Bab 179: I Don't Like To Share

"Care to explain what happened?" 

He heaved a deep sigh and without releasing her hands from his grasp, he explained how Antonio misunderstood his note, - and also his fault because of the way he wrote when he asked him to take care of her. 

"Why would he misunderstand such a simple note?" 

He pushed Jess's coffee away from her, same with the slice of chocolate cake and the pineapple tart, and he sat down on the edge of the coffee table to be closer to her. 

"Uhm, you see, before I met you — I - I…" he tucked the strand of her hair that stuck on her cheek. He brushed his knuckles on her flushed cheeks and smiled awkwardly. "This is long before you...I would ask Antonio to take care of ---" he sighed. He couldn't say the words he wanted to say.