Thank You for True Love

23 LOVE HIM EQUALLY

"You won Dinda's heart. You can get his love. Is it not enough to make you happy, to be the luckiest man, the man chosen by him, among so many other men who love him but are unrequited, as am I..?? Have you never been grateful for that wonderful gift.?!?"

This time the sentences thrown by Bimo really hit Adit's heart. He was like being slapped hard by Bimo's statement.

His body rests on the back of the chair. He lowered his head, staring at the clear floor reflecting off his own face. The face that now felt defeated over his victory.

Bimo is right. It was not just him and Bimo who had been putting their hearts on Dinda. At least, as long as she knew Dinda, there were some men who had expressed their feelings for Dinda. But Dinda didn't budge in the least. Dinda never turned away from him. Dinda chose her heart to love. Dinda chose to stay with him.

"I still love Dinda, always love her. But in the slightest I have no intention of taking Dinda away from you, from her loved ones. If that's what I do, it's the same as me taking Dinda's happiness. And I don't want that!! I just want to see Dinda happy, with whoever it is..!!!"

Bimo still continued his words that increasingly made Adit stunned. Realizing how much the man in front of her loved Dinda so much, even staying in love without having her.

"Maybe you also know from Dinda, if I really wanted it to be mine. Two years I chased him to the point of forcing him, but still he rejected me and probably hated me."

Adit recalled Dinda's story to him yesterday, according to what Bimo had just said.

"When I saw it in Bali yesterday, I was like getting a flush of fresh water in the middle of the aridness of my life now. I feel like I have a chance.."

Instantly Adit's eyes glared back sharply at Bimo, who was immediately realized by Bimo.

"Sorry, don't get me wrong.."

"To be honest, I just wanted to apologize to Dinda. Apologize for all my mistakes. Apologize for my bad treatment of him first."

"And when I met him yesterday, I felt like I had a chance to do that. Apologize to her."

A few moments they both fell silent. Immersed in each other's feelings, thinking of the same person, on one name, Dinda...

"So, can I hope for you? Or rather beg you, so that I can meet him to apologize to him?" Pinta Bimo with a sincere word.

"Maybe this is my last chance. I'll wait for him until tomorrow. Because after that I'll leave here, and probably won't come back. I'll never bother him again." The ray of hope was clearly visible from both of Bimo's eyes.

Adit began to feel the honesty and sincerity of Bimo's words. His heart began to calm down again, no longer holding back the roar like before.

"Can I trust you?" Adit is still trying to convince himself more, so as not to make a wrong decision.

"I just want to say my apology to Dinda, no other intention. You can hold my word. If you're not sure, you can stay by his side when I see him, if you let me see him." Bimo's promise with a hopeful spirit.

"All right, all the decisions are in Dinda's hands. You can wait for the next news." Pungkas Adit closed their meeting this afternoon.

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Arriving home, without words Adit immediately hugged Dinda who opened the door welcoming him. His embrace was so tight as to fear loss.

Dinda who was in Adit's arms immediately closed and locked the door with one hand, then returned to return her husband's embrace equally tightly.

"What's wrong with you, baby? Is everything okay??" Dinda still does not understand what happened to make her husband act unusual.

Adit did not answer at all. He just kept hugging his wife getting tighter and tighter, not wanting to let go at all.

His feelings are still carried away on previous events. When he realized there were other people who also love his wife, even more love him than he was already her husband. Many years of loving without recompense, yet enduring loving her in silence and solitude. Adit feels defeated by Bimo in terms of loving his wife.

Dinda let Adit hug her all over. She knew something was going on with her husband. He gives time for Adit to calm himself down first, because in the end any problem will surely be told to him.

Ten minutes passed, Adit still hugged the wife tightly, his head leaning against Dinda's shoulder, until every breath was clearly heard in Dinda's ear.

Suddenly Adit sobbed slowly. His heart could not hold on anymore. His feelings are weak. Weak because we feel defeated. Lose and feel guilty for Dinda.

Spontaneous Dinda pulls her body from Adit's embrace. He saw Adit's face, right, there was a puddle of clear water in his eye fertilizers, and a few other drops had wet both cheeks of the husband. Her husband was crying, though it only sounded soft.

"Darling..., what's wrong with you??" Dinda wiped Adit's tears with both hands. Then she kissed Adit's eyes alternately and lastly gave a soft and long kiss on her husband's forehead.

After that she clasped Adit's hand, taking him to sit in the living room.

Shut up, let Adit set his feelings first.

Dinda left Adit for a while, rushing to the kitchen to make some warm tea for her beloved husband.

When finished, he immediately brought it to Adit to drink it immediately.

Adit received the glass from Dinda's hand, and gradually drank it to the end, then put the glass on the table.

Dinda who was sitting next to him again clasped her hand.

"Don't worry me, baby.." A smile was revealed by Dinda, trying to melt Adit's heart's worry.

Finally with all the strength of his heart that had returned, Adit began to open his voice.

"I'm sorry, baby, it's made you anxious.." Adit kissed the back of Dinda's hand that was still holding her hand.

"I'm sorry, too, for lying to you. Actually, I went to meet Bimo.." Adit's gaze could not be separated from Dinda's face which suddenly turned tense mixed with fear.

"What did he do to you..??" Dinda asked with a tremble of fear in her voice. Of course he was afraid that Bimo would do something to Adit because he saw Adit coming home in a bad condition.

"I'm fine. He didn't do anything to me. I'm just getting carried away with my own feelings." Adit tries to smile, assuring his wife that he is right.

"So early this morning he sent me another message.." Adit's hand picked up the phone in his pants pocket, opened a message from Bimo and showed it to Dinda.

Next he recounted his entire encounter with Bimo this afternoon, from beginning to end with nothing to hide.

Dinda herself looks surprised to hear all Adit's words about Bimo.

In his mind, he thought Bimo was still like he was.

"He is no longer the teenage boy who churned his heart like before. He was already a mature young man, as mature as you are now." Said Adit.

"Even I feel that his love is deeper than mine. His heart is also more sincere than mine.." Adit admitted what he felt about Bimo.

"Don't compare your love with the love of others. Because I only choose and accept love from you, not love from others..!" Dinda assures Adit.

"I always believed that, baby. It's just that I thought, if I were in his position and became him, maybe I wouldn't be as sincere as he and as sincere as he was ..." Adit smiled faintly feeling that defeat back in his heart.

"Are you ready to meet him?" Ask Adit then. He won't force Dinda. Whatever his wife's decision, he will obey.

Dinda was silent and gave no answer. In his heart was still wondering whether he should see her or not.

He thought, how important an apology from him is for a Bimo, so Bimo wanted to meet him in person to apologize to him.

"Do you think I should see him..?"

Dinda chose to ask Adit.

"I believe him.." Answer Adit briefly.

"alright sweetheart. I'll see him, if you'll let me."

Dinda finally made her decision. Adit nodded his head in agreement.

Then Adit picked up his phone and immediately sent a message to Bimo.