Love Does Not Come Too Late

You where?

"Where are we going now?" Raymond was still following Lukman's steps that were somehow headed in which direction.

"The treatment room, the nurse had room info that Lea would use."

"What's the matter with that woman until she has a consultation at your place?" raymond continued as they reached the hallway of the treatment room.

"A good doctor won't divulge his patient's problems .. sorry." Lukman thrust his palm a sign of rejection, right in front of Raymond's face.

"Gombal, did you forget I was her husband on this hospital record?" Raymond brushed off Lukman's palm.

"You said earlier .. what do I care to know not .. apparently the head is high as well." Lukman imitated Raymond's style when he said that.

Lukman laughed mockingly at Raymond's increasingly sour look.

From the end of the hallway came the sound of a wheelchair swiping the floor. Lea sat down slightly leaning limply pushed by a female nurse.

Lukman walked behind the nurse who was pushing Lea's wheelchair, followed by Raymond still with his face bent.

Raymond stood anxiously waiting for Lea to be laid down slowly by the nurse.

As soon as the helpful nurse left after leaving his brief messages to Lea, Raymond immediately approached ahead of Lukman.

"Just call your husband, we can't wait too long here." Lukman reared his eyes looking at Raymond who spoke in a poignant tone and an unfriendly face to Lea.

"How are you doing, Lea?" Lukman spoke softly.

"Okay doc, I'm sorry it's been a hassle."

"It's okay, now you can call your husband to come here immediately."

Lea picked up her phone in the bag, then called Erik. But Erik did not raise his call even though Lea had repeated it more than ten times.

Lea's face was getting pias because she felt uncomfortable with Raymond's increasingly piercing gaze. Coupled with his condition that is still weak after giving birth.

"What's Lea?" asked Lukman who noticed the change in Lea's face.

Lea only shook her head weakly and then switched to contacting her friend Karenina.

"Hello Nin."

"Yes Leaaa, what's wrong?" sahut the owner of the voice across there cheerfully.

"Nin .. I gave birth." Silent without a sound on the other end of the phone there, "Ninaa ..."

"I'm there now .. eehh where are you now?" Lea mentioned the name of the hospital and the room where she was treated.

"Nin, if you meet brother Erik please tell ya. I've been in contact since, but he's not picking up his phone, maybe he's busy."

"Loh?, but .. mmm, okay later if I meet you I will immediately take you to the hospital."

Nina hung up on him with a confused feeling. Did Lea not realize that the current working hours were over?

When he came home from work, he and Erik were with another friend in an elevator, and it was just in time to get home from work. It is certain that Erik should be home by now.

In less than thirty minutes, Nina had already reached Lea's treatment room.

Lea was lying down and by her side was a tiny baby wrapped in cloth sleeping soundly.

"Yeah." Nina approached while calling in a whisper.

"Why have you given birth, Erik hasn't come yet?" Nina asked as her finger continued to stroke the baby's cheek.

"You're her husband?!" Nina was surprised to hear a foreign man's voice in the room.

"Eehh??" Nina looked strangely at the man walking over. Did he not see clearly that in front of him this was a woman?

Lukman who heard Raymond's silly question on Nina only sighed in annoyance. He also held back upset, because since then Raymond's mouth continues to grumble unclear.

"My husband can't be reached yet, this is my best friend. If my husband had come, I would have immediately contacted Lukman's doctor to reimburse the cost of labor"

"Let me do the talking" Lukman immediately interrupted Raymond before he said anything shameful.

"We're waiting for your husband not to ask for a change in the cost of labor, but because we brought you here so we're also responsible for explaining why you can give birth beyond the doctor's estimated time," lukman is wise.

"Can we go back now?" raymond was impatient.

"I say yes Lea, you take care of your health condition and also your baby. Remember what I said this afternoon?" Lea nodded with a smile.

Lukman walked out of the room followed by Nina who was curious who these two men were.

"Thank you eeem ..."

"Call me Lukman and this is my friend Raymond."

"Yes, Mr. Lukman and Mr. Raymond. Thank you for taking care of my friend." Nina looked polite. "Where did you meet Nina?"

"Your friend is the patient." Raymond patted Lukman on the shoulder, and instantly got a sharp glint from the shoulder owner.

Lukman actually does not want to tell anyone about the condition of his patients, because it is something that privacy especially about the mental condition of a person. But the mouth next to it is very difficult on the brake.

"Patient??, Mr Lukman obstetrician?"

"He's a psychiatrist" Raymond continued with a proud smile. Again Lukman just took a deep breath in annoyance.

"Psychiatrist??" Nina's forehead is wrinkled.

"Well, we better take our leave." After nodding politely and smiling at Nina, Lukman immediately withdrew Raymond's hand before he let out another dangerous word.

"You don't talk so much." Lukman vented his frustration after they were in the car.

"About how?, are you really the female psychiatrist?. Where's wrong?" sahut Raymond's.

Lukman only snorted in annoyance, he knew arguing with his friend this was a futile deed.

"Don't forget your promise, take my car to the car wash. The smell of blood rancid like this can invite kuntilanak tofu .. hiiiihhh." Raymond shuddered.

"Good, can you marry that kuntilanak so it doesn't tilt your brain anymore."

"Dammit!!" Maki Raymond is upset.

"Something seems to be coming." Lukman glanced over at the rear passenger seat with a mysterious look.

"Lukmaaaannnn!!!. .. Crazy doctor!!" Lukman was happy to be able to reciprocate the annoyance that he had been holding while in the hospital.

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Nina looked at Lea who was breastfeeding her baby while smiling and humming.

There is something he wants to ask about Doctor Lukman, there is also something he wants to say about Erik.

But seeing the condition of Lea who was happy at this time, he decided to hold all his curiosity.

"Have you named this beauty Leah?" Nina approached and gently stroked Lea's curly, bushy baby hair.

"Yet. I'm waiting for Brother Erik." Lea looked at Nina sadly.

"Well, I tried to call again." Nina pressed the call to Erik's number while looking at the clockwork on the wall.

It's been over ten in the night, but Erik hasn't contacted Lea at all.

Twice the ringing of Nina's call went unanswered, only on the third ring that almost ended Erik raised his call.

"Ha .. haloo." Erik's voice stuttered and raspy across the street.

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