
After Alea returned from the hospital, she immediately entered the room without seeing someone who was looking at her in full search. Javier was astonished at him. Yes, Javier was waiting for Alea to come home who had somehow left early in the morning and without the slightest message. Alea had reached her room, and closed the door quietly. While Javier was staring at the confused woman.
"What happened to that woman?. Is he sick?. Why is his face pale?". Javier monologue. Out of curiosity, Javier follows Alea in her room to answer all the questions that revolve in her mind.
"Alea open the door". Javier said with a slight knock on Alea's bedroom door. Feeling no answer, Javier opened Alea's door slowly. At her sight the woman was lying on top of the bed, kneeling her temple.
"Didn't you hear me?". Javier asked but was not answered by Alea.
"Alea!". Javier snapped at Alea with a sad look on the man's face. The woman ran out of energy to just talk.
"What do you want to eat?. Let me cook". Alea said with a slightly trembling voice due to the condition of his body that began to weaken. Makes Javier's eyes round.
"Al, are you okay?". Javier wanted to touch Alea's face but the woman brushed Javier off.
"Don't touch me!". Decide on Alea with a little bit of energy left.
"Al, I just want to help you". Reply Javier with great determination. The man was really worried about the condition of the woman who was his wife.
"I don't need your help, Mr. Javier". Alea said as he brushed off the hand of Javier who tried to hold his body that was about to collapse.
"But, Al. You're not okay".
"Hm, do you care Sir?. Wouldn't you be disgusted to be around me?. So get away from me. I don't want to waver anymore, I-I-I--men--". Alea could no longer finish her sentence, her body had now collapsed in Javier's arms.
Javier touched Alea's forehead which felt quite hot.
"He's feverish". Javier took Alea's body to his bed, then saw a vitamin on the nightstand.
"Did he go to the hospital?. It was only early in the morning that he was no longer home". Javier said without looking at an envelope with the tip of the paper slightly out of the lip of the bag Alea was wearing when he checked in the hospital.
Javier's little heart begins to be moved to care for the weakly drooping woman on her bed. Javier prepared cold water to compress Alea to bring his fever down. Javier checked Alea's body temperature which reached up to 39° Celsius.
"He's so hot". Javier again compress Alea until midnight. There is a little worry on Javier's face, as great as the shadow of their togetherness when at home both parents make Javier smile. There was a sense of happiness that lay in the heart of the cold-hearted man. He imagined when Alea laughed freely as if she had no burden. But the laughter was not seen again since the two occupied their new home. Then Javier remembers himself making love to Alea, a romance that really creates a new experience for both of them. But suddenly the man's face turned sad when he remembered his own words that he felt disgusted at the weakly drooping woman. The woman who is now helpless on her bed.
"I'm sorry Alea". Javier said in a soft voice. He felt guilty for the woman he married for 7 months. But Javier's apology was certainly not heard by Alea. The woman was still unconscious after fainting some time ago. Javier clasped Alea's hand until he fell asleep on the woman's left side.
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The sunlight that pierced through Alea's bedroom window forced the woman's eyes to open. And how surprised the woman was when she saw the figure of a man who was not foreign to her was sleeping soundly by her side while clasping her hands. A scene that steps in the morning since occupying the house.
Alea smiled looking at Javier's calm face while sleeping. His breath moves regularly. As if dancing on Alea's head, she recalled how Javier asked for a kiss in the morning from her. The woman is made to smile with a memory that is considered really happy. But the smile was instantly gone when he recalled Javier's cruelty which destroyed Alea's feelings.
Alea averted her eyes and let out a few tears, then she wiped the tears with the back of her hand. 'This is just Alea's play. Don't be fooled again'. Alea tried to strengthen herself.
"Awake?". Javier's question made Alea flinch from her daydream. He immediately opened the blanket he was wearing.
"Where are you going?". Ask Javier. But got no answer from Alea.
Hoek... Hoek... Hoek...
Alea picked up a tissue to wipe her wet mouth. He rinsed and washed his face to look fresh and Javier did not feel suspicious about his condition. Last time he turned off the faucet and came out of the bathroom.
"Are you okay?. Why is it so long in there?. Do you still have a fever, are you hungry?. Let me make you breakfast". Javier's successive questions made Alea's forehead wrinkle. 'Is he trying to bring me down again?. No, no, this time I won't be fooled by her anymore'. Alea ignored Javier's every utterance, until Javier caught his breath and grabbed Alea's slender waist.
DEG...
The distance between the two is very close. And Alea's heart was beating fast. It turned out that the heart was still faithfully beating for her cold-tempered husband. Javier rubbed Alea's lips that had been off for a long time. He missed those lips that were like opium. But Alea brushed off Javier's hand and took off the man's embrace with the rest of his strength.
"Deliver!".
"I'm sorry". Javier said in a soft voice. He slightly missed the woman's embrace, the woman who had been ignored for two months. The woman who was married by contract but managed to damage her heart deliberately.
"Hm". Alea smiled wryly at Javier's apology. "As you said before. You have the right to do anything without my permission. Am I not your toy?. Why do you apologize as if you feel guilty?". Next later. Alea's words pinched Javier's heart. He felt guilty for his attitude that crossed the line all this time.
"Alea, i---".
"I beg you to leave me. I want to be alone. Isn't your room not here, Mr Javier?. Ah, it's I forgot. This is your home, sir. Again you deserve to be anywhere including in the room of a woman who is so disgusting to you". Javier's face turned pias as Alea's words jolted his heart. Hearts are starting to open for Alea. While Alea's eyes began to glaze over, until the sound of the door was heard closing quietly.
"Hiks... Hix... Hix... I will not be fooled again. Son, I'll take care of you. We'll be fine even without your father". Alea rubbed the tears that escaped perfectly above her smooth cheeks.
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