PRISONERS END IN LOVE

Like Angel

Arriving at home, Grace immediately opened her car door and grabbed Isabella who still looked frightened. After helping Isabella and Bi Tinah out of the car, Grace walked to the terrace to open the door of Rizal's house.

" bi! Aunt ...!" Grace shouted to Surti. She wanted to ask Surti to help Bi Tinah bring Isabella into her room.

" Yes, me, Non?" Surti quickly ran from the kitchen when he heard Garce's shrill call

" Help Bi Tinah take Bella to the room." Grace tells Surti to help Bi Tinah to take Isabella to Isabella's room upstairs.

" Yes, Non." sahut Surti quickly helped Bi Tinah bring Isabella because they wanted to pass the stairs.

" Athaghfirullahal adzim, Non Bella why, Bi?" Surti felt shocked to see Isabella's condition crying and looking chaotic, so he asked Bi Tinah to find out what had asked Isabella.

" Later Bi Tinah tell me, Sur. Now help take Non Bella to the room first!" Bi Tinah told Surti not to ask much before he finished taking care of Isabella.

While Grace who had already run up the stairs had opened the door to Isabella's room.

" Bi, please get Bella's clothes. Help Bella change her clothes!" After seeing ART lay Isabella's body down, Grace had one of her husband's ARTs change into Isabella's clothes that Joe had forcibly torn.

" Yes, Non." Surti rushes to the wardrobe to pick up Isabella's new clothes.

As Bi Tinah and Surti replaced Isabella's clothes, Grace noticed a large figura on Isabella's bedroom wall that caught her eye. The figura shows a photo of Rizal with a beautiful woman, who he suspects is Rizal's ex-wife who is none other than Mamih from Isabella.

It's the first time Grace has walked into Isabella's room and the first time she has seen a picture of Rizal's ex-wife. The woman looks beautiful, it is fitting that Rizal cannot move on from Isabella's mother before Rizal meets her.

" Who's this blazer, Non?" Surti's question made Grace who was staring fixed photos Papih and Mamih Isabella immediately turned her gaze toward Surti.

" It's got people helping Bella, Bi. Please wash it. The same clothes that Bella wears today are thrown away, Bi! Think of it as throwing al!" grace's orders to Surti.

" Good, Non." Bi Tinah and Surti then went out leaving Grace and Isabella both in the room. They seemed to give an opportunity for Grace and Isabella to get along with each other.

Unfortunately shortly after Bu Tinah and Surti came out of the room, Isabella closed her eyes. Isabella was too tired to cry until she fell asleep.

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After Maghrib, Rizal returned to his home. Surti who opened the door for Rizal did not dare to tell Isabella's condition to her employer, because Grace herself would tell her husband.

" Accelod ..." When opening the room door, Rizal said hello first to Grace.

" Waalaikumsalam, Pih." Grace who was sitting on the sofa immediately got up to welcome Rizal by approaching and hugging Rizal's body. Her heart that had been restless since facing the events experienced by Isabella now felt comfortable in the arms of her husband. To be honest Joe's reappearance let alone Joe's action this time is to tease Isabella really makes it burdened with the mind.

" Did you miss me?" Seeing Grace's spoiled behavior, Rizal assumes that Grace is missing him. However, Rizal enjoyed his wife's embrace. Because since that afternoon his heart was not calm and suddenly felt worry that did not know because of what? Grace's warm embrace this time felt like an antidote to her anxiety earlier.

" Don't, sit down, man!" Grace breaks her arms and pulls Rizal's hand, taking her husband to the edge of the bed. Grace wanted to tell her husband what happened to Isabella. Of course, saying what happened to Isabella must be careful so that her husband is not provoked by emotions.

From Grace's attitude, Rizal began to feel that there was something serious that his wife wanted to say. He had no idea what Grace would say. But looking at the serious Grace, she felt that it had something to do with the unpleasant feelings that had struck her heart since.

" What's up?" asked Rizal then sat down next to Grace. He was impatient to know what Grace had told him.

" Pih, Papih should calm down, huh!? Everything can be handled." Grace rubbed the husband's arm. As much as possible he should tell it carefully to Rizal.

" What's up, Grace? Did something happen to you when you got out of the house?" Rizal guessed that something happened to Grace. Because when he contacted his wife this afternoon, Grace told him that she was on her way to find a snack.

" It's not me, Pih. But Bella ..." Grace brushes off if she is in trouble and mentions the name of Isabella who is having a problem

" Bella, what's wrong with Bella, Grace?" Rizal grew curious when Grace said something happened to her daughter. Rizal's mind was increasingly made unsettled because of that.

" Bella ... Bella was almost a victim of a costing party this afternoon, pih." Grace bit her lip as she conveyed what had happened to Isabella to her husband. He barely even dared to see the change in Rizal's face that was instantly enveloped in an aura of anger. It was certain that the news delivered by Grace made Rizal inflamed.

" What??" Rizal flinched with widening his eyes wide enough. Even the sound of teeth tightening to show the shape of a hardened jaw was clearly heard in Grace's ears.

" Where's Bella?" Rizal immediately got up and ran outside his room to approach Isabella's room. Rizal can't wait to find out the state of his beloved daughter until she leaves Grace. Seeing Rizal running quickly to Isabella's room, Grace immediately followed the husband to the same place.

" Bella, honey? What's the matter, son?" When he reached Isabella's room, Rizal immediately approached his daughter who was still lying down, accompanied by Bi Tinah who massaged Isabella's legs and hands.

" Dn ..." Seeing Rizal's presence, Isabella immediately got up and spread her arms as if she needed a sturdy shoulder that would protect her. " Hiks, Bella's scared, Pih ..." Isabella returned to tears after being in Rizal's arms.

Grace looked at Rizal and Isabella who were crying in Rizal's arms. Isabella seemed to want to complain to Rizal the sadness in his heart because of getting bad treatment from a man.

" Bella, honey. What's going on, son?" Rizal's heart wails when he finds out his daughter is almost a victim of an irresponsible man's murder. Rizal himself did not know who the man who dared to do this to his daughter, because he was too worried to leave Grace who wanted to tell him about the perpetrator.

" Who would dare to do this to you, dear? Papih will teach that man a merciless lesson!" Rizal looks wrathful, his face looks reddened muffle emotions that immediately burst into his heart. For Rizal, Isabella is everything. He would not just let go of the man who already had the heart to desecrate his beloved daughter.

Grace tried to get closer to Rizal, because she knew that her husband was currently in a big rage.

" Pih, Papih calm down first ..." Grace tries to calm her husband while rubbing Rizal's arm.

" How can I calm down, Grace? Bella almost went through something bad, she almost lost her chastity!" Rizal spoke in a slightly high tone to Grace. The near-misses to Isabella affected her current attitude, including when speaking to Grace.

" When did that happen? Why didn't you tell me, Grace!? You know since noon my heart has been unsettled. I feel restless. Apparently because this is the cause! You should have told me from noon about this incident, Grace!" Even Rizal was like blaming Grace, because Grace was late in telling him.

Grace sighed hearing her husband speak in a jolting tone. This isn't the first thing for him. When it comes to his favorite daughter, Rizal is merciless. What happened to Isabella was a scary thing.

If normally Grace would definitely fight back or retaliate in a high tone what Rizal said, this time she tried to calm down. She knew her husband was being influenced by a very angry feeling, as much as possible she had to reduce Rizal's anger.

" When Papih called me this afternoon, I was picking up Bella. I didn't tell Papih, because I was afraid Papih was upset, so I decided to talk about it at home. Sorry if I made the wrong decision." Grace's eyeballs began to glaze over, fearing that Rizal would not accept the reason.

Seeing the clear liquid that condensed in Grace's eyeball, Rizal realized that he had made a mistake again. He then clasped Grace's hand, as if to say that he could understand Grace's decision.

" Who did this to Bella, Grace?" asked Rizal after starting to control his emotions. He realized, if he was wrong to suppress Grace as she is today.

" Bi, can you leave the three of us?" Wiping away the tears that had not dripped on her cheeks, Grace turned her head towards Bi Tinah who was still in the room. She wants to talk privately with her husband without anyone knowing about him outside of her family.

" Good, Non." Bi Tinah who understood why Grace asked him to come out then left Isabella's room.

After Bi Tinah, Grace chose to sit on the edge of the bed opposite the husband who still hugged Isabella. He wanted to tell me how he knew what happened to Isabella.

" Today Aldi called me, Pih." Grace mentioned where she could get information about Isabella.

" So that breng sek did it!?" Rizal actually alleged that what happened to Bella was the act of Rivaldi when Grace mentioned the name Rivaldi.

" Not him, Pih. But ... Joe." Garce dismissed Rizal's suggestion that Rivaldi had done so to Isabella.

Rizal turns to hear the name called by Grace. Of course his conjecture leads directly to Joe's ex-lover Grace. How did Isabella meet Joe? That's what Rizal thought.

" Joe?" Rizal looked at Grace by saying Joe's name as if he wanted to make sure that the Joe meant by his wife was the same Joe he had in mind.

" Yes, Pih. She ..." Somehow Grace's heart was immediately filled with guilt, because she thought if Joe did it as an act of revenge for the man to her. Though Joe himself does not know if Isabella is the son of Rizal.

" How did Bella get to meet that son of a bitch!?" asked Rizal with tightened teeth.

" I don't know either, Pih But Aldi said, it looks like Bella knew Joe before this incident. Because Joe picked up Bella at the course where Bella taught." Grace told me what she heard from Rivaldi.

" Where did Rivaldi know Joe?" Rizal suspects something. Now he even suspects that this is one of Rivaldi's devious plans to trick him.

" Aldi said, yesterday at the event Mama in Bandung had met with Joe. Said Joe was being rude to Mama and Aldi was helping her. I think from there he knew Joe. And by chance he saw Joe with Bella this afternoon, pih." Grace explains how Rivaldi got to know Joe.

" Where is that breng sek now!?" Rizal's tone still sounded furious, when he found out Joe was the one who almost desecrated his daughter.

" Possibly at the police station. Aldi said when he brought Bella out, he asked for security at the apartment where the case happened to catch Joe." As Rivaldi told him, Grace told him without anyone missing.

Rizal gave a rude snort while rubbing Isabella's head and hugged her beloved daughter tightly. He did not expect his daughter to almost experience a very painful bad event.

" How did Bella get to be with that brunette, Grace?" rizal asked almost in disbelief Joe dared to touch his daughter. Rizal felt surprised his son could be in trouble with Joe. Though the association of his son during this time he knew is a clean association and did not look something strange and wrong in the association of Isabella.

" The only thing that can explain that is Bella, Pih

But at the moment Bella can't possibly explain that. He's still in shock. Maybe tomorrow morning we can talk to Bella about this." Grace asks Rizal to be patient and wait for Isabella to calm down and asks Isabella for an explanation of how this happened.

" I'm sorry Papih, honey. Papih is not there when you need Papih. Papih can't protect you when you're in trouble." Rizal felt guilty, because he felt unable to keep his daughter from the actions of bad people who want to harm his daughter.

" I have to meet Rivaldi. I want to ask how he got to the scene?" The impatient Rizal wanted to know the true events intending to see Rivaldi.

" Don't, Papih just got back from out of town. We'd better go to Aldi tomorrow and ask him about this." Grace tries to calm Rizal down. She knew that her husband was very emotional and could not think calmly. And Grace managed to ban her husband from acting rashly.

" Grace, we'll just sleep here tonight, okay!? I want to accompany Bella. I'm afraid he'll be haunted by nightmares about what happened this afternoon." Rizal asked his wife to accompany him to accompany Isabella.

Grace glanced towards the large photo of Rizal and his ex-wife. Grace felt uncomfortable being among them.

" Papih takes time to be alone with Bella. Papih should accompany Bella. I'll just leave it in the room." Grace refuses Rizal's request because she feels like a stranger in Isabella's room.

While in the kitchen, Bi Tinah and Surti were talking about the incident that happened to Isabella. And how Grace behaves towards Isabella.

" Sur, what a pity Non Bella, huh!? How could that man hurt Non Bella." While propping up his chin in his hand Bi Tinah imagined the bad thing that had just happened to Isabella.

" Yes, Bi. I also did not expect Non Bella to experience such a creepy event" Surti said.

" Sur, it turns out we were wrong all this time judging Non Grace, huh!? It turned out that Non Grace looked fierce in front of him alone, but her heart was kind. Non Grace looks worried about what's going on with Non Bella. Also, Non Grace tried to calm Mr. Rizal who looked very angry, Sur. Aunty just got scared to see the anger of Mr. Rizal earlier." Bi Tinah recounted the events she had seen in Isabella's room.

" Yes, Bi. It looks like Non Grace is fierce as a lion, but her heart is good as an angel."

Bi Tinah turned her head with a frown towards Surti who called Grace like an angel.

" What does a lion have to do with an angel, Sur?" tanyanya.

Surti turned to Bi Tinah and said, "What is the need for Surti to ask them, about the relationship between the two of them, Bi?" Surti chuckled at Bi Tinah's question with a joke.

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