VENGEFUL SHACKLES

Close the book

"I will try and try to be a good father to Kevin, although maybe a father figure for Kevin is only for you, but I will still try to give my best for him" Joshep replied.

"Only for Kevin? And Paula?" ask Adam.

Joshep was silent, he could not answer Adam's question. Maybe to look after and love Kevin he can promise to do it to Adam, but to Paula? She could not even promise herself, the shadow of Paula lying almost naked still often reflected in her eyes, I want him to believe that it was all engineering and traps made by his parents, but so far there has been no evidence that shows all that.

"Have you ever seen someone you love sleeping with another man with your own eyes? If you're talking about trauma I'm sure you understand better, haven't you ever felt the trauma of losing your son and your wife?" joshep.

Now Adam who turned silent with the answer given by Joshep, if he obeyed the egotism of his heart he wanted Joshep to bury the bitter memories and return with Paula for Kevin, but what Adam must not forget is that ordinary human Joshep should have had that feeling.

It would be unfair if Adam only thought about Kevin and Paula's happiness, and he didn't care about Joshep's feelings being hurt by the breakup.

Moreover, he was also both traumatized even in different versions, but there was no cure for healing heart wounds and trauma other than time and sincerity from himself.

"Well, I'm not going to force anything on your relationship with Paula, most importantly you guys are both looking after and loving Kevin, because maybe my time will be reduced a lot for her, because maybe, although the affection for him will never decrease." concluded Adam.

There is nothing better than God's plan and scenario, however hard Adam wants Joshep and Paula reunited, if God does not allow it all will never happen, giving up and praying for the best is the only way Adam can do for the happiness of Kevin and Paula.

The operation, which lasted about 6 hours, was finally completed as well, but Kevin's condition was still unstable, the boy was still in intensive space and was still under close supervision by doctors in 24 hours, so that no one has been able to visit or even see it.

Luckily Joshep was still the hospital's head, and he was also a doctor, so he had some leeway and could see his son even if only for a short time.

"How's Kevin doing inside? Is he conscious? Is he looking for me? Please allow me to take a look at it for a moment!" Paula immediately ran to block the steps of Joshep who had just come out of the intensive room where their son was.

"Kevin is still unconscious, he is still put to bed by the doctor to minimize the pain he will feel, especially doctors also still have to observe other infections that occur due to the evek operation." joshep's description tells of Kevin's current state that he just visited.

"But I want to see her just once, I want to hug her," Paula said with tears in her eyes.

Paula's heart felt unsettled because until now had not met her favorite son.

"You haven't rested since yesterday, you better rest first, let me take you." Joshep asked, but Paula shook her head.

"Let me wait for him here." - Paula.

""Just like you're here, the hospital won't let you see Kevin, come on. Kevin's still a week in the doctor's observation, there's no way you're gonna be here for a week, right?"

"But you're the director of this hospital, can't you allow me just once to meet him?" paula Mobon.

Joshep breathed heavily."All right, just once and you should go home."

Paula's eyes sparkled, and immediately nodded with great enthusiasm even though she also did not know where she should go after that, because she had no place to go, but let it be thought of later, the important thing is that at the moment he can meet Kevin and see how he is.

The little boy's body was fitted with various tools all over his body, making Paula feel sliced and also feel pain when she saw it. If he could bargain with God, he would be willing to replace the pain that Kevin suffered from when his son never felt pain.

"Come on, we can't linger here. Poor him, this is for the good of our son." Joshep who also accompanied Paula in there.

The place is indeed a sterile place and not arbitrarily people can enter it, the exception he gave to Paula also would not be allowed if only Joshep was not the director of the hospital.

"Where should I take you home?" joshep asked while he was in the hospital lobby.

"Emh-I go home alone." replied Paula, because she herself was confused not having a purpose to go home.

"Are you sure?" ask Joshep.

Paula nodded, "I don't have a place to stay here, maybe I'll find an inn near the hospital here so I don't have any trouble seeing Kevin."

"I know where you want to be, let me take you to see the inn, and Adam left you before he left, so I just want to fulfill the mandate that Adam gave me. That's it, nothing more!" joshep said he did not want Paula to be wrong with this attitude.

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"Thank you, the place is quite good and not expensive, most importantly, close to the hospital" Paula said as she continued to look at the atmosphere of the room she rented for the next week.

"Thank God that if you like and fit the place, I will often tell you about the development of Kevin's condition" said Joshep who was answered with a nod to Paula's head.

"Ah yes, said Adam, you already know the condition of Kevin's heart abnormalities since the womb? What makes you keep it, when you know it's going to be so hard to raise a kid with a special condition like Kevin?"

Joshep remembered Adam's story about it, not that he did not believe what Adam told him, only that he wanted to hear the answer from Paula's mouth directly, is it true that Paula kept Kevin at that time because she wanted their love memories immortalized through their baby.

"The doctor told me about the congenital heart defect when Kevin was about 6 months old in my womb, when the doctor offered to remove the fetus with a series of explanations that the doctor told me at the time, I had wanted to follow the doctor's advice, for fear that if I kept my womb, this child would suffer from his illness, various bad shadows were present in my head, but at that time Kevin was like wriggling and kicking in my stomach, making me sure if he wanted to be born into this world to bring good with all the limitations he had. I have no one else in the world but him, so I decided to keep him no matter what happens to us later." Paula said at length.

Joshep frowned, why did he not find the words that Adam said to him if Paula kept Kevin because of the form of his love for her, whereas Joshep was very eager to hear the part, although the whole story that was told Paula was also very touching herself.

"I think you keep Kevin because he's my son." Joshep said.

"Hahaha, it's the only thing I regret, but unfortunately at birth his face was very similar to yours, lucky when you first met him didn't realize it even thought he was my son with another man!" sindir Paula who immediately made Joshep's face reddened because she felt ashamed of her behavior that once thought Kevin was the result of Paula's affair with another man, even though now after he often saw Kevin, even though he had seen Kevin, he realized that seeing Kevin's face was looking at himself in the mirror.

"I'm guilty, but thank God at least we're left out of our relationship, as proof that we've ever been --"

"Josh, don't reveal the past, Kevin is indeed your son, but your future you have to think about too, you will meet Bella later, don't disappoint her heart, he's innocent and has nothing to do with our past stories that have closed, it's time you started your new story, I'm sure you'd be more radiant in every way if with Bella, I supported you, one day Kevin would be proud to know that his father was a great man!" cut Paula in a serious tone to make Joshep stop her words and immediately put on a disappointed face when he heard Paula's words to him.