STEVA'S PASSION

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Razz drove his car through a road that was quiet enough that he could gas his car at high speed so that he could get to the Hospital that Mommy mentioned.

Along the way, Razz keeps thinking about how Liora is currently, Razz is afraid, lest something bad happen to his best friend.

As Razz entered the Hospital and headed straight for the IGD room, in front of the door of the room Razz saw Liora crying screaming, she thrashed in the arms of a male Doctor who tried to calm her down, causing a commotion as Liora continued to shout calling out one name in her cries.

While Devne, mamah Liora, the middle-aged woman was sitting on a chair lined up there crying.

"What's this about? Liora?" lirih Razz when he got there.

"Razz's?" Liora turned around and the Doctor took off her hand grip as Liora turned around. Liora immediately floundered down in Razz's arms, the chest of the field was always able to be a soothing backrest for Liora.

"Liora, what's wrong? You why?" razz asked as Liora simply cried sobbing in her arms. Devne glanced at but threw her face away again, she felt sad and disappointed.

"Liora's? Hey, hey, relax!" Razz cupped Liora's face, staring into the beautiful face of the woman who had a bandage wrapped her head that was injured due to a hard impact on the car's door glass.

"Say, what's wrong?" Lirih Al was softer that Liora could be calmer than Isak.

"Relax!"

"Aaahh?"

Devne suddenly woke up from her seat and slapped hard on Liora's already wet cheeks due to tears and some blood spots.

"Aunty?" razz shouted as he saw Devne grabbing Liora's coarse hair and cursing at the girl.

"Aaaahh? Mamma?" liora's screams raspy. The doctor who saw him was about to break up but everything happened so quickly.

"Based on the stupid girl, you put where your brains that I've been studying so high all this time? You useless child! Plaque!" Devne slapped back on Liora's cheek.

Without thinking, Razz pulls Liora's hand until she is behind Razz's back, Razz stands as a shield to protect Liora, his best friend, the woman he once loved so much even though Razz ended up not completely sure after meeting with Steva.

"Tante, please stop your madness, how can you beat Liora like that, she is your beloved daughter," shouted Razz unbearably. Liora continued to cry behind Razz's body tightly holding onto the gallant man's wrist.

"I don't have a daughter who gets pregnant out of wedlock like her!" shouts Devne who fell on the chair and sobbed later.

"DIG!"

"What?" Razz rolled his eyes so shocked. What he heard was impossible and impossible for Razz to believe. He never touches Liora, Razz always protects and preserves her sanctity. So, how could Liora possibly get pregnant?

"Sorry, Madam. Please don't make a fuss again, it's your right to solve your problems, but please don't disturb the peace of the other patients!" the Doctor scolds Devne before she finally breezes away leaving them in her room.

"Liora?" lirih Razz looked at Liora who was just crying sobbing while looking down.

Suddenly the door to the IGD room opened. Some nurses pushed the bed with a patient covered in white cloth all over.

"Leon?" shouted Liora, Razz frowned at Liora who shouted and immediately scattered down to cling to a body that was clearly lifeless, let alone see fresh blood droplets that poured out from which part of the body, which was not the same, because the body was covered in a white cloth entirely.

Razz grabs Liora's body to take off her arms on the lifeless body so the nurses can push back on the bed the patient wheeled to take her to the morgue.

"Leon? Leon, Leon. Nah! Don't leave me, Leon? Leon, I can't live without you, Leon? Leon, don't leave me.." cried Liora who thrashed in the firm grasp of Razz's hand.

Razz's heart throbbed in pain to find Liora cheating done on him, he felt betrayed and fooled, all the memories of the former revolving around Razz's head.

Their childhood, struggles, and Liora who continues to buy time for their marriage, to allow herself to stay with Steva, in fact, it was all just a trick Liora to cover up her relationship with another man she loved.

'So, this is all you're doing so you can be with your lover, Liora? Not because you think of my happiness, but this is all for your own sake?'

"Based on a stupid girl! Plaque,,," Devne returned to brutal action, not knowing how many times the middle-aged woman hit and beat her daughter venting her disappointment and regret. Liora's face was bruised not only by an accident, but also by Devne's hard hand.

Until Razz stops Devne's brutality by gripping the middle-aged woman's raised arm ready to hit Liora back.

"Hiks hyx,,, Razz...." Liora flopped down in the chest of Razz's field, the woman's body was shaking so much, Razz just kept quiet and then let go of her hand on Devne's arm.

"She's your own daughter, Auntie!" razz said with emphasis, however, Razz did not have the heart to see Liora's current state. He once thought Liora was everything.

Liora was shaken, she had just lost the person she loved so much in this world, leaving a seed inside her womb that was splashed with the passion of love. And Razz could understand that, he brushed off his heartache on Liora because he could understand how it felt, being passionate with a loved one indeed made people go crazy. It was also what he experienced at the time with Steva although their union was still delayed.

Razz also tried to understand Liora's current feelings. Liora was beset with loss, grief, and downfall.

"I don't want to consider her my daughter anymore, she'll just tarnish the family's good name, she'll just be a family disgrace. Hiks hyks!" Devne sits down, her body so weak as to remain steadfast in accepting the reality that slaps her pride, a reality that symbolizes her failure to be a mother in educating her daughter, the reality feared by all parents around the world when having a daughter, is getting pregnant out of wedlock.

"May?" lirih Liora was about to touch Devne but was soon on rough shores.

Liora did not care, she sat on the floor hugging Devne's feet who kept crying looking away from the face of the princess she had always been proud of all this time. Their hearts are so tight.

"You're definitely gonna call off this wedding, aren't you, Razz? I will not force you to accept this woman to be your wife, I no longer have face and self-esteem. So you can go." said Devne, covered in emotion.

Razz only fell silent, she did intend to cancel her marriage to Liora, but not for this reason.

"You can go, Razz. Go then! Let Liora be a Aunt's affair entirely," Devne said with great emphasis as she stared intently at Liora.

"What will Auntie do?" Razz knows Liora's parents? Back then, when Razz was a kid. He had seen the commotion that occurred in Liora's house when she was entrusted to take care of and look after Devne.

Their first child, her sister Liora, they drive out of the house after being caught pregnant without knowing who the man responsible for marrying her is. Whether he was alive or dead by now, no one ever knew how he was doing.

Like a de ja vu, the same thing is happening again. Their daughter Liora had been pregnant before marrying the man who had died.

"It's none of your business anymore, Razz!" devne replied to Razz's question without turning her eyes that were staring intently at Liora.

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