Wagering
About Sera, Jeffrey, and Raya

Seraphina Lazuardy was born into a happy family, raised as a beloved single daughter and grew up to be a beautiful, soft-hearted and charming woman. His father is the eldest of four brothers, successful in becoming a wealthy businessman at a relatively young age, which is 32 years. Her mother is a director at Indonesia's largest private hospital, a no-nonsense position for the 29-year-old young woman who is the youngest in her family.

As the only child of a wealthy family, Sera's life was certainly assured. All his needs are met, both materially and emotionally. She was gently educated, but still taught how to be responsible for every choice made, so that not only beautiful and loving, Sera also grew up to be a smart and tough woman.

Sera's happy life with her parents also eventually led her to meet Jeffrey, a handsome man who then turned his back on her after a three-year courtship. Together with Jeffrey, Sera is determined to build her own little family, so that she can continue how her parents loved her so far.

As if the Goddess of Fortuna is always on his side, Sera is also increasingly made to feel floating in the air when she was declared pregnant when her marriage to Jeffrey entered the first year. All the best had Sera and Jeffrey ready for their future baby. Comfortable residence, education guarantees and everything that will be needed to support the growth and development of the baby they have been trying in such a way.

Their lives would have been perfect, had Jeffrey not made the mistake of finally waking up the evil side in Sera to protect the wholeness of their little family that was just about to begin.

That night, when the company owned by Ayag Sera was holding a birthday party at one of the family-owned hotels, an incident occurred. Where almost everyone who attended the party was too late in the excitement that existed, until it had unknowingly chugged too much alcohol so as to make their consciousness was on the lower threshold.

And among the many drunken men, Jeffrey became one of them.

In a semi-conscious state, Jeffrey staggered towards one of the rooms in the hotel that was provided one for each invited guest who came. He just barged in as soon as he saw a woman sitting on a mattress in dim lighting. Jeffrey thought the woman was Sera, and in that unconscious state, Jeffrey fucked the woman.

Towards dawn, as his consciousness slowly returned, Jeffrey was surprised not to play because the one he found sleeping next to him was not Sera, but Raya, the stepson of one of Sera's uncles who had just joined the Lazuardy family a few months earlier.

Jeffrey's panicked. He was upset, so that with a hoarse movement, he put on his clothes again and then ran out of the room, leaving the Kingdom that was then unconscious from his sleep.

With the increasingly self-contained immortality, Jeffrey ran to Sera in his room. He knelt down, begging forgiveness to the wife who was pregnant with their child. Jeffrey cried, roared, even slapped himself many times before finally telling all that happened to Sera with a faltering sentence.

Sera who heard Jeffrey's speech was no less upset. He also panicked, afraid that Raya would open her mouth and dismantle everything in front of all members of the Lazuardy family. Worse still, the woman may expose this disgrace to the public, considering that she is not Lazuardy's biological family and will not share the loss as much as Sera and her extended family will bear.

Armed with the eternal, Sera rushed to meet her uncle, begging to be helped silence Raya's mouth so that the woman did not expose this disgrace to anyone. His uncle agreed, and immediately made the decision to bring Raya and her mother to Australia so that the woman did not have the opportunity to open her voice, even to her own mother.

For the solution his uncle gave him, Sera was very grateful. And he gladly gave up some of the assets he had to give to the uncle as a thank you.

Sera thought, the problem is done getting there. Because after the move of his uncle and their small family to Australia, Sera was able to live her domestic life with Jeffrey as before, as if nothing had happened.

He decided not to discuss it again with Jeffrey, because he believed that night Jeffrey was completely unintentional and the man still loved him very much. The birth of their son whom they later named Baskara also became a supporting factor that made their relationship more harmonious. Clearly, Sera and Jeffrey's life has been completely fine for a few years.

Until then, Sera heard from her uncle that Raya had returned to Indonesia along with her son. The woman continued to fuss in the land of people so her uncle inevitably had to send Raya to live in Jakarta again, after signing the agreement that Raya will live quietly with her son and never appear again in front of the extended family of Lazuardy.

In the midst of her busy life as a mother to Baskara, Sera was forced to take the time to put some people on Raya's side to make sure the woman kept her distance from her family. Sera does not want Raya to suddenly come and mess with her happy little family.

But unfortunately, Goddess Fortuna was not that bad to him. Maybe the allotment of luck that he had was exhausted, so somehow, exactly six years ago, Jeffrey suddenly found out that the Kingdom had returned. That the woman was pregnant with her child and raised her alone.

Jeffrey who on the night of the incident cried so much at the feet of Sera, asking to be saved and so that he was not abandoned, suddenly turned into a figure who wanted to be pretentious to care about the fate of the Kingdom. Jeffrey pleads with Sera to be reunited with Raya, on the pretext that she should be responsible for the child that Raya gave birth because after all, the child is her flesh and blood.

Sera clearly balked at Jeffrey's request. He insisted that Raya's life was fine, and all the needs of the woman and her son were guaranteed by her uncle.

Jeffrey became stubborn. The man secretly searches for the existence of Raya, making their relationship slowly strained because Jeffrey often travels out of town in an effort to find the woman.

The peak occurred about two years ago, when Jeffrey finally found out that Raya lived in Jakarta, in a house that was not too far from where they lived all this time.

Jeffrey is increasingly becoming, repeatedly trying to steal the opportunity to meet Raya and her son without Sera's knowledge. It made Sera furious, so he had to mobilize a lot of people just to make sure Jeffrey could not launch his intention.

But Sera's actions actually make Jeffrey angry, the man even said it was evil because he had tried to separate a child from his own biological father.

In fact, Sera did that to protect their little family. So that their happy little family could remain intact, and Baskara did not lose his father.

But in Jeffrey's eyes, does Sera look evil?

Well then, what's wrong if Sera turns out to be evil, according to what Jeffrey thinks of her?

"The child is not wrong,"

Sera nodded, agreeing with Jeffrey's words that came out after a long time they just fell silent and sat opposite each other in the living room.

"The child is not wrong, you are wrong." Finally, Sera was willing to also open her voice. Jeffrey stared flat, as he moved to link his hands together on his lap and straighten his back which was originally leaning on the sofa while hearing Jeffrey blabbering.

"You made him come into the world, from the womb of a mother who never wanted his presence." Sera's voice was so calm, like a stream of undulating water that could even make many people drown.

"The boy had a mental breakdown because his mother had never behaved as a mother, and I was just trying to help him to ease the anxiety he had with Abraham's help. So, where's my fault?"

"The position doesn't have to be this much, Sera!" Jeffrey raised his voice.

"I'm not a doctor," while Sera still maintained her tone remained graceful and calm. "You should ask Abraham why he gave me such a dose of medicine, not even getting angry at me."

"After all, you never really know what the kid is like, Jeff. So how do you know if the medicine does not meet your needs?"

"That's because you never gave me a chance to meet him!"

"And acknowledge himself as his father?" Sera released the link of her hand, slightly advancing her body to stare at Jeffrey more clearly. "You think that kid would thank you if you showed up in front of him now? You think he'll cry because the figure he's been looking for turns out to be the same person he called Om, and as far as he knows he's the father of his own best friend?"

"Acknowledging yourself as his father will only make his friendship and Baskara destroyed. Oh, not just that. You're gonna lose them both, Jeff. In the end, you'll get nothing."

"For God's sake, Sera!" Jeffrey rubbed his face rough a few times. "I just want you to give me permission to meet him, so I can monitor what his life has been like! I never said I would claim to be his father!"

"For so long you have put so many people in his home and on campus, that I have not had the opportunity to monitor him at close range. You're that selfish, Sera."

"All I do for Baskara,"

"Stop make Baskara an excuse!" sergeant Jeffrey. His eyes began to turn red, holding back the anger that he had long wanted to let spill. "You did all this to fulfill your ambitions about a happy family. You're just trying to lie to yourself by making people believe that we're okay!"

"You asked to be saved that night," Sera tried to refrain from being provoked by emotions. His hands clutched together again, tightly until his long fingernails began to injure the back of his own hands. "You cry at my feet, ask me not to go away because you said you didn't intentionally do it all to Raya."

"Now, after I helped you keep your good name clean, you're saying I'm selfish?"

No one likes it when the mistakes that have passed are revealed again after so long. Likewise with Jeffrey who had begun to get fed up because Sera always used her mistakes to make her stay on the woman's side until now.

Jeffrey wants to end the guilt he has, both to Sera and to Raya. He just did not know where to start, and Sera always acted as if she did not want to let him escape the guilt that was increasingly agonizing.

Jeffrey's wish is simple. He just wanted to pay a little attention to Fabian to make the boy not feel too lonely. But apparently, that simple desire seemed so difficult to be able to Sera grant.

"OK," Jeffrey finally gave up after knowing there would be no solution from their chat tonight. "I'm not gonna ask you to let me see Fabian. But please, tell Abraham to stop prescribing this drug to Fabian. I can't see my son suffering from those fucking drugs."

Then Jeffrey got up from his seat after grabbing the medicine bottle on the table and hurting him again. Jeffrey then walked away from Sera, climbing one by one the stairs while thinking of other efforts to send Fabian and Raya to another place far from Sera's reach.

Yes, if he cannot meet Fabian and show his responsibility as a father as long as the child is still living in Indonesia, then Jeffrey will do his best to keep Fabian away from Sera, for the safety of the child.

In the living room, Sera was reluctant to move even after nearly fifteen minutes of Jeffrey's departure. Many times he drew and exhaled slowly to calm the turmoil within him.

Until then, the sound of Baskara so softly greeted his sense of hearing.

Sera raised her head, and found Baskara standing on the threshold of the boundary of the living room. Through the glare of her eyes, Sera knew that her son was in a semi-conscious state of the influence of alcohol.

"Who are you going home with?" asked Sera softly, he also slowly got up and approached Baskara.

"Taxi's up." The smell of alcohol emanating from the side of Baskara's lips as the young man answered his question felt so piercing into the sense of smell. However, as a mother, Sera ignored the pungent scent and chose to lead Baskara up to her room.

The body of his son's bongsor increasingly feels heavy when Sera feels Baskara's consciousness is thinning. Then before their steps reached the last rung of the stairs, Sera felt her chest as if she had been hit by hundreds of knives at the same time as Baskara half-consciously muttered softly as she stared at meu towards her.

He said, "Mama and Papa are not okay, right?" then the young man's lips clenched along with his eyes which also followed closed. Baskara falls in the arms of Sera, who cries out for nothing for failing to create a happy family for her only son.

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