Giving an "I don't care gaze", Shee Bah faced away from Chi koh, ignoring him as soon as he raised his hand and waved grinning at her. Chi Koh quirked corners of his mouth on an embarrassed face, and slowly put his waving hand back down.
He couldn't hide his embarrassment.
Standing by the door on Madrat's side next to the car window, respectfully Madrat opens up the car door all over a sudden. He steps out, so that he talks to him from outside. Smiling, while shying away, Chi Koh found a hard time to look over a six ft masculine dude standing face to face with his 4.8 ft height.
While Madrat stood infront of Chi Koh to have a gentle word, Shee Bah kept her cool, quietly waiting in the car. The bodyguard and driver too, created a wider margin, standing distant from eachother, alert on duty though, to allow a serene conversation to be conducted between their boss and Chi Koh.
Madrat, with a gentle gesture and softness in his voice:
"Tell me. You had a really great opportunity to tell the world about the woman I am dating. You would have won yourself a multi-million fortune which was put out as a grand price by then! Why didn't you do it?"
Even though Chi Koh was in pain for not being able to win Shee Bah's love back, he was too chicken hearted to speak up infront of his rival.
Madrat added:
"We all know the desperate attempts you have made to put money into your bag!"
Chi Koh suddenly explained:
"Um, truth be told, when Shee Bah dumped me for you, I hate her. And I knew how much she needed her music to hit the top. Putting her name out there as the woman you were dating, was going to make her the talk of town _ making news headlines on TV, radios, news papers and everywhere on social media. Of course, I couldn't set myself to that kind hell fire! I couldn't betray the jealous I feel for her!"
He added:
"I can't even imagine enough how miserable I would have felt, walking around town well knowing that I have traded my peace of mind with money! Infact, to see Shee Bah making headlines, I rather take my life away!"
Madrat couldn't stand Chi Koh's elevating emotions. He cut him short instantly before he could become more than a distraction from his unhappy story.
"Alright, I guess you know why am here!"
Chi Koh gazed ignorant that Madrat noticed. And, even though he was giving back to back smiles when talking, in his calm voice tone was a touch of rage upon Chi Koh, against his troublesome deeds.
Madrat added, grinning:
"You don't seem to know, right? Now let's get it straight. Your life is as important as mine..., I may not want you to waste it. It has come to my notice that, you're more interested in my business than yours.... Guess you now know what I am talking about?"
Chickening out in wary, Chi Koh shrugged as he stuttered:
"W Well, I never meant any harm, Sir!"
He looked at him smiling and said:
"I believed you _ you know why? Because I haven't heard of anything foolish about me in the news outlets lately. Let both of us hope it will remain that way!"
Madrat continued to smile indifferently:
"Last but not least, I will be pleased to hear that my wife nolonger recieves photos of me in my private practices. I don't want anything to steal away her peace of mind. You should stop invading my privacy! It's not a warning, it's just a polite request from a man to a fellow man...! Please respect it."
Madrat's smile, words and his unpredictable gestures intensified Chi Koh's anxiety. Thus, throughout the conversation, his eyes kept widening. And every moment he moved his eyes to look at the huge bodyguard, his mind processed a quick home invasion, beaten up into a cabbage condition by a man almost two and a half times bigger than him.
He couldn't hide his tension.
After installing fear indirectly in his conscious mind, he finalised:
"And lastly, thank you for your precious time!"
Madrat placed his hand infront, beneath Chi Koh's eyes, directly asking him to embrace a handshake before he found himself out of his sight, back into the SUV, to cruise away with wifey Shee Bah, back to their contemporary home.
As soon as he sat back in the car, his wife asked:
"How did it got?"
He took an ample time to respond:
"You promised me...!"
Shee Bah became overly concerned, giving her husband a curious eye. Madrat, seeming mentally hopeless, eyes away from hers, he said:
"You promised me that..., you will always be calm in the storm, right? And, you don't mind climbing the highest mountains to the peak, cross the longest rivers and valleys to the other side, diving in oceans to the deepest parts, just to protect our marriage?"
This caught Shee Bah's attention more, making her anxious and worried. She uttered:
"Chi Koh talked to the news outlets already, right?"
"It was written all over him. I could read his gesture."
Shee Bah's downcast gaze was enough to tell how disappointed she felt about it. She sighed an instant curse:
"Dammit!"
Immediately she lifted a miserable gaze at him and asked:
"What are we going to do about it?"
Lacking energy in his response, while he was avoiding direct eye contact:
"Expect a lot to happen from now onwards."
Shee Bah sighed confoundedly, facing away as she leaned her head back on the headrest. In microseconds, she turned her face and looked at him again. He seemed so sad, in a heap of thoughts, facing the other side of the window. On Madrat's mind was more than just Chi koh's gesture. Only he lacked guts to open up to his wife.
Her mind could not allow her to rest. Mentally, questions lingered:
"Why does it seem like he doesn't want to talk to me? And why do I feel there's something he is not telling me?"
On a quick glance, he noticed his wife had a keen eye on him. And as always, he was so good at reading his wife's mind and gesture, and know the story within.
Abruptly, on a very serious note he turned to her and held in both her hands. He said:
"Within a period of one month you're going to be a big star...! If not, one of the most trends in the news outlets!"
Shee Bah laughed out laud like a clown.
"Is this why you're so cold and miserable like a neglected child? Chi Koh has nothing against us: no evidence to prove his words! Come on honey, I expected you to be stronger than that!"
He quirked corners of his mouth, sighed unhappily:
"This is not about Chi Koh.
She gazed puzzledly at him.
He looked her in the eyes:
"Within one month period, your music album is going to hit."
"What are you talking about?!"
"Your music album has started to gain traction as I speak now!"