Love In Butterfly Needles

Suspicion of Dena

Have you ever felt the left side of the brain instantly paralyzed?

Until the mind feels fulfilled and becomes a daydream.

Blank....

Struck by problems that cannot be divided by reason and logic.

Adrian arrived home that afternoon, he was waiting for his wife and daughter and the extended family of Dena, Radit and Lisa.

Dena who first threw a hug to Adrian, repeatedly kissed his forehead.

" Dear, I miss you" Dena looked at her husband's thin body with a pale face.

Adrian replies and hugs Dena and searches for Noah's whereabouts.

The baby boy though long time did not meet Adrian but he seemed to know that this man is the greatest man in his life.

With his small steps that he had just learned to walk, he kissed Adrian's hand. Making a haru taste sticking in Adrian's heart.

All of them were concerned about Adrian's condition.

" I want to rest in the room", Adrian pinta.

He apologized to all who had been present at his house to celebrate his arrival but he could not sit long because he still held the pain of his former operation

Dena nodded small, asking Mbok Nah to push Adrian's wheelchair into the room.

" Let Noah sleep with me, I miss him so much".

Adrian did not leave the room at all until night, only Dena who accompanied his extended family and Kak Radit and Lisa.

Before returning home Radit took the time to say goodbye directly to Adrian.

He could not see his brother's current state.

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The night before they went to bed, Adrian wanted to change clothes.

Dena helped her husband take off the clothes he was wearing.

" Dear, you said you had a second operation to fix your ribs. But why is the surgical wound on your lower abdomen?", Dena asked suspiciously after seeing the bandage still attached to Adrian's stomach.

Adrian hunchback, he did not prepare any answers to Dena's questions this time. How his brain can think, after a kidney transplant surgery is done let alone to process his brain to think of reasons, endure the pain that continues to whack his course he already wants to give up.

" I'm tired baby, don't think about my body" Adrian turned to sleep on Dena's back.

" I feel like you've changed a little, what's going on?", Dena feels like something's wrong with her husband's attitude.

Adrian could not answer, he held his stomach to endure the pain but he did not say anything to Dena.

" I'm sorry baby, I don't feel right for you anymore".

" Hey, what are you talking about? I have never questioned your current situation. Why do you think like I'm an evil, selfless wife", Dena was upset by Adrian's statement just now.

" You're beautiful and you're perfect right now, your new kidney will keep you okay. While me? I'm so lacking", Adrian feels so low.

Dena hugged her husband from behind.

" Stop saying that, nothing has changed for you. You're still the best husband to me".

Adrian took a deep breath holding back his stomach, feeling the body shivering even more.

He pulled the blanket higher and covered his neck.

" I slept first, baby, I'm not feeling well".

Adrian who is now much different from the old Adrian, he would not be able to fall asleep before spending a long night full of sweat with his wife. And now behold, he does not seem to consider the existence of Dena beside him.

Not because of the fading love, but the strong love makes him not want Dena to think too much about his health.

Dena still couldn't close her eyes.

He's been trying to piece together everything that's happened over the last few months. According to him so many irregularities, ranging from Adrian who did not want to be accompanied during treatment, then the news about the presence of kidney donors that coincided with the departure of Adrian, Adrian, plus when he wanted to meet Adrian there but Adrian said he was in quarantine.

Dena was just thinking now, she was looking for information on the internet regarding the rib correction surgery. There is no quarantine like Adrian said.

And lastly, what disturbed Dena's mind was that she saw a scar on Adrian's stomach that was exactly the same as the previous kidney graft surgery.

He did not see any bandages or new surgery marks on Adrian's chest. Dena's mind was far away.

" Have they all been hiding something from me?".

" I have to investigate it myself".

Then the last thing that crossed his head was his accidental meeting with Mas Adam in the hospital at that time.

" Is all this related?".

Dena began to feel suspicious. He must investigate it, whether it starts from where he must find all the clues.

" God, if Adrian really donated his kidney to me. I won't forgive myself".

The next day, when he woke up from his sleep he found Adrian moaning, his body was very cold, his lips trembling withstanding pain.

" What's going on, baby, tell me how you feel".

" Help me, I just want you to hug me", Adrian's voice rang out.

Dena hugged her husband's weak body.

" Tell me, are you hiding something from me" Dena half-cryingly imagined that Adrian had donated his kidney.

Adrian insists he still wants to cover everything.

" It's nothing, just stay close to me. I just need that".

" We'll just go to the hospital" Dena told Adrian.

Adrian just shook his head hard.

" I don't want to, let me spend my day in our warm room with you and our son Noah even though I have to endure the pain ".

Dena did not want to urge Adrian, even though he actually wanted to ask why the wound on his stomach was the same as he had.

Lama Dena hugged her husband, until the man fell asleep again with a bite on his body.

Dena uncovers a bit of Adrian's shirt, observes once again the bandage stuck to his stomach, then turns to Adrian's medicine box. She tried to see the drugs her husband was taking.

" What is this? Why Adrian keeps the Immunosuppressant drugs the same as I did after the kidney graft".

Dena was getting impatient to find more evidence. The more tears he could not bear anymore, seeing Adrian who was asleep.

He looks for Adrian's bag that he keeps in his closet. Dena unpacked the contents, and she found several envelopes.

Dena's hand shook, opening and reading one by one from the envelope.

" Dear, you.", the tears were so unstoppable.

" What are you doing" Dena sat leaning still with her hands tightly clutching the paper from inside the envelope.

He wanted to get an explanation from Adrian, but the man's deep sleep could not make Dena wake him up just like that.

Adrian, go as far as possible, dodge as you can.

But I will sit here and never leave.

Because true loss is side by side but your heart doesn't trust me completely.

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It didn't take long for Dena to uncover all this.

Can Adrian survive with his situation getting worse?

What then is the beautiful path that God gave to Adam?

Next next post, we will reenact the old love between the two.

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