8. My First Boy Friend

"Even though I love you, iyt doesn't mean I will go back home with you. I still want to stay here, at my father's. Besides I want to organize my study and pursue my dream with my friends at Magic Letter. I'm sorry".

Thud thud thud

"Aruna…what am I supposed to do? I can't live without you… you must go back home with me". Hendra was decisive.

"I can't. I must fix my life. Give me that chance, Hendra. I want to think over before I'm coming back to you". She took steps backward from him.

"Please.. don't do this". His heart hurt.

"I want to back to college…I want to pursue my dream, I want to establish Magic Letter". She felt a gust of comfort thinking about it. That made her unable to go back to the main house.

"I can give you everything. Please come back to my home.. I will give you all you want".

"No! I know you can't give me that freedom. Even the last time you still locked me in the bathroom. I don't want to go back. Let me stay here for a while. You can visit me anytime you want".

"Aruna…please…don't be like this"

"I don't want to go back to the main house, Hendra. Please…I just don't want it".

"Fine. We will stay in my private hotel room! Or I will buy a house for you. Only for both of us"'

"It seems you took it wrong. I'm sorry. I don't want to go back to you yet".

Thud thud

A heart was deeply hurt

"What do you mean, Aruna? We love each other. Don't let yourself miserable. For this time, please?".

"I'm sorry". She was stubborn.

"Don't say sorry. It hurts me so much, you know. Just tell me what you bear in your heart. Let meknow what you exactly want!". His voice raised.

"Fine. You asked me to tell you what I have in my heart".

"I'll try to fulfill whatever you want from me as long as you give another chance to keep our marriage?, Hendra knew his wife was too young. A marriage for a 2O years old girl must have had a different perspective.

"Give me time to rethink before I come back to you, I'm sorry, I don't change my mind".

"You said sorry again!" He was exasperated and afraid.

"Wait! Don't be mad. Listen to me! I still come back to you. You can visit me anytime you like to. Let me complete my lectures…let me continue to reach my dream… I'm afraid with my steadfastness if I come back to that house. I can't take it anymore if I'm locked again!'. She looked worried looked for her husband's understanding.

Thud thud

He realized his weaknesses. He was still unable to give his wife the freedom she looked for. Her tears hurt him so deeply.

"Hendra… if you are ready to give me that freedom while I am with you, I will definitely come back to you". She tried to convince him.

"Uffffff…". He sighed and massaged his temples with his fingers.

"So your love to me is not big enough to sacrifice for me".

"I don't know…. But sometimes man is pretty selfish. Today I'm looking for freedom because that is worth for me. But tomorrow I may run to you because you are more worth for my life. No one knows what tomorrow holds. I just can't do it now". She shook his arms wishing her wishes were granted.

"That means you are assessing which goals are worth more for you right now?". He made a conclusion.

"And you must also consider what is the best for you. Is being with me best for you?". She opened all the possibility to make it balance.

"Oh..so you are giving us space to rethink?". He concluded carefully.

"Thank you for your understanding".

"For how long?". He needed time limit somehow. "I need certainty".

"Until you are sure you can give me freedom…."

'How if I can convince you to come back without promising you the freedom you're looking for?"

"It's up to you. But at the moment let me continue my study or I'll be so much behind from my friends". She complained.

"Alright. Just consider I'm having you under the custody of your own father. Fine!". He knew her safety was at stake unless she bore his child, the next heir. So that the child would be the next target, and it was much easier to take care of a child compare to taking care of a girl growing up in an ordinary environment.

"Whatever you decide".

"That means I can visit you anytime…"

"That's possible"

"Fine, I take it because it is the best for now and the best for us"

She nodded.

"Hen…"

"Yeah...?" "Thank you for giving me the chance".

The blue eyed man looked at her. He had to accept to stay separately from her, the woman he deeply loved. It was the best for his girl.

To be honest, it was hard to imagine to sleep without having her by his side, to occupy their room. His loneliness when she was gone was really hard. But now he had to go through that again.

"Can you sleep without me?". That question was from his heart

"I'll call you when you have trouble sleeping".

"Like a dating couple we are". That was his complaint.

"Oh, that is true. You are my first boy friend". She replied.

"How come?". He did not get what she meant.

"I didn't have a boy friend and never went on a date. So, let see ourselves as young couples having a date. And you are my first boy friend". Slowly his anger slowed down listening to her bubbles.

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The book [One A CEO Wife] is the season II from the book [Stealing The Wife's First Kiss]. If you want to read it in chronological order, you can start reading it in season I [Stealing The Wife's First Kiss]. Moreover, the novel [Once A CEO Wife] can be enjoyed independently because it presents different conflicts.