
Compensation Money
Askelan ran the wheelchair to her room, she did not go in but, silent at the door, closing her eyes for a moment.
Mo gives him a report that Lintani has been fine since she got home and is still sleeping.
The villa was not terraced so he could easily venture into all the spaces. Not that there is no second floor, it's just that, the top is not visible from the outside and only serves as a bilyard room and gym. Meanwhile all the vital spaces below, including the seven rooms, were on the ground floor.
The man appeared to take a deep breath before finally entering, after attaching fingerprints to the round-shaped door handle. It can make the door open and close again, automatically. Only Askelan and Lintani can enter there freely. No one else will be able to, unless Askelan is in it.
Askelan calmed her heart and mind before meeting Lintani. Storing a sense of disappointment, melding guilt and putting aside his grudges, then, locking him tightly at the bottom of the heart.
“Sorry ...” said the man repeatedly, while softly kissing Lintani's scarred leg. She now knew how the girl had gotten the wound on her leg.
He sat by the bed, looking at his wife's slumbering face, with one hand on her waist and another free to the side, where Askelan held her gently, with one hand on her, and kissed her slowly a few times.
“I'm sorry for everything, I'm really apologizing from you ...!” askelan said softly, until only he could hear.
Several times Lintani's face changed like a dream. Soon, the girl opened her eyes slowly. He looked at Askelan who was also staring at him.
Suddenly Askelan trembled, and reflexively took off her hand she could not bear the look in the eye. He was too embarrassed, feeling guilty and dwarfed before him.
“Uhuk! Uhuk!” Askelan coughed a few times until her eyes were watery and reddened.
Lintani shifted her body closer, then grabbed Askelan's hand and patted her chest, lying down.
“Are you okay?” tanya Lintani was full of worries, and said again, “Your eyes till watery!” while pointing towards Askelan's eyes.
“Hmm ...”
Askelan nodded, took out a tissue and wiped away her tears, which uncompromisingly dripped down until she had to pretend to cough. He managed to calm down again, and rubbed Lintani's cheeks that were still lying down gently.
“Is she a girl and you named her Pearly?” Askelan ventured to look at Lintani right in her eyeball which was still a little sleepy.
“Who?”
“Your baby, didn't you say you gave birth?”
Lintani nodded with a blank look.
“That's a great name! She must be beautiful, like her mother.”
Askelan's heart was completely slashed as she asked. While Lintani's heart flowered because for the first time Askelan praised her beauty.
“You often dream about it, why did he leave, did he get sick?”
Strange for Askelan who was determined not to ask anything about the baby, which would definitely hurt his own heart. However, he heard Lintani muttering back in his sleep, making his stance waver because not just once, the name is called when his wife sleeps.
“Yes! He's sick,” said Lintani as she rubbed her nose that was suddenly blocked, making Askelan's heart return as slashed.
Then, Lintani tells how it happened when the baby was born until there was no.
At the end of the story he said, “He does not want to live with me in prison .. He prefers to be an angel in heaven. You know, every time she comes into my dreams, she incarnates into a sweet little girl and just keeps telling me to wake up!”
“And you're awake?”
“Yes. At that time I—“ Lintani's words paused, she always just didn't remember what the girl said next, but, every time she woke up she saw Askelan by her side. This has happened several times, even when they were still in the apartment at that time.
“You, what?” ask Askelan.
“I ... wake up and see you!”
“Then, what else did he say?”
“Nothing, I just forgot, next sentence.”
“Oh!”
Askelan did not know if she should be grateful or complaining, because Lintani forgot about her dream. He was afraid that if it turned out, the word the little girl said next was to kill him.
“Sorry, you must be sad to remember!” askelan said again.
“No, I'm not sad and you don't have to apologize, you have nothing to do with my son. After all, I think he better be in heaven..just imagine, what he would have to experience if he was alive and, having to bear everything with me!”
As he said, Lintani sat down, while wiping off a drop of her tears that suddenly fell. While Askelan, her body had already sagged to the floor and knelt down.
Lintani immediately went down and asked him to stand up, but, the man cupped his palms together in front of his chest, looking up at the face of Lintani who was standing taller than him.
“Sorry ... will you forgive me?”
“What are you apologizing for?”
“For all that I have done to you, I have hurt you often, accused you, mocked you and let you starve!”
Lintani remained silent for a while, then looked away.
“Have you been here a long time and waiting for me to wake up?” asked Lintani to switch the conversation, she walked over and sat down by the side of the window, letting Askelan stay in her position.
Everything Askelan revealed was part of the things she wanted to forget, because it was painful. Therefore, he switched their conversation.
‘There is nothing to remember anymore from that sadness now, because in life, sometimes humans bury some things that will be troublesome if expressed Lintani's inner’.
“Not too long ... Is there anything you want to eat? I'm going to the kitchen now ..” Askelan replied.
“No, I'm not hungry!” Lintani, then, approached Askelan again, “Wake up, I don't feel good you begged like this!”
“No, before you forgive me”
Lintani knelt down before him, reached out to Askelan's cheek, and kissed her lips softly.
“Yes, I forgive you!”
Askelan smiled, standing up slowly while pulling Lintani's hands gently. He sat in a wheelchair and carried the girl in his lap, hugged her and pressed his head against her chest.
“Thank you ...” Askelan said, while holding Lintani to stay seated on her thighs.
Askelan ran the chair to a table near the sofa, then took out a bulging envelope and placed it on his wife's lap.
“What is this?” ask Lintani.
“This, the money I promised as compensation ...”
Lintani was wide-eyed, she stood up and looked at the contents, it was a lot of money, then, put it back on the table.
“Everything intact, 300 thousand dollars.” Askelan said with a smile and looked at Lintani affectionately.
“No, I can't take it! Didn't I already take it 50 grand?”
“Why? That's your money, and I promised! Forget about that 50 grand! So, accept ...” Askelan said as she clasped Lintani's hand.
He said again, “Do you ...? I was looking for you back then, but you weren't anywhere, I was frustrated! From there I realized that I had fallen in love with you! I don't care, whether you've been pregnant or have children, I really love you ... and thanks for the gift, I love!” I kissed my hands a few times.
“Really? Did you also look for you in a building where Dex locked me? I've been tormented for over a week there, and I hope you come to my aid!”
“I came there, having found you, but, you are not there and I have already destroyed that place!”
“Destroying it, I am very disappointed that you are not there.”
“Then, how did you know I was in that mall?”
“I saw the impression you were having a fight with Haifa.”
“Is there such an impression?”
“There was, but I deleted it from the internet right then and there. I missed you so much back then, but, I was devastated when I saw Dex holding you back, I was worried he'd shoot if I didn't. Your safety is what matters to me.”
Lintani hugged Askelan warmly, saying, “Elan .. I have no intention of taking the money, because I sincerely married you as my promise to Mother, and I see you .
“I what?” Askelan loosened her arms to look at Lintani's face.
“You are very handsome, especially when you give me 50 thousand, even if you say bad things to me, but ..” Lintani says stop for a moment and smile, “I think I started to like you!”
Askelan subconsciously stood up and hugged Lintani with all her feelings, as if wanting to unite their bodies, Lintani replied warmly.
“Then, how about Haifa?” Lintani said in their arms.
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