LOVE IN TASBIH DETAILS
CHAPTER 26. ENOUGH WOUNDS ONE TIME
"Has Doddy finally been honest with you that he's loved you for so long?"
The question was so slow it was almost inaudible, but it was enough to keep Diah from blinking for quite some time.
"Why are you asking about him?" Behind asking, his voice seemed choked, while he glanced at Bella who seemed to have finished eating.
"I just want to ask, if you mind answering it doesn't matter either." Bram replied while throwing his face away uncomfortably, Diah's eyes were round shining, her face was turning pias.
"Honey, you go to the room first huh, collect some dolls that you want to take with papa." Diah pulls out a plate of Bella that's empty except for a little rice leftover and chicken bones.
Bella jumps out of her chair and immediately scatters in a carefree voice, usually Diah will tell her not to run but at this time she is silent, only focusing on looking at Bram.
"Is Doddy important to you? After we got divorced, we had our own privacy. Whatever happens in my life doesn't matter to you anymore I think." Diah's voice sounded sharp, her face reddened.
Bram was silent for a moment looking at the face that was frozen in front of him, then sighed.
"Don't get me wrong, I don't mind who you are and what happened to you after our breakup. It's just..."
Bram's sentence is broken.
"Only, if you choose to continue living with Doddy then I am calmer. I. I think he can make you happy." The sentence was slow but sounded sincere.
Diah didn't say anything, but the frost on her face melted away. He was completely stunned by what he heard, a sentence he never dreamed of coming out of the mouth of a Bram.
"Well, Bella and I are leaving. I have to go home." Bram stood up in a half-stuttering voice, uncomfortable as Diah's eyes looked at him almost unblinkingly from where he was standing, with Bella's dirty dishes and spoons held tightly motionless.
"I'm sorry if it makes you feel uncomfortable with my straight questions. Forget it." Bram broke the stiffness by stopping his meal which was only a few spoons.
He no longer felt hungry.
Diah turned her face away, looked a little awkward and nodded her head.
"Let's wait in the living room, I'll take Bella down." Diah just arranged the old plate soberly, she really looked wrong on her own.
Bram assented in an almost inaudible voice. Shifting her chair back, she would leave Diah in that dining room.
"Bram..." Diah's voice sounded slow but made Bram turn around. They both stood opposite the dining table.
"Did Doddy say something to you?" Tanya Diah suddenly sounded doubtful.
Bram did not answer, his eyes were fixed straight on the eyes of his ex-wife, he seemed more hesitant to filter what he would say to the eyes that looked strangely sparkling in front of him.
"Did...have you...have you met him?" The next question then dawned on Bram that Diah was so curious about the man.
"I met him a few months ago right before we sat together at the court table."Bram replied, his voice was so deep. Diah seemed to be waiting for Bram's sentence carefully, showing how curious he was about it.
"He said he loved you for a long time. But that doesn't mean I'm saying that there's something to do with your decision to divorce me. That's another thing, I did indeed have a toxic marriage for you so Doddy wasn't the one who had anything to do with all the tempests I had committed." Bram seemed to be trying to explain his point, Diah's gaze looked piercing.
"Just..." Bram turned his gaze to the bowl of cold-looking lodeh on the table.
"Just, I want to make sure you're okay."
"I'm fine." Diah interrupted.
"I mean, is your relationship going well? Doddy's a good guy..."Bram said wrongly.
Diah was silent a thousand bases, the eyes turned strange, looked sad for a moment and then again looked indifferent, as if their conversation was really unimportant.
"I shouldn't interfere in your personal affairs." Bram looks regretful with their chatter that feels so wrong now. She realized, Diah might feel uncomfortable with her question.
Bram immediately turned his back, preparing to leave the dining table when he suddenly heard Diah's voice, resolute though raucous.
"If you're so curious, Doddy never came to see me again after I divorced you, he's never even contacted me until today."
Bram was stunned, but precisely fascinated by what he heard.
"But it doesn't matter to me. Love is no longer a priority for me, I have Bella, I have my own future. People may come and go in my life, give me hope and then disappear. I won't open my heart to things that won't accept me well. A one-time wound is enough to make me understand that pain is not something I can easily bear if it repeats." Diah's voice sounded flat.
"Not to show excessive concern about who makes me happy or what person is right for me. Because like it or not we are just ex-husband and wife. All we're connected to now is Bella, so please agree on what boundary we stand on." The look on Diah's face was frozen, but deep in her heart she had a longing for a face that now had no news.
"I've stopped asking about where and with whom when five years ago you slapped me in the face, when you decided another woman was enlivening our marriage." the sentence was uttered in a low, almost inaudible voice.
"I hope you don't ask about my relationship with anyone anymore, it doesn't make me feel cared for but it's like I'm being treated cheaply, who I'm happy with doesn't matter anymore when you decide other women are more important than me being your wife." Diah walked in with a firm step, dragging her flip-flops on the floor. He headed for the kitchen with a pile of dishes in his hand.
Bram was glued to Diah, there was nothing wrong with his ex-wife's words but his heart felt so guilty, had cut a wound of this magnitude on the heart of the woman who had been his wife.
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