You're My Antidote
May it?

Rani never thought sleeping without the King by her side would feel this way. He slept alone for twenty-five years of his life.

It had been almost a week the King had left and during that time the man had only given him news upon landing safely. And the following days his phone went silent with no incoming messages or calls from the man occupying his heart.

It turns out that even though he and the King have expressed each other's feelings, it does not necessarily make their relationship like a couple who love each other in general.

Either because the King is a stiff man or what. Their relationship is the same as it was before marriage. Before we know each other's feelings. Only the King's attitude felt softer even though it still seemed indifferent. Also the man who occasionally kisses and hugs her who is the difference in the progress of their relationship. The rest, it all feels the same. The king is more focused on work both at the office and at home.

"If the King's brother has another nightmare, how about it?" rani's murmur that never could close his eyes. Hugging the bolster commonly used by the King in order to feel the presence of the man and change positions several times to find a comfortable position. But it didn't produce results either.

Although his sleep and the King did not embrace each other. Although their sleep is still separated. But that does not mean every night Rani will not wake up when the King awakens with breathless breath. The nightmare that King never told me what the contents of the dream that could make an ordinary King look gallant could look so weak like that.

But more and more days, Rani can see the dream that the King is experiencing is not so bad. He could tell the difference when he first saw the King wake up from a nightmare, the man looked very chaotic. A deathly pale face and cold sweat soaked the face. Now the King only looks surprised if he wakes up from a dream. Stay with breath.

A few weeks of sleeping together, can make Rani understand. The king just needs a hug instead of asking the man why. As if it had become a routine. The king would immediately embrace her once awakened from the dream.

They still need a long time to get used to each other's presence. To look like any other normal couple. As a woman, Rani also wants to be treated with romance and affection.

Rani touches her hot cheek just by imagining the King treating her with affection. He hugged the bolster with anxiety and rolled around misbehaving. I don't know what time he really fell asleep.

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Weekends make Rani want to stay longer in the dream. He forgot that he was at home now in-law.

As soon as he was about to raise the blanket to cover his ears as soon as the alarm went off, he felt something strange coiling around his stomach. Something she felt for the first time after marriage. When he glanced down with eyes that still felt heavy, he saw an arm. And from the masculine scent she memorized, she knew the one who was hugging her from behind this was her husband.

With a slow movement, he turned his body and his smile was engraved the moment he found the handsome face of the sleeping King.

Still in disbelief, Rani poked her husband's cheek with her index finger several times. Switching on the nose bangir that he tapped using the thumb and index finger by holding amused. Lastly he needs the eyelids of the husband, where he can know if the man who is the object of it is not asleep, see the eyeball behind it that moves.

"Are you sure you're not dreaming?"

Rani laughed softly as soon as the King's eyelids opened. She hugged the man who made her miss it. "Welcome home, my husband" she said nervously as she said.

The king returned his embrace. A kiss he got on his forehead long enough.

"What time does the King come home?" her tanyanya kept her head away to be able to look into the sharp eyes that she longed for. "Why doesn't Raja tell me, so Rani can pick him up? Shouldn't the King's flight be noon? how is it home?"

Rani knows because she booked a round-trip ticket for the King and the man's personal assistant that she never knew what she looked like. The king only said the man named Moses was only working behind the scenes when the King needed him.

"A woman shouldn't have picked up her man. Because that should be my job." Her husband brought his head back to lean on his chest. "And would you rather I go home later in the day? I have missed you so much."

Rani is convinced that she is dreaming. Because the King he knew could not have said so sweetly.

"I took the first flight today. Because yesterday we didn't get tickets. Everything's full."

Rani rubs her face in the field of the husband. Clench their arms and say. "Rani also misses the King very much."

"Now we take a shower, then breakfast. Before mom came and thought we were still sleeping."

Rani nodded in agreement. They take turns to shower and come down together for breakfast. After breakfast, the King did not allow him to help Lintang's mother water the garden. The man said there was something to tell him.

"Why, brother?" the question was once the King placed it on the sofa in the room. While the man unpacked a small suitcase brought to Singapore and took the map inside.

"Recanalization?" ask Rani who does not know what medical report is in her hands. She thought badly that her husband was in a terrible pain that she did not know.

"I had a vasectomy a few years ago."

Rani who is still layman with the term the King mentioned more and more fold her forehead.

"Contr*permanent perception" said the short King who made Rani ooh ria. "Actually this method is not good for men under 30 years old. But since I didn't think about getting married and having children, I did. I don't want to be framed by a woman out there to conceive my son."

"Then?"

"The operation is running smoothly again. I paid a lot for the best urologist there. But we can only see if this surgery works after you're pregnant."

Rani's mouth was open to hear it. Hearing the word pregnant, he could not imagine the process. Is this the code that the King wants?

Rani cleared her throat and normalized her expression. "So the King does this so that there is no need to use protection when having sex with the ladies of the King?" there was discomfort as he said it. However imagining the King connecting with another woman is quite painful.

"I keep using the safety. It's just my attempt to prevent them from lying to me. And this..."

Again, the King gave a medical letter. Health examination results. But not Singapore, but a hospital in Jakarta. Looking from the date, it reminds Rani of the time when the King went hastily from the office and allowed her to come to the Shandika residence alone.

"I know my bad habit of sleeping with women might make you angry or even disgusted. And even if I'm wearing security, it doesn't mean I'm sure I'm clean. For that I dare not touch you."

Rani's chest warms. It was true what the King said to him at that moment. That he thought too much. More precisely, he felt less confident.

"Really, Ran. I could swear. Sleeping with you without being able to touch you makes me so tormented. Makes me not dare to hug you while sleeping just so as not to add to the torture for me."

Now it's not just his chest that's warming up. But both her eyes also heated up hearing the confession from her husband. The king seems to care about him so much.

"I just don't want to transmit the disease from the bad habits that I often do, to you. Not because you don't look attractive. You just don't know yourself."

"meaning?" tanyanya.

"I even have the urge to pry the eyes of the man who looks at you with interest." Rani shakes her head not understanding. "Come on Rani. You are so beautiful and any man will easily fall in love."

Rani cupped her own two cheeks with a shy smile. "May Rani feel confident now?"

The king chuckled amusedly. Bringing Rani in the arms. "of course. Why not trust yourself. You're the prettiest woman after mom."

Rani nodded in agreement instead of being offended. Because Ibu Lintang even still looks beautiful at the age of twilight.

"So.. Can it be tonight?" whispered the King in his ear makes him creep.

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Wooaahh long...