For A Husband Who Doesn't Love Me
63. Curious

Arya is seen focusing on reading when her son has fallen asleep. He did not even realize that he had read the book that Hidayat had given him almost half, and he was also unaware of Kirana's arrival from the hospital.

"Darling, what are you reading?" Ask Kirana astonished.

Arya kept focused. He did not heed his wife's question, but because she seemed to have entered into the book he was reading.

"Darling?"

"Huh?" Although he said it once, but Arya did not stop staring at his reading book.

"Darling?" Kirana started shaking Arya's shoulders.

"Astaghfirullah hal'azhiim, yes, dear?" Arya turned to Kirana who was looking at her in surprise.

"What did you read again?"

"Did? This... Emm..." Arya could only lift the book in her hand.

"Come? What's more important than everything? Usually you don't even give me a breath first after coming home from the hospital... You have it and are so anxious..." Omel Kirana's.

"This is a book about Zahrana and Ajiz, Yank... Sorry..." Clearly Arya with a face filled with guilt.

"Zahra?" Kirana. She took the book in Arya's hand hesitantly after seeing the nod of her husband's head. "Have you read it?"

"Yet. Just until Zahra chats with me..."

Kirana opened the pages of a book containing the real novel of Zahrana's story. "Who's writing this, honey?"

"Said Hidayat Zahra himself, but the last few episodes of Maira..."

"When did you get this book?"

"So Hidayat himself... Fitting again Zaim fussy, and he also who nimang Zaim to sleep soundly, Yank..." Answer Arya.

Kirana turned to her son who was asleep next to Arya. "You've been reading it for a long time?"

"Why?"

"I want to read it too..."

"Huh?" Arya. He turned nervous for a moment.

"Yes, honey, I'm curious... Can, right?"

"But-but..."

"What are you worried about, honey?" Kirana asked suspiciously.

"Eh?"

"It's about the deceased and the deceased, right?"

"Yes, but..."

"If your past with the house is in it, it won't do anything, honey... I just want to know how Zahrana became a wife who loved her husband so much during his life... Um, Hidayat also told me that Zahrana herself is the type of woman she wants to make a wife if Zahrana is not her biological sister..." Kirana convinces Arya not to doubt herself.

"Dear what?"

Kirana smiled. He held Arya's hand as if calming. "I'm not mad if I know how you feel about Zahra, honey... Naturally, she was the perfect woman in the eyes of many men to be made a wife, and the lucky late bang Ajiz got herself... I also do not laugh at you, of course, if you have failed in trying to get his heart... By Allah, I want to read about Zahrana's life... I know him well even though we didn't know each other for long... She's a role model for any woman, and I want to learn like her... Not just from Hidayat's story, but I saw for myself the sincerity in him..."

Arya smile. "Thank you, honey..."

"I want to read..."

"Can, read..." Anguk Arya's.

"Later, when you're done..."

"Why is that?"

"It's not so, honey..."

"Yes, I get it..." Cut Kirana. "Alhamdulillah said my doctor was just the common cold, and it didn't matter if Zaim suckled me... Later if it goes ashar time, I'll stop you..."

Arya smiled, then kissed Kirana's forehead for so long. "Thank you, honey... I really want to read it... Their story is so sweet, romantic, and deserves to be recognized as the perfect couple..."

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Azan Ashar makes Arya stop her reading before Kirana comes calling. His eyes looked red and slightly watery, even his nose also felt heavy by itself.

"I'm going to the mosque, Yank..." Pamit Arya while putting the book on her bedside table.

"Have you read it?" Kirana looked at him expectantly.

"Yet. It's a long way, Yank..."

"But just spit?"

"Zahra sneaky... She hid her family problems from her husband, along with the calamity that befell her husband at the time... And just now I read, he hid his illness from everyone including Hidayat... Last time on set, he lied to us if he wanted to go to the bookstore... She went to the hospital that day to find out why her stomach hurts so much, Yank..." Answer Arya limp.

"Oh my God, I'm curious..." Kirana Mumbled.

"I can't read it fast, Yank... I even repeated the reading when I felt moved in his sentence, because by the time I read, I felt it was very real happening in front of my own eyes..." Clearly Arya looks upset with her own feelings.

"I understand, Honey... It's okay, I'll wait patiently... Zaim is also awake, and fortunately not fussy... You leave, I will pray too..."

Arya nodded and prepared to go to the mosque.

After Arya left for the mosque, Kirana glanced at the book on the table. He took a deep breath and raised his son who was playing alone on the bed.

"God, Mama's son is very smart... Zaim Mama is not fussy, even laughing..." Kirana teased the baby who was laughing more and more in her lap.

"Honey to play first, yeah... Zaim Mama don't cry... Mama wants to pray ashar, yes, son shaleh Mama papa..." Persuade Kirana while putting baby Zaim back on the mattress, then he gives a baby bite game in the form of watermelon fruit that is chewy-washed like jelly.

As if he was used to praying, the baby was not fussy at all. He is very cool to bite the game given Kirana while babbling with baby language that can not be understood by adults.

Kirana finished praying and praying, Arya soon returned from the mosque.

"Have you taken your medicine, honey?" Arya asked as she kissed Kirana on the forehead.

"In a moment, my dear... I just finished praying. Do you want to eat or drink something?"

"Emmm, you may, Yank... Kapucino's cold, what food there is, Yank..."

"Well, I'll take Zaim for a second..."

"Yes, honey..."

Kirana walked away from Arya and Zaim towards the kitchen, while Arya lay facing the tiny baby looking at her laughing.

"Papa Anteng just now... It was so fussy, why, hmm?" Arya said while peeping her child's cheeks repeatedly, and made the child laugh even more.

Before long Kirana came carrying a tray containing a glass of cold kapucino and a plate of bread. "You want to read on, Yank...?"

"Yes, honey, it's okay, right?"

"It's okay, you're also free... I can't wait to read it too... After all, I was curious... I put this on the balcony, yeah..."

"Yes, honey, thank you..." Arya answered following.

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