THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
91. Open-ended.

Nayla was silent for a while. His hands began to tremble and sweat, maintaining a smile on his lips, he tried to control his feelings.

Suddenly, Rory cleared his throat slowly, but enough to make Nayla direct her gaze at Rory.

Rory's hand was raised as if he was correcting the position of his watch. With a slow motion, Rory shook her hand and blinked her eyes, smiling warmly hoping that it would make Nayla a little calmer.

Nayla smiled slightly catching Rory's intention. With a little thing that Rory did, Nayla saw a bracelet in her hand, one of her hands placed on the bracelet she was wearing.

'I'm sure big brother is here, right?' inner Nayla.

"Nyloes does not stand for my name, but rather the name of my brother, Nicholas Louise. That said, that was the only inspiration for me" Nayla replied in a calm voice.

"It's impressive, of course your brother is very proud of you at this time" he said.

"More than anything," replied Nayla smiling.

"Alright, well, honestly, I personally really want to ask more, but it will violate the existing provisions" he said with a light laugh.

"I'll close the night until here" he smiled. "However, for all of you here, given the opportunity to ask for ten minutes. Thank you for accompanying us, and good night,"

The host ended the show, but did not move from his seat. Waiting who will ask the question.

Rory squirmed uncomfortably in her seat with one hand in her pants pocket. His eyes could not be separated from Nayla who was also staring at him.

'Now what? Do I have to abandon my intentions? Or should I keep my plan? I wanted to surprise her, but it was she who gave me this unexpected surprise first, Rory's inner self.

They returned backstage after the time to ask had run out. The sound of applause accompanied the steps of those who left the stage.

Nayla was greeted with a quick hug of Adrian who smiled proudly as they walked into their personal space, unaware of the gazes of several pairs of eyes staring intently at Adrian.

"You should call Rose, and tell her this. He will be happy to hear this news" Adrian said.

"It looks like I'm going to get busier after this, but it doesn't matter because it's worth it" he added grimacingly.

Rory approached Nayla and wrapped her arms around Nayla's boat, leaving Adrian looking at her in confusion. He knew who Rory was just by looking at his face, where he also became a fan.

"Are you Nayla's friend?" ask Rory.

"It can be said that" replied Adrian. "Truthfully I am your fan" he added.

"Ah,, so, thank you," greeted Rory with a stiff smile.

Nayla nudged Rory, then laughed softly. However, his laughter stopped when he realized that not only was Rory staring at Adrian with an intimidating gaze, but that everyone was in the room except Martin.

Adrian scratches his head in confusion, still not understanding the reaction of Rory and his friends.

"Did I make a mistake, Nay?" adrian asked, beginning to shudder.

"Hey, stop intimidating him like that, he didn't even do anything wrong" Nayla said.

"Then say it! Who's she?" ask Rory.

"My assistant" answered Nayla.

"Why don't you ask her what all these surprises mean to her instead of asking someone else, Rory?" sela Thomas's.

"Now explain,!" pinta Martin's.

Nayla sensed that they were all now looking at her with questionable gazes, but did not reveal their question.

"Ukh, yes, I know, don't look at me like that!" nayla complained.

Nayla let out a long sigh then looked at her friends who were waiting for her explanation. He immediately sat down on the sofa followed by them, including Adrian who chose to sit next to Nayla in a different seat.

"It's actually something I want to tell you tomorrow at the event I mentioned a few days ago" Nayla said.

"Are you Nyloes?" ethan Sela.

Nayla nodded small. He stared at the floor for a while, then raised his face again, smiling faintly.

"I've had too long to doubt you guys, especially you, Roy," Nayla said, staring at Rory sitting next to her.

"But, after all the time I've been with you, (bringing his attention to others) with you, I keep thinking that I can't always hide this. And to think that if you ever find out about this from someone else, it will make it harder for me to explain it and of course it will make you disappointed that I didn't say it in the first place,"

"I plan to say this tomorrow before my show starts, but the sudden change in schedule leaves me with no choice but to say it tonight as well" Nayla then looked at Adrian.

"You foiled my plan, Adrian," continued Nayla.

"Hey, I didn't change your schedule, and you chose to move on, did you?" adrian Argument.

"Adrian?" muttered Kevin frowned.

"So Adrian is your assistant?" kevin looked at Nayla.

"Is he also the same person who visited you when you were in the hospital?" kevin ignored Nayla's question.

Nayla frowned, looking into Kevin's eyes.

"How do you know? Was it when Adrian was there that you saw him?" search Nayla.

Nayla recalls that when Adrian visited her in the hospital, Kevin appeared in a strange manner after Adrian's return.

"And the one who always calls you is also him?" ask Kevin again.

"Wait a minute," Nayla raised her hand, stared fixedly at Kevin, then laughed.

"Do you think that's funny?" welcome Kevin, upset.

"Now I understand, why your attitude was a little strange at that time after Adrian visited me or after Adrian called me," Nayla said trying to hold back her laughter.

"Do you think that Adrian and I are in a relationship?" guess Nayla.

"I_,," Kevin could not deny and chose to turn his face away.

"Silly," sergeant Adrian

"Adrian is even married, how could I possibly be in a relationship with him,?" nayla smiled with amusement.

"Then tell me why he has the keys to your apartment and can go there whenever he wants?" greet Kevin.

Rory widens his eyes, Thomas, Nathan, Ethan including Martin are surprised by what Kevin says.

"Is that true, Nay?" ask Rory.

"That's right, she has the keys to my apartment and can go there anytime," replied Nayla innocently.

"Come in when you're not there?" ask Kevin again.

"Now I wonder, where do you know all that, Kevin?" asked Nayla with a frown.

"I'm the one who's asking here, and don't answer my questions with questions. I can understand if he's just visiting you or calling you because he's your assistant and it's about work, but I still don't understand how you can give him the keys to your apartment?" Kevin began to raise his voice.

"Ohoo,,, hold it here for a while" Adrian said.

"What's? You want to defend yourself?" welcome Kevin, upset.

"Tck, you're great Nay can hang out with them with his arrogance" Adrian said.

"What do you mean_,,,"

"She was too careless in taking care of herself," Adrian's cut began to ignite emotions.

"You don't even know anything about it and act like you know everything by cornering others based on the baseless assumptions you make" Adrian said.

"Hey, stop! Why are you fighting? I'll explain Kevin, so please take care of it," said Nayla.

"That goes for you too, Adrian!" coined.

"What else? You're asking me to calm down when he judges you like that? He never even saw what you looked like who hadn't slept for six days because of the script. And he just kind of said it just because he had baseless assumptions?" hardik Adrian's.

"What???" kevin was surprised.

"Not sleeping,,,,,,?" Rory muttered with widened eyes.

Hearing Adrian's statement, they had the same reaction.

"What cross? Pretend surprised? Wish I'd be impressed by your reaction? Now I feel sorry to be your fan" Adrian snorted.

"Adrian, please, stop, stop" Nayla said as she grabbed her hand.

"My reason is very simple, I want to take care of it. You guys mind about that?" adrian asked to get up from his seat.

"Adrian, enough,,!" nayla Pinta.

"Did he also use his sarcastic phrase on you, Nay? If so, I really want to beat him up. And if Chris finds out, he'll act the same way, too" Adrian said.

None of them could answer Adrian. Everyone was surprised because they knew nothing.

"You want to know why I have the keys to the apartment? You just have to ask without insinuating like that, and I'll be happy to answer that" Adrian said.

Adrian feels Nayla's hand squeezing his hand, and he also knows what it means. Nayla wants him to stop. However, his emotions overflowed considering Nayla had sacrificed a lot and they judged without proof. Even Kevin's judgment was based on baseless assumptions that he thought were ridiculous.

Adrian unhesitatingly stared at Kevin, continuing to look at Rory and his other friends, before returning to say.

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