The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 30 - Survive

Tiara opened her eyes. The pain that hit his head had faded. Slowly, his two eyes caught the gaze of the light brown eyeball that was watching him silently, right in front of him. Tiara fell asleep on her side, so she could immediately see who was next to her. He was very happy when Alfa was the first to be a greeter when he woke up from sleep, like a normal day in the morning. Just as she realized she had fallen asleep next to her husband, her memory immediately twisted quickly to the memory that they were in the hospital.

Tiara's eyes widened perfectly. He is not at his home at the moment. Alfa is still with a body full of bruises and a smile that decorated the cheeks of the wound. The woman sat in her bed. Realizing that they both fell asleep in separate but adjacent beds.

As she had just arrived in another unknown world, Tiara observed herself sitting on a bed with an infusion attached to her hand and body covered in thick sheets.

He set his gaze in a half-excited manner at Alfa who was still silent. However, he looked at her with an unchanging smile.

“It's just a vitamin injection. You looked tired and pale yesterday, so you needed it to get your stamina back. Thank you for worrying about me, and sorry for making you tired, but now, can you see for yourself? I'm fine.” Alfa said with her comfort.

Tiara listened carefully to every word spoken by the Alpha. The man felt fine with wounds all over the body? Perhaps his point was that he felt better about having met Tiara. Forcing the situation and desperate to go home with longing as a scapegoat, so like this impact. Why is homesickness cruel? Always dragging the heart that is being wracked by him selfishly and demanding to be met immediately?

The woman removed the infusion tube that was still stuck in her hand. Put it down just like that. With a press he lifted the blanket and then came down from his complaint that felt embarrassing. Somehow he was able to fall asleep with such an adjacent bed? Did she sleepwalk and drag the bed from the next room so she could sleep next to her husband? Aih, his face suddenly flushed to imagine how perverted he was even when in a hospital like this.

He went down and set foot on the floor cold as ice. Tiara was too embarrassed to find where the footwear she had worn yesterday. With a bowed face, the woman approached to the edge of the Alpha bed.

“Am I too embarrassing when I miss? How could I fall asleep in that bed?” Tiara folded lips.

Alfa raised both of her eyebrows for the sake of hearing the strange question from Tiara, then furrowed later. Do not understand correctly the question with the implied meaning conveyed by him. Tiara is embarrassed? Shame for what? “I have stripped you to the limit you yourself do not know how your body and heart are. You have nothing to be ashamed of. I miss it too. I miss Tiara very much. Come nearer.” Alfa hinted at the command with one of her hands that had gripped her arm. Tiara certainly understands. Alfa could not move her body and asked the woman to hug her.

In a quick but cautious gesture, Tiara leaned over her body with one side hugging her husband. Both their eyes were closed. They are the same love. Letting go of the long long longs eventually melts into an increasingly passionate love.

Instantly Tiara is reminded back to the terrible warning from Helmia who asked her to leave this man. How can he be able to? Tiara let go of her embrace for a moment. Stare with both furrowed eyebrows and teary eyes.

“Sorry if I can't. My life is like dregs, while the essence of life and my love have been completely given to you. How can I leave you, when you're the only place I depend on?” The woman said a long-goal in a pleasant tone. However, stabbing up to the heart.

Alpha's frozen. His heart was sliced at the words full of despair coming from his wife's lips. Has Helmia said anything to her?

“I didn't use you until you felt like waste and I just threw it away without meaning. You are precious to me. Oi. Do I need to repeat my words like a pubescent man in love?” Alfa voiced her protest. “Good. I'll keep saying it until you get tired of hearing it. But, I hope that even if your ears are bored, your heart is firm with what I am going to tell you, this is a woman. I-”

Tiara devoured Alpha's lips suddenly. The woman closed her eyes, as if holding back that the clear circle that had been stagnant did not appear. Tiara didn't really want to kiss him. He was just feeling extinct and wanted to immerse himself completely in the warmth of love that the man always spread his wings to him.

Alpha touching the nape of Tiara. Raise the tiny head so you can kiss it deeper. One tear drop escaped from his wife's eye patch made Alfa increasingly not stop tasting the softness of Tiara's mouth. Go on and on.

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“I can eat it myself.” Alfa refused to be fed and instead hung her hand to ask for a bowl filled with porridge as a friend to take her medicine.

Tiara raised next to the eyebrows. Unlike his mother who must be persuaded to want to fill his stomach. This man really makes him want to always smile because of his strange behavior. Alpha may feel hungry and dissatisfied if fed.

The man looked at his wife with his head tilted. He can sit now, although his movements are still limited. His back rested on a pillow while his head turned towards Tiara who seemed to be smiling while looking at him.

“My digestion is not problematic and my hands are strong enough if only to lift one bowl of porridge. So, I won't be spoiling you this time just to eat.” Alfa said as she brushed his wife's chin.

Tiara chuckles. “Yes. Eat.” Tiara extended her hand to place the bowl on the small dining table in front of Alfa.

“Guide me eat," said Alfa later when she found the woman was getting ready to get out of her seat.

The woman smiled and turned her seat forward. “Can I see Mama for a minute?”

Alfa frowned. “Mama?” Mama who is this woman talking about? Don't .…

“Mama Berta.” The woman looked down for a while before looking back. “His lungs are relapsing and he's been treated one day longer than you here. Good thing you guys are in the same hospital.” Tiara shrugged her shoulders and smiled faintly. As if saying something like, what would happen if you were in a different hospital. How troublesome he must drive himself to meet the needs of two people at a time.

Alfa cleared her throat to relieve her awkwardness. The food that was still bulging in his mouth was swallowed forcibly. He immediately ended his lunch and drank a glass of water violently. How could he be such a fool by not knowing the strange circumstances that his wife was going through? It was fortunate that he did not tempt Tiara by asking her to feed him, because it would definitely be troublesome and he looked like a heartless evil man.

“I'm sorry.” Alfa seemed to thin her lips and rub her face with her palm. Feeling angry at the circumstances that have befallen him. Angry at not being able to do anything when his wife needs help. “Why didn't you tell me Tiara? What should I do?” Speak to the man with great determination.

The woman raised an eyebrow. “I don't want you to worry. Mama may be back home today. And, the doctor has given you the best treatment, so you don't have to do anything." Tiara grasps Alfa's fingers. Channeling confidence. "You just need to heal fast. That's enough encouragement for me."

The man nodded. "But I'll trouble you a lot later." Alfa turned to look at her feet covered in blankets. He recalled a glimmer of his desire to hire a housekeeper at his home. Maybe this is the right time. He did not want to increase his guilt even more mountainous by allowing his exhausted woman to take care of everything.

Tiara looked at her husband with her chin up. "You never bothered me. It is precisely I who have come into your life carrying the weight of the mountains for you to bear." The woman smiled wryly. With words that will surely make Alfa wrath. Again. Because he looked down on himself too much. "I'll be back in a minute." Tiara kissed her husband's right cheek in haste and left before Alfa could speak. Step out of the room and close the door again.