Died Ahead of Marriage

78. Divorce or M4ti?

"I-I mean Papi?"

"Just divorce him! You don't seem to be able to make her happy. In fact, even when our daughter left, you were unable to find her whereabouts all this time!"

Amar downcast. "Yes, I know that. At least, I beg Papi—"

"Don't call me that! I don't want people who continue to hurt our beloved daughter, to call me sacred!"

Amar pursed his lips tightly. His head thought fast should how else after this. This wife's father, really very hard. Amar walked right in front of Papi Sugiono. He flung his body to his knees right in front of Anna's father.

"If Papi's still mad at me, please beat me up! Hit me! I will survive being used as a samsak as long as it can change Papi's feelings to forgive me."

Sugiono's eyebrows go up next door. His face was flat smiling thinly. "Are you sure?"

Amar nodded. "I deserve to be punished. Physical punishment is most appropriate for me. So that I could feel how much pain Anna had in giving birth alone."

Sugiono smiled cynically. He heads to the closet where he hides an object used on Anna, when she was a child. Slowly, the grizzled man pulled the long-disused whip.

"Are you sure of what you said?" Sugiono said coldly playing the whip.

Amar scrunched his forehead looking at the thing in his father-in-law's hand now. "I'm ready if Papi will beat me up, as long as Papi allows us to remarry."

"Punish him or I'll beat him up to m4ti?"

"Please do as you please, Papi. I wouldn't m4ti just because of that. However, if Papi has tired ... Promise to let go of us both remarrying." Amar bows his head.

Sugiono smiled sinisterly looking at his daughter-in-law who was still kneeling. "All right! Looks like you thought I didn't mean this."

Amar frowned. For a moment he imagined Anna's scream as if loud was heard in her eardrums. Imagining Anna's small body that got it all, made Amar's anger suddenly explode.

"Why did Papi beat Anna?"

Sugiono gasped to hear Amar's snaps. "Why? Are you mad? I have my own way of educating my son. So that he can be a useful person."

Sugiono this time stood right behind Amar. Meanwhile, Amar's brain continues to clump around imagining how much pain Anna has been in.

"If I had known him first, I would have protected him. Now I understand why Anna wanted to kill herself when she failed to marry Zico."

Sugiono was dumbfounded to hear what Amar was saying. He really doesn't know that. All he knew was that Amar had offered to marry Anna, to replace Zico, who had left Anna, married first.

"It looks like you know a lot of things we don't know."

Amar speaks a thousand languages. "Just hit me . so I can feel the pain."

Sugiono smiled thinly. "Why are you just now fighting like a bad luck hero? As long as Anna's gone, why are you quiet?"

"I never shut up. I always look for him. It's just that I was too stupid to let the person I asked do it myself without checking what he was doing. In fact, I just found out, after he came back. Anna crossed home and lived the weight of life there."

Plaaac

Sugiono had just floated the whip that was in his hand. The whip let out a very heartbreaking sound.