We are Not Honey
Chapter 21. Wounds of Eliana's Past

Eliana looked at her daughter-in-law with a raging heart. Tears of sadness continued to slide from his netra. Today, Zahra said something that made her heart full of guilt. From the beginning, he had to disapprove of Riyan's wish to marry Zahra, for fear that something like this would happen. But look now, everything he was worried about was really happening.

Zahra chose to return to the orphanage, and let her son go abroad with his other daughter-in-law.

"From the beginning, I didn't approve of your desire to marry her. Let her meet a good man who is truly sincere in love, but you insist and insist on marrying her. And now look at what you gave her. We gave him a second wound." Lirih Kenan was disappointed. He looked at his son who was resting before Eliana.

"You're too greedy." Kenan said again.

"Riyan loves him." Said Riyan slowly however, can be heard clearly by both parents. "Could you ask him to stay in this house?" Petunya again.

Plakkkp....

The second time after being in the hospital a few weeks ago, the slap landed on Riyan's cheek. However, the difference this time Eliana did it.

"Mom's really disappointed in you. Let's just get out of here, go find a life you think is good."

Eliana got up from the sofa she was sitting on, and stepped out of her room. Leaving the two men he loved dearly, silent in the luxurious room.

The stairs are the goal. He wanted to meet the girl who had been injured by his son who might be currently packing his personal belongings.

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"Can't I ask you to stay here even if Riyan is leaving?" Eliana asked after entering the room of Riyan and Zahra.

The girl in the room, immediately took off the clothes she was putting in the suitcase, then looked at her mother-in-law with a sweet smile. I don't know how many times that sentence he heard coming out of the mouth of his mother-in-law. Even before tonight, her mother-in-law always said the same sentence.

"Can't you still be Mom's son, even if that fool is no longer here?" Ask Eliana again.

The sweet smile on Zahra's lips, turned into laughter from hearing the stupid word spoken by her mother-in-law.

"Mom, if Zahra stays here, Ms. Meisya will be further and further away from this family. He also deserves the same affection from Mom and Dad." Answer Zahra.

Seeing her mother-in-law sitting on her bed, Zahra got up from the floor, then stepped into the bed where her mother-in-law was and sat there. Grabbing the good woman's hand, then grasping tightly.

"If God calls you first, how do you explain to Rayan there, if you're hurt here?" Eliana looked at Zahra with tears beginning to fall on her cheeks. Her memory was again on her son who had left. Unfortunately, the boy did not ask for much, he just wanted his family to still love Zahra, even though he was no longer here.

"Then let Zahra explain to him. Zahra herself will tell you how lucky Zahra is to have met this wonderful family." Answer Zahra. His hands outstretched, then rubbed his mother-in-law's cheeks overtime.

Eliana grabbed the body of her daughter-in-law, then hugged her very tightly and cried there. The guilt further made his chest tight.

Zahra can't do anything. Just gently rubbed her mother-in-law's back, and kept saying that she was fine.

A little while later, the young man who had been in the other room of this house, was already standing at the door of the room.

Seeing her son standing at the door of the room, Eliana immediately got up from the bed and said goodbye to her daughter-in-law. After that, he again stepped out of the room without caring for his son who continued to look at him full of pleas.

Disappointed at what happened. He did not expect, the thing that someone once did to him, back done by his own son. Sick, of course sick. He knows, right now Zahra is just pretending to be okay, because he does not want to make the problem more complicated. However, he knew how ill it would be to be treated like that by such a believer. In the past, the man had not been able to marry her, but it took quite a long time for her to heal the wounds of that betrayal.

After closing the room door, Riyan stepped towards the bed where Zahra was sitting. Staring at his wife's beautiful face with a guilty heart. Zahra's thin lips were smiling sweetly at her to cover up all the wounds, however, the eyes full of sadness his wife was completely unable to cover.

"I don't know how to apologize to you anymore, Ra." Riyan stood in front of Zahra with his eyes open.

Zahra looked up, then smiled again.

"There's nothing to forgive, Mom. See for yourself, I'm fine. And more importantly, I can get back to work comfortably in the hospital after you're gone." Answer chuckles. "Doctor Kean called me, and asked me to go back to work." Reciprocity.

"Ra, after this find a good man. A much better man than me. And prove to me that this fool, that you will be happy even without me." Riyan..

"Of course." Answer Zahra. A small laugh came back from Zahra's lips. "I want to continue my work. Tomorrow I'll take you to the parlor, right?" Ask.

Riyan nodded..

"Two days." Zahra said back to make sure with a smile as if the separation between the two would never happen, and Riyan again nodded with the currency began to glaze over.

Unwilling to dissolve in the grief, and shed tears in front of Riyan, Zahra immediately got out of bed, then sit back on the carpeted floor and resume her pending work.