Husband Shovels Tops

213. Past Times

"Why is mom so long?"mummified Mahendra who was waiting for Ghina from Disha's room. Because it had been a long wait, Mahendra finally decided to follow his wife. But just opening the door, Mahendra had seen Ghina holding Kaivan.

"Mama where have you been? Why so long?"mahendra asked Ghina, but Ghina just looked at Mahendra with a hard-to-understand look. Made Mahendra frown.

"Mama why? Let's go in first!"mahendra embraced his wife into the room and led Ghina to sit on the bedside.

Mahendra grabbed his grandson's body from Ghina's embrace and laid his grandson's body on the bed. Mahendra's eyes turned to look at Ghina then sat down beside Ghina.

Mahendra grabbed Ghina's fingers, then looked at his wife, "what happened why did you look so shocked like this?"ask Mahendra gently.

"Pa, it turns out that the person who burned our villa was Kak Nalendra" Ghina said, staring at Mahendra.

"What's? Why did you suddenly talk like that?" mahendra asked who was surprised by what Ghina said.

"When you passed in front of their room, you heard Kak Nalendra's conversation with Kak Neda. Nalendra said he had paid people to burn down our villa to wipe out our entire family. We survived the fire in the villa because Kak Nalendra's men did not know if we left the villa using papa's assistant car. Kak Nalendra's men also chased after Anah who brought our daughter, until Anah fell into the river and Kak Nalendra's men thought Anah and our daughter died after falling into the river,"ghina said according to what she heard from the front of Nalendra's room.

Mahendra took a rough breath and rubbed his face rough, "I didn't expect Kak Nalendra to do all that to us. Why has he always been jealous of me? Did he want all of father's inheritance to fall all into his hands? Dad even split his entire fortune between the two of us, but why would he want to wipe us out?"mahendra said with feelings he could not express.

"And there is one more truth revealed by Brother Nalendra that makes mama confused how to respond to it," Ghina said a long sigh.

"The truth what else did Mom mean?" mahendra looked at Ghina's face.

"The truth about who Trisha really is" Ghina said, sighing.

"Well, who is Trisha?"mahendra asked impatiently.

"The truth is. Trisha's parents were Nalendra's children who were told by Nalendra to burn down our villa first...."

"What's? Oh my..!! What kind of fate is this?"mahendra said in shock to cut off Ghina's words.

"Trisha's parents blackmailed Nalendra. They threatened to tell us all the secrets, but Nalendra tried to catch them until they ran away and got hit by a car. And then we save their daughter, we take care of her and raise her lovingly, but it turns out she wants our treasure,"said Ghina with a chest that feels tight when remembering Trisha who does not know in profit.

"Papa did not expect, fate will play us like this" Mahendra said.

"Then what should we do now to Nalendra and Trisa, pa?"ghina asked, looking at her husband's face.

"We can't do anything, ma. Although we know all these truths, we have no evidence whatsoever to reveal the evil of Nalendra. And for Trisha, we can't punish her for the crimes of her parents. He was a baby at the time, and knew nothing. In spite of the fact, the evil nature of his parents decreased to him. From now on, we must be careful of them, but be ordinary so that they do not suspect us.Has right, Brother Nalendra always tried to bring me down," Mahendra said.

"Yes, pa. Mama will try to be as normal as possible" said Ghina.

"Now we sleep, huh?! Look, our granddaughter is so deep in her sleep," Mahendra said staring at Kaivan's face that seemed to be sleeping soundly.

The couple finally got into bed, laying their bodies on Kaivan's right and left.

"Papa too, ma. Papa is happy because our family has regrouped, our children are happy and we get the gift of a handsome and funny grandson like this," Mahendra said as he held the small hand of Kaivan. Finally, the middle-aged couple fell asleep while hugging their grandchildren.

***

In Bramantyo and Ratih's room.

"Ma, papa wants to say something to mama" said Bramantyo who is now sitting on the bed next to Ratih.

"What, pa? Just say!"Mama will listen to him, "sohut Ratih seriously.

"This is.this is about papa's ex-wife," Bramantyo said with a long sigh.

"What about papa's ex-wife? Alva's real mother?"ask Ratih with a slightly wrinkled forehead. Because for 30 years as Bramantyo's wife, Bramantyo seemed reluctant to tell about his ex-wife. Even Bramantyo seemed to cover anything related to his ex-wife. But now, he himself wanted to talk about the woman.

"Yes, about papa's ex-wife. Papa hope, mom won't be affected by papa's ex-wife. My mother was not the first to fill my heart. But believe! Mama is the only woman you want to accompany your father until death do us part. Papa wants to age with mama.Mantan wife papa is the past papa, while mama is the future papa," said Bramantyo while holding Ratih's fingers.

"Yes, I believe in Papa. I also want to age with my dad. Although the beginning of our relationship is intertwined because mama is the mother of Alva's milk, but over time, mama fell in love with papa and until now, the love of mama is not obsolete eaten time, but as time goes on, even though we are getting older. But, why would you suddenly want to talk about your ex-wife to your mom? Hasn't papa not wanted to talk about papa's ex-wife at all?"ask Ratih who is very curious why Bramantyo suddenly wants to discuss the woman who has given birth to Alva..

"That's because papa met his ex-wife again" Bramantyo said with a long sigh.

"Why see her again?"tanya Ratih seems surprised, the article for 30 years with Bramantyo, never once did Ratih see how the former wife Bramantyo who once left the new Alva born. Women in the past who once loved Bramantyo so much, but left Bramantyo in a slump, making Bramantyo hate the woman so much.

"Yes,"bramantyo said briefly.

"When? And where?"ask Ratih curiously.

"In this house last night. She is now the wife of Nalendra, the older sister of Mahendra," Bramantyo looked at the surprised-looking Ratih.

"Ja.so...that woman is Alva's real mother?"tanya Ratih stammered.

"Yes. She is Alva's mother, Nety. And it turns out that now he has changed his name to Neda, "sahut Bramantyo.

...🌟"Although the past is sometimes painful,...

...But don't let the past stop us from walking to meet the future."🌟...

..."Nana October 17th"...

To be continued