The Bond of Our Love

CHAPTER 49 - If You Were Mine!

He felt very angry seeing what Dawn did to Shreya. Until it feels like he really wants to approach them, and beat up his best friend.

But he tried to hold back, feeling he had no reason to do that. The woman whom Fajar kissed was his own wife. As a husband, is not the man entitled to do anything to his wife?

Then where's the fault? And what right does it have to be angry? Isn't he the wrong one, if you look at other men's women?

After Dawn left and disappeared from their sight, Lesti also left Shreya unaware of Rahul's whereabouts standing in the corner of the room.

But Shreya finally saw the man, who was also looking at him with a reddened look like he was holding back anger.

Somehow he felt a sense of guilt in his heart, when he saw the expression on the man's face. But he didn't feel he was making a mistake.

Without saying anything, Rahul steps away, leaving Shreya still in doubt and confused. I want him to approach that man. But it felt disrespectful, until he tried to hold back.

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Rahul, who was busy on the phone talking about the company, went down the stairs in wide strides, stopping immediately when he reprimanded Lesti as soon as he reached the bottom floor.

"First"

"Why is Ma?" Rahul turned off his phone and looked at his mother who was standing with Shreya.

"Mmmm.... Look, today is Shreya's schedule for her gynaecologist control. Just now Fajar sent WA, and recommended the best doctor in Jakarta who will monitor Shreya's content during her time in Jakarta. But the problem was, no one could accompany and escort her.

All drivers are on duty. Some are on leave and sick. My mom is not feeling well either. That's why my mom couldn't accompany him. Can't you just take Shreya to check up?"

"Me?" Rahul pointed at himself, then glanced at Shreya who immediately looked down when he got a gaze from the man.

"Yes, please son. Cook him off alone? What if there was anything on the road with him? She's pregnant"

"Mmmm.... Auntie, it looks like Rahul is busy. I don't feel good about having to bother him. Let me just take a taxi" Shreya finally spoke up because she felt bad.

"Don't darling. Cook you want to go alone by taxi. If there is anything later? Today there are a lot of strange events. Especially if you are a pregnant woman. Later if there's anything with you, Auntie should tell Fajar?"

"But Aunt....."

"Mama's right, it's not good if you go alone. Come on, let me drive you" Rahul said smoothly. His tone did not sound there was the slightest objection.

"Tu, you hear yourself? Rahul just doesn't mind. You just go with him. Take it easy, Auntie's son is a fine man. Auntie assured me, she won't do anything to you. Don't be afraid of it"

Because Lesti continued to persuade gently, Shreya finally accepted her offer to go with Rahul.

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Rahul's red Lexus drove at standard speed down a paved road. On the way, Rahul picks up a cell phone and contacts his assistant.

"Adam, please pending my meeting today. Tell them I'll be there in about two hours. No need to ask a lot, just do as I say" Rahul spoke firmly to his interlocutor across the street.

Shreya who was sitting next to him could only be a listener in silence. It seems that the man was busy with his work problems, but had to take him to the doctor because he could not refuse his mother's request.

She became increasingly uncomfortable, because she had to trouble the man with her pregnancy problems. Padahalkan, they're nobody.

"Sorry yes, your job is disrupted arena must take me check up. I actually refused, but Aunt Lesti insisted that I go with you. If you're really busy, no problem, just put me down here. Let me get a cab. And you can continue your work"

As soon as Rahul's voice call with his assistant ended, Shreya immediately gave a suggestion, fearing that the man would be annoyed by his presence.

But the woman's words made Rahul laugh.

"You're funny huh. You think I'm that cruel, so you can drop a pregnant woman in the middle of the road like this? I still have a heart. After all, you are Dawn's wife, my best friend. So there's no way I'm gonna leave you here. He would've killed me, if he knew that"

"You.... Been friends with Dawn for a long time?"

"Yes, we've been friends since childhood. It started with our very close family relationship. But when he was in high school, he moved out of the country with his parents. Since then we have become far apart" Rahul told her softly and calmly.

Usually he will always be cold and indifferent, to people he just knew. But don't know why, she can't act like that to this woman. Even in his deepest little heart, he was delighted and comforted by the presence of this woman near him.

Shreya only heard the story of the friendship of the two men.

"Oh yeah, you yourself, have known Dawn for a long time?"

"Oh yeah. Then how was your meeting?" Rahul became more and more interested.

"You mean?"

"Yes I mean, what was your first meeting like? Are you instantly in love at first sight, or are you in a fuss first like in the movies"

"Mmm..... "Shreya's nervous and confused attitude made Rahul look at her with his eyebrows linked.

"That time.... Dawn saved me from some delinquent man who was about to bother me. Since then I have liked it. Yes" In a stiff voice, Shreya finally found a story she could tell to answer the man's question.

Because he did not remember how his meeting with Dawn began. But he couldn't possibly tell someone he just knew, that he was in a state of amnesia.

"Oh... Romance too yes, your first meeting" Rahul mangosteen with a smile. Then he looked at Shreya. "Do you love Dawn so much?" Ask lirih.

"Yes, of course. He's my husband" Shreya turned his face away. Being honest, he himself was doubtful about the answer he gave to Rahul.

But there's no way that he doesn't love Dawn, right? That man is her husband. Although at this moment, she did not feel any love towards him. But maybe it was an effect, because he was currently losing his memory. Yeah, it must be because of that.

While Rahul just smiled knot. For some reason, Shreya's statement that calls himself in love with Dawn, seemed to make his heart feel sliced.

In fact, it is natural that such an answer would come out of the mouth of a wife against her husband. It would even sound strange, if a wife said she had no love for her own husband.

"Oh yeah, then what about you? I heard from Om Helmi, he said you just lost your wife. But he hasn't told me in detail. If you can tell, what really happened to him?"

Now it is Shreya's turn to ask about Rahul's story. He asked as quietly as possible, so as not to make the man sad.

"He was one of the missing victims, in the flash flood tragedy that occurred last month. My family and I are trying to find him. But until now, there is still no result" said Rahul.

"Do you love your wife so much?"

"Very. She's the greatest and perfect woman I've ever met. I am very lucky, because God has chosen her as my wife" Rahul replied quickly and confidently.

From the tone of his voice, Shreya could feel the deep love Rahul had for his wife. It seems like Rahul's wife is a very lucky woman, having a husband who loves her very much.

Even while being declared lost, her husband faithfully and patiently searched and waited for her.

Actually she also felt very lucky, because she had a husband as good and gentle as Dawn. But she was uncomfortable with the attention the man gave her.

May the Lord forgive her, for having had such feelings for her husband.

"I pray, may the Lord bring you back together" said Shreya Lirih who was replied with a smile concluded Rahul.

"Thank you"

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"Now the gestational age of Shreya's mother has entered the 22nd week, or rather, has entered the fifth month. The baby's face is now perfectly formed and increasingly visible. In addition, his sense of hearing had also begun to work. So that the fetus can hear sounds coming from outside the mother's stomach.

Like when you talk. So it is recommended to often invite small people to talk, Mom, to train their hearing senses to develop more"

The middle-aged female doctor with a hijab appearance, patiently explained and advised on the development of the fetus that is still in Shreya's womb through USG 4D.

"Then what about the gender Doc? Is the baby a boy or a girl?" Rahul who had been standing next to the gurney where Shreya was lying, could not help but know more about the development of the baby who was seen to be moving with agility on the monitor screen. To make Rahul become so enthusiastic.

"According to the genitals that have been formed here, it seems certain that the sex of the baby is male"

"Mac Doc?"

"Yes Sir"

Rahul looks so sumringah. His teary eyes continued to stare at the monitor screen. Seeing the fetus that already resembles a tiny baby, makes his heart feel very happy.

Perhaps that happiness would have felt more real, had the little angel been his.

But unfortunately, the baby belonged to Dawn. As well as the woman who was pregnant with it, both of them were not hers.