The Passion of the Actor
Chapter 39's

Elrick was glued to see the simple house in front of him. Country house. It has an outdoor courtyard and surrounded by bamboo fences. The door seemed to be closed, but from the inside came the sound of a television burning.

"If it's at this hour, Mr. Darma must be at a coffee shop near the village hall. Usually spend the twilight until the evening playing chess," explained the man named Berton's original in a flat voice. Still wondering why Elrick still wants to meet the Kingdom that he has not met for a long time.

After all, Berton remembered, the man had indeed rented Raya overnight, but after two hours, the man came down and said it was done with Raya.

The cold night air of the village, brought Betty to that time. A deed that leaves great regret. His sister is healed, can be helped and now has entered Junior High School. He owes Raya that. But to confess to Raya, Betty did not dare.

"Why the hell, Bet, koe's face is too much?" ask a woman who works as a bed warmer for lonely men.

"I'm confused again, Ms. Yu. There's a boss looking for a blanket" he said, sitting next to the woman who was thickening her lipstick before peddling herself.

"Love me anyway" the woman stopped her action. Tilting her seat to be more free to look at Betty.

"Yes, you can do it, Mother. She wants to*na*seh a virgin!" exclaim Betty dizzy. With handbags, dancing cigarettes and lighters, maybe the nicotine can give you an idea.

"Gedhe's baby, ora?"

"Very. That's why I'm confused about this. Wanna find out where the virgin in this village wants to go with her, huh?"

Silent moment. Then something sprang up in Rahayu's mind. "Sik yo," said Rahayu pulled out her phone. Then talk to someone being attacked there. Waiting for 20 minutes, Lani came with Raya who was at the time at Raya's house. Lani spends a lot of her time at Raya's house. Eat, drink and sometimes stay, because in the village only Lani family will accept Lani. None of their other friends were sincerely friends with him because of his mother's profession.

"What's up, Mom? What were we told to do here for?" ask Lani who just arrived with Raya.

"Here, you invite Raya to hang out at the hotel restaurant, order juice while watching the song perform." Rahayu handed the 100 thousand money into the hands of her daughter, along with two pills that she used to give to her potential victims who were difficult to conquer.

Lani stared in confusion at her mother's face. His second hand was still flanking the money and the pill parcel. "Let's call." Just that one sentence Rahayu said, then flipped Lani's shoulder and pushed her. "Remove you guys off. Do not be shy, just order what you want, yes," said Rahayu.

"ngeh, Mum. Matur nuwun."

It only took two hours to conquer the Kingdom's consciousness. Lani, as her mother had interrupted her via a WhatsApp message, put the pill in Raya's drink, though she did not know what the purpose was.

After getting word from Lani, Betty and Rahayu return to the hotel restaurant. He was lying on the sofa unconscious.

"The medicine is definitely reacting. Quickly cut it up. Later when he wakes up, he must be wild and want to be satisfied," said Rahayu looking triumphantly towards Raya.

"Mom, why are you doing this?" lani said no heart to Raya. In a bit he had already guessed what the two people living in the world wanted to do that night.

"Shut up, you. We need money, and there's a guy who's willing to pay a fortune for Raya's body."

"But Raya is my friend, Mom. No, Mom, you're in love."

"You want to buy a new phone, right? if you have a lot of money, you can go to the salon for smoothing!"

Seduced by the rewards that will be given to her, Lani also let Raya be taken to a hotel room.

"Sorry, Boss. It's already night. In this village, it is not good to visit people's houses, let alone to the widow's house!"

"Widow?" Elrick's confused. As far as she knows, Raya is currently pregnant, meaning having a husband. Now she found out that the woman was a widow. Shouldn't you divorce when your wife is pregnant?

"That's the news, boss. Anyway I want to ask, actually what does the boss want to see Raya? don't tell me the boss wants to be nostalgic again with him. Ouch, Boss. Don't be weird, we better go home. Her father was gualak tenan, boss," said Betty did not want to get problems from Mr. Darma.

Elrick himself was confused, what would he want to see Raya? In the beginning, the goal is just to convey the message of Nani, Omanya, then if the girl wants, take Raya home. Now, after all was revealed, he was confused as to how to behave.

"Come, Boss. We better go home. Let's think first, tomorrow if I want to come back here again, then I'll accompany."

Considering Betty's words, Elrick nodded as he felt appropriate. He needed to mentally prepare when dealing with Raya. If he would normally be relaxed when he was in a room with the girl, this time it would be very different.

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In the afternoon, the scorching light shone down to his room. Elrick woke up almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

Not sleeping last night, making him wake up bad. How could he have slept last night after hearing Betty's story.

"I feel so guilty for Raya, sir. After the incident that night, Raya who woke up at five in the morning screaming hysterically in the room, found herself already stained. The hotel maid I was assigned to take care of said Raya even nearly committed suicide when she saw the bloodstains on the sheets."

Betty quiet. Raise the glass and gulp down the contents before starting to continue the story.

He was driven home, and from then on he just locked himself in a room. The scorn of the people who accused him as a pela*cur made his mother shocked and fell ill until she died." Betty mere*as her grip on the glass in front of her. Elrick was also silent, late in the sadness of Betty's story.

"His mother's departure made Raya even more devastated, and almost crazy. The residents have already sentenced her as a girl who has a mental disorder, because they do not want to be spoken to, just silence, and cry."

"Lantas, why would he get married if he's crazy? you said she was a widow?"

Dika, her husband's name. The man had long fallen in love with Raya, because indeed she was the most beautiful woman in this village. The man continued to approach the closed Kingdom, until the girl returned to talk to others and normalized again, after which, Dika invited her to marry, and brought Raya to the city."

"Then?" Urge Elrick who wants to know all about Raya. Now he feels guilty for the girl. He is the destroyer of his future.

"There is news that says, Dika remarried, so Raya asked for a divorce."

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