The 40 Days of the Natiphas
Red signal

Kanaya wakes up in the middle of the night, but has just gone to sleep. I wiggled Adam's shoulders and asked him to take turns, very tired of taking care of the baby alone. 

"Mas.mas Adam," called me who could not bear the drowsiness. 

"Hem." Adam refused to open his eyes. 

"Mas, Kanaya is awake. Take care yuk, I'm sleepy and tired." My complaint begged him. 

I saw the face of Adam who was looking at me sharply also upset. "You want that what the hell? I can't see my husband sleeping. I'm also tired of working all day, understand my position." His impact woke Kanaya up. 

"Since I got home from the hospital, I've never taken care of Kanaya. Don't take care of it, just carry it no." My reply was to slow down the voice, already unable to stand the attitude of Adam's cuckoo since I gave birth to our child. 

"There is you, his mother. Besides I've prepared the maid, you're just sitting still and barging your legs." 

"Sit still you said Mas?" I frowned seeing Adam's changing nature, I didn't expect harsh words to come out of his mouth. 

Adam was angry and left the room, once again my tears were dripping. It felt so unbearable to lose my husband's love, and began to wonder why fate always played tricks on me. 

I stayed up all night, trying to calm the ever-awakened Kanaya. After the debate I did not see the existence of Adam, anxiety began to approach me. 

In the morning, I saw my maid coming out of the bathroom and her wet hair. The tight and short clothes made me want to reprimand him, because Adam was still at home. 

"For Mba Luna." The Rose smiled at me. 

"Morning." I looked at the Rose from the tip of the foot to the end of the hair, of course making her maid understand the meaning of that gaze. 

"You know that there's still Adam at home" I said. 

"What the hell Mba, my clothes are a problem." The rose did not accept, it was clearly visible on his face. 

"You're a stranger, you should have appreciated me and my husband." 

"Say if Mba is afraid her husband is tempted." 

The words of the Rose made me dislike her, let alone her face that was increasingly provoking emotions. "At home there's Adam's mas." 

"Yes Mba, because I like anger." 

"Hem, next time don't wear mini-clothes." 

"okay."

"Have you washed your clothes?"

"When I'm ready to do the dishes, I'll wash my clothes after drying my hair first." 

"Yes, that's it." I nodded and looking at the back of the rose that was away, my heart increasingly felt that something was amiss.

I didn't want to think badly of anyone else, decided to go to the kitchen and cook breakfast for Adam. The food I mix with spices, of course, makes my husband's favorite food. 

"Where is Adam?" I thought that I had not seen it before, immediately put the finished dishes on the dining table. 

"I'm hungry." Adam surprised me, I prepared breakfast for him. 

"Your favorite meal, it's spent." 

"Hem." Mas Adam answered, excited to see the food I serve is very tempting. 

I smiled and sat next to him. "There's in his room" I said. I stared for a long time at my husband's face, sadness enveloping my heart. I really miss Adam who always loved me, for some reason changed so quickly. Slowly my eyes looked at every inch, the red marks on my neck made me very surprised. 

"That's like.." My inner being was very surprised. 

"Why see me that?" cetus mas Adam who feeds his mouth with the food I serve. 

"There's a red mark on your neck, ma'am." I pointed at the red sign and understood what it all meant. "Why is it there?" stawku probing. 

Instantly Adam held the hickey and covered it, clearly nervous at this moment. "This.this is a mosquito bite. I scratched it too much and left a mark." Clearly reasoned. 

I inhaled oxygen as deeply as possible and took it out slowly, a logical explanation that was quite easy to deceive a child. But I'm not a kid who doesn't understand the red marks on Adam's neck, the hickeys someone made. 

My gaze grew more intimidating, my mind began to piqued when I remembered the Rose who always took a shower every morning. Is it okay for my husband to have an affair with a maid brought by my mother-in-law? God, just imagining it scares me. How not? A marriage that others envy because we have always been in harmony, but it has been a mess since I gave birth to Kanaya.

"Don't suudzon be with your husband, can be your quality." Cetus mas Adam left the plate that still left breakfast. 

I grimaced at her disappearance, not until Kanaya was forty days old but my husband had an affair with the maid that my mother-in-law brought. "I have to be quick or it'll all be late." I muttered that I wanted to save my marriage from a third person. 

By grabbing the phone from the pocket, contact the mother-in-law. It wasn't picked up at first, but I didn't give up and called him back. 

"Assalamu'alaikum, ma'am." 

"Wa'alaikumsalam's chat. What did Lun call mom?" 

"Something I want to talk about, it's important." 

"Just tell me, what's wrong?" 

"Let me take care of my family, ma'am, without anyone else's help." Obviously, regarding the decision, it's not good to talk about it over the phone but I can't wait to talk about it.  

"Well, what's the matter, Lun?" 

I fell silent, not wanting to offend my mother-in-law. "I can take care of it." 

"It can't be that, Luna. I paid the rose at the beginning, and she worked until your puerperium was over."

"But ma'am." I said the unfinished one. "Mom turned off her phone?" my monologue, until my suspicions began to grow on my mother-in-law. 

I decided to check the work of the Roses while bringing bedongs, clothes, and diapers to wash. My gaze was fixed on the two people who were chatting very close, even seeing clearly how my maid had deliberately approached my husband. 

"What are you doing?" as soon as I looked at the two of them, both of them were silent and slightly away, my sharp gaze managed to make them nervous and sweaty. 

"I'm here to give you my dirty clothes, that's all." 

I did not ponder and turned my gaze toward my maid, glancing at the mini-clothes that had not been replaced when I had reprimanded them. 

"Don't misunderstand Mba." 

I smiled and chuckled, making them frown out of curiosity with my attitude. "Misunderstand? Why do you think so?" tanyaku who pressurized the Rose immediately wrong behavior. 

Adam went from there and I followed him, the pain in my heart seeing the closeness of my husband and my servant. They think that I'm a stupid woman who doesn't know what it all means, now I'm sure that I've been betrayed. 

"I want to see and follow your game." My mind squeezes both my hands.