The Hidden Love

Star of my heart

Sultan who had fallen asleep, carried to the dream with his wife, now woke up when he felt the call of nature. Slowly he got down from the bed and rushed into the bathroom to pay his wishes.

And when he came out of the bathroom, he was flabbergasted to see that his wife was no longer in bed. He was just about to set foot until suddenly the door handle turned, he saw his wife moving in.

Seeing Hanum's face, really made the Sultan again carried away with feelings, happiness that was enveloping him.

" Are you okay?"

" Yes." replied Hanum, briefly.

" Is anyone sick?" stunned, his gaze unceasingly swept across his wife's pale face, "Which part of the body hurts? what is it feeling?"

" Just a little dizzy."

The Sultan walked stiffly, approaching his wife who was still standing at the door, for some reason his legs felt so heavy. Though it only takes a few steps from the side of the bed to the door leaf but why it feels so long for the Sultan. Why was he so exhausted as if he was powerless until he was a little shaken, then stopped his steps once the distance between the two had eroded away.

" I .. I don't know what to say to you, how grateful I am. How did God in his unique way bring us together, how could I have met such an amazing girl like you. It was like a dream, I ended up living happily with you." The Sultan was no longer able to stem his tears, in his deckapnya body pujaan heart.

Hanum, confused by the change in her husband's attitude, could do nothing but accept the embrace without replying.

" What's wrong with you, Mom? why are you crying? what's going on?" Hanum tried to let go of her embrace in order to look at her husband's face.

" Let it stay like this." Hanum's body was getting closer, "A minute, please." she asked, crying.

" Tell me first, what happened? what makes you cry?"

" These are tears of happiness, dear." whispered.

" What?"

" Thank you." sullen Sultan, "I'm really grateful to you."

" What exactly happened? kenap ..." had not had time to continue his words when suddenly the Sultan released his embrace, then cupped Hanum's face with both hands.

" Thank you, because of you, I feel the real happiness of life. Thanks to you, I had a precious opportunity to be able to feel happy being a father. An incredible happiness that I can't measure with words."

" Huh?" Hanum let the Sultan shower his forehead and face with kisses, while his brain was still working hard, digesting every word that came out of his husband's mouth.

" It turns out we've had him a long time ago dear." she said again, fusing her forehead with Hanum's forehead.

" He ... who is he?" asked Hanum who still did not understand what her husband meant.

The Sultan was moved to touch his wife's belly, on her soft trunk, then she took a step back and prostrated herself in front of Hanum.

" It turns out she's grown up here baby." with tears still breaking, kissed Hanum's flat stomach, "You're pregnant." she explained.

" What ...? se ... kam .. are you serious mas?" said Hanum.

" Hm." The Sultan nodded, with his knees bent on the floor, he wrapped his hands around his wife's waist, kissing her stomach repeatedly.

" Grow healthy in the womb of your mama son, don't be naughty." the message, as if the fetus can hear the words alone.

Hanum stroked her husband's head, lovingly, letting the man dissolve in his happiness.

After almost ten minutes, the Sultan finally stood up, his cries had subsided, changing to the corner of his lips that continued to curve upwards.

He guides his wife's body to the bed, helps Hanum lie down, and foolishly Hanum, he complies when the Sultan treats her in such a way. Including when the Sultan wrapped his body tightly with a thick blanket, which made him uncomfortable, even though he was not sleepy at this time, and he did not want to sleep at all.

" Where were you?"

" I'm thirsty, so I'm going to the kitchen to get some drinking water."

" Why not call me? you'll be able to wait a little while until I get out of the bathroom."

" How do I know you're in the bathroom." The girl choked, "I'm just taking water anyway, not doing anything dangerous."

" Still, from now on you have to be more careful in doing anything. Remember, there are currently two lives that depend on you."

" two?" ask Hanum, surprised.

" Yes." The Sultan nodded, then showed off his charming smile.

" Hh ..." Hanum let out a long cry, "It feels like a dream, we've been waiting for his presence for a long time, and now ... God paid the price for our long wait by giving us two babies at once?" the clear feather darted just like that, drenching Hanum's pale face.

" Don't cry." Sultan rubbed Hanum's tears with his two thumbs, "Opa Noh, a famous former doctor in China, a friend of his grandfather since they were babies, the one who checked you because Papi's personal doctor was at a seminar in Australia. Opa said, your heart rate is weak, so you should be more careful, do not do physical activity that makes you tired. I will always be by your side, taking care of you and the fruit of our love." The Sultan rubbed his wife's stomach for the umpteenth time.

" Of course I'll be careful, haven't we longed for this kid."

" Tomorrow, we'll go see a doctor, okay? let you check it out thoroughly, and we can figure out your health condition and that of my children." grab Hanum's hand and kiss her. " I'm grateful to you, really."

Then the two hugged again, sharing the feeling of warm touch as their bodies fused.

The Sultan continued to play with his wife's unraveled hair, covering her face. Right now he was hugging Hanum's body from behind.

" I'm sorry, huh?" the first sentence that managed to escape his lips after the two had been silent for a while.

" For what?"

" Not to."

" Why?"

" Because I don't want it anymore" Hanum replied casually.

" And now? is there something you want to eat?"

" Hm, after finding out that I am pregnant, you are just kind enough to offer me." she said.

" Hust."

" Yes, after knowing that there is your son in my stomach, you have become ..."

" Sstt .. for me, you are the most important, no matter the child, I will still try to obey your every wish."

" So you don't care about the child in my stomach?"

Geez, I'm sensitive again, so it's all wrong to talk to him. Must study with Adam first, gain knowledge, learn the right way to face pregnant women.

" What are you talking about? of course you guys are just as important to me."

Hanum snorted, about to dodge as the Sultan tried to hug him again.

" Don't get angry." she gently rubbed Hanum's back. " Hm, how about I tell you something? do you want to listen?" he said carefully, trying to distract Hanum who is currently still angry with him, "Want me to tell you about my past? or do you want to know, since when did I start falling in love with you?"

" No need." said Hanum.

" So ..you don't want to know, when did I start falling for you?" seeing Hanum nod, it managed to make the Sultan astonished, "Really?"

" I already know."

" sthat mean?"

" I've known that you've been crazy about me even when I was in high school."

" What? ba ... how can you know that while I've never told you before."

" Mbok Darmi's the story."

" Mbok Darmi?"

" Yes ... actually can not be said so well anyway, rather, I asked him to tell me all about your past."

" How is that possible?"

Hanum turned her body, making her position now facing each other with her husband. Slowly but surely, Hanum wrapped her hands around the Sultan's waist, then buried her face in the chest of her husband's field.

" I'm sorry, I haven't been able to tell you that."

Silent.

" At that time, I was just looking for a novel, who knows you keep it on the bookshelf in your work space. Inadvertently I found an ankle bracelet with a starfish decoration that was dangling from the music box in the drawer of your work desk." Hanum looked up, looking at her husband's face.

" So ..you, you already know the truth?" asked the Sultan with a look of eyes full of search.

" Yes." Hanum nodded.

" You know those anklets ..."

" Of course I know, I can recognize my stuff, see it again after I thought it went missing about six years ago."

" So, your reason for suddenly changing, accepting me with all your heart, forgiving the mistakes I've made?"

" As well as pretending to be pregnant in front of the woman, everything I did once I knew your heart for me all along. At first I wanted to give up, let you be with that woman because I thought that you loved her.Hearing Mbok Darmi's story, made me open my eyes, apparently all this time, all this time, your life has suffered so much for harboring such a great love for me, for so long. And since then, I've been determined, I won't back down, I'll never be willing to let you go for that woman, or anyone else in the world. Let me be greedy, for I want to master all that is within you, completely .. alone, without sharing it with anyone."

And again, the Sultan was made to cry again, it feels like tonight he will spend to cry for the generosity of God who has given the gift of happiness that comes together, to him.

He feels so lucky to get Hanum's love and has the girl to be his life companion.

" I love you, I love you so much, the star of my heart" he said sobbing, letting his tears continue to fall and ending at the top of his wife's head which he was currently holding close.

" I love you so much too."

And the two drowned in the happiness they were feeling together, then fell asleep from being too tired to cry. They sleep by hugging each other.

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**There are some scenes at the beginning that I wrote based on personal experience, end I was confused 🤭 I can not imagine how. Be I write my personal experience when seeing the first reaction of the forced, once he knows I hamidun 😁 after passing a long wait. So, I think .. more or less the same as HanSul who waited a long time to have a baby.

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