Chapter 4 Parfume

After work, Jihan didn't go straight home. She turned her car toward her regular salon. Looking beautiful for her husband became a mandatory activity for Jihan. In fact, she is very beautiful like an angel, with her fair skin and slender body. However, for Jihan, all that is not enough.

After about an hour of pampering herself, Jihan went home. Moreover, there was a message note from Danu saying he was on his way home. Jihan left the salon as soon as she could. She hummed along the way. Her heart was so happy, like a fresh breeze that blew very cool against the body. On the way, Jihan received an incoming call.

However, Jihan didn't have time to pick up the phone, it was already dead. A few seconds later, there was the sound of an incoming message notification. Jihan slowed down the car and slowly read the message.

[Mrs you said Mas Danu is out of town. But, Dewi just saw Mr Danu coming out of the restaurant. But with a woman. Is it his business partner?]

The message was from Dewi, her subordinate at work. Suddenly Jihan immediately braked her car, even the squealing sound of tires clashing with the paved road sounded so loud. A sign that the car was braked so suddenly.

Jihan frowned slightly as she digested the message from Dewi. Jihan tried to calm down, she took a deep breath and then let it out through her mouth. After feeling a little relieved, Jihan tried to reply to Dewi message.

[You saw it wrong, mr Danu is still on his way, he sent a message to you earlier.]

The message was sent to Dewi's number. Jihan was still curious, so she faithfully waited for an answer.

Five minutes later a new message arrived.

[Dewi saw it wrong, Mrs. No, it's not. It really looks like your husband. He's wearing a navy suit while the woman next to him is wearing a mask]

Jihan flinched, trying not to believe Dewi's words just yet. She didn't see him, especially since a few minutes ago Danu called her and said he was still on the road.

[You must have seen it wrong, Dew. You don't believe that in this world sometimes there are people who have similarities even though they are not twins or siblings. And you think it's just someone who looks alike. Looks like your husband.]

Message sent to Dewi's number. Not wanting to dwell on the matter. Jihan immediately drove back to her car, eager to arrive and welcome Danu.

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As it got darker, the sun began to hide behind the night. The light of the sun was now replaced by the bright moonlight that shone brightly because it was entering the full moon.

It was a beautiful night, illuminated by the moonlight. It didn't compare to how Jihan felt tonight. It had been almost two hours since she had waited for Danu, but the person she was waiting for was nowhere to be seen.

Jihan repeatedly looked at the clock and then at the entrance. Hoping that the man she was waiting for would come.

No matter how often Jihan looked at the clock and the door, it didn't change the fact that Danu wasn't home yet.

Jihan was worried, Danu should already be home. If you remember this afternoon Danu contacted her. It's been five hours or maybe more but he hasn't come.

Jihan tried repeatedly to call Danu's number but it was not active. Instantly she remembered the message from Dewi. If she saw Danu with another woman.

Just now Jihan wanted to call Dewi, to ask her where she saw a figure that looked like Danu - her husband. Jihan abandoned that intention when her sense of hearing heard the sound of the door opening. Jihan's senses quickly went to the entrance.

Jihan's anxious face turned into a cheerful one. She smiled broadly and then immediately threw herself on Danu's body.

"Dear, I was waiting for you. Why did you take so long?" Jihan asked Danu. If she waited a long time for Danu's arrival.

Still in an embracing position, Danu replied to Jihan's question complaining about his long arrival.

"Sorry, there was a traffic jam," Danu said.

'Sorry, I'm not being honest,' Danu thought.

The look on Jihan's face changed again, as her sense of smell picked up a very unfamiliar scent in her nose. The scent of a woman's perfume. Jihan immediately broke her embrace and stared intently at Danu.

Danu, who felt he was getting a strange look from Jihan, frowned a little and wondered.

"What's wrong with you, sweetheart?" asked Danu when he started to feel something strange.

Jihan didn't answer, she sharpened her sense of smell again. Bringing her nose closer to Danu's suit. That's right! There was no mistaking it. If she smelled a woman's perfume.

A flash of the text message sent by Dewi played in her memory. The message saying that Dewi saw Danu with a woman. Jihan also remembered that Dewi said the person who looked like Danu was wearing a navy suit.

Jihan's body immediately moved away, tightly closing her mouth that was gaping in astonishment.

"What's wrong with you, dear. Why are you being so weird?" Danu was baffled by Jihan's sudden change of attitude.

Just ten minutes ago, Jihan had welcomed Danu. Now? Instead, she looked distant and had an expression of disbelief.

"Dear, you have a heart!" Jihan suddenly got angry and made Danu even more confused.

"What the hell. I've just arrived, why are I being greeted like this?" complained Danu.

"Jihan asked the same question, Dear. Where did you come from?"

"Your question is strange, dear. You already know that I just got back from Bandung."

"How long was Bandung-Jakarta? I even had to wait for you for over five hours, remember Danu, five hours."

"I'm tired and you're like this, what does that mean?"

"I'll ask you one more time and I hope you'll be honest. Where have you been! Answer me honestly, Danu!" Jihan's voice rose, she was very upset that Danu had not answered her question.

"Keep your voice down, darling. The kids must be asleep and your screeching will wake them up."

"I don't care! All I care about is your honest answer!"

"I have to be honest, Jihan. I just got home and didn't go anywhere, I went straight home."

Jihan was already in tears. It was clear that his suit smelled of women's perfume and Danu was still evasive.

"Take off your coat, Danu!" said Jihan as she wiped away the tears.

"Take it off, Danu!" ordered Jihan again, because Danu never took off his suit.

Danu shook his head as he took off his suit. After taking it off, he gave it to Jihan.

"You could have asked me nicely if I had to take off my suit, not in such an angry tone," Danu explained, admonishing Jihan for her attitude.

"You're not usually like this," Danu complained.

"Try kissing your suit, Dear!"

"What for? Are you mad because my jacket stinks?" guessed Danu, who was usually like that. Just in case something wasn't perfect in Jihan's eyes.

Danu complied, then he smelled his jacket.

'Oh my, it smells of Firna's perfume'

"Which woman, dear, are you with? So what Dewi said is true? If you had gone home earlier and you met another woman instead?" Jihan grumbled, she could no longer contain her anger.

Danu was silent, he himself was at a loss as to what to say. Being honest would hurt Jihan's heart, not being honest was the same if he had hurt Jihan's heart.

"Answer me, dear, who is the woman with you!" snapped Jihan with tears in her eyes.

"She... she's my second wife."

"What?!