Chapter 19: In-laws visit
When he was about to exchange his slippers for shiny leather shoes, suddenly his cellphone rang. Dexter answered the call immediately, without delaying a single minute.
"Hemp ..." answered Dexter, as soon as he pressed the green button on his cellphone screen.
[Brother Dexter, where are you? Already on the way to the hospital?]
Kaili could clearly hear the woman's voice on the call. And she could already guess who the caller was, just by hearing the nickname used by the caller. None other than the woman who had stopped her marriage last night, Silvia.
"What is wrong?"
[I want to ask for help, brother. My car broke down in the middle of the road when I was going to the hospital. And here is very quiet, there are no cars are passing by. I feel a little scared. I've tried contacting a mechanic, but no mechanic is available at this time.]
"Where are you? What road? Stay in the car, don't go out so you don't invite bad people! Don't just carelessly stop another car to help you, I'll be there in 10 minutes."
After 5 years, this was the first time Kaili had heard Dexter talk so much. Usually Dexter would only speak a word or two. Seeing the many words that Dexter had spoken in just a few minutes, Kaili thought again, 'It seems that Dexter's coldness only applies to me'.
Her concern for Silvia was very clear. Suddenly Kaili wanted to be Silvia so that Dexter would be worried. However, expecting to be worried about by your own husband, was not considered presumptuous, right?
[Yes brother, I will. Come quickly. I'm a little scared because it's very quiet here.]
Without replying to Silvia's words, Dexter switched off the phone call. Rushing to change his footwear.
Just as Dexter was about to walk through the door, Kaili called out to him. "Are you meeting, Silvia?"
Hearing that, Dexter's face grew darker. He knit his brows. It seemed Dexter had no intention of answering Kaili, he turned around without hesitation towards the door.
Kaili closed her eyes for a few seconds then said, "Let me go to help Silvia. You ... just go to the hospital."
After Kaili said so, Dexter turned to look at her. The expression on his face was still the same. It was cold and emitted a thick hostile aura.
Kaili quickly explained her purpose, before Dexter misunderstood. "Empp ... I mean ... so that you don't go to the hospital late. So ... let me help you."
"No need," Dexter replied curtly and turned back toward the door.
Dexter's answer greatly disappointed Kaili. His goal was not purely to help Silvia, but rather that he didn't want Dexter to meet Silvia. This sounded ridiculous, didn't it? Let say Kaili was selfish. What's wrong with preventing your own husband from going to see his former lover? Even though their relationship had not yet reached the stage of a normal husband-wife couple, they were indeed a couple. Their names were registered as husband and wife in the civil registry and even have received the blessing of marriage. So, there was nothing wrong if Kaili tried to keep her husband away from other girls.
Regardless of how the relationship between the two started, how the marriage came about, it didn't matter. For Kaili, she had married this man and also loved him, so Kaili would try to look after Dexter, as long as the status of 'Mrs. Dexter Chiro' is attached to her identity.
Kaili still wanted to talk, but when she looked up, at the door, there were already two familiar figures who had just arrived.
"Mama, Papa?" said Kaili.
Dexter tilted his body, inviting the two people who had just arrived inside.
"Umm ... What brought mom and dad here?" Kaili asked, as soon as her parents entered the house.
Dexter, who had been willing to go to work, had to postpone his departure and come back to the house.
Stella sat on the sofa as Richard walked around Dexter's little house.
"Ump ... Mama, and Papa, what would you like to drink?" asked Kaili.
"Is there no maid in this house? Do you have to prepare the drink by yourself?" Stella asked.
"Ump.. Mama, it isn't—"
"Are you comfortable living in a small house like this, honey?" Richard Goh asked again when Kaili wanted to answer her mother's question.
Hearing her papa's question, Kaili's face immediately turned pale, and then she turned to look at Dexter. The man did not show any expression, other than a calm and cold face which was combined so well. Yes, as usual. That's why Kaili had a hard time guessing what Dexter was feeling.
But Kaili knew very well, right now Dexter was at the peak of his anger. Anyone would be very angry if they were underestimated like that.
"What are you talking about Papa? It is only me and Dexter in this house. If we have a big house, won't it feel very lonely? Here, I live with my husband, we ..." - Kaili saw Dexter - "w-we feel much warmer!"
Richard Goh sat on the sofa next to his wife. "Of course it's warm because it's so small that it makes you feel like you're jostling inside! Your bathroom isn't just this tiny!" Richard Goh replied without hesitation.
Dexter still maintained his expression. It could be that the man had not even heard what Richard Goh had said, considering all the words of that scrawny old man as air. He had guessed that the Gohs were not here for a good thing.
But not with Kaili, it hurt her heart to hear everything her father said. Her father ... did he want to destroy the household she had just built? She was very afraid if Dexter became hostile again and hated her. If only Kaili could choose, it would be better for Dexter to torture her with harsh words or even give her a heavy blow, than to have to watch the man gave her silent treatment.
Dexter's cell phone rang again but he didn't answer it and just sat quietly.
Kaili herself was very confused about what to answer, with what her parents said earlier. Coincidentally the phonecall can be used as an excuse to speak.
"Umpp ... Don't you have an emergency patient today? You may go, let me accompany papa and mama."
"Hmpp ..." answered Dexter as he raised his eyebrows and got up from the chair.
"Take care ... and come home soon when you're done with your job. I'm ... waiting for you."
Gifts
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received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
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