CHARM GIRL ALIM

13. Secrets of the past

Mr. Hendra was already in his hotel room booked by his son Rendra. His arrival with his mistress Andara brought a million questions to his ex-wife Widya.

Mrs Widya invited her ex-husband to her home to discuss important matters with Rendra but not with Mariam who is currently experiencing severe cravings.

Widya's doctor asks her assistant to accompany Widya if the girl needs anything.

Widya also asked her husband not to leave for work that day because she wanted her husband to accompany her to receive guests from Indonesia.

Her husband, the lord of Arkana, who knew the story of his wife's grievous story, was willing to accompany his wife that day.

The arrival of Hendra's family was warmly welcomed by Mr. Arkana and his wife Widya.

Not so important pleasantries are still done by the two families as mere formality.

"Thank you Hendra and mbak Andara, already want to come to meet my request." Said this middle-aged woman who still looked young and very beautiful at her current age.

Mr. Hendra admired the beauty of his wife who did not fade even though time had swallowed his age.

"What do you want to talk to us about?" Ask the impatient Rendra.

"Mas Hendra and Rendra, I'm sorry I left you with no explanation at the time.

I have to admit this, before it's too late." Said Madame Widya with a raucous voice.

"Darling, tell me calmly!" Mr. Arkana gave his wife strength.

"What will I tell you later, please don't be on the sidelines and please listen to me without blaspheming me because this is not my will." Miss Widya.

"What do you want Widya to say?" Mr. Hendra was visibly upset but was prevented by his wife Andara.

Widya manages to catch her breath before she tells him about her past that has ruined her first marriage.

"When I gave birth that night, I saw my baby's gender as a girl. But, ten minutes later when my baby was being taken care of by two sisters, they brought another baby that I thought was my baby.

When I wanted to suckle her, I felt bad because the baby that was lying next to me was not my baby.

Out of curiosity, I opened the bedong cloth that covered her body and it turned out that the baby was a man and it was you Rendra.

Feeling that I gave the wrong baby, I called the nurse again to bring my own baby. My little princess.

But, at that moment my mother-in-law went into my room and said my baby had died and they replaced her with Rendra as my baby.

Flash Back's

"Mommy!"

"Widya, you don't have to be sad, because your dead baby, I replaced it with a healthy baby and he's a handsome baby who will continue our hospital business." Madame Alya said cynically.

"Mommy, where my baby might have died, she looked healthy and she suckled at me before the umbilical cord was cut." Widya.

"You've entered the Kusuma Sastrowiyoto extended family, and this family will not accept a woman's first heir. If you want your marriage to last with Hendra, then accept the baby as your son." Madame Alya said firmly.

"No, I won't breastfeed this child until my mother returns my daughter." Pinta Widya with tears.

"You're just an orphan girl coming into this family with the love my son Hendra has for you, so whatever the rules in this family are, you have to follow it or leave my son." Madame Alya said cynically.

"Mommy, where's my daughter?" Give it back to me. He is my flesh and blood, the son of my husband. What if mas Hendra asks our son who does not look like him in the least.

"Mommy don't separate me and my daughter, I'm willing to leave Hendra's mas but I have to get my daughter again!" Shouted Widya hysterically.

"Madam, you'll have severe bleeding, if you keep yelling like this." Nurse's words appease Widya.

"Okay, ma'am, we're going to return this baby to the nursery." Sister said then lifted Rendra's body and put the poor baby to sleep in the baby's room.

"It's a pity you love, because of the greed of this family, you're separated from your parents." Sister's speech.

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"From then on, I didn't want to take care of Rendra and I was busy finding out my daughter. The only person who knows the truth of my daughter is doctor Riyanti who knows where my daughter is because she helped me deliver at the time."

"Because after my delivery, Riyanti's doctor just disappeared. I was checking all the documents of the baby born that day at the same hour, no baby died."

"When I was well I tried to trace the hideout of doctor Riyanti."

"However the search was successful after Rendra's age had already entered six years."

I met with doctor Riyanti who was already in her village in Jogja by opening a small clinic thanks to the money from the mouth cover from Alya's mom.

I forced her to answer where my daughter was. He just said Rendra's baby and my baby were swapped at the behest of Alya's mistress who wanted a male heir instead of a female.

"I asked who the family that had brought my poor daughter was reluctant to tell me and it frustrated me a lot.

Since then I decided to divorce my husband and leave seven-year-old Rendra because I was very disappointed with the big family of Hendra, especially his mother who had no heart to exchange his biological grandchildren alone to get the heir to the throne of business." Madame Widya's cry broke

At the same time, Mariam heard all the stories and she stared intently at the face of her biological mother who had sacrificed her happiness for her sake.

"Mama!"

"Maiam!"

"Why are you here, baby?" Aren't you sick?"

"Mama, does that mean me and bang Rendra are sisters?" If mom didn't breastfeed Rendra bang when I was a baby means I've suckled my ummi?" Mariam said and fainted again.

"Maiam!" Shouted Rendra wanted to capture his wife's body but was prevented by the lord of Arkana.

"Your marriage is null and void and stay away from Mariam!" Said Mr. Arkana.

"No!" We are husband and wife. Please don't separate us!" Shouted doctor Rendra hysterically when two servants belonging to Mr. Arkana blocked the husband's arm from Mariam to approach Mariam.

Mr. Hendra was also very shocked to learn the truth from his ex-wife for 27 years that Widya had kept secret all this time.

Angry and disappointed in his mother who is now dead.

"We've been playing with Widya's destiny. My daughter came alone to my house who became my son-in-law.hiks..hiks!" Mr. Hendra's cry broke.

Mariam was taken to the guest room and handled directly by her birth mother. Mr. Hendra took his son back to the hotel.

"Let Mariam stay here until her condition improves." Said Mr. Arkana to his wife.

"Thank you, baby, for accepting my daughter. I am so grateful to God who has brought us together in such a beautiful way despite years of separation and I cry at every moment.

Missed him every time and never once stopped praying, reciting and preaching.

"I remember the story of our high priest Ahmad Bin Hambal who met a baker in the Basrah area.

For it was the baker who was so eager to meet the high priest that God sent the high priest to Basrah alone to fulfill the baker's request.

That is my faith, my dear, who never despairs for the Grace of God." Said Ms. Widya while waiting for her daughter.