Money Or Honey
Episode 37: Tega

"Thank you for the tang-sweep" Hiyola turned to find the man who gave her the handkerchief, not being there.

He turned his head with eyes that were still slightly reddish, looking to the right, left, or back, but the figure of the handkerchief giver was not there.

"Even foreigners are reluctant to be with me" he said bitterly. The forced smile made him look pitiful.

Next Hiyola held the stomach,

"Ah, I'm hungry," he murmured as he lowered his head and took a rough breath. Once happiness is gone, hunger begins to eat away. His stomach even hurts.

Hiyola walked over to Hope. He took a box of chickens, opened it and took a piece. As he swallowed, he ran to the edge of the bridge, spewing out a piece of chicken that he had just swallowed. It hurt even more as the food tried to digest him.

"Even the chicken wouldn't go into my stomach!" Hiyola again covered her face with both hands, then sobbed lamenting her fate.

Elsewhere, at the residence of Robert Kohler. The man sat with Kimberly in the TV room.

With the TV screen illuminated, Kimberly was struggling in Robert's arms. The woman did not let go of her embrace at all, making Ami who watched them from the dining room so upset herself.

Every now and then the woman glanced at her Master's expression that looked relaxed, and was not uncomfortable with the attitude of the woman beside her.

"What kind of situation is this?" Ami muttered to himself. His eyes were sharply staring at the woman dressed in less material clothes.

"Ami, is there any news from Hiyola?" roberth asked suddenly. It feels like Ami rolled a careless eye if the employer does not look in his direction.

"Nothing, Sir." The old woman's tone of answer sounded riled up.

Robert scrunched his nose. He focused on looking at the watch on his left hand, so Kimberly who was on his right side felt uncomfortable.

"Are you even worried about me on the day of our wedding?"

Robert closed his eyes for a moment, Kimberly's question just now must have made Ami so able to guess what really happened. So he felt he did not need to play anymore in front of the Maid.

Seeing Robert not answering her questions, Kimberly began to fidget. "So you're not worried?"

Kimberly breaks away from Robert. He looked at Robert's very depressed face.

"Of course I'm worried about you, Kim," Robert replied when he saw how Kimberly reacted. She does not want to hurt the woman's feelings, even more so because Kimberly has stopped her modeling career only to get back together with her.

Smiling delightedly, Kimberly linked her fingers to Robert's hand. "I'm sorry I left you, Rob. In fact I love you too much" he said seriously.

Ami put on a sad face. So, Miss Hiyo is just a substitute bride?

Kritt....!

Door opens. Robert spontaneously stood up. As much as possible he showed his flat face when he saw who was coming. But, she froze when she saw Hiyola's red and slightly swollen eyes.

She cried?

Robert's gray eyes quickly looked at all parts of Hiyola's body. Both feet, even his hands, did not go unnoticed. In the next second Robert breathed a sigh of relief, when there were no injuries to the girl's body.

"Where from?" Only two words came out of Robert's mouth.

Even hearing that alone, managed to make the feeling of the shark that was quite relieved earlier, so back upset. Added to how Kimberly who turned out to be there, standing next to Robert, with her hands that did not come off, and still wrestled spoiled in the man's arms, making Hiyola even more sad.

As much as possible he tried to show his best smile. "I-" His sentence was held back for a moment, thinking of a reasonable answer.

"I forgot to take the chicken from the movie, sir." Biting her lips, Hiyola cursed her stupidity for giving a stupid reason. Of course they all realized that he was lying.

Roberth. Four plastic bags were in Hiyola's hands, but she saw Hiyola carrying them when they got home before her.

"Sit down" said Robert, not to bother with the absurd reason that Hiyola threw.

Not according to her, Hiyola shook her head instead, she reasoned, "My stomach hurts. I'll rest." intend to go from there. His steps came to a halt when Robert blocked his wrist.

"I said sit down!" This time, Robert's voice was full of warnings. His face looked solemn, making Hiyola nod obediently.

Actually Hiyola is not really lying, because of the fact, her stomach does hurt. Although the real reason is that he does not want to be in the same room with Robert especially when there is Kimberly.

Weakly, Hiyola followed Robert's orders. He sat down, followed by Ami and Kimberly who were also ordered to sit together.

Awkwardness. Hiyola sat side by side with Ami, in front of them Robert and Kimberly, who of course continued to be near Robert. The woman seemed to want to show that Robert belonged to the only one.

"I know you must be confused about what's going on right now, Ami" said Robert.

Ami nodded weakly, in fact he already had a rough idea of what was really going on.

"She.." - Robert's eyes glanced at Kimberly. "That's Kimberly Robbeca. Kimberly, my real future wife."

That sentence really sliced Hiyola's heart. Even all this time Robert just thought of him as a fake Kimberly.

Deciding to throw his eyes in another direction, Hiyola did not want Robert to see his eyes that began to glaze over.

"Yes, for some reason, Hiyola replaced Kimberly at the time."

Hiyola's chest was getting tighter. Like her, Robert desperately wants Hiyola to be aware of the position, to have to explain it when she is there?

Kimberly drew a happy smile when she heard the words of her boyfriend. He thought Robert might have forgotten him, plus some of his sisters who met Hiyola said that the woman who became his successor was quite interesting. But, after seeing how Robert was behaving, he felt that he could feel calm.

Kimberly was even very satisfied to see another woman, her man, was now throwing his face and seemed to suffer. He himself was even curious, what sort of roughly a girl was fronting in front of him.

"But, that means, Lord and Lady Hiyo are really married, right?"

Kimberly looked at Ami, cynical. Roberts, nod. Hiyola was still throwing her face away. He wanted this situation to end.

Robert saw Hiyola, who was still throwing her face away, not ignoring her. There is guilt, but he must explain everything so that someday there will be no misunderstanding that is not in want.

"So Ami, I hope, other people will not know this, until our contract expires" said Roberth, completing all the important things that must be explained.

Ami nods. He understood everything. Even the charade in front of her was explained by the employer, making Ami look at Hiyola pitya. I don't know what kind of life that poor woman went through, until she was willing to marry a man she didn't even know.

"And, Hiyola." Now Robert turned to Hiyola. The girl did not look at him at all. He was busy gnawing, so that his tears would not break out.

Ami rubbed Hiyola's shoulder gently, for the girl to turn her head. Robert felt something in the corner of his heart hurt as Hiyola turned to look at him with a smile, but his eyes were glazed over.

"He's Kimberly-"

"The woman Robert loved." Kimberly continued, extending her hand.

Hiyola nodded, her smile not touching her eyes. "Greetings, miss. You're so pretty," praise her sincerely.

Hiyola now realized that Kimberly appeals to her nothing, she is very beautiful with a proportional body. Of course, all this time all the goodness of Robert was solely due to mutual relations. The man couldn't possibly like her, while he had a woman as beautiful as Kimberly.

Ami cleared her throat, "Mrs Hiyo is also pretty."

Kimberly glanced at Ami not liking. However, she smiled back at Hiyola. "Thank you for helping Robert at the time" leaned his head over at Robert.

Meanwhile, Robert was busy looking at all the movements of Hiyola. How he reacted, somehow became his own concern for him.

None of Hiyola, who escaped Robert's gaze, even when suddenly the girl let out a gentle breath, then stood up and smiled at him. Face, Hiyola looked pale.

"I'll take a minute to the room, sir."

Ami closed her eyes when she heard Hiyola calling Robert 'Master'. The call sounded very wrong, but what an old woman could do was, moreover, she was just a maid in the house.

"Because Ami already knows everything, I guess, you don't need to sleep in my lover's room anymore." Kimberly's words honestly hurt Hiyola's feelings. Even Robert rebuked the woman.

"Don't you sleep in your room just for the skit?" kimberly defended herself because of the look of Robert and Ami on her.

"You don't have to say like-"

"OK, miss. I've been thinking about it." cut Hiyola fast.

He didn't want to hear a sentence of defense or the like from Robert's lips, because it would make him even more misunderstood.

With a smile, Hiyola bowed for a while, then walked briskly barely running up the stairs. Ami who saw her female employer leave, also said goodbye to immediately return to her room. He was angry with both of his masters, because all this time he had been theatrical and made him look stupid, but more angry with the Master, for being so cold towards the woman who was clearly his wife.

If I were to become Mr. Robert, I would have chosen Hiyo a thousand times over the less material woman.

"I'll drive you home" said Robert, taking the keys to the car.

"I want to spend the night here, Rob." pampered Kimberly whine. He still misses his girlfriend very much.

"It's late, Kim.." replied Robert, gentle yet full of emphasis.

Seeing Robert's serious face, Kimberly finally complies. "All right!" Kimberly blushed her lips. "But promise me, tomorrow you'll spend the day with me." he continued enthusiastically.

Robert nodded. Kimberly, excited, spontaneously landed a sudden kiss on Robert's lips.

"Yes...!"

Robert immediately pushed Kimberly away from him. Ami, who turned out to be back in the kitchen for forgetting to put yellow rice in the refrigerator, gave a start.

Roberts immediately picked up his jacket and rushed out, while Kimberly instead snorted bitterly at Ami.

The old woman could only shake her head to see the departure of the two humans she had snatched earlier.

"I have to grate that woman's lips!" furious Ami, rubbing his chest.

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