THE DOCTOR'S LOVE TRAP

43. Brightly

Elrich, Abrine, Yemima and Xander end up having lunch together at a nearby Restaurant.

El took the initiative to order food for Abrine because he saw his wife had been quiet a lot since.

"Eat, do I need to feed you too?" el's claws on Abrine. His words made Yemima and Xander smile, while Abrine only gave a faint smile.

"I can eat alone, El."

Elrich nodded. He lets Abrine enjoy the lunch while he and Xander talk to each other about the world of their work.

"Ah, have you seen your viral video?" between Yemima and Xander and El.

"There's nothing wrong with that, right?" el replied with a cry.

"Yes, but because of that, Abrine was thought to have played a lot of men," said Yemima keceplosan. "Geez!" He immediately shut his mouth tightly.

"Why? Is there anything I'm missing?" Elrich looked closely at Abrine, only to realize that his wife's cheeks looked red. El touched it slowly. "Is it painful? I thought your cheeks were a bit bruised, honey," he said, and Abrine looked at Yemima as if protesting for Yemima's unbraided mouth.

"It's okay, it's just-just because of a misunderstanding," Abrine finally replied.

El twisted his body to see Abrine more closely. "What misunderstanding? What the hell's going on?"

"Abrine was slapped by Freya." Yemima complained, he couldn't bear to hide this. Let El know.

"Mimma!" exclaim Abrine disagreed if Yemima said what had happened.

"Let your husband know, Brine!" Yemima returned. "So, Freya's Raymond's girlfriend. You know Raymond, right, El? Freya is abandoned by Raymond, and he blames Abrine for it. Then, your video went viral. As a result, Freya thinks that Abrine played Raymond for choosing you. That's how it is.." explains Yemima at length which is quite understandable by El.

Abrine bowed in his position. He's bad for El because again he's been making trouble.

"So, you guys got into a fight, hmm?" El asked Abrine in his soft voice.

Abrine nodded unable to dodge anymore. "I wouldn't have caused any trouble if he hadn't started first" he replied slowly.

"I believe in you. After we've treated the bruise, it looks like it hurt a lot, he must have slapped you really hard." Actually El growled in his heart, he did not accept his wife being treated harshly like this. He wanted to retaliate, but would it be ethical if he reciprocated the treatment of a woman?

After the lunch was over, Abrine followed El to his hospital room. El lifted Abrine's body and sat him down on the table.

"El, why is it like this?"

"Be quiet, I will treat you" El said as he opened the medicine box. Previously, El had called a nurse to bring him an ice cube, he wanted to compress Abrine's cheek first

"Excuse me Doctor, here's your order." The nurse smiled shyly when she saw a woman in El's room.

El noticed the nurse's smile which looked meaningful. Don't want people to assume a no-no, El immediately open his voice.

"Suster Anna, she's Abrine, my wife."

The nurse looked surprised, then started to let out her slow voice. "Ehm, sorry, Doctor. I don't mean-"

"Not what," cut El fast. "Thank you for the help, Sister Anna," he continued.

The nurse passed by after throwing a friendly smile at Abrine.

El began compressing his wife's cheeks very carefully and slowly.

"Arkhich..." Abrine grimaces small.

"Did I hurt you?"

"No, El. I'm used to it like this. You don't bother anyway, I can treat it myself."

El looked at Abrine in wonder. "You why? I've noticed you've been quiet a lot since. Did I make a mistake?" tanyakanya.

Abrine shakes. "I'm sorry to have made such a mess and inconvenienced you, you must be ashamed to have a wife like me."

Elrich chuckled. "Darling, don't feel that way, not a single thing like that comes to my mind."

Abrine held El's hand still on his cheek. They looked at each other for a long time, until finally Abrine again opened his voice.

"May I ask you one thing?"

"Ask me, you may ask me anything."

Abrine stretched out his hand, slowly covering the side of El's face leaving only his eyes. Abrine's face looked surprised for a moment, not knowing what the woman was thinking. El himself did not know what Abrine meant by covering half his face, he was still waiting for Abrine's next speech.

"I remember it." Abrine lowered his face, his hands gradually dropped and the face of the husband.

"Remember? Remember what?" El cringing inside.

"El, I'd like to ask you a question. Why are you lying to me?"

"The accident. I never hit you back then!" crush Abrine while throwing his eyes the other way.

Now El knows where this conversation is going, including why Abrine has been quiet since he left the operating room. Apparently, the mask that covered El's face, made Abrine's mind remember the moment he kissed El first in the moment of their first meeting. Perhaps, this was when he had to be frank with Abrine.

Actually, El was anxious, he was sure that Abrine would be looking at him with anger now, but he had to be ready to accept the risk of his own lies.

"Actually I lied to you, honey. I-I, at that time I did not know why I agreed with your statement. I never said you hit me, you said it and my mistake was to say it."

Abrine laughed discordantly while nodding his head. He is condemning his own stupidity. Why is it that he only realized now.

"Brine, I understand if you're mad at me. But, remember that we're married now so---"

"I know!" cut Abrine, make El's speech stop in the air. "So, I kissed you first, right?" continued.

"Abrine, baby."

"Why? I want to talk about it. Discussing stupidity!" press Abrine. "You must have laughed at my stupidity all along, right?" guess it.

"Darling..." El shook his head. "Enough.." he continued.

"Yes, God. Why am I this stupid?" Actually Abrine was angry because of himself and he was embarrassed after knowing that he had kissed El at their first meeting.

"What makes you feel stupid? I've never thought of you that way, Brine!"

Abrine looked at El Nyalang. "Give me my first kiss, El!" lantang.

El is confused by Abrine's words. "Did you regret kissing me back then?"

Abrine nodded. "Yes. Because at that time I thought of you as another man. I'm sorry."

El was still staring at Abrine with a puzzled look. "So you're sorry about that? About my lies how?" tanyakanya.

"You were right, your lies at that time were because of my statement as well. You don't need to apologize, from now on I'll assume the accident and my stupidity are a blessing."

"What's? Been lucky?" El stupefied.

"Yes, because we're getting married like we are now. I'm lucky, aren't I?"

This time Elrich laughed out loud. "Darling, I thought you'd hit me!" he said frankly.

"I originally wanted to, but I'd lose if I lost my good-looking personal doctor."

Elrich hugged his wife with relief. Now, he was calm because this was known to Abrine and his wife's response was beyond his expectations. He thought Abrine would be angry and sulking, but he realized that his wife was indeed another than the others.

"Ehm, you asked me to give you back your first kiss, right?" El holds both of Abrine's shoulders. The position of Abrine sitting on his desk, making their height almost equal.

"Could you?" asked the woman with a plain look.

"Can!" El advanced his face and instantly ambushed his wife's lips right then and there.

The ringing sound of the door being opened from the outside made the two reflexively distance each other's bodies, it also automatically stopped the intense activities of the two of them.

"Geez, am I interrupting a couple of newlyweds?" Yemima looked at the two of them with a glare.

Elrich wanted to be angry if it wasn't Yemima, but where could he have done that to a woman who wasn't his subordinate and again Yemima was Xander's lover, his best friend.

"You should have knocked on the door first, Mima," said Abrine listlessly.

"Ma-af..." Yemima bit his lip. "Ah, I want to get married quickly too, so if kissing in the workspace is still legitimate, yes!" insinuations.

"Damn!" el muttered, which was somehow aimed at whom. It seemed like Yemima's remark made her completely insinuated.

"Would you like to come home with me or with El, Brine?" ask Yemima later.

Indeed, after lunch, Abrine went to El's room while Yemima went into Xander's room. So now she wants to take Abrine home.

"I'll just go with you. El still no work after this."

"Alright, continue with that. I'm waiting outside. But don't be long," said Yemima understanding. She blinked her eyes tempting Abrine and El.

As far as Yemima was concerned, El looked back at Abrine. "Wait for me to come home, before dark I'll be home" he said.

"Hmm," Abrine nodded his head, after which El dipped Abrine's forehead and held there for a few seconds.

"If there's any more trouble, call me or if you can't call Xander right away, don't cover it up with me." Elrich said as he smeared cold gel onto his wife's cheek.

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