You're My Antidote
Disturbances

It's not just the domestic assistants that are being comforted. But Rani is also not allowed to work for one week.

Adventuring in the search for household rewards. The new things Rani feels.

Rani understood the reason their domestic assistants were being comforted. She also began to understand the code her husband gave her.

He must understand when the King said he would have lunch at home and asked Rani to prepare a hot dish. Or when the King asked him to prepare a bathtub warmly when the man came home from work. Or when the morning King asked to cook with affection. Likewise with watching, welcoming guests and the most embarrassing Rani is swimming. Rani was afraid that anyone would see their activities in the water. Although it is impossible for their home security guards to come there. But still Rani was worried, afraid that there were uninvited guests who came.

The king didn't let go once Rani said she wasn't sick anymore. He could only rest when the King was in the office. If her husband is at home, the King always invites her to deal with the pretext of seeking reward.

That afternoon as he was relaxing watching television half sleepily, the bell rang.

He knew it wasn't the king. Because the man had not long left for the office after taking his lunch meal. And it is also impossible for the King to ring the Bell when the man has his own key.

With a footstep, Rani headed for the front door that felt very far for her tired and sleepy body. He regretted that the King built such a vast house. It would be easier if their home was simple.

"Mama?" the thrill was to open the door and find Lintang's mother standing by carrying a pepperbag with the name of a restaurant that the King often visited. He took Lintang's right hand and kissed her solemnly. "Your mom didn't say she wanted to come here. Rani so can't prepare anything."

"It's okay dear." the twilight woman stroked her head wrapped in an instant hijab that she immediately wore when she heard Bell earlier. "Yesterday Maira played home. He said you haven't been in the office for a week. Mama's worried you're fucked with the king."

Rani grimaced in heart. It was done by the King. But the difference is not the violence that Latitude's mother imagined. He was tortured with pleasure.

"Sister King is good, same Rani." he invited his mother-in-law to enter the house. He sat in the family room.

"But you're so skinny? is there no domestic assistant? did the King force you to clean a house this big by yourself? is that why you didn't go to the office?"

Rani held the warm hand that caressed her cheek. "Sister King doesn't even let Rani cook. So how could you let Rani clean this house herself."

Rani wasn't lying. Because during this one week, the King always ordered their meals from outside. Only in the morning sometimes the King wants his cooking. The rest of the King always ordered it at a subscription restaurant. Not allowing Rani to be exhausted except in terms of serving the man.

Rani didn't dare say why she didn't enter the office. Besides being confused about how to say it, he was also embarrassed.

"Then where's your housekeeper?"

"They only work morning to evening. But they happen to be on leave, mah."

"The holidays? all?" Rani nodded. Assented. "Why did you allow them to take such a vacation together? at least leave one or two to clean."

"Sister King calls cleaning services every two days mah."

Rani ate all the dessert that Lintang's mother brought. They chatted spent the afternoon listening to the story of the mother Lintang in the household.

From the sad story when the mother of Lintang who had been looking forward to a baby but had to let go of losing her future baby because of her own carelessness. Mama Lintang even cried and looked in great pain. It was as if the story had just happened yesterday.

Rani also just found out that Lintang's mother had married another man before marrying Rasya, who is also a widower who has two children. Who turned out to be a former lover of Latang's teenage mother.

Sometimes Rani laughs when she tells her husband's spoiled attitude. "Mas Rasya was spoiled once with his mother. Maybe it's because he only lives with single parents and there's no father figure that should teach if a man should be independent."

Rani knows a little about the Shandika family. A famous writer wrote a biography of the Shandika family. Of course, with permission from her husband's family.

The book contains the story of Karina's mother who raised her three children without a husband who died in an accident when the woman was pregnant. Rasya is the youngest child born after his father died.

"We even broke up on the grounds that mama was spoiled and could not spoil Rasya's mas." mother Lintang looks beautiful when laughing with her eyes that form a crescent moon. "But after we got married, Rasya was a really good husband. His responsibility is beyond doubt. Very caring for us even seemed overprotective."

Seeing from the interaction of Lintang and Pak Rasya's mother at this time, Rani can still see the harmony of their family. It still looks so loving to each other.

"His father was the King who always scrambled to sleep in the lap of his mother. And such moments are precisely what make mama miss her papa Raja."

Rani sighed when she saw Lintang's mother crying again. He approached and hugged the trembling twilight body.

"Mama knows, even though the King never cries. He never asked his parents. But he must have missed them so much. Or even the King still hurts if he remembers."

After hearing that, the shadow of the King who every night had a nightmare flashed. What dream did the King have to do with his biological parents?

The swift footsteps that sounded made the two women who were still hugging each other turn to the source of the voice. The face of the spirit of the King that some days Rani saw became their goal. But at once the face turned lethargic with a sluggish shoulder. Making Rani hold her laughter desperately.

"Mama why is she here?" the man loosened the tie that was still worn. Take off the suit and just attach it to the head of the sofa. Dropped down next to Rani and dropped her forehead on her little boat. "Why didn't you tell me Mama's here?" whispers from the King made Rani's defense break down and laugh.

She knows what her husband thinks. The king asked him to prepare a meal in the family room. But Rani had even forgotten since the arrival of Lintang's mother and listened to the woman tell her story. She forgot to tell her husband.

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