Stepmom Cold Bed
Confessions in the past

Riswan's ears buzzed and his heart stopped beating when he heard Maureen's question a few seconds ago.

“You know this thing?”

That simple question managed to make Riswan's body suddenly limp. Especially when Maureen put a button on the table. The buttons he thought he had lost nine years ago. His clothes had even been thrown away after he got the news that someone he came to wearing his best clothes had died.

“Iya Madam, it's mine.” Riswan replied firmly.

Maureen's eyes closed, hearing the answer from Riswan's mouth. His heart grimaced with clenched hands holding back the anger that filled his chest cavity. A thread of tears just dripped without her being able to hold back. I don't think he wants to hear this confession.

No, rather hear the confession that Riswan is the owner of this button. Although he was denied, he was relieved because there was nothing else he always wanted to know but to know who the person who had influenced his mother to the dwarf-minded.

Maureen turned around, looking at Riswan who was staring at her buttons with nanar. Riswan's brain asks him to lie, stop, don't admit it. What is the meaning of a button that anyone can have, but his heart no longer wants to lie. It was enough that he hid many things from Maureen.

“You remember who you met using this outfit?” maureen's voice had already started to tremble. He stepped closer to Riswan wanting to see the dense netra who had no courage to look at him.

“Sure Mistress. That afternoon, I met a woman named Renita Emrys.”

“PLAK!!!”

A slap landed on Riswan's face. The loud and poignant and hot slap of a child who could never accept the death of his mother.

His heart was broken to find the person he believed was the cause of his mother's death.

“You know, who is he?!” maureen shouted in a stammer, her cries starting to break.

Riswan did not reply, he only dared to duck. Maureen's slap clearly not only injured the corner of her lips until it bled but also made Riswan forced to reopen the regret that he stored in his mind and heart

“Mother, You.” Sahutan Riswan sounds giddy. The man had no expression, only his tears dripping down the corner of his red and regretful eyes.

“Haha... hahahaha.. HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!” Maureen laughed from the sound of a small to very loud laughter. His body shook with sudden laughter. But a second later, he cried softly, crying full of pain that made Riswan could only lower his head even deeper.

He could understand the pain Maureen was feeling.

“My mom, hahahahaha.. You know she's my mom, Riswan?” Maureen approached Riswan with her shaky steps like without energy. Sometimes he almost fell because of his power is almost exhausted.

“How did you know she was my mother, huh?” Maureen stood right in front of Riswan. He stared intently at the tall man.

“ANSWER ME ASSHOLE!!! ANSWER!!” maureen shouted in front of Riswan's face. His eyes barked red with anger and pain.

Riswan did not budge, only his tears were dripping more and more.

Not getting an answer from Riswan, Maureen rubbed the chest of the field of the old man. Then he gripped the second collar of Riswan's shirt tightly.

“Why didn't you answer? Your head missing? Or is your regret too great?” Maureen spoke very closely, slowly but with great emphasis.

Riswan still did not speak.

“ANSWER ME ASSHOLE!!!” again Maureen shouted at Riswan.

Riswan's cries were breaking. His body collapsed to its knees in front of Maureen.

“I'm sorry, Madam. Forgive me...” That one regretful sentence that Maureen heard was so heavy. It seemed like it would take millions of kilos of energy for Riswan to say it.

“Sorry? Are you sorry you could give my mom back? Are you sorry that you could replace my suffering for so many years? Is your apology worth saying right now while you realize you've been making this mistake for a long time and hiding it from me?”

“You know Riswan, I feel like the most stupid person to trust a snake to be near me. I tell you many things about myself, we discuss many things about life even I worry about you when you say your stomach hurts from late eating.”

"But what turned out? Everything I thought about a man of dignity, kind and trying to protect me without me knowing the reason, turned out to be just a rework and secretly stalked and prepared to prey on me at any time. Right no?! That's the intention you have?!" maureen's shout grew louder, leaving the waiter stunned and peeking out of the window.

“Hahahaha, true what mas Anggoro said, anyone can be a snake around us and you do it well. Good job!!" Maureen patted Riswan's cheek repeatedly and the man just let it go.

"But wait, I'm curious. What did you tell my mother until she decided to give up and leave me alone? And who told you to meet my mother? Hah, try saying jerk! Don't lie anymore or I don't hesitate to finish you off.” Maureen was still with a deep sense of anger mixed with curiosity.

Riswan was stunned, his breath choking making him speechless. His chest was too heavy to breathe. He realized that one day Maureen would know this fact but he did not expect this girl would know the reality at a time like this. At the time he was very trusting of Riswan and at the time Riswan was loving this orphan.

The more good things Riswan saw from Maureen's figure, the more he could not bear to say everything. He thought this secret would be brought to death. Let him ask forgiveness of Maureen's parents. In fact, he could no longer delay what he should have told Maureen.

Looking at Maureen's round, piggy eyes, with the black circumference of her faded eye makeup, made Riswan remember exactly how the same look he had gotten from a woman who was pleading for justice.

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