
Again and again regret gnawed at Aaron's heart when he saw some CCTV footage showing Elena's torture on Haura. Not just once but repeatedly.
There were no tears Aaron fell back, imagining how painful it was to be Haura all this time. Always look fine and smile without burden, even though it is holding a very deep wound.
"I failed to be a good husband to you, Ra, sorry" Aaron said.
The man no longer continued his exploration because he could not see Haura's suffering of Vivian's torment as well as Elena's.
"Your hand is hurt again? Got a knife again?"
"Haura, I told you not to go to the kitchen! Look at your hands blistering!"
That question is often the first time Aaron wilted every time he came home from the hospital because he saw some wounds on Haura's hand. Either, it's a scratch, or it's like a burn. Without knowing his wife getting torment in his own home.
Every time Haura asked him always answered, not focusing on work and other things that make sense, so Aaron took it for granted.
The man rubbed his face repeatedly, grabbed his phone and then re-contacted the same contact. However, again inactive, perhaps Haura had blocked her number.
No, no woman would put up with a man like him who just believed something he saw in the trade listening to someone else's explanation.
"I have to finish Vivian and Mother Elena first before meeting Haura." Aaron's determination clenched his hand.
Harun re-examines the computer screen in front of him, this time setting the day before his father's death. More precisely, as his father lay helplessly in the room.
The man's gaze was perfectly rounded when he saw the footage where Elena walked into her father's care room at 12pm, an hour after her father was found dead.
***
An hour before Aaron's father's death.
Elana, who overheard her husband's conversation with a lawyer who managed the estate, was furious when she found out he was not on the list of Edelweis beneficiaries.
Because very furious, the middle-aged woman who bears the title of mistress Edelweis plans to kill her husband after getting what she wants.
The middle-aged woman looked down at the middle-aged man who was closing her eyes, she lowered her head and whispered something in Aaron's father's ear.
"Mas, are you asleep?" whispered Elena.
Aaron's father then opened his eyes, nodding while throwing a smile at the wife he knew well to his son and daughter-in-law. It's just that Aaron's father didn't entrust anything to Elena, because that woman was new to his life.
"Elena?"
"Yes, it's me. Do you feel fine after sharing the inheritance without entering my name or Vivia?" Elena immediately discussed important things without wanting to make small talk first.
"Sorry Elena, I just ...."
"It's the first grandchild that's going to say a lot about this, then why did you marry Haura to Aaron? Why not just my daughter?" Elena smiled thinly as she moved the oxygen hose on Aaron's father's nose without any burden at all, making the middle-aged man difficult to breathe.
Harun's father's trouble reaching for the oxygen hose. However, Elena continued to keep him away.
"El-lena, what-what the hell are you doing?" aaron's father asked, the monitor screen that showed Aaron's father's vitals began to sound loudly as the middle-aged man's breath was wheezing.
"You don't deserve to live anymore. Now it's my turn to run Edelweis' finances, and get Vivian and Aaron married no matter what." Elena smiled cunningly, there was no sense of pity in her heart, whereas her husband would die.
"Why are you doing ...."
Tit ... Tit ... Titttttttttttttt
The curve on the monitor screen turned into a straight line, a sign that Aaron's father had just taken his life in the hands of his own wife.
Not wanting to be suspected by anyone, Elena returned to the oxygen hose calmly and then walked out of the room without making a sound.
Elena returned to her room, sleeping soundly as if nothing had happened before.