LOVE BEHIND THE VEIL

40. Deal

The streets seem deserted, probably because it's Sunday so road users are not too crowded. The car carrying Danira was driving moderately, and Danira had given the address written by Gavino to the Taxi driver. Before long the taxi stopped in a yard that looked very seedy and dirty.

" Miss we have arrived ", the taxi driver told me.

" I'm sure this is the address". Danira asked to make sure that there was no way the Gavino family's main house here Danira thought.

" Right Miss, this is already very suitable with the one on the Google map.

" Danira got out of the car, carrying Khalisa, Bik Marni helped the driver drop their luggage from the trunk. After Danira gave the money, the taxi driver thanked her and drove away from Danira.

Danira looked around, dirty and smelly. Plastered clear, signposts that read 'Waste Dumping Place'. About 20 meters away, Danira can see 1 house.

" Non..nona sure this is the address ?". Ask Bik Marni who had been quietly observing around.

" I don't know, I don't know, we better go to the house first, to make sure. Danira matched the house number to the one on paper.

"Astaghfirullah.so He asked me to stay here". Danira muttered softly. Bik Marni covered her nose and mouth, completely unable to bear the pungent smell from that place. Danira observes the house, completely uninhabitable.the floor is broken, the glass of the house is also broken, the wall is full of doodles of paint Pilok, doors made of plywood, plywood, and the, extraordinary people see dusty and dirty inside.

A black Rolls Royce, stopped right in front of the house, and Danira could already guess who was coming. It was her husband, Gavino coming down with a mask on his face, waving to ask Danira to come closer.

" Bik's..Please take care of Khalisa for a moment yes, I want to see my husband first". Danira handed Khalisa to Bik Marni, then he stepped up and got into the luxury car.

Gavino sat haughtily, wearing a Navy suit, his handsome face covered with a plated mask.

" How do you like the house".

" You don't expect me to take you to the Pradikas, that place is inappropriate for a woman like you. You deserve a dirty place like this". Ejek Gavino, without seeing Danira sitting in the back. Danira was still silent, listening to everything Gavino wanted to say. " I came here, wanted to make some deals for you, and all of that you have to stick to". Said again.

" When I can convince my mom to accept Stevani, then you'll be divorced".

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Danira's heart was pounding, hearing the sacred word Gavino said

How could she have so easily spoken the word divorce. Inner Danira.

" As I said last night to you, we still behave like strangers, without interfering in each other's affairs"

" You're free to do whatever you like, I won't forbid and so will you".

"After we're separated, I'll give you the compensation money, but if you want the money sooner, just file our divorce with the religious court and sue me". Gavino said lightly.

" Don't try to get out of here, if I didn't ask you to go, what else tried to complain to mommy, then you know what the consequences would be". Threat Gavino. Do I need to write it down on paper, so you can always remember it ?".

" Have you finished speaking?, if you had allowed my turn to speak to the esteemed Lord Gavino". Danira spoke in a very soft yet cold voice, Gavino could feel that, He glanced at Danira from the Rudders Spy.

" Say".

Danira raised her head, saw Gavino in the rearview mirror, her hands folded to the front of her chest, then her legs crossed, and her back leaned against the car seat. " You don't have to write it, you take it easy I still remember it well, without any words lacking in the slightest, including all your words last night.

" Are we not married because of 2 people, 2 lives and 2 souls ? So it's not logical, if only you make a lot of rules while I'm just obliged to obey".

" I have no problem with the agreement or the rules mentioned earlier. I will be ready to follow him, even with pleasure I will obey, living in a place like this, it is not a bad thing for me. But if it's up to your business associates or your family and relatives to know you're pinning me here will it still be okay for your big name ?".

" As for the compensation money, I don't need it at all. Just keep that money for yourself". Danira again. Gavino stiffened his molar, hearing Danira's words. He felt now that Danira turned around threatening him.

" How dare you.....!!!

" Stop...!!!I'm not done talking. I don't like it when I'm talking about my speech on the sidelines". Danira follows Gavino's style, cutting off his speech last night, and it succeeds in upsetting Gavino half to death. From behind his sunglasses, Gavino refracted his eyes, glaring sharply at Danira.

" And because you reminded me of all your words last night, so I want to refute some of your statements or accusations that are not true to me and my son".

" The second one..! I'm not interested to know your relationship with your lover, whether you marry or not with him it's none of my business, I don't care".

" As for me wanting property and position in the Pradikas family, which you accuse me of that you are wrong, I don't need that, I don't need that, without you I can still meet the needs of myself and my child". Gavino screeched mockingly at Danira's explanation.

" The fourth...! I never played shaman to use Calina's mother, nauzubillah, it was a idolatrous deed done by God, If I finally agree to marry you, if I finally agree to seven, it was your mother who asked and begged me to accept you. So in our problems not only you feel forced, but also so".

" And the last one...!! I would like to ask you my dear Mr. Gavino. You can consider me a cheap woman and have illegitimate children from where ? you know me well, I don't think so. How far do you know about me, so you can throw such slander at me?". Gavino sees Danira from the glass, hearing Danira's question makes Gavino think, Danira is right as far as she finds out about Danira, she finds nothing. He only expressed rumors circulating in the neighborhood yard where Danira lived.

" You have no right to say that if Khalisa is an illegitimate child, no illegitimate child is born in this world, even if the Child is born of a parent without any marriage bond. It was the fault of his parents, not the fault of the child. But you have to remember, Khalisa is not a child as you alleged, He was born from parents who were legally married both legally and religiously".

" Cihhh..bullshit". Ketus Gavino's.

" But there's no point in me explaining everything to you, not that we're just strangers, so I don't have to explain anything". Obviously Danira cuek, making Gavino furious, clenched his hands together.

" Yes, yes...!!I want to convey this, if you don't know me or don't know anything about my Tetang, better lock your mouth tight. Not to speak hurtful words to others. Because it will make your charity shaleh reduced due to your oral pain that is too painful". Danira monohok speech, able to make Gavino silent.

" If there's nothing else you want to say, I'm down now". Danira said, holding the car door knob, wanted to open it.

" Wait a minute !!. Hold Gavino, He takes the wallet in his back pocket, he draws 1 card, then hands the card to Danira

" Take this, I don't want to be considered an irresponsible man, at least that's all I can give you as a living". Gavino said without looking at Danira. Danira takes the card from Gavino's hand, then looks at it Black Card.

This is what he says doesn't need my money, I'm a hypocrite. Inner Gavino, He smiled mockingly at seeing Danira pick up and look at the Black Card card that Gavino gave him.

But a second later, Gavino's eyes glared in disbelief, with what Danira did.

" I don't need this card, I told you I don't need your money. So you better use it to finance your lover only". Danira put the card on the car seat.

" I'll excuse you to come down. I still have a lot to do in this new home. Assalamualaikum". He opened the door, came out and closed it again without waiting for a word from Gavino.

Seeing that, Gavino made even more incredulous. " He turned down this card, even Stevani went berserk and sulked when I didn't give him this card. How dare He refuse my gift". Inner Gavino, she felt humiliated again by Danira.

" Look, you'll beg and kneel before me. Asking to move out of this dirty place".

" I'll make you regret humiliating me like this, until you finally give up and beg to be separated from me". Gavino muttered, with a sharp look, looking at Danira's back away, her hands clenched and hitting the innocent car steering.

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