The Curse of Love
Part 213 I Have to Go

"What's Riko? why are you screaming like that? did you find any treasure in the sky?" ask Sanusi's grandfather and his wife.

"Grandfather look!!"

Riko held something in her right hand to Sanusi's grandfather.

"What is Riko?" grandfather and grandmother only saw objects like purses held by Riko.

"This is Riko's wallet, cake!! Thank God Riko's wallet was not washed away but stuck in the tree roots not far from Riko found."

"For months there, after the river began to recede due to the drought, this wallet was only visible.

Grandpa checked the contents, everything is still complete only the passport and visa are burned.

"With this identity you can take care of your passport and visa for your return, son!!" said Sanusi's grandfather.

"Thank God the cake, Riko can't wait to go back home, Riko misses home, Riko's family misses there.

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"Sultan, why is your face so pale?" asked the Sultan's older brother at the dinner table with his sister and wife.

"Sultan was sick, since last night the Sultan could not sleep." The Sultan said, holding his chest.

"Today you still want to go into teaching in this sick condition?" tini asked while bringing two cups of coffee.

"Today the children will hold a semester break!!" sultan replied as he grimaced with the pain in his chest.

"Have nothing, brother, pray that the Sultan is well, yes!!" he said with a smile.

Today the Sultan smiles a lot and jokes a lot. After teaching her as usual stop by Sania's house to visit Raftar and pet him, buying snacks for Miko and Miki.

"Nia, there's something I want to tell you but promise you don't get mad!!" sultan said this afternoon to Sania.

He deliberately invites Sania to walk around while Raftar sleeps and the twins play with his brothers at home. Kak Della also let them go as long as not too long because it is not good to talk about people around.

Sultan chose the road to the beach which is located only 10 minutes from the house of Sania.

They sit between the mangrove trunks enjoying the cool of the beach in the afternoon.

"What do you want to say, Sultan??" sania asked while looking at the Sultan.

The Sultan did not immediately reply, he was silent for a moment before continuing his words.

"Nia, I actually wanted to convey this to you a long time ago, but I'm afraid I'm considered fabricating by you."

The Sultan was silent for a while to take a breath and then continued his words.

"Years before Miko died I was once given a mandate by her."

"He asked me to..." The Sultan hung his words like heavy to continue his story.

"Ask for what, Sultan?" ask Sania.

"The late Miko asked me to marry you so that I could always protect you and the children."

"But I never had the courage to tell you until you were almost engaged to Niko and then you ended up marrying Riko until Riko was declared missing until now either alive or no longer exists."

The Sultan seemed to take a breath of relief after conveying the uneasiness that he had spent years pending and keeping himself in his heart.

"Why are you saying it now, Sultan?" sania asked after a long time they kept quiet.

"I'm afraid to tell you, Nia..as a man I'm too cowardly to admit that I love you!!" pale Sultan's face after saying all that.

Courage is not easy and does not come just like that, only the Sultan does not want to be late to express something that has plagued his feelings so far.

"I say this because I have to leave for a long time to leave you and the children of Nia!!" replied the Sultan while looking down.

"Where are you going Sultan?" ask Sania.

"I was transferred to teach at a Junior High in the interior there who really needed an English teacher!!" answered Sultan.

"Actually I'm hard-pressed to leave you and the kids but this is already my duty and responsibility and duty."

"When are you coming back?" ask Sania.

"Either Nia, I also don't know and can't determine when to return." The Sultan again threw his gaze into the high seas. His heart aches to leave the woman he has loved secretly for years.

"I'm not asking you to agree with me, the most important thing is that I said everything before my departure."

"If you are not too late to say Sultan, of course we already have a happy family!!" answer Sania.

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The Sultan was seen meeting his colleague who was a lawyer. The Sultan requested ownership of the cafe and some of his other assets were behind the name on behalf of Sania.

"Why should that be bro?" ask his best friend.

"You know I have no other heirs, my wife and son died in an accident many years ago, Brother Tini and her husband have their own business!!"

"Sania and her children need all of this more, because her husband doesn't exist either, there's nothing to sustain her economy now!!" sultan answered sadly.

Unbeknownst to Sania, the Sultan did so. He had already discussed with his brother and sister-in-law and they did not mind the Sultan's proposal at all.

That afternoon the weather was cloudy, drizzling slowly down. The Sultan no longer taught because he just counted the days that were about to leave.

"Sultan was tired, the Sultan took a short nap.later to eat after the Isya prayer."

Tini who was busy preparing dinner just say yes. Her husband also finished praying Maghrib.

"Sultan where's mom?" ask husband.

"He was tired, he wanted to sleep for a while and asked to be awakened later at Isya prayer and then dinner."

Oooo

Her husband just oooo ria just listen to the words of his wife.

"It's azaan well, call the Sultan to pray..."

Her husband went to the Sultan's room. The door of the room came many times but there was no reply from his sister. Finally he came in because the door was not locked.

"Sultan.bun leh..sholat used to eat!!!"

Slender...

Until many times his brother shook to wake the Sultan who seemed to sleep quietly on his back with two palms on his stomach.

His sister began to panic and check the pulse on his neck and the breath from his sister's nose.

"Mother..mom...."

Hearing the screams of her husband, the wife burst into the room of her sister-in-law.

"What's up?? why are you screaming like that?" tini said with a breath of breath.

He saw the husband had sat down with tears beside his sister's bed.

"Sultan ma'am, the Sultan is gone.he has left us all!!" isak.

"Don't make it up, yeah." said Tini in a trembling voice.

"The Sultan again slept that you know.sambut smile that really..sampean no-there wae.." said Tini annoyed.

Then he woke up the Sultan. And just like her husband, Sultan did not give any reaction, she just remained silent no longer react.

"Don't mess with your brother, Sultan!! let's get up leh..."

But the Sultan remained silent. There was no movement in his body anymore. Her brother held her still warm body.

"She just left, dad!!" Tini said while sobbing sadly.

Innalillahi Wa innalillahi...

Tini's husband, the Sultan's only older brother, kissed his sister.

"Good way my sister, I know that your heart disease often attacks you but I do not think if you are called by the Almighty so soon."

"God loves you so He does not want to make you suffer any longer in this world.you good people may your worship be received by His side."

Tini was unable to say anything else but sobbing. He was very fond of the Sultan even though the Sultan was just his sister-in-law, but Tini who was born as the youngest child had considered the Sultan as his own biological sister.

"Call RT sir well, so that it can be immediately handled and broadcast in the mosque so they know that the Sultan is gone."

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Goodbye Sultan, Allah loves you and does not want to make you suffer any longer😭😭

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