Forced Mate

You Are Not Alone

Ayu spread her arms as soon as Alex entered the room. The man had just returned home after driving Marissa to the airport. Ayu knew that her husband was in need of a hug. Many children of divorce victims who turn to bad rights, become a figure who does not have the spirit of life. Alex is different. The man got up and proved that he could be better.

Alex goes straight into Ayu's arms, or rather she holds Ayu in her arms. He smelled the top of Ayu's head, there he could smell the scent of the shampoo the woman often wore, the scent of mint. Actually, it's his shampoo. For some reason, the woman was more happy to wear her things.

"Mommy's home yet?" ask Ayu who is now being hugged from behind can Alex. Ever since Ayu's stomach started to bulge, hugging was getting harder. The man's hand rubbed Ayu's stomach several times.

"Yes" Alex replied. He turned his fingers that were on Ayu's stomach in the direction of the needle. He chuckled softly feeling the kick from the baby inside there. "Well, she's playing" Alex does the same thing and is answered again by her baby-to-be.

"He's getting more active" said Ayu putting her fingers on Alex's fingers. "He likes you, like you."

"Obviously, he's my son. He must have known that he had a handsome and cool father like me" Alex said in a proud tone.

Ayu's hand lifted and patted Alex's cheek gently. "Narcissistic based!" He then raised his head and kissed Alex's neck, because with his height only Alex's neck that he could reach despite having tiptoes.

Alex lowered his head slightly and began to stick his lips on Ayu's full lips. She always liked that lip, sweet as the owner.

Like the night before, Alex tried not to sleep fast. He had to make sure Ayu could sleep first. Pregnant women often find it uncomfortable.

"I should have brought bolsters," said Ayu who continued to be uncomfortable due to only being able to sleep on her back, but Alex said that she was advised to sleep on her left side.

There is a pillow that holds his stomach, as well as both legs so that he can stay comfortable. Meanwhile, Alex who slept behind him continued to rub his back and sometimes moved to the stomach. Ayu easily tired, so sometimes ask for a massage. On the grounds that the womb was old and had to avoid a massage, she was only rubbed on her back by Alex.

Alex raised his head to look at Ayu's face. The woman closed her eyes and pulled her hand and prepared to go to sleep.

"Yes! Why stop?" ayu protest with a raucous voice.

"I thought you were sleeping" Alex replied, continuing with a back rub.

Alex was sleepy and unconscious. His hand just fell off Ayu's back. The woman immediately protested, but was immediately silent when she heard a soft snoring from behind. His hand immediately felt backwards, looking for Alex's hand and wrapped it around his stomach. Despite having slept, the man's subconscious led him to shift closer to Ayu.

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Ayu thaws after putting her dress on the table. He just ended a call from Alex. The man calls to inform her that Tamara is coming to accompany Ayu. According to Alex, Tamara was in Singapore with Richard. As Richard has affairs, Alex asks Tamara to accompany him. Today, Bu Ina will only come home from Jakarta because her little child is sick, so she has not accompanied Ayu for two days.

It's not that Ayu hates Tamara, but that she doesn't want to see her friend. He did not want to think more about Alex's feelings for his best friend. He still harbors jealousy on Tamara.

He knew that Tamara had nothing wrong. He also realized that the woman deserved to be loved by anyone. Beautiful, graceful, kind, independent, the perfect figure to be a wife.

Realizing that she was far below Tamara made Ayu snort in annoyance. He doesn't like to compare himself to others, but lately he has always felt inferior. He looked at her swollen body, then touched her increasingly piercing cheeks. Alex would have just wanted to please her when she said she was still pretty, because she felt uglier.

The sound of a bell dragging Ayu towards the front door. He stood there for a few seconds staring in dislike at the door, precisely at the person standing behind it. After pulling and exhaling slowly, Ayu opened the door. His smile greeted the beautiful woman who suddenly made him feel dwarfed.

Ayu returned a short hug from Tamara. He answered the longing expression of his theme as if he really missed it. Ah, he's a two-headed man now.

"It was only a month that Tidka met I was very upset," said Tamara who was stroking Ayu's stomach. "Well, you don't have to worry anymore. I'm getting impatient" he added cheerfully.

That smile made Ayu envious. If only he had that face and that smile, Alex would have loved him. He exhaled a rough breath.

"Why?" tamara asked after hearing Ayu's snoring. "Gosh, you must be tired of standing up."

They walked to the sofa. Tamara helps Ayu by holding her hand.

"Richie says she can't wait to see your son, must be beautiful like you," Tamara said with a smile that never faded.

"If not handsome," said Ayu.

"Say Alex, your daughter." Kening Tamara shriveled.

"That's just Alex's guess," Ayu replied. "Every USG, his position is always covered with thighs."

Tamara chuckles and puts her hand on Ayu's stomach. "Ih, his grandfather is still shy."

Ayu laughed a little. "It seems, he likes to play with secrets."

They sit and tell a lot. For lunch, Tamara again showed her cooking skills. After lunch, they enter the room for Ayu's son later.

Ayu was sitting, while Tamara was walking towards the closet which was already very quiet, there were clothes and some baby supplies. He instantly praised how Alex was so sprightly by preparing even for diapers.

"But, what if it turns out the baby guy?" exciting Tamara.

"She said, boys are okay with pink," Ayu replied.

"He must be so excited about being a father, Yu." Tamara pulls out a creamy baby towel with a cute ribbon picture in the middle. "I'm glad he's got you now. You will have a baby. She's not lonely anymore" added Tamara, who is standing next to the baby box. His gaze was fixed on the various animated characters hanging from the ceiling of the baby box.

Ayu just smiled. In his heart he denied, because he knew that Alex would be happier if the one in his position now was Tamara.

"What is new shopping?" Tamara pointed at some paper bags lying on the floor.

Ayu nodded. Those things were brought by Alex yesterday after work. Said the man, he was coming home from work and suddenly saw the clothes on display in the storefront of one of the shops. Ayu had not even had time to open the package.

Ayu. "That's for a year or two-year-old" Ayu said.

Tamara who was sitting on the carpet lifted her butt several times to get closer to Ayu. He was carrying three paper bags beside him.

"It's pretty, you know," praised Tamara, who kept removing the dress from the package. There are shoes and foot cost too.

"I told you that newborn eels can wear clothes like this" said Ayu who grabbed a dress.

Tamara laughed at Alex's groceries. "That means he's happy, Yu."

"Oh, huh?"

Tamara nodded loudly. "He is the best at controlling anger. But, not if he was happy, he was happy just a little immediately excited. Likes a muddle, like a gini."

"What the hell don't you know about Alex, Tam? Sometimes I think you know her better than I do" Ayu said cheerfully so that her jealousy would not appear.

"Many," replied Tamara. He chuckled and continued, "i don't know what it's like to sleep with Alex."

Ayu. This time he could not disguise his shocked face.

"You don't take me seriously, do you, Yu?" tamara asked quickly when she saw the change in Ayu's mimic. "My glimmer's not funny, huh? Last night I joked to Richard, he got mad."

Ayu immediately shook her head. "No, no!" She had known Tamara for a long time, she had never heard the woman make a joke. The woman is graceful, sometimes seeming cold because it has no humor at all.

"Sorry, yeah. I hope you don't think about what I said. I'm just kidding, let's not be so stiff" Tamara said again.

Ayu nodded again. "I know, Alex also often said you guys are very close, but just friends," Ayu said and continued in her heart, 'friends she loved so much'.

"Yes, maybe because of the small. But, I've never seen Alex look at another woman like she's staring at you. She must have loved you very much" Tamara said.

Ayu smiled smirkily. He had also never seen Alex look at a woman as deeply as Tamara. If only Tamara knew that the only woman in Alex's heart was her.

"Oh yes, yesterday I met Aunt Marissa," said Tamara.

"Yes, last week he visited."

"Yes, she's happy to be a grandmother soon. He said, Alex has also started to open up."

Ayu nodded. His efforts were not in vain, even last night Alex called Marissa to just ask the circumstances of his mother. Progress, right? It was because Ayu was pushy but still great. Who knows Alex can get used to it and really get close to his family again.

"You know, Yu," said Tamara. "I used to hate Mama who had too many rules. I hate Papa who is always busy. But, seeing how Alex set aside, I felt that I was a little lucky to still be able to feel the warmth of the family."

Ayu chose silence. He keeps hearing Tamara tell him about Alex's childhood. About Alex who always comes to his house to play because he doesn't care. Alex, who sometimes cries and complains, misses his parents.

"When his grandmother died, Alex was only 17 years old. She was devastated then, not just for having to live alone in her grandmother's house. He also lost the only warm figure who loved him."

Ayu knows that Alex once lived with her grandmother in New Zealand, the rest she doesn't know. Alex never even said that his grandmother was dead.

Tamara clasped Ayu's hand. "I beg you, never stay with Alex!"

Ayu did not answer and looked at her hand alternately with Tamara's pleading face. If you can choose, Ayu wants to live to be a wife for the rest of her life. The man is the husband that all women desire. However, she realizes that Alex's heart is not for her.

"If for example it turns out that Alex likes other women, do I have to survive?"

Kening Tamara wrinkled. One eyebrow raised. "I don't think Alex is cheating. But, if she dares to be tempted by another woman, tell me the same."

Ayu smiled. "If that woman were you?"

The smile on Tamara's lips instantly disappeared. "I-i?"

Ayu nodded in agreement.

Tamar forced laughter. "That-can't be!"

"Just for example, Tam," Ayu wrote.

Tamara. "I can't imagine it, Ayu. Since it's impossible, we've been like brothers."

"Yes, yeah, I know. You're just friends, aren't you?"

Tamara nodded. He folded the baby clothes he had been scattering. She smiled bitterly at the baby clothes. He immediately remembered what he said to Alex when he was a toddler.

"I want to be Supermom" Tamara said. He didn't say it once, but many times. She always hoped to be a mother who raised her child with love and care. She doesn't want to be a hard mom like her mom or a careless mom like Alex's mom.

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