Maze of Grief
CHAPTER 14
Malik drives his car at maximum speed. He overtakes all the vehicles in front of him.
There are many swearings that Malik heard but he cared for his ears. He doesn't care about people.
He wanted to get home soon, asking the wife for forgiveness. Kowtowing at Bina's feet will he do as long as his wife will forgive him.
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Malik ran into the house, he screamed his wife's name.
"BINA" Malik let out his seven-octave voice as he called out to Bina.
Malik checked every corner of the house downstairs and up he entered but the wife did not find.
The garden behind his house he went to but still he did not find his wife.
Malik was frustrated, he grabbed his hair. He was afraid that Bina would give up and leave him.
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Malik enters the room occupied by his wife. He regretted treating Bina as unworthy of a wife.
Bina defends him in front of the papa, shutting down Malik's crimes as much as possible. He even put up his body to receive the slap that Papa Hadi threw.
"What kind of husband am I?"
"I hurt Bina."
"Bina left me."
"I deserve this."
Malik is confused how he found Bina's only number he doesn't have.
Then Malik called the father to tell him about Bina's departure. The magrib prayer time was over but Bina did not return.
Finally Malik took his cellphone in his pants pocket. Then Malik called his sister maybe Bina was in the main house.
"Hello Dit, where are you?" Ask Malik when his call is connected.
"I'm overtime in my brother's office, know what his own apprentice fate looks like."
"Mama?"
"So the morning papa ngantarin mama to the house Om Afnan---"
Malik immediately decided to connect with Aldita's sister. Maybe Bina was at her parents' house.
"Hallo mah" Malik said as Mama Naya answered her call.
"Do you remember if you have a mother?" Mama Naya replied with a dismissive tone.
"Sorry mah" said Malik in a heavy voice.
"You're why, brother, how strange" Believe me a mother's premonition will not be wrong.
"Sister misses mama, hugs me."
"Mama again at your in-laws' house, come here" Invite Mama Naya to her eldest child.
"It looks like Bina ngak there, mama said very calm" Inner Malik.
"Weekend me and Bina are staying at the main house, Mah." Malik again disconnects with Mama Naya.
Malik put his phone in his pants pocket and grabbed his jacket and car keys. He had to find Bina and atone for all her cruel deeds.
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Malik went around corner after corner of the capital's streets but could not find Bina.
"Bina where are you? I'm sorry I hurt you."
Feeling the perch dry Malik decided to stop at a minimarket.
After buying a drink to wet his perch Malik rushed to return to look for Bina.
When he was about to get into the car, someone called Malik.
"MALIK" said the man in his baritone voice.
"Abi?" Malik was shocked by the arrival of Abi Afnan.
"Where are you from, lik? Which building?" The question was asked by Abi Afnan to his son-in-law.
"Sit down first" Abi Afnan led Malik to sit on one of the long benches near the minimarket.
Staring intently at Malik, Abi afnan said "Betul Bina in Malik's house?"
"I-iya abi, Bi-bina at home kok" Malik tensed at the intimidating gaze of Abi Afnan.
Abi Afnan was still looking for a flash of honesty from Malik's eyes, but he could not find it.
"You're being honest, I've said that Abi would never blame or hate you."
"Bina's missing bi, she's not home" Malik's explanation made Abi Afnan shocked.
"You quarreled? Tell Abi it happened in as much detail as possible."
"So me and papa had a difference of understanding, papa almost slapped me and Bina put a body to protect me."
"I'm not a Becus to be Abi's husband, I should have protected Bina."
"You are not wrong, in your household you must protect each other" said Abi Afnan while patting his daughter-in-law's shoulder.
"Try you to find Bina in Ghea's house."
"Ghea?" Malik was surprised that even his in-laws knew of his forbidden love.
"He was Bina's best friend, Abi and Ummi had considered Ghea like his own son and Ghea's parents were so against Bina."
"Papa sent the address via whatsapp yah."
"Malik pick up Bina first bi."
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The main door of Ghea's house is open, it may be true that she is having guests.
"Assalamu alaikum" said Malik who was at the door.
Malik's eyes trace every corner of Haris' house. He's looking for Bina's whereabouts there.
"Mas there's ta--" Ghea is surprised by Malik's arrival and does not finish his sentence.
"Mas Malik?" Ghea.
"Ghea, is Bina here, isn't she?"
"CHINA?" Haris and Ghea compactly named Malik's wife.
"Bina wasn't home, I was looking for her here and there but I didn't see her either."
"Sit down first Mr. Malik" Haris invited Malik to sit down.
"Go home abi maybe mas?" Answer Ghea.
"I've been there Ghea but there's nothing."
"Ghea I tried to track her GPS" Haris was worried about Bina, she had considered Bina as her sister.
"Let's see" Haris showed his tracking results to his wife.
"This is Dimas' house?" Ghea.
"Dimas?"
"Dimas Satya Rizky, he's Mas Haris' distant cousin, Mas Malik" Ghea explained.
"Hospitalist Bakti Husada ngak Ghea" Malik asked again and Ghea nodded.
Malik hurried to leave Ghea's house.
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Malik's house and Dimas' house are still a residential complex.
Malik is now in front of Dimas' house.
"You did this" asked Dimas cynically to his best friend.
"Fetch my wife" Malik sneaked in without excuse at Dimas' house.
"Eh Nak Malik yet who came" said Satya Rizky papa from Dimas.
"I'm going to get my wife home" Malik explained what she meant.
"That blacked out on the street was your wife?"
"Bina pinsang om? But how come it's here anyway?"
"So he wants to buy meatballs in front of the complex, maybe he's starving eh pinsang deh I please dong."
"Keep because I don't know who he is? Where's home? I brought it here" Dimas explained.
"But I don't believe that an angel as beautiful as her is a wife" Dimas said in a dismissive tone.
"Dimas" Satya rebuked his only child.
"Having joked well" Dimas nyegir got a reprimand from his father.
"Om drive to the guest room, your wife is resting there" Satya's father leads Malik to see his wife, Dimas follow them.
"You've woken up, son, your husband picked you up" Satya's father said when he saw Bina was conscious.
"Mas Malik?" Said Bina when she saw her husband coming to her.
"Well, let's have dinner first" take Dimas to his father.
"Nak Malik take your wife to dinner together" Satya's father left the guest room first.
"Bak bidadari eat first yuk, abis it's a handsome mas take home" Candaan Dimas was successful in making Malik jealous.
"DIMAS" cried Malik who made Dimas' ears overheated.
"We eat first and we go home" said Malik, caressing the head of the Hijab-covered Bina.
There was no longer a violent and emotional Malik.
When at the dining table Bina circulated her gaze looking for someone she wanted to meet.
Satya's father understood with Bina's gaze "Her mother Dimas died when she was 2 years old."
"Sorry om" Bina felt bad for Satya and Dimas' father.
"His face is very similar to Afnan" Satya's father's mind when looking at Bina carefully.
"It's okay let's eat first" Invite Satya's father to the 3 young people in front of him.
Malik prefers to be quiet, while staring at Bina with a difficult gaze to interpret.
Dinner is over, Malik invites Bina to come home. Dimas and Satya's father escorted them home.
When Bina had gotten into the car, Dimas stopped Malik's steps.
"I'm asking you for a minute, okay?" Malik accepted the request of his best friend.
"Gue this is a doctor, you can't fool me, I know Bina's bruised hands, cause she's tweezers."
"Well rich people, CEO Darma Corp is impossible at home without food?"
"Gue will advance his wife's heart if you still hurt him."
"My wife is a respectable woman she won't betray me and won't be tempted by you" Malik tried not to be provoked by Dimas' words.
"It is precisely because she is a respectable woman that she is not worthy of a b*dangerous man like a loh."
"Esteemed woman also has a heart, what you can guarantee she will remain faithful when you always hurt her."
Dimas entered the house leaving Malik still silent.
**Have your wife Malik Ibrahim close before anyone else took her.
*Happy Reading*
Love Wawa💕**
