The Tears of Shafira
Chapter 16
Erick was silent as Wulan asked, the man turned his gaze from the smartphone towards his second wife.
“Tell me, Honey! Do you love her?” Wulan asked again.
Erick took a deep breath and replied flatly, “He's my wife too, I'm responsible to his late parents!”
Wulan's heartache, when Erick admits that Shafira is his wife too, he does not want Erick's feelings to develop into love or the like.
“You want to find him?”
“Yes, I've told Hendra to look for that woman anywhere!”
Hendra was Erick's confidant all along for confidential matters.
“I think he's not far from here, he's on foot, it's impossible to get out of town in a few hours!”
“Don't think about him, I know what I have to do!”
“I'll help you find it!”
“No need, Honey! Just accompany Mom, that's enough for me!” Erick said as he approached Wulan and kissed her forehead.
The man went to his study and called someone he trusted. Leaving Wulan who was still glued alone.
Arriving at the workspace, Erick sat in a position facing the window.
“You've collected them?” asked Erik, when the flat object was stuck in the ear.
“Ya, Sir!” someone across from his smartphone.
“You are now where?”
The man named Hendra then explained the position of himself and his men, there were several people who were checking the location around the Erick residence. Some walked down the street to the cemetery of his wife's parents, and some at some point where Shafira had been there.
“Alright, I love the way you work! Continue on! I'm waiting for good news from you!”
Erick hung up the phone unilaterally as soon as he finished talking. He sat in a position facing the table agitatedly. His eyes were busy observing the laptop screen from the CCTV camera, which led to the right side of his house. There shows the room where Shafira managed to escape easily.
Unfortunately, the camera is limited, the last footage shows Shafira jumping behind a wall that, incidentally, is not so high. After successfully climbing the stone arrangement he made himself, the shadow of Shafira's body was not seen again.
“Siaaal!” screeches repeatedly.
Suddenly there was a sense of loss, the empty space in the corner of his heart throbbed, and Shafira's name was engraved there.
“Shafira! Just be careful if I manage to find you later!” he murmured again, clenching both hands hard.
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Shafira opened her eyes slowly after she heard the voice of someone calling her name softly. The girl looked at the view of the unfamiliar room around her. The fragrant aroma was also smelled from his sense of smell, the smell of fragrances that were very soothing and made his heart and mind calm.
At that time he was in the room with all-white paint either on the wall or all the furniture in it. The fragrance comes from the aroma of the therapy of choice as recommended by the doctor who examined Shafira.
“Shafira ..., are you awake?” the voice of a gentle man sounded greeting.
Shafira turned her head to the side and she saw a shady face looking at her with a meaningful look.
He's Ardan, wonder. Shafira tried to gather awareness and digest back what she had just experienced before being in that place.
“Ardan? Where am I?” ask her with a soft voice.
“You're in my room!” he said calmly, a gentle smile etched on that handsome face.
Shafira's mind certainly refused, this is not true, he was married certainly can not be in the room of a man who is not her husband.
She was grateful to be fully dressed and lacking nothing. However, from that light movement, he felt his entire body ache and made him lie back down.
“You fainted on the road! Thankfully I found you! Try if it's someone else, you can just—ahk, that's it! The important thing is that you are safe now!”
“I fainted? Where?”
“On Jalan Kertajaya, what are you doing there? Do you remember now?”
Shafira tried to remember but her head turned and throbbed in pain. Next to his left hand on the infusion were several plaster cover wounds on his legs and hands.
“Actually I—“ his speech was interrupted.
“Why you?”
Shafira was silent for a moment, then Ardan gave her a drink of mineral water and the girl gulped it down. Since he entered the room and managed to escape, no food and drink had been consumed. He is grateful now that he is not sick.
“I escaped from Erick!” he said a little nervous. He was doubtful of his position at the time.
“Erick?”
Ardan looked at him in full sight, although the man already knew, he was still curious as well. He investigates everything about Shafira through a trusted friend of his. However, he still wanted the girl to admit it herself.
“Yes, he's my husband who locked me up, so I ran away!”
Finally Shafira tells everything honestly to Ardan, from the beginning she met and then married Erick. Inevitably he had to say it because of this incident, making him unable to cover everything anymore.
Actually, if it is said to be forced to marry also not, because he agreed to the wishes of his mother willingly. Of course with the hope that his life will be much better. His hope was not wrong, but it was reality that tormented him. Because of the husband who does not do what is his duty.
At that time Shafira had given up on understanding her husband and her confined state. She was treated inhumanely by her husband.
Shafira remembered, he had indeed managed to jump over the barrier wall of the mansion. However, after walking a few meters on the road that happened to be quiet, he felt his entire body tremble violently. He stopped to rest his body that felt so weak, thirsty, hungry, headache and even more pain was his heart.
Every time a sedan passes, he hides, fearing that the person inside is Erick. It lasted until some time, until his body was no longer strong, unable to stand, as if the surroundings were dark and silent and he was unconscious.
At the same time, a car passed by and saw a girl with a small bag on her back lying on the street. As soon as he saw it, the rider—which is none other than Ardan, so surprised.
“Shafira! Shafira!” he cried in panic, “Why can you be here?”
Without a second thought, he carried the girl's body into his car immediately. He contacted someone on his way to the hospital and asked someone to investigate something about the girl.
Ardan was suspicious because he saw many bruises all over Shafira's body.
“Shafira ...! Wake up, what exactly are you going through?” he said again, after he finished calling.
He turned his head to the unconscious girl beside him.
Arriving at the IGD, Shafira is dealt with immediately, and during the wait, Ardan receives a report about his investigation. He was disappointed and angry, but he could not vent his anger at that moment.
More than an hour after getting treatment from the medical, Shafira finally can be transferred to the hospital room as desired Ardan.
Given the events experienced by Shafira, Adan felt he had to hide the girl who still controlled his heart. Then, he moved his treatment to his own home, after going through existing procedures.
He means only one, so that Erick does not know the whereabouts of his wife and Ardan wants to take care of Shafira until he can completely recover the condition of his body perfectly.
“Ardan, how can you find me?”
“Continues! I actually rarely pass on that road, but yesterday somehow I wanted to pass there after the meeting.”
“Oh, thank you, but why did you help me?”
Seriate