The Love That Is Taken

Totally Scattered

"That's it," said Mina ferociously. "Rather than you being curious and I'm also not calm dating Eric, I'm open now!"

The woman looked seriously at her best friend. Then she said, "Theresa threatened to kill herself in front of Karin and Aunt Rosa if she didn't leave you and give your child to her!"

"Lied!" jonathan did not believe. The residents of the restaurant looked at him. He then said an apology while nodding with an embarrassed expression.

"Thankiratin!" his best friend was satisfied. Jonathan scrunched his forehead. How come Mimin is the same sentiment I am now? thought it wouldn't take.

"OK-lah, Min. Now please tell me everything. I believe you won't lie. I'll listen to you carefully and not comment anymore."

The woman in front of him nodded in agreement. Then he begins to tell the true story behind Karin's decision to leave Jonathan.

***

After learning everything from Mina, Jonathan was devastated. His appetite disappeared instantly. Not spent the food. He immediately left the Japanese restaurant and went to Rosa's office to confirm the truth of her best friend's story.

His former secretary was flabbergasted at Jonathan's sudden arrival. Finally he admitted that everything Mina told him was true. Even the woman advises her former boss to forget about Karin. His nephew has gone far and long ago will return.

"Today was in Beijing, Mr. Jon," he admitted frankly. "I offered him to take a Mandarin course there. He gladly accepted it. She has always loved Mandarin."

Jonathan immediately limp in hearing it. "May I have Karin's phone number and address, Miss Rosa? I'll go find him to Beijing. I'll take our son to meet his real mother."

Rosa looked at him with concern. She softly said, "Nasi has become a porridge, Mr. Jon. Relieve Karin. Live happily with Theresia and your child. Don't let my nephew's sacrifice go to waste. He is living quietly now. Please don't push him anymore. I beg...."

The man was fixated on hearing Karin's aunt's heart-wrenching remark. Finally the woman's office was left in a doldrums. Rosa looked at him from behind with a pity.

***

Theresia was busy chatting with Valentina when suddenly her bedroom door opened violently from the outside. The figure of her husband who looked at her with fiery eyes.

"Basar women's skin. Wicked! Get your dirty hands off my son!" yell Jonathan wrathfully. He was eager to beat his wife to the bottom. He never expected Theresia to deceive him so vilely.

The woman's face immediately turned deathly pale. She realized her husband knew what she was doing. But how did he know? ask in the heart. Karin and Aunt Rosa couldn't have told him.

Theresa was silent to watch the baby being kept away from her. The woman tried to spread her heart. I have worked so hard to get to this point, his mind is trying hard. I'm not just gonna let go of this happiness. I'll keep Mas Jon and Valentina at whatever stakes!

"However did you separate this child from his birth mother, There?" ask the husband while shaking his head. "Where is your conscience as a woman? Or..don't you no longer have it?"

"I've still got a conscience, Mas Jon," he replied trying to calm down . "That's why I decided to adopt this child. Rather than her being born as an out-of-wedlock child, pity her future. And I also granted her mother's request to name her Valentina. I love him with all my heart like my own son. Can't you feel it?"

Jonathan looked at his wife in despair. "Why don't you just let me go, There? You used to say that you had approved of my relationship with Karin...."

"Which wife is willing to give up her beloved husband, Mas? Which wife?!" sergeant Theresia hysterical. The woman could not take it anymore . His frustration. "You were in a relationship with another woman before you officially divorced me! In terms of any law, you're the one who's guilty of cheating!"

"Aren't you deliberately stalling our divorce?!' jonathan did not accept.  "If you hadn't done it in the first place, we would have been officially divorced a long time ago and I would have been free to have a relationship with any woman!"

"That's exactly what I don't want!" teresa was getting hysterical. Her tears began to fall. Near her husband. Jonathan pulled away. He looked at his wife disgustedly.

The woman finally calmed down crying under her husband's feet. The man was surprised to see the wife humbling herself to such an extent.

"You think this way I'll feel sorry and forgive your mistakes?!" cetus Jonathan fierce. "Do you, I look down on you even more. I'll take Valentina out of this house and bring her back to her real mother!"

"Don't, Jon. No!" exclaim Theresia panic. She held her husband's legs tight. "Please don't do that. Pleases.... You know how much I love Valentina. He's my heart, Mom. My life would be meaningless without her...."

Suddenly the baby's voice cried loudly in his father's arms. Jonathan tried to persuade her. But her son's cry grew louder. It was used by Theresia to get up. With tears she offered to hold the baby girl.

Jonathan had to give up. He didn't see his son cry all the time. How magical. Once held by Theresia, the baby with fine hair and a beautiful face like his biological mother was immediately silent. Apparently he felt comfortable being near the woman who had been with him for twenty-four hours.

The father could do nothing. Mina said in her ear, "Sunday has been living with a maid in Sidoarjo. He rented a small house in a middle-class housing estate. Eric and I visit him often. Aunt Rosa moreover. Even a week before Valentina's due date, Aunt Rosa stayed in the house with her niece."

Jonathan's heart was as if it were sliced open to hear Mina's story. He felt like he had become a fool. It could easily be tricked by Karin and Theresia.

"You know what, Jon?" said Mina later. "The night Karin cut off your relationship at her house by pretending to date Eric again, I was actually there that day. I eavesdrop on your conversation behind the living room wall. Almost crying I heard you were frustrated believing your son had been aborted by Karin. I wanted to go out and scream lies! But Eric stopped me. He said I should respect Karin's decision. I finally kept quiet. And my heart was ripped apart when shortly after your departure Karin was bleeding. He was hospitalized for two days. Fortunately, he and his mother are okay. The doctor said Karin was just too stressed."