WRONG MARRIAGE
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At that time, Arumi sauntered towards the hotel room he ordered. He was on his way to Bandung for a job service as an assignment from his workplace office. And when he turned into the room, suddenly a man came poking in and closed the door.
Just let Arumi be scared. The young man held a firearm to silence Arumi's mouth so as not to get his hands on her. Because if the man is late moving for a second, then Arumi will definitely scream. The firearm he was pointing at managed to silence Arumi's mouth.
The sweat that flooded Arumi's face, showed that the girl was really scared. How not, he was the first time to see a firearm even pointed at his forehead.
“Do not be afraid! I'm just asking you not to scream,” the man said in a whisper. He stepped up to make Arumi step back. And stopped when Arumi's heel hit the foot of the bed. “Outside there are police raiding. I passed each other in front, and soon they might be here. Sorry, I had to leave here.” The man who was none other than Reza, threw a bundle of plastic into the trash. “Do not touch it! and now, let me go!” Reza stepped out through the balcony in a hurry. With a lizard-like motion that crept on the wall, he crept painstakingly through one window into another. After that I don't know what happened to Reza.
Arumi had no idea what the contents of the plastic bundle trapped inside the trash can were. But it seems like it is something that is dangerous if known to the police. It was proven that Reza had stuck her way into her room to hide and dumped a bundle of plastic there.
After that Arumi did not know what happened, he chose to leave the hotel just like that and continued the trip to Bandung. He didn't want to get into that too far. He doesn't want to deal with problems that aren't his. But he was wrong, because yesterday was the day he was picked up by the police and questioned for a bundle of drugs stored in a garbage can.
Arumi remembers, Arkhan once came to her house to warn her one thing, that if anyone asks about Reza, then he must answer not knowing. For Reza entered his room without his knowledge, and even Reza went from his room like a shadow he did not know the origin of the entry. Arkhan confesses that the man who broke into Arumi's hotel room was his friend. Arkhan also emphasizes on Arumi so that Arumi does not open her mouth to anyone if she wants her life to be safe. And Arumi deduces that Arkhan is the one protecting the intruder, none other than Reza.
Actually Arumi wanted to explain the whole incident as it really was at the police station, but because he saw the presence of Arkhan who appeared at the police station with the look of an eagle-like eyes that were ready to pounce on his prey, finally, his tongue testified as Arkhan asked. Arkhan's arrival is like a threat, making Arumi not want to play around with Arkhan's eyes that are clearly full of threats. Arumi was well aware that Arkhan's arrival there was only limited to watching him even though Arkhan was pretending to have other business.
Hearing the whole story told by Arumi, Zalfa breathed. But his smile did not fade.
“Arumi, I have not known Arkhan for a long time, but I know very well what kind of man I married. he does look evil, but his heart is still the heart of man, not the devil. He did just that to you to protect his friend, his name is Reza.”
“And Arkhan plunged into the drug business?” arumi whispered, not wanting her voice to be heard by anyone else.
“This is my duty as his wife, I want to take him to the right path, the path that God desires. Am I wrong if I love my husband?”
Hearing the words of love, Arumi now understood the situation Zalfa was in. A woman who loves a man who is on the wrong path and is trying to straighten it out. Yes, Arumi understood that.
“Sometimes when I'll need your help. And please keep this a secret for me, for the sake of the woman who loves Arkhan and is struggling to make Arkhan the way I hoped.”
“Iya, I'm willing to help.”
“Still.”
Arumi could finally smile.
They exchanged cell phone numbers.
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