BEING THE WIFE OF HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW
CHAPTER 98. EXPLAINING
He still looked at the husband's back. Occasionally his hands extended forward intending to touch that burly body. But he did not dare to do so. His hands just hang in the air.
"Mas, are you asleep?" kian lirih. But there was no answer from the man. Tears are back flowing. I don't know how many tears come out in a day. It just started to dry.
"Mas, can't we talk about it? I want to explain everything" Kian said again.
Rama was not sleeping at the time. His eyes were still open and his ears were still clearly hearing every word Kian said. But the man did not intend to turn his head let alone respond. He just wanted to hear what the woman was going to say.
"Mas, I know I was wrong because from the beginning I've been lying to you about who my identity is. I'm sorry about that. But I did all of that for a reason. A reason that I can't resist."
Still talking. She was sure that her husband had not slept and was still hearing what he had to say. That's why he kept talking even with his sobs that never stopped.
"I don't know Mas, how far did you hear Lian's remarks this afternoon in the hospital. But I can assure you that what Lian said just now is all a lie. I never forced to exchange identities with him. I never intended to deceive everyone. Lian has twisted the facts."
The words stopped for a moment. And Rama could hear clearly the sobbing sobbing of Kian. The little heart of the man honestly felt the pain of hearing the woman he loved so much crying. He wanted to turn around and hug the woman. But his mind refused because it still felt disappointed by the lies that had been done by Kian.
"Since the beginning Lian did not want to do this marriage. He does not love you and does not intend to love you. He loved Vicky very much. Unfortunately, my father never approved of their relationship. But Lian also could not refuse this matchmaking because if she refused then the father would cross her name from the list of family members and the father would revoke all the facilities he had given to Lian."
He returned silent. Telling about the late father made this woman again remembered with all her memories with the middle-aged man. He remembered how his father loved him more and spoiled him more than Lian. He took a deep breath before continuing his story.
"At the moment after the deal, Lian went berserk in the dressing room. And on the pretext of ending her life, she forced me to exchange identities with her. Then what can I do? I can't possibly refuse. How can I refuse if my own brother threatens to end his own life if I don't want to comply with all his wishes. And I know that's not just a threat. Lian did that. Fortunately, I came at the right time so that Lian could survive."
"I've persuaded him several times not to continue this game but he won't. And in the end he told everyone that he was going to work out of town. Lian lied. He doesn't go to work out of town but instead lives with Vicky. And since then I've never been in contact with him."
"I met him again when Lian told me to ask you for 500 million. But I refused it. And yesterday when I was going to buy jewelry with Samir. I saw Vicky selling Lian's jewelry. I prevented it. He was angry and threatened to hurt Lian. Until I finally met Lian at the hospital this afternoon with you."
"I swear, if everything I say is true. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mom. He knows everything that's going on between us. Or the…. Or you can ask Samir. He was the only person who could tell Lian and I apart with just one look. And she knows that the one who's married to you is Lian while the one who lives with you is me."
From behind his burly back, Rama still continued to listen to the explanation of Kian. Indeed, if you have to choose, actually Rama believes more in the words of Kian than the words of Lian last afternoon in the hospital. All the things he saw from Lian, they were nothing like theatrics. How the girl made out with the lover at the nightclub, how Lian spoke to Kian, how Lian behaved during her father's funeral, and how Lian was before her mother, all real and not made up.
After all he had lived for almost a year with Kian. Rama knows how Kian is. There was no way the woman would have such devious thoughts. However, Rama did not want to make a decision too quickly. According to what Kian said, he will find out all the truth to his mother and Samir.
"Not all the lies I tell in our relationships, Mom. There is one thing that is true and honest from the bottom of my heart."
Rama's daydreams withered when his ears heard Kian speak again.
"My love for you. That's real Mas. I love you so much, Mom. I swear I was honest this time. I love you so much. Love you so much."
Rama is glued to the expression of love from Kian. In his heart, the man replied that he also loved Kian very much. He doesn't want to lose Kian. His life, his breath, his heart, his soul, even his body belonged to only one Kian.
But what decision should Rama take now. What kind of behavior should he give to this woman he loves so much. She couldn't possibly be in love with her own sister-in-law, could she?
Rama turned his body around as he felt that Kian was already sleeping. And it turns out that when Rama changed his position, he saw the woman was asleep. Her eyelids are slightly swollen from too many tears. Rama was so devastated to see Kian's condition like that.
"I'm sorry dear" said Rama, shedding tears.
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