
"Hiks."
Yujerian jerks. Looking at Yuveria as there was sobs there. Her sister was still cursing, and judging from how Yuveria did not hug her directly, she was delirious.
"Yuve."
The little girl was crying in her sleep. "Haha-ue," she said. "Haha-it."
Yujerian chest tight. The throb he always felt because of Eros was back, after some time disappeared because Yujerian thought he would fix everything from now on.
I shouldn't have believed the old man.
Yujerian hugged his sister's body firmly, hoping she stopped dreaming of the bad thing that he believed was Hestia being beaten by her own sister.
Yujerian couldn't forget that either. And the more he couldn't when Mandala said, for Hestia, it's medicine.
Everything is wrong Eros.
Yujerian should not rely on anyone to take care of his sister as well as his mother. This man has not existed all this time. This man has never existed.
Why was he so stupid now to expect Eros to do his job well?
It's nonsense.
"Mandala." Yujerian looks for a tool given by Mandala as a communication tool if he needs something. "Mandala, come to my room now."
It didn't take long, at one o'clock this morning, Mandala came. He seemed to instantly understand the situation, approaching Yuveria on the bed.
"High fever." Mandala instantly undressed Yuveria, letting her chest be swept away by the cold. "I will compress his chest and neck, Young Master, to hasten his fever. Please wait a minute."
"Don't tell Haha-ue."
".... You certain? I can't be sure when Miss Hestia is looking for the two of you anymore."
"Haha-ue is hurt." Yujerian tried not to cry while holding his sister's hand. "Haha-ue will definitely hide until the wound heals. Haha-ue always has."
So that later Hestia can appear, pretending not to be injured while saying, "Iyada ne, Mama so accidentally worked too hard to forget to say hello to you. Your day is fun? Who wants to tell you first?"
Always has. Always pretending.
"Okay, Young Master." Mandala leaves, get Yuveria a compress.
He also came with a servant who was not from this family, but a servant from Narendra's house who came with them.
Yujerian only continued to hold Yuveria's hand as his sister was dealt with. Within hours, Yuveria's fever rose rapidly. Yujerian's heart pounded very violently in fear, but in the afternoon the fever finally dropped, and Yuveria could open her eyes.
"Yuje-nii."
"I'm here." Yujerian. "I'm here."
"Yuve wants Haha-ue."
Yujerian's resentment towards Eros always peaked like this.
Her sister wanted Hestia, but Hestia had to hide so as not to be caught being injured, and all that because Eros could not make sure Hestia was not injured.
It was he who hurt her.
...*...
Eros doesn't know where his wife is hiding, nor does he know where his son is going. They compactly set Eros aside as the guilty party.
In the afternoon, Eros tells Darius to fulfill his promise to meet Wija. For a time, Eros did ask for a day off from his father in order to solve family problems, so Eros did not go anywhere except to meet Wija today.
They met at the hotel, near the swimming pool where Sela and Ririana were playing in the water.
"Hestia called me yesterday." That's what Wija said.
Eros picked up a drink brought by the hotel but did not drink it. "He told you we were fighting?"
"I thought so." Wija sighed instead. "No. But he told me to tell Darius that we had to go abroad to take care of the lithium I was holding. He said he hasn't worked for a long time."
But it's just a plan to get Eros out of his house, take Yujerian and Yuveria away so their son doesn't see their mother's broken figure.
Yes, it is very Hestia.
"Hestia said to me, she wants to stop working after marriage. He wanted to spend more time with Yujerian and Yuveria." Wija shrugged her shoulders. "It's definitely weird that he asked to work again, right?"
Eros immediately downed the drink in his hand. No longer know what to say. "He won't marry me, that's the point."
"But you decided to marry her."
Because Eros thought it wouldn't be like this.
Wija moves on, hinting Eros is coming with her. "I'm calling you to advise you, yes. Inevitably, I hope you heard. It's about my best friend, anyway."
Eros' mood is very bad. He is not sure whether he wants to be advised or not.
"You don't understand the slightest feeling of Hestia, do you?"
Eros was pensive, but he felt there was no need to cover anything. So Eros nodded his head.
Yes, Eros does not understand. Not understanding at all.
As Eros does that, Wija suddenly pushes a sheet of paper at him. Of course Eros was surprised. Although his shock instantly turned slap by reality.
It's a bunch of papers with a history of victims of physical violence.
Violence by parents, violence due to trivial mistakes, violence due to educational methods, violence that leads to death.
All the news leads to a child under the age of fifteen.
"It's Hestia." Wija pressed the paper once more on the glued Eros. "But this is also different from Hestia. You know why?"
Eros mouth suddenly dry.
"They died because of violence, they went to mental hospitals because of violence, the perpetrators of violence were sentenced to prison. But Hestia? He's in his house now, everyone who knows about the violence makes it a joke. And culprit? Darius was in the same house. There is no punishment. As if everything was normal."
"...."
"I'm against your marriage, you know? Because your eyes show care, but not understanding. Your desire for Hestia shows you do not understand at all. You only assume 'Hestia will one day be doomed if I try'."
Wija smiled lightly.
"Reed, huh? If you beat him until he broke his hand, I guarantee he's gone. But if it's just teasing her, please just consider her a distraction in your life. Because hoping for that kind of thing sounds so stupid to me."
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