The Passion of the Actor
Chapter 66's

Raya had just opened the laundry door that morning, and was surprised to see Dika standing there. It's been a long time apart, this is the first time Dika came disgusting foot in his place.

"Mas Dika's..."

"Ray, I'm sorry if I came here so early in the morning. You must be surprised, right?" said Dika who throws his best smile.

Raya observed Dika's appearance. His face looks wrinkled and his body is getting thinner. She wanted to ask if everything was okay with Lani, but it felt inappropriate because it was none of her business. His face was not as handsome as he had once known. Dika now looks unkempt.

"Why did you come here? Waiting for the laundry to open?"

"Lumayanlah... Ray, may I have your time. I need a friend to talk to" he said.

Again the Kingdom cannot refuse. Dika's face was so sad, filled with looks of disappointment and also seemed helpless. "Come in, Mom..."

Ranti helps bring drinks for Dika, when she finds out there are guests. "Thank you, Ran," said Raya smiling.

Dika just observe the glass glass containing the drink that is still steaming. He felt embarrassed to have to tell Raya, but he was also almost crazy for thinking about this alone.

"Mas, everything's fine, right? Why does Mas's face look sad, is there a serious problem?" Raya starts the conversation, because it feels strange that they are facing each other but still silent.

"Ray, Lani and I are separated, we're divorced." The tone of voice heard in Raya's ears was not sadness, but regret and also shame that Dika showed Raya.

While Raya stared at pity. He may have guessed that sooner or later in their marriage there will be problems, given the attitude and also the behavior of Lani who does not want to bother taking care of household chores and is very stubborn. But Raya did not expect it to be this fast either.

"Can't it be fixed, Mom? Why should I get divorced? Isn't being with Lani a choice, too, Mas?"

Raya knew that maybe she was too presumptuous to say that, as if she wanted to say that what was happening right now was the consequence of having chosen Lani.

"Yes, I know. So regret always comes too late. I am so sorry to have followed my brother*hiku to release a heavenly angel like you. Raya, can't we get back together again? I'm ruined without you." Dika immediately grasped the hand of the Kingdom that was on the woman's thigh.

Raya was surprised, hurriedly pulling her hand back. He did not want his polite attitude that accepted Dika's current presence, considered the man's form still had a taste in Dika. Not at all.

"Mas, don't be. I don't want our good relationship to get worse if Mas still has such thoughts. I've chosen to divorce, so we won't be able to get back together again. I'm just frustrated at the moment. I beg you, multiply the remembrance and prayer, Mas," said Raya with a serious face mimic. She does not want to be considered a woman of unprincipled, divorced and referred back. Raya obviously doesn't want to.

"Well... Maybe you're right, Ray. Sorry, Mom, yes. You're all I have right now. The only person I trust and am comfortable with telling stories to."

Dika was silent for a moment, thinking something he wanted to say to Raya. "Before I got divorced with Lani, mom was back in the village..."

"Isn't my mom in recovery time? Again undergoing routine treatment, right, Mas? Why are you back in the village?"

Great Concern is of course considered a blessing to Dika. Maybe at this time the girl does not want to show her feelings, because they are still not long divorced, but later after some time has passed, the wound in the heart of the Kingdom will be treated and at that time Dika will try to enter again.

"That's my regret as a child. Mother asked me to divorce Lani, because at that time I had not separated from Lani, mother chose to return to the village. But while in the village, the mother's illness gets worse, and she has to be operated on, Ray. There's a lump in his head, which doctors call a tumor."

Dika's eyeballs glowed, Raya could clearly see the sadness on the man's face. Raya herself did not expect the situation of her former in-laws would be that bad.

"Because of that, Ray. I need a lot of money. I've been calling my customers for three days, but no one needs my services right now. I'm confused Ray, what to do. Though, mother has already come and lived back here, with me."

Raya is sad. He cannot close his heart. Can not lie to themselves, even though Dika has destroyed their household, but he is not a bad man in Raya. Regardless of the affair. Dika is a meritorious person, saving until he does not go crazy.

When the villagers asked her father to take her to a mental hospital, it was Dika who approached and paid attention to her, reminding her that she still had a chance to organize her life.

So, how could he possibly turn a blind eye to the problem Dika was facing?

"I still have savings, Mom. Just put it on first. Later I will try to ask some of my customers, maybe there are those who need to install a kitchen set or even need furniture," said Raya seriously.

"Yes, thank you, Ray. Just keep your money. But if you ask your customers, I accept. Who knows you did bring me sustenance," replied Dika erasing the corner of her eyes that dripped a clear circle.

***

"Who did you say?" ask Elrick over the phone.

"A boss man. They came out of the house, and Mbak Raya drove up to the man's car" said Dono, who was tasked with observing suspicious people near Raya.

Since the second time kidnapper happened, Elrick did not want to be helped again. Safety Kingdom above all else, to put Dono in front of the Laundry Kingdom.

Elrick hesitantly, sent out a photo of a man who might be able to freely speak to Raya. It can't be Dipa because Dono knows Dipa.

"Yes, right boss. This is the guy" Dono said after seeing the picture his boss had sent him.

Infuriated, Elrick disconnects the call and throws his phone roughly on the table. "Based on a stupid girl, why else would she relate to her ex-husband. Isn't she cheated on enough?!" upset ass. The mood is gone. He was eager to come to Raya, and shake the girl's body so that she would realize that he had done something wrong.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Elrick had already come to the laundry, with the bedcover he had brought from the apartment.

"Mas Elrick.. Why come here? Oma cloth does not exist, it has been delivered yesterday," said Raya semringah.

"Who would take Oma's cloth. Nih, clean washing," he said giving his black bedcover to Raya violently, a form of annoyance to the girl because it had been in contact with Dika again.

Raya kissed the bedcover, scented, even very fragrant and she recognized it was laundry perfume. Even if noticed, the bedcover is still folded, Raya knows it has not been used at all.

"Isn't this still clean? Where does it smell again."

"Dirty old. I used last night to cover a kitten!"

"Did Elrick have a cat? not allergic to cat dander?" tanya Raya who remembers one day, Elrick yells furiously mixed with disgust when Dipa brings her Angora cat to Oma's house.

"Can't you ask a lot of questions?! Buruan, Oma call you, ask you to go home. And don't ask too many questions!" he continued when he saw Raya would open her mouth again.