Love Does Not Come Too Late

We're guilty

...The first step of recovery is mutual openness...

"Ga a lot of the heck I read .. but please brother don't be mad." Cut Lea while holding Erik's hand with a pleading gaze.

Erik took a slow breath, how could he be angry if he himself had already done a far more fatal thing.

"From the chat Brother Erik, I think my brother looks very dear to Ghea ... Brother Erik always reminds you to eat, do not forget to take medicine, ask is awake or not, it's a form of attention is also not it?"

"Just ... We are friends," said Erik misbehaved.

"Consideration only to Ghea?, what about Febri, Nina as well as Masha. Brother Erik treated them the same way?"

"What do you want to talk about, Lea?" asked Erik tired.

"Make sure Brother Erik's feelings."

"What do you want to know?" Erik started to get a little hooked on his emotions.

"That was ... feelings sister to Ghea, Brother Erik likes?"

Erik looked at Lea deeply and long, "If so, how?"

Lea was slightly surprised by Erik's confession. He had not expected Erik to open up so quickly like this.

"Eehh .. yes I'm fine, if you really like fighting dong sak." Lea laughed awkwardly.

"You ask your husband to go after another woman??" Erik looked at Lea in surprise.

"Then what hope would you have if I had really gone after Ghea?, you'd be ready for polygamy?"

"Eehhhh .. where can be souu." Lea glanced at Erik annoyed.

"Then?"

Lea tidied up her seat and turned her body towards Erik, "If brother's love is together, Brother Erik can marry Ghea .. of course after we split," continued Lea slowly.

Erik squinted his eyes, "Split, you mean divorce?"

Lea did not reply just staring at Erik filled with worry. He knew his love as a wife sounded crazy. Even crazier, than the wife who seeks honey for her husband.

"You're asking me to marry Ghea and we're getting a divorce?" Erik stressed once again.

Lea simply nodded in response.

"Where is Leah??, there is no wife whose husband is sincerely married again. This is you're telling me to go after another woman??"

"If I'm honest I don't want to, brother. I also don't want to lose the attention of the person who protected me from the beginning .. But I have a reason." Lea's voice was low when she said that last thing.

"What's your excuse?" asked Erik.

"You love each other" Lea said straightforwardly.

Erik raised his eyebrows and smiled sideways.

"It was if it was true we liked each other. But that's not a good reason for us to unite Lea?. I'm married, I have you and Maura!."

"Silvery unhappy?"

"Obviously I'm happy."

"If you're really happy, why is it that almost every night you sit on the porch contacting Ghea?, why is your sister so concerned with Ghea more than just friends?"

"You jealous?"

Lea fell silent for a moment and continued, "Obviously I'm jealous, I'm Brother Erik's wife."

"That means you already love me Lea?" Lea stuttered unable to answer Erik's question.

"If you're really jealous, you already love me. If you already love me then you're ready to fulfill your duties as a wife?" Lea's body instantly became tense hearing Erik's words.

"Why is Lea silent?" continued Erik.

"Is it all related?, loving .. jealous. It becomes a unit?"

"Obviously, all couples who love there will be jealousy if the partner is close to the opposite sex. If officially married, they will have intimate relations to pass on the offspring .. and we have not yet reached that stage." Erik half-whispered to Lea.

" ... What does that mean?" Erik stiffened back.

"Sister Erik and Ghea have already had an intimate relationship." Erik's eyeballs moved - looking at Lea's face agitatedly. Trying to deny the meaning of the sentence that Lea said.

" .. That's why I also read a message on Erik's phone .. sorry." Lea lowered.

Erik stood up and walked out of the house.

"Sir .. Where are you going?" Lea chased after Erik and pulled him back into the house.

"Lea .. I .. I'm ashamed of you. I have absolutely no face in front of you." Erik kept avoiding seeing Lea's face.

"Sister, listen to me first. We need to talk about this first." Lea pulled Erik's hand to sit on the living room sofa.

Erik covered his face with both hands.

"I'm sorry Lea, I didn't mean to betray you." Erik.

"Everything just happens."

"Sister Erik is aware of doing that?" ask Lea. Erik nodded still by covering his face.

"Ghea how?" continued Lea.

"He demands nothing, always evades."

"I'm sorry brother, it's all my fault I can't give you your rights as a husband." Lea shed tears.

"We both got Lea wrong. I'm the one who betrayed the sacred promise of marriage, and you're wrong for ignoring the rights of the husband."

"Compose me brother." Leah said softly.

Erik's screams were getting louder, "I can't Lea. I am you and Mauraaa. We've both come this far and you're asking for a split?" Erik looked at Lea with reddened eyes and glazed in tears.

"I am sad too, brother. But if we stay together, it's not fair to Ghea .. After all Brother Erik also loves Ghea right?"

Erik shook his head and said Istighfar repeatedly.

"Why do we have to be like this anyway Lea?" Erik cupped Lea's cheek and looked at her closely.

"Maybe our soul mate just got here?" Lea shrugged her shoulders while trying to smile holding back the tears.

"I promised my late mother to take care of you Leah."

"Sister Erik has been right to take good care of me and Maura until this far, if there's mommy would be happy too."

"Sister, I just don't want to have fun on top of other women's suffering."

"Didn't you also feel pain if I was with another woman?, same with Ghea. I'm sure Ghea wouldn't want us to split up because of her."

"Beda sister ... We really have official status as husband and wife, but I've never touched Brother Erik ...."

"Not never touched, but never wanted." Cut Erik down before Lea continues the sentence.

"Yes that's what I mean." Lea smiled shyly."

"If Ghea ... does not have any status with Brother Erik but ...." Erik understood what Lea meant.

"Give me a moment to think for a minute." Erik looked at Lea weakly.

"Well, but don't let brother Erik's love wait too long." Erik smiled.

There is regret why it is not Leah who loves her, why should Ghea?. So that he could fall in a situation like this.

"You don't want honey?" erik asked with a smile.

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