Toxic In-Law Shackles

Chapter 28

Bella smiled cynically, then stood right in front of Abimana with an indescribable look in her eyes.

"You want to say the same thing whenever you say the same thing, but I'll still choose my own path." Bella said firmly.

"Bella" Abimana clasped his wife's hand tightly with a clear face.

Slowly Bella let go of her husband's hand, then turned back to Abimana who looked so sad because of it.

Bella keeps trying to pretend to be tough and okay with everything, even though she is now eager to hug Abimana and let go of her longing. But he held it as hard as he could.

"I used to be a good wife and patiently accepted everything you did to me, but you've wasted that opportunity. Then how many more times do I have to give you a chance?" Tanya with a choked voice held back her cries.

Abhimana hugged his wife's body very tightly. "I'm sorry I was wrong. But this time I really promise I will never let you down again baby. And I'm sorry for what Mom did to you, too. I miss you guys so much." Abhimana's whisper beside his wife's ear.

"Mother?" Bella sighed slowly as she recalled her mother-in-law's deeply disliked face.

"Yes, I want to see you. As long as you keep waiting for you to come home. Look at!" Abimana showed her mobile phone screen showing an elderly woman sitting in a wheelchair.

"Mother" Bella began to wipe and enlarge the portrait of her mother-in-law who now looks helpless.

"It's been almost four years that I can't do anything. Every day I'll look at the picture of you two with faces full of regret, I miss you Bella. If you don't want to be together again, it's okay, but meet mom even if only once." Abiman bent his knees and cupped his hands in front of Bella, with a face full of supplicants.

"All right, I'm going to see your mother." Replied Bella who now began to leave Abimana just like that.

Bella could not help but hold back her tears and began to sob in another room, expelling all the sadness of her heart. "I'm trying to be the one who doesn't care about the rope in fact I can't. I still care about you and your mother, even though you have inflicted deep wounds on my life. But my love for you is beyond the anger and hate I have."

Bella continued to cry in the room, while Abimana was still faithfully waiting for her wife and sat down with her son who was now watching her favorite cartoons.

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After a long wait now Bella out of the room with a face that already looks fresh. "Zayn prepare! we're going to Grandma's house to visit." Bella said to her son who is now busy playing games with the father.

"Why are we there ma? Zayn won't be there! grandma kicked us out that time, why do we have to go back to that house again." Said Zayn right in front of the father.

"Zayn?, don't be like that, son, however frozen you are your grandmother." Bella warned her son wisely.

"Let's get ready mama wait outside." Said Bella who now stepped her feet walking out of the room followed by Abimana behind her.

While Zayn looks resigned to the request of the mother. Even though he did not like it, Zayn still obeyed the wishes of his mother.

***

Outside Abimana's house opens her car door to Bella and lets her in.

"Thank you." Bella said, who now entered Abimana's car, then followed by her son who is now sitting behind the wheel with his flat face.

The three are at war in their respective thoughts, until unconsciously now they have arrived at their destination.

Abimana gets out and turns around her car and opens the door for Bella, while Zayn chooses to open the door herself.

Bella looks at the house she once lived in and bears witness to everything she has ever felt before.

Now Bella awoke from her long daydream when Abimana led her into the house.

"Assynolajet. Mothers... Look who's coming." Abimana exclaimed with a happy face, with a hand that did not release the grip of his hand on Bella and Zayn.

"Mother.." Call Abimana harder.

Soon, Maya's mother came out in her wheelchair with the nurse who had been looking after her all along.

Now Maya's mother's eyes began to glaze over when she looked at her granddaughter who already looked tall, then now the view of Maya's mother began to focus on the daughter-in-law who often hurt her heart and soul.

Maya's mother tried very hard to move her hand and tried to talk to Bella. But Maya's efforts are only in vain, but he is not easy to give up just like that he is still trying as hard as possible to be able to move.

"Bella I'm sorry, son, I'm really sorry for everything that's happened. Now look, I've been receiving karma from what mom's been doing to you all this time." Maya's inner mother kept shouting hoping that her voice could be heard directly by Bella.

"Bella looks like I want to talk to you about something. " Abimana whispered a little beside his wife's ear.

"Yes I know, but I don't understand what you're going to tell me." Bella starts walking towards Maya's mother.

"Mom's assalamualaikum, how's mom doing??" Bella kindly greeted her mother-in-law.

"Did you want to say something?" Bella's question was immediately answered by the blink of an eye by Maya's mother.

"Well what mom says, try to give me a gesture that I can easily understand. For example, blink one eye to agree and twice if not. How's it?" Bella started cleaning up easy options for her mother-in-law.

Now Maya's mother began to blink her eyes once a sign of agreeing with Bella's choice. Simultaneously, Maya's mother began to be able to move her fingers even though it was not as strong as she hoped.

"Waaah... It's really magical Maya's mother's fingers can be in motion. " The nurse exclaimed with a happy face.

"Alhamdulillah." Everyone who was there started to give me great gratitude.

"Mah...!" Zayn approached the mother who was now sad.

Now the views of Maya's mother began to focus on her granddaughter, who several years ago never met. "Zay." Zayn." Maya's mother wanted to scream and run to hug her granddaughter, but she couldn't do it.

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