Substitute Mother
Chapters 51. He’s Back
Judith woke up two hours later. The woman was surprised not to see she was no longer in the car, but lying in a beautiful room with a body wrapped in a warm blanket. How did he get here? Did Jeanno take him?
Judith shook her head. Not likely. The annoying young master was definitely not willing to carry her all the way to the room. Jeanno must have sent the villa keeper who carried him here. Yeah, it's better that way than a weird feeling if Jeanno did bring it. But he smelled the perfume the man was wearing.
“No, no. It's just a coincidence. Jeanno can't possibly carry me, right? Besides why you've been so stupid to sleep all this time, Judith”
Judith spent about 10 minutes gathering consciousness, as well as cursing herself. Before he went to the bathroom to wash his face, and went down to meet Aera and Jeanno.
“Mama!”
The little girl who had changed clothes ran around hugging her waist. He pointed at the kitchen where the smoke was billowing everywhere.
“Mama must save kitchen. Aera and papa were making dinner but papa messed up, so the cooking was burnt and some dishes broke!”
“Jeez, really?” as if forgetting the question of who carried Judith into the room, the woman immediately took her foot to the source of the chaos. Sure enough, the beautiful kitchen turned chaotic with limited visibility because of the smoke that billowed everywhere. There, the troublemaker was coughing while shaking his hand. Trying to drive out the smoke.
“What do you do?” Judith shrink parts word ‘tuan’. The woman looked horror at Teflon on top of which was a deep black meat that was not worth eating.
“I wanted to make dinner, but I forgot that I was frying meat. Be a little gosong”
“Slightly? It's not a little, Jeanno. But it's a charade. Completely charred. Gosh, what if I don't wake up, you're definitely ruining the perfection of this kitchen”
Jeanno grimaced to see Judith grumbling. While Aera, as the complaining party, could only look concerned towards her father.
“Stop, let me continue. Freelance apronnya”
Jeanno had no choice but to comply. The release of the red apron that battered his burly body, then he helped wear it to the neck of Judith whose mouth was still busy nagging. His hands were also busy cleaning up the mess that Jeanno made so he seemed to forget or not have time to hook the apron rope. Jeanno, naturally followed his instinct to help tie the apron rope. Making it look like a husband who is helping his wife prepare cooking.
“Already, you better get out with Aera. Not good here long ago when the smoke was still billowing. Later when the food is ready, I will call”
“True no help?”
Judith gave a murderous look. “The help you offer is like a catastrophe. I'd better work alone. There go, hush hush”
Jeanno held Aera after whispering the word ‘maaf’ once again before exiting the kitchen. Judith took a deep breath, between regretting that she had scolded Jeanno and wanted to cry at how messed up this kitchen was.
The woman can only pray that her cooking will still be good because she cooks in a bad mood.
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Judith.
How dare the woman disappear like swallowed by the earth. His number could not be reached, he never appeared on any show in Victoire. Johnny is also reluctant to provide any information about where Judith is. His apartment is also more often empty.*****it has great guts to ignore him after what he has given so far.
Arman Mahendra crumbs his cell phone tightly. So tight that his knuckles turn white. He would not be thrown like this by the cheap woman he used to call at will to satisfy him. It does not deserve to be treated this way after giving an overflow of material to ****** that. No, Judith is inappropriate and should not treat her this way when she is the one who should be treated as she pleases.
After spending almost two months accompanying Winona and taking care of a subsidiary in the country of people, Arman returned with disappointment when he learned that Judith had disappeared like swallowed by the earth. No news, no traces, no information.
Arman once said that he would never let Judith go. Now it is time to prove his point.
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The kitchen, which was a while ago chaotic, has now changed as before. As if untouched by Jeanno's magical hand. Become more beautiful because of the appetizing dinner even just by smelling the aroma.
“Wah looks yummy”
Jeanno and Aera returned from the front yard, they were both being helped by Mr. Yudi preparing equipment to burn corn. After completion, the villa keeper who was a resident around it also returned home and promised to come tomorrow morning to clean up, as is his normal routine.
“Mama is great!”
Judith laughed. “Taste first, just give a compliment. If it doesn't taste good, how?”
“It must be delicious. Have we never tasted your cooking? Come eat, I'm hungry. Aera is hungry too, right, baby?”
The little girl nodded. He climbed into a chair next to Jeanno and seemed to have trouble reaching for the plate. Judith spontaneously approached, grabbing the plate she filled with food to give Aera.
“Aera should eat a lot. Later if less, say mama, okay? Don't forget to pray first, dear”
Judith takes her place next to Aera with the intention of making it easier for her if Aera needs anything. But when he saw Jeanno had not filled his plate, spontaneously like earlier, Judith half-standing, grabbed Jeanno's plate and filled it with rice and side dishes.
“So here is enough?”
Jeanno nodded. “Enough. Thanks”
Thus, the three of them's dinner was filled with praise on the sidelines of the mouthful. Anyone who sees is surely between envy and awe. How the little family looks perfect. Throwing laughter and jokes at each other. Even when a simple menu feels luxurious without lacking anything, if cooked and enjoyed together with loved ones.
Dear ones. Did ya?
“After this we want to go out to burn corn. You coming?”
Judith who had just pressed down her glass of water, nodded. “Yes, you guys go first. I followed after washing dishes”
“I help. Come”
Judith wanted to refuse, but the man got up and brought dirty utensils to the dishwasher. Judith had no choice but to bring the rest and start washing the dishes. Jeanno rinsed it.
“Master, rinse it again. That's still the rest of his soap”
“Mana? It's clean like this. Look, I suck at cooking. But I'm good at doing laundry utensils”
Judith rolled her eyes puffed. Then Jeanno showed the result of ‘works’nya. “See? Clean right? I think you underestimated me”
“Well, dishwasher. Just continue rinsing it”
Behind them, Aera giggles at seeing ‘her parents’ arguing for what. Understandably, the sound of the flowing faucets slightly immersed their voices. But from the look on his face, it looks like they are fussing about something that is not serious.
The scenery was like that of course Aera had never met before. Because as far as he can remember, before the ‘mama’ back healthy, Aera only remembers my face Papa who was sleep-deprived for accompanying her mother in the hospital, Aera only remembers my face Papa who was sleep-deprived because she accompanied her mother in the hospital, while the pale and thin face of his mother wrapped in a hose, I don't know what. It was quite a relief for her to see her mother come back refreshed like she never fought back from pain.
