Chapter 38 - A Woman Before Her

"Wait!"

Vira was surprised, she pays close attention to her husband's face, as her body increasingly pushes her husband

if anyone else sees this scene surely they will be mistaken, Vira looks aggressive with the eyes that want something, while her husband's face looks hesitant and not ready.

"What's wrong?" Vira asked wonder.

When she was ready like this, her husband seemed the opposite.

"I, I'm thirsty, my throat is dry," Vino's voice whispers.

Hearing her husband's whispers make Vira's lips smile thinly, she pulls herself so that her husband can sit normally again.

when Vira took the glass that Herman had prepared since long ago, vino occasionally glanced at her, there was a strange meaning in the gaze of the two eyeballs.

Vira held out a glass to her husband. "are you sleepy?" she asked in a soft and attentive tone, she waited for her husband to finish the contents of the glass to put the Glass back.

"a little bit, I seem a little tired tonight." Vino's reply made her understand.

"All right then, go to bed, I'll take care of this food before catching up with you to sleep," Vira gets up from the couch, starts tidying up leftovers, arranges on a trolley, she intends to put all this down to the kitchen.

"Vira!" her husband's voice calls out to her before she exits the door of the room with a food trolley in her hand.

"Yes.." the answer is short.

Vino thought there was a misconception or misunderstanding on his wife's face but it turned out that the beautiful face looked normal, Vira did not have a strange facial expression that would make him awkward and unpleasant.

"I'm sorry for tonight..." a small smile replies to Vino's words.

Vira leaves the room, she heads towards the stairs, her calm-looking face turns red, she sighs heavily.

"Aish, have I gone crazy, what I've said, I love your kiss! I'm really out of my mind, where do I get that nasty word! I want to die because of the ridiculousness that I made myself." she hissed with herself while ruffling random hair, regretting what she had said with a red face extinguished out of shame.

She continues to curse herself while tidying the kitchen, she does not realize that Herman has noticed her behavior while hugging the pillow.

Herman still enjoys the television show as Vira passes him unknowingly, "Doesn't She see me?" Herman asked with a surprised face, he was more interested in watching Vira's behavior and leaving the shows on television.

From a distance he can't hear Vira's complaints, so he wakes up from the couch and starts approaching the kitchen.

He took a seat at the dinner table not far from Vira's busy back with leftovers.

"I shouldn't be like this, I feel like there's an evil spirit coming into my soul so I can't control myself, yes I admit, the more days he looks more handsome and attractive, but he's the same guy, I've promised myself if I'm not interested in him!"

"Oh yes?"

hearing a strange voice behind her back gives Elvira goosebumps, she turns her head hesitantly.

She found Herman's face and made her scream in fear of shock, she hissed angrily while swinging a fork in her hand towards Herman so that he also screamed in shock.

"since when are you here?" Vira hisses angrily after she can calm down herself.

"I've been watching television since then when you went down." Elvira shakes her head like she doesn't believe Herman's words.

"I didn't see you earlier, you surprised me, you made my heart go away, don't do that anymore," Vira threatened with a depressed face. "Looks like tonight's going to be a long weekend.." she whispers desperately.

"How is it, did everything go smoothly?" Herman's question makes Vira even more astonished, what she means by running smoothly, exactly what they are talking about.

"I don't understand what you're saying?" Vira asks with her honesty.

Herman sighs briefly and puts his hands on the bar table, he pays close attention to Vira's face and then he sighs a second time making the wrinkles on Vira's forehead even more.

"What's wrong?" She asked twice because she couldn't wait

"Reading from your face it doesn't seem like my plan was going well, I should know that this is not an easy thing. Never be, you better rest and sleep, let me take care of all this work."

Vira can't say the words listening to Herman's answered, instead of getting an explanation, Herman makes her even more confused.

Herman increasingly looks strange when he sees a glass whose contents are still intact, he points at the glass with a disappointed face. "Why is this glass still full, don't you drink this?" Herman asked in a disappointed tone.

Vira noticed the glass was still full of it. "It's mine, I don't drink it but if you want, I can drink it now." Said Elvira immediately took the glass.

"Never mind, there's no point anymore, next time I'll think of another way." Herman's voice was heard softly, he throws the contents of the glass into the sink to astonish Vira's face.

"Did you know why I made that drink for you guys?" Ask him in a loud voice. He doesn't look excited, very different than usual.

Vira shook her head, was that a special drink?

"I made that drink so that you and Vino can enjoy a warm and beautiful evening, I've worked hard to help the great master." He said.

"Great master?" Elvira asked wonder.

"Yes, you think why I'm in this house when Vino and you are married, there's no way I'm staying here for no reason, and the great master is my reason.

"You mean, the great master is.." Vira doesn't dare guess even though she can already guess who the great master is.

"You think it would be easy for a great master to release his only son whom he guarded and educated like a hunk of the egg without his shell?" Heh! Elvira's face depicts deep ignorance.

"Vino is not a perfect man, as always adored by women all this time, he is also not a man who is open to anyone and unfriendly, he has a long and wave-filled life journey, to this day he can stand well, appear to work in the office after spending so long in exile, spending time with therapists and psychologists."

Herman's sentence makes Elvira even more curious about her husband in depth. "Don't you mind if you tell me?" Ask Vira with a careful voice intonation.

"Wait, before I talk much about him, there's something I want to ask you," Herman said he's putting on a serious face staring at his interlocutor right now.

"Just ask," Elvira said with awkward behavior.

Are you a trustworthy woman, do you like and love Vino, or are you the same as the woman before? The woman who just toyed with and taunted Vino, I have to make sure of all that before I tell you much because I don't want to regret it a second time." Herman's voice sounds serious.

Elvira fell silent. What does she have to say, is she a woman who can be trusted? Does she like and love Vino? Or...

"Wait, the woman before, you mean?"

Elvira's chest-pounding fast, does Vino have a woman before her?

Why does it feel... Uncomfortable.