HOW CAN I NOT LOVE YOU
Chapter 31 - Treating Wounds In The Heart

Ricky turned off his laptop because he also wanted to go home soon. He then turned his head towards the sofa where Anindita had already slept there.

Ricky put his briefcase in the drawer. He intended to leave his briefcase at the office, because he had to bring his sleeping wife home.

Ricky just put his cell phone and wallet in his pants and balzer pocket. After that he approached towards the sofa to idle Anidita's body.

" Eemmm, is it over?" When Anindita's body was in both arms of Rizky, the woman woke up.

" Yes, we're going home now." Ricky walked out of the room without lowering Anindita's body down.

" Mommy, put me down! I'm just gonna walk." Not good if it looks security if it must be carried by her husband, Anindita asked Ricky to lower himself.

" You're sleepy. Just sleep, it's okay." Ricky refuses Anindita's request. And keep taking Anindita to the basement.

" But I'm ashamed, Mom. Probably seen by people ..." Anindita.

" Who would want to see? At least it's just the security guard." Ricky chuckles.

Anindita no longer gives any objection, because her husband still does not want to put her down.

On the way to their apartment, Anindita is seen falling asleep again. Until they reached the basement of their apartment, Ricky also did not intend to wake his wife.

" Is she asleep, sir?" Tita who has not fallen asleep because of waiting for Anindita's arrival immediately welcomes Ricky when opening the apartment door. Previously Ricky had told Tita to stand guard in front.

" Yes ..." Ricky immediately walked up the stairs to their room.

Ricky put Anindita's body on the bed, then walked to the wardrobe to pick up a change of clothes and walked to the bathroom to wash his face. Earlier this afternoon in his office he had a bath because he knew he was going to overtime. After washing his face and changing into sleep clothes, Ricky then joined Anindita on the bed to release the fatigue felt by his body after overtime.

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It was almost five in the morning. However, Ricky still did not get out of his bed.

Anindita sits on the edge of the bed trying to wake Ricky up because the man has to carry out his two rakaat duties immediately.

" Mommy, wake up .. It's five o'clock." With a gentle clap Anindita woke up the husband.

" Ocity ..." Ricky squirms by stretching his arms to stretch his muscles. The man soon got up with his mouth evaporating.

" What time is it?" ask Ricky who did not hear what Anindita said earlier.

" Fifth hour, Mas. Prayers first!" Anindita pulled over the blanket Ricky was wearing to get her husband out of bed.

Ricky finally got up, then walked to the bathroom to take water ablution, because it will perform the prayer. Meanwhile, Anindita went straight down, because she wanted to help Tita prepare a breakfast menu for her family.

A few minutes later, Anindita and Ricky with their family enjoy breakfast at the dinner table.

" She, her upper thighs are not there, there is a chest. It's okay, right?" Anindita thrusts her homemade hen into Ricky's plate.

" It's okay. I asked for a lot of them" said Ricky.

" Want to bacem, Mas?" tanya Anindita showed me a new tempe menu she had made since her marriage to Ricky.

" Tempe what is that?" Ricky frowned because he had never eaten processed tempe menu as offered by Anindita.

" This is tempe bacem. Cobain, yeah. It tastes sour sweet ..." Anindita cuts the tempeh with a spoon and then she feeds it into Ricky's mouth.

" Good, right?" anindita asked after Ricky chewed a mouthful of tempe from her. Who was immediately replied with a nod to her husband's head.

" Mama didn't feed Papa, Rama. Mama just told Papa cobain to eat this tempeh alone," refuted Anindita explained. " Rama wants Mama's bribe too?" ask Anindita to Ramadhan.

" Don't want ah, the temple is charred, must be bitter! Mama must have cooked it while sleepy, huh? So the temple's all gone." Ramadhan spread his shoulders to see the appearance of the tempeh presented at the dining table. Its appearance is not yellow as usual makes him think if the tempe is cooked emptiness.

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Anindita chuckled at Ramadhan's words and replied, "This is not a charade, son. This is the roof that sticks and absorbs into this tempe. Try it first, huh. Rama must have liked it." Now Anindita cut off the rest of Ricky's tempeh and then fed it to the mouth of Ramadan. " Good, right?" tanyanya.

" Good, Ma. Sweet ... Rama wants it again, Ma." said Ramadhan who apparently liked the taste of the tempe.

" Likes it the same way?" Anindita smiled and then gave tempe to Rama's plate. " Want to too?" ask her now to Ricky.

" May .." said Ricky thrust his plate to Anindita to be given tempe bacem.

The sweet interaction between Anindita and Ricky is now being noticed by Mama Arya. There were absolutely no problems Anindita complained about last night. Mama Arya suspects that Ricky and Anindita have spoken well about the problems they are facing. Without Mama Arya knowing if last night Anindita to follow Ricky to his office.

Mama Arya smiled happily. Of course the harmony of the relationship between Ricky and Anindita is his happiness as well. For him, Ricky is Arya's replacement, his son who has gone before him. Kindness, care and affection were given to her as if it could treat the wound in the heart of Mother Fatma for the loss of her eldest child and also for being exiled by her two daughters, Ria and Lanny.

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" Excuse me, Sir. The employee said downstairs, someone's looking for Mr. Ricky. They were the ones who claimed to be Arka's Tantenya, sir." Lisna tells Ricky about Ria and Lanny's arrival to the office of Angkasa Raya Group.

Ricky knitted his eyebrows together, revealing a frown on the face of the handsome man who was nearing the age of forty, when he heard the information presented by Lisna.

" Where are they now?" ricky asked in response to Lisna's report.

" They're still in the security post, sir." Lisna said.

" Please connect me with the phone at the security post, Lisna. I want to talk to them." Ricky decides to talk to Arya's two sisters over the phone.

" Good, sir." Lisna then connected the phone with the phone plane in the security post.

" It's connected, sir." Lisna pushed the phone she had connected to security.

" Thank you" Ricky said, bringing the phone to his ears and mouth.

" Hello?"

" Hello, Mr. Ricky. I am Ria Mas Arya's sister. I can meet you directly with my father. There's something I want to talk about there's Mr. Ricky and Anin." Ria's voice was immediately heard answering Ricky's greeting earlier.

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