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In the current mansion of the Mavendra family. Aslan had just returned home after driving Vania back to her home, recalling Vania's words inexplicably made Aslan's spirit return excited to find her missing sister.
"There I am here, I will accompany you Aslan, no matter how we are going to find your sister together. Don't feel alone."
Unknowingly Aslan curled his lips, he snorted amusedly if he remembered how Vania who was so considerate of him when he always rejected the girl in his life but it turned out Aslan could not at all, Vania has always fulfilled her days, her hope lies with the girl. Unknowingly Aslan himself binds the woman in his life.
Parwita accidentally passed by Aslan when it was seen the man standing behind her, Parwita immediately approached the granddaughter to see the behavior of Aslan who covered her face made Parwita pat her shoulder gently.
"Why are you smiling to yourself, Aslan?!" parwita asked with a frowning forehead in wonder, not usually Aslan as long as he knew the grandson and took care of him Parwita just saw Aslan like this.
"Oh grandma .. no really, Aslan why-why," kilah Aslan immediately neutralized the hue of his face did not want the grandmother to think that no-no.
Parwita held back a smile, shaking her head. "Aslan, Aslan. Grandma knows you not a day two days but a dozen years from your little grandma who takes care of you, where maybe grandma does not know what you feel right now.
Aslan glared in surprise. "Don't the grandmother know?"
Parwita shakes her shoulders. "Just guess, you're like a man in love drunk, Aslan."
Aslan kicep. Damn, why could her grandmother guess so precisely?
Parwita laughs. "No, your face can't be boong." he pointed at Aslan's reddened face making the man laugh.
"Grandmother could have." Aslan embraces his grandmother's shoulder from behind, the man does have a loving nature and does not hesitate to show the people he loves.
"Basic, this spoiled granddaughter is big, udh" said Parwita rubbing Aslan's jaw.
"Yes you have taken a bath, bik Iyem has prepared hot water, after that we eat together with grandfather," said the grandmother made Aslan nod with enthusiasm.
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At Rajendra mansion, morning.
Shaka woke up first, there was nothing more grateful when he opened his eyes the first one he saw was Kirana who was asleep in his arms. Shaka does not know how many times to give thanks because Kirana's presence now makes her life very meaningful. If she no longer had life, feeling that her bleak, colorless days were no longer after the woman's presence, Kirana had given her new colors that made her life a beautiful rainbow.
The morning sun shone brightly through the white curtains of this room, making Kirana who was still drifting in a dream was forced to squirm because she was disturbed by the light of Bagaskara this morning which disturbed her eyes. Shaka realized it immediately lifted half his body to dispel the sunlight was not up to hit Kirana.
"Good morning my wife" said Shaka with a sweet smile, something she had never shown to anyone but her current woman.
"Mass?" Kirana opened her eyes wide, then she immediately pulled the blanket to cover her eyes, her actions suddenly made Shaka laugh.
"Why do you feel so rich scared, baby?" asked the man with still his witty laugh that sounded crisp and raspy.
"I-I-I-it .. " somehow Kirana felt so nervous that she could not string the words properly, her heart pounding like a war drum that was hit hard.
"That's what, hm?" sahut Shaka asked while supporting his head with one hand bent, his face deliberately leaned towards Kirana making the woman again lift the blanket until covering her face.
"I'm ashamed, you don't wear clothes" Kirana said very honestly and innocently.
Seconds
Two seconds.
Shaka was flabbergasted until finally the man's laughter broke in the air on the ceiling of the room. Kirana lowered the bedcover down to the lower limit her eyes saw Shaka who laughed out loud making Kirana conical annoyed at him.
"God, so just because of that?" shaka's laughter subsided but held back only briefly the next second Shaka looked at Kirana at close range and very intense made the woman suddenly hold her breath unprepared with the gaze of Shaka's eyes were so shady at her.
"Are you ashamed, hm?" asked like that to make Kirana nod, it made Shaka laugh again.
"Sound what's embarrassing you? even you've often seen my plain body without a thread, right?" tanya Shaka seduces and succeeds, successfully makes the wife flutter then put a face of annoyance that in the eyes of Shaka actually looks adorable.
"Ih, what are you anyway? not funny!" Kirana throws sewot.
Shaka smiled. "I'm no longer joking with honey." the man lowered his gaze toward Kirana's soft little lips and gave her a quick peek.
"If there had been no one in here, I would have finished you off on the bed by now" Shaka said, pointing to Kirana's stomach, sending the woman sagging with anxiety.
"Mas?!" Kirana gawked, Shaka laughed.
"That's just kidding, baby." the man put on the face of a joke but Kirana was not interested in the man's jokes instead put on a face of contempt.
"Not funny! wonder why you turned into a gini?"
"Don't you like it?" shaka asked suddenly his facial water turned grim making Kirana who saw him put on a guilty face.
Shaka sighed. "Sorry, I just want to pay for our wasted time together. You know how the beginning of our meeting that was not on purpose until you finally became my wife,"
"I have hurt you a lot, I realize that, given the opportunity by you to improve our relationship is the greatest gift that I will never waste, I just want you to be happy and not be scared anymore when you're with me."
Kirana. Unexpectedly with the words Shaka was so sweet in sounding in his ears, things that Kirana never expected before from a Shaka Ian Rajendra who used to know him as a cruel man who is heartless but instead now Shaka is looking at him with so shady in the eyes obviously the man did not lie at all with what he said emanated a sense of wanting to protect the wife and make her happy and Kirana saw clearly the love in the eyes of the man.
"You love her so much as me?" kirana asked with her heart pounding because Shaka's gentle gaze never slipped a second from her face. Instantly she felt like she was a very lucky woman to be loved by such a big man.
"You still have it?" Shaka takes Kirana's hand and covers her with her larger hand warm and soft as Kirana feels the man clutching her hand, Shaka toyed with Kirana's fingers rubbing her nails as if they were toys for her.
"I'm Kirana's jerk, I'm well aware of that. Since school, first, I am a young man who my life is not clear where to take it until finally papa forced me abroad to get a more serious education even though I do not want to, papa forced me to go abroad to get a more serious education, then a few years later I came home with the name of the family fragrant but it could not eliminate my nature of dissent until papa was overwhelmed to face me who could not be arranged." silent for a moment, silent, Shaka paused his remark to recall his father making his longing for the father who became his role model again present.
Shaka rubbed the corner of his eyes quickly so that Kirana did not know but late Kirana had seen the tears behind Shaka's silence, the man might be able to hide it from others, but not from her.
"Then I was dating Olivia, I felt like I was finding a purpose in life, I started to change and seriously in my goal of taking on corporate responsibility as my successor, but fate seemed to play tricks on me, at that time I was drunk heavily because I was immersed in his worldly favors with friends who I considered like a second family but turned out to be enemies in life who only use me, but they are enemies in life who only use me, at that time I still remember when the car I was driving was speeding so recklessly in the middle of the road that as a result dozens of innocent people's lives disappeared for a moment because of me ... "
Kirana held her breath when she heard that she felt a sense of horror if she imagined that the chain accident was really visible before her eyes. So that's why Shaka was thrown into prison, so that's why Arkan called Shaka 'former inmate'. At once Kirana's heart melts unexpectedly behind the man's brutal attitude there is actually a dark past.
"I was found guilty, at the police station papa did not defend me at all, he was very disappointed with my behavior, he said, I knew that and instantly I was so sorry I didn't listen to his advice to stay away from my friends who just wanted to take advantage of me."
Shaka let out a rough breath into the air. Just this time he recounted his dark past other than just to Liam, his trusted assistant.
"I'm finally in jail but not only that it's as if fate wants to play me longer, one month I was in the bars I got word that Olivia was cheating on me, he betrayed behind me with Arkan, when I was really in the worst phase and needed him next to me, not until there five months I was in the cold iron bars I got the bad news again this time really makes me very hit and sorry until this moment. Papa died of lung cancer, which was the saddest time of my life because I hadn't even apologized to him for my mistakes, for my outrageous attitude that always defied and never obeyed him, I always disappointed him and did not boast of him as long as I was his son."
Silent for a moment, the atmosphere seemed to bring sadness that was clearly visible from how Shaka looked, the man was stuck with eyes highlighting the wound. Maybe Shaka is not crying but Kirana is crying right now.
Shaka was surprised to immediately wipe the tears of his wife. "Why are you crying?"
"I should ask, why don't you cry?"
Shaka was stunned to hear Kirana's words a second later the man gave a bitter chuckle. "Men abstain from crying, Kirana."
"Who said? men are also sentient beings who have a heart and feelings, they can also cry," Kirana said in no way agreed with Shaka's opinion.
"You miss your dad, don't you?" kirana asked, so precise with what Shaka was telling me at the moment.
"Cry mas lah, if it can ease a little sadness in your heart, there is nothing wrong with the man who shed tears." Kirana smilingly stared at the nanar, her hands extended warmly rubbed Shaka's face.
"There I am here, I will be a listener to you, devote everything to me how you feel, mas."
Shaka shuddered, his eyes were already glazed and then in that second he immediately woke up and pulled Kirana's body, hugging her tightly.
Shaka tightened his embrace on Kirana's shoulder, his face sinking in the recess of the wife's neck. Pour out all her solace, as the woman said.
"I miss her so much, Kirana. Very." Very."
Kirana could feel Shaka's shaken shoulders from crying, it must have been heavy for the man to keep it all alone. Stifling at Kirana's chest, she rubs Shaka's shoulder to channel the power to her husband.
"Do you want to see him? visiting your father's grave?"
Hearing Kirana's question, Shaka let go of the hug and looked into the wife's eyes, with Shaka's reddened eyes and nose shaking. "No. I'm not ready, Kirana. I've done so much wrong to him, I feel unworthy to meet him." During this time after the death of his father Shaka only once came to the funeral that is when his father was taken to his final resting after that Shaka felt like a loser who never again visited the pusara of the father, the father, and the father, who was not, as he said earlier, he felt very embarrassed and unworthy to see the grave of his father.
Kirana reviewed the smile giving understanding to her man. "There's nothing wrong with visiting your father's grave, even if you make a lot of mistakes even if you're still his son, even he might be sad up there because his son didn't visit to give him a prayer."
"If you want to go, I will accompany you mas." Kirana added later. "You may not be able to repeat what happened, but you can still fix it" Kirana said, wiping Shaka's tears. "Fix what you can still fix, one of them apologizes to papa even though he is gone but sorry and your sincere prayers will certainly reach him."
Shaka looked at the old Kirana, as if he was digesting every word of the wife, then he took one hand of Kirana to carry her to his left chest.
"I'm a jerk, Na. But I'm very lucky to have you" Shaka said, sounding very sincere to Kirana.
"Please, accompany me to apologize to papa, would you like to?" Shaka looked at Kirana so deeply as if the whole center of his world was on that girl. Shaka is back with a purpose in life because of Kirana.
Kirana nodded the arch of a sincere smile rising on her lips.
"Of course."
In that instant Shaka was stunned, he believed Kirana was the woman he had been looking for now the girl was his being beside him was the greatest and most beautiful gift in Shaka's life.
To be continued ....
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