The Sweetest Harsh
The Final Episode - Loving You

That morning all the families gathered at the villa, after one day earlier, Tiara was allowed to leave the hospital after being strong enough and healthy to return to activities. Yunus, Helmia, Berta, even Widya also stayed there. They were enthusiastic about taking care of Keylan, helping Tiara to bathe, change clothes, diapers, and take turns holding the baby in arms. Indeed, Keylan looks like a rotating trophy that keeps changing hands from Grandpa, Grandma, even his servants who also rejoice at the birth of his master's son.

Now, as the sun was releasing its warm rays, Keylan was being put to sleep on a baby trolley, being near the tabebuya tree until the sun was slightly blocked and did not make it hot. Berta unceasingly invited him to speak. Menowel her cheeks with gauntlet. The baby's reaction was only to twitch with his eyes occasionally looking at him and staring randomly at anything he could see. Adjust both eyes from the light that is too bright outside the room. He was clean this time with a distinctive aroma of oil and baby powder attached to his body. Makes it so fragrant, tempting anyone to come closer, smell, and smell it.

Alfa was helping his wife wash herself, change her clothes and dry her wet hair after a bath. Tiara has not been able to move freely completely and still have to be careful because the scar of the operation still leaves a sense of discomfort that makes it must be helped by others when going to do personal activities. Tiara looked at her reflection in the mirror. Look closely at how her husband combed her hair. The man smiled to find Tiara blatantly watching him. He then placed the comb onto the table as the woman stood up from her chair.

The man hugged her from behind and propped his chin on Tiara's shoulder, kissing the woman's cheek at a glance before saying, “Thank you Tiara.”

The woman looked up and smiled. “You have said thank you so many times to me,” he said then leaned his head on Alfa. Staring at her husband's two beads. “I also thank you, for being patient with me and holding out until this time. Give up your precious time that you could have spent on another, more perfect woman. I can't believe you chose to settle down with a poor woman like me,”.

There was a feeling of resentment in Alfa's heart when Tiara said that again. The man released a hug and turned his wife's body, facing her. Staring with a look of dislike, while clenching both hands on Tiara's cheeks. “Are you judging me as a man who is only happy to obey his wishes by ignoring others? If so, of course I have long left all this, but in fact, I am still here, right? Because I realized, everything in this world has a reason with us that sometimes can not choose and get an explanation. We just have to do our best with complete willingness.” Alfa hugged lightly, still feeling afraid to behave more because the abdomen area of his wife who had not recovered was right. “I love you Tiara, I love you without limit what reason and why. I sincerely gave up my life to take care of you and our son. And I'm grateful for everything,” again.

Tiara sunk her face into the chest of the field. It was a sense of peace that fostered comfort in his soul. Raised his head as Alfa lowered her gaze. “I also love you Gheo Alfa, a love that I cannot express in words because I am too willing to simply interpret it in the form of my struggle gives you offspring. I love everything about you and it won't stop.” Tiara stood on her tiptoes and kissed her husband's cheeks slowly with her bright smile. Alfa smiled knot. “Let's go down, Mama must have been waiting,” take her and then drag her husband's hand just out of the room.

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“Drink your milk.” Helmia said that she was thrusting a highball glass of chocolate-colored milk when she saw that her daughter-in-law had finished cleaning. The woman intercepted Tiara's steps and guided her hand so that she sat down on the dining table chair. Meanwhile, Alfa, continued her steps toward her baby who is now both with Berta.

There was already a lot of food in the area and in the midst of confusion over the large menu of food that morning, her in-laws still poured her a glass of milk. Do mothers really have to eat that much? Without voicing his question, Tiara drank a large gulp of the milk.

“Eat, finish your needs first, Keylan is still patiently waiting for you to suckle. You have to eat a lot of nutritious foods and green vegetables so that your asi is smooth and your body quickly recovers,” the order.

“Iya Ma, thank you,” said. Helmia answered briefly and understandingly, leaving Tiara alone, letting the woman enjoy breakfast.

Helmia was right, now in a relaxed state, only then did Tiara realize that her stomach was very hungry. The hull felt like it was twisted, as if he had not filled food for a long time, but last night in the middle of the afternoon, as if he had been eating, the woman had approached the kitchen to eat toast because again her stomach was struggling to ask for food. Keylan suckled strongly, probably because that's why Tiara easily felt the pain in his stomach.

Unexpectedly, the food that had been seen so much was in the end only a little left, entering entirely into the stomach of Tiara who ate it voraciously. Ah, he felt ashamed of himself because he had earlier reproached the dish in front of him which he ended up spending as well.

The woman then wiped her mouth with a tissue and continued her delayed steps towards the back porch. Looking back at the baby she had left with her mother who insisted on bathing her son.

Tiara widened her smile as she saw Alfa carrying Keylan with both hands. The man was engrossed in kissing and moving his body constantly to keep his son asleep. Oh, that's so sweet. Keylan looked so petite in the arms of his father who was sturdy and tall. The woman walked slowly closer to her husband. Bend the head to see the face of the baby who is now sleeping with the body slightly tilted facing Alfa. The two then sat on a long bench close to the tabebuya tree on the other side of the garden behind the house.

“Oh, of course. Keylan will definitely grow up to be a handsome and charming man like his father,”. “Dan will be smart like his mother,” his praise later who made the expression of Tiara who was about to denounce it turned into a blushing face.

Tiara with her face still flushed and rubbed Keylan's cheeks gently. “May he grow up to be a happy child. All the difficulties that we experience are enough to get here alone, lest Keylan inherit a little bit of fatigue that we feel,” he hoped.

Alfa looked at Tiara gently. “Yes Tiara. I will fight with all my might for the rest of my life, so that his life is happy and full of sinfulness.” The woman rested her head on her husband's shoulders, still with her hands on Keylan's cheeks.

This isn't a dream. Tiara still could not believe that she could conceive and give birth without significant obstruction. Although the birth struggle left memories that made him full, especially Alfa who watched with her own eyes, how the atmosphere full of tension that occurred in the operating room.

Tiara happily has become the perfect woman by giving birth to an Alpha child. The woman smiled at herself imagining how her house would be crowded by Keylan's cute babbling voice as she learned to talk with her little legs limped off to start learning to stand up to her body's balance. Tiara seemed to be impatiently waiting for that.

The serene atmosphere full of romance that emerged suddenly broke when Keylan wriggled and voiced his loud cries. Alfa and Tiara were shocked, before Alfa grabbed a small pillow in the trolley and put it in Tiara's stomach, then handed Keylan to breastfeed. Alfa embraced his wife's shoulders and watched lovingly how she opened her eyes wide and enjoyed her milk solemnly.

The silhouette of his second body that was enjoying the time together made the entire house secretly look at him with haru. Voicing stifled happiness with teary eyes, watching the two lovebirds finally rejoice, Alfa and Tiara's waiting was not in vain.

EXPIRE

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