EL (EN) Dless Love
Eduard finally chose

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Eduard walked slowly into the courtyard of the magnificent house of the father-in-law, the house that witnessed his wife grow up, became a mature woman.

The house where she rapes every time they go on a date, and the place where she takes Elisha out and unites with him as he should.

The house he didn't expect would come back to make him do the same as a year ago, when he brought the girl out of here.

Ed will open the main door of this large house, when the tail of his eyes can catch the silhouette of the shadow he memorized outside his head is standing on the edge of the pool, with a position behind him.

This man decided to walk up to the figure who seemed to be on the phone. Ed exhaled, for some reason he felt a different sense of relief. Seeing that figure every organ of his body reacted. Her heart was still pounding hard, the feeling of wanting to hug the body, inducing the scent of hair that came from the girl's favorite vanilla-flavored shampoo. How could he not recognize this feeling? How could people suspect his already clear heart was imprinted for just one heart?

He loved Elisha, with all his heart.

If anyone asks who he loves, of course he will firmly answer without thinking. Elisa Santos.

But, Eleasha was an exception. Because Eleasha can firmly call her soul mate even though not her life partner. Born on the same day, despite the intervening hours and from different wombs, they grew up together because Ed had to lose the mother who gave birth to him when he was born. Eduard was raised by Eleasha's grandparents because of his father's job to live abroad.

They had no blood relation at all, their families only lived next door. Ed's parents had to wait ten years to get a child, the age of the mother was too risky to give birth. Turns around with a mama from El who is too young to have children. But the similarity is that the two mothers are unwilling to give up, not to step back or be selfish by eliminating the chance of their baby greeting the world in order to save their own lives. Both keep betting their lives in the delivery room to give life to other creatures, in this case their flesh and blood.

Eleasha is not raised by her mother because of a teenage accident, and Eduard, who also cannot get the warmth of the mother, must sacrifice his life to give birth to her.

They both grew up like twins. Abundant with the same affection without ever being distinguished. So how could Ed not care about Eleasha? How could he not take responsibility for the girl's life? Especially after opa and oma died.

The man's steps stopped when his ears could hear Elisha's conversation with the person across the phone, he had no intention of eavesdropping. But it actually looks like destiny.

"I don't want to know, anyway next you have to make him understand the situation. You want to do whatever, I don't care. Which obviously made him realize that....."

Elisha could not continue his words as, the phone in his hand had moved on the man who was currently staring at him sharply. That sharp gaze, was definitely not a gaze that he recognized.

"What does that mean?"

Elisha was still silent with a locked look at the man who had just thrown a question at him. It's not a question of asking her where she is, or maybe her feelings.

"You... tell people to harm El?"

Elisha bit the inside of his mouth, an attempt not to spurt a turbulent fury in his chest all along. Trying not to cry in front of this man, the man who until the last moment was completely unwilling to be on his side.

"Lisa's aircrew!"

"If so, why? What do you want?" Elisha clenched his hands tightly, this was the first time Eduard raised his tone of voice while talking to him. Where did the figure of the meek man he loved go? And all this happened because of El, El and always El.

"I love you, I love you. You should know that!"

Elisha gasped, not expecting to receive a declaration of love at all.

"I have never betrayed our marriage, my love remains intact for you, never shared with anyone. Including El if that's what you're afraid of"

Elisha snorted, speaking of the whole, Doesn't that also include time and presence? This girl wants to question Ed's time and presence when he needs to.

"This man, this man standing before you, would never be what he is today if it were not for the same opa oma. You know that, right? Those two guys are El?"

Elisha's tears fell, without warning drenching his white cheeks. That fact why did he forget?

"Have I been too selfish all this time? Was I too bad all this time? I'm sorry if you feel that way Lis, I'm sorry"

Elisha stepped forward, narrowing the distance between the two of them. The girl reached out to wipe the clear crystals that came out of the man's eyes that made Ed's cheeks wet like his cheeks.

"I've repeatedly asked you to understand, I repeatedly ask you to be patient for my responsibility to El" Ed carried his free hand to hold Elisha's hand still on his cheek.

"You're Lisa, for me it's just you"

Elisha was sobbing, feeling a great pain in his heart. This statement of love should make her happy, but why is it so painful?

"Who did I say chose your marriage because of the similarity of your name to El? Who said I picked you because at first glance you look like El? Who said you were just a shadow of El?"

Ed pulled Elisha's body, clinging to his body. The man lowered his head to align their faces "just so many say that our faces are very similar, people say it's a soul mate"

The man's fingers down from the girl's brown hair, the wide forehead on which he landed a kiss, his two favorite eyes which since his fingers began to move were already closed, closed, the sharp nose that is very fitting for that beautiful face, the smooth cheeks of Elisha and finally the heart-shaped lips that are always a opium for him.

Ed closed his eyes, took a breath and then exhaled. "From the beginning we met, from the beginning I knew your nickname, I kept calling you Lisa. Not because El's name is just for Eleasha, but because I'm the only one who calls you Lisa. You could be El for papa, for Kayden or Jerome, but Lisa's only for me."

Elisha opened his eyes, and his gaze was immediately locked with eyes tending to be narrow with the brown iris of the man who was currently holding his hand, as well as his waist.

"Even if I never thought you were anyone's shadow. El stays El and you stay Lisa. The only girl I tied up with the wedding vows, which I proudly pinned down Santoso surname, was you and not that Eleasha you were jealous of"

Elisha clenched his hand which was in Ed's grasp, he felt slapped in plain sight with the words of this man who was his status as her husband.

"Not so long ago El had an accident, he entered the abyss and was not alone but also with Kayden." The man stopped talking when he saw his wife's enlarged eyes, Elisha was clearly shocked by what he said. And Ed hates that. Seeing the reaction of the wife made this man more sure with the suspicion that appeared in his heart.

"El almost died if Kayden didn't help, and I hope it wasn't caused by you"

Elisha pranks "meaning? You're accusing me of cheating on Eleasha?"

"Then please explain who you just called? What do you mean when you talk to the guy on the phone?"

Elisha took a few steps back, staring at the man who was also looking at him intensely. Waiting for an answer from him. The girl was all to herself why would Eduard have to hear that?

"A. I was. no. I meant to hurt him..."

Ed smiled, but the man's eyes were full of wounds. He nodded slowly then turned around, walking away from Elisha. For him it was enough, there was nothing to explain anymore.

Elisha stared at the wide back of the most comfortable place to wake up slowly away from him. The girl pinched her trembling lips. His sobs came loose as the back was gone from his sight. In the end the man gave her the answer she had always wanted. Eduard finally chose, and it wasn't him.

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