
Both of Dato' Faisal's eyeballs were glued to a small bottle with a lily-carved lid on the table. The man sat tensely behind the desk of the interrogation room which was in one of the hallways of the palace's underground prison. His whip wound had been treated and his shabby clothes had been replaced.
In front of him, Dato' Sri with his real name Tengku Zara Nafisah was sitting in his wheelchair. Her hands intertwined in her lap, while her gaze sharply pierced through her husband's eyeballs.
"Darling, what is this?" faisal asked with a trembling voice.
"Arsenic" Tengku Zara replied straightforwardly.
Faisal gasped, "Arsenic? Poison mean?" tanyanya could not believe it.
"I want you to down it" Tengku Zara said without further ado.
The noble woman was already overwhelmed with wrath by her husband's dirty deeds. She wants to end her relationship with the death of her husband. Her husband's affair can't be forgiven. Her heart ached every time her mind remembered the evidence of adultery her husband had been doing all this time.
"Sa-yang." Faisal's voice stammered in seriousness in the look on his wife's face. "I'm guilty, I'm sorry to you, baby. I beg you to forgive me" Faisal stood up from his seat and limped closer to his wife's wheelchair.
The man rested on Tengku Zara's paralyzed leg, bowing his head directly on both of the woman's knees. "I'm guilty, baby. I'm guilty. I beg you to forgive me, I promise not to repeat this mistake again" his voice raucously wavered.
When Tengku Zara got fed up, he brushed the man's head off his knees with his arm. Faisal's body immediately staggered backward, while his wife's wheelchair walked away from his body.
"I'll forgive you if you drink the poison" Tengku Zara said.
Faisal looked trembling. He thought the whip he had received this afternoon was enough to satisfy his wife's anger. But it turns out his guesses are the opposite. The wife deliberately postponed her death, so that the woman could kill herself in a more sadistic way.
"Darling, remember our son. Did you forget? They were too early to feel like orphans" Faisal continued to try to soften his wife's heart.
Tengku Zara glared at the shameless face of her husband, the lip-sniffing smile thinly hearing the wise-ass claw from the mouth of the man who had touched the body of another woman behind him.
"After your adultery was exposed, you just remembered your children?! Oohh Faisal, my father's matchmaking man. Did the treasure I gave you turn you into a shameless man, huh!?" said Tengku Zara full of insults. "You think I don't know what you're talking about with your mistress a lot about me?"
Faisal's face immediately pias when Tengku Zara said that. His mind recalled the words he had discussed with Intan. Suddenly his heart beat violently, as pieces of his conversation with Intan spun like wheels on his head.
The man stood up from his position, he drew closer to his wife. "I'm sorry dear" he said with tears in his eyes.
Tengku Zara stared at the two eyeballs coldly. "I had no idea, all this time my husband was waiting for my death. You want to marry that despicable woman, after I die and leave my treasure to you. Isn't it?" said cynical. "You think you're who Faisal is? The people I hire for you, they won't stay silent to see your rottenness behind me"
Faisal collapsed again. Crashing with trembling knees. Finished is his fate. His life is over. He had made this gentle woman disappointed and showed her cruel side. Even gentle women can be very rude and crueler when they feel hurt. Faisal forgot about it. The man was overwhelmed by what was given to him. The treasures and thrones that he obtained from the kindness of his wife, had plunged him into the pit of adultery.
Geck.. Geck.. Geck..
The sound of the door being knocked from outside. Dato' Sri told the female assistant who was standing firmly beside the door to open it.
"Dato' Sri, the envoy from Indonesia has left. The woman continued to rage. What do we do?" said a bodyguard with a polite bowed face.
Tengku Zara's cold look was fixed on her husband's face, without looking at the slightest bit from that face, the malay woman gave the order. "Do what you want to do to him, you can have fun with his body before you finish him off" he said heartlessly.
The deep pain of betrayal made Tengku Zara forget for a moment the motherly nature and tenderness attached to her. The destructive woman must get the right revenge for the pain she inflicted on the heart of a wife. A thin grin curled at her lips, as she looked at her husband's increasingly pale face hearing what was about to befall her affair.
"Okay Dato', we will do it now" the bodyguard said before he stepped down from the room.
"Darling....." Faisal didn't know what else to say.
Tengku Zara returned to running his wheelchair. This time he approached the table, and took a bottle of arsenic with high levels on it. After picking it up, she went back to her husband. The bottle of poison he held in Faisal's hand. While Faisal's face was already bowed weakly understanding what his wife wanted.
"Your choice is only two. Die with humiliation or die with a good name. This poison will work quickly to stop your heart rate. I'd say you had a heart attack, no one would know about what rot caused you to die" Tengku Zara said.
"I'm sorry, honey. I'm really sorry. Didn't you see my sincerity? Are you gonna be this cruel to your own husband?" Faisal stared intently at his wife's eyeballs.
"I don't want to hear anything more from the mouth of a traitor like you. You have to die, that's my decision to you. It won't change even if you cry blood" said Tengku Zara, who is always reminded of the fact that Faisal is waiting for his death to be able to marry his woman.
"I'll go, my guards will be waiting for you outside. If the poison is not drunk. They will force you to drink it in a rough way" Tengku Zara said with a dark look.
His female assistant immediately approached Tengku Zara, she immediately positioned herself behind a wheelchair and took her master out of the room.
"ZARA!!" faisal cried when his wife was at the door. "Give my apology to our children" he said before downing the bottle filled with poison.
Tengku Zara's tears dripped slowly when she saw her husband's body begin to sink and collapse on the floor. The body was stiff while his eyes were reddened staring from a distance at his wife's face. There was a deep glint of regret from those eyes. Tengku Zara's body trembled to see her husband's eyes slowly docked, he rubbed his tears violently before ordering his assistant to take him away from the dead body of the husband who was stiffened.
"You chose the wrong path yourself, Faisal" he muttered with his palm tightly shut his mouth.
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The morning sunlight filtered through the window curtain of the room. Three days passed to make Laura's health condition improved. The aroma of typical hospital medicines became a therapeutic scent for him. The woman had just woken up from her sleep. Her beautiful face was immediately greeted by the warm sun that entered the window.
The green shoots of the trees cooled his gaze. His forehead crinkles as he searches the room, looking for a lover he has not yet discovered.
Not long after, the door of the room opened. A warm smile refreshes his feelings. "You awake, baby?" sabiel asked walking over to his wife.
Laura nodded while stretching out her hands. Sabiel smiled wider, He hugged his wife warmly. Kissed Laura's head a few times.
"You hungry? I brought you your order last night" said Sabiel stroking his wife's friendly back.
Laura let go of her embrace, her eyes instantly fixed on the package that Sabiel had placed on the nightstand. Sabiel took the package, opened it before Laura who waited impatiently.
Four sprigs of chicken sandwiches, tomato juice and Sabiel's homemade corn soup are in front of Laura. Sabiel put all the food on the folding table. Laura smiled satisfied to see the cuisine of her husband who since last night he asked, presented with a tantalizing.
"Open your mouth" said Sabiel thrusting a sandwich in front of his wife's mouth.
Laura opened her mouth and bit the sandwich, "Honey, what about dad? Is he still mad at you?" ask Laura worried.
Benak Sabiel immediately ventured upon the arrival of Laura's family a few days ago. His cheeks still remember the hard slap he got from Laura's father. The old man, despite being ill, still had enough strength to make Sabiel's eardrum ring from his loud slap.
Laura also recalls her father's anger when she learned the truth. Her marriage and the miscarriage that Laura experienced, managed to make her father angry. Laura's father even cried violently when he saw the child and his daughter-in-law could only bow silently.
Two days have passed since the arrival of his father and aunt's uncle. They are now staying at Sabiel and Laura's apartment. Every hour they would come to see Laura. Although the anger is still clearly visible from Laura's father's gesture, the elderly man could not care for his only child.
"I don't know baby, but I met my dad early this morning when I made you this meal. He only asked about the schedule of the clock" Sabiel said as he fed Laura back.
Laura was silent for a moment, "All will be well. Dad's not a guy who can linger holding a temper tantrum. She will definitely receive you soon" Laura said, calming her husband and herself.
"I hope so" Sabiel hoped.
In the wake of her busy feeding Laura, Sabiel's eyes scattered looking for a television remote. After seeing that thing tucked away on the sofa. The man got out of bed, picked up the remote and turned on the tv. While Laura was enjoying her warm corn soup.
"When am I allowed to go home, baby?" laura asked, looking at Sabiel who was walking towards her.
"Today the Malaysian and Singaporean police force was preoccupied by the discovery of the body of a woman on the second link lever bridge. The body with Intan Identity which is an Indonesian citizen was found naked with bruises almost all over the body, especially the head. A provisional forensic examination said the woman also suffered sexual assault, which was reinforced by findings of damage to her vital organs. One forensic team speculated that the woman had been raped many times. Our reporter reported from the location of the bridge between the two countries which began to be crowded by police forces from Malaysia and Singapore, both of these camps claim that they are the ones who have the right to handle the case of finding the body of the woman. That's because the body of a woman named Intan was found crosswise right in the middle line of the bridge barrier......"
Both pairs of eyes in the room gasped at the morning news from the neighboring country. Laura looked in horror at her husband. The woman could not even continue her breakfast.
"Sabiel.." said Laura surprised.
Sabiel clasped his wife's tiny fingers, "Intan is having an affair with the husband of a Malaysian nobleman. The day after he left Indonesia, the government arrested him and the man. They punished the two there" Sabiel said, leaving Laura shuddering in horror.
"I didn't expect the end of his life to be so horrible for Sabiel" he said, still with his eyes glued to the screen.
Sabiel just silently listened, the man was more calm than his wife, "You yourself chose to die horribly, Intan" he murmured inwardly.
Not long after, news of the discovery of Intan's body was extinguished. News outlets are now airing glimpses of the royal family being found dead of a heart attack. A female noble in a wheelchair is seen hiding her sadness in front of the media, recounting the chronological discovery of her husband's body in the bathroom.
Sabiel and Laura looked at each other, "She's the wife of Intan's affair" Sabiel said, answering all the questions implied by Laura's brown eyeballs.
There was nothing Laura could say about the two shocking news in the morning. Sabiel saw the excitement on his wife's face, he moved to Laura's side and hugged her tightly. Intan's death became the end of all the painful drama in her life. Now she can live quietly with Laura, while thinking about trying to get Laura pregnant again.
Loss can only be healed by presence. So Sabiel was determined to seduce God so that He would present another baby in his wife's womb. At least, before time returned robbing him of his happiness.
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