Daddy My Son's
17. My DISGRACE

Virranda had just finished baking her cake, she hurriedly left the kitchen when the sound of verrel crying sounded from inside her room.

Apparently, Joe had already taken over his duties. Virranda approaches, noticing the way Joe cleans his baby's pup, while still looking awkward doing it as he does, the man looks patient.

"Here are the pants instead" Virranda handed her baby pants to Joe, who she had just picked up from the wardrobe. The man greeted her, then put it on the still-sleepy baby.

"Hows it? Do you have the answer, about our conversation this morning?" joe asked, looking at Virranda who grabbed her baby to suckle her, so that the baby would fall asleep again soon.

"Me and Verrel are ready to go with you Joe" Virranda said.

"Yes!" Joe looked so happy that he stuck his elbow with both hands clenched. Virranda smiled at the excited Joe.

"I think you've helped me too much Joe. So what's wrong if I also help you to leave that dark old life of yours," he said, looking at Joe.

"Does that mean you also accept my love?" lure Joe, hoping to get an answer as expected.

"For that one-it-I'm sorry. I can't love you Joe yet" said Virranda cautiously, hoping the man wasn't disappointed by her honest answer.

"No need to apologize. I expected it too. You will definitely answer no. If I can figure out why you rejected me, does this have anything to do with Verrel's biological father?" Joe noticed Virranda's facial expression instantly changing upon hearing her words.

"I'm sorry, if my question is too personal. Maybe you're hard to forget" Joe added, hoping Virranda wasn't mad at him for asking such questions. So far, there are things she doesn't know about Virranda, including her baby's father.

"You're right Joe," Virranda stared fixedly at Joe's face who was also looking at him sitting on the bed while nursing his baby. "I find it hard to forget what that man did to me without my permission, until I was pregnant with his child" she said.

"What do you mean?" Joe was getting closer to looking at her, Virranda's furious words signaled the woman was holding back her emotions that led to more hatred for the father of her baby. Butwhy? Could it be that the man ran away from responsibility? inner Joe guessed.

"Wouldn't your boyfriend take responsibility after finding out you're pregnant?" keep Joe on.

"He's not my girlfriend, I don't even know him." Virranda said quickly.

"Not boyfriend? And you don't know him? But, but why did you get pregnant with her?" Joe is increasingly clueless, and of course it makes him even more curious, wanting to know what exactly has happened between Virranda and her baby father.

Virranda let out a long sigh, in fact he wanted to keep his secret to himself, covering it from anyone, but the burden was heavy to keep. Maybe it's time to share. Yeah, share it with Joe, hoping the guy can be trusted to hold his secret.

"That night, I attended my best friend Vienna Arauna's dinner party. Not only was I invited, but there were some of my friends. She thanked me for helping her get accepted into my Papi company," Virranda laughed, recalling the dinner with her friends.

"Either why, after eating, I felt dizzy, limp, and very drowsy which was unbearable. Nicholas, my friend volunteered to drive me home. But I rejected him because he was a man."

"Finally, Vienna offered me to open a hotel. Without a second thought I accepted it, because the overwhelming drowsiness was attacking me even more."

"I was staying in a hotel room that night. When I woke up in the morning, I was stained. I have absolutely no idea who that bastard is." - furious Virranda. Joe held his breath for a while, he was also furious, also feeling sorry, for the misfortune that had befallen his wife.

"I've had enough stress thinking about my pregnancy. Suddenly my parents told me that a man, the son of their business partner, would come to propose to me with his family,"

"Of course I refused. I'm afraid Joe, if that guy finds out I'm pregnant, he'll turn me down, and my parents will be embarrassed. Enough of me to endure this disgrace of mine," Virranda still tried hard to hold back her cries from breaking, her voice trembling more and more clearly heard. Joe could only squeeze his own hand hearing all of it.

"When I try to calm myself. I met you at the cafe that night. After listening to that song you sang, I thought you were the right person to help me, hiding my disgrace, because neither of my parents knew I was pregnant."

"That's why I never tried to see my parents until I gave birth. So that they don't know, what's the reason I got married without their consent" Virranda rubbed her tearful eyes that almost fell on her.

"To find out what they were doing, I always called one of my parents' housekeepers. I actually miss them a lot, but for a while, let me stay away until their anger subsides. So, I decided to come with you and take Verrel with us," Virranda said, ending her story, she let out a long sigh, as if she was releasing all the negative energy that had been lingering in her chest all this time.

Joe also let out a long sigh, it turns out the conflict of life of the woman he married is quite complicated. To endure disgrace alone, to be cast out by her father, and more sadly, not knowing who the father of her baby was.

And he greatly appreciated Virranda's attitude that there was absolutely no intention of aborting the baby, still giving the baby a chance to live, even though he had to bear his own disgrace.

"Virranda, I seem to suspect your Viennese friend. Could he be involved in what has happened to you? Because he took you to the hotel room that night," Joe guessed.

"I was guessing that way too, Joe, because he was the only one who had access to my hotel room that night. But-, he's my best friend Joe, there's no way he's hurting me" Virranda said, rejecting her own expectations.

Joe is disturbed again, thinking of Virranda's last sentence. It is very painful to know the truth, the friend we believe has cheated us. In his little heart, Joe is very confident that Virranda's best friend is really involved. The man crossed his hands in front of his chest, with the first pocus in one direction.

"Joe! What are you looking at?!" snapped Virranda suddenly with a reddened face.

"Seeing Verrel sip the source of his food," said Joe honestly, he had not realized that what he said and did made Virranda angry.

"Close your eyes!" tell Virranda growling.

"Not my wrong eye. Y-you suckled Verrel in front of my eyes" said Joe, who had just regained consciousness, and tried to defend himself.

"Joe!!!" shouted Virranda annoyed, in fact the man was wrong, but still trying to protest in self-defense, inner Virranda.

Joe wrong? Ah, I don't know, Joe is Virranda's husband now. Virranda is putting herself together.

Ooeekk! Ooeeeekk! Ooeeeekk!

Verrel was crying. Her mother's screams had startled her who was beginning to fall asleep. Virranda and Joe looked at it for a moment, they looked nervous. A few seconds later, the two decided to work together to calm the crying baby without a word of agreement being thrown, only the language of the eyes began to understand each other.

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