VENGEFUL SHACKLES

Tumbles

In the afternoon almost before, Paula who had promised just asked for over time 10 minutes to play water, just returned home with a very satisfied and happy face.

"Get me a bath, and then accompany me to eat." Tell Joshep.

Paula nods, she realizes something if the lunch she had prepared for Joshep still looks intact on the dining table, it looks like Joshep has not touched him since noon.

"Have you not had lunch yet?" Paula asked after she finished cleaning her body from the sea water and approached Joshep at the dining table who was sitting while working on something on his laptop.

Joshep simply shook his head, with his eyes still focused on the laptop screen before him.

There is a little guilt arising in Paula, if not guessing wrong, it seems Joshep has not had lunch because he waited for her to play water and forget to go home.

Paula prepares food on Joshep's plate, this is the first time she does this like a wife who serves her husband after five years have passed, usually, even though Paula is preparing food and everything Joshep needs, Paula did not take food as she does now, because she thought such actions were too far away, as for Joshep usually took his own food.

Although this is not a stranger to Joshep, because Paula used to often serve him like that, but still, it is, when he saw Paula thrusting a plate filled with rice and side dishes in front of him made his hand tremor slightly to accept it.

"I got rid of the chillies and the leaves" Paula said, but it just so happened that the food wasn't Paula cooking, but she ordered it at the resort, because it is not possible for him to cook himself due to the limitations of the ingredients they have.

"Thank you." Joshep said as he put the plate next to him and then he refocused on his laptop screen.

"Eat, your stomach's disease will recur if you eat late like that." Said Paula who still remembers if Joshep has a stomach disease that is quite severe in the past, and will be crushed if her ex-husband was late to eat.

"You eat first, I have to finish my report first." Joshep.

Paula takes the plate next to Joshep and scoops the food and thrusts it in front of Joshep's mouth.

"Eat, I still want to enjoy the atmosphere of this beach, it is very difficult for me to go to a place like this, lest I have to take care of you who are sick because your stomach is relapsing!" Said Paula, do not want Joshep was wrong with this attitude.

Honestly, it's reckless he did it because he felt guilty for making Joshep postpone his lunch time, and in vain wouldn't feel more guilty if Joshep had to be sick because of it, really,,,, really,,, there was no other intention, even though his heart had been beating very fast when Joshep finally accepted the bribe in his hand without a word.

Like Paula, Joshep's heart is also pounding very fast, making him unable to focus anymore in completing his report.

"I-I eat alone, and you better eat fast too!"

After one mouthful made it into his mouth Joshep was unable to take a second bribe, 'this is really not good for my heart!' inwardly, so he snatched the plate in Paula's hand and she began to eat with her voraciously.

In the afternoon creeping into the night, paula who had watched the sun sink on the terrace while accompanied by a cup of tea, alone turned out to be asleep again on the terrace chair when Joshep looked at her ahead. Joshep wanted to take Paula for a night walk there, but seeing Paula sleeping in her chair he felt he could not bear to wake her up.

"Sad, it's still like this, a habit! you've always been sleeping anywhere!" decihnya, while taking the empty cup that is still in Paula's hands, will be very dangerous if the cup falls and then the fragments are stepped on.

Joshep was so attentive to Paula, it's just that the fate of their love was too tragic, had to separate in an unusual way.

"Oh shiiit, why does his body feel hot?" Joshep said his skin came into contact with Paula's skin when he was about to take the cup in her ex-wife's hand.

Without a second thought Joshep lifted Paula k's body in his room, he laid Paula there, then brought his combat tools that he always carried in the car, he said, after checking his blood pressure and so on, Joshep placed Paula's hand-infused needle, to give him intravenous paracetamol because it seemed difficult to swallow the drug in addition to Paula, the liquid was also in the taste of Joshep more effective to lower Paula fever.

Although Joshep is a doctor and has been used to deal with various complaints of patient disease, still Joshep looks very anxious to see the condition of Paula even though it is just a fever.

Repeatedly Joshep changed the compress on Paula's forehead, he also stayed up all night waiting for Paula who kept feverish and delirious to call Kevin's name, fortunately Paula did not deliriously call the name of another man, if only until that happens maybe Joshep would give him poison 🤣.

Paula woke up feeling her arms stiff as if she had been crushed by something, sure enough, when she opened her eyes, Joshep fell asleep in the chair beside her right with his arms bearing her head, it is appropriate that his arm feels very stiff and cramp, while his left hand feels sore and pain due to the intravenous fluid that has been exhausted but the needle is still attached to his left hand.

"Jos,, emh, Doctor," called Paula, both hands unable to move due to the situation mentioned earlier, so that he could only call Joshep despite his barely audible voice due to weakness.

Several times called finally Joshep who seemed to have fallen asleep a while ago due to fatigue keeping Paula finally woke up too.

"Is anyone sick?" ask Joshep spryly.

"It seems like it's time to pull out my infusion needle, look, the blood is starting to rise!" Paula glanced towards her left hand.

"Ah, sorry. I fell asleep earlier." Joshep hastily plucked the infusion needle from Paula's left hand with guilt and extreme caution.

"You had a fever last night, thank God you went with a doctor, now that your fever has gone down, today there is no water play!" josep said back to his cold mode.

Paula was silent, her head was still dizzy, it seemed true said Joshep, this was because he played water without knowing the time and rules, so it ended up troublesome Joshep.

"There are still other complaints?" Joshep asked, really like a doctor who takes care of his patients.

"Just dizzy and the right hand feels stiff and cramped." His word.

"Sorry!" Said Joshep who realized if the stiff and cramp that Paula felt due to his actions that made Paula's arms cushion her head.

Joshep raised Paula's right hand and then massaged her slowly, like there was electricity stinging both of them when Joshep massaged Paula's arm, making them look misbehaved.

Luckily the ringing sound of Joshep's phone unraveled the awkwardness of the two of them. Seen the name of the hospital where Joshep worked on the screen of his phone, Joshep's face also looks to turn very serious when talking to someone on the other end, she also moved away from Paula who was still lying weakly on her bed.

"Is there a problem?" Paula asked after a few minutes of Joshep finishing his conversation on the phone, he had a glance and read the name of the hospital who contacted Joshep.

"N-no!" brief Joshep while shaking his head.

"Can I borrow your phone, I want to call Adam to check on Kevin, my phone's off and I forgot I didn't have a charging cord." Pinta Paula who since yesterday had not had time to ask news of her son to Adam because he was too cool to play and enjoy things that he did not meet for a long time.

"Emh, it just so happens that my phone is dead too, and I don't have a charging cord with me either." Joshep answered a little, like there was something he was hiding or did not want to lend his phone to Paula.