MARRIAGES & BENEFITS

MARRIAGES & BENEFITS
Mine


Devina did not admit that she had dated a man because the relationship that had been established between her and Kenzi did not have any status and no one knew about it other than the two of them.


Kenzi is his only son, as is Alfin. Their relationship had to end quite badly because Kenzi chose to follow his family's rules that required him to marry a woman from the same tribe and still smelled of family with both parents.


Especially with the economic differences in the family that distinguish between them and it is enough to make Devina feel hurt because Kenzi did not have any struggle to maintain relationships without their status or even just to admit that the two have a relationship.


Only a year after the man disappeared with the news of his marriage, Devina again had to hear if Kenzi had divorced his wife because their vision and mission were not in line.


Kenzi who tends to be free cannot if he has to be restrained by the many family rules that he must obey just because of their marital status. That's where he then thought of the girl he once left because of his selfishness.


Kenzi never showed his nose. Not once did he know Devina was also unlikely to take any promises from him.


It wasn't that he didn't want to meet, it was just that it was too embarrassing for Kenzi to admit his stupidity. Compared to the reverse with Alfin, although equally stupid but at least the burden of the family still has a stand. He is willing to marry to fight for what is his right and is not consumed by any issues or just unnecessary talk.


Devina felt enough to swallow the bitter taste itself and no one needed to know about it other than herself, but in reality it was not. There is another heart that is storing a little curiosity about the mass of him that he never expected before.


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"That's the one I want to ask you about, too!." Edo pointed at Alfin with his fingers flanking a cigarette.


"Our minds are equally rich, equally curious." Alfin said.


"So that's a picture, where do you ask?."


"This is me, don't you believe me?."


"Wait, you mean Devina nyimpen photo of Kenzi's white item!. Make what?."


"Gue was also wondering Do, at first I thought it was a picture of what it was. But after you said it was the photographer, there I immediately suspected."


"Have you asked him?." Edo asked increasingly.


"Not yet, I'm not happy to ask directly."


"Yes, too." Edo nodded in agreement.


"At that time he said he never had any relationship with a guy before marriage with me."


"Once he's backstreet." Edo.


"No, he's not that rich. Especially if it is about this status. Even if it were backstreet, he wouldn't want to be me."


"But Vin, as long as you know. Kenzi is the original widower."


"Seriously?." Ask me not to believe.


"Well, I lied to you too?."


"Gue thinks single, he knows it's a widower."


"Here he married because he was betrothed too, just as rich as you. But not one year apart."


"His problem?." Alfin asked with his eyebrows clutched.


"In my family it's very thick ama wedding one group. Who has been cousin many times as my family can be sought continue to be married to keep the bloodline so as not to split."


"Buskey!. Means you're the same Tania threatened as well dong?."


"Who do I want?. You know for yourself what my job is, what my hobby is, where my tongkrongan. If they're not ashamed, I'm okay!."


"Well, fuck you too. Kasian noh Tania, you've been waiting for you to sleep for decades there's no clarity."


"Tania could easily find another guy, free. Lah me?. I'm taking him into my family instead of us being happy, Fin. Stress!. The demands on my family are too much. I want to not obey but my parents are still there, complete. So it's rich in the middle of the bridge that's my position."


"Kenzi what's his fate?."


"With him to break the marriage of the woman who had been chosen, he just left the house of his parents. Don't you know?."


"I mean he's not considered that?."


"It's true." Edo snapped his finger. "He's out of everything but that also includes sanctions, he can't carry a surname. If he were to marry again, no one would care, including if he later had children, so!."


"That's it, I'm confused."


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While they gossiped, Devina fell asleep again with her position still in the balcony of the apartment. The wind made him dissolve in the cradle. Not without cause, he did it because he was too tired if he had to be reminded of the same feeling when his eyes were open.


Until her husband came back and found herself in the same position.


"Vin." Alfin tried to wake Devina up by calling her name.


"Sleeping on the gih." He said when he saw the woman's eyes half open. "You're in the wind right here."


Devina finally came to her full consciousness as Alfin sat before her with the netra staring fixedly at her.


"Your friends are home?." Ask Devina to unravel the awkwardness.


"It."


"Oh." The response was so short.


Devina moved from where she lay and then hung her belongings to be brought inside.


"Vin."


The called, looking,


"Lu, if there's a problem tell me."


There was no answer, only the woman's eyes seemed to move around looking for the seriousness of her words.


"Gue can keep a secret, you don't have to worry." Convincingly.


Devina replied with a gentle smile as she passed with her laptop and also a map and a thick journal book in her hand. The woman turned her head again before entering the glass door between the space divider skates and the balcony.


"You make the offer. I don't know why not worry."


Alfin could see how the lie was so apparent from the way he stared.


"Lu can say no, Vin. But your eyes are totally honest and I'm sure it's all because of him."


The man then moved from his crouching place to follow the movement of the wife who has now occupied one of the living room sofas.


"Replace your clothes." He tells Devina that he almost turned his laptop back on.


"What are you doing?." Devina scrunched her forehead.


"We're out, get me shopping."


"But I_


"Gue can't accept rejection, see Vin's legacy."


"Ck!!. His legacy is mine."


Alfin smiled wryly.


"Yes you're my bini, so keep it for two."


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tbc.