Akad Shackle

Guests Not Invited

"Good day!" said the female guest who has now entered Rahma's room,

"Good day" Rahma answered, looking up,

Degs....

Rahma immediately stood up from her seat, when she found out who the guests were coming to her.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, a split second they just clashed at each other.

"Mama.." murmured Rahma,

"Please sit down Ma" Rahma's consciousness had returned, she took a deep breath after allowing the guest to sit down.

"Thank you" after a long time just standing in the doorway, the guest called by Rahma walked to the chair in front of her desk.

"Fitri, please bring drinks and snacks for guests to my room yes" Rahma kept her phone back after contacting one of her employees to entertain her guests.

"How are you, Ma?" greeting Rahma, she also extended her hand to greet her guest.

Rahma began the conversation by asking for news, from the look on the face of her guest Rahma was sure there was something serious that would be delivered by a middle-aged woman who was none other than her ex-in-law, her mother Anggara.

"Mama is not good" Anggara's mother replied, Rahma also frowned looking at the face of her former in-laws who looked very different from the last she met a few months ago.

Rahma is silent, confused to respond to what to hear from her mother Anggara.

"Can I help you, Ma?" finally the sentence that came out of Rahma's mouth, graciously Rahma showed her empathy.

Anggara's mother who looked down then raised her head, she looked with a gaze of the woman who had been her daughter-in-law.

"Mama wants to ask Athaya"

Jedders.....

It is like hearing lightning when the sun is hot Rahma suddenly pecked. I don't understand what he just heard.

"I mean mama?" Rahma tried to be ordinary, she hoped that what her former in-laws would explain was different from what she thought.

Rahma was silent, she was still trying to absorb every sentence delivered by her former in-laws.

"Mama means.." Rahma's words paused, because her former in-laws were directly cutting.

"Mama wants custody of Athaya to move into the hands of Anggara, it's enough for you to be with Athaya. Now it's Athaya's turn to live and live with her real father."

Rahma's heart beat faster, there was anger trying to get her dim. For a moment Rahma closed her eyes, she took her breath in trying to remove the tightness that suddenly filled her chest. Rahma did not want to mispronounce however the woman in front of her was a person she respected so much in the past until now.

"Sorry Ma, if the intention of the arrival of the mother to take Athaya from me even to the point of taking over custody of Athaya, sorry Ma I will not let it. Sorry again, for this I will not budge." said Rahma replied, she did not want to look weak. If a few years ago he gave up fighting for his rights as a legal wife and first wife, not for this time.

For Rahma Athaya is the source of her passion in living a life that is not easy. The shadow of how she went through pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding until raising Athaya alone again passed. At that time, none of the Anggara family cared about him. Even Anggara himself was already happy with his new family.

"You must not be selfish Rahma" joked Anggara's mother,

"You're married again and you have a new family. Mama doesn't want her granddaughter to live in the estrangement of her stepfather's family"

"Agoist? I'm selfish ma?" Rahma was provoked by emotions, she really would not give up on Athaya.

"Ma, mama said I was selfish? it's just incredible. On what basis did you say I was selfish?" Rahma spoke in a low tone, trying to muffle anger, not wanting to be disrespectful by speaking up her voice to her former in-laws.

"Ma, if I were selfish maybe my life right now and Athaya wouldn't be like this. If I was selfish, when I learned of the affair Anggara mas first I had wanted to destroy the career of Anggara, if I was selfish I would not let go of Anggara mas for the woman, because I am more entitled to my husband first. If I was selfish, I would make my pregnancy a reason to make Anggara defy my mother's desire to marry Friska. But I'm not so ma, try to remember where my selfish? In the past my household with Anggara was fine, we lived our lives happily. Mas Anggara has opened his mind and heart by releasing Mbak Friska and living with me, because that is what Mas Anggara should do. But then the sudden presence of Friska again changed everything. And what I know from the Anggara mas, everything that happened to our household can not be separated from the role of mama. Think back to who was selfish?" Rahma spoke at length, she took out all the grunts she had been harboring herself all along.

The arrival of the former mother-in-law with the intention to take Athaya made her bold to act decisively. Although Rahma spoke in a slow tone, but every word she spoke was full of emphasis.

"So you're accusing my selfish mother?" joked mama Anggara still does not want to give up.

"I'm not saying so ma, but I think as a woman you can feel if there's a position I was in and now."

"I'm sure you're not that happy to take over Athaya's custody and separate me from my son after what happened to us in the past. If you call me selfish on the grounds that I remarried, you need to know, if my marriage took place with Athaya's consent. He asked me to get married, even Athaya himself asked Mas Tama to be his father. It's sad, isn't it Ma? When his biological father was still there, he asked other men to be his father" continued Rahma still with emphasis and a face that tried hard to hold back tears.

"When his biological father lived happily with his wife and children, Athaya became a child who never felt all that. Although Mas Anggara regularly sent money to Athaya, but the fact is not only that which Athaya needs as a form of attention. During this time Mas Anggara did not give Athaya the right to be present as a father figure. I'm sure my mother knew that" with tears she couldn't hold back, Rahma continued to let out her heart. This time he no longer thought about the feelings of others and sacrificed his own feelings. For Athaya whatever he will do, including acting decisively to Anggara and his family.

"Mama doesn't want to know, anyway mama will go to court to demand custody of Athaya to move on Anggara." without saying goodbye, after saying that Anggara's mother just left Rahma in her room.

After the death of her mother-in-law, Rahma then rested on the floor, issuing anger, pain and all the things that stifled her chest in a roaring cry slicing hearts for anyone who heard her.