The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 52 - Sepercik Longs

"You're lying" Tiara said lethargicly as Alfa had just plopped herself down on the sofa where the woman was sitting.

The man widened his eyes and displayed a questionable face. Just now he let go of his annoyance by smacking his hand at Davian and feeling at ease, having just met his wife's pleasant sweet temperament, and he was instead greeted by a sulking Tiara?

"Lying about what?" Alfa clasped his wife's left hand and held her on her thigh.

"I'm your assistant, right? Why can't I come with you when you go to the studio?" The woman kept her eyes fixed forward, unwilling to look at Alfa's face even though she allowed one of her hands to be held.

Alfa said goodbye without giving her time to speak, forcing her to stay in the hospital with her warning words that received no rebuttal. Although in fact, she only intended to tag her husband, but, Alpha's overreaction with her delicate words made Tiara tickle, what her husband was actually going to do there.

"I'll take you to a safe place." Alfa answered by hiding Davian's name in her sentence. He did not want his wife to meet Davian even for the last time. "And I'll take you away when your circumstances permit. I will definitely invite you to adventure, but not now dear, you must remain in a comfortable and safe condition to move," he persuaded by stroking Tiara's cheek.

Alfa is a great seducer. How could he just melt with the words of that man so simple?

Tiara exhaled. He knew and realized his situation. Although she is currently fine, she must always be careful because her weakened state indirectly threatens the safety of herself and her baby.

"I have Leon I can count on. You don't have to worry," he said again.

The woman nodded her head and chuckled small. "Yes. I'm just happy to see you working like we did on the beach that day" he said.

Alfa smiled with one lip then looked at Tiara. "You're happy to see me acting silly while I'm taking photos? Yep. Being able to capture images at unusual angles is a challenge. And I really like it when there are creative clients who ask me to shoot with unusual settings," he said with pride that only responded with a smile by his wife. "How's Mama? Has there been any progress?" Alfa turned her head towards the closed treatment room door. Trying immediately to divert the conversation so that his wife does not ask further questions about the activities he had just done in the studio and his meeting with Davian.

Tiara also stared in the same direction before looking at her hand that was still held by Alfa, then slowly anchored her gaze to the young brown bead of the man's eyes. "There has been no significant development. Mama's still in her unconscious condition" she fretted.

"Widya is waiting inside?" Ask the man later.

"Yes. Widya is there." Tiara nodded thinly.

"Then, can we go right now to doctor Jeni's place? I've reserved some free time for her," asked Alfa who was immediately approved by her woman.

"Honey, let's meet," said Alfa as she gently rubbed Tiara's stomach which made the woman's face show a pink tinge.

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The 14-inch display slowly moved as Jeni's doctor began operating the ultrasound device attached to Tiara's abdomen. The doctor was surprised by the bliss when he found out Tiara was pregnant again. Of the many women who became his patients, only Tiara was painstaking and continued to try to the maximum so that all the impossible things that he felt as impossible, became a miracle that made him agape. Jeni did not know her patients before because some of them only visited her once to twice during the pregnancy program. Either because they have succeeded or moved consultations.

Tiara, it really makes him satisfied with his story that is so strange and complicated. Perhaps because in the past, Helmia the in-law lived the same story, living the destiny as a woman who so missed the presence of a son.

Jeni realized that Helmia was now overwhelmed with all sorts of wealth and power, so she was arrogantly about to throw Tiara away.

"This. This little white circle. It's a pouch of pregnancy" said Jeni, pointing with her hands near the screen. "The age is only five weeks if calculated from the day of your last menstruation. And the approximate day of his birth...." The doctor directs his cursor at the small writings on the left side of the monitor screen. "22 December" he said, smiling alternately at Alfa and Tiara.

"Is my wife's womb okay?" Alfa who had been watching intensely the monitor screen also voiced a question that had already appeared in her mind, turning to look at Jeni's doctor.

"good. The condition of her uterus is fine and her womb is in good condition. I will give Tiara some vitamins and boosters that should be consumed immediately and spent. Do not forget to check the condition of the content on a regular basis, so that we can find out more. In the meantime, everything's fine" he said.

"definitely. I will give you the best I have and will try my best to provide you with satisfactory service" he said. "Tiara, do not forget to consume foods that contain a lot of iron, because the substance is one of the important minerals needed for fetal growth, especially with the state of your body that is anemic. This pregnancy makes your body need an iron supply of up to three times as much" she explained with a straight look at the Tiara.

"Good Doctor. I will do everything I can to keep my body healthy for my baby to develop properly" Tiara nodded thinly.

"Alfa, be careful when you look at her, because young pregnancies are still very vulnerable." The doctor said without paying attention to the man he was talking to, then turned his gaze to the nurse waiting in the back seat. Gesturing that the examination this time was over.

The nurse then cleaned the remaining gel in Tiara's stomach and helped to fix the woman's revealing clothes.

"Do I need to relax first?" Asked with a look of disappointment, ignoring Tiara who patted her arm slowly with great embarrassment.

The doctor chuckled. "Just be careful and not too often" he replied.

The man folded his lips and nodded. "Can I get a print out of the USG results this time?"

"Of course you can. You will get it every time you do an ultrasound," replied Jeni while doing a series of typing on the keyboard and waiting until a small photo paper featuring the image of the results of the USG was placed into her hand.

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In the last quarter of the clock-turn towards midnight, Alfa and Tiara were still awake with dim lights lighting them up, joking and laughing at each other in an incomparably happy atmosphere. Tiara leaned against the headboard of her bed with her legs crossed and the head of Alfa clad on her quilt-covered thigh.

The man lay on his side facing Tiara with his head attached to his wife's flat stomach. His hands hugged the woman's waist and her body curled up there, as if hugging her still-in the womb. Satisfying his happiness with his current sleeping attitude.

"The most comfortable position when in the lap of a woman." Alfa kissed a glimpse of Tiara's stomach before returning. "You know? I used to be like this when I was a kid. Sleeping on Mama's lap" she said with her eyes closed.

Tiara who was gently stroking the man's hair then stopped her activity when she heard the sad Alpha speech in her ear.

Does that guy miss his mom?

Tiara's heart was touched to hear Alfa's statement which unconsciously made her also remember Berta. Right now, they are at home. Alfa decided to return to her residence because time had indicated the evening when the two of them had finished consulting. Alfa is again worried about Tiara's health given her fragile state and prone to falling ill when exhausted.

Or is it possible that Alfa is being carried away by a painful feeling that hurts more than she does?

As hard as Helmia was to Alpha, she was still a loving and loving mother by doing everything she could for the happiness of her son. And Alfa must have loved Helmia as a precious person in her life with an affection that could never be represented. The man seemed to be talking that he needed his mother's caress and asked to be reassured in his peaceful loving cradle.

Seeing the situation that was happening to them at this time, it really made Tiara claustrophobic, the figure of her who was now becoming a pregnant mother as if flicking a speck of longing that seemed to have buried the Alpha deeply.

Alfa felt various things raging in an uncertain direction in her mind. Three women he loved were in a state of fatigue without him being able to do anything about it. Helmia in her endless sadness who kept thinking about her happiness without ever wanting to know how her heart was, Berta whom he had considered like his own mother who was currently unconscious and his wife who had to strengthen his soul and body because of his health and content which required extra supervision, and who needed extra supervision, as well as the relationship of the mother of the child with Helmia who did not know how to finish.

Ah, I want it to feel like the man is complaining to Tiara at this time, about him who can also cry over all the things that happen outside his power.

Alfa just misses .. misses when everything is fine ....