The Secretaries
CHAPTER 35

Shani and Darren are still sitting nailed to the car seat. Their conversation is through to the middle. Both of them are struggling with the bitter reality and their respective feelings.

Darren looked disappointedly at Shani's eyes. He did not know whether to be angry or pitying himself and the woman. But the stubbornness of wanting to have Shani completely shackled in Darren's mind, perched and nestled there.

"I'm not going to let you go. Until any time, I will not let you go" said Darren, looking hard at Shani's eyes.

"As far as you want to say what. I'm gonna go." Shani rushes to open Darren's car door, but can't. Darren's locked all the doors and the windshield. "Open up" told Shani to look angrily at Darren's eyes.

"No." Darren replied still looking into Shani's eyes.

Shani who was getting sick of continuing to shuffle was about to press the button off the door lock. But Darren who saw that immediately stopped Shani. Shani rebelled and Darren pushed the woman to her seat.

"Please! Release, Darren! I want to go," said Shani, then shut up because it felt useless he was getting moving and Darren increasingly locking his movement.

The eyes of the 2 people also clashed against each other. Darren begged that the woman in front of him would no longer lie to his own feelings. As for Shani, he just wants to get away from Darren and let the man live happily with Zaila.

"You love me too, don't you?" ask Darren to Shani. "Let's say, Shani. You actually want us to be together?"

Shani was silent for a moment. If only Darren knew that Shani's heart felt like a dilemma for now. Shani confesses that she loves Darren and wants to marry him, but she cannot. Shani doesn't want to ruin Darren's household. Shani will and will try to be able to face her problems alone.

"No." Shani took a pause for a moment. "I used to fall in love with you. But for now, it's all gone. I don't want to repeat the same mistake. I don't love you anymore, Darren. And never will love again."

Darren pursed his lips. He is angry because Shani's words again and again have hurt his feelings. Darren grabs Shani's nape and grabs her lips mercilessly.

Shane did not move a bit. He chose resignation and let Darren vent all his frustration. Shani's heart is numb, and she doesn't care anymore about Darren's attitude which always makes her like a cheap woman.

Darren keeps poking Shani's mouth. After he received a passive response from the woman, Darren ended it. Darren looked at Shani whose cheeks had been shed by tears.

"I know you're lying, Shani. I know you too-"

"Enough!!!" shani snapped cutting Darren's speech. "Enough, stop. I don't want to be horrified anymore. I don't want to. I want to be horrified again," continued Shani covered both ears while shaking in frustration.

Shani looks hysterical and chaotic. Darren who saw that also started to be stunned. Slowly Darren grabbed the body Shani was about to hug him. But Shani brushed off.

"Shani, relax, Shani." Darren kept trying to hold the woman's body. And as Shani's energy runs out and his stomach starts to feel strange, he melts in Darren's arms. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry" Darren said as he stroked Shani's head and kissed the top of her head briefly.

After Shani calmed down and stopped crying, Darren immediately brought her home. Shani breaks down and begins to fall asleep in her bed. Darren was still staring at the stroking of the woman's head. After Shani falls asleep, Darren returns home. He leaves Shani alone.

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"Are you crazy?" hardik Darren on Zaila. "Don't you dare approach Shani again at her house. If you mess with him, I don't hesitate to mess with you!" continued threatening.

Zaila blinked as tears began to trickle from the corner of her right eye. He looked down for a moment, then looked at Darren again. "I just want to defend our household. Is that wrong?"

Darren was silent for a moment. Zaila's voice sounded ironic. Slashing and heartbreaking. "Yes, that's wrong. Because I don't want to keep our marriage. I don't want to live with a woman I don't love."

"How does our child go? Do you want her to be born with her family broken? Don't you think about my feelings?"

Darren became a dilemma. He certainly does not want bad fate to befall his baby who is being conceived Zaila, as well as his other baby, which is now being conceived by Shani. As a prospective father, Darren must be reluctant to sacrifice one of them.

However, "I'll take care of our child. After you give birth to her, you can be free. Shani and I will take care of him sincerely" Darren told Zaila.

Zaila shook her head quickly. "No. I don't want to." He started to hold his stomach. "I don't want my son to be taken care of by a despicable woman like Shani. I don't want to!"

"Take care of your mouth!" darren told his wife.

"Why?" Zaila stared at Darren's eyeballs in turn. "Do you also feel that she's a despicable woman? Or do you feel that you've made her a despicable woman?"

Again Darren's mind is shunned. He froze and looked at Zaila who was sitting on the lip of the bed right in front of him. "Shani is not the cheap woman you think she is. I'm the one who's made her a bad girl, so I have to take responsibility."

"How is your responsibility the same as mine?" zaila asked Darren to twist the words. "You are ready to marry me. And now I'm pregnant. After all, I'm pregnant because you want to do that to me too."

Zaila did not want to discuss this sensitive topic, but she had to. Zaila gulped to overcome her nervousness. "I also need your responsibilities, Mas. For our son, and for the honor of my family."

Darren was still speechless with occasional winks to look less tense.

"Our parents have arranged this match. And they also worked hard to get our marriage going. If you refuse from the beginning, I will refuse."

"But since you've gone further and want to marry me, I can't let you go. I can't make them see my household being destroyed in front of my own eyes. I will continue to work so that our marriage can be permanent, can be lasting and peaceful."

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