Not the Perfect Wife
279. S2 - Start the search
After the meeting Khairi immediately returned to the company. He also needed to find something that matched the key that was inside his papa bag. The man searched everywhere in his papa's room. However, I did not find any clues.
When Khairi opened a drawer on the bottom table. He found a picture of his father as a young man with a woman. Both of them wear high school uniforms. The man wondered, who is this woman? Was that his papa lover when he was young? But why does Hamdan keep it?
Is it possible that she is Khairi's mother? It seems impossible. From what he heard if his father and his biological mother were betrothed. The two did not know each other, surely they did not know each other at High School?
Regarding the photo, he better think about it later. Now there is more important that is, find out about the key that is in his hand. Khairi continued his search. The photo was put in his pocket.
Too late in his search, until he forgets time. His phone on the table rang, his wife's name there. Soon the man picked her up.
"Hello, assalamualaikum," said Khairi.
"Waalaikumsalam, is Mas home?' ask Afrin. Khairi also looked at the clock on his wrist. The man patted her on the forehead because he had unconsciously spent a lot of time.
"No, Honey. It's still a job" Khairi replied lying. He is not lying, he has a job. It's just that his work is investigating something.
"Is it still a long time, Mom?" ask Afrin.
"Home home soon, baby. What's the matter?"
"If you can later on the trip to buy food for Mama, yes, Mas!"
"Aren't you?"
"If you have the heart to see me starving, yes, no need," said Afrin with a little ketus make Khairi laugh.
"I want to go home and keep coming to you, huh."
"Emang why?"
"Just worry to see my wife who is jutek," replied Khairi chuckled making Afrin snort. "Well, I hung up. I picked up my parents, yeah. I'll be home soon."
"They're my parents, too, Mom. Be careful on the road. Assalamualaikum."
"Getishalight."
Khairi hung up his cell phone.he was so grateful to have a wife like Afrin. The man sighed. Better now go home first, tomorrow resume the search.
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"Khairi hasn't come home yet, Frin?" merry asked after her daughter-in-law hung up the phone. He heard Afrin calling the mas to the man across, it must be his son.
"Yet, Ma. He said there was still something to be done" Afrin replied.
"Papa had not been to the office for a few days must have been a lot of work abandoned. Now Khairi is in great distress."
"We just pray that Mas Khairi can finish it quickly."
"Hopefully," said Merry.
They started talking. At first Mama Merry was a bit stiff because she was not so close to Afrin, but her son-in-law first established communication so, the middle-aged woman began to soften. Even several times Merry laughed at the story of Afrin as a child.
Maghrib Khairi arrived. He came with Bik Asih and Fatma made Afrin look at him. However, the man did not care, Khairi later explained. He also brought food that his wife ordered.
"Ma, eat first" Khairi said, handing over a pack of food.
"That's it, right, it was noon, Ma. It was also only eating half a meal" said Afrin who was preparing food for others. "Mama, do you want to be fed?"
"You're always forcing Mama" Merry grumbled as she received a box of rice from Khairi.
They eat voraciously, as well as Bik Asih and Fatma. Both women were deliberately taken by Khairi to the hospital to accompany Mama Mery. He wants to launch the action he has arranged. Everything should be as planned.
The man did not want his plan to fail. It could be that Bik Asih knows something and deliberately covers it at papa's request. Any possibility could happen. However, if his plans tonight don't come to fruition. He had to persuade the middle-aged woman to tell him something he knew.
While eating, Khairi whispered something to his wife. Although the woman did not understand completely, but she nodded. Afrin catches on as if there was something very important, to the point of having her husband ask someone else to wait for his papa. Though previously the man said he wanted to be devoted to the elderly.
"Ma, tonight me and Afrin go home first, yeah! We'll stay again tomorrow. For tonight let Bik Asih and Fatma accompany you, Mama," said Khairi.
"Yes, it's okay. You must be so tired."
Actually, the woman felt heavy to be left behind by her son and daughter-in-law. Especially now that his relationship with Afrin is closer, but he also knows, surely they also need a break. Both have activities, especially Khairi who now takes care of two companies.
"We're saying goodbye, Ma, Pa. Assalamualaikum," knocks Khairi by kissing the back of Merry's and Hamdan's hands alternately.
"Waalaikumsalam," said Merry while Hamdan only nodded.
Khairi and Afrin left the hospital by car. On the way the man was just silent, making the wife impatient to know about what her husband said earlier.
"Mas, what did that mean?" ask Afrin.
"So what?" tanya Khairi pretended not to understand.
Afrin did not answer. He just stared at the husband sharply. Khairi also understood that at this time the husband was not wanting to joke. The man took a breath before saying anything.
Khairi pulled out a key she had found along with a photo of her father with a high school girl. He gave the two things to his wife. Afrin frowned when she saw what was in her palm.
"What is this, Mom?" ask Afrin while looking at the two things. "It's papa in High School, right?"
"Yes, that's why I invited you home and asked Bik Asih and Fatma so that you could help me find something about those two things."
"I mean, Mas?"
Afrin already understood her husband's intentions, but she needed to convince him of her understanding.
"We look everywhere in the house for a secret place. You want to, right, help me?"
"Of course, but are you ready for what we'll find out later? We don't know what we're looking for. It could be something painful or fun because it seems to be related to the past. It could also be related to your mother. Not that I want to give false hope, but we also need to prepare everything possible" Afrin said by looking at her husband who was staring at the streets.
"Every possibility must exist and I will accept that. I've come this far, there's no way I'm canceling my intentions. As painful as it is, I will accept it" Khairi replied, fixedly staring at the street in front of him.
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