Not a Show Wife
Chapter 2: The hard life.

..."Meeting you is fate, being your friend is a choice, but falling in love with you is completely out of my day."...

The woman still lamented her fate, from the very beginning she never wanted this marriage.. But, the man was able to melt his heart with all the deceit he did in the beginning.

"So he never really loved me."

His breathing faltered, his chest slightly stiffened because the woman had asthma in her lungs. Living under the man's feet was enough to make him suffer. He did not even know the reason, the reason the man had never appreciated him and considered him to exist.

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Elisha was crying in the luxurious room he was in, the woman sobbed while slapping her face on the pillow. Sky, still sitting in the living room. He will spend the night there, while his lawyer will come home alone on the train.

He took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth that didn't look like the smoker. He held a match in his other hand, the man started to turn on his match. He brought the fire to the cigarette he had put in his mouth.

He rubbed the cigarette while closing his eyes, then let out his smoke slowly. He was so thirsty, those servants that no one even approached his new Host. In fact, it does not offer a glass of water or coffee.

At least, they're pleasantries. After all, it was Sky who would give them their wages later.

"Servant!" Sky's voice was so blaring.

But, no one approached. Elisha who heard Sky's scream from his room, instantly wiped his tears and descended down to scold Sky.

"You! If your servants refuse to serve me. You are the one who should serve me!" Sky pointed at Elisha who was just a few steps walking down the stairs.

"I never take orders from anyone!" Elisha looked at the man sharply. He hated Sky.

"Then call your servants. If they upset me again. I will fire them all and make you my slave!" Sky stood up, looking at Elisha more sharply.

The servants came without being asked by Elisha, they bowed obediently to Sky. The servants, unwilling to leave there and leave Elisha alone with the man. Since childhood, Elisha was well cared for by them. After the departure of her parents, she was under the care of a servant named Nori. The middle-aged woman, who was now the butler of the house.

Skandar, from the age of 20, lived far away from Elisha. He lived in the city in the house of their father who was there. But due to his addiction to gambling, the house was confiscated. Not to mention, Skandar's debts are still everywhere. During this time, Elisha was the one who took care of the family farm. But, that only source of income, now was no longer his. There was nothing he could do out there, he had never tried at all.

"Okay sir, we are at your service. Just please, don't bother our lady." Nori asked politely.

"His dream, you love him so much." Sky smiled wryly.

"I'm going to fire some of you. I have to cut the operational costs that must be spent for the Princess in this house!" Sky turned towards Elisha. He spoke sarcasm to Elisha as a princess lived in a magnificent palace filled with servants.

"But Sir," Nori interrupted. The middle-aged woman looked at Elisha's face wryly. Elisha nodded, as if he was saying that he was fine.

"But before that, give them enough severance for their lives. According to how long they've been working here."

"Miss, I don't take orders from anyone. I did, what I wanted to do!" Sky swiped his cigarette again, sembaru leaning on the sturdy teak wood cabinet.

Sky came out of the house, he asked the rancher to drive him around and see some animals there. First, he went into the dairy cowshed. Look at the condition of the cows. The animal was well-groomed, even he tasted fresh cow's milk from there.

"It feels amazing, have you sold this to the city?" Asked Sky curiously.

"No sir, we only sell it in the area here in part. Part of it is used for personal use, Miss Elisa really likes to soak with fresh milk. He also likes to consume it." The ranch attendant walked ahead of Sky.

Sky let out a small laugh, no wonder the woman was as white as milk. He walked back to follow the officer. Now he's showing Sky some cut animals, like chickens and ducks. Onward, to the Horse. They had a couple of gallant horses. Sky patted the horse's back, the horse protested by lifting both of its front legs.

"Be careful! It's Miss Elisa's horse, it's very sensitive to the touch of anyone other than her employer."

"What a wonder, that woman!" Sky deeply entrenched, he felt stunned by the unique things that Elisha had. He grins. How Skandar, making Elisa a betting material. But, the most important thing was that he had already managed to snatch away everything that the man had. He'll make her suffer, as much as she used to.

FLASHBACK 27 YEARS AGO..

Sky had just picked a flower in the forest, he and his sister lived together in a small house near the forest. His parents, who are not from a conglomerate, have died.

Just him and his sister, Ara. His sister was only 9 years old at the time. They never went to school, they became ranch workers in their spare time. Sky is also a street shoe shiner. They are once every 3 days, taking care of some cattle in the Michigan family home. At that time, Sky was going to the city to sell some items that were used as wages for shining shoes.

While this is their schedule for farming, because Sky can not come, finally Ara who went to the family's house alone. What happened then, after Sky came home. She saw her sister slump her head and cry.

"Why? You okay?" Sky tried to see his sister's face.

His sister did not answer, she was still crying. Sky accidentally saw a red color that made him lose focus. It was blood, coming out of the area under his sister Ara's stomach. Sky turned his back, he shook his sister's body. Forcing the little girl to look at him and tell him the truth.

But all Ara did was cry, her body shaking violently. Sky was convinced that her sister had been raped. But no matter who raped her, she didn't know. He goes straight to the Michigan family home, because that's where Ara's only one goes.

He banged on the house a few times, but no one answered. Apparently the family had moved in and brought all of his farm animals. "Suck!"

During his life, Sky searched for the family. Meanwhile, his sister became traumatized by the events that happened to him. He won't even talk, eat or anything. Sky who was struggling in cost could not bring Ara to the hospital. Until finally, when Sky to the city. His sister decided to commit suicide by slashing his arm. Ara was out of blood and not saved.

The disappearance of the Michigan family and the death of his sister, make Sky a cold man. He's been looking for that family for years. Until one day, after 15 years had passed, he met Skandar Michigan at a gambling table.

He was sure, Skandar was the son of the bastard family, after which he continued to trap Skandar to get more opium with gambling. To make the man bankrupt as he is now. But that wasn't enough for him. He promised to avenge the family 10 times more suffering than his sister felt at the time.

FLASHBACK DONE.

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