Heart Thief

Make peace

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Six months later.

"Let me take it, yeah." Rein was about to reach for a tray filled with food. The food was an order from a customer of a traditional restaurant in a tourism town.

"No need, Ma'am! Rein's mother is pregnant. Should have been quiet. What happens if something happens to me? Later I was also wronged," rejected a young woman whose name Rein was about to seize.

"It's okay. I love serving customers here. It's sports counting anyway. I'm tired of having to keep quiet." Rein smiled at the young woman named Lala. The tray finally moved into his hand.

The fly breathes. Rein is stubborn and does not want to obey if told to be silent. The pregnant woman was too active to move, making the people around her a little worried. "Then be careful, Ma'am. Take it slowly!" lala.

"Yes" Rein said as he headed to the table of the customer who ordered the food.

Six months was quite a short time for Rein to start his restaurant business. Rein was very lucky, because he was helped by a good person who wanted to invest his money to be used as capital. The money from the Daren robbery is not used as capital for the halal business.

Rein obeyed the words of Ms. Wanda who told her not to use the money. "If you want a halal business, do not make illegal money as capital. Especially the money from the robbery. The result will not be a blessing."

Those words became Rein's benchmark for starting his business. He left Daren's money to Wanda's mother. Tell the middle-aged woman to hand it over to Aska, if one day Aska visits their home.

Rein's new life is in sight. His decision to go out of the city had already yielded tangible results. Rein's intention was not to open the restaurant as Daren had hoped, but to meet someone. Rein wanted to ask for forgiveness.

"Rein, let's go home! I told you not to go to the restaurant. If you're brojol here how? It could be that the ones who are silent are equally as ambiguous!"

Hearing the scolding of a man with a rogue face, it even made Rein throw a smile. The woman had finished serving some dishes to the customer's table. He immediately approached the figure of a man standing near the door of the restaurant. The man was about to pick Rein home.

"It's not time to go home yet, Abah. Our restaurant closes at six" Rein said with a smile still adorning his lips.

"Don't argue anymore, ah. Ambu was angry because you went ngizinin when he went to the market. He threatened to release the fish to the river, if you did not succeed in bringing you home. Ck, the ambu mah emang queen tega. Fish abah is not wrong, even made a hostage," the man grumbled while clucking.

Rein laughed too. Living with her parents-in-law makes her happy. Yes, Rein returned to the city where Aska was born. He wants to get forgiveness as well as punishment from Ranti and Bahar, as the parents of people who lost their lives because of the work of his best friend.

On the advice of Ms. Wanda, Rein confessed all her crimes to Aska's parents and her in-laws as well. At first, Ranti is angry with Rein. As a mother whose child is the victim of someone's crime, of course Ranti can not take it for granted.

Luckily, Aska never returned to her hometown. His duty as a state servant made the man had no time to visit his parents' house. While Abian has returned to being a submissive and smart child. He no longer asked Rein for his whereabouts. Precisely now, the little boy was already more familiar with Asti.

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"I'm sorry, Rein, Ambu! Rein promised to be your dead son's replacement. Caring for Ambu and Abah here" Rein said at the time.

Ranti gave no answer. For a month he ignored Rein who insisted on staying in their home. Unlike Ranti, Bahar can understand with the regret felt by Rein. Maybe it was because of fellow retired thugs, so Bahar could feel what Rein felt. With open arms, Bahar received an apology from his son-in-law.

Rein's persistence bore fruit. Ranti's heart was finally pinched. Rein's always patient treatment of her hatred, making the mother of her husband Rein finally apologized.

Especially when he heard the words of Bahar who was able to penetrate the lock of hatred that shackled Ranti's heart.

"When do you want to hate Rein like this?" ask Bahar one day to his wife.

Ranti just popped her eyes. He was reluctant to discuss this.

"Think, your hatred is of no use. It will not bring back our dead child. Even this Ambu attitude will only hurt Ambu himself, especially Rein and our grandchildren who are in the womb. Ambu not afraid that the sadness of Rein will have a bad effect on the child in the womb? If it had happened, Ambu would've cheated twice, oruh!"

Ranti's sharp gaze turned dim. Guilt began to seep into his heart. He was silent while digesting Bahar's speech.

"Change, tea, understand the feeling of Ambu. Abah was also angry about the robbery. But, with Rein staying here, it was more than a prison for him, Ambu. Miss, atuh, Ambu think! Rein has struggled to fight his guilt, while meeting us has already made his heart hurt, because the guilt must be more sticking out and more torturing. Abah often sees Rein crying for himself, but tries to smile in front of us. Doesn't your mom feel sorry for him? It was not Rein who killed Dhana, but his friend. That was not intentional either. Ambu ever heard of himself, right, the police once said that the fingerprints on the gun belonged only to Dhana. Okay, orang, Ambu. Maybe it's the fate of our son, who died doing his duty. Release our son, his! Sorry Rein is his friend!"

Tears that had been dammed were finally spilled as well. Ranti was crying in her husband's arms. Ranti's heart was a little open. From then on, Ranti decides to forgive her daughter-in-law. Bahar's long story managed to make Ranti make peace with reality. Ranti and Rein make peace.

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...tbc...

...Finally peaceful too. Hayati is tired of seeing them keep chasing 😔🤭...