Revenge In A Contract Marriage
Liz's Heart Voice

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Tonight Liz and Devan eat at the dinner table. At Liz's strange request, she asks for satay and meatballs. I don't know what possessed this girl, which she obviously wasn't craving.

They're just the two of them, it should be if there's no Vin. Unfortunately Vin is like Devan's shadow, where it is. According to Liz, she had to play a few more tricks for Devan to fall for her, unfortunately Vin was a hindrance.

Liz ate voraciously, unfortunately it made her face dirty. There was a peanut butter on the corner of his lips. Liz is aware of that. He looked at Devan with a smile. "My husband, look there's peanut butter." Adu Liz with her powerful voice. He pointed at the corner of his dirty lips.

Devan just stared at Liz flat. "Am I your servant who's gonna wipe that? You think I care?"

Liz looked down. "Yah~ kirain already there is a taste even a little. It turns out not to be, huh." Liz let the bean seasoning just like that, even when they had finished eating, because Liz forgot there. If he knew, he would have cleaned it.

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The door of the room was closed, Liz had just wanted to go to the bathroom, but her hand was pulled by Devan. Devan immediately ate the rest of the peanut butter on the corner of the lip.

The deg!

Liz's heart this time was really pounding so fast. He even thought his heart was almost out of his mouth. Liz's eyes widened in shock, Devan just smiled staring at the reaction. "What's wrong? Didn't you just whine for cleaning? Now that I've cleaned it up, say thank you ka-"

Liz pushed Devan. He ran to the bathroom.

Plakkk!!

Liz slapped both of her cheeks with her own hands. He looked at himself in the mirror. Liz took a long breath.

Relax Liz, you need to calm down, look at Devan's situation and reaction, it seems like he's starting to have a little taste in you. Increase, a little sacrifice is fine. Maybe after this he'll kiss me more often. No, it doesn't matter the final origin.

Right, this sacrifice, all these kisses, it's just a sacrifice for revenge. Only sacrifice without any element of personal feeling. There is only hatred for the Arkasa and Tara families. Just hate, nothing else. Remember Liz... Remember all the stories that Aunt Yuli told you... Recall...

...LIZ POV...

I remember it again, when I was five years old, I always asked about my father to my mother, and Mama Deyna always said. "Your father is a very good man, he is a great doctor, his face is also very handsome." Mama Deyna always tells it while showing Papa's photo. Mama also always smiled pretty, her face was radiant happy, if she had talked about Papa.

I always heard Papa's great story from Mama. I've also been staring at Papa's picture before I went to bed ever since. I wouldn't even be able to sleep if I hadn't seen Papa's face, nor would my mom love him so much.

But when I was 7. I realized a dark fact that I did not understand. It was all because of my schoolmates, who asked me, where is my papa? Whereabouts?

At that time I did not understand, but if you remember Mama's face was immediately sad, her expression was strange, her lips trembled as if she wanted to hold back a cry. But she stroked my hair softly, she held my cheek, looked me in the eye for sure, and said. "Just calm down, Papa is busy, he'll come later. Liz, just calm down."

"When did Papa come?"

"Later."

"If so Liz wants to talk to Papa. Liz never talked to Papa, let Liz who persuaded Papa, Papa will obey all the requests of his daughter, so Liz-"

I wasn't done talking, but my tears came out a lot. I became afraid, also sad, I had time to think if this is my fault that too many requests?

I wiped Mama's tears. "Liz will wait for Papa, until papa comes home, mama also wait for Papa right? Let's wait for Papa together, Mama don't cry, Papa will be home soon."

Mama smiled happily, she kissed me on the forehead, but now that I knew she was displaying a fake smile, she convinced herself with a dream that would never happen, also shared the dream with his innocent daughter.

A minute? Even until I was 9 years old, Papa never came. Until we were short of money and were evicted from the contract. I will not forget that day, a day of heavy rain and we have to sleep in front of people's shop, even had a few times expelled. Cih even though only hitchhiking. The humiliation that was still warm in my head, my blood boiled when I remembered it all.

In fact, I who was 10 years ago had started to hate the figure of Papa, my hallucinations!

"Ma! Where's Papa! Mama said she'd come, right? Where to?! Don't come, send no news, right?"

Plakk

For the first time ever, the heavy rain was a witness mama slapped me, because of that damn papa.

"Your father is busy, don't talk about it. Mama doesn't want you to talk bad about her."

Cih, if you remember, mama is an innocent person who is trapped too deep with the name of love.

Finally luck on our side, mama's friend during college, Aunt Yuli came and took us to her house, meaning an orphanage. He runs the orphanage. It was at the orphanage that I began to meet and befriend Anna, until the difficulties we went through together, and became friends who strengthened each other.

Since that night, I was 10, I never asked about Papa again. Look, even to this day, I'm 14, she doesn't even come on my birthday.

At that moment, a quiet lonely night, I sat alone in the garden. That very night Aunt Yuli came, and she told me all the truth about 10 years. The truth of how Tara's real attitude is to Mama.

"You know, the reason why your Papa never met you? And your mother? That's because he loves Lathifa Kanneira, he's a dead love for Arfenik Arkasa's wife."

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