ERIKA (The Slandered Woman)
Chapter 7

"Well, there's Nak Sinta, huh? Here, here come in, Nduk! Geez, use the hassle of all bring fruit. I'm not feeling good."

If I could be honest, Erika wanted to say envious. Her mother-in-law is very friendly to welcome the arrival of foreign women who are just distant neighbors. Unlike her who incidentally is a daughter-in-law but is not considered to exist by her husband's parents.

"It's just fruit, Mother. I hope it heals soon, yes."

Rani's mother with a cheerful look welcomes the fruit parcel offered by Sinta. For a moment, I took a glance at Erika who was holding Icha. Ah... Coincidentally there is Aldo in the day, he so had a chance to distinguish or even make Erika self-conscious, if the woman who is more suitable to be with her child is Sinta. Beautiful, fashionable and certainly know the meaning of pleasing her heart.

"Al, Sinta's good, huh?" Aldo who was daydreaming about the gossip issue about Erika, did not hear the deliberate praise of Rani's mother. In fact, Sinta was eager to hear Aldo's answer.

"Buck...!" Aldo was shocked by Erika's voice and subtle claps on his arm.

"What?" sahut Aldo was quick because he was shocked while staring at the flat of his palace.

"Message a taxi, you can go home!" Erika deliberately diverted her mother-in-law's lure that was very obvious to make her heart inflamed.

"All right __"

"Eeh, Mum!" Serga Sinta's. Aldo and Erika immediately swerved. "We're neighbors, so I'll take you home, how?"

"Later troublesome, Ma'am. We are not feeling well!" reject Erika snatched quickly the words of Rani's mother who immediately squealed cynically to her.

"No bother, really. You want to, right?" Sinta forced subtly by asking kindly to Rani's mother.

Yes, obviously you want to.

"Al, just want it. Let's get the cost too." Rani's mother provokes Aldo. Hearing the cost problem again, all of a sudden Aldo's self-esteem is pinched. Erika paid the hospital fee. Now the cost of going home is not there. Aldo's pouch is completely dry, there are also only ten thousand rupiahs left. That's also gas money. You useless man, he wrote in his heart.

"Mom will be ready!" Not even Aldo agreed, Ibu Rani was enthusiastic. Makes Erika careless.

'Patience, Erika. Do not get carried away with unfounded emotions. Excessive jealousy is a sign of disaster," Erika's inner self reminded. As a wife, her instincts said that Sinta put a longing on her husband.

" But Aldo can take a car, right?" ask Sinta ambiguously.

Aldo nodded thinly. His voice was very expensive today who was actually already impatient to speak four eyes with Erika.

"The drive, yes... My legs hurt, Mom. Still recovering after yesterday's injury."

"But I have a bike" Aldo said.

" I'm waiting outside, yeah!" Erika immediately edged out after speaking. He was sick of seeing another face from his mother-in-law. Aldo let it go and busied himself cleaning his mother's goods.

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And here they were, in Sinta's red matic car, with Aldo behind the wheel. Sinta was beside him who had not wanted to take his eyes off the charm of Aldo which he thought was very interesting half of his world. It is outrageous that likes the husband of people, but that is the desire of his heart.

Erika was so sultry to see her faux wiry eyes Sinta almost reluctantly blinked scanning her husband's handsome face. Want to be assertive, but later ended he will also be affected. Fear of fear later in the same stamp Aldo excessive jealousy.

Apparently, Erika had to warn her husband, so as not to get too close to women whose romantic romance has a cannibal nature. Why cannibals? Yes.because this Sinta has the seeds of actors who do not care for their fellow women bin gf. Most importantly happy, then no matter what. That was Erika's impression on the woman's face so easily readable.

"Oh, yes, Sin. Mumpung you're here. I'd like to ask you about the job you offered Aldo the other day, is there still?"

Aldo and Erika look at each other from the reflection of the steering windshield. Why did Erika just know from the mouth of her mother-in-law. Aldo's gaze means something else.

" Oh, that's yeah. Hemm... Sorry, Al. Someone else filled it. "

" It's nothing, really. I have no intention of being a security." Aldo answered flatly with a look back on focusing on the highway. Erika was grateful in her heart to hear Aldo's answer.

"But be my personal driver?" tawar Sinta while grinning in the heart. Aldo looked quickly. While Rani's mother smiled meaningfully to hear her who was currently sitting next to Erika who was hoping to be anxious waiting for Aldo's answer. May her husband refuse. Erika just doesn't want any trouble denouncing her household.

"I work in a factory, Sin. So __"

"You can still hunt the factory. You can just take me to the office at seven in the morning and pick me up at home. As my driver, you are also free to take my car. Going down to the factory is fine. Calculate the gasoline irit, right?"

Sinta's offer is very tempting for Aldo who is again a job applicant. Inwardly thinking hard, if he accepted the side job, then he could provide enough for Erika, automatically his wife was no more blame for cornering him from behind. Aldo is not willing to lose Erika.

"If you don't want to, it's okay. Let me ask a friend for help with a trusted driver."

"I want to!" chirps Aldo doesn't want to miss a golden opportunity.

Erika was the one who let out a disappointed sigh hearing that.

"Dine, Rik. So don't like to play ass behind the husband. Karma is real. Look, your karma is waiting!" whispered Ibu Rani full of amazement.

Erika snorted in suspense. Then whispered back to her father-in-law to hear. "In Islam there is no term 'karma', ma'am. There is, Aljaza'u min jinsil 'amal which means 'The reason corresponds to practice.' Anyone who behaves badly will do so otherwise. I hope you understand what Erika is saying."

Rani's mother looked directly at the window as we cursed Erika who made her heart so irritated. Her daughter-in-law just said that. But why could he be so scared.