Picking Up the Past

It's not your fault

Arya was already sitting back on the sofa, she then immediately grabbed Mila's shoulder and hugged her. “why do you want to pervert me in front of Vanessa?” ask Mila while pinching Arya's stomach, even though she actually wants it too.

“I just want to be like this, anyway brother Vanessa is not angry kok” replied Arya.

“so now what do you want today, do you want me to go home quickly to accompany you at home?” arya continued, hoping that the talks about Rita do not continue.

“your work will still be much, so I will accompany you here” replied Mila in a flat tone, she then looked into the eyes of her husband who was looking at Vanessa. Arya was still weighing to answer Mila's question earlier.

“Suami Rita asked me not to meet with Rita's sister, I obviously do not want to, I want to visit more often here, what else I do not teach anymore, I do not want to, I will be bored if at home” said Mila who this time made Arya swallow her saliva. Arya then took off her embrace to Mila and momentarily calmed herself down.

“you want to hear about Rita?” asked Arya who was answered nodding by Vanessa and Mila, they looked at Arya to listen to what the man would explain.

Arya momentarily still weighing it all, “why Arya?” ask Vanessa who is increasingly curious. “I will tell you a story, but I hope you will not feel guilty about all this, because indeed you do not know anything about this matter, but I hope you will not feel guilty about it, actually I hope you guys can also be on good terms with Rita, but it seems like it will be very difficult to happen, maybe you better keep your distance with Rita, though, I really need Rita as my secretary” Arya told Vanessa and Mila.

“problem? what's your problem?” ask Mila who was also curious.

“you know that Rita herself was betrothed to your brother by her grandfather and father, She is also like you and Anjani, refusing matchmaking from your family, because she does not want her life to be arranged like that, what else at that time he also had a girlfriend” said Arya who stopped for a moment.

“what was her husband Rita's sister now her boyfriend back then?” ask Mila in between Arya's explanation.

“no, Rita knows Aaron bang after he became a secretary in this office, Rita, the reason Rita finally accepted the matchmaking and finally also holds a grudge until now because the matchmaking was canceled is because her father” continued Arya who returned to stop, he said, he still weighed the doubts in his heart to explain it all.

“his father?” vanessa recalled the face of Arjun's secretary the day Irman defied everyone in Mila's living room by holding her hand.

“his father was imprisoned for the slander, his mother was in shock, and his mother's long troubled heart had a leak, at which time Rita was completely destroyed, all her property was confiscated by her father's company, and her father's, he had no money at all to finance his mother who had to be operated immediately. Therefore he holds a very deep grudge against you” said Arya with a tight chest imagining how devastated Rita was when she found Rita like a madman in front of the hospital at that time.

“you know who slandered Rita Mil's father?” arya asked, looking into his wife's face, Mila shook her head, her chest tightened with guilt on the day's events, because she was among those who disagreed on her brother's match, while Vanessa has shed tears, because she felt she was the cause behind the cancellation of the match.

“CEO Adinata group is now Mil, Rita's father is a secretary in the company, Rita says her father was slandered and deliberately thrown in jail for a reason that she does not know, if the matchmaking can continue, it could be that his father will not be imprisoned, because grandfather has a stake in the company, he said, that person would definitely rethink putting Rita's father in jail and confiscating Rita's family property, due to the influence of the grandfather as a senior among the other shareholders, as well, could make the CEO lose the trust of the shareholders,” explained Arya.

Mila swallowed her saliva, a truth that she had just heard, the bad side of the Arnes family that she had not known, slowly began to find, she began to find, but what makes it crowded is that his family is behind the destruction of Rita's family. While Vanessa can no longer hold back her tears, she feels sinful seizing Irman from Rita, her decision that day to fight for her love for Irman has destroyed a family.

“I found Rita with circumstances like crazy that night, she had nothing for the cost of her mother's operation that time had to be done immediately, because if it was too late, her mother would die, because, I really couldn't bear to see her at that time Mil, she had lost her mind to find a solution to her problem, she even sold herself to me at that time so I would help her mother, she said,” clear Arya again.

The momentarily silent atmosphere, Vanessa and Mila were still trying to calm themselves.

“I understand if Rita is difficult to forgive you, because for her the family of Rakarsa is the cause behind the destruction of her family, she did not even accept when she found out that I was married to you Mil, she said, I hope you can understand all this, maybe it would be better if you keep your distance with Rita, I already know what her character is like, your apologies will have no value in her eyes”

“forgive me and my family Arya, you must be in a difficult position to face Rita's sister because this is all” Mila said weakly, the reason Rita can't forgive the annulled match has been she and Vanessa know, while Vanessa is still sobbing, ‘I deserve to be a barren woman like this, I deserve a marriage like this, I deserve to live a marriage like this, I've destroyed the happiness of one family, I really sinned on Rita’, his mind held in grief because of sinful feelings.

“this is not your fault, you don't know anything about this, maybe this is Rita's life destiny, and you have absolutely no power to change it” Arya said again by embracing Mila's shoulder back, rubbing his wife's shoulder, to give her peace

Arya momentarily took a deep breath looking at the expression of Vanessa's face, she realized surely Vanessa has felt guilty for it all. “this is not the fault of sister, all happened outside our power, brother,” said Arya slowly to calm Vanessa, but Arya's speech even made Vanessa's guilt deepened.

“Mil, brother Vanessa needs you” Arya whispered to Mila and then she took off her embrace to Mila. Mila who understood Arya's intentions then got up and immediately moved beside Vanessa to hug and give peace to her brother-in-law.