Mrs. Deborah widened her eyes at the words of her son. She tried to convince herself that she just heard it wrong. But when she saw the expression on Adam's face, which turned serious, her doubts disappeared.

"I love Anji, Mom, I love her like the love of a man to a woman," Adam said again, clarifying his previous words.

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"But you are siblings ..."

"Mom, Anji and I are not related by blood. So how can we be siblings? I love her, I really love her," Adam said, cutting off Mrs. Deborah's words.

Mrs. Deborah was silent and closed her eyes while taking a deep breath. Hearing the confession of her son's love that she had been expecting made her sad. Because the girl that he loved was a girl who she considered as a child too.

"Since when did you like Anji like that, Adam?" Mrs. Deborah asked softly as she opened her eyes.

"I can't say for sure, Mom. What is clear is that after Anji lives with us, my love for her is getting stronger. And I don't want to let her go for a man who has made her suffer," Adam replied confidently.

"Do you know, son, Mr. Fernando and Anji have loved each other for more than eight years. Then now suddenly you say you don't want to let Anji go, on what grounds are you saying that? They are bound by a relationship that is clear, my son, it is strong legally and by the state. They are still husbands and wives who…"

"No, Mom, didn't that man divorce Anji the night Anji was bleeding?" Adam said, cutting off his mother's words quickly,

Mrs. Deborah shook her head slowly in response to Adam's words. She then asked Adam to sit on the bed, to be closer to him. After Adam sat beside her, Mrs. Deborah began to tell what she knew. While she was talking, Adam closed his mouth tightly. He really wanted to go find Viona and ask her directly about the truth of his mother's story that he had heard, but he couldn't do that because if he did that, his mother would be disappointed in him.

"Since I and Mrs. Maria took care of you first, we have decided that you are siblings. Even though you don't share the same blood, we have made that relationship, son, long before you know what love is. We want you to love each other and take care of each other until you each have your own lives to live when we are gone ..."

"Mom, don't talk like that, you're already healed. After this, we can go home and get together again, Mom," Adam said, cutting off Mrs. Deborah and hugged her immediately.

Mrs. Deborah hugged her child tightly. She knew that currently her beloved son was heartbroken. She hoped by telling him the truth, Adam would understand that he would never be able to have Viona. Mrs. Deborah knew that Adam was not a balanced opponent for Fernando in any way. Therefore, she wanted to open his son's eyes from the other side, knowing that from the start they had been claim as siblings, Mrs. Deborah hoped that Adam would let Viona go.

Arriving in the room of her husband, Viona directly checked the vital signs of her husband, who was still normal. She was still confused about why her husband's sudden fever when the operation went smoothly without any problems.

"How is Mr. Fernando's condition, Madame?" Justin asked worriedly.

"I'm checking it, Justin," Viona replied briefly. Because Viona used a mask, her voice was inaudible to Justin, making Justin asked the same question again to Viona, who was concentrating.

"You two better get out, let me check him," Viona said irritably. She began to run out of patience to face the husband's two assistants who kept asking about her husband's condition.

"No, Ma'am, we want to be beside you," said Justin and Harry at the same time.

"It's fine if you don't want to go out, then I'll go out," Viona replied quickly as she turned around.

"Don't, Madame ... okay, we will go out, Madame. Please check our master, excuse us," Justin screamed in panic when he saw the mistress was going out of the treatment room. Justin then pulled Harry out of Fernando's treatment room and let Viona do her job.

After Justin and Harry left, Viona returned to focus on her work. She began examining Fernando's condition again in detail, from the scar on his left hand to all of her husband's internal organs to find out the cause of the fever. After examining him for almost thirty minutes, Viona smiled when she found out the cause of her husband's fever.

"Luckily you have been keeping your diet, Fernando," Viona said softly, as she wiped the sweat from her husband's forehead slowly using a small towel. As long as she knew Fernando, this was the first time she saw Fernando sick.

Because Fernando's body temperature began to drop, Viona did not give her husband any medicine, so she left Fernando's room to give him time to rest longer. As soon as Viona came out of the door of Fernando's room, she was immediately pulled by Justin and Harry, who were very worried about their master's condition.

"Let go of my hand, Justin," said Viona quietly.

"Sorry, Madame ... sorry I didn't mean it," Justin screamed in panic as he released his hand from the mistress's hand.

"It's okay," Viona replied curtly with a smile when she saw Justin's frightened face.

Harry, who was standing beside Justin, seemed to scold Justin for what he had just done. Seeing the little argument between his two assistants made Viona smile.

"Forgive Justin's ignorance, Madame, this idiot has no brains," said Harry quietly insinuated Justin.

"Come on, Harry, don't extend the matter. I'm fine, you take it easy," Viona replied with a stifling laughter.

"Fernando is fine, post-operative fever is a natural thing. It shows that he will recover soon, so you two take it easy," added Viona, trying to explain Fernando's condition in more detail. She knew that her husband's two assistants were uneasy and wanted to know the condition of the master.

"Is it true, Madame?"

"You are not lying, Madame?"

"Then when can he come home?"

"Will his hand be all right, Madame? He will not be paralyzed, will he?"

Hearing the questions of the two youths in front of her made Viona laugh. For ten months, this time she laughed until her stomach hurt. There was a special satisfaction for her when explaining the condition of the patient to his family or those closest to him just as she was doing when she explained Fernando's condition to Justin and Harry at this time.

"I was once crowned the best surgeon in Global Bross Hospital, so you don't need to doubt my analysis," Viona answered quietly as she slowly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Thank God if he's fine ... I really don't want to see him become a terrible person like nine months ago while in France," Justin said relieved.

"Me too, I also don't want to see him become a human who didn't have that kind of passion for life anymore. He became even more terrible than when he was angry at that time," Harry added quietly.

Viona's smile suddenly disappeared when she heard Justin and Harry's words. She felt that something bad had happened that she didn't know.

"What happened to him?" Viona asked stammered.

"As long as you are separated from him and forced to stay in France in order to build a new company there, he had become a man without feeling, Madame, when he was with colleagues during the day he would look very professional, but when night fell he would be a very devastated person. He would lament about you while sleeping on the carpet, hugging your photo ..."

to be continued

* don't forget to read my another novel ' I'LL Teach You, Marianne' and ' His soul'

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