DREAM OF THE SHADOW

CHAPTER 22

"Hello Boss, how are you?" vino's voice sounded excited over there.

"good. Tumben phone." Shua answered half surprised.

"Lu in Surabaya? I'm looking at IG lo's status."

"Yes, napa? Want samperin gw?" shua asked, joking.

"Kok you know? Where else now? Find yuk."

"Huh? You're in Surabaya again, really?"

"hey are. There's work here."

They finally plan to meet at breakfast tomorrow morning at the Victory Hotel where Shua is staying. Actually, Shua's mouth is already itching to tell the problem of Becca who seized Yuna's husband. But he held her back, but he didn't know what was really going on. It's possible that Becca is seduced or trapped by Adit.

The night was getting late, Shua was already lying on her bed. When entering the hotel door, Shua had seen Yuna and Adit riding in the elevator, it seemed like they were going to head to the room. The rooms both. Yes, they are still husband and wife, naturally they are roommates. Shua was very curious about what they were doing in the next room. It was like knocking on the next room, pretending to ask Adit something, but he dropped his intention. Adit will suspect, he is not a fool. He was a fool for wasting a woman like Yuna.

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"Can't you sleep in another room, Dit?" yuna said while sitting on the bed. Adit had just changed his clothes in pajamas, he answered Yuna's question with a slab.

"What if mommy sees me sleeping in the other room? You promised me you'd give me a chance to fix everything." Adit got on the bed and began to lie down.

"Nothing can be fixed if you can't leave it." Yuna lay down on her back to Adit. Then he began to feel Adit's hand coiling up on his stomach.

"Don't fuck around. I want to sleep." Yuna said again.

"I just want to hug you. Sleep on." Adit kissed his ears.

Yuna closed her eyes, she began to be unable to feel any more vibrations if Adit touched her. Maybe it's numb. Will he be happy by pretending to be happy? I don't know, but it's been five months that she feels like her marriage is in hell. Maybe God will help him answer how hard he can survive.

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"The chin!" Shua's loud voice made a handsome man and some around him turn towards Shua.

"Well, it's more cool" said Vino while slightly hugging his schoolmate. They went around picking up some of the food that was served in the spacious room before finally deciding to sit at the dining table near the fish pond.

"So what makes you go to Surabaya?" vino asked while putting a piece of sausage into his mouth.

"Business. Do you know the vast empty land near the square? I woke up the mall there." replied Shua.

"Seriously? Crazy one! So great, that's a big land. Ntar if it's almost finished tell you yes, I want to enter the product gw there SM electronic products." said Vino spirit.

"Lo inget yuna?" ask Shua.

"Where's yuna? Yuna Sakura?"  Vino's question was answered with a nod of the handsome man in front of him.

"Yes ingetlah. My sister ampe now. He used to be in school." Vino laughed remembering Shua that Yuna had rejected before.

"Husso..Don't be so big about it. Yuna and her husband are here, and they must be down for breakfast too. I use their services for my project."

"OW..I've never met Yuna's husband. Sama Yuna has also not met since I often leave and do not live at home with Becca." explained Vino.

'Suppose you know who Adit is!' thought Shua. His daydream was scattered by a clap on his shoulders.

"I tuk-ketok your room earlier, the question you're already below first." said Adit casually. Joshua smiled but his eyes looked for Yuna's invisible figure around Adit.

"Yes, there's my high school friend. I know Dit, this is Vino. Vin, this is Adit, Yuna's husband." Vino was a little surprised that it was Yuna's husband. Politely he stood up and endured it. She did not expect Yuna's husband to be so handsome. Understandably, he knows Yuna as a beautiful figure, just unfortunate Yuna is not taking care of her own body.

"Honey, here." call Adit. Yuna approached them with a plate of cut fruit in her hand.

"Yuna's? You Yuna? Wooaw...I don't recognize you anymore. Look at this beautiful woman." Yuna was somewhat surprised by Vino's presence there. They used to be quite familiar, but now the situation has changed. He forced his smile to look as natural as possible.

"Hi, Brother Vino. How come it's here?" Yuna glanced towards Shua, only she understood her condition now.

"Take a deal with Shua." replied Vino. The four of them sat at the same table. Adit seemed enthusiastic to hear Vino tell him about his work. Yes, that's how Adit, he can always familiarize himself with the people around him. That's why he and Becca became so "close". Yuna's phone sounded a sign that a message was coming in.

'Sorry yes, I can't refuse when he wants to see you.' Message from Shua. Yuna's eyes automatically immediately glanced at the man sitting right in front of her.

'It's ok. I understand. He doesn't know anything anyway.' Reply Yuna. He was just about to spoon the porridge into his mouth when he turned to his right. Becca Voice.

"It turns out you guys are having fun here!!! You said you wanted a divorce, baby. Why didn't it be? She must have wooed you again huh?!" Becca half yelled at Adit who was now standing in front of her, while Vino turned from his seat. Some of the guests around them turned their head slightly to hear a sentence that made people curious about what happened.

"Take him out of here, Dit." Yuna spoke in a low tone still in her sitting position. Adit felt his consciousness returning after hearing his wife's voice.

"Follow me!" Adit pulls Becca's hand which can only follow her. Vino was like a magnet following his sister from behind.

Yuna was deep in thought. She sees Becca's belly bulging a little and she's smart enough to know that it's because pregnancy isn't due to the effects of eating a lot.

"You want to go there, Yun?" ask Shua. Yuna just shook her head slowly, she was afraid of facing the reality. It scoops again the porridge that begins to cool it, tasteless and makes it nauseous. But on the other hand, he also wanted to know what was happening, avoiding reality would not solve anything either.

"Shua.please go there." pinta Yuna. Shua nodded obediently. The two of them headed behind the receptionist, at least Shua saw them last time there.

They approached a room, which read "Cempaka Meeting Room" on the doorstep. Sayup-sayup heard Adit's voice slightly raised calling the name Becca. Yuna turned the doorknob around and all eyes went straight to her. What made Yuna shocked was that both of Adit's parents were also there. They happen to see when Adit pulls the hand of a woman who is not his wife, of course Farah immediately curious about what happened and immediately follows them here.

"Yuna." Only Adit finally opened his voice and approached his wife. Yuna looked at the hand marks on Adit's flushed cheeks. Someone must have slapped him in the face.

"Continue. I want to hear what else is being talked about here" Yuna said softly. He walked towards a single beige sofa in the corner of the small room, probably only about 10x5 square meters. Joshua chose to leave the room after he had a face-to-face encounter with Vino, who was either embarrassed or angry with the behavior of his sister Becca.

"Hi Yuna's. I'm sorry, but as you know, me and Adit...I mean I can't cover it anymore. My pregnancy is getting bigger and I don't want to give birth until my status is guaranteed." Becca stroked her distended stomach. Yuna did not say anything, she could only stare at Becca sharply and finally she chose to slightly duck. Not because you feel defeated, but more to surrender. Whatever happens will happen because there will be no time that can be replayed.

"Is that Adit's son?" Farah's voice trembled slightly.

"Of course, Auntie. Me and Adit, we've been in a relationship for a long time. Yuna already knew it too." Becca replied without any embarrassment implied on her face. Adit was silent as if he agreed with what Becca said.

"I know my son is not barren." Farah slightly smiled uttering a sentence that made all eyes be on her.

"Flood!!" hardic Harris. Farah was a little surprised and realized she shouldn't have said that.

"Mama! Mama what the hell is that?!" Adit also did not like the words of his mother. Yuna seemed to be holding back her anger, only Becca laughed in her heart.

"Adit, now you have to make a decision. I can't continue with this drama anymore" Yuna said as she stood up from her seat.

"But you've promised we'll try Yuna, there won't be any divorce between us." Adit's words just made Becca feel a little lost.

"But that was before I knew she was pregnant Dit." Yuna's voice was rising.

"Nothing will change Yuna. Trust me." said Adit.

"Your bastard!! Then what do you think of my sister?" Vino pulls Adit's collar. Becca tries to stand between them and pushes her sister away.

"alright. Ii'm sorry. You don't have to choose Dit. I won't trouble you anymore. Me and my son are going to get out of your life." Becca picked up her blue bag and walked towards the door. Farah pulled his arm.

"Don't go yet!! Adit, this is your son. You can finally have a child. Conscious!" said Farah while holding Becca's arm tight. Becca felt that her acting was quite successful, she knew very well how her future father-in-law was eager to have grandchildren from her eldest son. Yuna closed her eyes, trying to hold back her tears. How could the in-law that he held so much respect for be applicable like that in front of him.

"I'm going to file for Dit's divorce" she told Adit.

"And you won Becca. Thank the baby in your womb." Without seeing all the eyes that were fixed on her, Yuna came out. He can no longer be in the room with people who can no longer think sanely.

Shua saw Yuna coming out with a blank expression and went straight to her. Without asking anything, Shua pulled her hand towards the parking lot and got into her borrowed car. Suddenly Yuna's cry broke before the car walked, she could only cover her wet face with her empty hands. The wall of his extremely hard heart was slowly shattered as it had been eroded for too long. Betrayal by two people he trusted and loved once made Yuna lose her confidence. Shua saw Yuna's shoulders tremble as her cries grew. He could only let Yuna cry without saying anything while driving her car. The words "Prophe Yuna." or "I know how you feel." will be impressed by just stale language. The only thing Shua wanted to say right now was, "You still have me, Yuna.". But Shua chose not to say it.

Yuna took out three pieces of tissue from inside her bag and started throwing away her incisions a little tautly.

"I'm sorry" said Yuna turning to Shua.

"For?" shua asked a little confused. Yuna simply raised a dirty tissue with her two fingers. Shua chuckled, just like that Yuna whom he had known a long time ago. Plain and do not like to drag on in slump even though many bully it first.

Huuuf...Yuna exhaled her coarse breath as if all of her burden could be thrown away in a single strand. The unexpected incident was like an atomic bomb that hit him. Be ill. Crushed. But at the same time destroying various dirty garbage that became a thought in his heart. Yes, Yuna now felt a little relieved. Maybe because he found it easier to make a decision now. There was no doubt that she had good reason to divorce her husband. Becca is pregnant, and Adit is impregnating her former best friend. My ex-friend is my ex-husband's infidelity. Or my ex-friend is the mother of my ex-husband's son. Aaah what a proper title for the drama in her life right now. A moment Becca gave a small laugh until Shua turned her head for a while towards him.

"Is something funny?" ask Shua. He did not understand how Yuna could still laugh in her current state.

"No." Yuna replied with a smile. Of course he didn't want to talk about what he was thinking.

"Where are we going?" yuna asked as Shua stopped due to the red light. Shua turned to him, seeing Yuna's eyes that were still swollen even though Yuna's face was not as broken as before.

"Eat. Do you want ice cream or batagor?"

"Can you if you don't have to choose? I want both." Yuna was hungry now. He hadn't eaten half his breakfast when Becca arrived.

Shua nodded obediently. He saw Yuna again who made him fall in love first. 'I won't let go of you anymore Yuna.'

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