Married The Man Who Tainted Me

The Part 15

Ignore it! I shifted the phone a little away from me. Then enjoy sleep that can forget the dizziness that still hit.

Something woke me. Alarm sounds. I pulled out the phone to turn it off. Three o'clock in the morning. Intentionally install in order to wake up for tahajud prayer, even though it has been awakened but has still never materialized.

"Away awake?"

Surprised, suddenly Juragan was already sitting on the edge of the bed.

"When are you home?" I asked back. Didn't Nek Darti say for up to a week? Just yesterday morning he left.

I secretly felt my body wrapped in a blanket. Am I safe? Are my clothes missing? Relieved, everything's fine.

"Just now" he answered.

"Why? Said Nek Darti for a week."

"Your date." Again he answered briefly. His face looks wrinkled. He was clearly tired on his face.

I scrunched my forehead. "My partner?"

"You don't want to eat. How can I calm down" he said, taking a box with a cake bearing brownies. "You want this?"

Without shame I nodded. Even very eager to eat it immediately. One first bite made me fall in love with the taste. So this is the taste of brownies made by high-end bakery? From the packaging alone is already luxurious.

Hmm, all this time can only eat a dime-class brownie. That alone is delicious to me. So remember Aini, my sister. He must be very carefree if I give him these brownies. Poor thing, I can only enjoy it alone.

"Again?"

And, I'm scratching again. The weirdness that keeps happening. No dizziness or nausea. Even I want to devour all the food if it's from his hands.

"Where from?" tanyaku on the sidelines chew. Brave to ask questions just to break the silence between me and him.

"There's business" he answered briefly.

"What business?" I wonder if he will tell the truth.

"There's still, you know. Want again?" Divert the conversation by offering unopened brownies.

I appreciate his attitude of trying to keep two women's feelings in check. Ah, what's wrong with me? My feelings don't need to be guarded. No matter how she goes with Ms. Sri, I don't care.

Once full, Juragan placed a box of brownies and a bottle of mineral water on the table.

"Do you want me to be with you?" He offered to keep me company. Want to, but ... worry about him even though he is comfortable nearby.

"We won't be naked." As if he understood my doubts. He got up from his seat and shifted the lounge chair near me. "It's here but it's still close. Let his grandfather feel my existence. Now sleep. Don't mind me."

"Who cares about you?" I say only in my heart. Then, tilt the body behind him. In the heart keep praying that the mind meleki not go anywhere.

God, I'm already his wife. But, I don't like it. Especially until it is touched. Enough to feed. And its presence is only for the comfort of the baby in this stomach.

Just about to close my eyes to continue sleeping, my phone lit up without a sound. Only vibration and light dazzled the eyes. The cell phone I just shifted away. The notification from the application is green.

[Not enough for you to take my husband?] From Bu Sri.

[I mean?] I really don't understand.

[So innocent. Use your pregnancy to interrupt our happy moments. Look, I won't let you be happy!]

I scrunched my forehead. My fingers can't wait to reply. Immediately type a series of buttons arranged letter by letter that will be assembled into sentences.

[Don't blame me! He came home missing this unborn baby. Their inner bond is so close that it involves me not wanting to be close to the man you love so much.]

[It looks like you're a baper, huh? He did not come home because he missed. But the in-laws called to get us home. Nek Darti says you don't want to eat. Understand!]

Yes said Ms. Sri. I've been Baper. The scouts came home not because of me and my baby. Because his mother asked for it. His mother cares about my situation. And he came home at his mother's order.

Somehow I finally fell asleep. And suddenly woke up when hearing the sound of the door being pounded very strongly accompanied by the cry of a familiar voice in my ear. His voice was no less loud than the door he struck.

I use my phone to watch the clock. Holy hooch! At 5am the woman had already made a noise.

"Open the door!" His voice grew uncontrollable when the door had not yet been opened.

I shook Juragan's body which was still sound in the chair. Was he so tired that he didn't hear a very deafening sound?

"Why? Nausea? Or want to eat again?" he asked like a confused person. His eyes were red like the fish sold in the market.

We both looked at the door when it was pounded the umpteenth time. The scout got up and opened the door.

"What's your case?" asked Bu Sri with her hands ruffled by her waist.

"Sri ...," looks Juragan trying to explain.

"Well?"

I saw Nek Darti behind Bu Sri's body was clenching his hands on his chest. He looked panicked. The feeling of anxiety was very noticeable on his face. It seems like Nek Darti feels guilty for not being able to prevent Bu Sri. I coded by moving my face to let Nek Darti go.

"Say it's just for a minute." Bu Sri looked at Juragan. Then, change looking at me. "You seduced him, right? Aye, right?" His eyes seemed ready to pounce on me.

The woman who never calmed down in my presence didn't give me a chance to answer. He attacked by pulling my hair and said, "Why did you guys last night?"

Finally, it happened to be pulling each other's hair. Juragan tried to divorce two women who were both he took care of to join the struggle into three people. Somehow we were in the room. Finally, Bu Sri and I managed to be separated with Nek Darti grabbed me from behind and Bu Sri was taken by the Juragan.

There is envy in my heart. Why am I not the one who is clinging to me? Although I am only a new person, but there is a life that he must protect in my stomach. The life he had longed for long ago.

Our breaths are snoring. Irregular up and down. Hair is as messy as a lion.

"If anything happens to her, I won't forgive you, Sri!" said Juragan to Bu Sri with a gaze full of anger.

There was a sense of calm in my heart when Juragan cared about my womb.

Madam Sri was silent. His eyes are looking at me sharply. Shortly after, either intentionally or unintentionally his eyes glanced at my bed. The bed linen is still neat because I'm the only one sleeping there. Just a blanket scattered because I use it. Slowly his breathing began to normalize. As if relieved that nothing had happened between me and the Juragan as he alleged.

"Go!" The Juragan expelled Bu Sri.

"You've changed, Han," said Ms. Sri Lirih.

"You've gone too far." Juragan also denied the allegations of his first wife.

"I wait for you" continued Bu Sri before he finally left this house.

*****

"It's unexpected that Sri became like this" said Nek Darti, putting a glass of pregnant women's milk on the table. Then he sat down beside me. He patted his thighs. Code for me to put my head on that thigh.

Her delicate hands turned out to be good for a head massage.

"Sri is actually a kind and gentle person. But it starts to turn out like a depressed person ever since Handoko married again."

"Because of me, Grandma?" Whether you have to feel guilty or not. Because I never took her husband.

Nek Darti shook his head. "Not."

I scrunched my forehead. If not me, then who? Did Juragan ever marry another woman before me?