The Hidden Love

Secret of starfish anklets

" We'll stop by the hospital later." The Sultan held his wife's fingers all the way to the parking lot.

" The hospital?" ask Hanum, astonished. "Who is sick?"

" Do you know about your condition? shouldn't we check with an obstetrician to find out how my future baby is right now."

Hanum fell silent, her husband opened the car door and let Hanum into it.

The car also drove on the street.

Along the way, Hanum did not say a word, he continued to look outside, not daring to look at the face of her husband who was currently driving with a radiant face. Dishonor floated, back to remembering the incident this afternoon.

Flashback.

Hanum continued to think about what steps he would take next, regarding his household matters. She had thought about leaving the Sultan's life, for some reason since she learned the fact that Mauryn had long harbored a taste in her husband. Since the fight between Sultan and Dion that occurred in the middle of that time, Hanum who accidentally heard their whole conversation, he felt sorry for Mauryn.

" Non Hanum." call mbok darmi.

Hanum, who was sitting in the back garden, turned to look at the old woman.

" Yes mbok."

" There's a non Ajeng in front."

" He's here, mbok?"

" Yes non."

" Yes, thank you. I'm ahead first."

Hanum walked towards the living room, and sure enough, he saw Ajeng was sitting there sweetly while playing his play.

" Hanum, come quickly." cried Ajeng, so impatient.

" Eh, what's going on?" Hanum chuckled as Ajeng dragged his arm and told him to sit beside the girl.

" Heard you were going to Semarang?"

" Yes." replied Hanum briefly.

" You better break your intentions."

" Why is that? I'm only gone a week, you don't have to worry about me, I can call you every day, later."

" That's not the problem."

" Huh?"

" You'll know why I forbade you to go to Semarang." Ajeng thrust his flat object at Hanum. " Look and listen carefully to the video."

Hanum did not ask anything even though he was actually curious about the contents of the video in his friend's phone, he chose to shut up and pay close attention to the video.

He was so shocked when he saw the figure in the video that he was very familiar with, he closed his mouth, not believing what he had just seen and heard.

In the three-minute video, Mauryn was talking to a woman. He could see and hear clearly every movement and speech between Mauryn and his interlocutors. The wicked woman was talking about her husband, plotting his scheming to take the Sultan from Hanum. Hanum could see it clearly as Mauryn who was so excited told it to the woman in front of him even though she only saw from the secretly taken video.

" Jjeng ..." Hanum looked at his friend.

" The video I took secretly in the toilet, yesterday I was shopping pregnant clothes with Adam in the mall. Fitting in the toilet, I accidentally heard the voice of the attached grandmother, I peeked out from behind the door and it was true it was Mauryn's voice."

Ajeng squeezed his friend's fingers, trying to give the girl strength.

" It turns out that my suspicions all along, she's really a cunning woman Num, you're just a fool to the point of not realizing that she really wants your husband."

"What should I do?" lirih Hanum's.

" You have to repay him, make him regret for playing with you. You have to pay back everything he did to you."

" Do I have to go to her house? scolded her that?" asked Hanum innocently.

Hanum was more confused when he saw Ajeng shake his head, indicating that the girl did not agree.

" So far as he's been using cunning methods in carrying out his actions, we've all gotten into his trap without suspecting him, we don't know how hard she is."

" We've used the subtle way, the same way he's used to deceive us all along." Ajeng smiled at his friend who still did not seem to understand the meaning of his words. "Pretend as if you haven't figured out his evil plan, reply him in a subtle way, don't blatantly."

" Yes well, I understand now." Hanum nodded his head.

They also began to devise a plan of revenge on an evil woman in the guise of an angel named Mauryn.

After knowing the truth, making Hanum who initially felt sorry for the woman had changed her gaze. The sense of compassion for the suffering of the woman has now turned into a deep hatred.

Indeed, Hanum felt very sorry why she and her husband did not know that Mauryn had been deceiving them all along. Acting as if nothing happened when the woman holds a grudge and ambition that is so great for the sake of living with the Sultan. She even makes cruel plans to make Hanum part with her husband.

End flashback.

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" Mad." Oh."

The call from his wife made the Sultan turn his head.

" Can't we go home now?"

" Why is that?" sultan asked curiously.

" I'm dizzy, let's just go home, shall we?"

" You know, if you're dizzy, we have to go to the doctor right?"

" Please go home, yes, I'll take a break. I'm really tired."

Hanum tried to persuade her husband, using the excuse he made for the Sultan to postpone the examination to a doctor today.

I don't think he's ready to tell me what he just saw this afternoon. The events that opened his eyes, and changed his view of Mauryn. He could not imagine how much the Sultan would be disappointed if he knew the truth.

Whatever happens, he feels grateful, at least he already knows Mauryn's foul intentions. And with this incident, making himself confident, he would struggle to maintain the integrity of his household.

" Well if that's what you want." The Sultan smiled, rubbing the top of his wife's head. " We're going home now."

Hanum breathed a sigh of relief after knowing her husband was following her wishes, she would try to buy time, until the time came when she would tell the Sultan everything.

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As time continued to turn, the moonlight that shone through the night had changed with the sunlight. Drops of dew soaked the leaves, the morning air felt so cool.

That morning, Hanum woke up from his sleep. She was shocked to see her husband was no longer beside her. He saw the clock hanging on the wall, seven o'clock in the morning.

It is fitting that the Sultan has gone, why can I wake up this way anyway.

Hanum stuck out his feet touching the floor, put on his home-made sandals and headed for the bathroom.

After finishing the bath and breakfast, Hanum who was feeling lazy, chose to stay in the room. In fact, the back garden has been his favorite place for a few days. But today he felt lazy, he planned to read the novel alone in the room.

Hanum closed the novel with a romantic story that had stalled due to an accident that he had experienced some time ago, finally finished also he read it today. She then got up to her husband's office, maybe there was a new novel she could read there.

She immediately went down the bookshelf that was behind her husband's desk once she got there. In the way a thick book in the shape of a square that might be tucked between the neatly arranged pile of maps.

All the shelves have been checked but apparently, the thing in the car is not there. He turned to the Sultan's desk, pulled the bench and sat on it.

He had time to arrange several sheets of paper scattered on the table, stacked into one and put it. A single smile fell on his lips as he looked at the photo of himself in the frame located to the right of the table.

Curious, he opened the drawer under the table, opened it slowly, there was nothing special there. He turned to the left drawer, took a music box. Semicircular objects that when opened will appear a pair of small dolls are dancing in the strains of classical music.

Look closely at the music box, as soon as the music stops. Then he intended to put the thing back in the drawer. Suddenly something came dangling from the bottom of the music box, and it fell to the floor.

Hanum picked it up, noticed the long white object, an ankle bracelet with a starfish decoration on the edge that will cause a tinkling sound when the bracelet is in use.

His heart rippled, he was stunned to see an object that was very familiar to him, he checked the anklet button to confirm his suspicions. And, sure enough, there is a small HSH initial letter engraving on the back of the anklet button.

Why can Sultan have this anklet? where'd he get it.

Hanum accidentally dropped the bracelet, she was so surprised, again there was a secret that her husband hid from her.

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