EX-HUSBAND OBSESSION
By Daffa Ammira
Date: July 25, 2024
Ch. 2The man from the past


The figure that Sarah scolded only smiled slightly. He ignored the fact that she would hate him too.

"What are you doing here, Raditya?!" asked Sarah sarcastically, her face hardening.

"I just wanted to give you this...!" said the man named Raditya as he swung his steps towards Sarah and Marni, having previously taken off the loafers he was wearing, right next to Sarah's sandals. "From Kak Adit. He said he was sorry for divorcing Sarah. Also this is for the handsome Satria," he said while handing over a paper bag that contained nothing.

Sarah folded her arms across her chest, her face hardening with her eyes glinting sharply every time she heard her ex-husband's name uttered, no matter from whose mouth. Especially when the man's twin came in under the pretext of wanting to give something to their son. "Bring it back!" she commanded firmly while looking straight at the twenty-five-year-old man.

"Why, this is for Satria, not for you...!"

"I'm not your brother!" Sarah snapped angrily. Cutting off Raditya's words who was now only able to stand still with his eyes wide open as well as his mouth slightly open. "Bring back all those gifts! Satria doesn't need it all!" she argued while looking away to the left side.

Raditya smiled slightly at the woman who still reigned in his heart with a hardened face like this. A sign that the female hedgehog was starting to show her protection to someone she wanted to protect. "Yes... I'm sorry, Sar!" he pleaded sincerely.

Sarah closed her eyes briefly when she heard her name called by the man again. Because no matter what, their story was forced to end two years ago, just two months before she was forced to marry Aditya.

Her chest throbbed with pain when she heard the call again from Raditya's mouth. "Go home!" he commanded without looking at the man.

"I'll go home after you accept this!" said Raditya as he grabbed Sarah's right hand, then forcefully placed the paper bag which she was forced to hold in front of her chest.

"Already, no! Now go home!" pleaded Sarah, reluctant to linger with the man.

"Yes, I'm going home first, yes ... Assalamualaikum!" said Raditya self-consciously.

"Wa'alaikum salam!" Sarah replied softly. Her head was bowed deeply, preferring to stare at the closed paper bag rather than see Raditya's departure.

"Wa'alaikum salam!" Marni joined in the greeting a little louder, to which Raditya replied by flashing a polite smile at the woman.

"I'll leave Sarah and Satria, ma'am!" Raditya asked, flashing a sweet smile.

"Take it easy! They're both safe with me," Marni said, smiling politely.

Raditya nodded briefly. He looked once again at his beautiful ex who was still reluctant to look back at his face. He then smiled slightly, understanding that there was a possibility that Sarah might hate him as much as she hated her twin sister. He turned around and walked towards the exit, leaving the three of them behind.

Marni then patted Sarah lightly on the back, making her jump in surprise. "Yes, ma'am?" she asked in surprise.

"How long do you want to hate him? Didn't you say yourself that Raditya is different from Aditya," she said, questioning Sarah's defensive attitude.

"I don't know, Mom," Sarah said with her eyes darting far ahead. "For all I know, he's just as cowardly as his twin brother who can only hide under his mother's armpit!" she explained as the hateful look was clearly visible in her eyes.

Raditya, who was hiding behind the wall, was only able to let out a short breath with both shoulders drooping weakly, when he heard the honest narrative from the mouth of his former brother-in-law. He did admit that he and his twin were cowardly people, who could only hide under his mother's armpit, according to what Sarah said. With unsteady steps, she walked away from the place, heading for her car which she parked across the street.

"Don't be so hateful, kid! Because no matter what, their blood flows in her body! He's their bloodline and you can't break that bloodline, even if you use extreme means to break it!" Marni advised gently with a motherly smile.

Sarah then looked completely at the kind woman with her eyes beginning to blur again, where the tears were gathering at the corners of her eyes. "Then... what should I do, Mom? The moment he pronounced the word of divorce to me, since then neither I nor Satria want to have anything to do with him or the rest of his family anymore?" she asked in a tired tone. Her tears finally escaped as a single blink of an eye was made, as she recalled that terrible event, just a day after she gave birth to Satria.

"I understand how you feel, child." Marni comforted Sarah by pulling the woman into her arms.

Sarah then returned numb, she returned the hug tightly, until the paper bag was crushed between their bodies. But the woman didn't care, she just wanted to vent all her emotions every time she remembered all the treatment she received, both from her ex-husband, and from the man's family.

Marni was silent, she let Sarah vent all her emotions. Only a gentle stroke on her back showed that she really cared about both of them.

Sarah slowly released her embrace, as she felt a little more relieved after crying. "Sorry, Mom," she said pleadingly.

Marni looked at her with surprise that actually looked funny on the woman's round face.

"I'm sorry for crying and getting your clothes dirty with tears and ... that," she said softly at the end of the sentence while pointing at the woman's left shoulder.

Marni followed the direction of Sarah's hand, her laughter instantly breaking out when she found out what was the reason for Sarah's awkward face. But she immediately covered it with both hands, when they heard a loud cry coming from Satria's mouth.

The two of them then walked hurriedly towards the hulking baby, who was now raising his arms and legs while crying loudly, his face even turning red along with the loud crying sounds coming out of his mouth.

Sarah quickly removed the mosquito net covering her son's body and checked on him. She smiled when she found out why her son was crying so hard. "Did my son poop?" she asked amused. But she quickly cleaned up the poop her son had released with a wet tissue that was available beside the boy's body.

Marni chuckled a little at this, but a sigh of relief escaped her mouth. She was happy when she saw Sarah's smile every time she was with Satria.

***
"I'm off to work first, Mom!" Sarah said goodbye. She seemed to have finished bathing, as well as Satria who was now in her arms.

The handsome boy who inherited one hundred percent of his father's face, seemed to be blinking his clear eyes like water playfully.

"Yes, be careful on the road!" said Marni as she welcomed Satria into her arms. "Satria play with Grandma first! Satria's mom wants to work first, so she can buy a big house and a big car, and send Satria to the best school," she said, inviting the boy to talk, to which Satria only replied by salivating.

Both Marni and Sarah could only chuckle at the boy's funny behavior.

"Assalamualaikum!" Sarah said goodbye as she grabbed Marni's right hand for a kiss.

"Wa'alaikum salam!" Marni replied with a sweet smile.

She lifted her hand up, as if she was waving goodbye to her mother, right at the door.

Sarah left for work on foot, without looking back, where Marni now closed the door quietly, not forgetting to lock it from the inside.

"Bismillahirrahmanirrahim!" Sarah prayed briefly with her eyes closed for two seconds along with a deep breath to dispel the nervousness that suddenly attacked.

She resumed her steps towards the outside of Marni's yard, not forgetting to close the gate from the outside, then hooked a lock made of long nails on the wire next to it, so that the fence would not open.

With light steps, Sarah swung her steps towards the highway where night was now creeping up, just after the Maghrib prayer was completed. At the end of the road, many young people dressed neatly, like people who had just returned from congregational prayers, flocked to walk in the opposite direction to her.

"Sarah going to work, huh?" greeted a man who was in the group.

"Yes, excuse me!" said Sarah quickly, reluctant to linger on interacting with the man or all her friends, because she was not a girl yesterday afternoon anymore.

"Well... she ran away!" the man grumbled as he scratched the back of his neck, to which all of his friends laughed at his behavior.

"You're slow yourself, Rul! When Sarah was a virgin, you always said, later ... Later to propose to her. Eh ... just in time, she ended up getting proposed to by that guy from the city. Now that she's a widow, do you still want to move slowly?" urged Budi while putting his arm around Arul's shoulders who could only stare at Sarah's departure, where the woman now disappeared at the turn at the end of the alley.

Arul was only able to remain silent, because indeed what Budi said was true. "Ok deh, I'll move fast this time! For the sake of Sarah and Satria!" he determined, which was greeted happily by all his friends.

Meanwhile, Sarah could finally breathe a sigh of relief after staying away from the five men. She walked quickly again to get to the side of the highway, where the ojek she always rode was usually waiting.

Right in front of the alley, on the side of the highway, after Arul and his friends turned around, Sarah's hand was pulled by someone quickly from inside the car door that opened suddenly. Before she could resist, the person immediately pulled her strongly into a black van, then took the woman away from that place.



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