asks when they are in Selin's yard and will enter the car to go home. Selin and Randy were also his parents to take them to the terrace.

"Naina comes home first." Ethan answered lightly. While Zoya displays a confused look on her face.

"Are you seriously trying to get Naina home by herself?" there was an irritated tone tucked into Zoya's question. While her husband did not comment much and just sighed.

"Naina is not alone, dear. He's picked up Rival."

"Mas Rival?" zoya's forehead was wrinkled to hear that.

"Where can it be?" tanyanya.

"Rival might have something to do with Naina. You know for yourself they're close."

"But now the situation is different, Than. Mas Rival, don't be so close to Naina. How about he find out our secret. Will be more runyam affairs." Oceh Zoya who is not out of thought with the mindset of the husband. Though previously they had discussed this to keep Rival and Naina away.

Seeing the wife who seemed emotional, Ethan did not say a word. He grabbed the wife's hand and looked at Zoya very gently. "Rival knows."

"Yes, but–" Zoya rounded her eyes. Staring at Ethan with a look of disbelief.

"You're kidding me, aren't you, Than?"

"I'm serious, honey, I'm very serious."

Zoya sighed, what he covered in fact can Rival know easily. "Since when?" Zoya asked in a weak tone.

"When you shoot outside the city." Ethan tells his resignation and makes Zoya sigh, apparently it's been a long time and Ethan just dared to say it now.

"It's okay, honey. Rival can keep a secret." Ethan this time patted his wife's shoulder.

"Not that."

"What?"

"I know Mas Rival likes Naina, so how does he feel to know that Naina is married to you. Same as his own brother."

"She must have been hurt" Zoya said with an indecipherable look on her face. Can't imagine how Rival feels.

Ethan stares in his place, imagining again how Rival reacts when he finds out that Naina is his wife. Right, the man looked injured, even heavily injured.

"Than," Zoya realizes her husband is just silent. Ethan carved a smile, looked at his wife and just stroked the back of the woman's hand.

So that Rival does is directly deliver the girl home but by moving his car slowly so that he can linger spending time with Naina.

Rival sighed, turning to the girl beside him, it felt like it was only a moment, but he already had to part with Naina.

Naina slowly opened her seatbelt when the car had stopped in front of the gate of her husband's house and his employer. But Rival still hasn't turned off the car's engine.

"My A– first, Mas Rival." said a little nervously. Immediately opened the car door, but before the girl got off, Rival had already held Naina's wrist.

"I was told you if anything happened."

"I told you if you need anything." Rival's message. Naina nodded, looking at the man fixedly. Perhaps, if he had not been bound by a marriage treaty with Ethan, he would have been with Rival.

Perhaps, if he didn't have a marriage contract with Ethan, things wouldn't be what they are today. Perhaps, had Ethan's attitude towards her been a little better, she would not have conceived Rival's child.

"Take care of yourself" said Rival, this time the man's hand rubbed the surface of his stomach. Making Naina just blink innocently until she closed her eyes when Rival landed a lip on her forehead.

***

"I'm Ethan's wife. But Ethan's not my husband even though Zoya's mom isn't in this house!"

"Mas Ethan thinks I'm not hurt when you're squirming with Zoya's sister who is often affectionate in front of me? Ethan thinks I've never been jealous of you guys squirming together, huh?"

"Once, Ethan thought about how I felt. Did Ethan ever think of me, huh?"

"But I married you not out of love, Naina. I married you on the deal we made even on the signature you signed!"

"I think you've misunderstood."

"Isn't the condition that Zoya proposes not to have love between us?"

"Maybe Ethan could be like that. But I'm not Mas. With us sleeping and spending time together, Ethan thinks I'm not going to fall in love?"

"I fell in love with you."

"But I know myself enough. I can't belong to you at any time, that's why I need Mas Rival."

"Because I realized, I need people who really want and love me."

"Mas Ethan is calm, I'm not going to tell Mas Rival about our contract marriage. I'm just gonna tell Mad Rival that I'm ready to be known to his family, if Mas Rival is sure to marry me. I'm gonna have time until our deal's done."

"So, what do you want from me Naina?"

"What do you want?"

Zoya sighed, leaning her back on the back of the chair, removing the earphones from her ears and closing her laptop. The woman's tears welled up, apparently her guess was not wrong.

What the surrounding people are worried about is true, one of them will definitely be there who can not help his feelings. It was Naina, apparently Naina was in love with her husband. Zoya could not even listen to the recording until it was over.

The woman again sighed, flushed her hair back and looked at her husband who was so soundly asleep under the thick blanket.

The day before leaving for out of town for filming last time, out of misgivings and guilt, Zoya installed a wiretap under Naina's bed. He knew he had violated his privacy, but it needed to be done by him.

To be honest, the day after he picked up the wiretapper in Naina's room as soon as he got home from out of town, Zoya wanted to listen immediately to whatever was going on when he wasn't around. But he did not dare to do it and only today ventured. It was hard for Zoya to know that fact. However, he believes only Naina is wrong, Zoya believes Ethan can set the record straight.

Zoya can't resist when the memory in her head repeats the things she's seen between Naina and her husband or any interaction between the two people.

Come to think of it, maybe Naina has long since implied an unusual highlight to Ethan. Perhaps, Zoya should have realized sooner, if Naina fell in love with her husband.

TB