THE FORMER SHADOW
59. How unfortunate

Today Badrina plans to move into her parents' house. Poppy had been successfully asked to find another dwelling, before Poppy showed a drama of rejection.

Badrina witnessed for herself how Poppy looked out of control when she had to get out of the luxury house she had lived in for decades. Some officers had to intervene and ask Poppy to leave the location.

Poppy also issued threats and hate speech to Badrina who stood up to see Poppy defeat.

Badrina's cold gaze signified how she did not care about the continuation of Poppy's life. Let's say he's evil, but didn't Poppy come first to be ignorant.

Badrina tried hard against the guilt that was wriggling in her mind. Poppy was only returned to the condition where she should have been, not in the mansion. Wriatmaja had testified that houses, estates, and farms were given to Badrina.

What is the legacy of the Poppy section, Badrina herself does not know. Akmal once offended, not a small value given up for his tant, no matter where all the treasure was.

Badrina lives alone in her new home. Muryati has not been invited to live there. The cantara? Badrina also did not dare to meet her daughter. He was worried about himself, if it will be less controlled in front of Cantara, their relationship will be harmed.

Through Akmal, Badrina decided to return the house she shared with the princess to Arshaka. In their divorce verdict, the house should have belonged to Badrina. However, living there always reminded him of Arshaka.

After dressing up, Badrina plans to pick up Cantara at school today. Earlier this morning after a great struggle, Badrina ventured to visit Nuraini's house, after making sure Arshaka was not at home.

"Mama is trying to understand the condition you are experiencing, Arshaka has told it," Nuraini said without any word of judgment on Badrina. "May you be happy with your choice. You can also make Canta happy" Nuraini continued.

"I'm sorry, Ma. Not a good person as long as you know," Badrina said in a regretful tone.

Nuraini chuckled at hearing that. "No. Don't say it like that" Nuraini said. He hugged his ex-daughter-in-law. "Mama's house is always open to you and Canta, even though you're no longer your mother's daughter-in-law, but Canta is still Mama's granddaughter."

"Mama apologizes because Arshaka hurt you so much while being his wife, mama also regretted his actions" Nuraini said in a sad tone.

Meeting with the former mother-in-law was a relief for Badrina, Nuraini had mentioned that Arshaka got an assignment outside the city for several weeks.

Worth it, Badrina's life was no longer pestered by that man. There was a slight sense of loss, but Badrina did have to get used to living without Arshaka.

Badrina still takes a taxi when she gets out of the house. Now, he sat waiting for school hours after, guessing Cantara would be happy to meet him.

The expected time arrived, Badrina stood smiling to see Cantara out of her class. The little boy was stopped, stunned to see the mother who so missed him in recent weeks who did not contact him at all, now present at school.

"Mama.." she shouted as she ran towards Badrina.

Badrina smilingly opened her arms wide to welcome the princess into her arms.

"Mama... Canta was very much the same mom," he said hugging tightly Badrina who was kneeling.

"Mama too, son," he whispered with a glassy bead.

As they waited for the arrival of a taxi in front of the school, there were people who approached Badrina asking for the address of a building. Cantara's hand was released by Badrina to point in the direction in question.

Shortly after the address questioner got into her car, Badrina heard a scream. As she looked left and right, Badrina saw Cantara being carried by an unknown person dressed in black. Cantara was taken away using a sedan type vehicle.

Badrina was screaming in panic, begging for help, and crying so much. School security officials who realized there was a kidnapping immediately ran to find Badrina, while another ran to the teacher's room to notify the kidnapping attempt in the school environment.

A teacher contacted local authorities and reported the abduction. Badrina was crying at the seat. He regretted himself, feeling guilty why was too careless to keep Cantara.

While waiting for the arrival of the authorities, Badrina timidly contacted Arshaka. In the midst of his turmoil, he was ready to be careful if Arshaka berated him for carelessness to keep the Cantara.

"Hello, Rina..," said Arshaka from across.

Badrina cried out for forgiveness. He tells the chronological story of what happened to their daughter.

Arshaka froze to the sound of Badrina in her tears. The problem is, Arshaka is still out of town and takes hours to return.

"I'm sorry..," Badrina said.

"I'll be back soon." That was Arshaka's last message before the call ended.

Badrina felt so guilty afterwards, there was no mockery from her ex-husband. Then, Badrina contacted Nuraini who was no less surprised to get bad news about Cantara.

After some time, the authorities have arrived at the school environment. They asked chronologically and asked for school CCTV that panned towards the highway.

Badrina was directed to make a child abduction report to a nearby office. There Badrina is served at the integrated service center.

The school and the security services also accompanied Badrina to make a report. They were also witnesses to the alleged kidnapping. Furthermore, to Badrina submitted a letter of proof of report and the case was immediately processed by the authorities.

Badrina was crying in Nuraini's arms. The middle-aged woman came to school. Nuraini invites him home to calm Badrina. He knew Badrina no longer had a family so he felt sympathy for the case that befell his former daughter-in-law.

In the evening at the Nuraini residence, Arshaka arrived with a feeling of unworthiness. Seeing his arrival, Badrina runs to hug and apologizes to Arshaka.

Tear drops wet Arshaka's cheeks. He closed his eyes and felt a tightness of pain in the recesses of his heart. Meeting Badrina in a bad situation, after all this time he learned to accept the fact that Badrina was no longer willing to accept it. Arshaka chooses out-of-town service, trying to avoid meeting with his ex-wife.

However, somehow there are always events that require them to look face to face. Arshaka hates the difficult circumstances that befall them. It was even more difficult for their meeting to reason badly like this moment.

Arshaka opened his eyes, rubbed his eyelids and let out a long sigh, his consciousness returning.

He chose not to return Badrina's embrace, it would feel heavy if he did. Arshaka touches Badrina's arm, breaking their arms. He passed taking a sitting position on the living room bench to calm the rumbling of his own heart.