Sinner's Redemption

feel stiff or shy at all talking to someone ⸺ who might be more appropriate to be called her father. His la

wife?" I asked while str

'm like trapped in her p

y," he replied

t realized he has big eyes with brown irises.

d to marry an old man like

ace and the

s old, it's even

ou?" I asked

boarding house," he replied shyly

o catapult my dreams to a ver

I'm asking the truth: are you

d you right away. Anyway, it is difficult to express in words, wh

e fell into the same feeling: falling in love at first sight. Many times I c

y she was willing to accept an old man like me, she said that it was her criteria to find

lovers in a drunken romance with an age gap. The blood of my

build happiness with you. I want you to be my wife to accompan

terpret the cry as a sign of accepting from him at all costs. We fin

ing for permission from her mother and grandmother to accept my proposal. It looks like a simple, semi-permanent house typical of a village that looks clean and be

e will be home soon, wait, son," said M

ng two cups of hot tea with the aroma of jasmine wafting. Flashes of the past suddenly flashe

amuala

carrying groceries, I immediately stood up to greet her, and suddenly a roar ambushed me. That

. The woman was still unmoving

" Melody greeted h

ile I began to feel uninvited anxiety. Melody wept bitterly, while I was still stunned, unable to believe the

almost strangled me. Until finally Melody screamed to warn Fitria not to go on a ram

chest. Really, if I could at th

bitch!" Fitria screamed hysterically when she f

e out all her curses. I let him berate me non-stop and even let him beat me repeatedly and pull my hair. I just gave up. I know I am an asshole. Melody tried to

Fitria's anger. However, it seemed like Fitria was not tired, continued to attac

that continued to shake Melody's body, which lay weak. Luckily, two men came and immed

eucalyptus oil while another man was busy calming Fitria, who kept crying while shaking

t him from afar, not daring myself to come closer, looking at

anger, and Melody looked fresher. Granny forced him to eat and drink hot tea. The two men are

rture me to death, I would have agreed. What I'm do

e forgotten this address or you really had no intention, what is clear is that your actions have

came out of his mouth. I have given up, I can no longe

a hill. Do you know? Fitria jumped herself from there ⸺ luckily she surviv