Rheas

Part 4: Double Personality

“Your husband has a psychiatric disorder. He was sentenced to have a double personality, you better be careful!”

A short message that went into her phone suddenly woke Rhea from her slumber. She scrunched her forehead and tried to re-take all the things that were going on in her head about Devian, her husband.

It was not difficult for Rhea to analyze it. Given the caregivers who raised him so far have a psychological background. During his life apart from the mansion, Rhea was equipped with various kinds of knowledge that he must know about being an heir.

He received a fairly good character education, even if only from home. His insight is broad and his knowledge of the medical world is also not small.

Her foster parents equip Rhea with all the basic knowledge she might need later, including medical and psychological science. Not just manners and business that he has learned, foreign language lessons, public speaking, and the science of understanding the character he has mastered so well.

That's why all this time he couldn't fight all that Devian had given him. Besides being patient, and not good at channeling emotions. Rhea knew enough how to handle one's emotional and mental feelings.

And as for Devian, he had actually expected it from the very beginning. Because only psychic problems and a less powerful background can lead a person to grow up with mental emotions that are unstable.

He had seen it from Devian from the beginning. Even the young man's gaze was always empty, and he spent his life as someone else.

Rhea knew what to do. He must seek the root of all Devian's problems. Only then can he find a way to treat the condition of the husband.

Rhea hurriedly put down her phone after she had previously deleted the short message. He heard the footsteps of someone approaching.

“It must be Devian, because there is no one in this house besides us.” His inner.

Rhea closed her eyes again as if she had not woken up since the man came out of their room.

“I've even allowed you to sleep on my bed. Something I could never even imagine with any woman before. What a special thing you really are, until Daffa also defends you.” Lirih Devian while brushing the strands of hair that covered Rhea's face.

"Who is Daffa? Is that her other self?" muttered Rhea.

He touched the girl's forehead which felt warm, he also saw the girl seemed to shiver because of her condition which was still soaking wet when asleep.

“Am I too cruel? Is it true this shouldn't be a punishment for you?” muttered Devian then he stepped out to the kitchen to take the bowl with cold water to compress Rhea.

“What is his true heart as well as soft? Am I probably wrong to judge?” inner Rhea instantly.

Rhea could only stand still when she felt Devian touch her body and replace her clothes with dry clothes. He even moved Rhea's body first and replaced their wet sepray. He took care of the girl painstakingly, as if to prove that her true heart was just as warm. There must be a reason why he had to turn into such a cruel person, Rhea thought.

Rhea who knows the disorder of the husband can only resign. He accepted all of these treatments without questioning anything.

“Is this the other side of you? Is he the one you call Daffa? Or actually you and Daffa are the same, have a very warm heart. It's just, you are reluctant to show it.” said Rhea membatin.

His heart hurts. This was the first time he had known a man other than his adoptive father. He was also the first man who dared to touch his body, and strangely Rhea did not worry about him at all.

Not because he thirsts for touch and spoiled treatment. It's just that, given her position as a wife she was convinced that Devian was actually entitled to do more than just that.  He has rights over himself from head to toe.

During her life Rhea always hoped that the figure of the man who would win her heart would be her own husband. That man will be his first love and his last stop. But looking at Devian's treatment of him, his expectations seemed to be dashed in just a matter of seconds.

“Thank God your fever has gone down. I'm sorry for being so hard on you. Honestly, I have a hard time controlling my emotions. And you know this marriage, our sudden arranged marriage. I can't just take it.”

Rhea was surprised by the sudden confession that came out of Devian's mouth. But considering that the incident in her husband's memory is about her violence, Rhea understood that it was the evil side of her husband.

Rhea turned her head all over the room until her eyes stopped at one point. ‘Obat’. Although it was only from a distance, it was not difficult for Rhea to recognize the medicine as a sedative.

People with Double Personality Disorder can act as if they are different people, with different names, traits, and even genders. And strangely when that alter ego takes over, they will not remember anything they have done.

Rhea could understand how Devian did not remember her good attitude towards Rhea, and even sometimes she was confused about how to behave towards Rhea.

Rhea had no other ideas. He even feels fucked up. When one side of him wants to be free from Devian. The other side actually said that he had to continue accompanying the man. Because no one can help Devian and understand his condition other than him.

Rhea involuntarily shed her tears and slipped into Devian's arms without asking for approval from the man first. He chose to be reckless and did not care what Devian thought.

Five Minutes.Ten Minutes….

Devian was silent. Rhea wasn't really sure about Devian's reaction at the moment. He raised his head and found Devian fast with himself supporting Devian. Rhea laid Devian's body slowly on the bed and checked the drugs she had just consumed.

“This drug has a fairly high dose. If consumed continuously will have side effects similar to narcotics. This drug will trigger wild hallucinations for people who consume it, He also immediately fell asleep and seemed unconscious of himself.”

“This drug is indirectly used to control the patient so as not to engage too much activity and limit his interaction with others. He got the wrong medicine, this is not the right medicine.” Rhea muttered.

Rhea racked her brain to find a way for the Devian Boundaries to communicate unobstructed. The young man had to brave himself to fight his own fear. That's the only way to heal. He must fight instead of survive.