Pellucid

Chapter 14 - The Regret of a Father

With trembling hands, Father Bening held the handwritten letter of his daughter after reading it. After that, the paper fell to the cold floor as a father to his daughter some time back.

It was as if his spirit was being forcibly pulled out of his body. He thought back, how cruel he was to the princess who was not guilty of the death of his wife. All is the will of destiny.

Nineteen years ago,

Prasetyo Pambudi who was then serving as Kapolsek Buah Batu in Bandung, was very happy when his wife, Dewun, tested positive for eight weeks pregnant.

After waiting for five years of their marriage, there was finally a rainbow after a long wait.

During pregnancy Dewun, the husband is very attentive to him and also their prospective baby. During pregnancy, the dew never experiences nausea. Because who experience nausea and cravings phase is the husband. Dew only experience cravings occasionally.

Even an Irjen Pol Prasetyo willingly climbed the mango tree of his very fierce neighbor just to ask for one young mango. Dropped his pride because the neighbor initially did not want to give his mango even though he asked for a police officer.

Even giving a large amount of money to ask for the mango, the neighbor insisted he would not. As a result, after a fairly tough negotiation, finally Daddy Bening can take one mango.

Even after that, Bening's father had to be willing to clean his neighbor's aviary up to ten cages.

Dew can only giggle at seeing it from afar. Women who know the character of a Prasetyo like what. The more loving the husband, who is willing to do anything for the sake of the unborn child into the world.

Even dropped the image and self-esteem of a member of the police just to get a mango that his wife wanted.

Though buying a mango garden land he can do. Because in addition to being a member of the police, Bening's father who was already rich from birth, had several businesses and inherited land from his late parents who were a famous businessman.

Dewun is just a simple girl who comes from an orphanage. But it has made Prasetyo Prambudi captivated and fell in love with him. A gentle woman with almost no ambition.

Very different from other women who pursue him because he is a police officer with a surname that is quite striking like a row of legacy of his late parents who lined up.

But a Dew never glares at it all on the back of a Prasetyo Pambudi. Because both of them fall in love because of what is nothing.

Such great love was shown by a Prasetyo Pambudi on Bening ranging from still a lump of blood to come out of the stomach of the wife. But after birth, not happiness obtained by Bening but only a cold, empty, and hopeless without affection from a biological father. Inversely.

Due to the busyness as a police officer makes his daily schedule very crowded especially many cases that are being handled, making this Bening's father occasionally accompany the wife to the doctor.

When the day of birth is clear, there is heavy bleeding or postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). It has been dedicated by the doctor. But the Dew still retains the baby.

Placenta accreta. Occurs when blood vessels and other parts of the placenta are embedded too deeply in the uterine wall.

Plus Dew that has a fairly high blood pressure. Finally fate determines the path that must be lived by Prasetyo Pambudi. That the baby was born safe and healthy. But his soulmate was called by the Creator.

The pace of the shoe sole echoed when he arrived late because he had to handle a sudden case when he was on leave. Intentions want to accompany the wife gave birth but in the end did not materialize.

Leaving such deep sorrow in his heart as the doctor came out of the delivery room, he who initially smiled, carrying a bouquet of white roses his wife's favorite must swallow a bitter pill when the doctor said his wife died after giving birth to his daughter.

Throw the bouquet of roses into the cold and silent hospital floor in the depths of the night like his heart has darkened ever since.

There is no crying out of the eyes of a husband for his beloved wife who has given him a long-awaited baby. Starting from the hospital until the funeral Dewun is over.

It was as if there was only the shell of a soulless Prasetyo Pambudi inside. His soul died buried with the Dew and all his love in the pit that makes the Dew sleep for ever in there.

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Now he was sobbing that his sturdy back shook for the first time after reading the letter from his daughter. The daughter he had hated since his birth.

The daughter he treated coldly and would be rude if Bening made a mistake. Even just a small mistake like getting less grades while in school.

He also had the heart to slap his little daughter when Bening was five years old accidentally nudged a picture of his late wife in the family room until the frame of memory was broken.

Now those painful jigsaw puzzles make fun of him and corner him that he is a cruel father. Wreaking a fate he did not want to a innocent and ignorant baby. Ruffled.

"Sorry Papa, clear!!" prasetyo Pambudi shouted with a thunderous voice.

Contrition. Which is now in his heart.

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