
...“Who the hell is that lucky guy?” – Reinhard Salvatore...
At a bar on the top floor of the Oleander Hotel, Rein is seen walking into the bar with a disheveled face. He headed towards the bartender who was busy with his equipment. The sturdy man with distinctive blue eyes ordered light alcohol just to unwind and tired. Well ...all he also wants to forget his love problem that has not been resolved since long ago.
“Mas, one more glass yes,” pinta a woman to bartender.
The woman's voice sounded familiar. Rein looked to the side. “Bella?”
“Kak Rein?” jolt Bella who at that time had started to be half conscious. It seemed like the woman had already finished off a few glasses of alcohol.
Rein got off the high chair he was sitting in and moved closer to Bella's side. “Udah long?”
Bella just shook her head. He drank an empty drink in his glass. It didn't take long, Rein and Bella's orders came together. The two drank without speaking a word.
Both are seen enjoying the sound of jazz music using saxophone instruments. But the truth is not. Both of them were thinking of something else that bothered their minds.
“Kak .. You have stomach acid. Don't drink alcohol!” bella said as she looked towards Rein. He supported his face with one hand whose elbow touched the bar table.
“Eccasionally. Not often.”
“Ngot looking for a wife? Evenings go to the bar alone,” chirps Bella origin talk.
Rein just chuckled softly. The naughtiness he gave himself because his wife was having fun with another man. But his heart was not hurt.
“What are you doing here?” tanya Rein switched the conversation.
“I?” Bella pointed towards herself. He grabbed a glass containing alcohol with ice cubes that were still intact in the alcohol. Then he moved the alcohol with a slow twisting motion. His eyes stared blankly at the ice cubes inside the glass.
“Sedang trying to forget the husband of people,” shrieked Bella slowly while chuckling softly. Although her lips were smiling, her heart felt tight and hot. “Among many men, why should he steal my heart?”
Rein laughed listening to Bella. What they experienced back then was completely the same and made no difference. Loving the wrong person. Love someone they cannot have.
“Hahaha .. we are the same Bel,” says Rein. A moment later he sipped his drink and looked straight ahead.
The two sat side by side while looking at the alcohol rack displayed before their eyes. A neatly arranged alcohol inside a wooden shelf attached to the wall.
“We are not the same, Sister,” weeping Bella pilu, “the man I love that .. eyed bi—”
The glass that Bella was holding suddenly fell to the floor and broke before Bella told the characteristics of the man she loved. In fact, Rein vaguely listened to Bella say what the man she loved had eyes on.
Without lingering, Rein hurriedly told the bartender to give him a drink bill as well as a bill for the glass that Bella broke earlier. Then he hurried to finish the payment.
“Bel, where is your address?” ask Rein to worry.
“Address? Ck! Even the man I love doesn't know where my address is. All this time I was by her side and close to her,” was snickering Bella while laying her head down on the bar table. “I don't want to go home. I want to be by his side tonight.”
“No. You can't—”
“Why can't you?” bella asked as she landed her head against Rein's chest field and tightly hugged the man's burly body. “For all the years that I loved her, could I not have been by her side last night? Hmm?”
Rein was stunned as Bella hugged her body very tightly. The sweet aroma of the perfume that the woman was wearing smelled into her nose. In fact, his heart was beating very fast.
“Bel. I booked a room. You slept in that room, huh? I'm going home,” explains Rein while letting go of Bella's embrace slowly. Then she caught Bella walking away from the bar and into the elevator.
Bella was silent and not grinning. He followed the man on a staggering path.
Ting!
Elevator door opens. Bella started to cling and hugged Rein's body very tightly. A hug that indicates that he does not want to be far from the man next to him at this time. Rein who saw Bella's behavior, he rushed to carry Bella's body and took the woman to the room that had been ordered by Bianca this afternoon.
Upon arrival in the hotel room, Rein slowly slid Bella's body onto the bed. Then he removed the heels and cardigan that the woman was wearing in order to sleep soundly. Feeling that there was nothing else he could do, Rein sat down by the side of the bed. He looked at Bella's calm face that was sleeping. Unknowingly, her hands tidied up Bella's hair which slightly covered the woman's graceful face.
“Who the hell is that lucky guy?” murmured Rein in despair.
“Padahan, there is a me that has never been seen in your eyes. If I knew you and Leon had nothing to do, maybe ... I'd been chasing you for a long time.”
Rein looked at Bella's calm face. There was a feeling of sebak that burst into the chest. The full feeling that made his chest claustrophobic about unrequited love for so many years. The woman he thought was the woman his sister loved, had secretly stolen her first love long ago. But all this time he was silent and covered the great love in silence. He did not want the woman to stay away from him when he knew the feelings that he had been craving.
Because of Rein, she doesn't want to be shunned by Bella if she knows her true feelings all along. Surely the woman will feel amused if she knows the love that she has long pendam.
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...SERIATE…...