Forced to Marry a Rich Widow
The Hugs

"Ferdi."

Adrian tries to get closer to Ferdi who is still hugging Clara tightly.

"You know each other?" ask her later.

Neither Ferdi nor Clara answered, both of them still dissolve in such great emotional turmoil. Even Clara was still closing her eyes and crying in the arms of her lover.

"Tap, tap, tap."

Frans saw a drop of blood on the floor. Soon he approached and it turned out Ferdi's nose was bleeding.

"Ferdi."

Clara felt Ferdi's embrace weaken, and now the man's body almost fell. Frans, Adrian, and Jeffri soon hold Ferdi's body and it turns out Ferdi has lost consciousness, with his nose covered in blood.

"Ferdi."

"Ferdi."

Everyone there suddenly panicked. The meeting that was supposed to be a proposing event was a total mess.

Adrian called an ambulance. Jordan, Sean, Nath and Nova who just arrived, are now also surprised and worried. Ferdi was taken to a nearby hospital.

***

"Clara, so you and my son know each other?"

Jeffri asks Clara when they have all been in the hospital, and waits for a report from the doctor regarding Ferdi's condition.

"Yes" said Clara, wiping her tears with tissue.

Jordan, Sean, Nathan and Nova look at each other. They asked each other silently about what had happened.

Because until this moment they have not dared to ask anyone for an explanation, about the chronology of Ferdi's matchmaking. Due to circumstances that are not yet possible to ask.

"We both have a relationship" Clara said.

Jeffri looked at the woman, as did Adrian and Frans who were sitting in the waiting room chair.

"We were separated because Ferdi said he had been betrothed to his parents. He left me just like that, without me being able to do anything."

Again and again Clara wiped her tears with a tissue. Jeffri now let out a long sigh and dropped a glance at the hospital floor.

"I'm sorry, Clara." she said later.

"Since the beginning om and om Adrian saw you on the show at that time. Om is already interested in matching you with Ferdi." he continued again.

It was a true story and not fabricated. But as for the other intent behind the interest, Jeffri could not have said it honestly.

Because it could be that Clara will be angry, if she knows she was chosen because she is rich and considered able to save Jeffri's company.

After all, Jeffri deliberately explained this, just because he did not want Clara to finally ask. As to why Ferdi was betrothed to a woman that not even Ferdi or Jeffri knew well.

Because usually matchmaking is done to someone who has been known first. A friend's child, or a distant relative.

"But it's selfish" Clara told the man.

"Try if suppose om has the intention to match Ferdi with another woman. Suppose I am another woman, not coincidentally the man Ferdi had met accidentally. Didn't that hurt Ferdi?. What is Ferdi's match goal?. Why do you destroy the feelings of your own child. We're both sick with this matchmaking, om. I guess Ferdi's really going to be with someone else."

This time Jeffri stuck a groove that he had made himself. Clara finally asks about Jeffri's motive for matching Ferdi. He has been waiting since.

"Yes, since Ferdi had always been involved in an unclear relationship." Jeffri answered while looking at Clara.

"The woman who became his girlfriend was not clear" he continued.

"As a parent, om wants the best for Ferdi. Om wants a good woman, with mature thinking, mature, and can accompany Ferdi well throughout his life."

"Do you know that I am a widow?"

Clara questioned her fears about her status. Jeffri nodded.

"Om know." she said later.

"But if I know I'm a widow, do you still want to make me a son-in-law?" ask Clara again.

"Why not?"

Jeffri replied firmly, because from the beginning he was actually not a problem with all that.

"What the hell is this?. Ferdi is fooled the same way. Was it that first?"

Nova couldn't bear to ask her friends. But Nath put the index finger on the lips, so that Nova calm first and they focus on listening to the chronology of the events that are being described.

"Good night."

A doctor came out of the room and walked over to Jeffri. The doctor spoke at length, explaining the condition of Ferdi who experienced fatigue and psychological stress. There is also the influence of alcohol in it, which causes it to get worse.

Everyone is sad, without exception. Before long Jeffri immediately visited the room, where his son is now being treated. Ferdi was still asleep and unconscious.

Jeffri stepped closer, then clasped his son's hand tightly.

"Sorry papa, Fer. I'm sorry papa has been selfish in setting you up. Papa can not imagine, if only papa had betrothed you to another woman. Papa will probably never know about the heart wound you are suffering from."

Ferdi felt his fingers move. Jeffri watched the young man, then kissed his forehead for a moment. Ferdi opened his eyes slowly. Jeffri was happy because Ferdi finally came to his senses.

"Pa." said Ferdi in a very weak tone. He was very sick and his face was still pale.

"Clara's still ahead, he's going to come in to see you" Jeffri said.

Ferdi never even knew if Clara who would be betrothed to him, was the same person as the person he loved today.

He has not known Clara's real name yet. Because it just called the woman "Mbak."

After all, they have only been dating for a few days and it is not time to dig deeper.

"Sorry papa, Ferdi" said Jeffri once again.

Ferdi also nodded. Before long Jeffri came out and told Clara to come in. When the woman stepped into Ferdi's room, Frans' heart was broken.

No one knows if she is in love with that woman. Nadia herself is currently on Frans' side and does not catch any strange signs of the lover.

"Ferdi."

Clara splashed into Ferdi's arms, and Ferdi instantly pulled the woman into his arms.

There were no words spoken, except emotions and breath going up and down. It was so bad Ferdi was so scared. Afraid that this isn't the truth.

For he was so resigned, his father would betrothed him to an old woman with three children. And left the Clara he loved in his memories.

But now everything is turning around. Reality can be very unexpected. The Clara he feared was gone, was now in his arms.

"Ferdi, I'm so afraid we won't see each other again. I imagined you marrying someone else, and it hurt a lot for me. I'm sad, and...."

Ferdi kissed Clara's lips immediately, making the woman instantly speechless.

"Don't say anything first" said Ferdi Later. Clara looked into her lover's eyes. Then the two hugged each other again, so tightly.