Missing In The Heart
Chapters 10.Forced to Stay

The sky was still gloomy, several times lightning rang out. The rain was still going on but not too heavy as before, only a small drizzle remained.

Mahavir's watch has shown at 14:30.

30 Minutes passed after the funeral. The clothes worn by Rachel and Mahavir had dried up.

The journey home is still very far away. Until Mahavir decided to stop for a moment to fill their stomachs in a restaurant that looks simple.

"What do you want to eat?" Ask Mahavir.

"You alone, I'm not hungry"

"What time is it now? Last morning you only had breakfast bread, and that was not finished Rachel!! Eat a little." Mahavir.

"I don't usually eat in places like this" replied Rachel. His gaze took a sharp look to pay attention to every detail in the restaurant and make it more tasteless.

"Our rachel is far from urban, you won't find a restaurant here. I ordered food.. "

"Whatever!!" Answer Rachel ketus.

Mahavir just smiled at his picky wife.

Not long after that two servings of fried rice and two sweet teas came to their table. Without waiting for a long time Mahavir immediately ate his fried rice greedily because he had been hungry since earlier.

"I'm very surprised by you, you could say you're a conglomerate in London. But I noticed you're so used to eating everywhere."

"Why did it happen?? If you are hungry, you cannot choose food. Besides I told you I was raised in an orphanage, right?"

Rachel was only speechless to hear the words of Mahavir, her fried rice was only eaten as much as 3 spoons with a sense of compulsion because she also felt a little hungry.

After a late lunch they resumed their journey.

The drizzle that had descended slowly turned into a very heavy rain. The windshield of the car is getting blurred making the visibility becomes shorter, while the terrain they will travel a little steep and winding.

"It looks like we have to stop first, it's dangerous to continue the journey." Mahavir then turned the steering wheel of the car and turned towards the center of the crowd of the area.

"Where do we go?" Ask Rachel.

"We find a place to hang out first while waiting for the rain to stop." Mahavir observed the building on the side of the road and then stopped right in front of the Ruko building which was lined up. The shop consists of 6 plots with each height of 2 floors. In one of the shophouses is a mini market.

"Why stop here?"

"Wait a minute." Mahavir then went down and ran into the mini market. Not long after, Mahavir appeared with an umbrella.

"Come down, there's a coffee shop, I see no visitors. We can be free to wait for the rain to subside there." Mahavir pointed the umbrella at Rachel.

"I'll just wait in the car."

"Rachel....!!!"

"OK, okay,.. " Rachel then complied.

The wall clock in the coffee shop has been shown at 18:00. They had been waiting for hours but the rain had not subsided even more intensely. The lightning was getting louder and the rumbling sounds were getting explosive.

Rachel looked a little frightened, both of her hands she held onto her trembling body due to the cold air that easily pierced through her thin clothes.

Mahavir realized that, he then walked out looking to the left right of the shop and was seen talking to the owner of the coffee shop.

"It seems like tonight we are forced to stay over" Mahavir said shortly after speaking to the owner of the coffee shop.

"stay? where's where??" ask Rachel.

"Says there's a guesthouse on the turn after this shophouse."

"Wisma???"

"Yeah!! if you are looking for a star hotel, there will be none!! There's no sign of rain coming down yet, there's no way we're waiting here." Mahavir tries to open Rachel's mind.

Rachel followed Mahavir's decision. Finally they went to the guesthouse and booked a room.

Rachel sat down at the end of the bed. His gaze turned to look at the entire room. While Mahavir sat at the end next to him.

"Why again?" asked Mahavir who noticed his wife's behavior.

"Why just book one room?"

"Rachel... It's a guesthouse, it's dangerous to find a woman sleeping alone. Indeed you want if suddenly there are people entering secretly."

"Keep, are we sleeping here? Raa.rthe bed is one and small."

"Compense for both" said Mahavir casually and replied with a gaze from Rachel.

"Joking" said Mahavir half-chuckled

"You're the one wearing it, I don't have a problem sleeping on the floor." Further again.

Mahavir kept looking at his wife who was still Kalut.

Rachel was still petrified, putting on a strange facial expression with bent eyebrows and red cheeks, looking so adorable in Mahavir's eyes.

Without Rachel realizing it, Mahavir shifts her seat closer to her, and...

"COUPS"

Mahavir's lips landed perfectly on Rachel's cheeks, and,

rachel had not yet reacted to the kiss

Mahavir again landed a short kiss on his wife's lips.

For a moment their eyes looked at each other, there was a flash of light that occurred between them.

Mahavir moved his hand gently stroking his wife's hair. Seeing no movement or rejection from Rachel, Mahavir again kissed the sweet lips briefly. Mahavir waited for a signal from Rachel, but his wife was still silent with red cheeks. Because Mahavir did not get a response to the refusal to go back to kiss the sweet lips even deeper,

But suddenly...

"HHAAACCHIIII......" Rachel sneezed so hard that it made Mahavir surprised.

Mahavir frantically cupped his hands to Rachel's cheeks and grew increasingly panicked when he realized Rachel had a slight fever.

"Mahavir....!!! You can think about your own desires without realizing that your wife is sick!!!!" Inner Mahavir.

Rachel looked weak with a slightly shivering body. Mahavir had just noticed his wife's pale face. In his car quickly lock his car.

"I'm out first, lock the door! Don't ever open it if it's not me" Mahavir's orders, Rachel weakly complies.

Nearly 25 minutes long, Mahavir finally returned with a few bags of groceries in his hand.

One bag contains a variety of cold medicines, cold medicine and a variety of oils, ranging from eucalyptus oil, wind oil, to rub oil. In the other bag there is mineral water as well as some snacks Bread and biscuits. While in a large bag there is 1 piece of hoodie sweater and 1 piece of shorts.

Mahavir touched Rachel's forehead, still feeling warm. "How are you feeling now?" Mahavir asked with a worried look on his face.

"I'm fine" Rachel said with slightly quivering lips.

"Take this medicine!" Mahavir gave me a tablet and a bottle of mineral water that had been opened.

Rachel grabbed the medicine with trembling hands then directly drank it along with the mineral water.

Rachel was so weak that she no longer cared what Mahavir did, she resigned.

Mahavir slowly opened his wife's bra hook then poured eucalyptus oil in his hand and rubbed his palm onto his wife's back hoping it could make his wife's body warm.

"You better change your clothes first" said mahavir after re-installing Rachel's dress zipper.

"Sorry, I can only get a makeshift change of clothes at a distro nearby." Mahavir gave up a gray hoodie and black shorts.

Rachel looked at her heartily, and grabbed the pair of clothes without asking much questions. If the circumstances are normal, of course, he will not want to carelessly wear clothes that are not clear of origin. But with his current circumstances he had no other choice.

"Can you wear it yourself? Do I need to help?" Mahavir offered help.

Rachel shook her head slowly, "I can be alone"

Mahavir took Rachel to the bathroom and waited for her at the door. Not how long Rachel had been out wearing the suit she had bought.

Mahavir laid Rachel's body to the bed, then he wrapped his wife's body tightly.

"Sleep, I'll take care of you" Mahavir rubbed his wife's head and kissed her still-warm forehead.

Struck by a heavy drowsiness, Rachel vaguely still felt Mahavir's hand rubbing against her soles, trying to keep her warm.

At 02:30 in the morning, Rachel woke up with a dry feeling in her throat. Di circulated his gaze then came to a halt when his eyes caught the figure of Mahavir. The man fell asleep sitting on the floor leaning his head against the wall.

Still remembered clearly the reaction of Mahavir earlier, his sense of worry was not made up, and his hands were so cold when touching him earlier.

"Is he really worried about me?

Why???...... "

Rachel then touched her lips, she could still feel her warm touch of her husband's lips earlier. Although short but he could feel her tenderness.

"Did he love me...???"

Slowly Rachel got out of bed and approached her husband, looking at him deeply in his sleepy face...

"It turns out you're a good man, though,

You didn't take a chance in my helplessness....."

"Thank you.... " Rachel in my heart.

Then she quietly kissed the soft cheek of her husband.

Mahavir was still asleep, slowly Rachel moved away from Mahavir. But his foot accidentally stepped on the plastic bag. This made Mahavir wake up.

"How's your fever?" Mahavir then cupped his hands to Rachel's face.

"I'm fine." Rachel smiled gently.

"Thank God.... " Say Mahavir then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you..... "

"It's my duty, whatever happens to you is my responsibility."

"Although......" Wiry Rachel

"Even though...???"

"Mmmm......Even though you haven't earned your rights as a husband??"

"Rachel darling.... I'll always be patient until you're ready, I won't force you if you don't want it"

"Sorry, I was carried away by my mood and unconsciously touched your lips." Mahavir.

Rachel fell silent again, her eyes staring at Mahavir, but this time with her gentle gaze.

Mahavir momentarily gasped, all this time those pretty eyes could only glare sharply at him, but tonight... Those eyes can show her tenderness.

"Virr... "

"Hmm??"

"I'm sorry if I'm being rude to you sometimes. You know, I've known you for 4 days."

Mahavir looked at his wife....

"But I knew you 15 years ago..."

Mahavir's inner voice, unable to speak.

"I actually have a bit of past trauma, which makes me unable to open my heart to anyone." Rachel.

"Please be patient with me, let me get to know you first." Continue again.

"For you I will always be patient, I will try to slowly open your heart and let me into it." Mahavir looked gently at his wife. "Let's get to know each other and slowly start over."

Mahavir thrust his hand and was greeted with a helping hand of Rachel. For a moment they looked at each other with a firm grasp of the hand.

"Go back to rest" said Mahavir.

"You??" Ask Rachel.

"I'll go back to sleep too."

"On the floor?"

"Where else do you want?"

"As you said, maybe the bed's enough for both of us."

"Rachel... Don't fuck me."

"I believe you, you promised not to do it without my consent."

Mahavir rubbed his face, still confused by the change in his wife's attitude.

"Hopefully tomorrow he does not change to his prior nature... "

Mahavir said for a moment before laying his body on the bed and sleeping on his back to his wife.

Not so long Mahavir's subtle snoring voice sounded. Rachel looked at her husband's back.

"Good night my husband, have a good dream...."

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