"You are jealous?"
Now it was Nathania's turn who immediately fell silent hearing Rumpaka's words just now, jealousy was useless because there was no result. The man never knew her feelings for being only considered his secretary and date. So far, closeness is only seen as a necessity without love, because for Rumpaka he can do it with a woman who attracts his eyes and attention, not only being loyal to one woman, so it is difficult for a man's heart to catch his eye to like him.
Nathania walked closer to his desk, then stood next to Rumpaka who was waiting for an answer. The man had turned his face towards her with a look that made Nathania fall in love even more and it was difficult to remove the man's charm from her life, even though her feelings had not been reciprocated.
"Jealousy is just a false feeling that is meaningless and will not be reciprocated somehow until when. However, you will never glance at me, here I work as a private secretary and accompany you wherever you go, whether for work or other things that make you happy. You can just say it's your date. If you are bored, you will glance at other women very easily if the girl catches your attention. So it doesn't mean a feeling that someone gives to you, because it will not be reciprocated including my feelings for now," said Nathania expressing honesty from the bottom of her heart, even though the sentence was not thought of before, but suddenly crossed her mind and wants to express it, so that Rumpaka is aware of her feelings all this time which is only seen as a mere passing wind, even though she has never been honest. However, every touch that is given to him can't foster a feeling of love between the two happy partners, or maybe she is too much.
"But, I am willing to do anything for you, Mr. Rum, even though you can glance at many women because it is an honor for me to be close to you that no one else can. And I'm sure one day you'll fall in love with me again," Nathania said confidently, her tone already starting to change. Honestly, her chest felt pricked by the reality, and it was done to eliminate the feeling of fear if the man fell in love with another woman not him.
Previously, she had never felt jealous when Rumpaka was close to any woman, because it was not easy for Rumpaka to give his heart to the woman who accompanied him, Rumpaka's goal was only to seek pleasure. However, it was different when the man looked at the face of his new employee, a look that was not distracted at all, even with the incident that his eyes had seen earlier, if the man was very excited when biting his lips in a room that not just anyone could enter, considering that Skyra is a new employee but can already feel the warmth of Rumpaka's lips.
Rumpaka seemed to clear his throat with Nathania's inner statement, he was aware that he had no feelings for the woman, even though Nathania often accompanied him wherever he went when he had work to do, or when he was in a frenzy. But, it is so difficult for him to open his heart to her, especially since now he still wants to have fun without being loyal to one woman and struggling with love. Quite a lot of work makes him no time to have a lover or open his heart to any woman, except for just looking for fun. Nathania was too excessive in responding to his attitude toward his new employee, he was only interested and it didn't mean that there was a feeling of heart behind his lip-biting action.
Nathania looked away as the man got up from the work chair, looking deeply and intently into her face. There was a hint of jealousy still embedded in every segment of Nathania's face which made the man even want to smile. Rumpaka himself did not deny that he felt comfortable around Nathania, a woman with a beautiful face and slim body that made him tempted. A woman who knows his life more than Maurin.
"You know my life, Nath? Only you understand what my situation is like. It's not easy for me to fall in love, but one day I may fall in love with one woman. Honestly, for now, what I'm looking for is a pleasure and inner satisfaction, I've never been loyal to any woman, even Maurin, who incidentally is my ex-lover, keeps asking for something back, but I never respond because I don't have a heart for her anymore. So, please understand my situation for now," concluded Rumpaka who explained to him while touching Nathania's shoulders.
The woman shrugged slightly when she felt Rumpaka's touch. "I understand, sir, I'm sorry if my words made you uncomfortable. However, I just want to express my feelings to you all this time, which continue to grow over time, even though I shouldn't act like this, every touch we make can't stop me from falling in love with you. And one more thing that makes me wonder about your attitude to the woman that was probably too much."
Rumpaka lowered the touch on the woman's shoulder, then glanced briefly in the other direction. The sentence that was thrown by him was so deep, that the words falling in love were enough to disturb his ears and mind.
"You don't seem to know me, isn't that the attitude I often do when I see a woman who catches my attention, I don't overdo it with her, Nath!" said Rumpaka who sat back down on his work chair, arguing that he didn't have the slightest feeling for Skyra.
Even though Rumpaka had explained his attitude earlier, he didn't think it was too much. However, this did not necessarily make Nathania's mind feel better and believe, a very different look and attitude seemed to describe if the man had fallen in love with her. As someone close to Rumpaka, of course, she can see a look of love or just a look that wants to be accompanied which is quite different.
"Never mind Nath, you don't need to think about anything nonsense. Didn't you come here because you wanted to tell me something important, then why should you talk about what happened earlier and that girl."
Rumpaka seemed to divert the conversation and didn't want to talk about it anymore, because it wasn't important to talk about things that he thought were normal. For Rumpaka his attitude towards the woman was quite ordinary, not too much as Nathania suspected. And those words stopped Nathania, who was still thinking about Rumpaka's feelings, she forgot something important she wanted to say to him.
"The fate of that woman will not be much different from the woman who was close to me, I am indeed attracted to her and you have to remember who I am, it is not easy to fall in love with any woman, just be attracted. I can do it for other people too, Nath. If I'm bored, of course, I will look for other women who I think are interesting," said Rumpaka with a faint smile.
Rumpaka realized that Nathania was being blinded by jealousy over what had happened, even though she had never been honest with her feelings all this time, even though he hoped that her frequent relationship with his would not bring her feelings, every touch he did was just a necessity without love.
***
The cell phone on the table vibrated when a call came in, stopping Skyra from revising an important report that had angered her boss this morning, and putting her in so much trouble that she was terrified of being fired. The woman reaches for a cellphone with a slightly bitten apple logo decorated with three sophisticated camera lenses on the back.
Her brow furrowed when she saw an unknown number calling him, every known or newly known person's number related to work is always immediately saved and may be needed someday. However, it was different from the call this time. Instead of being curious about someone calling him, Sky chose to answer the call instead of asking questions.
She was just about to say hello politely but was grabbed by someone who called him in a high-pitched and deafening tone, a typical male baritone voice, even Sky had to keep the cellphone from her ear area because she was quite surprised by the familiar voice.
"Y-yes, sorry who is this with, ya?" Sky asked who still looked polite because his position was not familiar with the person.
"Wow, don't you keep your own boss's number!" snapped the man who was annoyed with the innocence of his employee. And that person was the man she had just met a few hours ago with a feeling of dread because he had been angry this morning and made Sky in a confused position with his request to be with him tonight, a punishment for what she had done.
Sky staggered and remembered for a moment, even from shock, her eyes widened and her lips parted just like that. She didn't know Rumpaka's cell phone number and didn't save it.
Her face began to grimace, how could she be so stupid as not to keep the cell phone number of the number one person in the company where she works. Will she be in trouble again, because even a small problem will be magnified by the man?
"Ah… I'm sorry, Mr. Rum, I don't know if this is your number, maybe if I knew I wouldn't ask again. I'll save your number right away," replied Skyra apologetically.
"You bastard!" snapped Rumpaka who sounded annoyed at him, it was seen when one hand was tightly clenched without Sky knowing.
Even though he only just found out about the woman's number from Arman, because he wanted to ask about his invitation tonight which had not been answered, and was forced to save it first. This was the first time he had to save the number of someones he thought was not important.
"If it's not important, I can't even contact you. But, my goal is just to ask about the punishment you have to do. I don't need your answer either, just who are you."
Sky thought that the man had forgotten his wish, but it was still being discussed, what a strange punishment. This is the first time she has received such a punishment, accompanying his own superior and who knows what she will do.
"Tonight you must accompany me," said Rumpaka who could not be denied.
"But sir, I can't tonight," said Sky with a grin on her face, even though the man didn't see the state of her face now.
Rumpaka was disappointed with the rejection from Sky who wasn't afraid of him. Even though the consequence if the employee dares to object is to fire him.
"You want to get fired, huh! Why do you like to refute my orders, you know that's one of the attitudes I hate from employees who dare to object. Are you not in love with your current position, I can fire you in seconds and replace it with someone else."
Again and again, the man could only threaten which left him in a position of confusion and fear. Sky closed her eyes and took a deep breath, but it was enough to be heard by Rumpaka, who was equally emotional.
"I'm not disputing your orders, Sir, but tonight I really can't because I have important things to do."
"How important is the meeting with my clients? You're a marketing manager, and the report for a product to be promoted that you did wrong and pissed me off last night will be discussed in the meeting tonight. You should be responsible for presenting it in front of them."
"What?" Skyra was quite stunned to hear the explanation from the man regarding his invitation tonight which turned out to be only related to work. When her mind had been wandering for a while, she was afraid that the man would ask him to do things that would be unreasonable.
"Don't you think you have to sleep with me like that, you perverted brain!" sarcasm Rumpaka who heard the surprised voice from Sky.
Skyra seemed to swallow saliva, she thought if she had to accompany the man like in Korean dramas accompanying her boss to drink and ended up on the same bed, but it turned out to accompany him because of work matters. The woman kept cursing her stupid stupidity. How could a man as handsome and charismatic as he seem to want to be with her?
"Sorry, Mr. Rum."
Sky's tone of voice sounded a little different. Skyra felt guilty and embarrassed because he had negative thoughts about her boss's invitation, why did her brain go straight to primitive things without asking for an explanation first.
"Okay, you revise all the reports so that tonight everything is ready, I don't want to see any more mistakes!"
Rumpaka ended his conversation with Skyra, although it had to be interspersed with emotions first because it was the woman who kept dodging when invited to accompany him tonight. He invited him to accompany him to meet his clients and present the results of his report which had to be revised, not to do things that he might consider negative.
To be continued…