The Contract Wife of the Cruel Master

Chapter 9

Anna looked around. A green land. The trees are high. The flowers are blooming beautifully. Anna approached a group of sunflowers across the street, slowly rubbing the petals and plucking them. Anna breathed in the scent of the flower. Anna's eyes accidentally saw a glowing woman under a tree, although it was unclear, Anna knew very well who the woman was.

“Mama ...,” Anna approached the woman in the white dress. The woman smiled at Anna with her hands outstretched.

Anna developed her smile, slowly reaching for the hand she had longed for. Anna held the woman's hand. The warmth is still the same as before, this taste is a taste that he desperately longs for. Anna's happy.

“Anna misses Mama, sorry Anna.” The woman simply smiled as she rubbed Anna's hair.

“Fight Anna. Mama will always be in your heart, Mama will always be there for you, even if it is not real.” The woman seemed to emit a deep sadness, visible from her loosening grip.

As if not wanting the warm grasp to come off, Anna increasingly tightly grasped the woman's hand. Anna shook her head slowly, Anna still missed the loving figure in front of her. “Anna wants real Mama. So, take Anna!”

Facing her complicated life makes Anna selfish. Anna does not want to experience pain anymore, it is enough with Leon who continues to haunt her life, it is enough with the boy who reneges on his promise and leaves her. Anna wants to end it, where she lives in peace with her loved ones.

“Not yet Mama brought you dear. Fight for Mama's sake, reclaim what must be yours. Remember that! You are not alone, there is always someone beside you. Understand him, understand with all his attitude, do not you hate him with just an empty response.”

Slowly but surely the light began to dim as the woman's body changed. Once again Anna shook her head, this time was so short for her, Anna was not ready to lose it. Please give Anna a chance to extend this period.

“Do not go ... Don't stay in Anna ...”

“Blue sea would not be complete without green trees.” His body slowly turned into light-mixed crystal grains. Slowly the crystal floated along with the wind that carried it.

Anna looked at her empty hand. No more those warm hands, why is this short time for her? This is very unfair to Anna. Do not know how longed Anna was for the radiant figure, if Anna came with him maybe now Anna was happy with him.

“Don't go, Anna wants to come with Mama.” Anna sat down lethargic with her knees supporting her body. The world is cruel to weak humans like Anna. His heart is wounded, he is fragile, his soul is disappointed, is it not enough with all the pain? And now he had to lose the figure he had longed for.

“Mama ...”

“Mama!”

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“Sshh ...,” Leon moans quietly while holding his head. Suddenly his head throbbed in pain as the memory began to spin like a broken cassette. Leon tried to remember what happened earlier, but still he could not remember anything.

“Any,” muttered Leon as he looked around his room. “I felt I was in the back, how can I be in the room? I can't sleep on the road.”

Leon took his phone on the nightstand. Leon rubbed his eyes slowly looking at the numbers listed there. Leon's eyes rounded when he saw the time that was already night, more or less he slept for five hours from this afternoon.

“I don't usually sleep that hour.” Leon gets up from his bed and walks out of the room looking for Isha and Vano. While passing through Anna's room, Leon overhears a scream from inside.

“Mama!!”

“Anna?” Leon opens Anna's room door. Leon looked at Anna who was trembling in fear with hunting breath.

Leon walked up to Anna. “Lo no papa?” leon asked while wiping the sweat on Anna's forehead.

Anna did not respond to Leon's question, she still fussed over her breathing. Anna tightens her grip on the blanket then looks at Leon beside her, Anna shakes her head slowly she doesn't want to lose any more at least Leon still has hope of loving her.

Leon just kept quiet without returning Anna's embrace. This feeling is like familiar to him, somehow Leon's heart rippled when he felt Anna's embrace let alone the girl's breath that made his body stiffen.

“Don't go, don't go, don't stay in me.” Anna further tightened her embrace recalling the events in her dream.

“Lo why?” leon asked as he looked at Anna from above. Seeing Anna scared like this makes Leon strange with her who responds to Anna, usually she always refuses let alone touch Anna.

Remembering the word touch makes Leon again remember his perverted dream with Anna. Where Anna moved wildly on it while fumbling her body gave it a touch that was able to make it float. Just remembering it made Leon stiffen let alone feel it.

Leon brushed off the thought, maybe he was imaginary like that, let alone to touch Anna, Anna's feelings he rejected outright.

“Don't go,” Anna cried along with the blood flowing from her nose.

Since childhood Anna suffered from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) or often referred to as anxiety disorder. If this disease relapses in Anna then the effect is great, Anna's body is indeed weak from birth let alone she was born prematurely. Even Anna once felt excessive anxiety until she fainted.

Leon breaks Anna's embrace slowly. Leon was shocked when he saw the blood on Anna's nose. Leon took a few pieces of tissue on the nightstand, then he wiped the blood flowing from Anna's nose. Honestly, seeing Anna like this made Leon worry involuntarily. Mixed feelings of pity and fear, Ann's fear of having a history of serious illness.

“Lo why Anna?” ask Leon again. From the look on his face Leon looks worried. Leon presses Anna's nose while pulling Anna's hair back.

Again Anna did not respond, her fear seemed to take away her consciousness. Anna just kept quiet while gripping the edge of the blanket firmly. No one knows how Anna feels now, on the other hand Anna is disappointed in herself, and Anna is afraid to remember being abandoned by her Mama.

Anna's fear grew bigger, it was Anna's weakness. Anna is afraid of being left behind, Anna is afraid of being alone, Anna is afraid of being let down, Anna is afraid of being exiled just like her mother. Various fears begin to haunt her mind, Anna holding her head throbbing in pain.

“Leon ... Don't-” Anna's body fell backwards as she closed her eyes.

“Anna!” Leon shakes Anna's body hoping she responds to his treatment but nil, it's all for naught. Anna was unconscious.

“Nusa!” leon grumbled as he reached into his pants pocket to retrieve his phone.

“Halo?” call Leon.

“...............”

“Lo dateng to here fast!” said Leon forced.

“ Rejection from across there. Leon clutched his phone tightly.

“Mau malem, noon, morning, noon, midnight, I don't care. You have to come now, no rejection!” Leon turns the phone off one-sidedly, Leon doesn't care about the grumbling guy across there.

“Wake up woi!” leon shouted as he threw the tissue box at Anna. Leon does not know the situation to act, with even the faintest Leon still joking.

Actually Leon was worried, but he was showing his worries the wrong way. “Lo fainted what cosplay to be dead?”

Leon sat down next to Anna. His outstretched hand touched Anna's forehead, Leon pulled his hand quickly. Anna's forehead is very hot, Anna can conclude fever. “Hot!”

Leon was like a five-year-old boy who was new to illness, already knew the heat instead of acting instead of joking.