Bound of Lies

KS: Will Not Let Go

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"I can't... I can no longer live with you... My heart can no longer... Please understand...." Kirana said as she opened her eyes and looked at the man who was holding her tightly.

"We'd better split up..." Kirana said again and began to outline her husband's embrace.

Silent...

After acknowledging their feelings, none of the two spoke.

Sakti sat on the sofa silent, he did not want to leave his wife's hotel room.

Kirana stood facing the big glass while holding her hands, looking at the vastness of the sky that began to decorate the morning sun. Occasionally the back of his hand wiped the clear water that was still coming down soaked the cheeks.

Both are busy with their own thoughts.

Before long the sound of Sakti's phone was heard, and he immediately raised it. It was heard by Kirana that Sakti was talking to her mom.

Kirana continued to stand, not one bit she looked at her husband. Until he did not realize that Sakti had risen from his seat and walked closer.

Kirana flinched as the entanglement of the burly hand hugged her from the back so tightly. Kirana was about to rebel but Sakti was getting a hug.

"Please beat me up Ki... Just this once" the Milky Way shrank right into his wife's ear and it succeeded in making Kirana silent no longer.

"I love you... Very in love with you...I'm evil, I admit it and I'm so sorry for everything I've ever done to you but for God's sake there's no other woman in my life but you." Sakti Lirih.

The tears felt warm in Sakti's hands. He knew Kirana was crying in silence.

"I'm sorry... And sorry if what I say will make you disappointed," he continued, but Kirana kept silent did not say a word.

"I'll never let go of you Ki... I'm sorry if I'm selfish, but I'll never let go of the woman I love the most. I will never divorce you" said Sakti calmly but firmly, not as weepily as before.

Sakti could feel Kirana's body stiffening in her arms when she heard that, but Sakti tightened her arms and put her face into the niche of his wife's neck. He was truly unwilling to let go of Kirana at this moment.

"I love you... I love our kids... I love you guys so much," said Sakti in Kirana's neck.

For a while they were still silent with Sakti who continued to hug his wife. While Kirana did not say anything, did not refuse nor did she return her husband's embrace.

"I have to go, Dareel woke up and cried looking for me." Said Sakti while giving a kiss on Kirana's cheek and then deciphering her embrace to move away.

Kirana was unmoved, she was still silently standing staring at the morning sky with a thousand thoughts in her head. He did not say anything until the sound of the door closing indicates Sakti had left.

He turned around and it was true that Sakti wasn't there. The night they spoke evoked their own feelings, but they seemed to find no bright spot.

"It's very stubborn !" Kirana whom she addressed to her husband.

***

That afternoon Dareel and Davin had returned to Kirana's hotel room delivered by her in-laws.

Her two children looked so happy and showed off the new phone that her father bought last night. The latest phone with a picture of a bitten apple on the top.

"But remember the word Papa, you must wear it with the permission of your mother" Kirana's mother-in-law reminded the two grandchildren.

"Yes I know, Oma." Answer both at the same time.

"Are you okay Ki ?" Ask Mami Sakti when they are just the two of them.

"Have you finished crying ?" Then again ask.

"I'm fine Mi," replied Kirana lying.

"Last night the boy wasn't in his room, and just came back this morning. Did he come here ? Did he hurt you again ?" Ask mommy full of questions.

Kirana nodded her head in response.

"He hurt you again? Maafin Mami Papi who failed to educate him," said Mami while shedding tears.

"He didn't hurt me Mi, we just talked. Mas Sakti doesn't want to divorce me" Kirana replied with a wry smile.

"Yes Mami knows... He told us that, but you don't worry about Ki.

We'll support whatever makes you happy." Mami Sakti gives a subtle rubbing on her daughter-in-law's back to calm down.

***

Kirana decided to extend her time in Semarang. Her two children still miss their cousin Celia. Even Kirana added an extra bed for tonight because Celia will be staying in her hotel room again.

"Mama is crying again yes" asked Davin who from noon continued to look at his mother's face.

"Ah no, Mama can not sleep last night so sleepy," elak Kirana.

"Did Papa make Mama cry again? Last night Papa said he wanted to sleep with us but it was a lie, Papa doesn't know where to go. Dareel to cry when you wake up in the morning. I thought Papa would change well after buying us HP but it was not Ma. Do you love us anymore, Ma? I hate Papa !" obviously Davin was at length with a disappointed look.

"Papa loves you, so don't hate Papa ya." Persuaded Kirana, he did not want his two children to be disturbed psychologically because of the condition of his parents.

"Papa pretended to be kind Ma, this afternoon just go straight back to Jakarta he said there is an important business." Davin said again.

"But Papa said the day after tomorrow to pick us up to go to Dufan. Papa wants a work holiday" said Dareel.

"I ikuuuut ya bang," whined Celia who joined in listening to the conversation.

"You are the one who left ! I don't want to. Papa doesn't love me, why should you go with Papa," Davin upset.

"That's it... Maybe Papa is busy. We'll see Papa make his promise?" Kirana tried to calm down. As much as he hated Sakti, Kirana did not want her two children to lose their father figure.

***

Meanwhile in Jakarta, Sakti has just arrived at the airport. He had just landed and was waiting for his luggage.

He saw the clock showing at 7 p.m. Feeling hungry, Sakti entered the fast food restaurant that was there. He remembered that he had not eaten anything all day. The matter with his wife Kirana completely seized his mind.

Before long someone in charge of picking him up had come over. Sakti had eaten a little dinner when the doctor had warned him to keep the diet.

"Set up the morning flight for me to Singapore" Sakti told the man who picked her up.

"Yes Sir. Now heading straight home?" Ask the guy.

"Don't, to the xxx apartment on Kuningan street," replied Sakti.

***

Now he was standing at the door of the apartment he had been to several times. Without hesitation he pressed the doorbell repeatedly.

The door opened and Vanya was behind it.

"Mas, you're coming ?" Said the woman with sparkling eyes.

"May I come in ?" Tanya Sakti's.

"Of course," Vanya opened the door wider allowing Sakti to enter. He stomped his feet to kiss her but Sakti moved to reject her.

"We have to talk" Sakti said with a serious facial expression.

"Sit down, I'll get a drink."

Before long Vanya came up with a cup of coffee on the tray.

"I won't be long." Sakti started talking.

"What do you want to say? If it's about breaking up I don't want to," replied Vanya cut off Sakti's conversation.

"Vanya, I'm sorry I brought you into my household trouble. But I don't want to hurt Kirana anymore, I love her so much and you know that. I don't want to hurt you either. Let's get it all right."

"You only care about him ! I'm just a victim of your impingement, when you know I'm really in love with you ! You heartless man !!" Say Vanya with the highest tone of voice.

"If I'm heartless, I've spread who your bedmates are among the entrepreneurs and one of them is the husband of someone who just invested so much money in your company. Imagine if that happened, I'm sure he'd cancel his investment,"

Suddenly Vanya's face paled.

"Don't think I don't know anything about you. So, let's get rid of everything and don't destroy each other. I've never fucked you either, you don't feel aggrieved, do you ?" Say Sakti again and leave Vanya who is silent and starts to shed her tears when Sakti has completely left.

***

By noon Monday Sakti had been in a skyscraper located in Singapore. He deliberately set off early in the morning to meet his in-laws and his sister-in-law.

"Sir, someone wants to meet." Said a woman to Robby, Kirana's older sister.

"Who ? I have no appointments available today" Robby replied.

"Pak Sakti from Indonesia, he insisted to meet the Father and would not leave if you did not see him."

Robbie thought for a moment.

"Send him in !" Robby stood up and stretched his hands.

Sakti entered the room and saw his brother-in-law standing in front of his great table with two hands clenched tightly until the sound of his bones as the fist grew stronger.

Sakti knew her brother-in-law was preparing to beat her up.

To be continued...

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