LOVE IS A WOUND

Chapter 26. Photo Album

Love sits in the garden behind Nick's house. He looked pensive, so unaware of Nick's presence. The man looked at Love's face without a blink. Her mother had said all about Love according to what she thought.

"Tell me what the hell is going on with you? Why can your husband doubt the child you bear? Did he ever see you cheating?" ask Nick in a clear and clear voice.

Love who was daydreaming, surprised to hear Nick's voice. He looked up and looked at Nick. The man looked misbehaved in the intensely stare, thus scratching his head which was not itchy.

When Love smiled, Nick became even more nervous. She's never been close to any woman except her sister Rachel. His youth was spent running a family business. Papa Nick has been dead since they were kids.

"I'm not asking you to believe me, but I'm definitely talking as I am. Why would I lie?" Love speaks in a clear voice.

Nick seemed to take a deep breath. He looked at the face of love. She must be the same age as Rachel, Nick thought.

"If you're not having an affair, why can your husband doubt your son. Did anyone slander you?" queried. Nick again.

"That's possible. At first I knew Mas Rangga, a good man. But everything has changed since we got married. Mas Rangga thinks I'm the cause of his sister's suicide."

Love looked down, holding back her tears. He never expected the fate of his household to end this way. Tears began to fall down her cheeks.

Nick sat next to Love. He could not see a woman crying. His heart was hurt seeing that.

"Here you go, you don't have to think about your husband if he doesn't deserve you" Nick said. The two of them were finally silent, dissolving into each other's minds.

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Rangga opened the door to a small apartment that had been empty since one year ago. Here is where his sister's body was found. He only asked someone to clean once a week. At first no one wanted to, after finding out in the apartment was found the bodies of suicide people.

Rangga saw the atmosphere of the apartment was still the same when occupied by Rafael. He went straight to the room and unpacked the contents of his sister's closet. There's no clue who Rachel is.

After an hour of searching, Rangga took a break. He hasn't found anything yet. Suddenly, his eyes fell on something in the closet. Rangga. Tried festive.

A photo album full of dust. Rangga then cleaned and brought home. He just wants to see at home.

Rangga left the apartment that used to be occupied by his sister. He wanted to open the locked album. With curiosity Rangga drove the car towards the house.

An hour later he arrived. Rangga took something from inside his car, trying to unlock the album. With his efforts, the album was open.

The first sheet contained a photo of Rangga with a beautiful young woman. The man tries to open again, still a photo of Rafael with the same woman.

"Is this a woman named Rachel?" ask Rangga to himself.

The curious Rangga, pulled a photo from his album. On the back of the photo is the caption, "Rachel, I love you. I'm sorry, dear."

One by one the album was opened, all photos of his sister's affection with the same woman named Rachel. She pulled her hair in frustration.

"That's not the love that Rafael loves but Rachel. What is true of Love, if she and Rachel have no relationship. They're only close because Rafael KKN is in the village where he lives!"

Rangga pulled back his hair. Feeling very guilty for accusing Love of the cause of his sister's death.

Rangga opened and pulled the photo from the album. He wanted to know what was behind all the photos.

Until it came to one sheet, Rangga was so shocked to see whose photo in the album. I can't believe what he's seeing right now. There is clearly a picture of Arimbi kissing Rafael's cheek.

Rangga's clenched hands held back the anger of seeing that. There's no way Arimbi would have taken that photo with Rafael if they had no relationship. He pulled the picture from his album. And turning around, wondering what's behind it all.

"I'm sorry Rachel, I'm sorry Mas Rangga. I betrayed you both. I don't know what I'm thinking until I can have an affair with Mas's own lover."

Reading that, Rangga's hands clenched back in disbelief with what happened. So his younger brothers Rafael and Arimbi are traitors. He didn't expect Rafael to do all that.

With mounting emotions, Rangga re-opened the final sheet of the album. The man's hand trembled pulling his picture. He took a deep breath in restraining the anger that had peaked. A picture of Rafael and Arimbi on a bed with an open chest covered only with a blanket. Rangga knew for sure it was a photo in his sister's apartment.

He threw the album against the wall. The disappointment he now felt. His sister whom he loved betrayed him.

Rangga grabbed the phone from inside his pants pocket and contacted his subordinates. Ask about research developments. The man across the street said he had started to get a bright spot for who Rachel was. Tomorrow he promises to tell me everything.

After contacting his subordinates, Rangga then contacted Arimbi. He wanted to know what Arimbi would say about this photo he found.

Rangga ordered food. From morning his stomach was not filled. While eating Rangga's mind was fixed on his wife's love.

"I'm sorry Love. I have been misjudging all along. I thought you were the reason my sister ended her life. Love, I'll find you to apologize. I'll take whatever you do to me in return for what I did to you!" Rangga.

"Are the photos and videos I saw wrong? Love never betrays me. Does that mean that the child who is biological love is really my son?" ask Rangga to himself.

Rangga regretted, because he was always carried away by emotions. He was always easy to instigate and trick. Always put forward the emotion of the long thinking stage. He will investigate for himself what relationship his wife has with the man. He got a photo and video of his wife with a man.

After bathing and dressing neatly, Rangga immediately walked out of his house. He was already impatient to see Arimbi's reaction if he saw the photo he showed. What lies will the woman tell.

With the speed of the car was driven by Rangga to one restaurant. There turned out to have been waiting for Arimbi with a menor makeup. His lips are smiling.

"Rangga definitely wants to say if she wants to be in a relationship with me again. Finally I managed to get Love out of the house!" arimbi said with a feeling of pleasure.

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