Chapter 5 5. Diandra's challenge

5. Diandra's challenge

"Ms. Diandra, what the heck! I'll remove the linger! And no need to glare at me!" Devina was annoyed and offended by my order.

"What's wrong with you! Do you have to take someone else's property to make you the winner?" I asked deliberately insinuating the woman's feelings.

"Halah! It's just a matter of lingerie! Just clothes like a sieve as if it has something valuable, I can also buy dozens, even hundreds of clothes like this!" Devina shouted while ruffling her waist.

I turned to Mas Bima, asking for a defense or maybe the man was acting to mediate the debate between us.

"Mas can you explain ... Why is Devina in our house?" I asked calmly even though there was a rumbling in my chest that seemed to force me to express my emotions.

Although I didn't really need an explanation, I understood that maybe he still loved Devina.

"We have... Talak," said Mas Bima with a low voice at the end of his sentence.

I smiled sarcastically, staring intently at the man's bead that had clear, slightly slanted eyeballs, long and clear eyelashes. A glimpse of Chinese or maybe Korean eyes

"That's not an explanation, Mas! If you are a Muslim, you must know that after a divorce a man and a woman are still allowed to live under the same roof and even I still have the right to be provided for by you for three or four full moons, do you understand Mas?" I asked seriously and with emphasis.

"If Ms. Diandra has shame, there's no need to do that! If you have been divorced by Mas Bima, you should be self-aware and look at yourself, anyway maybe your soul mate has arrived here and uh wait ... "

"The truth is I took my soul mate again. Thank you for taking such good care of Mas Bima over the past three years, but it's with a heavy heart that I have to tell Mbak Diandra that I'm back in Indonesia and I..."

"You're reaching back for something you threw away?" I asked Devina sarcastically, making her frown.

"What does that mean?" she asked returning my cynical smile.

"What it means is... 3 years ago you threw away Mas Bima for the sake of your dreams, humiliating him and his family, and now that you have achieved success in a foreign country, you come back and arbitrarily take what you have thrown away. Did you think I would just give up?"

"No! Because the marriage that we're in is not the will of me and Mas Bima, but the will of our father and Mas Bima's mother!"

I gave a sharp look at Devina, of course the woman was surprised, then I shifted my gaze and looked at Mas Bima with a sharp look in my eyes. I had never behaved like this to my husband before, because my devotion to him and my sincere love for him made me always put on a gentle face and the best attitude as a wife.

But this incident made me lose respect for the man to whom I devoted everything for the past 3 years. But his reply?

"And you Mas! If you do divorce me and divorce myself ... I can't fully accept your decision unless my mother-in-law and father ask me to let you go!"

My firm statement managed to make the man's face tighten in shock. Maybe he didn't think that I was capable of behaving like this, maybe never before and also didn't expect me to have a dark side.

"What do you mean, ma'am?" Devina scolded from beside me, then I turned my head towards her.

"Just so you know Devina! I was a victim of your selfishness! Because of you, three years ago I went abroad without saying goodbye and left Mas Bima ... I was used as a sacrifice and victim by Mr. and Mrs. Bima to marry Mas Bima, because both parties had already invited many people and families to witness Mas Bima's wedding!" I cried.

"You even knelt before me and begged me to marry Mas Bima and replace you! You are childish and selfish!" I said. Devina was surprised and turned to Mas Bima as if he was asking for an explanation.

"Just like you, Mas Bima's mother also did the same thing. Asking me to be her ex, replacing you because you have humiliated both parties! And I have no way because everyone is asking me to be your sacrifice! So if Mas Bima wants to divorce me and kick me out of his life... I won't accept that easily!"

"Unless Mr. and Mrs. Bima ask for it!" I said firmly.

To be honest, deep down, I didn't want to insist on defending Mas Bima.

I just want to teach Devina a lesson that all her actions have their own impact, especially on my life.

Do you want to be Bima's mistress?

I'll grant it, but it's not that easy. I want you to feel the tightness in your chest that I felt when I was used as a sacrifice to cover your shame.

"Quickly take off my favorite lingerie!" I said again.

"And you, Mas, tell Mama and bapak to kneel again so that we can divorce!" I challenged, making Mas Bima's face look so tense.