When Love Should Determine
Chapter 106

Larissa again underwent surgical removal of a benign tumor at ***********. And as the promise that has been said before, Hamzah actually accompanied and cared for Larissa during the healing period.

Larissa felt touched by the care and affection from him. The anger within him slowly began to disappear.

Larissa also asked the reason why Hamzah was still being kind and even wanted to take care of her. All this time he has been bad towards her.

Hamzah replies that he is only doing his duty, but Larissa does not believe him and continues to urge him to tell the real reason. Finally Hamzah reveals the real reason that he still loves Larissa and wants to give their marriage a chance.

Hearing her husband's honest expression, a single tear fell on Larissa's smooth cheek. "Is that how much you love me?" He saw the husband's black eyeballs. But all he saw was honesty there.

"You'll never understand how much I love you. But one thing you should know, you're everything to me."

Larissa was touched by the love of her husband. During her life together, she never found her husband expressing love for her. "Do you really mean what you say?" he asked.

Hamzah clasped Larissa's fingers. "I swear on God! after God, you're the only one I love."

Larissa's lips trembled, unable to withstand the overflow of feelings. "I love you too, Entik. Really, I don't want to be separated from you."

They also hugged each other in tears. "I'm sorry, Entik. Forgive all my mistakes" said Larissa in tears. His head was buried in Hamzah's arms and his hands tightly hugged his body as if he did not want to be released.

"I'm the one who should be apologizing to you. Forgive me for hurting your heart so often" replied Hamzah. He did the same with Larissa.

Satisfied spilling feelings for each other, they slowly took off a hug. "Do you want to give me one more chance to fix everything" asked Hamzah.

Larissa nodded confidently. "Yes, Entik, I want to!"

Hamzah grabbed Larissa's hand and kissed her long enough. "Be by my side no matter what. Don't ever think about leaving me again."

"No, Entik. I'll never leave you."

Hamzah looked at Larissa's sad face. "Will you promise me that?."

"Yes, I promise!."

That day love has torn down all ego and anger, and brought them back together.

"Oh yeah, there's something I want to talk to you about" Hamzah said after they regained control.

"What?."

"Today I got an offer from one of my friends to go in the room, are you okay if I stay?."

Damar is one of the techniques to catch fish in the high seas. The equipment used is a tiger trawler type net. The ship's crew usually numbered between twenty-five and thirty-five people. Arrive at noon and arrive in the morning.

Actually, nets with this type have been banned for use because they can damage nature. But in fact there are still many fishermen who use it on the grounds of more catches that can be obtained.

It has become a greedy human nature. They take from nature without caring about the preservation of nature.

Back to Hamzah and Larissa. Hamzah felt hard leaving his wife alone with his daughter. Moreover, the condition of Larissa at this time has not healed properly. That is why he did not immediately agree to invite his friend to join and chose to talk about it first with his wife. "So what do you think? Are you okay if I stay at sea?."

Larissa is silent, it feels so hard to say yes. "Wouldn't you go to mediocre sea?maybe a net or a net?."

Larissa was silent, although it was very hard to agree to her husband's wishes but she finally agreed too. "Alright, how good you are."

Hamzah could read from Larissa's facial features if she was too heavy to allow him to join the amber. He also tried to understand her. "I did this for our family, too. You know for yourself, right, that our finances are thinning right now?."

Larissa just kept quiet.

"If you mind, I won't go. But if you agree, then pray for me. Hopefully tomorrow my catch is good and can bring a lot of money for us."

For a moment Larissa thought about her husband's words, and finally she let go. "Go! My prayers are always with your steps."

"Thank you very much." Hamzah smiled with relief at his wife's words. "Take care of yourself as long as I'm not home."

Larissa answered her husband's words with a nod of her head. "Definitely! I'll take good care of myself."

Hamzah smiled with relief. "Then get some rest now! I want to go out for a while to meet my friend to agree to his invitation and ask when to leave, huh?."

"Yes!" answer Larissa briefly. She also laid her body with the help of her husband. A warm kiss from the husband landed on the forehead.

"Do you want me to buy something when I get home?" asked Hamzah before leaving.

"No, I don't want anything" he replied, shaking his head.

"Alright then, I'm leaving now. You just rest at home."

Larissa nodded, and Hamzah disappeared behind the door.

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It did not feel like a week had Hamzah gone to sea. So far everything has gone well. Hamzah always gets a good catch, while Larissa herself never complained of pain in the scarred area of surgery.

Feeling her body slightly improved, Larissa decided to join the money by selling noodles and ice candles at her daughter's school. She is a hard working woman. Just staying at home and doing nothing makes his joints hurt.

"Entik, I want to sell noodles and ice candles at Zahra school. Do you want to give me permission to do it?" asked Larissa when Hamzah was home.

"But you haven't recovered yet?."

"I'm fine, Entik, I've been feeling better. After all, I only sell brewed noodles. It's not a hard job, is it?."

"But you still need a lot of rest, Encus. I don't want your condition back down."

"Trust me, Entik, I'm fine. This job won't fuel a lot of energy. You'll know for yourself that I can never be silent. My body even hurts when all day just sleeps and has no activities."

Although he had told the reason but Hamzah still disagreed. He doesn't want anything to happen to his wife, especially when he's not home.

Larissa is stubborn. Although her husband had said his objections, he did not want to give up. "Come on, Entik, trust me. Nothing will happen to me later. I can wait for Zahra too, right?."

Because it continues to force finally Hamzah also agreed to the wishes of his wife. "Alright, you can sell brewed noodles at zahra school. But on one condition, you can't be exhausted. Let me make you ice candles later."

"Agreed!." Larissa smiled happily at her husband's approval. "Thank you for giving me permission. I love you."