HATE Before LOVE
"I'm trying to cut duren."

DOR'S!

The gunshot is heard. One bullet was released!

Ardan hugged Elif just as the gunshot sounded. Both Ardan and Elif closed their eyes, trying to feel what had happened to their bodies after the shot, but they both felt nothing.

Ardan and Elif opened their eyes, staring at each other worriedly.

"You okay?" ask Ardan.

Elif nodded. "Who's been shot?" Elif turned her gaze to Kinan who had fallen, blood had already soaked her dress, the gun she had been holding fell.

"Chinaaaan!" Screaming Daniel, he crawled closer to his fallen cousin.

"Lift hands!" Shouted a police officer who was still pointing his gun at Kinan and Daniel.

"Kinan, hang on!" Still enduring the pain of two broken fingers, Daniel attempted to suppress a gunshot wound to Kinan's abdomen. Kinan was unable to breathe regularly. His body was not as crazy as his mind to be able to endure the pain of being hit by a bullet.

"Ja. ngan. bi. ar... right.. me. re.. ka. lo... lo... los..." Pinta Kinan interrupted his severed breath while pointing at Ardan and Elif.

With his left hand Daniel grabbed the gun lying near Kinan and immediately fired a few bullets towards Ardan and Elif.

DOR'S! DOR'S! DOR'S! DOR'S!

"Aackhh!"

"ARDAN! ELIF!" shout Gavin.

"LADEN! LADY ELIF! Shouted Teddy.

Finally one shot right in Daniel's heart landed, immediately toppling the man who he said resembled Park Seo Joon was uprooted. Kinan's hysterical replacement, still trying to get up to pick up the gun, pointed the gun at the police, but quickly the second shot landed on his body, and eventually the two cousins' lives ended there.

Meanwhile, Gavin and Teddy are nearing Elif, who is hugging Ardan's body, apparently one of the bullets Daniel released hit Ardan's arm.

The Elif of course had already burst into tears, seeing how the blood was seeping so quickly.

"Sir, are you okay?" ask Teddy.

"How do you think, heh? Why are you guys taking so long?" Omel Ardan, trying to stand with the help of Gavin and Teddy.

"I'm okay, baby. It's just a gunshot wound."

"Don't joke! Let's get to the hospital!" Elif said with great fear.

"Yes, we need to get those bullets out quick." Gavin Timpal.

As the four of them move away, Ardan and Elif embrace each other, Gavin and Teddy follow behind.

"Thank you for the help, sir" Ardan said to the commander who led the police officers who secured the site.

"It is our duty, Mr. Ardan." replied the commander. "Maybe tomorrow, after you and your wife have calmed down, we'll come to ask for information."

"Of course, sir. We'll wait." said Ardan.

Gavin and Teddy immediately take Ardan and Elif to the hospital. On the way, Elif continued to suppress the gunshot wound on Ardan's arm with great worry, while Ardan looked at his wife's face with mixed feelings. He touched the wound on the corner of Elif's lip as a result of the slap Daniel had done earlier.

"Is this sick?" asked Ardan gently.

"Little." answered Elif honestly. He's still focused on Ardan's wounds. "Your face is also wounded" Elif said in a trembling voice, signs of crying again.

"Ssh, don't cry anymore." Ardan rubbed Elif's cheek. "Close to." Brisks Ardan to Elif.

Cup.

One kiss landed as soon as Elif's face approached on her face. Steal this guy's chance once!

Elif immediately turned his face. "There's Mr. Teddy and Brother Gavin!" Chick Elif.

"Why is that?" ask Ardan to relax. "We're legitimate, it's halal, it's okay?"

"Thy know!

"We should've been comfortable hugging in the blanket, sweating and..."

"Jeez, Ardan, you're hurting, you can get your mind there! We just had a bad thing."

"But it's over, baby. No more Kinan or his cousin who's just as crazy."

Gavin and Teddy were shaking their heads, but the gunshot wounds did not make Ardan lose his desire at this time.

"You didn't hear anything, did you, Ted?" ask Gavin.

"I'm deaf, sir." replied Teddy.

***

Ardan opened his eyes and immediately found his wife, Elif, who was still curled up right next to him, with her hands hugging the chest of his field. They sleep on a hospital bed, well, this is not the first time they share a hospital bed, it's just the situation is reversed.

His fine arms became a cushion for his wife's head that Ardan asked last night to sleep together in bed rather than seeing Elif sleeping on the couch of the VVIP room. The after-surgery effects of mild surgery made him so tired last night and immediately fell asleep so Elif also laid himself down. Plus Ardan's favorite scent from Elif's hair that made him so comfortable even though his hand had just been hit by a bullet.

Ardan put away the child's hair that covered Elif's forehead, peeling the long forehead until it made Elif wake up.

"Gunaydian carim." (Good morning, wife)

"Gunaydian map." (Good morning, husband)

Elif dyed coyly Ardan's cheeks before coming down from the bed, but of course the young master would not be that easy to let go.

"What?"

"Why just on the cheek?"

"Where are you going?"

Ardan moved his lips sillyly, Elif instead laughed and pinched Ardan's waist instead of kissing Ardan's lips.

"Don't be weird, we're in the hospital again, if there's a doctor or nurse who came in?"

"Yes leave it alone, anyway they know we are husband and wife who are lawful laws of state and religion."

"Yes, but it's not ethical. Must know the place and time yes, dear." said Elif softly.

Ardan let out a sigh of resignation. "All right, Mrs Demir."

"But when we get home, don't blame me if you're not going anywhere."

"Are you going to lock me up?"

"Yes, I'll lock you up with these two arms." Ardan said as he moved his arm arrogantly, but a second later he grimaced feeling the marks of the pulsating stitches.

"It's, like, mostly style." Elif said as he got off the bed and approached Ardan's left side. He helped Ardan sit up and stroked the bandage wrapped around his arm.

"I'm sorry, because of me you got shot" Elif said.

"Hey, why is it so sad." Ardan rubbed Elif's cheek. "You're not wrong, after all, later this stitch will make me look... What is it, macho?"

They laughed later.

"But you got two stitch scars because of me, this first one, and now this." Elif pointed to Ardan's scar that used to be pierced by a knife then that had just been operated on.

"As long as you love me, these wounds will be cool."

"Ish, why aren't you ever serious?"

"I'm serious."

Elif clucking. "Here you go, let me help you clean up, before the doctors and nurses and the delivery man and..."

"A lot of it and her." Cut Ardan.

"And the police came to ask for our information."

"Okay, so we take a bath together?"

"I help you clean up, and then you sit on the bed waiting for the nurse and the doctor to come while I clean myself too." Elif said firmly as explaining to a five-year-old child not to play in the kitchen while his mother peed.

"Huh, it's hard to split duren." Ardan's Mumbling.

It even made Elif laugh.

"Don't laugh like that, you make me want to devour you right now."