
Why do I seem to be burdened with hypocrisy?
I try to lie to myself of the sincerity of love that he grasps tightly.
Many times I refused her love and I broke her feelings.
When he left, the consciousness came.
But everything was too late, regret was useless.
May Allah give a better companion to life than I am Anwar.
Shinta returned to Bagus Anugerah's room, her footsteps feeling weak like they were not powered up, she almost collapsed as someone hugged her from behind.
"Where are you from, baby?" say Gamal with a smooth voice.
Shinta was unable to say, she was hiding a big wave in her feelings, she was trying to calm down and toughen up in the face of it.
"You look tired, can I take you home, baby?" say Gamal while gently dipping Shinta's left cheek.
"No, let me accompany my father in the last moments of his life" Shinta said.
Shinta releases Gamal's embrace, he turns his body, his observant eyes staring at Gamal's face filled with anxiety and worry, and his, he hugged Gamal then cried loudly in his arms to spill all the weight in his soul.
"Now that I am your wife, I am willing to be your makmum, I am ready to accompany you when it is difficult and happy. If one day I do wrong please do not blaspheme me, do not punish me and do not leave me, but forgive me with all your heart" said Shinta.
"Oh, yeah.. I brought your favorite rendang, from this afternoon you haven't eaten, must be very hungry right?" Gamal.
Shinta let go of her embrace, her hand held by Gamal entering the room. They eat in one plate. Shinta's face reddened as Gamal asked her to bribe each other.
...*****...
Night crawling slowly cemented her power, decorative lights beautified the look of the city that never tired of preening to compete with the night women scattered on the side of the bar.
The striped-nose men enliven the game of the women of the night, all flirtatious smiles accompanied by seduction and empty babbling adorn their sweet mouths.
Inner Stevan revolted in silence, whether he had had sex with a different woman, his lust channeled without having to demand a love let alone marriage. But strangely he always felt angry every time he heard the news of Shinta being approached by another man let alone married, there was a feeling of not accepting in him.
Stevan once tested Shinta's loyalty in sailing his household with Ardian. He deliberately kidnapped Qeira to provoke Anggun anger, he had predicted Anggun would not be able to hurt Gamal, but he knew with certainty Anggun always retaliated with the worth of his heartache, the right person to be targeted is Ardian. He was happy when Ardian was sent away without a penny. He also had predicted Ardian able to build its economy from scratch, so he told people to damage the business that Ardian pioneered. He poisoned Ardian little by little, he wanted Shinta to feel tormented by Ardian's condition of poverty and pain.
Shinta's sincere love, a love that is not accompanied by mathematical calculations and does not demand a reply in terms of material makes Stevan amazed and hated.
"Love? Fuck....!" stevan shouted while throwing a glass right on the head of a comfort girl in front of him.
The girl's head was bleeding fresh, painful and dizzy but she did not dare to cry, she realized her crying would be the end of her life.
"Roy, help the old man meet his end and drag Shinta before me!" stevan's orders to the man he delivered.