
"Everything's night!" greeting Aldrick confidently with one hand that tightly grasps the fingers of Dhyanda, "I know my chosen future wife," continued Aldrick confident and charming as usual.
In addition to Aaron and Kinara, there are already present Aaron's younger siblings, Atreya and her husband Matthew. Also Marshall who came alone because his wife, Kanaya was not present.
Beside Aldrick, precisely a little behind the towering body of the beloved man, Dhyanda lowered his head in silence. All the steadiness of the heart that he had collected, like a decay on his feet, making heavy stepping.
Aaron who saw the arrival of his son along with a woman who was not Annely sharpened his gaze. His face looked so disappointed when he found out that the girl next to Aldrick who was carrying a bouquet of Lily flowers was Dhyanda, the girl who had been here two years ago.
"Why is all this tense? no one told my future wife to sit down?" aldrick asked, breaking the silence in front of all the dumbfounded people looking at him, "Shock because in the end I still chose and brought Dhyanda home again?" the question is arrogant, this question is precisely addressed to the Papa.
"How are you doing Dhyanda?" hello Kinara finally.
Dhyanda slowly shifted his standing position to make it visible, he glanced at Aldrick for a moment, only to stare at Kinara with a smile.
"Good, Aunt. Aunt herself how are you?", replied Dhyanda as warmly as possible. Approaching her while handing over a bouquet of Lily flowers to Kinara.
"Ah, what a beautiful flower. Thank you, you guys sit down!" Kinara asked them to sit down, then introduced the people who were already present to Dhyanda. Although in fact Atreya had met Dhyanda before at a restaurant at that time.
"We still have a minute to chat while waiting for William's family to come," said Aaron flat.
"Are they part of our family? we're not just having dinner with the family, are we?" aldrick said fiercely.
"They'll be a family if you marry Annely" Aaron replied no less fiercely.
'Annely?' Dhyanda was so shocked to hear it. 'Has his family prepared a soul mate for Aldrick? so what am I here for? just to embarrass yourself?' inner insecure.
"I've brought my chosen wife. Should I be clear again?" Aldrick said firmly while linking his fingers to Dhyanda fingers very closely.
"She's a girl!" muttered Aaron, intending to remind Dhyanda of his very young age. "Even her age is still below Aleena, that's right!"
"What's wrong?! she's both female, right?" aldrick's reply didn't take. Aldrick and Aaron looked at each other with sharp eyes.
"Enough! stop this behavior!" said Kinara was caught off guard, mediating her husband and eldest son in the heated debate.
Dhyanda let out a long sigh, he was completely shocked at what he had just witnessed. The girl felt that she was the cause of the commotion between the boy and the father.
Aldrick remained silent after Dhyanda's fingers crushed Aldrick's fingers, signalling to stop and not to continue the debate.
"So Dhyanda, that's how the O'Neill family is, you still insist on staying by Aldrick's side?" said Aaron in his flat tone.
"I have no reason to leave, Om" Dhyanda replied.
"What if we've already chosen a future wife for Aldrick? are you willing to go?" aaron said he no longer thinks about other people's feelings.
Dhyanda was silent, her heart was so hot that her man had been betrothed to another girl. But he believes Aldrick is unlikely to leave Dhyanda for the girl his family chose.
"Don't joke Al!" attack Kinara. "You know what you did that hurt Dhyanda?" unfortunately, he did not accept, defending Dhyanda as a fellow woman.
"That's why I have to take responsibility and marry her, Ma!" aldrick's reply felt successful with his strategy, while Dhyanda held her breath in suspense, "As a descendant of O'Neill should not shy away from responsibility right, Pa?" tanyanya turned to look at Aaron who had glared from earlier.
Kinara was speechless, he was very disappointed with his son who had already ruined people's daughters. Kinara felt that she had failed to educate and raise her two children, Aldrick and Aleena.
"You have to take responsibility, Al!" matthew said as he gulped his water, "You can't be a coward. Isn't that right, Aar?" he glanced at Aaron.
"Dhyanda," Atreya turned to the girl next to Aldrick, feeling familiar as she mentioned the name. "Did Aldrick do that, son? he hurt you? she means you did it so you were brought here because you needed accountability?" tanyanya softly, he really understands if the condition is like that.
Dhyanda turned towards Atreya, then looked at Aldrick. The gazes of the two clashed, confused to answer how. If Dhyanda nodded, wouldn't what Aldrick said not all be true? they do live at home, but nothing ever happens until having sex. But if he says no, how are things going with the fate of their relationship that still needs recognition?
"I mean him when he's unconscious" sambar Aldrick saves his girl from a question he thinks is a trap.
"Al! it wasn't the man of his name!", this time it was Marshall's turn to disagree. Om this one is indeed the only man who does not have a bad past with his partner, unlike Aaron or Matthew. (session in the previous novel)
"I know Om, so to be a man, I want to be responsible. I love Dhyanda, no matter what. It would be a real jerk if I left him in a condition I've used," explained Aldrick frontal.
Everyone's gaze dimmed, especially on Dhyanda, filled with deep empathy. Aaron took a few breaths. He can no longer speak. His good looks are still visible and still leave a charm on his face. Yeah, that's the reason Aldrick's good looks come from. Aaron was stubborn, but in fact he really did not have the heart, especially against creatures whose names are female. However, there was a reason that made him insist on separating Aldrick and Dhyanda.
"You're still in college, Dhyanda. Is it okay to get married? what about your parents?" atreya asked once more, hoping that this time Dhyanda herself would answer him. Indeed, Atreya was curious about the figure of Dhyanda, he remembered the little girl who lived in the house, the little girl who had thought and called him 'Mommy'.
Dhyanda did not answer. He developed a smile and tried to remain calm even though his palms were already sweating. He turned to Aldrick, looking for strength in his handsome face. Aldrick looked back at him winking one eye as if trying to say that everything would be fine.
"I thought about it carefully. I am willing to marry him" said Dhyanda steadily, as if there was a force pushing to continue to maintain his love. He even had to be willing if everyone in this house considered him cheap because he ate Aldrick's speech that he had been made Aldrick.
"Your parents?" ask Atreya again.
"I'll see her foster mother soon. Aunt Rea was calm," sambar Aldrick, did not want his lover in the fretting questions that could make Dhyanda hurt again.
"Mother foster?" atreya muttered while squinting one eye, growing more curious.
"Dhyanda was a child in the care of Ms. Arumi, but now she is out of town, in her hometown in Sumedang. I was planning to meet him to ask for his blessing" Aldrick explained.
"What?" Atreya was stunned, he was surprised instead of playing. 'Dhyanda Genovefa, Geny, is she really that little girl?' atreya said softly. After kidnapping him years ago, Atreya once secretly returned to the house to look for a little girl he had met, but one of the house guards there said that the little girl had gone to Indonesia with her nanny named Arumi.
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