Substitute Mother

Chaptre 90. Where Are ‘You’?

“Anna!”

Tyona stopped her steps to see who called her name. Darren quickly walked over to where he stood. Once the distance between the two was close, Tyona only realized there was a bruise and a torn wound on the tip of her friend's lips.

“Your face why?”

The man reflexively touched Jeffrey's bogeman scar. “This, it's nothing. I slipped earlier”

“Oh.” Tyona was bearded, confused about what to respond.

“You okay?”

Unexpectedly, Tyona just chuckled. “Not me whose face was bruised because it slipped. Why are you asking like that, Darren? Should have been’ I asked”

Darren laughed, but the next second squealed because it seemed that his laughter was wide enough to cause pain in his lips that were still wet. Tyona's laughter grew louder. Shaking his head while looking at his comrade's careless behavior.

“Honey? apparently you're here”

Tyona's laughter stopped instantly as soon as Jeffrey approached her and hugged her waist. Darren could clearly see the terrified gesture on Tyona's face. Which he thought was awkward because the Anna he knew never looked afraid let alone the head of her own husband.

“Ah, there is also Darren apparently” Jeffrey turned towards Darren, smiling widely. “Omong-by the way, you look different with a bruised face like that”

Darren threw his face away, if there was no Tyona there, he would definitely return Jeffrey's bogeman.

“Honey, later before we go home we stop by the supermarket, huh? I want to eat your cooking”

Tyona simply nodded in return. The net keeps evading Jeffrey's eyeballs. He looked down, his eyes dark. How could she be so ordinary after the rape her own husband committed last night? Jeffrey does it like a man of infidelity. There is no tenderness as usual, no sedative words that remove the pain, no touch that is full of love as before. It's not wrong if Tyona thinks that last night was not lovemaking, but rape.

But the bad thing is, Anna's courage is like a yawn. Jeffrey wasn't being rude after their bed activity. Instead, the man treated her very gently. But that scared Tyona. Because she felt that the person who lived with her was not her husband. He misses his Jeffrey, he misses his old Jeffrey. The present Jeffrey not only breaks his heart and mind, but also weakens Anna.

Ironic when the psychiatrist who is supposed to treat the mental patient, it becomes the main perpetrator of mental destruction of his own wife.

“So happy to have a wife who is not only beautiful but also great at everything. I think you should find a companion, too, Darren? So that next time we can double date”

Darren snorted, he said goodbye and rubbed his way back to Tyona alone before passing. It was as if Jeffrey was a ghost he couldn't see.

After Darren's death, Jeffrey's face changed completely. With a tight grip, he let Tyona drive to the car to get home.

“I don't like you alone and laugh like before with Darren”

Tyona. “Why? You're jealous because I can't laugh anymore when I'm with you?”

“Ck, come on Anna. I'm trying to fix our marriage”

Tyona's tears fell, she shook her head weakly. “You are not trying to fix our marriage, but you are trying to improve your own image”

“Don't provoke another fight, please”

“This fight will not happen if you do not cheat!”

“I'm tired Jeff, I've told you many times that I'm tired. I want my old Jeffrey. Which makes me the only queen, who's never done me any harm. But free I hope, because my Jeffrey is dead”

The man's hand stretched out to reach Tyona's face, but his opponent inched backwards leaving him cornered to the edge of the car door. That made Jeffrey tick. Tyona refused his touch. Even worse, Tyona looks scared of her touch.

**

Jeanno is a nightmare! He did not remember clearly what his dream was like, but he knew he woke up bathed in sweat and wheezing breath. His heartbeat was running, the horror was not lost even though he had returned to the real world.

The man looked at the new clock showing at two in the morning. His eyes swept around, his room so airy yet cold. Make it for the first time, uncomfortable in the room. Jeanno then uncovers the blanket to open the door to Aera's room slowly. Seeing the princess sleeping by herself, Jeanno then stepped into the room opposite Aera's room. Without bothering to knock on the door, he took his steps into a dark room that faintly saw the body of a woman wrapped in a blanket there.

Judith, half-conscious, blinked her eyes when she felt a burly arm hugging her waist from behind. No need for him to ask who, from his masculine scent, Judith knew that it was Jeannolah who snuck into the blanket to lie next to him.

“Master?”

“You awake? Sorrywoke you. I can't sleep”

Judith simply nodded, without the need to twist her body. He just let their position like that, his hand gave a small affection in the form of a gentle rub on his master's arm. And sure enough, not long after Jeanno's breath changed regularly. It seems that the handsome Master has managed to fall asleep again.

In the lack of light, Judith smiled. Two and a half months passed and his love for Jeanno Alexander grew uncontrollably. He did not want to expect more, but sometimes there are times when moments like this that make Judith presumptuous to hope a little, like what if it turns out Jeanno also has the same feeling like it?

Capitalizing on that beautiful shadow, Judith fell asleep in her smile. Fetching a dream where he can unite with Jeanno without the shadow of Nayara.

**

“Where are you out of, Brother?”

Hannah who was reading the book turned to Helga. “Ya?”

“So noon Brother came back with a puffy face. Don't think I didn't realize it”

Hannah cleared her throat, trying to shake off her nervousness exactly like a maling that was caught off guard. “Seconds looking for food”

“If looking for food why so long? As long as Brother Hannah knows, I woke up not long after Brother left. Then come back with just a glass of warm coffee after leaving for almost an hour. Where's Hannah's sister?”

Hannah turned her face away, setting her invisible breath so as not to be seen lying. “Kakak stayed in the cafe opposite the Hospital. Why is Big Brother's face? Yes, because I cried. Crying you who never hurt, once sick must operation”

“Oh. so. But despite the pain I remain happy”

“Why?”

Helga hugged her doll while smiling widely. “Because soon my dream of studying abroad will be realized. I've told my old school friends, they're all jealous of me, brother! they say I'm lucky to have a future brother-in-law who is not only handsome and rich but also good as Brother Louis. If I'm lucky, let alone your brother who will be his companion?”

Hannah smiled stiffly. “Sleep Helga. It's early morning, you're out of surgery. You better break”

But Helga didn't heed. The teenager was even more eager to issue words of enthusiastic praise aimed at Louis. Without him knowing the words as if knives were attacking his brother's heart there.

**