Rheas

Part 1: Marriage Tubs of Hell

“Come we're married!” the man looked towards the girl in front of him with a very indecipherable look.

“Why suddenly? I know if you've helped my dad with the company, we've been engaged since we were kids. But does that make sense? We never even tried to get to know each other?” the girl was still busy with a brush in her hand, when she realized that the red ink on her palette had already turned into a pool of fresh blood.

“Dad no!!!” pekiknya.

The girl woke up from a dream and found her true existence ‘Not the dream, this is the real hell’.

“Women's basis ******! You forgot your duties as a wife. Now it's even past eight and you haven't prepared anything, Hah!” a man who is none other than his own husband.

The girl had not even gathered her consciousness when the man in front of her grabbed her hair very hard and pulled her back. He looked at the man with a hateful gaze, but he could do nothing.

His tears seemed to have begun to pool, but the man did not let go of his grip. He pulled the hair even harder and dragged the girl into the bathroom in their private room.

With the shower on, the man installed a device so that the flow of water never stopped, even though the girl tried hard to close the tap. He locked the girl there and left her to go to work. He did not even think about what would happen to the girl after her disappearance.

“If I am allowed to beg for death, then it is time.  I just want to die Lord.” The girl cried out in a clear voice. His strength seemed to have drained away. He no longer had the strength to get up and get out of there. He just let his body get soaked and shiver in the cold.

Overnight. The man who had the status of her legal husband had beaten her all out. Not only his hair was pulled, he even banged his head into the corner of the table until his head poured fresh blood. He has not fed her anything for the past seventy-two hours, plus the never-ending torture.

He was forced to cook the man breakfast and then he would be pelted with his own food. A bowl of hot soup, and also a fried egg that just came out of the frying pan. Until the girl found her skin started to blister at some point.

That incident was just one of them. His sentence will increase if he forgets or misses the one thing that has been assigned to him. One of them is to place it under the same water as today. It was the water that would accompany him until he finally returned after finishing his work.

But he was lucky because the ten hours that the man spent in his office would mean as rest time for him. Although it should take place inside this so gripping bathroom.

“You were a mistake for being born into this world?”

The girl recalled the night of her bride three days ago. It had only been three days since she became the man's wife. But such a short time already felt like three centuries for him.

He doesn't realize what his mistake is. He only knew that he was born from the wrong person. The man who had brought great wounds to the heart of his new husband.

“What's wrong, maybe I deserve it.” The girl muttered. He could not even curse at the father who now only remains a name.

“If you would let me go with you Mr.” His request was hopeful to the father who had already met the creator.

“If I lasted longer, would you love me and let me call you Dad?” before his eyes closed again unconscious.

Flashback One Month Ago…

“Good, at least you were present at his funeral.” Mumbled Aqsa the half-brother who never considered the presence of the sister.

Rhea Shana is the youngest daughter and sole heir of Media Naratama Group, which is also the son of an illegitimate relationship between her mother and her father. Aqsa's mother who decided to cheat first made the atmosphere in the main mansion worse.

He was divorced and even his name and Aqsa were removed from the list of main heirs. He was expelled from the main mansion and separated from his son Aqsa which was still maintained by the elders to remain in the mansion.

Aziel Naratama's father, who feels betrayed, also chooses the same ending as his life. She fouled her best friend's lover until Rhea, the girl was born enveloped by thousands of resentments from those around her, especially Aqsa.

Aziel loved Rhea as the only daughter she considered. But the fact that Rhea was just the child of her illegitimate relationship with her best friend always left her helpless. Since his birth little Rhea was forced to grow up in a small neighborhood far from perfect.

Rhea was handed over to one of the family's confidants and educated like an heir in a modest environment. But as punishment for the mistakes of his parents, he was not given permission to see his father during his life. He was also never allowed to set foot inside the main mansion at the will of the elders.

“You can make him your heir only if you are no longer in this world. Don't expect us to let you live happily with the biggest mistake you've made Aziel! You even did the same with that lowly woman.” lamented the elders.

"He's not a lowly woman! I love her, and she is the mother of my son." Aziel said, never minded by the elders.

Unlike Rhea the biological princess who is not considered, Aqsa the eldest son actually even got full support from the elders regardless of his true identity. He was instead retained to remain inside the main mansion, due to the mother's family background that had been supporting him.

He grew up there like a real heir. But even though he lived and grew up in the palace, but he never received special attention from Aziel's father.

Aqsa always presents doubts in Aziel. He never accepted Aqsa as his son. His name was never even recorded as heir. Only his identity which was the son of the legitimate wife had all this time made him able to survive in the main mansion. After that, he was nobody.

He has always considered Aqsa to be the greatest evidence of his injuries. He even doubted Aqsa's identity as his biological son. He always regarded the child as the seed of the ill-gotten relationship of the wife with her affair, although there is no valid evidence that can prove her true identity.

Twenty years passed. Aziel's cold and cruel attitude in leading his business actually brought his own boomerang for himself. He was found dead in a green park behind his own office building. I don't know who and why the reason until he could end like that is still a mystery to this day.

But behind every mystery that slowly sticks to the surface, there appears a figure of a hooded man and also a face mask that always appears in every incident. It was as if he was the key witness to every puzzle and question about Aziel Naratama that remained a mystery until after his death.