Stealing The Wife's First Kiss

"My son really needs it because I can't be a perfect mother. And I hope you, as his wife, can help him to understand love."

Aruna looks at her in shock. She has never thought to give anything to Hendra aside from what they have agreed in the contract.

But seeing how Gayatri looks at her full of hope, she just nods, trying to calm her down. This is a habit that she uses to her family but now, the Wenceslas family is also a part of her family.

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"Hendra, don't you want to accept your grandmother's call?" Surya slips into the room hurriedly after receiving tons of messages from Hendra's grandmother.

"There's nothing important. Just ignore it."

"Just ignore it?" Surya grabs Hendra's phone, opens the message from Oma Sukma, and puts it on the table for the Wenceslas heir to see.

But Hendra doesn't care. He is reading the company's journals. Because he is so busy preparing his wedding, he couldn't participate in the year-end meeting of the Wenceslas Group's subsidiary companies. And now he needs to check everything.

"Your wife refuses to eat and until now, she is still locking herself inside the room. She refuses to go out and eat."

"This is the first time your grandmother threatens me. She wants me to persuade you to meet Miss Aruna. She is worried that Aruna might be sick."

Immediately, Hendra stops his work.

"Are Wiryo's bodyguards still causing ruckus out there?"

"Of course, they are as stubborn as their master."

Hendra asks about his grandfather's bodyguards who are still trying to catch him. The chaos happens in Lobby Level 5 Wenceslas Ritz Hotel, the main lobby of Wenceslas Group, between the securities and Hendra's own bodyguards and Wiryo's.

"Ask them to leave now and I will go back to the main house." The newly married man grabs his phone and starts to freshen himself.

"What happened to Miss Aruna? I don't want to pry, but seeing your expression makes me worried about her." His secretary walks beside him and asks someone to prepare the car for them.

"I hope I can control myself. I regret hurting her."

"Wait, what?! What did you do to her?" Surya grabs Hendra's arm, asking for more information.

"You know whatever that is related to Aruna always drives me crazy."

"Don't look at me as if I'm the bad man here." Hendra pulls his arm and starts to walk.

"Hendra, I don't want to be pry, I swear! But she is so innocent and she is too kind to get hurt. I have warned you a few times."

"I know it better than you." Hendra stops and looks at his secretary like two brothers arguing. 

"You can be cold to Tania who always sticks to you or those white women who try to trap you. What makes Aruna so different?"

"No matter what, biologically I am a normal man. What do I expect to do on my wedding night other than touching my wife?"

"And she… ah, I don't know… I even regretted my action, Surya." Hendra looks so messed out.

"Make me an appointment with Diana today. I think the old man gets angry because he knows that I have been skipping the consultation with Diana." Hendra glances at the watch on his wrist, massages his temple because he realizes that Aruna hasn't eaten when it's almost 6 PM.

"What time do you want to meet her?"

"I don't know. Just make sure I can meet Diana or her team before going to bed."

Hendra makes himself comfortable inside the Bentley Continental after asking the driver to drive faster.

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"Hendra?!" His grandmother walks closer to him.

"I don't want to talk to you, Oma. Let me talk to her first." Hendra hurriedly runs to the second floor, to his wedding suite with aRUNA.

"You, go into the room and make sure that she is not sleeping or laying down." He asks a maid.

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The maid slips into the room and wakes Aruna up. The woman is getting weak and lethargic.

"Young master is waiting in front of the door. He will come in if you sit." Aruna just follows the request wordlessly.

Two big doors decorated with Javanese style carving opens slowly, revealing her husband who walks into the room, and closes back behind him.

"Argh!"

Aruna frowns seeing Hendra moves back after seeing her.

"Whose clothes are you wearing?" Aruna looks at him expressionlessly, she looks at the clothes she is wearing, too tired and weak to answer.

"Forget it, it's not important." The blue eyed man grabs a chair and the food tray. He moves the chair and puts the tray on the small table beside the bed and makes sure that there's enough space to move closer to Aruna. The woman is leaning on the headboard.

"Can you use other methods than skipping meals to torture me?"

"I don't have many ways to make sure you come to me."

"If I called or messaged you, you are going to ignore my calls and messages, right?"

"I know you would." Aruna speaks slowly, unable to look at his face.

"Okay, since I'm here, open your mouth and let's eat." Hendra grabs a bowl on the small table, puts the porridge on the spoon for Aruna to eat.

"I need something else." Aruna refuses to eat. The girl looks at Hendra in hope.

"Name it!"

"I want to go home just for one day.."

"Prak!" Hendra puts down the bowl roughly.

"No!"

"Just one day, Hendra."

"No! I said no!"

"I just want to take my clothes and things left in my parents' house."

"I said no! You can buy more clothes and other things!"

"Why? Why are you like this?" Aruna starts tearing up.

"Why do you think?!" Hendra raises his voice.

"Of course because I'm afraid you will go and won't go back to me!" He screams loudly.

_What is he saying?_ Aruna watches the gloomy face mixed with worry on Hendra's face. Aruna realizes that she should be the one who has to be more humble to calm the man before her.

"You can go and watch over me. I just want to stay for a night to grab my things."

"I can buy new things for you." He doesn't want to take risks.

"I'm sure you do but I want to fill this room with my personal things so this room can become more familiar."

"Hendra, please. Let me." Aruna pleads with a gentle voice, trying to melt his hardened heart.

"Come here!" The man scoots closer and hugs Aruna."

"Don't torture me by saying you refuse to eat, ask to go home, or cry again after this, okay?"

Aruna nods in his arms.

"Our marriage will be difficult, even more difficult than you've thought. But remember one thing, I won't ever let go whatever I have in my hand. Do you understand?!"

Aruna nods once again.

"I will even force you to be with me although you beg to leave." Hendra strokes Aruna's head. They seem to have forgotten about the agreement.

The blue eyed man grabs back the spoon and asks Aruna to open her mouth.

"Who gives you that clothing?"

"Mom Gayatri gives them to me. I have many clothes from her because we are the same size."

Hendra stops feeding Aruna.

"Em… what happened?"

"You can take it but don't wear it. I will buy you better and newer clothes."

"But the clothings is still good. She even bought some from the USA and they are so pretty just as your style."

"Do you want to fight with me again?" Hendra puts on his gloomy face.

Aruna doesn't want to fight when they just made peace. She shakes her head.

"Hendra… can I sleep on the bed tonight?"

_Although I know this is my turn to sleep on the sofa, he wouldn't be so heartless to let me do it, right?_

"Yeah."

"I still have something to do. You can ask the maid to clean it up after you eat. I will come back as soon as possible." Hendra needs to meet Diana, he needs help to be able to go through the night better.

"Don't leave me!"

"You can't leave this room." Aruna remembers what happened the night before.

"It won't take long, Aruna." Hendra puts the empty bowl on the table.

"No! I won't let you go!"

"Calm down, I will come back."

_After I find the way to see you sleeping or at least I will enter the room with my closed eyes when you are sleeping._

Seeing Hendra is going away, the girl gets off from the bed, staggering a little because she lost balance and raises her arms to stop Hendra.

_You are going to get into troubles with your grandfather's bodyguards_

"You need to understand. There are many things I need to do." Hendra rubs Aruna's hair and turns around.

But Aruna is fast. She runs to the door, locks it from inside, and holds the keys on her hand.

"Don't be like this."

But Aruna doesn't care. His wife runs to the bed and slips underneath the cover. But she sits up as soon as she realizes that this man doesn't want her to lay down or sleep earlier.

"Isn't it too late. We can go straight to sleep." Aruna recommends. She moves the pillow on the left side and two bolsters on the middle of the bed. Then she chooses the right side of the bed, makes her pillow stand against the headboard to make herself comfortable while waiting for Hendra to sleep first.

"I promise I won't sleep earlier this time. Because I have been sleeping all day long."