EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 153

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My chest feels tight, my throat also hurts from holding this cry. My eyes are full of tears.

Bayu looked at me, noticing the change in my face.

“Icha? Does this stitch hurt? Does this lidocaine numbness injection not numb your shoulder? Let me call doctor Stefan—“

“Not that. It's nothing!” I cut him off, didn't want him to leave.

“You said it's nothing with a face like that?”

“Bayu... You did nothing wrong. So, you don't have to feel responsible for every injury I get. This mine. It's lukaku. This is the path I took.” I've been crying again now, not because of the pain of his wound but because my heart was sad to see Bayu who was silent to blame

himself like this.

“I chose this path, so please Bayu, don't be sad.” My cheeks are getting wet, my eyes are already swollen.

Bayu looked surprised to hear my words, for the next few seconds Bayu was silent looking at me, pausing his hand that was sewing my wound.

“Which you said makes no sense. You are very important to me.” Her tone was serious, Bayu continued the stitches there were my wounds in silence.

The two of us no longer make any noise until Bayu finishes the stitches, cuts the thread, and then attaches bandages and plaster to seal my wound.

“A moment ago I thought, maybe if you weren't with me, you wouldn't have experienced something like this, you wouldn't have been hurt, you wouldn't have been scared, you'd be happy to be another normal woman. My family and especially I face dangerous people every day, I think I might not be able to do it again if later you will experience something more terrible than this.” Bayu touched my cheek, erasing the trail of tears there.

“But that's why all I have to do is not close my eyes and dodge, but open my eyes and take over everything. So forgive me selfish, I want you in my life, let's be strong together, right, Natasha?”

I smiled happily, a drop of happy tears dripping down the corner of my lips. I've never felt this kind of happiness and relief before.

“Together?”

“Together.”

“Start from now?”

“Of course!” Answer Soft bayu.

My right hand lifted, cupped his cheek, looked into his eyes full of attention and affection, then my finger went down clearing the remaining oil and blood at the corner of his lips.

“Now, please inject the medicine that Doctor Stefan gave you.” I said whisper.

Bayu smiled and nodded, he then grabbed the alcohol cotton and injected the medicine into his left hand.

After the liquid entered his body, Bayu grabbed his suit, was about to put it on his back but his movements stopped for a while only to wipe away the sweat that was still left on my neck and face with his hands.

He helped me put my right hand on the sleeve of the suit but not with my left hand because he didn't want me to feel any more pain.

Her oversized net for me could be buttoned completely to cover my torn clothes, but before doing so Bayu turned to take an alcoholic cotton swab and another injection.

“This pain reliever, soon the effect of the injection die it feels lost, you must feel pain after your wound in sewing.”

“This will be a wound for the rest of my life. You don't mind ‘kan having a woman with scars?”

Bayu put an empty injection beside me, he then looked at me completely and smiled soothingly. “Thank you for coming to fight with me earlier.”

“No! I should be thanking you for coming to save me in time.” Answer shakes.

“I promise I won't let go of the people behind all this. They'll pay for it. And I'm one more thing.”

Bayu suddenly pulled off his coat that was draped on my left shoulder, then without warning he kissed my wound wrapped in bandages and plaster.

“After we get married, I will give you a kiss on this wound before going to bed and when I wake up later. However this wound is also part of me, you saved me twice today with your kick it.”

I chuckled with cheeks that began to meet red hearing his words. Then I pulled the nape of his neck and landed a kiss on his forehead and two cheeks.

“Then we break even, you today come to save me twice too.”

“Will break even if you kiss me again.” He said pointing at his cheek.

I chuckled and once again pulled her closer, wrapped my right hand around her shoulder and kissed her cheeks, deliberately pressing my lips against her cheek for longer.

Bayu laughingly got the kiss and he also wrapped me in his warm embrace, taking me inside his chest until there was no more distance between us.

“Alright, we have to stop this. Remember, mom is waiting outside.” I said push him away.

This man smiled broadly at me but he did not argue back and re-buttoned his suit on my body. Only my right hand went into the sleeve of his suit while the sleeve of his left suit was empty, hoping that my left hand could move quickly.

“Wait a minute, I'll take your shoes and we'll leave for the hospital.” The flank turned around, still attentive to my missing heels next door.

I nodded and looked at her back slowly away, then she opened the kitchen door which was immediately greeted by the worried face of Mother at the door.

For a moment, both of them were silent at the door, I guess Bayu explained briefly to Mother before the middle-aged woman stepped in to approach me.

“Gosh! Mother still can't believe everything happened so fast. What about your situation? Bayu really sew your wounds?” Mother walked quickly to me who was still sitting on the counter table. Both of his hands were willing to embrace me but he paused after seeing my left hand hidden in the

flip suit.

“Iya, she sewed it bun.” I said I tried to smile soothingly but I realized I could only show my weak smile.

Mother's warm hands lifted, rubbing my cheeks. “You look pale once.”

There was concern in the spotlight of his eyes that I often see glimpses in the eyes of Bayu.

My head was getting dizzy, I closed my eyes so that my mother would not see my facial expression, but in fact she noticed it and carefully hugged me, trying to avoid touching my injured shoulder.

“Mother and father will not forgive those who are behind all this. So, Icha rest, no need to worry about anything.” Whisper quietly mother as if bewitching me calmer.

I hugged her back with my weak right hand raised. Then we released a hug just as the rain started to fall.

“You are very weak. Mother will tell Bayu to take you lying to the room.” Without hearing my answer, my mother walked quickly out of the kitchen, leaving me alone.

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