Love Does Not Come Too Late

Maintaining your fitrah

Seeing Lea getting hysterical, Erik immediately pulled his body into a hug to make Lea calmer and no longer hit his stomach.

His heart was also slashed to feel the destruction of this beloved woman.

"Leaaa ... Leaa ... Just cry, you may cry until you are satisfied." Erik said gently and gently stroked Lea's hair while still holding her tightly.

"If you want to scream .. yell out loud, until you feel unable to make another sound. Get everything out Lea's okay."

"But don't hurt yourself and your new baby wants to fight."

"He's not wrong, you're not wrong either. Please don't punish him."

Hearing Erik's words Lea's body weakened not hysterical like earlier.

His energy was exhausted because he had cried too much.

"I'm takuut kakk .. hhuuhuuu."

"Akuuu ..gaa want to get pregnant with the son of that bastarduuu!!." Lea screamed as she looked at Erik, with a pleading gaze.

"He's your son." Erik said slowly.

"Itiii .. because of the man's actions kaaakk, and I don't want you!!." Lea regained her emotions and tried to escape Erik's embrace.

He cried hysterically and shouted while squeezing his lower shirt, as if disgusted by the one inside his stomach.

"He's Leah's son, not that man's son."

"He's only yours. The person you say is that jerk, there's no need to know about your son's whereabouts if you don't want him to know." Erik continued to persuade.

Lea silently looked at Erik asking for an explanation.

"He will be your son . and also my son, let me marry you Leah."

Erik walked over and held Lea's hand tightly and kissed her at a glance.

Lea was still stunned staring at Erik who was currently looking at her fixedly.

"I'm not kidding. I'm serious, and I'm forcing you to accept me. I don't want to be rejected this time." Erik slightly looked at his smile.

Lea was still silent observing Erik's face.

On the one hand he felt happy and relieved there was Erik who was willing to always be beside him in any condition, but on the other hand Lea felt this was unfair to Erik moreover he still could not reciprocate the feelings of this man long ago.

Whether he should act selfishly for his own sake by accepting a proposal from Erik, or whether he gave up his fate for life to be the second wife of Mr. Beni.

All the choices felt equally heavy for Lea, no matter what the choice would be there would be a disappointed heart and hurt over the choice he would take later.

"Sister Erik don't feel sorry for me, it makes me look sad." Lea stood leaning against a large tree while throwing a gaze towards the rice field.

"I don't feel sorry for you, I just feel sorry for her." Erik's chin pointed towards Lea's stomach.

"He deserves the complete affection of both parents"

"Except .. unless you want to marry Mr. Beni because he's the one who's more entitled .. he's his real father." While saying that Erik also followed Leah looking at the rice fields that had almost entered the harvest season.

"Sister Erik is sure to marry me?, I am pregnant with someone else's child. Try to think first, not just out of pity. I don't like being pitied the most." Lea stared at Erik intensely.

"I don't want my condition to be a problem later on" Lea continued.

Erik smiled as he grabbed Lea's two cheeks with both hands, "More than sure!"

"But you also have to promise after coming home from here, you must sincerely accept him who is also part of you." Erik directed his gaze at Lea's still flat stomach.

Along the way home Lea deeply regretted her short thoughts of wanting to eliminate the new fetus would grow in her stomach.

He felt very sinful when the evil thoughts crossed. Leah was grateful that Erik had awakened her and lifted her up when she fell.

During the motor ride home, Lea unceasingly begged for mercy on the creator and his hands unceasingly rubbed his flat stomach he felt had hurt his future baby.

You are my fruit of love

Your presence is amazing

Everything I've ever had

Not comparable to your presence

May you be happy in my arms

I hope I can keep your fitrah

Hear me whisper

Danger and safe world

I will take care of you God's gift

Thank you oh my God

You trusted me

He's blowing fast

Until I gave birth to you

My prayers can't be parsed with anything

Congratulations to you

(God's Gift - Nagita Slavina)

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The marriage process of Erik and Lea barely met a hitch. No one suspected the slightest bit of their sudden marriage, as almost everyone knew they were from school already often seen together.

Lea and Erik had a very simple wedding, attended only by their neighbors and a few close friends.

The two of them were only worried that if they delayed the marriage too long, the content of Lea would be more visible.

It has been almost two weeks that Erik and Lea's status changed from what was previously a best friend now to husband and wife.

Currently they live in the house of the relics of both Erik's parents who are right next to Lea's house, so Lea every day can still go home to see his mother.

Lea's wedding news although simple to the ears of Mr. Beni.

Mr. Beni was furious because all the plans he had prepared were not successful at all and even caused new problems.

Devi's wife changed her attitude increasingly cold, often angry and always suspicious of all her actions.

But the most frustrating thing is, Lea is now married to someone else.

Situations like this make Mr. Beni even more furious. If all this time all what he wanted he could always get easily, but not with Lea why is it so difficult for the young woman he achieved.

"Leaaa ... You consider what I am!"

"It's less than what I've given you all this time!!" Mr. Beni squeezed the papers in front of him.

"Do you hate that for me? I was forced to do that because I desperately wanted to have you Leaaa!!" Mr. Beni squeezed his hair and rubbed his face roughly.

His mind was filled with only Lea and only Lea. Her heart was shrouded in immense jealousy considering Lea already had a legitimate husband and was entitled to her birth and inner self.

"Everyone should know Leah, they should know that I'm more entitled to you."

I don't know what is currently on Mr. Beni's mind, if the eyes are dark anything will be done regardless of the consequences that follow.

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"Belisa ... Leaaa." Lea who was in the kitchen that morning ran out when she heard her mother's voice yelling half-crying.

"Mother why?" Lea was shocked to see her mother's panicked face and was already filled with tears.

"What is this? ... can you explain to me?, this is where you are?... Who keeps this photo??" Mom showed me a picture on her butut's cell phone.

Frozen and cold all over Lea saw the photo.

It appears in the photo that Lea fell asleep on a clean white bed with a thick blanket covering part of her body.

The chest to the feet are covered with blankets but the shoulders and back are plain plastered.

Just looking at it for granted one could definitely think that Lea was sleeping in the hotel and was not wearing anything under that thick blanket.

"LEA !" Mother's voice jolted, returning her from the dark memories of that night.

"Mother's ..." Lea stammered, her tears were already about to burst out.

He really doesn't know where to explain it.

"Don't it be true what your boss's wife said that you sold yourself to her husband for a fortune??"

"Momukk" Lea could no longer contain her tears.

It hurts to be looked down upon by the people he loves the most.

"That's not true ma'am .. hhuuuhhuuu, believe the same Leah. Where'd you get that picture??" Lea tightly gripped her mother's cell phone.

"This photo is already scattered in this village, they are talking about you." Mother's voice weakened accompanied by her body sitting limp on the sofa.

Leah knelt beside the chair where her mother was sitting.

Holding her mother's knees, Lea wept softly and hid her mother's lap.

He must say it before his mother hears from someone else's mouth and does not end up misunderstanding like this.

"Lea's pregnant .." Lea's great-grandson quietly.

"You're married, it's natural you're pregnant." Mom stroked Lea's hair. When a child is wrong, the mother always wants to be the shoulder of her child.

Lea shook her head loudly still with her head down.

"Lea was raped by Mr. Beni." Lea cried even harder as she squeezed her mother's long skirt.

It felt the movement of the body of his mother who was sitting increasingly vertical.

Both of Mother's hands that had begun to wrinkle raised Lea's head slowly.

"Suami Bu Devi raped you?" Mother's face stiffened with the look of the injured eye.

Suddenly the look on her face changed withstanding the intense pain.

"Ibuu .. buuu ... mom why??" Lea held her mother's weakened body and dropped her body weight towards Lea.

The increasingly panicked Lea could only scream and cry while hugging her mother's frail body.

"Tolooong. I woke up buuu ... Don't look at this Lea takuutt .. ibuuu .. toloong .. Brother Eriiikkk!!"

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