EVEN THOUGH MY WIFE IS BLIND

41. Soraya's Meeting With Rio

Soraya walked slowly by tapping herself against the wall. Her tears kept flowing without even a second.

"I hate... I hate the dark... I hate everything so much... Why am I blind? Why, Tuhaaan?" As if he did not accept the reality of his own life.

"You want to be as bright as the world you need?" Suddenly a voice came from a young man who walked after him.

Soraya flinched then further accelerated her pace.

BAAMM...

The trash can in front of him made him fall down. He was still lamenting the lack within him.

"Give me your hand, let me help you..." Said the man while bowing before him.

"Who are you?" Ketus Soraya tried to strengthen herself so as not to look afraid.

The man smiled instead, and without permission pulled Soraya's shoulder to sit on the long bench of the hospital.

"Heeemmmm... It's not good to snub a lot..." Say that guy again.

"And it's better not to interfere with other people's affairs, right...?" Reply Soraya while showing a sour face.

"It's still in the hospital environment, and I heard a commotion that made a lot of people annoyed by it... Should I just leave it alone?" The man said with a smile.

Soraya. He felt cornered because of the man's words.

"What can anger make all the better?" Ask the man again.

Soraya. He came back crying.

"They can't help me at all... I just want to see again... I can't stand this blindness for long..." Isak Soraya did not care who he was telling the story.

"Who can't help you?" Patiently the man continued to question himself.

"They, they don't want to find me eyes... They let me go on blind like this..." Soraya is upset.

"Doctor?" Like an older brother who calmed his little sister, so patiently did the man treat her.

Soraya nodded. He then wiped his tears because he felt better after expressing his feelings to someone, even though the person did not know who he was.

The man took Soraya's hand and shook hands with her. "I'm Rio..."

Soraya was silent for a moment while biting her lower lip. He felt a little uncomfortable, but he began to believe that this man sounded sincere.

"Soray..." Reply Soraya introduced herself.

Rio smiled then slowly untied their handshakes.

"The donor's eye has a procedure, Raya..."

"Don't call me Raya..." Cut Soraya fast.

Rio forehead shriveled thinly. It saw very well the dislike of Soraya when it was called Raya.

"Sora, or Soraya... That's more precise..." Soraya changed her nickname for herself.

"Women are hard to understand..." Grunting Rio while shaking his head. "When it is only a name, he even disputes it to its roots..."

"You're a doctor, are you?" Soraya asked without poking Rio's words.

"Bu-Em, yes... I'm a doctor here..." Rio's lying.

"So, how's the procedure? Can you help me as soon as possible? I didn't hear any reassurance from the doctors at this hospital, maybe you could have been different..." Soraya.

"That's it... You tell me where your home address is, and I'll take you home... Tomorrow when there's a donor, I'll pick you up again... It won't be long, trust me..." Persuade Rio carefully.

"I won't be home until I can see again... In my house it's not safe now..." Rejecting Soraya reject Rio's persuasion.

"Not safe?"

"My parents... Emm, I don't have to tell you anything personal, do I?" Ketus Soraya refused to be forthright.

"alright... Where do I take you?" Rio asked again still patiently.

"Yes, but don't have to wait here, Soraya... Or, what if you just go back to my house?" Rio continued to try to persuade Soraya.

"Your house? You who? Can I trust you?" Ask Soraya cynically.

Rio chuckling. "ridiculous... You're really silly, yeah..."

Rio stopped his laughter, then held Soraya's shoulder and looked at that pale face seriously.

"I'm sorry if this feels presumptuous to you... But, it is impossible if I ask you to look me in the eye just to be able to see the sincerity of my intentions, right...?" Rio.

"I don't know you, so how can I go home? Who the hell are you? What do you want?" Soraya threw away her face.

"Doctor ajakin patient's time to his house?" Soraya murmured whispering.

Rio smiled to himself. "I heard it..."

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After painstakingly persuading, Rio finally managed to bring Soraya home.

"This is my home, White Pigeon Street number 9B..." Rio.

"Away from the hospital?" Ask Soraya who was still silent in her position.

"Lumayan... If you want to go to the hospital, call a taxi in front... You can just say the name of the hospital to the cab driver..." Rio replied as he walked into his room.

Soraya waited as she squeezed her hungry stomach and repeatedly rang from them to her.

Not long after Rio returned before Soraya.

"Let me take you to my room..." Take Rio while holding Soraya's hand.

"Don't fuck around, yeah..." Soraya.

"Brother..."

Although Soraya looked hesitant, Rio still patiently helped her. It was only natural that the girl was careful with herself. If Soraya wasn't blind, perhaps she would have quickly rejected Rio's invitation. There are still many places for a girl like Soraya besides choosing to live in the house of someone she does not know, let alone a man.

"In the corner there is a bathroom, you can use it as you please... Yeah, consider it your own home..." Bright Rio.

"So I bought some food, there's also some bread that can last two months... But, looking at the size of your body, a week is up too..." Canda Rio while chuckling.

"You think I'm greedy?" Rutuk Soraya was acting upset.

"Handering... Oh yeah, I'm going to the office again today... You-"

"To office?" Cut Soraya fast. His face suddenly turned suspicious again.

"Emmm, I mean to the hospital... I have a patient today..." Rio said his words.

"You rest, here I give you the absorbent key... If you still don't believe me, you can go quietly." Rio said as he thrust a key into Soraya's hand.

The atmosphere was suddenly silent as the sound of Rio footsteps gradually moved away.

"Thank you, Rio..." Soraya said before Rio actually left. His heart had softened and began to believe fully.

He was a little embarrassed when he did not get an answer from Rio. "After I can see you later, I'll pay for everything..."

Rio smiling. Then nodded while answering Soraya's words, and the door to the room rang followed by the door outside the house.

The starving Soraya immediately felt the food Rio said earlier on the bedside table.

Her stomach wrapped around the hunger already couldn't bear the smell of the food Rio bought for her. Without delay, he immediately devoured the food quickly.

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