Chapter One Hundred Forty-Three:
Sky-Cloud Bar
"Sir," suddenly his bodyguard cuts him off. "We need to go." he said.
"Are you busy?" I asked.
"Mon. Haimon Del Gazini." He suddenly replied rather than to answer my question. "And I'm pleasure to meet you, Ms. Shu Tokino Croosalba."
I couldn't help but smile at what he said and for some reason, I am so happy to meet him unexpectedly. "As I said earlier, you can just call me 'Shuki' or 'Shu', Mr. Del Gazini."
"Then, Shu, you may call 'Mon'." he replied smiling.
"Sir--"
"Cancel the meeting with Mr. Park." Haimon suddenly cuts off his bodyguard. "And tell him I have something more important to take care of and I will talk to him tomorrow."
"Sir?" his bodyguard looks at him with questions in his eyes but Haimon just stared at him before he answered. "Yes, I'll tell him."
"Thanks." Haimon simply replied before turning his gaze back at me. "So, what do you have in mind, Shu?"
"Uhm, I think first... Let go of my hand… I guest." I answered then he stares to our hands for a while before he let go of it, but I don't know why I feel so sad when he finally let go as if I wanted him to continue holding my hand.
"So?" He said that cuts off my thought.
"Let's have a drink?"
"Sure! My treat."
"Okay." I simply replied then that night, we just talk and I never expected that I will enjoy his company.
For the very first time, I finally saw him face to face and I met him enough to finally realize that I like him. That night is the best moment happened to me and I couldn't just forget it even after the next day. And I thought it will be the end, I thought that I would never going to meet him since our first meeting was unexpected. Then, suddenly, the very next day he came to our home only to formally ask me for a date and he formally talk to my parents and my brother letting him to date me. Because of the good intentions Haimon showed to my parents and my brother they also allowed me to date him.
That's where it all started. A whirlwind romance, that's how we started. Even though we only met for a while but I feel like we have known each other for a very long time. We had a lot of things to agree on. We almost get along with the things that we both like. So that's how happy I am because I've finally felt that my emptiness suddenly gone, I feel complete.
Until, when I turned twenty-five, he surprised me with a proposal that everyone knows and they hide it from me. I was really surprised and so happy from his surprised proposal and without thinking it twice, I said 'yes'.
From that moment on, he had already prepared everything needed for our wedding. He never let my parents to spend money to our wedding and the only thing that he accepted is the gift for us and nothing else.
Everything went well, from the preparation of our guest, our families and friends, and the wedding place. It turned out so perfect and memorable. Everything that I dream of and wish for came true and it's all because of him.
Haimon made everything possible just for me and on our wedding day, everything was so perfect and I am so happy and lucky to meet the man that I love the most. Everyone who witnessed our wedding was really admired and others were envious because the richest bachelor in the Sky City was already my husband.
All the women in the whole Sky City if not happy and jealous, are angry because I am the one chosen to marry Haimon. But I don't care what else they think or say to me because the most important to me, is to be with the man I love forever. Being with him is enough for me to feel happy, contented and finally be whole. The longing, the wanting and the waiting that I felt before has been finally filled and it's all because of him.
He was the one that helps me to find what I am trying to look and even though as months goes by, I gradually knowing my husband. And I cannot deny that sometimes there are things he has done or is able to do that give me mystery. I don't know how to explain, but as our marriage lasted, I had questions I was not able to ask him.
I tried once but then for some reason I just suddenly woke up as if I am just dreaming. I don't know what happened yet, we keep on living in a normal life like the other couples would always do. I can say that we had a happy marriage and everyone can see it but what everyone doesn't know, behind our marriage there is a hidden secret.
At first, I was still able to understand his behavior but after a year of our marriage my perspective completely changed. My questions then increased even more. And though I don't want to admit it, little by little doubt welled up in me.
I love him so much it hurts. Haimon is my husband but then slowly, he becomes stranger to me. His mysteriousness puzzled me. I badly wanted to know what is it but he was the one avoiding it.
Every time I ask him there is always a strange event happened that I can't explain. That really upset me and keeps asking. Why? Didn't he trust me?
Trust, is one of the fundamental rights of marriage but he couldn't give it to me. I know he loves me, because he always shows his love by words and actions. The way he kisses me and the way he holds me, give warmth to my heart. Yet, he never consummates our marriage and I'm still his virgin wife.
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