The Passion of the Actor
Chapter 43's

It can be expected Raya, if the dinner will be this close. Darma enjoys having his own dinner, neither talking nor looking back at Elrick. Focus on the contents of the plate.

For Elrick himself, only this time he was awkward to face the opponent. Dead ticks like the be*go.

"Eat this. Why only fish that you eat. You take it easy, it's all halal!" said Darma thrust a plate containing red sambal shrimp.

Wanting to refuse, but at this moment Darma was staring at him. It must be how he told Darma, he did not eat other foods because he could not eat them, not for fear that the food was not halal. Want to ask Raya for help, but now the girl is frying shrimp crackers for Darma's help.

"Come, eaten. Why just shut up? or are you afraid this is poison?"

Not wanting to argue, Elrick just nodded, then pulled the plate containing a large gala. Upset by Darma's words that seemed to corner him, Elrick scooped three times the shrimp sambal.

Sweat began to appear on his forehead as he started chewing the first mouthful. Darma still looked at Elrick as he watched the little boy eat, afraid his food would be thrown away if not monitored.

Elrick accepts Darma's challenge. This duel he must win. In front of Darma's eyes, Elrick spooned back twice more to his plate and continued to eat as if enjoying the dish, even though sweat had soaked his forehead and body. He could no longer bear it, but for the sake of his pride, he continued to stuff the food into his mouth. Burned was the mouth of Elrick's tongue and body.

Darma who observed began to realize that Elrick could not bear to eat spicy food.

"It's the crackers, dad..." Raya put it on the table and then sat on the bench that she had originally occupied. Aware of the plate containing spicy chili shrimp was in front of Elrick, then continued to the man's plate, looking up at his face and found Elrick's reddened face holding spicy.

"Oh my God, did you eat this spicy shrimp? You can't eat spicy, why is it eaten?" pekik Raya got up and rushed to the kitchen. No matter how long, he came out carrying a glass filled with white milk. "Drink this, Mum."

Elrick immediately picked up and finished the milk one gulp. Then take the tissue that Raya offered him.

"Where, Mas? still spicy?"

Still spicy? my lips are numb. Bokap lo emang outrageous. Just be careful if my stomach leaks because of the chilli. Look, I'll reply you. Did I marry his son, huh? Uh. dih, what the hell is filling my brain. This must be because I mostly eat chili.

Darma himself smiled, then went back to finishing his meal.

After the terrible dinner for Elrick, the man came home. "You don't come back, Raya I won't let you come back."

In order to return his sense of regret to the man, Elrick would like to postpone his return tomorrow, continue to appear before them so that Darma is fed up. But he needs to set his pace. He does not want dissension and resentment to appear in the heart of Raya for going against his father's decision.

"Alright, Om. I'm pampering. Tomorrow I will return to Jakarta. But next week, if Raya still does not return, I I will come again," said Elrick staring boldly at Darma. The silent raya between the two men glanced at Elrick with the tail of his eyes. His cheeks are red. If anyone hears, people will certainly misunderstand the words of Elrick, thought the man defend the Kingdom because there is a sense, but because it is for the sake of Omanya. If it wasn't for Oma, he couldn't have come all the way to pick her up.

Darma returned after receiving Elrick's hand. Only Raya herself escorted him to the front of the fence. "I'm sorry my father, yes Mas."

"I. I mean Oma really wish you could come home with me."

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"He's a great-grandmother to me. Oma always thought of me like her granddaughter."

"And you? do you like it? what's the connection between you?" darma wants to know more about their relationship.

"Huh? you don't have a relationship, Dad. Even Mas Elrick already has a fiancee," explained Raya slowly. Why is it so uncomfortable to say that.

"Goodoo. Because I won't accept a daughter-in-law like that!"

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"So you came home empty-handed? Just bring Raya home You can't afford it?" hardik Nani's.

Elrick was silent. Choosing to be the target of her grandmother's anger. Actually it's not that he doesn't want to hang in there, but if he's too pushy, his father will hate Elrick even more. I don't know where that consideration came from, but Elrick didn't want to plant more hatred in Darma's heart.

Seeing Elrick who became a samsak meaning to Omanya, Dipa who also just returned from abroad, laughed mockingly at Elrick.

"Let me, Oma who picked Raya up. Of course the old man was very sensitive, he couldn't possibly approve of his daughter leaving with the chief rogues!" dipa said provokingly. The real joy for him was that Elrick felt he was so useless. He felt like a step better.

"No. Oma did not want to fail again bringing Raya. Let Oma go there. All Oma wanted to talk about Oma's wishes, raising Raya to be Oma's granddaughter."

"I don't agree!"

"I don't agree!"

Both of them answered. It would be strange if Raya became a member of their family. Both have different interests.

If Dipa is clear because she likes Raya. Especially now that the status of the Kingdom was clear, not anyone's wife. He will not question the Kingdom which is no longer a girl. He really likes Raya. Okay, maybe because it starts with compassion and sympathy, and then comes a sense of protection. However, it has now turned into a sense of liking and wanting to have.

It's different with Elrick. Although maybe at this time in his heart there is no love or want to have Raya, but it is impossible for them to be a family, brother sister, while Elrick has been sleeping... Raya.

"If the business denies Oma you can be compact like that, yes. But Oma doesn't care. Oma doesn't need your approval. Tomorrow, Oma will leave. Dipa, you want to come, right? alright. Meet Oma tomorrow!"

Elrick was already dizzy with the reality he was facing at the moment, so he did not care about Omanya's plan to leave for Mekar village. All she had to think about, was how to tell those past incidents to Oma and Raya, if it was true that her grandmother intended to make Raya their family.

Honestly, that's what makes him unable to escape from the shadow of the Kingdom's body. Even he chose to adventure with many lovers, hoping to forget the night he cursed, but it was the best night in the history of his life to make love to women. Their play that night, made Elrick's body long for the taste he got that night, which he was looking for in many girls, but did not visit him. Maybe only the Kingdom can give it to him.