Sweet Sin's
Glances
Chapter 5 Sadness
After more than half a month of honeymoon in Paris and several European cities, Niken and Richard returned to Jakarta. Richard took his wife to his apartment.
Just five hours before they arrived and rested, the sound of the bell shocked them.
Niken opened the door and she was stunned, the figure of a beautiful middle-aged woman standing before her with a full-fledged look.
"Where's Richard?" her tan was brief as she passed by Niken who stood glued in shock. He recalled seeing Richard, Elfa and this woman at the restaurant at lunch some time ago.
Richard who was only wearing under-wear pants and bare-chested was a bit surprised to see the presence of the woman who turned out to be his mother.
"Mother, why come here, didn't Richard tell you never to meet Richard here. It's my privacy, ma'am."
The woman called Richard the mother stared intently at her son.
"You keep a cheap lady in this apartment, so you want me not to come here?" with high intonation. His eyes were sharp at Niken who was only wearing Richard's loose white shirt.
"She's my wife Ma'am, not the cheap woman I imagined!" Richard pulled Niken to his side.
"What did you say Richard, wife? Who gave you the right to marry secretly? You want your father's entire corporate inheritance stripped? after all the struggles mom held on your father's side for your sake, now you easily say marry? you put where your sanity is!" his mother Richard snapped and desperately blended into one.
Richard sat down before his mother. The woman was crying bitterly. As if he lost everything. It was as if Richard's marriage was bad news in his ears. Niken immediately changed her clothes and sat down next to Richard.
The man with the sturdy jaw grabbed his wife's fingers, clasping tightly as if afraid of being separated if he did not hold them.
"Before your father finds out, I beg you to stop your madness Rich." I looked into Richard's eyes expectantly.
"Sorry Mom, Rich loves Niken so much, even more than you can imagine."
"But you could lose the chance of being the sole heir, remember Rich your father had another child besides you from another woman!" mother said in despair and softly her voice seemed to be stuck in the throat.
"I don't care Mom, my happiness is my wife, not my property. I'll build my own business." Richard remained on his firm stand.
Mother took a long breath. It was like keeping a very heavy burden on his chest. I told Richard and didn't look at Niken.
After the mother who shook the peace of the household as long as corn that was built two people drunken romance, Niken sat in the corner of the sofa, drowning her face into her palms.
His shoulders were shaken violently. It was as if he swallowed the delicious honey then vomited into a bitter poison whose bitterness overcame the bile.
Richard grabbed Niken's head into his warm deck. The head of Niken.
And the crumb of the night seemed to drown the fret at the height of the sorrow that spread between the hearts that clung to each other in bitterness.
Niken sucked her head in that firm chest, shedding a whirlpool of tears that became a desperate painting of her soul faltering in doubt. Niken seemed to feel careless and unable to convince her heart to embrace her great husband in the scattered debris of despair.
"Please, honey, you will be strong standing by my side, promise not to let go of your hold on my heart."
Richard looked right in his lover's eyes. Trying to find faith there, trying to find the certainty of love.
Niken nodded doubtfully, the stern of tears kept seeping on the girl's cheeks. Richard kissed the eyelids gently.
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Richard gave his wife the freedom to do whatever Niken liked and wanted. This made Niken love her husband even more. Her job as a freelance make up also continues to be pursued.
Even Niken is increasingly expert, not only juggling mediocre faces to be very beautiful, but also able to change the appearance of someone to be very different, so that the, from very beautiful to very ugly to unrecognizable because of her makeup. Several times Niken in rent for one of the famous Production House to make over the face of his artist for the purposes of forming character figures.
Niken beside Richard was not only a wife but also a self. Richard started taking Niken mental therapy with him using the same Psychiatrist.
Although the progress of Niken's childhood memory remains untapped with ease, his fear of being in a narrow and dark room begins to be slightly resolved when beside him there is Richard.
As she tries to single-handedly ride the elevator to their apartment, without Richard by her side, Niken will close her eyes and imagine her sweet memories with Richard the first time they met in the elevator. Even when he got out of the elevator he still broke out in cold sweat and a little shortness of breath. But it's much better than before.
Richard had already cultivated sweet memories within Niken's subconscious to suppress the deep trauma that Niken had.
That afternoon Niken was about to get out of the chair in his study, when his car rang.
Niken was stunned for not recognizing the number that called. Despite the hesitation, Niken still raised the call.
"Hello Niken, this is Richard's mother, please meet Mom, there will be a silver car to pick you up at your place of work, don't tell Richard, if you really want my support."
Richard's mother hung up the phone without hearing Niken's reply.
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The middle-aged woman who remained beautiful at her age allowed Niken to sit down.
They met in a private room at a restaurant. Niken stared directly at her mother-in-law's face.
Silent for a moment when I Minati, the name of her mother-in-law began to open the conversation.
"You love your husband Niken?" tanya Bu Minati seriously with a face looks very tired by worries, no matter what.
Niken nodded.
"Very Ma'am, I love Richard very much." said Niken softly but seemed to have a firmness in the sentence.
"You know that Richard had a deep trauma for a reason? It's because of his father. You can imagine, right? how would Richard's father react if he knew Richard was secretly married? Married without asking her for her blessing? All my sacrifices, his mother, to protect Richard will be in vain, and you will be in danger you could never have imagined. Give up, let Richard go. For your good. You don't know who Richard's father is."
Ms. Minati grabbed Niken's hand that was on the table.
"Please Niken, get away quietly from Richard's life." please Miss Interests pity.
Niken nodded slowly. The release of Bu Minati's grasp slowly.
"I will not break my promise to Richard Bu, please forgive me." Niken was about to leave Bu Minati, when he caught Niken's hand and took her hastily to leave the restaurant and rushed her into the car with half a run.
Bu Minati's breath gasped until it was difficult to speak. For a moment only silence in a speeding car cleaves the highway.
"Someone is following us, you see two people who are across from our VVIP room? They saw him continue to be around us since starting from the restaurant parking lot, maybe they asked someone to stalk us both. I'm sure my husband, Richard's father sent those men." Ms. Minati explained. Then he orders his driver to drive Niken to Richard's apartment.
Niken shudder. He began to feel threatened. Although Niken was not a weak girl, she mastered several martial arts techniques, but the situation that was currently circling her life and Richard was gripping.
To be continue to the CHAPTER
