The Bond of Our Love

CHAPTER 38 - The Condition of Zahra

"That's Rahul darling"

"Where?" Amora stared fixedly at the direction her mother pointed to.

"That's in the ambulance?" Naomi pointed at Rahul who had just stepped down from the ambulance.

"Oh yes, it is true. So he's alive? Mama, Papa and Gala are fine too. Then why did they bring an ambulance here?" Amora knitted her brows. He was increasingly clueless about what was going on.

"Sstt, they're close" Naomi reminded as the group began to approach them.

Rahul looked at the luxurious house owned by his family with a hollow feeling. A house he had not seen for nearly three years.

He recalled the promise he made with Zahra. He thought he was going back to this house with his wife. Introducing the woman as the wife and mother of her future children to her extended family.

Even the imagination had already flashed many times in his eyes. How he came to this house by holding Zahra's hand in his mesra, or holding her as he did on their first night.

But now, those promises and dreams are gone. Instead of bringing his wife home, he brought her mother-in-law's body.

He only wished for his current wife to be fine. He would always pray for it, so that his wife could return in his arms again.

"The body was brought in" Helmi told the group of male nurses who were carrying a coffin containing the body of Ms. Sakinah.

"Okay sir" They all nodded and resumed their activities. Carrying a coffin covered with green keranda cover into the house.

"Bak, Mas, Gala, Rahul. Welcome" Sapa Naomi with a sweet smile to make her look as friendly as possible.

Gala tried to smile back at the smiles given by her wife and in-laws.

Helmi and Lesti simply returned their smiles with blank looks. At this time their feelings are mixed, between the pleasure of finally being able to be reunited and reunited with Rahul, and the sadness for the disaster experienced by besan and daughter-in-law whom they have never met.

Rahul looked at them flatly. "Ma, Pa, Brother. I went straight to the room. Want to be ready" Rahul permission on his parents and brother regardless of the drama of mother and child that he has known the nature of it.

"Dear baby, later Mama after ya" replied Lesti in a soft voice as Rahul walked into the house by passing his sister's wife and in-laws just like that.

"Honey, I-it's Rahul can already..... Seeing?" Amora approached Gala and tried to inquire about her curiosity.

"Yeah. How could he return our gazes? He also walked without using a cane? And.... That was who's body?" Typhoon Naomi.

"Let me tell you. Let's go in first" Take Gala.

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A handsome doctor seemed to be talking to a woman who was none other than his assistant, in front of an IGD room in which a woman lying unconscious, was seen, with a number of medical devices embedded in his body.

"So, that woman is pregnant. It looks like the operation had to be cancelled because it was too risky. Plus with his condition less good. Fear that it will even affect the fetus"

The woman who works as a doctor's assistant explained while submitting the results of the patient's medical examination to her superiors.

"Well, just give her the best treatment. Keep track of his condition. Don't forget, check the wounds too. Who knows there are deep wounds or serious injuries" said the young doctor whose full name is Fajar Lazuardi who is none other than the director and owner of the hospital.

"Well Doc" replied the doctor's assistant named Vera.

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"What?! So during these five months of disappearing, Rahul is instead married to another woman?!" Amora cried with a loud voice and sounded full of anger, when she heard Gala's story about the marriage that Rahul lived during his disappearance five months.

"Amora, why are you so angry? And, did you say, another woman? Meaning what?" Ask Lesti who feels strange with the attitude of her first daughter-in-law, who is considered not like to hear news about Rahul's marriage.

Apparently, Helmi and Gala also felt the same way. It looked the way they were staring at Amora with their brows furrowed.

"Mmmm.... Mm mm.... I-it" Amora so excited and do not know what to give an answer as a reason to kink.

"mmm... Ma'am, so that's the body of Rahul's mother-in-law?" Naomi tries to divert the conversation to save Amora from the questions and suspicious gazes of her husband and in-laws.

Though inwardly, he cursed the carelessness of his son that almost got them in trouble.

"Yes Naomi's Mom. The village that had been inhabited by Rahul with his wife and father-in-law was hit by flash floods. Her in-laws were found, but unfortunately were not rescued. His wife is still unaccounted for. Fortunately, Rahul was undergoing eye surgery in Jakarta. If not, maybe" Lesti told me softly.

"You want a country girl or a city girl, for me that's not a problem. For five months Rahul was happy with the woman. That means, he gets sincere love from his wife" Helmi replied to Naomi's comments wisely.

"Yes, I am concerned about what happened to my daughter-in-law. I've never known him, but he's gone like this. Plus, she's pregnant" Limpal Lesti.

"What?! Pregnant?!" Amora and Naomi were shocked.

"Yes, she's pregnant with the heir to Dirgantara Group. I just hope he can be found soon, and in is fine. So that this house can be re-decorated with happiness, as well as the cry of a child"

Helmi expressed her hope with a glaring gaze, which was answered with a nod of the same head and hope from Lesti and Gala.

Amora and Naomi were forced to smile to see if they were expecting the same thing.

In my heart, I want the opposite. They hoped that the woman named Zahra would never be found. Even better if the woman had been buried in rubble and mud until her body rotted in there.

That way, Amora's chance to get back close and get Rahul will be wide open without any obstructions.

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"This is Doc" Assistant Vera handed the results of her patient's CT scan to the doctor who immediately received and read it carefully.

"According to the results of the CT scan, there was a severe injury to the head due to a hard impact. It's very likely that he'll have a concussion and amnesia" Vera explained.

"He's pregnant. When she wakes up, she will ask about her husband and family. We don't know anything about this woman. But what I do know is that the flood was terrible. Many of the victims are still unaccounted for today, and many are even dead"

He continued, staring at the woman lying helplessly on the bed in front of him.

The woman's condition has allowed her to be moved to the hospital room, although some medical devices still have to remain attached to her body, such as oxygen masks and infusions as support for her health.

Dawn has ordered its staff to provide VVIP services to the woman.

"Then what do you mean?"

"Perhaps, her husband was one of those victims. I was worried about his condition if he heard that story. He could be traumatized or depressed. And it can cause severe bleeding in the head. And it could also have an impact on the condition of the fetus. Both of them could not be saved" Vera expressed her concern.

"Then what should we do?"

"It looks like we don't need to tell him about the natural disasters that made him like this"

"What if she asks about her husband? What answer should we give?" Ask Fajar while looking at the poor woman on the bed in front of him with a look of sympathy.

"We can ask someone for help to claim to be her husband" Vera's idea.

"You mean, a lying husband?" Dawn frowned, feeling that the idea her assistant gave her was too ridiculous.

"There's no other way Doc. It's to keep his mental. His safety is our top priority at the moment. Maybe we were wrong to lie to him, but that mistake is not a crime, when it comes to the patient's life. What we do is justified"

"Then when should we lie to her about her husband?"

"Yes, at least until she gives birth. After that we can slowly treat and explain everything. The most important thing for now is that it has to be stable first"

Dawn took a deep breath before finally answering. "Well then, let me pretend to be her husband"

"Huh, Doctor Dawn is serious?" Exclaimed Vera who felt surprised by the idea of his superior. He did not expect that his superior would give him an even crazier idea.

A handsome and well-established doctor who owns the Lazuardi hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Magelang voluntarily volunteered to court her as the husband of a foreign woman, whom she did not even know her origin.

.... Are there shrimp behind the stone? Vera was not out of thought with the mind of her handsome boss. Was he wrong, because he had proposed the idea of a fake husband?

"Well how else? We don't need to involve outsiders in this matter, it's pretty much our business with patients"

"But, the Doctor has no plans to make her a real wife, right?" Vera Goda.

"You mean?" Ask Dawn flat.

"Yes.just look, she is pretty. Do not get later from the wife pretending, the ending was actually made a real wife" Vera scanned the woman who was still asleep on the bed and glanced at Fajar with a teasing smile on her face.