The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 27 - Pain

Tiara is still languishing on the dining table with a cup of hot tea that is now almost toilet. He simply filled his stomach with three spoons of rice mouthfuls that he had swallowed with great difficulty. I don't know why he felt like a kid sulking because what he wanted didn't come true. He felt annoyed. She did not want to receive a surprise from her husband after returning from out of town. I don't know what Alfa is planning and what happened until this morning the man has not returned, but, if it is in accordance with the last news that Alfa gave, he said, her husband will arrive before 12 p.m. However, until now, the phone is still clean from any notifications.

Is this what he said he missed? Ah yes, right. The shinders may have eroded away halfway on the way home. Alfa is really testing it right now.

Better, he busied himself with activities that could make him forget his longing. With a deep breath and a rough gust, Tiara got up from her seat, readied the player on her phone and slipped the headset in her ear while stepping towards the cleaning equipment warehouse in the back area of the house. He should be busy right now. The sound of the music he set to the level he could not hear anything outside the sound of his headset. Full of music that can make it fly to another zone for a while.

The small room behind the house contained various equipment that he used to clean the house area. Including painting equipment, wooden supports where the canvas, painting equipment, and many more items that he neatly arranged in the closet storage. Of the many pieces of equipment, Tiara's eyes and head moved to and fro in search of a water kingpin. After successfully finding, cheerfully he took the tool and went back out to lock the room.

He filled it with water to the brim and painstakingly he poured on the plants in pots and vines that grow around his house. It does so over and over again until the whole plant seems happy to get a cool flush from its owner. Tiara's nose inhaled deeply. Smell fresh smells from water that pool on the ground. His eyes were spoiled by a variety of green colors and colorful flowers that suddenly refreshed after he flush with enough water.

Too happy with her gardening activities, Tiara to the point of not realizing there was someone who was calling her many times from outside the gate of her house. Headsets that are still attached to the ear are really successful in making it dissolve with the music and the activity of watering his cheerful plants.

Tiara was startled and turned her back abruptly when someone patted her shoulder. His eyebrows shot up to see who was coming.

“Widya?” The woman greeted in shock and immediately removed the headset in the ear. What made that woman come here? Yep. Widya is a nurse who has worked for many years accompanying Berta at her home. A bad premonition instantly slipped away without knocking on the door first in his mind when dealing with the woman.

“You look very happy with your activities.” Widya smiled kindly.

“Ah. Yep. I'm just filling up my free time. Let's go in.” Tiara walked towards the direction of the house before Widya suddenly grabbed her hand.

“Tiara.” The middle-aged woman was stunned at her own call as if she was not prepared to say what she was about to say. Tiara's face suddenly stiffened. His heart was like a squeeze. Already prepared for the unpleasant news that will be said from Widya. What happened to Berta? The mother did not give news of one word and two words by telephone or short message.

“I wasn't long. I just ... want to tell you that now Berta is in the hospital," he said straightforwardly with a little stammering.

Tiara. His tongue felt too hard to speak.

“Thus he fell unconscious and of course he can't tell you. For that I came here.” Widya's face changed with an ironic smile.

“Ya .. Yes Widya I'm coming with you now.”

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Davian looked at the front gate of Tiara's house with a wrinkled face. The door that was used to open that half was now locked tightly. Likewise, the front door and windows of the house are tightly closed as if there is no one in the house.

The man let out a long sigh and immediately opened his phone screen. However, his frustration multiplied when he did not keep Tiara's number.

Davian immediately thought hard to find the only person he could count on to be able to contact the woman.

While looking through the contact list on his phone, he stood leaning against the gate of the house with one leg folded back. Body stiffens. Chica. Yep. That girl's. The production staff at the Tiara company that he bribed to wiretap Tiara at that time. He must still keep the number of his boss even though Tiara is no longer working. How thought. A bitter smile appeared on his face. He pressed the green button to call. The sound of ringing for so long made his emotions start to rise and his patience eroded. There's no answer. The green button was pressed three times.

"Hello." The girl's voice was low across the street. Davian closed his eyes to neutralize his emotions and exhaled a long breath.

"Chinese. I'm Davian." The man said slowly. The reaction from the destination number was not in accordance with his expectations.

"Oh. You're. Still not satisfied you destroyed Tiara. Now what else?" The rosy tone sounded loud, making Davian widen his eyes and blink slowly then claw his coarse hair.

"Hey. No business with you. I need Tiara's number now. There's an emergency I need to address." Davian tries to calm down and compromise with the girl who used to be very easy for him to trick.

"I have to believe that? A traitor is a traitor." A thick scornful tone sounded.

"good. Whatever you say. Give me Tiara's number. I need it so much." Davian said to weld.

Sound of sound. "Will not." The girl immediately closed the conversation leaving Davian who had been filled with emotions.

"Shit!" The man cussed back and forth and kicked anything that could be reached with his feet, to the point of looking like a truly desperate man.

The guilt came back to his heart. Being in the midst of the helplessness of Alfa who is now in a coma and Tiara who he cannot reach makes his mind chaotic. His little heart was touched. Where did the traitor's soul drift? It feels like being a woman full of feelings.

Isn't this the right time for him to be able to get a Tiara? But why can't he do that now?

Davian sat down curled up with his head bowed in. Still leaning against that closed gate. Heart's crying. Why did it change so quickly?

"Davians." The soft greeting sound that entered his eardrum made Davian bristle. Chest rippling. As fast as lightning he lifted his head.

The brunette with her hair straightened and moved in the wind was like a rescue angel for her. The man stood up. The woman in front of him looked at him with a slight smile. The bottle-green knee-length dress really makes it look like a goddess that used to always be in the picture of her mind when reading the fiction she read.

"North." Davian was still amazed at the disbelief.

"I'm gonna get my phone. Lived at home." Tiara said with an amused smile that she showed for herself. Feeling careless for leaving such an important item when leaving.

Davian. "Where are you ... going?"

He unceasingly observed the movement of the woman who was about to pass through him and bowed to open the gate.

Tiara looked at Davian and straightened her back. "My mom's in the hospital. I-"

"What??! "

Tiara's words were interrupted and she was shocked to hear Davian's shriek sounding as if he was snapping at her.

Davian doesn't believe this. How could Tiara be in such a difficult situation like this? What's he supposed to do? Davian really felt trapped in a precarious state that he could have breezed away no matter what. However, circumstances continue to force him to continue to be involved.

"You .. You should come with me now." Without a second thought, Davian clasped Tiara's wrist and dragged her towards her parked car by the side of the road.

The woman jerked her hand tightly until it slipped and Davian turned back.

"Hey. What's the matter with you?" Tiara said cynically as she massaged her wrist which was painful due to being dragged by Davian forcibly.

The man's mouth was shaking. "Alpha."

Both of Tiara's eyes widened in order to hear a single word that came out of the man's lips. Truly her husband truly possessed magic, so hearing his name alone, Tiara could be transfixed like hypnotized. His gaze turned soft as his eyes met Davian's.

"Alfa had an accident on the way home from out of town. He had received the best treatment in his critical time at the local hospital, and now .. he is already in Flamboyan."

Tiara clenched her hands in front of her chest. Trying to grasp his heart that seemed to have fallen and broken. Leaving behind a grimace that melted his defenses until his tears peaked. The man in front of him was blurred and covered in water that filled his eyelids in his view. Both of his legs seemed to lose energy as a focus to stand. Tiara retreated her steps backwards.

"North ...."