"Would you like to order something?"
"No, I don't. I don't feel like eating."
Darren signaled the flight attendant to leave after Vivi declined his offer to order food. They were on a private plane that would take them home after their two-week European honeymoon.
Darren could understand if Vivi looked exhausted because they had a very long flight ahead of them. But the problem was, Darren knew she had been looking this way since they left the hospital after Vivi's pregnancy test.
The pregnancy test result, which showed a double line, certainly surprised Vivi and Darren. Although they had always had unprotected sex, having children wasn’t in their plans.
Darren didn't know if he was happy with the news or not. He was just surprised and decided to keep his reaction until they went to the doctor to confirm it.
And the results of the doctor's examination said that Vivi wasn’t pregnant. Pregnancy test kits sometimes give inaccurate results
Vivi slowly opened her eyes, and when Darren's sleeping face was the first thing she saw, Vivi decided to close her eyes again.When she had slept earlier, exhausted from Darren's 'punishment', Vivi had suddenly dreamed of Lucas. Even when she was Lucas' wife and saw him often, Vivi rarely dreamed about Lucas, even though she thought about him every day. But tonight, she suddenly dreamed about Lucas, even though she hadn't thought about him.Vivi couldn't remember exactly what her dream was like. In the dream, she felt like she was living her old life as Lucas' wife. Then, when she woke up and saw that Darren was sleeping with her, Vivi felt slapped by a very harsh and painful reality.Her married life with Lucas is not good, and Vivi often feels hurt because she secretly loves a man who already belongs to another woman. But it feels much better than having to live a married life with Darren, who makes it like a roller coaster ride. He makes her life go up, down
"He's not here."Vivi left the bathroom, drying her wet hair with a towel. She was relieved that Darren wasn't in the room so she could go straight to bed before he got back, so he couldn't mess with her because she was already tired after a dozen hours of flight.But Vivi was immediately disappointed when she saw the balcony door of the room open and Darren sitting in a gray pajama suit."Aren't you going to sleep?" Vivi asked after standing in the doorway of the balcony because she was afraid that Darren would be angry with her if she ignored him and just left him to sleep."Come have a drink with me," Darren asked, handing Vivi a glass of red wine."I don't want to get drunk tonight," Vivi refused."Just a little. You won't get drunk." But Darren insisted and pushed the glass closer to Vivi for her to take. "To celebrate the last day of our honeymoon because tomorrow I have to return to work.""You're going straight to work tomorro
"This is embarrassing! How could I be unconscious, and Darren see it first?"In the luxurious bathroom inside her room, Vivi couldn't stop grumbling as her hands continued to brush the blood stains on the white sheets that had previously covered her bed. She could have asked the maid to help her with the menstrual blood stains on the sheets. But she was too embarrassed and decided to take care of it herself, even though she continued to grumble.But the movement of Vivi's hand brushing the sheets was stopped when she suddenly remembered Darren's face when he saw her menstrual blood staining the sheets.It was normal for Darren to show a disgusted expression when he saw blood on his bed, and even though it would offend her, Vivi would understand it because for men who were not used to it, finding menstrual blood on the bed would feel like something disgusting.But Darren didn’t look disgusted. At first, the man looked surprised to see blood on his be
"Why do you still cook this much when I am the only one who eats? Didn't I tell you to cook just enough?"For the umpteenth time, Vivi protested the maids, who always filled the dining table with various foods when it was time to eat."It's okay. We are just doing our duty to always prepare the best food for you. You don't have to force yourself to eat it all, just eat what you want."Vivi let out a long sigh before beginning to enjoy her food. She had once been poor enough to feel how miserable it was to be hungry, but in this house, she never lacked food. And that made her feel guilty for wasting food when many people were starving because they didn't have food like she had in the past."Is he so busy that she hasn't given me any news? Or did he deliberately want me to contact him first?"After lunch, Vivi sits in a chair on the back porch, facing the backyard, which is overgrown with various types of trees and flowers.It was already the
"I miss you so much, and now I don't want to do anything but just hug you." Although Darren said this, of course, it would never be enough for him to relieve his longing for Vivi by just hugging her. In the end, he still undressed Vivi, brought her to the bed, and spent the night making love with his contract wife. Darren puts his hands and mouth everywhere on Vivi's body, although he has to skip the main part he likes the most because the woman is still on her period. While Vivi, without presenting Darren with her main game, tries hard to do everything she can to make him feel satisfied, she doesn’t realize that in her efforts, she also feels so excited and passionate that she forgets that she should feel fed up and forced by what she is doing with Darren. In the end, Darren wasn’t the only one who enjoyed the steamy activity because Vivi felt the same way. "I didn't know you smoked." Darren, sitting on the balcony floor with his back to the door, raised his head when he heard V
"Do I really want to have children? Why do I want it so much now when I never thought about it?"Looking at Vivi's face as she slept beside him, Darren thought again about his desire to have a child. After asking about Vivi's willingness to give birth to a child for him, the woman couldn’t give him an answer right away and asked for time to think about it.But the more Darren thinks about it, the more Darren hesitates about his decision. Remembering what happened to his parents, who were tied to their marriage because of his existence, Darren is afraid that he will only repeat the same mistake if he tries to tie Vivi down with the presence of a child.His mother never loved his father and was forced to marry him because she was pregnant with his child–which made her hate Darren after their son was born, who looked like a copy of him.Darren's father spent decades trying to melt her wife's heart so she would love him back. But what he got in re
"Isn't it neat?" Darren, who had lowered his head to look at his tie, raised his face after hearing Vivi's question. "No, it's not. It's very neat. It's good," Darren said with a smile. "Thank you." "Then let's go get some breakfast," Vivi replied before leading Darren out of the room. Darren didn't immediately follow Vivi and lowered his head to stare at the tie she had just put on him. It had been a month since they had returned from their honeymoon, and to this day, Vivi had not given him the tie clip she had bought him during their honeymoon, which made Darren even more curious. Darren checks the drawer where Vivi keeps the tie clip every day, and the object never moves from its place, which makes Darren think that maybe Vivi didn't give him the thing because the woman forgot it. However, Darren can't ask Vivi directly because he is worried that she might have kept it on purpose to give it to him someday. Darren does not wa
"You don't have to, let the maids prepare it.""It's okay. If it's just like that, I can do it.""But I don't have much time, and I'd rather spend it hugging you than watching you prepare my suitcase like this."Vivi, who was putting Darren's things into the suitcase, stopped what she was doing after hearing what the man said to her. She turned her head to Darren, who immediately stretched out his arms from the sofa in the corner of the room where he was sitting."Come here," Darren called. "Let me give you a big hug before I go."Vivi answered Darren's call and walked over to the man. There was an empty spot next to Darren where she could sit on the sofa, but experience had made Vivi understand that what Darren wanted right now was not for her to sit next to him but to sit on his lap."Oh, God," Darren murmured, his eyes moving slowly to look at every part of Vivi's face as if he wanted to remember it well before he left her. "I'm already d