"Why didn't you tell me about your problem earlier, Septi?" Gerry asked when he was together with Septi in a hotel room that should be Septi's room with her husband, Adipati.
Gerry did not accept that his beloved woman was taken as a tyrant by her husband. Gerry could not believe that there's a man like Adipati who can marry twice a day.
Damn with the love reason Adipati claimed earlier. If he did love his second wife he should've rejected her flattery in the first place. Instead of marrying them both.
"I don't want to become a burden on your mind," Septi replied. She was compressing bruises on several parts of Gerry's face because of a joke-down with Adipati.
Occasionally Gerry was grief-stricken and aching because Septi was too strong to compress a bruise on his face.
"Have you not considered me as a part of your life anymore?" Gerry was upset when he heard that Septi didn't want to be a burden on his mind. Anything to do with Septi, Gerry would feel burdens.
"Do you still think that I matter, even though I'm now someone else's wife?" Septi asked caused Gerry to stare at her.
"What kind of question is that, Septi? Of course, you matter to me!" Gerry roared. "You married based on your father's compulsion and caused your damn husband to act unjustly on you. Here I will not accept. I promised I'll give them all a lesson!" Gerry said quite seriously.
"It's okay, Gerry, that's no need. I'm fine. Besides, Adipati and I had made a pact," Septi said, trying to calm Gerry down, who was in control of his emotions.
"A pact? What kind of pact are you talking about?" asked Gerry intrigued.
Septi was stopping the compress on Gerry's face because it was done with the compression. She held Gerry's hand as if she were building up her strength before she began to speak.
"Tell me, Honey!" Gerry asked, trying to convince and calm Septi's heart.
Septi took a long breath before she start telling a story. "Adipati and I have agreed that our marriage is only status in front of his parents. Beyond that, we were both just two foreigners who were free to do anything and there was no ban at all." Septi finally told what has been an agreement between her and Adipati.
Gerry breathed a sigh of relief. "That means that jerk doesn't have the right to rule you out, does he?"
"That'seight," Septi answered with a nod.
"Then stay by my side. If he forced to stay with them, 'Adipati and Sonya', I would go with you," Gerry said a crazy decision.
Gerry did this all for the sake of Septi. He didn't want Septi treated like earlier when his beloved woman was forced to see her husband and his second wife make love with Septi was in the position of her hands bound by them. That's so nasty for Gerry.
Here, Gerry also wanted to start planning to get back what was rightfully his and his family's.
"Don't go crazy Gerry!" Septi warned as she didn't get the idea of Gerry's mind. It's hard to imagine all four of them living together. Perhaps Adipati and Sonya would look reasonable in sleeping together because they were husband and wife. But she and Gerry would've looked like assholes.
"I'm serious, baby. You have to prove it to both of them. If they both can why can't you? Do you?" Gerry encouraged Septi and agreed to his plan.
"For now, please don't talk about it anymore. I'm dizzy and tired, Ger. It's better now that you have a drink with me. We're having fun now. We should celebrate my freedom from the demands of my father's debts." said Septi then stood up and walked into the freezer in the corner of her hotel room.
Gerry, intrigued by septi's invitation to drink, finally stood up and followed in her footsteps toward the refrigerator.
Instantly Gerry's brow furrowed, his eyes widened as he saw his beloved woman take two bottles of wine from inside the refrigerator.
"Septi Adelia!" Gerry then called his beloved woman by her full name. "You asked me for that drink?" he pointed to two bottles of wine on Septi's hand with his chin.
"Yes. Just for tonight," answered Septi who understands when Gerry is upset. It is a fact that Gerry had never allowed her to drink alcohol.
"No!" Gerry firmly refused. "Let's drink some juice," Gerry offered a suggestion.
"Just this time please let me drink this, Honey. I want to forget today's troubles, which are hard for me, to be honest!" asked Septi with a puppy face. Put Gerry's who was crushed to a crisp. Gerry thought it was all right to let his girlfriend taste this wine because the reason she gave was so clear.
"All right," Gerry said finally. "But remember just this once!" said Gerry.
Septi's eyes lit up with a twinkle and a smile finally appeared on her face. Indeed Septi was so happy because finally, Gerry let her drink the wine she wanted.
"Then let's go back to our seats," she suggested, with gusto.
Again Gerry complied with Septi's wishes. Gerry followed Septi that had taken the first sit on the sofa where they had been sitting.
"Just drink a little, and remember that you would get drunk," Gerry warned when Septi starts pouring into a high-legged glass that is on the table.
"While you're allowed, just let me drink myself to barfly," persuades Septi, mademakingry gets more and more confused.
"No way!" Gerry rejected quickly.
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To be continued