Substitute Mother
Chaptre 84. I Don’ Wanna Cry
Renatta spent the last twenty minutes sharing the silence with Tyona. They decide to talk at a small table in the back yard of Renatta's house accompanied by a cup of warm tea and coconut biscuits. The woman raised her face, finding Tyona staring blankly at the cup of tea she had not yet wiped.
“I assume you came here because you already know who I am. Didn't you?”
Tyona raised her gaze. Then nod. “Yes, I already know it”
Then Tyona's netra went down to the stomach of her interlocutor hidden behind the canal clothes worn by Renatta. His lips carved a poignant smile. Knowing the fact that Jeffrey soon had offspring, but on the other hand his heartache realized it was not from him.
“How long has it been?”
“More than one year. I'm sorry”
Tyona nodded, she looked at it the most, powerless if she had to linger looking at the fruits of her husband's love with other women. “What are you... any desire to leave Jeff?”
Renatta shook his head straightforwardly. “No. I love him, and I believe he loves me too. And again.” Rena hung up her sentence just to rub her stomach. “We are waiting for the presence of our son”
Tyona wiped her tears before falling down her cheeks. Really, he did not want to cry in front of others anymore. But it turned out that his heart had not been able to accept the fact that was clearly plastered before his eyes. Especially pronounced by the affair of her own husband.
“If you ask me to part with Jeffrey. That means you let an innocent baby have to be born and grow up without his father's affection”
Tyona looked at Renatta nanar. He certainly knows how to suffer when a child must grow up without a complete parent. Not because Tyona felt the same way, but considering her profession as a pediatric specialist who often found children who suddenly became orphans due to an accident that claimed both parents. He saw how the sadness in their eyes. It's like your world was taken away before you could hold it. Tyona is at the Hospital, working hard on how to restore their smile. It seems ironic that Tyona did the opposite to her husband's own son.
“I'm sure you won't have the heart to let this baby grow up without a father”
Artyona. The independent woman with all her perfection, is now crushed in the hands of two people. Anna no longer knew herself. He never lost his focus, but for some time now, his mind was in turmoil. Even though sleep is not good, nightmares become his constant friends. When he is awake, his mind is relentlessly producing negative thoughts that end in his eyes producing tears incessantly. Honestly, Anna is tired. Tired of his mentality that was hit all-out without being given a pause.
“I speak this not only as a fellow woman, but also from the point of view of a mother. I know my relationship with Jeffrey didn't start well. At first I didn't intend to take it from the doctor, but I wanted to be selfish. Especially when I found out I was pregnant. I want to be selfish for my son. Can?”
Tyona twisted the ring embedded in her ring finger. Silver colored rings engraved with Jeffrey's initials and initials there. The ring they chose with a joyful feeling while talking about their dreams in the future. The ring that became a symbol of their bond when they said a sacred promise at the altar. The ring that Tyona hoped she would never return to her giver no matter what.
“If you part from Jeffrey, no other heart is hurt other than your own. But if I part from him, there's more than one person who's hurt. And. Before you ask me to give up, you better ask Jeffrey first. Is he going to give up on us? Because as long as I know him, he was very excited to welcome the presence of our baby”
“…. If you know Jeffrey, you know how much he wants a baby. What he can't get from you”
Thats enough. Tyona could no longer hear him. Without a single word, the woman got up and walked out. Letting his face be soaked in tears that he could no longer stand.
**
Johnny looked flat at Judith and Jeanno who had no wind no rain, suddenly visited his apartment. Compared to Judith who looks very emotional, Jeanno is much calmer. The man crossed paths, standing a bit away from Judith and Johnny.
“How can you sell your own dancer to that crazy boss?”
Once upon receiving Haikal's explanation, Judith and Jeanno decided to turn around. There is no point in their journey continuing because after all, Hannah is no longer in her hometown. Their goal turns to the only residence Judith believes knows everything.
“You know what Hannah is like. And you helped that crazy guy set Hannah up. Jesus, Johnny. Mark is being critical and we need Hannah to be with him”
Jeanno cleared her throat, feeling a little awkward having to be in the same place and listening to the problems that were not really her business. His pair of sickle netra had exchanged glances with Johnny before the tall man focused again on Judith.
“I no longer want to interfere with their affairs, Judith. I am tired of playing Louis”
Judith smiled mockingly. “Of course you're backing down. After all Louis already has Hannah, his goal has been achieved so he doesn't need you anymore”
“Where's Hannah?”
“Judith.”
“That guy must have brought Hannah to his house, right? Tell me where Louis' house is. Please, Johnny. Only you can help me.”.
The man's gaze was still as flat as when they had come. Without intending to answer Judith's question, Johnny simply silently stared. Makes Judith frustrated. When he was about to open his mouth to berate his former manager, Jeanno had already broken up.
Judith turned her head, finding Jeanno with an anxious expression had just saved her phone.
“We're going to the hospital. Mark convuls”
**
Johnny was used to keeping secrets. Wrestling in the night world, containing cunning striped men and money-worshiping women who no longer care about immoral norms. As the man who served as the manager of one of the most luxurious nightclubs in the Capital, of course Johnny knew the ins and outs of every worker there. Ah, not just workers. But also his boss.
Johnny knows Renatta was once betrayed by his lover, by finding him both in bed with his best friend. Johnny knows Hannah the good girl who was forced to fall into the night world just because of endless economic problems. Johnny knows Judith ran away from home in her teens to avoid the disharmony of her family, which eventually splashed into the night world due to the trauma she got while in the Capital. Johnny knows Louis once had a girlfriend he once hamili and he just left it in Winchester, England. Johnny knew how Louis did not accept the fact that his mother was just a simple Indonesian woman who was then dumped by her father into death, who is currently living a good life in London with a new family. That was why the man worked so hard to sacrifice everything to be in position now. Gathering the coffers of money for him back to England, only to prove to his father that he could be without the help of a dime.
Johnny was there when Louis justified all means to build a nightclub to become an elite place that can only be touched by certain groups. Johnny is there and sees every recording process Victoire workers, including the dancers.
When he sees Hannah, Johnny doesn't feel Louis is interested in her. The man's face was still as flat as seeing the dancer before. So he did not know that Louis felt about Hannah now was just an obsession, or indeed he had been lured into the charm of the sweet girl.
Tanisha Hannah.
Louis called shortly after Judith's departure. Ask Johnny to keep Hannah at his house while he takes care of things. I don't know if Louis knows anything about Mark, but Johnny doesn't want to tell him. At least for now.
The man glanced at his watch, deciding to rush towards Louis' house before the young man called back.
**
