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"How long have you been waiting? I didn't know if you arrived, why did you ring a bell?" Vira asked her husband who looked tired at the door.

Vino tried to cover a smile.

-- I sent her to Europe, facilitated everything she wanted, I made her name popular among talented models. she had a good job, but what she has done, it not long after, her words didn't take her five or ten years to believe, she came back here and started messing up again with us --

Broto's words this afternoon kept ringing in Vino's ears.

He was not a good child, who obeys his father's words, who listens to his father's advice, he was not a manageable child to manage, especially when it comes to Sarah.

--- a woman like Sarah won't give up so easily, how far have you thrown her, America? You even chose a mental rehab for her, do you want her to heal, and then? --

And what next?

"Hey, I'm asking you, have you had lunch?" Vira's face appeared in front of her husband's eyes at a very close distance, the beautiful face looked worried.

"Ah, sorry, I..." Vino looked confused, he still couldn't forget his father's words this afternoon, all of them stuck in his head, making him feel burdened.

"What did you say?" Vino asked, he couldn't focus on his wife at all.

"I asked you, this was the fourth time, have you had lunch?" Vira asked.

Vino nodded his head slowly. "I've had lunch, how about you?" He asked.

"I haven't had lunch, when I got a message from you, I got excited to cook, I thought you would have lunch at home," Vira replied in a soft voice, her face looked a little disappointed even though she was trying to smile.

Vino raised his hand, gently stroked the head of his wife who was still not far from before his eyes.

He stroked gently and slowly, his lips smiling bitterly making a big question mark on his wife's face.

"I'm sorry because of me, you haven't eaten your lunch, you've cooked a lot but I instead ate at the office. I want to have lunch with my wife today but." Vino whispered with eyes that looked so deep.

"Do you know who I had lunch with today?" Ask Vino.

vira shook her head, but a second later her face changed instantly, she seemed to be able to guess who her husband's lunch buddy was today.

"Did you eat with my father-in-law?" Vira asked guessing.

Vino nodded his head. "It's not just Broto, there's one more person, can you guess?" Ask Vino giving a riddle. He didn't like to mention his half-brother's name.

"Who? Is it the private secretary?" Vira asked with an innocent face.

Vino shook his head. "Hazel," he said briefly.

Hearing Hazel's name, Vira immediately took a seat next to her husband and it made him uncomfortable.

"What is he doing in your office? Is he--"

Hearing the sound of clicking from inside her husband's mouth made Vira pause her words.

"What's with your face?" asked Vira, surprised.

"I should be the one asking you, why do you look excited when I have said that name?" Vino asked with an irritated face.

"Did you see how excited I am, I feel the same way. I'm feeling frightened because I haven't had lunch yet." Vira replied with a pitiful face.

"Lied!" Vino's palm rubbed his wife's face. He managed his position so that their faces were face to face.

"May I ask you something?" Vino's voice sounded different, his eyes looked unusual.

"Sure," she replied, nodding her head. "What do you want to ask?"

"Which do you think is better between me and Hazel!"

What! Vira's eyes widened, what kind of question is that?

They were silent for a moment.

"Just tell me honestly, I will accept it even if you choose another man and not me." But your tone doesn't sound like someone who would readily accept honest confessions.

"It seems that my father trusts and relies on him more than he does with me, I know, our relationship is not good, it hasn't been good for too long." Vino hissed with a gloomy face.

Vira took a deep breath, she showed a short smile before replying to her husband's words. "Why are you suddenly asking a strange line like this then, the question of who is better, who is more reliable, does that bother you? I think Hazel is a good man." Hearing Vira's words, Vino's face darkened.

"Ah, it turns out he's better than me."

"No, that's not what I meant." vira tried to rectify her words, she grabbed her husband's arm. "Why do you think like that, you can't compare yourself to anyone, everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and that's normal," Vira tried to explain as best she could.

Vino raised his head, he looked at his wife's face with sad eyes. "I have a father who can give me everything, but I don't feel any warmth from him, I want to live with myself, when I feel growing mature and free, he has another son, is that fair?" Vino asked with an unenthusiastic face.

Vira did not understand what her husband said. She got confused.

"Do you know that I was not born as a son? My mother raised me like a beautiful, graceful angel..." Vino's weak voice made the pounding in Vira's chest increase.

whether today she will listen to all the stories of her husband's past.

Seeing how Vino's facial expression looks heavy and burdened, makes her not have the heart if she let out her husband to force himself to talk about the dark past.

"Ah---" Vira took a deep breath. She tries to find another topic and distract her husband.

"Will our honeymoon plans be postponed again?" She said with a wink. She raised her hands, wrapped around her husband's neck.

Vino just remembered the plans they made this morning. "I almost forgot, I had to--"

Rang--

His cell phone rings and it was an incoming message from Kim.

-- Sir, the car is ready and on its way to your apartment. --

Vino's lips smiled. "Are you ready?" Vino asked, grabbing his wife's lips, he landed a small kiss.

"Oh yeah, have you put your summer clothes in your suitcase? We're going on vacation and diving at the beach, you have to prepare a bikini!" Vino said, trying to remember.

Hah! Vira was surprised to hear her husband's words. "Does that mean we can see the moon in the middle of the ocean?" Vira asked impatiently, she looked excited.

"Why not, you can do anything there!"

"Yeeeyyy!!" She jumped off the couch, screaming with joy. "Then I have to add a bikini to my suitcase!" She shouted as she ran towards the stairs.

Vino could only laugh at his wife's adorable behavior.

Tsk, many things make his life anxious, but when he is with Vira, that anxiety slowly fades away. He still needs time to tell his past, he hopes that one day his wife will not be disappointed with the story of his hard past!

Ah no! What was he thinking, he should be very happy and excited right now.

"Please. Thinking about your honeymoon, you can't make your wife bothered.." he said taking a deep breath.