Womb of Titipan

No More Taste.

After exiting the elevator, Aaric and Naina held hands together and fell silent, both busy with their thoughts.

They entered the room, still silent Naina walked up to the sofa and sat on it, before long she saw her husband walking up to her with a glass of water in hand.

"Honey. Drink up, you must be tired." Aaric gave the glass and sat down next to his wife.

Naina takes the glass and drinks it slowly, continuing to see her husband's slightly changed face since their meeting with Tari in the elevator.

Although Aaric seems to be trying to be ordinary, but Naina can still see if her husband is quite disturbed by their accidental meeting with Dance.

"That's your ex's dance, right?" naina asked startled Aaric who continued to look pondering.

Aaric immediately looked misbehaved, he smiled as he approached his wife closer.

"Yes. Oh yea. How's feet? Is it still aching?" Aaric tried to divert the conversation, holding Naina's leg and massaging her slowly.

Naina let him go, even as Aaric lifted his leg up on her thigh and then continued to massage her back.

"She's so pretty."

Aaric did not respond to Naina's words, he continued to massage her legs.

Seeing that Naina directly held her husband's hand, begging him to no longer massage her legs.

"It has. No more pain." Naina lowered her legs while looking at her husband's face.

"Did that meeting with your ex make you uncomfortable?" ask Naina quietly.

Aaric smiled immediately.

"Of course not baby, why do you think that?"

Naina smiled, she held her husband's hand.

"Even if it is normal, dear. I'm not angry anyway, so after all you love each other, it's natural to meet him again makes you uncomfortable" said Naina softly.

Aaric smiled.

"Thank you for understanding, to be honest I was uncomfortable because I had my first meeting with him after five years without seeing him." Aaric hugged Naina.

"What did you feel?" naina asked in her husband's arms.

Aaric let out a long breath.

"You want me to be honest?" aaric asked with a smile.

Naina broke away from her husband's embrace then nodded while looking at Aaric's face.

"Hm...I don't feel a thing!" aaric said while shaking his head.

"You sure?" ask Naina not to believe it.

"My feelings for her have long since faded, the last five years I have only hated her for the betrayal she committed, but when I met her again I felt nothing, it's just an uncomfortable feeling why I should go back to see him again."

Naina smiles.

"Thank you for being honest."

"Thank you for believing in me too." Aaric peeped at his wife's forehead.

***

The reception party has been completed, the hotel ballroom where the reception is held has appeared empty there are only a few hotel employees who are cleaning up the remnants of the party.

The entire party came out and the relatives had also returned to their respective rooms, as well as Naina who had gone to her room together with Intan and Sheryl, respectively, the two of them will help Naina remove the dress she is wearing.

While Aaric and his two best friends went to the bar at the hotel, the three of them wanted to relax for a while there.

"What's wrong? I've noticed you daydreaming all the time" asked Ryan, looking at the dreamy Aaric.

"Nothing, I'm just tired" replied Aaric, stretching out his hands and taking a glass and drinking the contents.

Aaric was clearly lying, actually he was still very disturbed because of his meeting with Dance earlier, but he did not want to tell his two best friends, Aaric thought that from now on he did not want to discuss about Dance anymore, because he had completely forgotten about it.

"Then we should just go back to the room, our wife would have been waiting" Dani suggested.

Aaric and Ryan seemed to agree, they took each other's suits while standing up.

But the three are surprised by Axel's sudden arrival.

The look on her face instantly changed, especially with Dani and Ryan, both of whom seem afraid that Axel is planning to tell Aaric again about Dance.

"Yes. We've been here too long" Dani replied quickly.

Aaric looked at Axel's face, then he smiled slightly while saving back his suit.

"You want a drink? All right, I'll go with you." Aaric sat down.

Dani and Ryan looked at each other and sat down.

Axel looked delighted, he sat down on the chair while calling the waiter and ordering a soft drink.

Aaric leaned his body against the chair, looking at Axel who was sitting right in front of him, while Dani and Ryan looked anxious.

"We can finally get together again like this." Axel looked at his three best friends in turn while smiling.

Aaric smiled cynically.

"You're right, the last time we got together was five years ago" Aaric said.

Dani and Ryan glanced at Axel and Aaric alternately.

Axel saw Aaric.

"Are you still mad at me?"

"Absolutely not. I just want to say thank you very much, because thanks to you and Dance I found my true love. My wife now."

Axel smile.

"Thank God, I'm glad to hear that. You finally found your happiness."

"Hopefully you will too, I await the invitation card" replied Aaric.

Hearing that, Axel saw Dani.

Dani immediately gave the code if Axel still had to close his mouth.

"It's late, we'd better get back to the room." Ryan saw Aaric.

"really. We should hurry back to the room otherwise our wives will be angry."

Aaric then saw his watch, already at half-time one night, he then remembered Naina who might be waiting for him.

Aaric stood up and took his suit back, followed by Dani and Ryan and Axel.

"Tari and I are not getting married" Axel said, suddenly making Aaric and his two best friends stop their steps.

"We're not getting married." Axel repeated his words as Aaric turned his body around to look at him.

Unexpectedly, Aaric smiled instead.

"Actually I don't care if you're married or not" Aaric then goes to walk away leaving Axel who is standing at the tail by Dani behind him.

Ryan approached Axel.

"I already know the truth from Dani and what Dani told you, Aaric should not know about the condition of Dance,"

Axel looked annoyed, he hit the table beside him hard.

Ryan patted Axel's shoulder.

"If you knew how I was at this moment, on the one hand I would not want to ruin Aaric's happiness either, but on the other hand I could not bear to see the suffering of Dance due to her growing illness, he desperately needed Aaric right now."

***

Aaric entered his room, walked up to the bed where Naina had fallen asleep, sat down beside his wife, looked at Naina's face and then pulled out the hair covering her.

Apparently Naina piqued, she opened her eyes slowly, then smilingly saw Aaric sitting next to her.

"I'm sorry I woke you up." Aaric stroked his wife's cheek gently.

Naina shook her head slowly, she then shifted her body to make room for her husband to lie next to her.

Aaric spread his body beside Naina, then hugged her tightly.

"I love you" whispered Aaric.

"I know," answered Naina