The Substitute Woman on the First Night
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The next day, I, who had been crying since last night, woke up with both eyes that felt puffy. However, I was so surprised when it turned out that Mas Denis was already in the room, asleep right next to me.

"When did he move into the room? Is Denis no longer mad at me?" my mind was confused when I saw my husband still sleeping in the same blanket as me.

To be honest, I still couldn't believe what I was seeing until I rubbed my eyes repeatedly to make sure, even though it didn't change. Even when I pinched next to my cheek hard enough, it was really painful.

"I'm not dreaming." I turned my eyes away to look at the time on the wall clock. At that time, the right time showed at 7 am. Time where Mas Denis should have gotten up and got ready to go to work.

"Do I have to wake up Denis? I don't want him to be late for work, but ... What if he's angry?" Although I had doubts, I finally started shaking Mas Denis' body slowly. "Mas, wake! It's 7 in the morning. Are you not working?" I said it over and over again until Mas Denis started to wake up and slowly his eyes opened. He looked at me, commenting on the smiles from both corners of his lips as our gazes intertwined.

"Good morning, dear."

Immediately I was stunned to hear that word. My eyes still couldn't believe seeing her smile. Denis is completely different from last night. He was no longer cold and full of anger. What the hell is it? Why did he change like that? At least from the many questions that started to rush into my mind, only those two questions dominated. I don't know if I should stay as confused and silent as I am today or return the sweet smile that she still displays. But obviously, I feel very happy if indeed Mas Denis has returned as usual. Does that mean he forgave my mistakes? Although I was honestly still confused, which of my mistakes he had forgiven.

"Good morning, too, my dear." The sentence was finally spoken after my tongue was confused with everything in front of my eyes. Of course I without hesitation returned Mas Denis' smile which a moment later immediately grabbed my body into his arms.

The words Mas Denis really make haru. My eyes were immediately wet with tears. I really didn't expect that this morning Mas Denis would say this to me. What a calming word. His soft-sounding voice went into my ears to make my soul shaken from last night feel like it was happiness again.

"Thank you, Mom. Thanks for forgiving me."

Denis did not answer. He broke his embrace, then got up from his sleeping position by sitting on the edge of the bed.

"There is no need to thank the husband for forgiving his wife's mistakes. Now you don't cry anymore! Rather than you being sad like this, you prepared breakfast for me! Anyway, today I want to eat your fried rice. Oh yes, do not forget before leaving the room first wipe your tears! You don't want me to ask why you're crying?"

I quickly nodded my head with a smile. For me, this unexpected morning really made my world that had been destroyed instantly back intact after finding Mas Denis behaving as usual. The man who made me not only love him, but was also willing to sacrifice anything for him. Even just out of fear of losing her I could very cruelly sacrifice the future of my twin sister to kill the fetus she contains. The real crazy thing I never thought I could do.

After getting my answer, Mas Denis stepped away towards the bathroom. While I, hurried up from the bed with a smile that had not been willing to leave from both corners of my lips. A smile that illustrates how happy I am right now after all night I cried nonstop to sleep. However, just as I was about to pigtail my hair, I accidentally looked at the mirror reflection of an unusual wry smile on Mas Denis' face. A smile that displayed a cunning look like the one I had seen on Almira's face.

"Is it okay that Mas Denis is just pretending?" As my mind grew wildly assumed and turned more negative, I quickly pulled it over. "No. No, maybe I saw it wrong. It's possible that Denis just smiled normally, but since my mind was still messed up last night, so I hallucinated it so I could see it wrong." Not wanting to think about the prejudice that was not necessarily true and only disturbed my composure, I ignored it, then stepped out of the room to prepare breakfast as Mas Denis wanted.

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