Exchanging Bride

Stories about Novia

Mike tried to remember the figure of mama Novia as a child. Never had Mike seen Novia speak out loud or rudely to anyone else. Mike's only bad memories of Novia's mother are when Adelia falls to a miscarriage.

Mom Novia was a little hysterical. Mama Novia yelled at Adelia as a woman who destroys people's households. Just shouting a few times. Adelia and Mama Novia had a long argument in front of Mike. The details of their conversation Mike no longer remembered.

"Mike, can you hear my voice? Look towards the CCTV camera if you can hear my voice and be willing to follow my advice." Mike heard Aldi's voice through the ear phone.

Mike realized that he could not think clearly and objectively. Aldi spoke to him at the right time. Mike turned to the CCTV and stared at it long enough for Aldi to start talking back to him.

"Mike, we're not trying to figure out if your mama's guilty of Aunt Adelia or not. What we want to find out is about your mother's death. You just need to turn Adelia's story to the part where your mom was declared suicidal."

Mike was stunned to hear Aldi's words. That's right Aldi said. Her focus now should be on Novia's mother's death. Not the focus on the incident where Adelia miscarried.

Mike faced Adelia back.

"I think it's a waste of time discussing who's wrong between my mama or you. I just want you to tell me your version of my mother's death."

"hahaha.hahaha" Adelia laughed for a long time.

"There's nothing funny you should laugh about." Mike said coldly.

"Of course it's funny. Your mother was declared a suicide. There is a lot of evidence that shows murder. I can easily make your papa help me cover up that evidence just by serving him wholeheartedly in his bed. hahaha"

Adelia laughed again, noticing the emotional changes in Mike's face.

While Mike clenched his hand held back the anger. Papa Damien is involved. This is so outrageous.

"Mike, listen to me. Aunt Adelia's words are not always 100% true%. Don't rush to think your papa's involved. Aunt Adelia has admitted that there is evidence leading up to the murder. Get Aunt Adelia to talk about how she killed your mama." Aldi went back to talking into Mike's earphone.

Mike tried to stay calm and cross-check the truth of Adelia's words.

"Evidence of the murder of my mother does not exist. Don't lie to me at will. I'm sure Papa still loves you until the last moment you close your eyes. Even I know my own papa was crying over my mom's departure until now." With this Mike expressed his disbelief in Adelia.

"Mike, I want you to stay here. I'm gonna tell you a story about us I haven't told the others." Suddenly Adelia turned to look at Mike.

Mike did not respond with any words. Just waiting quietly for anything to be served will definitely be used for separation before dismissal.

"Novia didn't like my grandfather's desire to get Damien to marry me. Especially when she found out that Adelia was pregnant, Novia was terrorizing me more and more with the little things that made me feel depressed. Damien sleeps with my beautiful self. Novia was not noticed at all. It makes Novia angry and more and more often do bad things to me in their house whenever the opportunity."

Adelia stopped and looked at Mike's expression, which did not change. Then back to telling stories.

"One day I was 5 months pregnant staying at my grandfather's house in the big house because of my grandfather's birthday. Novia again bothered me with various schemes. I became more and more stressed not to bear to fall by itself when going down from the stairs. In this section, you yourself see it. So the version of the lie I didn't tell you."

"I miscarried and my womb which was weak from the beginning had to be removed. That's what made Grandpa so angry. Novia was beaten by her grandfather and bled in front of everyone present including you, Mike. While your papa, Damien, doesn't care about Novia and shooing her away and divorcing her." Adelia ended the story.

"A very good story narration that sounds convincing." Mike clapped his hands loudly alone. Not touched in the slightest by the sad story of the stepmother.

Mike was getting sad for his mom. I don't know what mama Novia went through in the mental torture done by her husband and his young wife.

"What did you do to my mother after I was taken abroad?" Mike approaches Adelia and whispers just as Adelia did to Mike before.

"I locked him. Haha." Adelia glared at Mike and then laughed.

Mike wanted to strangle the woman in front of him. But Aldi reminded him to prevent his hand from doing anything.

"I need to take my revenge. She's pressured me to the point of losing my baby! It also made me unable to have children until anytime! So I sent him to accompany my baby. Haha."

Adelia's laughter sounded painful in Mike's heart. Adelia finally confessed. But not enough. He has to explain his chronology.

"You lied again. You didn't have the ability to tell people to do dirty things like murder." Mike tried to sound unaffected by Adelia's confession.

"Of course I did it with my own hands. Why ask someone else. This is my revenge! The revenge of my baby he killed! Novia would have to pay with her own life after I was content to torture her who lost you, her son."

Mike just silently looked at Adelia without showing any expression.

"I am the one who made you separate from your mother. Also that makes you not allowed to go home even to see the body of your mother for the last time. I made Novia unable to see her son even after she became a corpse! hahaa."

"You're still lying. You can't kill my mother." Mike still had a flat face without expression.

"I tell you how your mother suffered until the end of her life. She I locked up in that magnificent house she used to live in with her husband and son. I locked her up there alone with no helpers or food. I send in unfit food every three days. Make sure he's not dead. And you know what? He ate the food I always sent. He still wants to survive to meet you, his son." Adelia whispered into Mike's ear.

Mike wants to smash Adelia's face. But Aldi and Kiara both said to make Mike patient.

"A little bit more, Mike. Let Adelia talk as she pleases." Aldi said through Mike's ear phone.

"How long have you kept my mom?" Mike's eyes looked cold. This was what Adelia had hoped for since then.

"Since he was cast out by grandfather to death, of course." Adelia

"Three months." Mike remembered that time. The time where Mike desperately wants to go back to Novia's mama side.

"What are you doing other than locking up my mama."

"Of course your mom should have fun. The day he sent me to the Lord, I sent a man of valour and stamina to satisfy him who long did not feel the pleasure of a man."

Mike held his hand tightly. It is getting harder to hold back emotions.

"I saw him crying and screaming during the man's service. Very satisfied to see it. But he looked skinny and was already willing to die. I can't let God take his life for granted. That part should be mine. The pleasure of sending him to God is mine. So that night I hung him in his room. Makes it look as if Novia doesn't want to live alone anymore. hahahaha." Adelia laughed longer than she had.

"Haha. I ended his life with my own hands! haha. He even begged to live for you, Mike. But I'm so happy to make her request go unfulfilled hahaha" Adelia's laughter is painful for Mike.

"Get out of there now, Mike. Out!" Aldi half yelled into Mike's ear phone.

Clenching his hand, Mike exited the room where Adelia was held captive. Mike went out into the back garden and shouted hysterically. How much his mother suffered at that time. Mike wanted to scream out his pain. His tears were no longer stoked.