I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
106. Angrier

In front of the apartment where Bram lives, Joel's car is parked there with Joel in it.

Joel opened his laptop and started typing with finger movements that could not be followed by eye movements.

On the laptop's screen, a cctv recording appeared, and Joel began to look carefully at each cctv recording.

Joel gritted his teeth as the recording saw Ariel and Bram break into one of the apartments. But once inside, Ariel did not come out.

Joel began to speed up the recording and clenched his teeth again when he saw the time listed there.

In the morning Ariel is seen opening the door when a man Joel does not know presses the bell. The thing that made Joel's blood boil was that Ariel was only wearing a man's shirt, and he was sure it was Bram's.

"Haaa, what explanation do I expect after seeing all this?" grunts Joel.

Joel continued to wait there, while continuing to see the recording that was still going on. Until Joel again saw the man who had previously come again with two large paper bags in his hand.

Ariel re-opened the door and was still wearing her previous shirt, making Joel smile wryly at the sight.

"Currently, should I say that you're not that different from Jesica, you stabbed me in the back, Ariel, too,"

"What mistakes have I made with you?"

"You played a perfect game to break someone's heart" Joel fumed as he clenched his hand.

Joel exhales violently, tries to calm his heart, and decides to wait for Ariel there until Ariel leaves Bram's apartment.

Ariel welcomes Sam back without knowing Joel is waiting for her.

"I'm sorry I made you wait a long time," Sam regretted before entering.

"It's not a problem, Sam. I thank you instead" Ariel said.

Ariel took over the paper bag from Sam's hand.

"Uhm, sorry, miss, I bought a set of clothes, but I don't know if it suits your taste" said Sam.

Ariel frowned and immediately opened the paper bag.

Coral short-sleeved tops and a white long pair of jens.

"But, I didn't ask you to buy this," Ariel replied hesitantly accepting Sam's gift.

"However, you need it, and it's also an order from the master" said Sam.

"You can't go home wearing that outfit, Ariel" said Bram.

Bram's voice rang out from behind Ariel's back, making him turn around and see Bram had been wearing casual clothes walking up to her.

"You can change your clothes, if you don't like it, I'll order some more and be sent here immediately" Bram said.

"Try it" Bram suggested. "Maybe you're not comfortable if you have to keep wearing it" Bram lowered his head.

"Then, eat this," said Ariel giving a paper bag containing food to Bram.

"I asked Sam to find some drunk food" he added.

"Thank you" said Bram.

"You can change clothes in my room, or wherever you feel comfortable" Bram said without looking at Ariel.

Ariel nodded and walked towards Bram's room. After locking the door, Ariel started to unshirt from her body.

His movements suddenly came to a halt, replaced with his body trembling violently. The night turned around again in front of his eyes like a movie.

His tears rolled back without being able to prevent him, his legs weakened as if losing energy until Ariel crouched down while hugging her knees. I hope the shaking stops soon.

TOK,,, UH,,,

TOK,,, UH,,,

TOK,,, UH,,,

"Hemph,," Ariel's reflexes silenced her own mouth, hoping that her tagged sobs would not be heard by others.

"Ariel, are you okay?" ask Bram worriedly.

"Me, me," Ariel's voice choked.

'Please,, stop, stop, ' hope Ariel in her heart while biting her hand.

"Me, I'm fine" replied Ariel.

"Ariel, what's up? Did something happen inside?" ask Bram worried.

Silent,,,,

"Ariel, can you open the door?" please Bram.

"You've been inside for over thirty minutes, what's wrong? Did something happen?"

Bram's voice sounded increasingly worried, but Ariel still could not control her voice because of her sobs. His hands still held his own mouth.

"I, I, just need to go to the bathroom. I'm done in a minute" Ariel replied.

"Are you sure?" ask Bram.

"Very well" replied Ariel.

"Alright, tell me if you need anything else" Bram said.

Silent,,,,

Again, Ariel did not say anything, but Bram's voice was no longer heard. The sound of footsteps away indicates Bram is no longer in front of the door.

Ariel walked towards the bathroom and washed her face. Staring at his own reflection in front of the mirror, then closing his eyes while touching his neck to hold the necklace around his neck. A faint smile grew at the corner of her lips as she remembered Joel by holding the necklace she always wore and remembering to meet her lover today.

Given that, it was enough to bring him back to calm down. Ariel thought she didn't want to look bad in front of her lover, and washed her face again.

After a short afternoon, Ariel came out to meet the two men who were still sitting on the sofa waiting for her.

Bram woke up from his seat aware of Ariel's change in facial features, he immediately walked over to Ariel.

"What's wrong?" bram asked as he put his hand on Ariel's boat.

'PLAKK,,,!'

Bram gasped, as well as Ariel herself who showed the same reaction when Ariel unconsciously brushed off Bram's hand with the back of her hand when Bram's hand was about to touch her.

"Pardon me, I didn't mean_,,,,"

Bram smiled sadly when he saw Ariel's body trembling slightly, but Ariel still put a smile on her face. Bram pulled back his hand while clenching his hand.

"Sit down for a minute, I'm making hot chocolate for you" said Bram softly.

Ariel nodded, then according to sitting down. Take the cup of hot chocolate that Bram had proffered for her, then take a sip.

"Let's lunch soon, do you want to eat something?" tawp Bram's.

"I'm not hungry" replied Ariel.

"Alright then" welcome Bram.

There was a long pause between them before Bram reopened his voice.

"Can you trust me one more time, Ariel?" please Bram.

"I trusted you more than once, Bram," Ariel said.

"thank you. I will not waste the trust you have placed in me" Bram replied.

"Sam will take you home" he added.

"No need, I brought my car_ah right, your car is still there" said Ariel.

"I'll take care of it later," Bram greeted with a smile.

"In that case, I'll go home now" Ariel said. "Sam was already here anyway, and thanks for the clothes" he added.

"I wish I could do more" Bram said.

"Let Sam drive you, at least get to your car" Bram said.

Ariel nodded, not wanting to argue any longer, in her mind right now it was just that she wanted to get to her apartment immediately and prepare to meet Joel later in the afternoon.

"Ariel's lead reaches her car, Sam," Bram said.

"Okay" replied Sam obediently.

Sam got up from his seat, opened the door for Ariel and closed the door again.

"She looks scared of me, right now," muttered Bram sadly after Ariel disappeared behind the door.

Silence enveloped every step of Ariel with Sam beside her. At first, Sam still wanted to say something when not with his master, but he undoed his intention when he saw Ariel's reaction when his master touched Ariel's shoulder.

'Miss can still smile like this after what happened. How can it be, lady that strong?' inner Sam.

It didn't take long, they finally arrived next to Ariel's car.

"You can come back, Sam. Thank you" said Ariel.

"Are you sure you don't need a delivery, miss?" ask Sam to make sure.

"To be honest, I actually feel better if I am alone for now" Ariel smiled.

"Alright, please remain careful on your journey, miss," said Sam.

Ariel gave only a slight nod in response, and opened her car door when a hand stopped Ariel by re-closing the door.

Ariel turned towards the owner of the hand and widened her eyes. His body instantly froze, his tongue crazily.

But that person only smiled faintly, not even hiding the angry look on Ariel.

"Hey, what are you doing?" exclaiming Sam intends to get rid of the man's hand from Ariel's car.

"Joel,," Ariel sizzled.

"Eh,,?" sam's hand stopped in the middle of the street when he heard Ariel mention someone's name.

"You,, here, here," Ariel stuttered, failing to continue her sentence.

"Why? Am I interrupting?" joel Cibir.

"Don't think I'd find you?" joel asked in a voice holding back anger.

"I, I, will explain everything" said Ariel.

"Two people at once?" sindir Joel glanced sharply at Sam.

"Sorry sir, you misunderstood" Sam said.

"About what?" joel asked coldly.

"Joel, I'll tell you everything, but not here" Ariel said.

"Why not? Worried your old lover knows?" sindir Joel's.

"What do you mean?" ariel replied asking.

"You know better what I mean, Ariel," said Joel coldly.

Ariel reached out her hand to grab Joel's hand. But Joel brushed it off harshly.

"How many pretexts have you prepared for this?" asked Joel.

"Sir, please listen to me for a moment, you misunderstand me" Sam said.

"really? Then you think I'll believe it?" grunts Joel.

"Miss Ariel didn't do anything bad_,,,"

"Again, do you think I'll believe what you say? Of course you defended him because you were with him" Joel snorted.

The tension between them increased. Ariel had never even seen so much anger in Joel's eyes as she had before.

"Joel,, please, let's sit down for a while and I'll tell you everything_,,,"

"Well, this is a nice surprise, man,"

The typical hoarse and heavy voice of a middle-aged man interrupted them, making them turn their head in unison.

Ariel and Sam widened his eyes, while Joel gave a questioning look about who the middle-aged man was who interrupted them.

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To be Continued