SIN (Lecturer Dear)

Chapter 55: Steadying Yourself

Along the way home, Karen is spoiled by leaning her head on Darren's arm. He was relieved that Aswono's grandfather and Oma Belle believed in him.

"Why did you ask me to take them off?" darren Protest.

"I don't want to prolong the problem and I don't want to remember the incident again. I know the guy who told them, he's the senior brother who used to chase me. I think he just wants to be sympathetic and he's not wrong because he doesn't know I'm married either."

"You know or don't know, account taxing keeps telling people to bother you, still it's wrong. The proof is that you got sexual harassment from them because of him!"

"But he also helped me, really. That's why I could run away right then and there. If you kick them out, aren't you just ruining our marriage?" it was obviously Karen who was still leaning on Darren's sturdy arm.

Darren, who was driving, was silent for a moment while poking at his own lips. "If so .. let's reveal our marriage!"

Karen flinched instantly, even directly staring at Darren. The expression of the man who remained focused on driving was quite illustrative of his seriousness.

Darren returned a shocked look at Karen, while repeating his words. "Let's reveal our wedding! Tell people we're married. That way, no one dares to go near you and I can take care of you! We also don't have to play cats anymore on campus."

Still looking fixed on her husband, Karen's head even shook her head slowly. "Non't now!"

Darren's eyes squinted in surprise because unexpectedly, Karen instead refused as she intended to dismantle their marital status.

"I want to keep myself strong first."

Darren smiled wryly, "Excuse yourself?" Yes, he knows very well lately, the word "Defense Yourself" became a prima donna for the lovers of marriage. In addition to sounding sacred and romantic, the sentence has the meaning of changing yourself for the better.

"I want to be a person worthy of you. Let the time comes for our wedding to be revealed, people will say you did not choose me wrong as a companion" said Karen full of earnestness.

Darren slipped his fingers between Karen's fingers. "You like this deserve to be my companion. There is no need to be confident because I am not a perfect person either. If you want to change, do it for yourself. Not for me or anyone. Following the standards of others is exhausting. You yourself have to determine your quality standards, according to your best version of course."

"If so .. wait until I'm in my best version. So, for a while .. leave it like this," pinta Karen who still rejects her husband's proposal.

"You sure?" asked Darren with a softened look.

Karen nodded while tightening their hand links.

Time has shown ten o'clock at night. Darren looked at Karen who was now sound asleep beside him. He took a sitting position while leaning against the back of the bed, then picked up his phone to contact Chalvin.

Chalvin leaned against the balcony terrace of his room while exhaling cigarette smoke. "It's ok. This is my responsibility as well, because it happened when he came home from filming. What matters now is that everything is fine. Why don't you take them to the police station? And the one who sent those pictures!"

"Karen doesn't want to. He said he probably knew the guy who trapped him. They were in college and had been chasing him for a long time. Guys chase Karen because they don't know that Karen's married."

"If it's your fault, too, why not announce your marriage. Anyway, you guys got married all right?"

Darren fell silent and recalled his chat with Karen in the car. At the same time, Chalvin recalled seeing Darren and Karen kissing in the garden. However, that slightly disturbing memory was soon he tepis.

"Keep, how's Karen now? He's not sad anymore, is he?" ask Chalvin suddenly.

Darren turned his head to the side, looking at his wife's sleeping face. "Now, sleep again. Definitely sauces."

"What makes you like him?" The question was suddenly thrown from Chalvin's mouth, though he didn't know why.

"Huh?"

Chalvin immediately corrected his words. "I mean cave, you're the same he was just fooled and before your feelings to Marsha are not finished, how can you quickly like him. The cave is curious."

Darren smiled subtly as he rubbed his wife's fine hair. "What, huh? I don't know either. Maybe because we are together often. Loving someone doesn't have to be an excuse, right?"

After Darren stopped the phone, Chalvin kept his net and threw away the shortened cigarette. For some reason, again his memory again raises the scene of a kiss between Darren and Karen. Like a piece of film that is deliberately played over and over. Suddenly, the man immediately shook his head so that his daydream immediately broke.

"What the hell is a cave? The cave kept on showing their kisses. What do not-don't ...." Chalvin widened his eyes followed by a sudden heartbeat stopped, "don't you .. The cave again wants that cake?"

Chalvin took back his gawai, then checked the phone contact containing the collection of his FWBs. "Clara keknya last Sunday already, same Yuli just two days ago he was here, same Astrid already bosen, if the same Fero he again stay in Jakarta not, huh?" Chalvin dropped his body on the bed and rubbed his head. "Aarrggh, why is it suddenly for gini, anyway?"

On the other hand, Darren was back lying down after calling Chalvin. He looked at his sleeping wife in a tilted position facing her. He shifted his body slowly, while bringing his face closer to give a brief kiss on the lips of his wife's ranum. When he wanted to kiss the back of his wife's hand, his focus was distracted by Karen's innocent ring finger. He pulled the nightstand drawer beside the bed, took a small unused piece of tape, then wrapped the tape around the ring finger as a reference for measuring the diameter of the finger.

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