You're My Antidote
Akad

"Sister-in-law!"

Rani just returned to the ballroom after driving mother and sister home until the door to go home when Maira called and waved at him. It was strange to hear Maira calling him that. It will take a while to get used to his current status.

"So my brother the King has a room access card."

Rani receives a hotel room card nervously after Maira approaches. A different room card to the room he occupied last night.

Circulating his view, Rani did not discover the existence of the King.

He stared at the complicated feeling of the cards in his hand. There was a feeling of reluctance to enter the room he was going to occupy with the King before tomorrow they set out on their honeymoon. Although he was sure the King could not mess with him. But still. One room with a man for the first time made his heart go crazy.

"Sister King has gone up first." added Maira like know what he was looking for. "I want to go home too. So then.. Have fun." Maira blinked her eyes flirtatiously and waved before walking towards Maina who was waiting near her parents.

The ballroom had started to quiet down after the event was over an hour ago. Only the King's parents were left, also Om Rafi and his wife who were talking to an acquaintance of theirs.

"Lho, Rani's still here, son?" ibu Lintang first realized his existence when he approached to leave. He wanted to change clothes.

Not that his clothes are uncomfortable. It is precisely the dress that she wears is very comfortable even though it looks heavy. Because the King's distant cousin used soft and light materials. It'll only be more comfortable if he wears his casual clothes.

"It's just going to the room, mah." Lintang's mother did ask him to call 'mama' just like the King. Something he could not refuse again.

"That's there. Rest. You must be tired from morning."

Rani nodded and paid a farewell to the others as well.

He stepped foot into the elevator. He read*as the chest cloth as his heart thumped faster. Even the sound of the door opening as he opened it with an access card made him tiptoe in shock.

Rani gulped her saliva with great difficulty before venturing into the president suit's room.

The first thing he found was a candle lined with no light.

Increasingly, rose petals scattered around the bed where the King slept. Looks like all the flowers on the king's bed dropped all. Because usually such flowers will be arranged beautifully on the wedding bed, right?

Her cheeks met when she thought she was now her bride. But at least he could breathe a sigh of relief watching the King fall asleep. There was no need to feel awkward with that man in a room like this.

Although they often go out of town and stay together. But not once did he enter the room where the King was staying.

Rani stared intensely at the face that was sleeping on her back with that slumber. Makes him wonder, did the King not sleep last night until he could sleep in a very short time?

He approached carefully. Help remove socks that have not been separated all from the King's feet. He also took off a tie that still hung loosely around the man's neck.

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Rani did not dare to climb the King's bed. So he chose to lie down a sofa that is quite comfortable and can accommodate his small body.

Perhaps due to not getting used to napping, Rani could not close her eyes after two hours had passed. He couldn't sleep well last night either.

Haikal: I'm sorry Ran, papa was sick this morning, so I had to change her meeting.

Haikal: Even though I don't like your husband, he's the king. But I still pray for your happiness.

Haikal: Don't hesitate to tell me that the king hurt you. Let me repay him.

Haikal: Even though you are already the wife of people. We're still gonna be friends, aren't we, Ran?

Her eyes were hot and her eyes blurred as she read the last message from her best friend.

Rani knows the reason Haikal is absent from her marriage is not what the man said he was. More than anyone, Rani knows, Haikal is not the one who will pretend to be happy when his own heart does not feel the same way.

Haikal is not good at hiding his own feelings. And Rani also does not not know if the man likes it.

Although he did not have the same feelings as Haikal. But that's not why he pretended to be blind. Haikal's parents don't like it if their son is still in touch with his past people at the orphanage. So it is certain that their relationship will not go well if the Haikal family alone did not like it from the beginning.

Rani dispels the clear that will fall by raising her head and twitching quickly. He wrote a reply if they would always be friends no matter what. He also advised Haikal not to worry about him anymore.

He came out of his chat room with Haikal and switched another message from Adit's mother.

Rani already knows that Adit's mother will not come to her wedding. At their meeting last time, Adit's mother had said she would go abroad to accompany her husband. For that mother Adit gave her a wedding gift early.

The message from Mother Adit contains congratulations and prayers. He also promised to invite him and the King to dinner together upon his return from abroad later.

The movement on the bed caught Rani's attention. He approached because the King looked restless in his sleep.

The man's face paled with a forehead filled with sweat. Rani checks the air conditioner that the temperature is cold enough, and she feels it.

After careful attention, the King did not look like a person who was uncomfortable because of the heat. His frowning eyebrows and forehead and his frightened facial expression, made Rani guess if the man was having a bad dream.

Now the King's head even looked to the right and left increasingly look agitated.

With hesitation, Rani sat beside the King's waist. He touched the King's shoulder and shook it. "Sister?" call lirih. "Sister King!" call him louder as the King looks more and more frightened. His face grew pale and there were tears tucked away in the two tails of the man's eyes. "Sir King wake up!"

The king immediately opened his eyes wide. Sit up and hug him.

The startled Rani was suddenly hugged, about to push the man away. But feeling the King's disordered breath and the King's very tight embrace, He undoes his intentions and leaves their position as such until the King calms down.

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