The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 46 - Best Place

Alfa sat elegantly in her dining room chair with so much food on the table. He waited patiently for Tiara who was still in the room while enjoying the americano which he had sipped half on his mililk porcelain cup. As Jeni's doctor advised last night, the man ordered Alisa to prepare a healthy breakfast menu without touching the oil on the food. Not to forget, he also has prepared vitamins that must be consumed by his wife.

“Master, is Miss sick? Why don't I just bring the food into the room?” he asked with a curly expression that covered him with curiosity as soon as he got the order to serve a different breakfast than usual.

“No need. Tiara was not sick,” he said subconsciously looking at the door of the room, answering with doubt because his wife did not come out of the room. “I will look him into the room,” he added with full of curiosity, because it has been almost thirty minutes waiting, but, Tiara never showed his arrival.

Tiara sat on the edge of the bed. He opened his eyes, staring once again at the small object in his hand, trying to convince himself that his eyes were not looking wrong. His right hand clung tightly to his agape mouth, while his left hand held tightly to the small object trembling. His heart started to go out of control. Nervousness began to spread heat on his head to make his breath warm and his fingertips became icy cold.

Alfa looked at the scene in front of her in surprise. Tiara had said that she would soon go to the dining room to have breakfast with him. However, he was still sitting quietly on the edge of the bed and sculpting without any activity, making the man inevitably come closer to the woman and find out, what had distracted her so much that she had forgotten that Alfa had patiently waited for her for so long to eat with her.

“What are you-“ Alpha's eyes suddenly fixed on the small object that Tiara was holding in her hand. The man was stunned for a moment until he forgot to say a word. Tiara who heard her husband had been nearby raised her head. Staring at his man by folding his lips until Alfa sat beside him. Alfa's light brown eyes did not escape the goods one second from the thing that also made Tiara gaped it.

Tiara advanced her left hand so that Alfa could see clearly, two deep red lines that were so small in size. Alpha's heart pumps quickly, receiving the most detailed information from a pregnancy test kit his wife showed. The man then looked at his wife. Looking at the entirety of Tiara's face which was also filled with shock. At the point where the two had understood each other about the purpose of the non-verbal communication that had been on the air, they both embraced quickly and tightly, welcoming the happy news with a full day.

“I ... I'm pregnant.” Tiara exhaled a long breath after successfully uttering a short sentence that felt so light. But managed to make his chest kembis kempis so difficult to eject. The man did not answer, but tightened his arms as his wife said the same sentence she was saying over and over again in her heart.

Tiara is pregnant .. my wife is pregnant …

Alfa curled up her shoulders to hold her body to the woman, as if to convey the message that she was so loving and loving with all her body to Tiara that gave her the surprise they had just received.

The seconds that passed turned into happy minutes. Not felt, until time continued to run, Alfa still hugged without changing a little bit of his position. The originally closed tiara, then opened her eyelids slowly, feeling the roar of her husband's breath that felt so fixed on her body. The woman stroked Alfa's back slowly, but after a long time, the man did not let go of his embrace making Tiara finally make a sound again.

“Alfa ...,” call it down.

The sound of heavy breathing with a raspy rhythm from the man's nose made Tiara widen her eyes.

Alpha crying?

Forcibly, the woman withdrew from her husband's embrace, but her strength was not comparable to that of the man who turned out to be many times stronger than her. Alfa pulled him back, hugging him with a warm embrace that felt increasingly hot on Tiara's body. The woman also breathed her long breath. She knew her husband was so happy that he might shed tears.

Tiara also laughed her gaze and also felt an incredible relief that was being experienced. She is in love with her love for Alpha. The man may be pervading everything that is raging in his imagination, that this pregnancy was a surprise that many times made her so happy that she could no longer express it with words and only like this. Hugged him tightly as a sign that he desperately needed the current Tiara as a place he could channel to pour out his delight.

Slowly, Alfa relaxed her embrace. He stared at Tiara slowly starting from the lips to end in his eyes as if embarrassed to directly face each other. The face flushed with a puddle of tears stuck in the eyelids of the man finally managed to show it to his wife.

A sweet smile escapes the lips of Alpha. He rubbed his woman's head with a loving caress. “Thank you Tiara. I promise to take care of you as best I can with all my energy, body, and soul,” he said hoarsely. “I won't let a little discomfort come your way or I won't be able to forgive myself.”.

Tiara rubbed the chest of the man's field with a loving touch with both hands. “I will also keep myself well and take care of him with all the love I have.” Tiara touched her stomach slowly as if she was talking to a small creature that was now growing in her womb. “You will tell Mama soon?” tiara asked suddenly which made Alfa's facial expression turn stiff.

The man looked at his wife's eyes which still looked innocent there and then firmly replied, “Of course not,” he decided to take a moment's glance. “For what? I'm not looking for a face in front of my mom because of your pregnancy. I married you because I love you and you got pregnant because I wanted a descendant from you. I wanted his presence because I loved him so much as the successor of my life, not as a tool that I could use for my own personal interests let alone in the name of dead goods such as the throne and power,” he explained with great emphasis on each word but with low voice intonation.

Tiara gasped at the meaningful words from her husband. He stared at the eyeballs of Alpha in turn, absorbing the meaning of the strands of his speech that sounded very touching his heart.

The woman finally nodded her head, agreeing with the words of Alpha which were true.

******

Jonah walked upright with one of his hands adrift with Helmia's arm holding him. Both of them looked very classy with after suit and evening dresses in matching colors that wrapped their bodies. This is where Jonah and Helmia are today, among the people who are milling about with similar costumes. The company's dinner.

Some people who know each other greet each other with elegant smiles and gestures full of respect.

Jonah, who recognized the voice calling him, turned his head immediately, looking for the source of the voice. After finally seeing a smiling face towards him, the man smiled back and stepped foot to get closer, nodding his head and sitting on a chair covered in white cloth with a luxurious golden ribbon that looked side by side with Helmia.

“How are you?” Sapa Gani while continuing to eat the dishes available in front of him.

“Good. As you can see.” Jonah sat with his hands on the table.

A waiter carrying a tray of small shot glass cups and colorful drinks with various flavors came closer and put some drinks in front of Helmia and Jonah followed by opening menus brought by the servants who followed behind him.

“How's Alfa doing? It's been a long time since I've seen her with you at a banquet lately. Is he busy?” Fera Gani's wife asked with a smiley face full of her wish, staring at Jonah and Helmia alternately.

Helmia seemed frozen with a stiff face to the unexpected question.

“Ah. Yep. I met Alfa a few months ago. He accidentally met me to work together as a sponsor in the opening of his gallery,” said Gani casually without noticing the change in the face of his interlocutor, then spoke again. “When will he actually open the exhibition? I haven't heard from you yet?” The man said after drinking a small amount of that bitter-red water.

Jonah and Helmia looked at each other for a moment. All the elegant expressions with full elegance that they showed from entering the room as if evaporating instantly. Feeling the crushing blow in his heart as the two people in front of him asked about his son and not a single word came to their imagination to be spoken in response.

“Iya. Alfa ... maybe .. will postpone it until the time cannot be determined because .... there are still things that he must finish,” replied Helmia laid out with doubt.

“Oh. Does it have anything to do with your son-in-law? I see Alfa so possessive of his wife yes that she rarely gets together with us like this.” Fera again uttered a very hot sentence heard in Helmia's ear.

Helmia was embarrassed if she had to be frank about the estrangement of their relationship with her son. He was angry at this moment. Disappointed at Alfa who really turned around with her father and did not want to know about anything that became Jonah's business over his company. The woman no longer knows what to do but wish that Karina was the right woman she approached with Alfa, so that things could go according to the pattern they should. The only son must be the next head of the company so that the sustainability and success of the company can continue brilliantly and can be succeeded in the future. And it can be achieved only if Alfa wants to marry and coexist with women who fit the character of the family.

“Yes. Such is. What about Patricia?” Helmia tried to divert the conversation so that the two people in front of her did not further pry information about their son's life.

“Patricia is enjoying her second pregnancy with a vacation in Europe. He wants to wait for the birth of his second son there,” replied Fera with a face of sumringah, imagining how happy she will be when the second grandchild he and his husband are waiting for was born into the world.

Gani and Jonah only listened to the conversation of the two women who were talking while continuing to eat the dishes available there. Jonah occasionally looked at his wife with furrowed brows. There was a sense of uneasiness and care that many times the woman appeared. Moreover, without feeling the theme of this conversation is a family problem where Alfa is the only crown prince of many sons of the company owner who did not show interest in the business world at all.

Helmia was really fed up with the direction of the conversation that felt so cornered her. Many times he gulped his saliva violently, then gulped cold drink from shot glass that showed the yellow color.

“I have to go home first Fera. Ii'm sorry. I can't linger here with you two,” Helmia said, standing up from her seat. Jonah who understood his wife's intentions quickly followed his wife who was about to move.

“Come another time to my company Gani. My door is open anytime for you.” Jonah greeted for the last time before he nodded his head and smiled.

Fera smiled wryly and waved for a moment before saying, “Alright, have fun. See you again,”.

Helmia stepped quickly towards the elevator without paying any attention to Jonah who was also in a hurry to line his steps. There was a sense of tightness that the woman wanted to spill immediately. And this always happened over and over again whenever he accompanied Jonah to meet the dinner invitation.

As soon as the elevator doors opened, Helmia and Jonah immediately entered together. The woman slammed her body into the elevator wall and sobbed there. Jonah who saw his wife crying immediately embraced and hugged tightly with his eyes closed.

“Don't you feel my anxiety?” helmia said with a wound in her tone.

The man breathed his long breath. “Yes. I understand and I understand very well what is raging in your imagination,” he replied.

Jonah closed his eyes again. It affects every part of his life that is happening right now. He knows how to. Soon he will prove that he is a good husband and father to his wife and child. Be the best place to pour out all the turmoil that is happening to his two loved ones who are having different opinions.

And the only way is .. he has to be wise.