THE MAIDEN MAIDEN OF THE Mafia

15. Lonely

I don't know how long Alia has been sitting on her alphabet with the Koran in her hand. He did not want his soul to be left empty to gather demons whispering vile words that would damage his heart and mind when he was struck by the sadness he felt today when loneliness possessed him.

It has been three days the departure of MARA who did not give any news to him that triggered Alia's heart began to be hit by grief.

To avoid narrow thinking about her husband, praying and reciting the holy Quran is the right solution to solve his heart problems.

When reciting the Qur'an, God Himself invites us to communicate, it is different if we pray, we are communicating to God.

So by reading the Qur'an, Allah is comforting us with the instructions that he will give through His love letter the Qur'an.

"Yes Allah...Give my mother-in-law a quick recovery so that my husband can come back to me." Pinta Alia held back her longing for her husband.

"Yes Allah....! You are the owner of our hearts. I ask You to always keep my husband's heart from falling into Your hands.

If his heart is in Your care, then he listens more to You than to the whispers of men who have a vested interest in dominating my husband's heart.

I send him to You with a pile of my longings so that my husband returns to me without being stained by the persuasion of his parents who will separate us." - complained Alia in her prayer after reading the Koran.

She did not want to violate her husband's order not to contact her husband first before MARA would contact him. Alia was in her palace without her sister Dewi.

He prefers to live alone to feel his own loneliness. To fill his free time he made a cake by trying various new recipes on the YouTube channel.

He also did not want to involve his servant to help him make whatever cake Alia was currently making. The servant was surprised to see Alia making various kinds of cakes for whom.

"Miss..! Do you want to sell these cookies?" Ask the waiter Pipit.

"For my husband." Said Alia while putting the finished dough into the baking sheet that the model unloading pairs.

"But you're not here, lady, who's going to spend this much cake?" Ask the Efi Servant.

"Beggars." Sahut Alia made them dumbfounded.

"Miss...! They're not who you are why you should be.-"

"They are beings of God who have never been glimpsed by anyone because they have lost their identity. What's wrong with pleasing them with my homemade food." Alia said and put all her cakes in the cardboard.

"Please get this cardboard box in my car! This is the last cake I cooked in this oven for you. If the timer has stopped, just take it out and cut it into pieces and then share it between you.

There are two baking pans, do not forget to share for security guards and drivers. I'm gonna go first." Said Alia who had released her apron towards the car.

"God...! It turns out that non Alia never forgets where it came from. Despite being the mistress of a conglomerate, she still remembers the tough guys out there." Said Pipit who was currently observing the cake for those who were not yet ripe.

"We must learn much from non-Alia how he glorified the other servants of God without choosing. That's why God rewarded the young master for him because of his sincerity." Said Efi.

Not long after the cake had been cooked. Pipit took the cake out of the oven. The smell of the cake was very tempting to their tongues to immediately enjoy.

While there in Belgium, MARA was sitting on the edge of her mother's cage which was lying weakly with medical equipment attached to some parts of her body.

The sound of a heart recording ECG device is so loud in MARA's ears that continue to pay attention to the movement of the graph of the development of her mother's heart.

"Mommy....! Open your eyes for a moment, MARA is here." Say MARA while holding her mother's one hand that is free from the infusion needle.

MARA had to take turns with her father who is now home to rest. Seeing the condition of his mother MARA getting worse because he did not expect his mother's pain getting worse.

His mother, who is native Belgian, did not want to stay long in Indonesia because she wanted to die in her homeland. That is why he wants to spend his old days with his relatives in Belgium.

One week MARA has left his wife far away there waiting for news from him. MARA did not forget her lover. It was just that right now, his heart was more focused on taking care of his mother.

Understandably MARA is the only son who has Lady Aisyah and Mr. Aji. His mother was a convert so his Islamic name was Aisyah.

Two more days Alia must leave for Denpasar Bali where her school will hold a farewell event. Because she had to travel far, making Alia have to ask her husband's permission to ask for her husband's riddho.

The call has been done many times but MARA though did not lift it. Alia just took a deep breath while being proud.

She finally sent a voice mail to her husband." I know at this time your heart is sad to think of your pain. But, don't forget I'm also part of your responsibility that you should pay attention to my husband as well.

I asked for permission to leave town because there was a school farewell and you must have known that. I miss you so much, my husband." Alia said in the voice message.

MARA saw a voice message coming in on his phone from his wife, but again he did not want to open it let alone to reply to the message. His mind was still fixed on the figure of the woman who gave birth to him who had not been awakened since his arrival.

"Mommy...! Please wake..! Don't make me sadder to see you like this. Tell me what you want from me! MARA will fulfill it as long as mami gets well and sees MARA." Say MARA while crying.

"Are you sorry now, my son? If from the beginning you were open with us about your marriage, maybe your mom wasn't this sick." Said Mr. Aji Prasetyo.

"MARA married Alia because Alia was still a school father. If the school finds out I'm marrying Alia, the girl will be expelled from school." MARA said she gave reasons for her secret marriage.

"But at least you can ask us for permission so well that your mother is not offended by your reckless actions.

Did you marry her because you were pregnant with her? Are you sure that child is your real child? Don't don't let him just set you up to live in luxury.

Didn't father have told you if you want to have a woman who sincerely loves you, be a filthy man and see how she is..-"

"I've done as you want and that's Alia's dad. She's not pregnant and I just got her on the eve of our wedding reception, dad.

She's still my holy father and she's the woman I want to be my life's companion." MARA's remarks silenced her father's accusations against Alia that were too excessive according to MARA.

Duaarr....