Skyra rushed home from the restaurant after the meeting with Rumpaka's clients was over. Her head was slow throbbing after she drank no more than two glasses of wine, but it was already able to make her head sway like this. The way she walked was seen grinding with less clear vision. Maybe she is not used to drinking alcoholic beverages, and what she did earlier was just pretending in front of these clients so that she would not be considered weak because she was not used to drinking alcohol.
"Sky ….!"
Her footsteps stopped for a moment when she heard the voice of the man she was avoiding calling her name. Skyra immediately left for a moment the man went to the toilet first. She did not want to go home with him, even though it was Rumpaka who kept asking and did not accept rejection from anyone.
Suddenly her legs felt hard to move, even though her position was avoiding, and wanting to wait for a taxi. However, it inevitably forced her to remain silent until the two of them faced each other like this.
"Why did you leave me?" asked Rumpaka with a face that did not like the woman's departure.
Sky can't bear to look at him, she prefers to look down with the occasional breath coming out of her nose.
"Ehm... because I want to go home, Sir, it's late, is not good for women to go home alone in the middle of the night," replied the woman simply. She knew the man must be upset because she left without his knowledge.
Rumpaka slightly pulled the corners of his lips upwards, a faint smile was now implied on his handsome face. That's a very classic reason.
"You're either pretending to be stupid or you're really stupid. Did you forget who you were with tonight? Did you think I would let you go home alone in your drunken state!" concluded the man in a rising voice, cursing Skyra's stupidity.
"I'm not drunk, Sir!" Sky immediately chimed in as she straightened her face at Rumpaka, refuting the man's estimation of him since his circumstance was still normal until Rumpaka couldn't assume that Skyra was drunk.
"Still dodging. You're not used to drinking alcohol, only two glasses of the drink entered your mouth but it has made a real change in your face. So if you can't drink, you don't have to drink anything! You better be honest from the start, I can see which people drink and who don't!" Rumpaka's sarcasm made Sky immediately fall silent. Honestly, what she did earlier was just to test her courage to drink, and she did not want to be called weak. However, due to carelessness to make she vomited in the toilet earlier.
Rumpaka tried to get rid of his annoyance for a moment with that woman, because it was already night and his tired body wanted to rest, especially seeing the woman's condition which was quite pathetic.
"Yes, you get into my car, let me take you home," said the man who stepped past Skyra's still frozen body. Skyra is still hesitant to go home with the man. Negative thoughts about Rumpaka always haunt him, she is very sure the man she's with is not a good man who can respect a woman.
Reluctantly, Rumpaka had to turn his body again towards the woman because there was no sound of her footsteps. Skyra remained stubborn, one of the traits of someone who was hated the most.
"How long are you going to keep standing there, you're not going home!" he snapped by showing a scary face, a face his employees feared if Rumpaka had an expression like this. However, in contrast to Skyra, who did not feel afraid.
"I can take a taxi home myself, you don't have to bother, Sir," said Sky, who didn't care about the man's invitation. She would still take a taxi instead of having to go home with him.
Rumpaka exhaled roughly at Sky's refusal, even when he was angry, Skyra was still able to refuse an invitation from a handsome man who not just any woman could offer to take him home.
"I counted five seconds to get in the car, if you keep refusing, I'll make sure tomorrow I will write you a letter of resignation!" firmly the man did not hesitate to threaten.
Sky, who had widened her eyes because of Rumpaka's real threat, who didn't seem to be kidding this time, was afraid if it happened.
"Wow, you are challenging me huh, well I'm going to fire you! It won't hurt me to fire an employee who often takes orders from his superiors!"
"One-"
"F-fine, fine." In the end, Sky was weakened by all forms of Rumpaka's
threats.
"Two-"
"Yes, I will go home with you! Please stop counting."
"Three ….!"
Rumpaka also smiled when he found Sky rushing into his car, even though it had only been three seconds but it had made the woman die suddenly, in fact, her face had started to glow.
Now, Sky is already in Rumpaka's car, there is no other way for Sky but to follow orders from that annoying man. Sky didn't want to be fooled by Rumpaka's threats that she was tired of hearing, nothing but fire, fire, and fire. That's the only tactic from the man's mainstay to threaten his employees, like no other threat. However, hearing the word resignation, she also felt afraid, what if the man did it, it would be easy for Rumpaka to do things that other people couldn't do.
The man just chuckled widely at the look on Skyra's face and attitude that was so scared for the moment he threatened her earlier, without even saying anything else, Sky immediately got into the car. It was so easy for him to threaten someone as stubborn as him.
"Don't forget to wear the seat belt, do you want me to put it on? If you are willing, I will gladly do it," said the man who reminded him.
Without saying anything or daring to look at him, Skyra immediately buckled up. She hoped that the man would take her home not take her anywhere else.
"Thank you, Mr. Rumpaka for bothering to take me home. You are a very good boss and it is rare for a number one person in the company to take one of his employees home, especially a new employee like me," said Skyra, in the midst of the two of them being silent. This was done to get rid of the nervousness that suddenly hit, even though the sentence did not occur in her mind at all.
There was a smile that was inversely proportional to Skyra's thanks because previous Rumpaka had planned something she didn't know.
"Who will take you home," said Rumpaka who went straight to the point, wanting to see the expression on the woman's face again with his words.
Skyra immediately changed position, leaning more towards the man with a frown on her face.
"What do you mean, sir? Where do you want to take me?" the question sounded innocent this time, there was an aura of fear that settled within him. Even when she saw Rumpaka who was still smiling strangely, it seemed that the man would indeed do the thing she had been afraid of for a long time. I don't know where it will take him.
Rumpaka did not want to lose to Skyra, the man also leaned his face towards him, staring clearly at the frightened expression displayed by the woman. Skyra did not dodge when she looked at each other at close range, because she was waiting for the man's answer.
"To my apartment and you must accompany me tonight," Rumpaka informed with a normal face and a smile filled with satisfaction, in contrast to Sky who opened her mouth slowly.
"It's better if Mr. Rumpaka doesn't have to take me home. I can go home by myself in a taxi." Skyra seemed to rush to get out by opening the locked car door, at the same time as Rumpaka drove his car. The woman could only curse in annoyance at the attitude of her boss always acted arbitrarily.
"SIR ….!" Skyra's fearless snarled.
"Why are you so paranoid? You just accompany me to the apartment and do not have to do anything. Are you afraid of your lover if caught spending the night with another man?"
When Rumpaka spoke of a lover, Sky immediately fell silent. The fabricated lies made him die standing, especially if the man knows that she does not have a lover.
"Ya! Didn't I tell you, if I already have a boyfriend, please don't do this and respect my relationship with him? I don't want my lover to think about it later," Skyra said firmly, this time annoyed with Rumpaka's attitude, who always wanted to do things without thinking about the other person.
The man did not like the words that came out of the mouth of the woman he was starting to like. He realized that Skyra already had a lover, even with the expression of his feelings before meeting the client, the woman did not reply and thought that his love was just a joke. However, he couldn't hide his attraction to her, so he didn't like seeing that woman in a relationship with another man.
"I'm curious about your lover, can you introduce me to him?" asked Rumpaka which made Sky jolted with his desire.
"Don't make it up, Sir. Don't interfere in my life. We only know each other as employees and superiors, don't have to know each other's privacy."
Skyra couldn't possibly agree with the man's wish, because at the moment she didn't have a boyfriend, only a temporary relationship with the old man.
"But I like you, Sky, and I want your relationship with your boyfriend to end so I can have you."
"You have gone mad!" Unknowingly Skyra had to say some more harsh words. "How come you like me. I mean, why do you easily like a girl like me?!"
Skyra was really surprised by the man's attitude, did he really like him from the heart, or did he just want to be used as an outlet for mere satisfaction like the woman who was caught in his trap? So therefore she did not immediately believe one hundred percent that Rumpaka liked him.
"I don't understand it either. I don't want you to have a relationship with another man, other than me."
To be continued…