LOVE IS A WOUND

Chapter 25. Nickolas

After the shower Love tried to break herself. Tiredness makes him sleep. Before going to sleep, Love turns off the lights, he used to sleep in the dark.

At three o'clock in the morning, Love woke up when he felt someone climb into the bed and throw his body. Love turns on the light whose button is next to the bed. The woman was shocked when she saw that there was another man beside her.

"Who are you ...?" ask Love surprised.

The man was also shocked when he saw Love. He immediately woke up and looked at the face of Love intensely.

"I should ask, who are you?" ask the man.

The man stood up and looked back at Love with a dislike look. He took a deep breath.

"Whose clothes are you wearing? Who let you sleep in this room?" ask the man in a loud voice.

She approached Love and pulled her hand out of the room. The man with the waist was staring intently at Love.

"Never enter this room without permission. And change that shirt immediately!" said the man in a loud voice.

The mother, who heard a noise, came out of her room. He approached Love and the man.

"What's up, Nick? Why are the night storms like this?" ask the mother.

"Who is this woman, Ma? Why is she in Rachel's room and wearing her shirt?" ask Nick in a high voice.

"Mama allowed it. Why ...?" ask Mama Nick.

"Ma, that's Rachel's room. Why did you allow an unknown person to sleep in that room and wear his clothes. I don't like it!" nick said in a high voice.

Mama Nick then approached Love and patted her arm slowly.

"You go in again, rest. Let Nick be the one to explain" Nick's mom said.

"Sorry, Mom. I've made a fuss and disturbed Mom's sleep" said Love with a very guilty feeling.

"It's not your fault either." Mama Nick again asked Love to go into the room. Nick saw that with a sour face. He could not ban it because his mother asked.

Mom took Nick to her room. When she was in the room, she said the beginning of meeting Love.

"Mama remembered Rachel. Surely when he was alone on the road, confusion was also like Love. Mama doesn't want any other victims. Enough Rachel, there's no next Rachel-Rachel!" mama said with great emphasis. Remembering his dead daughter.

Nick hugged his mother tightly. It's been a year since Rachel died, Mama can't forget what happened that night. Nick's mom's tears started to fall down his cheeks.

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Elsewhere, Rangga had just arrived at his home. He had contacted his subordinates to search for the existence of Love. However, there was no word on where his wife was.

Rangga took a vase of flowers and threw it against the wall, until it was destroyed scattered on the floor. He did not believe that his wife could and dared to resort to violence as well.

The man went into the room. His eyes were already sleepy, as the clock had shown at four in the morning. Just laying down his body, he had fallen asleep.

I saw the table still empty. He then seeks the existence of love. He called his wife's name.

"Where is that woman? Why is there no breakfast yet, when it is eleven in the afternoon, it should have entered the lunch hour!" Rangga.

He headed for the usual guest room Love occupied. Open the door and look for his wife. When he saw no one, Rangga looked more emotional.

Rangga walked back to the kitchen, but was unable to find his wife. He suddenly nodded and patted her on the forehead.

"Isn't love blurred? Where did that woman go?" ask Rangga to himself.

Rangga's eyes looked towards the door of the warehouse that was slightly open, then he entered. The man turned on the lamp. Look at a very messy warehouse.

Rangga came in and his eyes were fixed on the wardrobe. It's a closet containing all his memories and photos of Rafael. He had long wanted to check all of that, but the time was there.

The first thing I did was open the closet. There are many pictures of Rafael in it. The man then tried to open the drawer in the closet. There's a diary in it.

Rangga opened one by one. Raphael likes to write in a diary. The guy's a little closed. Rangga again saw the photo of Rafael and Love. He became furious seeing that. Remember the paper he got next to Rafael's body.

It says, "I love you so much, baby. Don't leave me!" That's the writing Rangga read. In the diary there is Rafael both Love, so Rangga concluded that Love had left Rafael so that his sister chose suicide. Rangga squeezes a picture of her sister both in love.

Rangga re-opened the next page. He saw the words, "I love you so much, Rachel. Don't leave me!"

The man frowned, who is that woman named Rachel? Rangga opened the next sheet. There are so many love and poetry for Rachel.

"Who exactly does Rafael love? What love is Rachel? Was it true that I was wrong in judging and taking revenge? No, love must be the cause of Rafael's suicide." Rangga spoke to himself.

Rangga's curiosity made him more anxious and wanted to know the truth. He then contacted his subordinates to investigate who Rachel was? Whose kid is that? Where does Rafael know him?

After contacting her subordinates, Rangga ordered food online. He goes back into the warehouse to look for traces of a woman named Rachel. Who knows if there's a picture of Rachel or a clue to who that woman is.

Elsewhere, Love who had taken a bath, headed downstairs. It turned out that in the dining chair had sat his mother and Nick. Love gave her smile to Mama and Nick, but the man just kept quiet didn't reply. She seemed still upset by the decision of the mother who allowed Love to sleep in her sister's room.

"This is sitting next to my mom, Love," said Nick's mother. Love gave her smile back.

"Breakfast first. Pity the child in your womb if his mother is late to eat."

"Mom didn't eat?" ask Love.

"Call me, not Mom. Like Nick called!" said Mama Nick.

Mama took the rice and the side dishes too. Pouring the plate in front of Love. Lovingly, Mama Nick rubbed the back of Love. He remembered his dead daughter.

"I really never learned what the words 'I miss you' were until I grabbed my son's hand and it wasn't there. Sadly, the most painful parting is the unspoken and never-explained parting."

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