The Marriage Order

S3 Concerns

Sheryl Pov's

"About us?" lirihku immediately looked around, afraid that someone would hear our conversation. I feel more like a suspect in an affair, but I'm not. As fast as lightning took a thousand steps, turning from the presence of brother Reza and Kak Dita towards the outside of the magnificent house of my future sister-in-law's residence. "What do you mean, Rey?" ask again.

"The news. News about our relationship. Photos and videos sent to my phone. I told you that, didn't I? I'll find the culprit." Reynand's voice sounded very passionate.

"Oh …." Only that word was spoken from my lips when the voice of a woman I knew was heard calling out to him in the back.

"Rey, I'm bored here!"

Kayla's spoiled voice. He's with her now and he's calling me and talking about this.

"We have to meet now" he said.

"Sorry, Rey. I can't" I concluded and ended the call.

I don't know why I don't want to hear who's behind it. My little heart rejected the information. Right now there is enough trust between me and Baruna. Ever since we became hurting each other back then, I didn't want it all to happen again. I love him and I believe in everything he does. To hell with news, videos, photos, or whatever it is that's trying to get us away. To me, that person just wanted to benefit from my and Reynand's interactions all along.

Reynand called back, but I didn't care. Let the ringing continue until it is no longer heard.

***

Baruna Pov's

My dad and I were in a five-star hotel in central Tokyo. Even the night looks friendly even though time shows almost midnight.

I looked to the side. Dad's asleep there. Suddenly my phone rang. Curse that flat object from the top of the nightstand. Sheryl called.

Suddenly a smile fell on his face. How not? Sheryl didn't answer my calls all day. He's still upset about my departure abroad when his family has an important event. Reza's proposal to Dita.

My phone kept ringing. I immediately replied, "Darling, you finally want to call me too."

"Haish! You really pissed me off for not even calling!"

His tone was still heard in the ears. I'm just cursing. Letting him continue to babble furiously. Since he didn't want to answer the phone, I deliberately didn't contact him and instead let him overflow with his anger. Lastly, just call Sheryl and tell her we've arrived at the hotel.

"Who told you to keep ignoring me? My dad and I are here to work. Not attending Reza's show wasn't on purpose, honey."

"Not sensitive at all. I miss you, honey. I'm after, huh?"

"Don't!" my sergeant immediately replied quickly.

I don't think Sheryl's answer is funny at all, but she laughs at it. Really am! In addition to worrying about her pregnancy, I was afraid she was reckless and even made our work affairs disrupted. Besides, I don't want him to know what else I mean by coming here.

His laughter stopped for a moment. His breath sounded slowly. He then said again, "I won't be that close, honey. But, I really don't like it when we fight too long."

"I'm not angry with you. You ignore me" I said.

"Yes, I'm sorry," said Sheryl to make me pull half a smile. The stiff atmosphere between us began to melt, "i also miss you and our future child."

"Be careful if you don't miss. I'm your victim."

"My victim? You mean the volunteer victim who conceived my son?"

I poked and he replied with the same ruckus until our conversation ended an hour later. I disconnected the calls between the countries when I heard the knocking on the door from outside. I got up from the edge of the bed, walked towards the door. It was a surprise to see a man I knew standing there. David looked at her with a slight smile.

"David?" My eyes were almost round looking at the man before me. How could he be here? Come to my room without notice. Is he following me?

"Can we talk?" asked the man suddenly turning his facial water into seriousness.

"Speak about what?"

"I thought you could guess it, Bar."

"Raphel?" I don't know why the name Rafael came to my mind.

"Yes. I want to talk about him."

After he said that. I nodded, but my heart was beating very fast. I'm nervous. Yep! Really nervous. What's he gonna talk about? I thought all the way through following him. He took me somewhere.

***

Reynand Pov's

A few days have passed since I tried to contact Sheryl. But he didn't touch it. I was surprised by him. Does he not care at all about the mastermind behind it all?

******* breath I did many times. Don't know what else to do. Should I just shut up and not make them deterred? It really keeps bothering me. Especially since the message was sent. It feels like someone is always following my steps wherever I go.

All the thoughts were dissolved when someone knocked on my workroom door. I raised my face and exclaimed in a slightly loud voice.

"Lake in!"

Julian is seen appearing in the doorway. Walk towards me, bring a document and give it.

"This is the last one, sir." The twenty-eight year old man lowered his head.

I'm nodding. I immediately grabbed the thick blue map and read it.

"Ehm, Mr ...." Julian's voice sounded.

"Yes?" I said without holding my head up and still focusing on the sheet of paper in the map.

"Mother Aina told you to come to the award ceremony for the rulers of Indonesia."

Hearing Julian's words instantly made me raise my face to look at him. "Isn't Mom going?"

"He said he couldn't. There was another event, and Mr. Rey was asked to take his place" Julian replied.

"Why not tell me directly?" timpalku. Julian tapped his shoulders. It seems he doesn't know the reason either. "Yes, already. You can go back to your desk, Jul."

After saying that, surprisingly Julian did not move. He's still standing in front of my desk. A second later as I continued to look at him, Julian's face looked strangely visible.

"What else is it?" my many.

"Regarding Felicia's mother. Do you still intend to meet him?"

"Yes, I'll see him. Let me know when my schedule is empty, Jul."

Julian just nodded. After that, he was allowed to return to his desk. I'm back at my job. But I can't concentrate at all. The unpleasant feeling about Sheryl kept spinning in my mind.

"Rey, you must be crazy. It's really crazy! Sheryl doesn't care about the culprit."

I repeated those words many times to make me realize that I should not interfere too much in his household affairs. A while later, I took a slow breath and decided on something.

"okay! This time alone I'll find out about it."