
...***...
"Pri. Frans." Aphrodite said breaking the silence that was enveloping their togetherness. Francisco, who was down on his food, turned to focus on him.
"uh? What's up?"
"Hm.." Aphrodite tried to calm down, grabbed her glass and gulped it down slowly. "There's something I want to talk to you about."
"Speak."
"If I may. I want to get back to work." Aphrodite slowed down the end of her sentence.
"worked? Why?" Francisco looked surprised at the sentence that had just come out of his mouth.
"I just want to fill my free time by busying myself with office affairs, besides I am saturated continuously in the house without being able to do anything. Therefore, if you allow me to go back to work so that I don't just stay home."
"I wouldn't allow it. I don't want you to get tired from work, I don't want you to get sick because you have to face work and so on. Let me work, I'm the head of the family here anyway. So let me work and make some money to support our family."
"Frans.." Aphrodite grabbed onto Francisco's hand, grasping it slowly. Both beads of her eyes stared fixed the two irish eyes of the man who became her husband. "…This is not about money, this is not about saving and so on. I just want to get rid of my boredom, this is just a free time filler. After all you know for yourself since I got married, I really have no other activities than sitting at home relaxing without doing anything other than taking care of the house. What I'm being bullshit about is being silent about not being able to do anything after all my homework is done." Obviously at length without giving the slightest chance for Francisco to reply to his sentence.
"But." Francisco hung up his words, looking at Aphrodite who was now looking at him expectantly. Face brightens.
"Can, huh?" Mumbled. Francisco was silent for a moment, he was weighing for a moment before finally again could only fulfill his desire.
"Huft~" Francisco sighed before finally saying, "i can't say no to you."
"So…?" Aphrodite asked for clarity from Francisco's decision.
"You may go back to work, but in my office, it will be easier for me to monitor your situation."
"I don't want to work in your office. It's nothing, it's just that I don't want people in the office feeling awkward and hesitant to ask for my help because they know that I'm your wife. If I could I'd like to find a job somewhere else, huh?"
"But then it will be difficult for me to monitor your situation."
"I'm not comfortable working in your office. Your employees will also feel awkward working with me, and again you must remember I do not want to get special treatment. Therefore, allow me to find a job elsewhere."
Francisco reached for his glass to gulp down its contents to make his heart more calm in the face of Aphrodite's request.
"Yes?" Aphrodite still seemed to be trying to persuade him. Francisco could only smile knots before finally nodding softly.
"Alright," the final with a voice that sounded resigned.
"Thank you Frans." Aphrodite smiled back at him.
"Not a problem."
...*...
The woman thrust the piece of paper she held toward Jordan.
Jordan grabbed the paper and looked at the paper.
"I'll visit." said Jordan, turning to him.
"Thank you" he said, smiling back.
The memory was re-recorded in his memory as soon as he felt the atmosphere that was truly familiar to him. Memories about his meeting with a woman who had stopped in his life.
"Sir?" Call his secretary who instantly made the man aware of his daydream.
"Yes?"
"We have to go back to the office" he warned.
"Oh... By the way after this my schedule is empty, right? No more meetings, right?"
"No sir." He shook his head slowly.
"Then you go back to the office first. I want to go somewhere first, I'll be back after lunch."
After his secretary left, Jordan then walked away from where he is today, crossed the road and stepped slowly toward a place in his intention.
...*...
Francisco switched focus as he was paying for all his food, his phone suddenly ringing. He pulled out his phone, staring at the square screen which now showed a screen of incoming calls from someone.
Francisco pressed a green button that automatically connected his phone to someone across the street.
"Hello?" He said as soon as the phone connection was connected.
"…"
"What's? Now?"
"…"
"Can't you handle it first?"
"…"
"alright. I'll be there now." Francisco hung up his phone unilaterally, he then put his phone back in the pocket of the suit he was wearing.
Aphrodite returned after finishing some of her small business in the toilet, walking towards Francisco, who was still sitting at the table where they were.
"You done yet?" Francisco asked as soon as he found out Aphrodite had just arrived.
"Yes. Are you done too?"
"Yes." Yeah." Francisco nodded his head.
"Then let's go home." Aphrodite stepped out followed by Francisco beside her. Arriving in front of the restaurant they stopped.
"Ng. But I can't seem to take you home."
"uh? What was? Is there a problem in the office?"
"Yes, and my secretary can't handle it alone. So I have to intervene myself."
"Oh, that's how it looks."
"It's okay if I ask my assistant to drive you?"
"uh? No need, I'll just go home by taxi."
"No. Let me ask my assistant to come over here and take you home, okay? That way I'll be at ease knowing you're coming home with my assistant."
"But Frans I can go home alone."
"I'd be worried if I knew you were coming home alone after seeing me. That's why you came home with my assistant, huh? I'll ask him to make sure you get home safe."
"All right, it's up to you."
"Then I will immediately contact my assistant to pick you up here right now. You just wait a minute, it's okay, right?"
"okay."
"One more time I'm sorry I couldn't get you home."
"Yes, it's okay. I get it."
"Thank you for understanding, now I'm saying goodbye." Francisco hugged Aphrodite before parting ways. "Until we meet at home at dinner."
"Yes. I'll make you a nice dinner."
"I can't wait." Francisco broke his arms, and soon he left, leaving aphrodite alone, who now began to wait for his assistant to come and pick him up.
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