Love Taboo

Chapter 23. Injuries and Disappointment

Erlan POVs

Bastard son! I heard that phrase a lot in my childhood. I don't remember right, but Widiya's mother who is also the birth mother of bang Fahri, often throws that sentence if you are upset with me.

My real father, is also the same man as bang Fahri's father. From the rumors I heard, I was the son of Bimo's second wife.

Ever since my father invited me to live with his real family, my life has not been as happy as it was before. The sounds of screaming, insults, things being compared to cause a loud noise that often scares me, makes me a quiet man.

Even so quiet, I can barely communicate with others. In my daily life, I spend time reading and painting in solitude.

I am also often ridiculed for wearing thick glasses. It looks like a geeky person my friends used to say.

Until one day, I met a beautiful girl. I didn't even expect that he was the only one who wanted to be friends and also talk to me. Name, Melia. Yep. Melia Anastasia.

Since I knew him my life has changed. Slowly I changed, from a cowardly man to a brave one. He even changed my appearance when I was an adult. I no longer wear those thick glasses because of it.

He is everything to me. Sweet girl, who is not arrogant despite being born from among the people. I even knew that she was a spoiled girl, but in front of me she seemed almost perfect.

I don't know since when, after all this time we've been friends. A strange feeling within me suddenly appeared. There was a strange vibe when we met each other's eyes. There was a longing when we were apart. And ... I always smile alone whenever I remember his face.

But the storm came suddenly. My father and uncle arranged a business trip for me, after all this time I dreamed of it.

I was sad that I couldn't meet Melia, but I also felt happy that I was finally given the chance. The dream I was waiting for, not without reason. Anger, resentment and disappointment began to appear every time I was compared to the Fahri bang.

I want to prove that this self is also worthy of praise. Although this self is achieved bastard child.

My desire is getting hotter, but I miss Melia even more. Our distance is getting further. One day, the girl suddenly called me. He said that he would be betrothed by his family if I did not ask for it.

One thing that I could not do, what else I was active and eager to pursue my dream as a young businessman.

Soon after, I was forced to go home to attend my sister's wedding. Shocked, wounded and disappointed I felt again. I feel different in my pain.

For the first time, I finally felt a broken heart as well. The passionate miss changed into disappointed mixed with wounds.

My emotions were blowing up, exploding without feeling. I spit out a spicy sentence. He kept dodging, arguing that I was guilty of ignoring him.

if only that man wasn't Fahri. Tiny I won't be this sober. After being content to fight, I decided to just leave from their wedding.

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Long story short, I choose to dampen my emotions in a roadside cafe that I often visit. Ordering hot coffee with a sweet treat I intentionally did. Although in fact, both of my orders I can only look at.

However, a school-age friend, Rangga, saw how sad I was there.

"Erlan, what's going on?" ask Rangga.

I was silent for a moment before finally revealing all my pain. "Melia married someone else. I feel devastated."

Almost everyone who knows us knows that our relationship is very close.

"Maybe you need to talk to her," Rangga suggested.

"How can I talk to him? He's even married now" I replied in an annoyed tone.

I even unintentionally expressed my bad intentions to frame Melia. To impress everyone, an affair.

Destiny seems to be on my side. I don't know what my father was thinking, until they gave me the opportunity to acquire the company that Fahri was holding.

So that finally, the supernatural might be so that he was far from Melia in the span of a long time.

Might as well. Nothing would have happened if Fahri and Melia's love had never grown.

However, when I looked at Melia's parents' house with the intention to be honest, the fateful incident whipped. The man named Haris who separated me from Melia passed away. At that moment, Fahri made a chest-stifling confession.

I'm a grudge, I hate. I'll prove it and I'll do everything I can to get my love back.