The Macau Love Story
Chapter 7 (Visiting hotels & restaurants)

I feel a little nervous and awkward when choosing clothes, because Pandu did not take his eyes off me at all.

"It's over" I said with a slightly worried expression.

"Kok only three clothes" said mas Pandu relaxed which actually makes me stunned "No less?" he was still relaxed earlier.

Though I was worried that I had taken three clothes and for me this was excessive, but on the contrary, from the implied sentence, I knew he offered more.

"That's enough" I replied unkindly "I'll spend a lot of time in the house, no, so three clothes are enough for me. I'll just wear this when I get out of the house" I continued nervously.

Mas Pandu who was just silent, the look in his eyes was increasingly difficult for me to understand. From the expression of his face I saw like surprised, but seconds later returned with a relaxed gesture.

"Where else are you going?" he asked after he left the store that said Uniqlo.

"What does the gas itself need?" askaku. His right hand continued to hold my left hand, and the other hand held a paper bag containing the clothes I just bought.

Not answering my question, he took me to the food and vegetable stand on the third floor.

After finishing shopping for various kinds of food and fruit, suddenly mas Pandu whispered a sentence that made me tremble.

"I'll walk first, you follow me from behind" he whispered right in my ear. I haven't asked him why, I know he's been walking about three steps ahead of me. And I follow behind him with a curious and fearful heart of course.

"Is there an enemy?" I asked when we were in the car.

"There was Haikal, Alvin's assistant" he replied, sliding the gear lever to the far left and pushing it forward.

"Who's Alvin?" I was curious about this guy. There's so much I don't know about him.

"He's my friend, but he always throws a cynical look at me, he always wants to snatch what I already have, and he'll throw it away if he's bored" mas Pandu said it with a focused look ahead. "You're ja,,,"

"When I'm a man who almost never makes a mistake" I cut his words "but must live like a fugitive who escaped from prison"

There is no longer a statement from mas Pandu, maybe this speech is like a boomerang for him.

I held my breath for a moment, then threw it away violently. After escaping the cruelty of my aunt that made me a money machine and maid, my life is now threatened by marrying her.

Throwing my eyes at the left side of the window, my hands crumpling each other on my lap, I felt really frustrated and could only accept my fateful path.

****

I stared at the phone screen in hand, I sat waiting in one of the chairs in my husband's study.

A photo perched on his desk, My view looks at the sweet photo of mas Pandu and a beautiful middle-aged woman. With a quick motion my hand grabbed the photo, and looked at it fully fixed, my thumb reflex rubbed the face of the Pandu mas then moved on the face of this woman.

"Are you Pandu's mother?" gumamku. "You guys look so happy" I continued with a smile.

Up to over half a minute of my netra scanning this frame, the sound of the door squealing broke my focus.

"Go to lou bo "Nayla" said mas Pandu on the office staff I estimated number more than 10 people. Perhaps they are the most important employees assigned by mas Pandu to help manage his hotel. I don't know what Mas Pandu told his employees, I only know if my name is mentioned by him.

"Lei hou ma siu ce?" say one of those I don't know what it means. He said it while bowing his head.

I just kept quiet with a smile, then threw a glance towards Mas Pandu.

"He asked "how is Miss". obviously mas Pandu told me.

I retorted with a bow of my head, for I did not know what to answer.

After that, some of them left the room and left four employees. Mas Pandu may allow sitting on the four employees, seen from his hands pointing towards the sofa.

I don't know what they're talking about, my focus is only on Pandu mas who fluently speaks Cantonese.

After the hotel, he invited me to visit some of his restaurants. There was a man named Rondi Mas Pandu's assistant.

"Alvin is back Ndu" he said.

Alvin the man called Mas Pandu while in the car. Because in the presence of curiosity, I sharpened my hearing trying to hear their conversation from a distance of about five meters. Two men facing each other, and I sat on the sofa pretending to focus on my salary.

"Did he win a game of megabucks in Las Vegas?" tanya mas Pandu with elbows resting on the table, and his fingers crumple each other.

The man who was his interlocutor seemed to nod before then saying "He won the slot game on the ninth chance. He made thirty-four billion"

"Did he call you?" tanya mas Pandu with a typical flat tone of his.

"Here, he asked you"

"He doesn't know I'm married, does he?"

"No" he said, shaking his head.

"You'd better secure Nayla, don't rule out the possibility she'll take it from you"

"Yes, the day after tomorrow I'm going to Hong Kong to take her"

"Everything has been prepared by Clara, including Visa and also passport" said Rondi "I have chosen a sea route for you to go there. I've also told Clara to distract Alvin, she'll be with Alvin all day so as not to look for you"

Mas Pandu seemed to nod his head, as if he understood Rondi's words.

"What time is the trip tomorrow?"

"Before eight we have to be in port. I'll pick you up at six in the morning"

"All right" said Pandu "thanks Bro"

"Together"

*******

After a day of following the Pandu mas visited two hotels, and four restaurants of his, my mind was muddled when I remembered his conversation with Rondi.

After washing the dishes from dinner, I went into the room. I can't find Pandu's mas in here, it looks like he's still in the bathroom.

I decided to prepare a change of clothes afterwards, I sat down at the dresser and cleaned the makeup while waiting for her to come out to take a bath.

Just when I finished cleaning the makeup on my face, Mas Pandu came out from the direction of the bathroom door, and our pair of eyes met a glance through the reflection of the mirror.

This man really does not have sweetness.just a thin smile, let alone romantic was not there.

When I got up, suddenly Mas Pandu hugged me from behind, I never expected this at all. When I looked back at him through the mirror, I saw Pandu hiding his face on my shoulder.

"I'm sorry" he said in a slightly muffled voice. "Never be afraid, I will always protect you" he continued.

I was still confused by the attitude of the man I just knew, so persistent he wanted to protect me. Who exactly is this man.

"The clothes I have prepared, are on the bed" I said calmly, which actually restrained the anxiety. "I'm gonna take a shower first"

Instead of releasing me, mas Pandu just rotate my body, then summarize my face.

To be continue

*Ngo to lou bo~ My wife