Two Husbands/New Life

A farewell?

"Why don't you go home?" anin asked as Karina was feeding the twins.

Karina immediately turned her head to look at Anin who was waiting for her reply expectantly.

"Bapy? Mean Anin?" although Karina actually understood who Anin meant, Karina tried to ask what she thought the same.

"Yes ma, papi Jo, he said he wanted to go home if the mama who told papi came home" explained Anin innocently.

"Where did you meet me?" Karina does not know that Anin met Jo early in the morning when she ran away with the twins. And Maya didn't tell me anything.

"At that time ma, early in the morning when mama went with younger siblings and bi Ijah" said Anin with clarity.

"Oh yeah, how come Maya didn't tell you?" asked Karina again not giving a definite answer.

"May.." exclaimed Karina as she watched Maya traverse the twins' room.

"Yes mbak?" Maya looked at Karina.

"When you see Jo?" asked Karina, and patted her head on remembering something.

"I forgot to say mbak. It's busy."Maya approaches Karina and tells her everything she heard at the time without one less thing.

Karina just nods at Maya's story.

"At that time before he left he just told me to take care of mbak."

"He's not quite like you?" Maya nodded.

"I'm taking the kids, May?" Karina went straight to the room, took her jacket, cell phone and wallet.

Karina called Jonathan's phone but was not immediately picked up. He again contacted Rian, his personal assistant. Fortunately she was given her business card when Farida asked to meet for the last time with her.

In a cell phone conversation :

Rian :"Hello.."

Karina :"Where's Jo?" asked Karina directly, Rian looked at the screen of her phone back.

Rian :"Who?"

Karina: Karina seemed to sigh, she stopped a passing taxi. "I'm Karina. Where's Jo?" Rian frowned across the phone.

Rian:"He's in the office. In his room." Karina hung up her phone without excuse.

***

Karina stood in front of the office where she worked first. It's still the same, nothing has changed. He has to go see Jo.

"Bak Karin?" greet a receptionist as Karina enters the office building.

Karina looked up and felt someone calling her.

"Ira." say hello to Karina.

"Bak Karin how are you? Now it's different, more beautiful" said receptionist Seira Kinanti. Who would rather be called Ira.

"thank you. Oh yeah, sir Jonathan is there?"

"Well, what do you do about that fierce boss" Ira whispered as she looked to her right and left, afraid that someone would hear her voice.

"Gallags? Hasn't it been bad for a long time?" Karina smiled.

"It used to be very fierce, but after he woke up from a coma so it was more fierce." Karina's smile immediately faded.

"Koma?"

"Yeah, Jo's boss was in a coma in an accident in front of the airport because he was looking for either his wife or his lover, I don't know." obviously Ira makes Karina more curious.

"When that?"

"Ehm. about six or seven months ago if not wrong."

"But he's in his room, right?" ask Karina again.

"Just go there, Mbak? What's the matter with boss Jo?"

"There is." Karina goes to the elevator to meet Jo in her room.

***

Jo who was busy with her laptop did not notice who entered the room.

"Am I bothering you?" the familiar voice Jo immediately made her turn to look at Karina. Jo immediately stood looking at Karina.

**

"Drink!" Jo gives Karina a cup of warm tea after telling her to sit on her couch in her study.

"Thank you." the two fell silent awkwardly, Karina sipped her tea slightly and put it back into place.

"Joe.."

"I'm.."

Their voices came out together and stared at each other.

"Do you want to ask for a divorce from me?" Jo starts the conversation, causing Karina to flinch and stare at Jo. Jo threw his eyes the other way.

"A... What do you mean?" karina replied nervously, she still could not believe what she heard.

"Bram has come here asking me to divorce you so that your marriage can be done." though his chest throbbed pain Jo still said despite having to endure the pain.

"Are you finally going to give up on us?" tanya Karina felt her heart ache as well. It hurts so bad.

"I'd better step back. I wish you happiness with..."

"Enough!" Karina interrupted Jo's words. Jo fell silent.

"I thought when you said loving me was right. I thought when you couldn't live without me that was true, too. I thought when I saw you lying in a hospital bed in my dream it was true. And now I know I'm worth nothing more than an item that can be taken and thrown away carelessly." Karina bitterly laughed averted her eyes that began to glaze over.

Jo was speechless. Although she wondered how Karina knew when she fell into a coma.

"Sorry.." Jo's short answer made Karina limp.

It is free to fight alone if the fight has given up.

"I think the promise you made to my daughter was all just to get my daughter to step up?" ask Karina who didn't ask for an answer.

"Sorry..." Jo kept his head down.

"Do you love me?" Jo looked up at Karina.

He did not deny if he still loved Karina very much. Her chest that always pounded unreasonably if she was with him could not be denied that she could not live without this first woman and might be her last woman as well.

"Stop that..." Karina doesn't believe, it's as easy as love is forgotten. He rubbed his dripping tears, before Jo saw him.

"alright. I just want to say, you deserve to know the truth. I'll be waiting for you at Bram's mas apartment after work. And after that, we'll love each other." Jo looked up at Karina.

Wanting her to say that she loved him so much yet she was afraid of faltering. As long as the woman he loves is happy, Jo will be happy too. Be happy? Did ya? Jo looks bitterly smiling.

"Sorry..."

"I'm leaving. I hope after this, you won't regret your decision." Karina left Jonathan's room with a sick heart.

It's very painful. Her tears continued to flow on their own despite having been rubbed many times. Jo covered her face with both hands, crying could be heard in the soundproof room.

***

"Mbak why?" tanya Maya sees Karina coming with a puffy face and a disheveled face.

"I'm gonna take a little nap, May." Karina went straight to her room and dropped herself on the bed and continued her muffled cry on her pillow. Maya could only remain silent.

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