My Introvert Husband 3
Speak reality

"David, I don't want everyone to think I'm ruining someone else's relationship, please get out of here." Valerie clenched her hands together, the tears flowing from her pointy chin were now falling over her clenched hands.

"Valerie, what are you doing?" Let go of the woman's hand. "Nobody's ruining anyone's relationship! Me and Laurrent aren't getting engaged."

David's speech makes Valerie's ears jerk and so gasp, he does not believe it, but David immediately tries to explain what happened and why he could almost get engaged to Laurrent.

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Susana becomes quiet, David and Valerie are seen sitting on the living room couch. After the explanation given by David, they kept each other quiet. No chatter after that.

David suddenly stood up and pulled Valerie's hand.

"Come with me." take David.

"Where are you taking me?" Valerie remained silent about her position and finally chose to stand up when David forced her without telling her where the man was going to take her.

They both got in the car. David drives his car out of Valerie's house and

he took her to meet his mother at home.

Upon arrival at David's house, Valerie stared out the car window in wonder.

"Why did you bring me here?" ask Valerie.

"Follow it..." David gets out of the car, opens the door for Valerie. He glued his fingers together to hold the woman's hand and immediately invited her inside.

David tells Valerie to sit down, waiting for a moment when the man who made her fall in love entered his house.  The air coming out of the AC seemed unable to cool the woman's body temperature. Valerie was looking over her sweaty hands, her mind was still wondering if David would take her to her house suddenly like this.

The shoes clashed with the marble floor that sounded closer to Valerie, making the woman turn to the origin of the sound. He saw David coming out with his mother who was walking to him.

Valerie bit her lower lip, subduing her gaze fearfully. His body trembled uncontrollably, and still wondered if David would take his mother out to meet him.

Valerie stood up and greeted David's mother, the woman still looking at Valerie with an unfriendly look.

The three of them sat on a sofa that had different columns. David's mother asked Valerie at length as if she was interrogating him. It made the woman answer nervously and uncomfortably.

"What did David mean to bring me here?" muttered Valerie, she looked at David but strangely the man smiled lightly at her.

"What's your Marg?" mother David asked, watching Valerie from top to bottom.

"Lincoln, I used to follow my Dad's surname, Valerie Lincoln, but after my Dad and Mom died and I lived with Grandma. Grandma replaced it with her surname, Vaghela. Valerie Vaghela," replied Valerie.

"Vaghelas?" ask David's mother while scrunching her forehead. Valerie nodded her head.

"That means, you're Miss Welly Vaghela's granddaughter?" tanks back.

"Why did David's mother know?" mumble Valerie wonder.

Valerie lowered her head. "Ehm, yes, Bi. My grandmother's Welly Vaghela."

"God..." David's mother suddenly smiled as she shook her head.

"Mom knows Valerie's grandmother?" ask David.

"Yes, does Auntie know my Grandma?"  Valerie asked the same question.

"Of course, who doesn't know her, your Grandma is the largest owner of accommodation in Ireland, and Auntie worked with your Grandma for five years" said David's smiling mother.

"Really, Bi?" smiles spread across Valerie and David's faces. It was as if hope was opening up between the two of them.

"Yes, Son. I know your grandmother very well. Your grandmother used to say that she had a granddaughter, and Auntie didn't know that Lady Welly's granddaughter was you."

"How's your Grandma doing now? last night I invited her, but your grandmother didn't come she said she was sick is that right, son?" tanyakanya.

"I haven't lived with Grandma for eight months because there are personal problems between us, Bi. And I last saw Grandma a month ago, so I don't know how Grandma is now" Valerie said.

"Auntie can understand it, you're exactly like David, if David has problems with Auntie, he always chooses to stay in his apartment and let Aunt be lonely at home alone," led Mother David.

"But David was very affectionate, Mother." - David hugged and kissed his mother's cheek.

The woman who gave birth to him smiled. "Yes, you guys keep talking, I'm sorry to go inside, your work is still a lot unresolved."

Valerie agreed, David's mother passed away from there.

"Valerie, wait here, I want to talk to Mom for a minute." David rubbed Valerie's shoulder and immediately followed her mother inside while getting permission from Valerie.

David knocked on the door of his mother's study, and after getting permission, he entered. His mother was seen just sitting on a chair that displayed a laptop on her desk at the time.

"What else, son?" ask him while looking.

"How, Ma?" asked David who was currently standing next to his mother. The woman who had given birth to David sighed, standing in line with her son.

"Did Mom like Valerie? do you agree that Valerie will be David's companion?" ask him impatiently.

The woman held onto both shoulders of her son, gave a swipe then nodded her head with a smile.

"Mom really allowed it?" ask David.

"Yes, but remember, you have to take responsibility! Don't be like your father, now hurry out and accompany him, I'm having a lot of work." The words that spoke from his mother's mouth, made David widen his smile.

"Thank you very much, Mom. David loves you so much." David hugged and gave a lot of kisses on the face and top of his mother's head, for the first time, the middle-aged woman saw her son as happy as that. With a feisty step, David leaves his mother's study and approaches Valerie who is still waiting for him in the living room.

He smiled from a distance. He grabbed her body and grabbed Valerie's body. It made Valerie so astonished and even more wondering. "David release!" David immediately let go of his embrace.

"David please tell me, why did you bring me here?" ask Valerie.

"You still don't understand why I brought you here?" ask David. Valerie shook her head.

"I talked to my mom last night so she wouldn't make me a match again." David pulled Valerie's hand and held her tightly. Staring so closely at the two eyes of the woman who was in front of him.

"Then I said, take the woman of your choice to see me. If she's nice, I won't betrothed you again." David mimicked his mother's words last night. The look grew deeper and longer.

"Today I brought the woman here and introduced her to my mother" she said, kissing Valerie's hand, which she still holds.

"Then I just went to see Mom and asked her, she agreed to my relationship with the woman of my choice..."

Valerie's eyes looked teary as if she could not believe what the man had said, but the truth was that way.

"I'll marry you" he said.

"David, aren't you kidding me?" ask Valerie.

David shook his head. "With regards to matters of the heart I will never joke," he said with confidence.

"But, Grandma..." Valerie seemed unsure when she remembered her grandmother.

"You don't have to worry, you heard yourself, didn't you, I knew your grandmother. So don't you worry about that," he said. Valerie smiled and immediately hugged David.

"I love you, David."

"I love you too, Valerie."

(Wkwk eve bucinnn)

***

At Ken and Alana's house,

At lunchtime Ken took the time to go home, as promised yesterday, he was going to take his wife to Afford's house to see her mother. However, when he went to Afford's house, the house looked deserted and seemed uninhabited. The car driven by Ken stopped right in front of the gate of the house, making two guards who at that time saw him immediately approach him.

"Good day, oh it's Miss Alana." said the two guards, greeting them. Alana and Ken are still in the car. Opening the car window makes it easier to communicate with the guard.

"Yes Uncle, I stopped by here, um why is Uncle Afford's house deserted, where are the people?" alana asked to pay attention to her Uncle's luxurious house that looked unkempt as usual.

"Mr and Madam are going out of town, Miss Caleey is at work, miss..."

"If it's my Mama?"

"Ehm..." The two guards looked at each other, making Alana frown suspiciously.

"Where is my mom going? is Mami around, Uncle?" ask Alana.

"Ehm, Mrs Brianna is going abroad, Miss."

"Autside the country? what is my business going abroad? and when did Mami come home?" ask Alana.

"For that matter we do not know Miss," he replied simultaneously, but looked down as if he was hiding something.

"Oh, well, thank you very much, Uncle. Don't tell anyone that Alana's here, yes" Alana said, both guards agreed.

"You home? or want to eat?" ask Ken.

"I'm going to Daddy's grave, Ken," Alana said.

"Well..." Ken turned the lane leading to his father-in-law's final resting place not far from there.

Upon arrival at the funeral, Ken and Alana disembark and immediately enter the cemetery. Their footsteps were fixed on the mound, where his father was buried, from a distance saw so many flowers scattered on it, making Alana frown in wonder and wonder.

Ken thought that the pilgrim was his sister-in-law, but it was not, because after returning from the funeral, Alana asked her brother directly, and Daven answered that he had not made a pilgrimage to his father's grave for nearly a month. Alana was increasingly made curious by the pilgrim. Because, Holmes no longer has a family, Alana had thought that Brianna was on a pilgrimage at his father's grave, but is it possible? didn't her real mother not love her father? so it is very unlikely if his mother who made a pilgrimage at the tomb of his father. Alana immediately threw away the curiosity.

***

Four months passed, and,

For four months, Alana and Ken lived in Mama Merry's house and Papa Gio's, because Mama Merry was eager to look after and care for her daughter-in-law. Alana's pregnancy is getting bigger and may only wait a matter of days because it has actually exceeded the limits of HPL, making Ken so anxious if he had to leave her to go to work or just business out of town. He is more concerned with accompanying his wife than having to go out of town to take a job, he does not care even if the job is important.

even every time Ken worked, he always took the time to go home at lunchtime, just to accompany Alana and make sure his wife's needs were met.

During these four months, Alana also repeatedly visited the Afford family residence secretly to meet with her mother, but the same situation and answers she always got from the house guards. Alana finally gave up and decided not to look for her mother again.

Meanwhile, David, just one month ago himself and Valerie carried out their engagement and they will soon have their wedding 7 months away, according to the agreement between the families.

alana is the happiest. Because, from the beginning he really hoped for the union of relations between the two of them. And now the Lord answered his hope, making the woman happy, moreover his closeness with Valerie further added to the warm atmosphere of friendship between Ken and David.

***

That afternoon Alana was seen chatting and joking with her mother-in-law. Meanwhile, Ken, Papa Gio, Jasson and Jesslyn are doing the routine as usual.

While being cool chatting while enjoying tea will be hot during the day, suddenly Alana felt a little cramp in her stomach. He told his mother-in-law to go to the toilet, and Merry let him.

but while in the toilet, Alana was surprised to see spots in her underwear. With a slightly worried step, Alana immediately came out of the bathroom and met Mama Merry again to tell her what she was currently feeling. Mama Merry was immediately scared and worried like her daughter-in-law, she immediately took her daughter-in-law to the hospital and was escorted by Uncle Lux who happened to be there.

During the trip, Merry tried to contact her husband and children, to inform them that she and Alana were on their way to the hospital.  Alana seems calm, but not infrequently her stomach is still attacked by pain just a cramp and also wrapped around, but sometimes the taste disappears by itself.

The trip took fifteen minutes, until his arrival at the hospital.

Merry and Uncle Lux help Alana to get out of the car. Merry took her daughter-in-law's hand and helped her walk to the obstetrician's room, and during the examination. Doctors advised Alana to be hospitalized that day, considering that HPL was more than a week from the time it should be, the baby in her stomach should be ready to be born.

After the examination, Merry and Alana step out of the obstetrician's room, intending to wait for Ken and also Papa Gio in the waiting room. However, Merry accidentally nudged a woman who was walking with a cane, making the file carried by the woman fall scattered on the floor.

"I'm sorry, ma'am." Merry helped the woman pick up some of the fallen maps and papers strewn across the floor.

"It's okay...."

when the file is already collected. Merry helped the woman to stand up and take her wand lying there. However, Alana was shocked when she saw the woman who was accidentally hit by her mother-in-law was none other than Brianna, her birth mother.

"Mommy..." Alana greeted him as if in disbelief, because the appearance of her mother now looks apprehensive. His body looks thin dry, his paled face is clearly hidden behind a thick polish of makeup. He even walked with the help of a cane.

"Mommy, it's Mommy..." Alana holds Brianna's shoulders in disbelief.

"Alana, my daughter." The greeting and the argument between the mother and the child ended in an embrace.

"Mommy anywhere, Alana really misses Mami." said Alana, hugging her mother tightly while kissing her. Her eyes closed, her tears flowing, showing that Alana really misses the woman who gave birth to her. For a moment releasing her embrace, Alana noticed the drastic change of her birth mother.

"Mommy why is she skinny like this? Mommy sick?" ask Alana. Brianna smiled as she shook her head. Not long after, from behind Brianna's direction, Alana was surprised when in the same place she saw her younger brother walking up to her with a plastic bag containing so much medicine in it.

"Sister..." Daven gasped when he saw his mother and brother. Both eyes of Alana could not be separated to notice her brother was giving the medicine he held it to his mother.

"What are you doing here?" ask Daven.

"Sister should ask you, why are you here, Daven? and what medicine did you give Mami?" ask Alana. Daven was silent.

"Daven-"

"Mrs Brianna, Daven.It's better we find a place to sit, Kasian Alana if you stand too long," asked Merry. Brianna. Merry helped her son-in-law to walk and Daven helped her mother.Today the three of them sat in the waiting chair that was in her reach at that time. Daven stood among them, looking down.

Alana still didn't let go of her look at her mother. Caressing the face of the mother with tears that decompose, somehow he misses the woman who is in front of him at this time.

"Is Miss Brianna sick?" merry asked as he glanced at the large brown map carried by the iron. Brianna was silent for a moment, nodding her head until the tears that she had originally endured fell down her face.

"What's sick mom?" ask Alana who is a little pushy.

"Daven, what's the pain Mami got?"

"Say, what's the pain Mommy has? Why did Mami's body become thin like this?"  Alana was so impatient to hear the answers of her sister and her mother.

"It's just common pain, son. The old man's pain, "Brianna tried to shift her eyes so that Alana and Merry could guess that the woman was lying.

"Mommy don't lie, if Mami isn't seriously ill, Mami won't look like this, tell Mami what's sick?"

"Daven, tell Brother!" Alana is still forcing, but Brianna does not want to admit it, so Daven is just silent. Until making Merry who was sitting closer to the iron, he immediately swept the brown map which was then held by Brianna, who was now, what he believed was that in the map there must be a history of disease suffered by the iron.

"Don't lie, Madam. If you don't tell me what you're sick of, I'll find the information myself." Merry wants to open the contents of the chocolate map. Brianna forbade it.

"Mistress Merry, please return it... I'll be honest and tell you the truth, please return the map.." Brianna's request immediately made Merry encouraged to return the map he held to the owner.

"Quick say, Mam. What sick mom?" Alana still did not stop urging her mother who was still silent.

"Mami-"

"Mommy has uterine cancer, son."

The statement that was thrown from Brianna's mouth immediately made Merry and Alana so gasp when they heard it. Both of Alana's eyes became more and more rounded, allowing her tears to fall more freely.

"Mommy has been sick for almost four years now" he added, holding back sobs.

"Oh my God." The saying escaped Merry's slightly gaping lips.

"Mommy's sick, then why didn't Mami ever tell Alana?" alana's cry breaks. As if in disbelief, that vicious and deadly disease lodged in the body of the woman who had given him life. Brianna just stood still and lowered her head, letting her tears flow freely from her place.

"Why didn't Mami tell Alana?"

"Mommy doesn't want to charge anyone, Mami doesn't want to charge Mami's children including your Daddy. That's why Mami prefers to leave your Daddy and come with Uncle, son. Let Uncle help with Mami's treatment."

"In order to survive and treatment is not cheap when your Daddy fell bankrupt, Mami was forced to choose to live with your Uncle, your Uncle wants to finance all Mami's treatment, Mami, mom wants to completely abandon your Daddy and obey all his will, including hating and completely forgetting him. Because from a long time ago, Uncle really did not like your Daddy...  Mami has no other choice, indeed from the beginning Mami never loved Daddy, but your Daddy is a very good person, he is very good." he said with a whim.

"Mommy's the bad guy, your Daddy died because of Mami, he died because of Mami, son." Brianna's cries break down with regret, recalling the words he had spoken to Holmes in the hospital before his breathing blew one last time.

"No, Mommy... Daddy died because it was fate, Mami don't talk like that..." Alana holding both of Brianna's cheeks wiped away each of her falling tears.

"Daddy doesn't know that Mommy is sick?" ask Alana. Brianna shook her head and said, "Nobody knows except Uncle and Daven's family."

Alana turned her eyes to her younger brother. "Daven, why didn't you tell Brother?" exclaimed Alana who was still sobbing.

"Sorry, Brother. Daven's only known about this for the past few months, brother. Mami told Daven to hide this from Big Brother" Daven said slowly. The man also held back his heavy-sounding voice.

"I'm sorry, Mommy, Son. Mami does not want to bother you, Mami had hated your Daddy because Mami thought your Daddy was deliberately making you as a tool for business purposes only, because what Mami knew all this time from your Uncle was like that. But Mami just found out the truth from Daven. Mami's been so wrong with your husband, for accusing him of nothing."

"For five months, Daven who helped finance Mami's treatment, Mami had always been abroad, but because your Uncle's company was collapsing, Mami was doing treatment and chemotherapy in this hospital." Brianna looked down while rubbing her tears in turn.

"Mommy always sees you, even if you go to Uncle's house, Mami always sees you from a distance."

"Then why didn't Mami want to see Alana?"

"Mommy won't interfere with your life, son. Mami doesn't want to charge you." she said as if she wasn't strong enough to talk anymore.

"Mommy, no child feels burdened by his parents..." Alana raised her mother's wet face, trying to dry with both of her thumbs. Alana's attention was distracted by Brianna's hair, trying to touch it until the faux hair was slightly detached from the middle-aged woman's real hair. The sight that stifled the chest, Alana now only saw a pinch of hair that grew on the head of her biological mother was the result of side effects of chemotherapy. Alana's cries broke back.

"Mommy..." Alana hugged Brianna so tightly that she shed all her tears there. For God's sake, his heart hurts so much to see this. How could he not know that his mother was struggling with the disease.

"Mommy's fine, son." Brianna tried to calm her daughter down by rubbing her back. Alana suddenly released her embrace, she held her suddenly tight stomach, her two eyes twinkling withstanding the excruciating pain in her stomach even to the point of stabbing into her spine.