Rheas

Part 14: I Don't Want to Kill Him...

“Rhea, why did you wake up too late? Has this beloved grandson of mine been making you trouble all night?” ledek grandfather who turned out to have been waiting for the presence of the girl for approximately three hours.

“It's almost lunchtime, and you're just about to start breakfast. That's not a good habit.” Daffa comes with a plate of Rhea's favorite toast as well as a glass of hot chocolate milk.

“Spend! After that come with me somewhere.” The noise made Rhea goosebumps.

Rhea could only put her guilt-filled gaze before grandfather. He ate his toast in a super slow motion. He seemed so tense and stiff as a prisoner who was waiting for a sentencing.

“Why is grandpa still here?” he said ventured. But the grandfather with his nosiness still sat there and did not budge in the least. It was as if there was glue sticking so strong there, that he had no ability to get up from his chair.

“Actually there are things that Sheryl and I have discussed about you.” said Grandpa broke the silence.

“What is a Cake?” said Rhea stammering.

“I want to ask you something." Rhea put down the fork and knife in her hand to focus more on grandfather.

"What happened three years ago between you and Devian.” Rhea fell silent.

“I know from my people there are people who do brainwashing practices on you. I know it's not a good thing. But I still hope that you can give us just one clue about Devian's whereabouts. You know he hasn't come back since that incident, we're very worried about him.”

“I'm sorry Cake, I haven't remembered anything. It still hurts me too much if I have to repeat it back in my head.” Rhea stepped away and went back to her room leaving the grandfather who was still sculpting with all his guilt there.

Rhea was sitting lethargic on her bed. He looked at me with a very empty look. He could not barely budge, if only Daffa had not come to catch up with him.

"What's wrong?" daffa and Rhea asked directly into his arms without excuse. He sobbed violently in Daffa's arms.

“I know it's so heavy for you. I hope you can assume grandfather never said it.” whispered Daffa while returning Rhea's embrace.

****

An hour earlier….

“Devian hurt him?” Daffa gets a phone call from a mysterious person who has always been his accomplice.

He not only gets the truth about Devian and Rhea's relationship. He also received all copies of surveillance cameras from the incident. He saw clearly how his brother had tortured Rhea like an animal.

"The surveillance footage I found after the incident only shows how Devian locked her up in the bathroom. I don't know if it turns out that his actions were more cruel than that." muttered Daffa feeling guilty.

The footage shows Devian throwing him in a pan filled with hot oil, but Rhea just wants to serve him food. Devian did not even hesitate to drag the girl into his room by pulling her hair. He also banged the girl's head into the corner of the nightstand.

Not only that, he even locked Rhea all day in the bathroom afterwards. Not only locked, he held it hostage under a torrent of water that poured. This is so inhumane, Daffa murmured furiously.

There is no denying that Daffa was also involved with the plans of his grandfather and Sheryl to protect Devian. But with the fact about the relationship Rhea and her brother who just received it, really makes her unable to think clearly.

“I've known him since childhood, I never knew if his illness would be this severe.” Daffection.

“I think you know what you're gonna do with that girl. Are you going to protect her by your side, or just carry on with everything you designed years ago.”

Daffused, he was really worried about the decision to be made. This time there was only one thing that was absolutely certain. ‘He is completely innocent’.

*****

“I'm sorry.” Rhea let go of Daffa's embrace and ran to the bathroom.

Raffa suddenly remembered something. “I put laxatives into his food. Damnit damnit! Why the moment is always not fitting.” He cursed his own stupidity.

An hour passed and the girl was still going back and forth to the bathroom to get out whatever was inside her stomach. His face already looked extremely pale, his strength slowly starting to erode. Even Daffa who saw it did not know what to do. He was confused to laugh because he managed to prank Rhea or vice versa. Because he would definitely be very cruel, seeing the condition of the girl who was in a state of sadness at this time.

"Damn! What a difference would I make to Devian this way." he said to be self-devouring.

Daffa could only stand in front of the door while continuing to bully the girl who looked so silly in his eyes. The pain in his stomach and heart seemed to be out of sync. He continued to sob during the action as if the pain in the heart was still reluctant to move. It was precisely her stomach that was currently the girl's greatest enemy that she seemed so ridiculous before Daffa at this moment.

“Be quiet, do you think I'm having fun?” gerrutu annoyed.

“But that's not funny. You keep running to the bathroom crying. Does it feel like urination can be as painful as that?” the ledek sounds ridiculous

“Do you know if your attitude is more like a Junior High? Where there are adults who do not have sympathy with the suffering of others. Anyway I'm still your wife, as long as you know.” Gerrymandering annoyed.

“So you still consider yourself my wife? Wow, at a time like this?” the trick is getting more.

BRUCK!!!

Rhea suddenly collapsed in front of the bathroom door to make Daffa who was still laughing suddenly panic. He approached Rhea's body lying in front of him and turned the girl's body.

“Don't joke! You know, how ugly you look right now? Are you really a model? Why fell you it is very far from the standard aesthetic beauty.” Daffa turned Rhea's fallen body upside down. He rested beside Rhea's body and propped the girl's head up on her thighs.

"Rhea! No kidding. Hey, wakeup!" Daffa shook Rhea's body in panic.

"Sheryls...Sheryl...help me quickly!". cried Daffa in panic.

Sheryl appeared in a matter of seconds as if she was in front of the door of the couple's room.

"What are you doing, wife!"

"I just gave him laxatives to work on it." honestly Daffa made Sheryl shudder.

"Are you right, her husband? Is this how you fuck your wife."

"Stop babbling! And quickly get the doctor here." Sheryl rushes to the family doctor while Daffa moves Rhea's body onto the bed and covers her.

The doctor Sheryl was one of the granddad ladies who lived in the same mansion complex. It didn't take long for Doctor Aini to come with her group of nurses there.

Like a fighter who was fighting, Aini came with medical equipment that was said to be very complete for just a guard doctor.

"Everything out!" Aini's words were directly obeyed by Sheryl and Daffa the suspect.

Unexpectedly, the time it took Aini to treat Rhea turned out to last quite a long time. He is more like a doctor who is doing surgery, rather than just helping patients with diarrhea.

One.two...

No, four hours.

During that time he and his paramedics handled Rhea's condition which is arguably worrisome.

"He was dehydrated and his blood pressure was very low. I washed the blood and washed all the contents of his stomach. It will probably take a long time for him to recover." explained Aini who made everyone surprised.

"Where's the blood from?" Everyone was astonished by the large number of blood bags scattered within the trash bins of Rhea and Daffa's rooms.

They did not think at all that the emergency door near the window was directly connected to Aini's clinic building. The nurses went back and forth through the door unnoticed by other family members.

"What happened to him. Why did it come to that?" ask the grandfather who does not know the root of the problem.

"I just gave him a little laxative to work on." Daffa felt guilty.

"It's not just laxatives. There was poison mixed in it and it was already flowing in his bloodstream when I started the action. If we're a little late, the poison will take his life in a matter of minutes."

"I don't want to kill him."

All eyes were on Daffa.