THE DOCTOR'S LOVE TRAP

74. Persuading

Today El is on holiday. Abrine wants to follow in the footsteps of her husband who is not working. He wants quality time with Elrich. He only worked a few days yesterday but today he decided to leave again. Thankfully, Anne was able to handle all of her work.

Another reason why Abrine chose to take a vacation is that he wanted to take El for a walk. Plus, he was willing to persuade El to accept Theresia's presence.

"Where are you going today, Brine?"

"How about we go to a festival or go to a movie. We will also stop by the orphanage. You want?"

"All right, everything you want."

Abrine hugged El with a happy look. She rewarded her husband with a kiss on the left-right of the man's cheek.

Of course El accepted the kiss attack with pleasure. She felt Abrine was very spoiled since her pregnancy and she liked it.

El actually intends to make Abrine continue to get pregnant later, so that the spoiled attitude of his wife will not disappear if later it is not in the condition of pregnancy again.

They went to the movies and joined hands. I can say this is their first date.

After the movie ended, the two walked out of the cinema area and had lunch together.

"El, may I ask you something?"

"Regard what?"

"Ehm... Have you ever had a heart transplant before?"

"Yes, a few years ago."

Abrine was silent but he nodded.

"You know where this is coming from, Brine? Did Elena's sister tell you that?"

"No, I just found out. Why don't you ever tell me?"

Elrich rubbed his neck at a glance. "Ehm, because I'm afraid you'll think I'm a weak man. Sorry," he said.

"El..." said Abrine. At least she wouldn't consider El that, instead she felt her husband was always special. Even all this time she never saw the weak side of her husband.

"I'm sorry. I honestly don't want to tell you about it."

"I deserve to know your health, El."

"Yes, I get it."

Abrine doesn't blame El for this. He assumes El is just not ready to tell him. After he realized again, all the things about El that he did not know was not because El did not want to open to him, but they did not know each other clearly. If you look back at a glance, indeed they just knew and decided to get married at that time.

At first Abrine wasn't interested in knowing the ins and outs of her husband, so if she only knew now that their relationship was getting closer, it was natural.

Abrine thinks everything he knows back in the day is a form of self-knowledge with the husband.

Likewise with El, Abrine realized that even her husband did not know and know all about her. Not that he kept it a secret from El, but because they did not know each other more closely even though their status is now a husband and wife.

"Well, I understand why I just found out now. I understand there are many things about you that I must learn."

Elrich smiled knot. "Once you are, sometimes you're like a physics formula that I have to solve in order to know the other side of you."

El clasped Abrine's hand and they threw each other a smile.

"If not from Elena's sister, who do you know this from, Brine?" ask El then.

"Ehm, I know it from Grandma Theresia."

El was silent for a moment. Until Abrine was confused because things turned awkward instantly.

"El, I'm sorry, but I think you should see her."

"But, Brine..."

"You mean?" Elrich frowned.

"Do you ever know who donated your heart to you?"

Elrich shakes. Each donor is kept secret from the hospital. Similarly, the request of donors who do not want the original identity known by the recipient of the organ.

"Therefore, I beg El. once you meet Grandma Theresia. I don't want you to regret it in the back of the day."

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Actually, in El's head there are various thoughts after hearing the revelation of his wife regarding heart donors. He guessed, if his heart donation used to be helped by his grandmother's power. Moreover, Abrine said that the middle-aged woman was the owner of one of the large and rapidly growing companies in their country.

Heaven Company is very popular, who does not know the company engaged in various fields. The owner must be very powerful.

If linked to it, El so thought, what when he knew if he needed a heart donor, his mother's family forced someone to donate to save him? It could be, because they have that power to pay anyone.

Don't want to think no. After Abrine persuaded him over and over again, El was finally crushed.

Besides not having the heart with whining and all persuasion his wife, he also felt curious.

Until the day comes when she and Abrine will have a meeting with Grandma Theresa.

By late afternoon, El and Abrine were already sitting in front of the middle-aged woman who developed a bright smile. Previously he had even hugged Abrine and El alternately in a very warm manner.

"El, my granddaughter. forgive grandma." That was the first speech that came out of the old man's lips.

Elrich only responded by thinning his lips. Wry smile. Don't know what to respond to. After all, he had been used to living without a grandmother. To her, Theresa was a foreign figure who suddenly appeared and never had a role in raising her.

"I know you must be disappointed that Grandma never saw you, El. But believe me if behind your success now, grandma's helping you."

Elrich laughed softly. All this time, he felt confident in his own abilities. Does the Langford family support its success?

Unfortunately, the family is his own family.

"Look, ma'am, tell me one reason why you haven't seen me all this time!"

Even to call Theresia 'grandmother' alone, El is still reluctant. That's too awkward. His tongue had not yet eloquently uttered that call.

El understands that here, Theresia first meets Abrine rather than him because Theresia must have wanted Abrine to persuade her first. So that when this meeting took place, El did not put a fire of anger that raged because of great disappointment in the mother's family.

"I'm bound by an appointment with Emily. He won't let me see you. It's because he wants your life to be okay. Without thinking about who your mother really is. Emily said, it's okay not to be thought to exist by you, as long as you can live well."

"If I suddenly come to see you, then everything you believed in all this time will fall apart. Didn't you think Naina was your real mother?"

Elrich tried to digest all of Theresia's words.

"So, I don't want to ruin what you've believed all along with my sudden presence. But, lately, I heard that you already know that Naina is not your real mother."

".... You also know that your birth mother is Emily. Therefore, only now do I dare to enter your life, El. Because you know everything, too."

Theresia looked at El lamat-aim, diving into the hazel eyes of the granddaughter. Those eyes reminded her of Emily who had a similar color.

"Maybe I've never taken care of you or taken on the role of a good grandmother for you all along, but trust me, El."

"Then why can't my dad find my mom anywhere?"

Theresa did not answer. But El can conclude on his own, with the power they have then just hiding from his father's eyes alone will not be that difficult.

"Well, now why did the madam meet me? Where is the person who said she gave birth to me? Does he not have the guts to see me today?"

"El.." -...." Abrine holds El's arm, he knows El is very emotional right now. He only prevented El from saying anything no-no, because Abrine was afraid that El would regret it later, if he knew what had really happened.

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