9. Confusion

But when the knocks grew louder and audible, Aruna tried to lift her wrecked body with the remaining strength of her hands. She felt a horrible pain in some parts of her body.

"Aarh.." she moaned. "Why can't I get up from the bed?" there was an unbearable cramp around her tummy.

The woman who got pregnant for the first time gasped, "Hen…Hendra…Hen.." but the man she called couldn't hear her. The bathroom hallway consists of two rooms with doors. Moreover, the man she was calling was currently still for a long time under the shower.

"Ahhhh…help me…" she cried for help, "why can't I move my body?" she started feeling restless. Frowning her forehead to resist the pain, she tried to get up herself, but the knocks were finally gone.

That poor woman finally got help when her husband caught her presence. His face was in horror as he heard her saying that she could not move her body.

"What happened to you, love??" her face was red, and she cried massively. She shook her head and didn't know what had happened to her.

"What exactly did you feel? Tell me!" he quickly checked the worst thing that could happen to a pregnant woman. He was relieved that he didn't see traces there.

"Hendra, my tummy.." Apparently, she was in great pain as she touched her tummy.

"So…" he wanted to scream that he was sorry, but it was all useless. He touched her tummy, pressed it gently, and she writhed in pain.

Hendra dialed a phone, asking someone to call an obstetrician who was responsible for his wife right away.

"Hen.. give me clothes…" that man unveiled the blanket that covered his wife's body, giving some massages around her tummy and trying to examine it.

"This is just a stomach cramp!" he tried to convince himself.

Then, he ran to the door and unlocked it, "Get me a basin!" that young master shouted this morning.

Ratna, who happened to knock on the door previously to run her morning routine, hurriedly to get what her master asked.

"Ratna, get me a glass bottle," Hendra said as he took the basin he wanted from her hand.

Mahendra hurried back to his room, searching for a handkerchief, then boiled some water. He wiped his wife's tummy with a handkerchief soaked in warm water.

"Just relaxed, don't get tensed…sweetheart," he stroked her hair repeatedly.

"No need to get up, take a deep breath!" he asked his wife, who was trying to overcome the pain in her tummy.

Hendra kept stroking warm cloth over Aruna's tummy, which was no longer flat.

The first thing people had in mind when looking at the panicked state of husband and wife was a shock. Ratna was so shocked that the glass bottle almost slipped off her hand.

Hendra hastily covered the part of her body as he realized the presence of his assistant, Ratna. Ratna ran to the bathroom. And later filled up the bottle with warm water.

"Ratna…Ratna…you have ever been pregnant, haven't you?" Aruna asked Ratna. Her voice was terrified. It was the first cramp she experienced in her first pregnancy.

"It's okay Miss…don't get tensed over nothing…it's common for a woman in your condition to get a cramp," Ratna was trying to calm down her Miss. She massaged Aruna's tummy gently with the warm bottle with traditional treatment. Meanwhile, Mahendra's tense expression didn't fade away yet.

"Master, help Miss Aruna let go of her tension," Mahendra nodded. In his panic, he was just a little school boy who obeyed what his teacher asked him to do. He leaned down to his wife's face, signaled her to take a deep breath correctly, and breathed it away. Gradually the stiff torturing pain subsided.

Mahendra hugged that tired face gently, the face that made him want to curse himself for his stupidity.

"I'm so sorry, my love…" he hid his face in his wife's arms and uttered the same words again and again.

When the door was knocked, the woman in bed refused to let it open. She wanted to tidy herself before someone else saw her. Mahendra lifted her gently and carried her to the bathroom.

And Ratna quickly straightened things up in her master's room. Her heart pounded faster as she saw the signs on the bed that were easy to understand. Her Miss had to serve her husband although she was ill. She tied to get rid of negative thoughts which came across her mind.

"Knock knock!" again, the door was knocked for the second time. She opened the door partly and peeped from the small gap. She told the doctor and staff to wait because she needed to make things neat, and the patient needed some time, too. She wanted everything to look nice for her master and the wife.

Mahendra came out in the hall of the bathroom. Ratna knew that he wanted to get clean clothes for his wife. "I'm sorry Sir, I just haven't prepared the clean clothes, yet." She was replacing the awful bed sheet with a clean one. Mahendra just nodded.

Mahendra stopped and turned to her, "Ratna, please call the doctor of my wife and tell her to bring a transducer along,"

"Excuse me? Transguker??" she frowned, confused.

"Transducer," Hendra repeated it slowly.

"Transduker? I'm sorry…" Ratna tried to spell it correctly.

"It's a USG equipment, Ratna.." That assistant nodded and told the doctor waiting outside what her master wanted.

"The doctor has arrived?" Mahendra was a bit confused. If the doctor has arrived, why would she ask him to bring the tool along? He has been here, anyway.

"Oh yes, I don't know what happened to me…" Ratna blushed in embarrassment, opening the room door wide for him.

"Help my wife to get dressed and tidy this room in the double," was his command. Ratna felt good to hear him and quickly finished her job.

***

A woman looked busy in the kitchen after she received an amazing gift. She wanted to welcome another winning. A cup of non-sugar tea flavored with lemon juice is Mahendra's favorite, including low sugar biscuits for his snacks in the office is something that will not be let down by the sole heir of Djoyodiningrat.

As she had predicted, although she was allowed to go inside the room, at least he had taken the teapot of hot lemon tea and the special snacks she made special for him.

She walked happily with her sweet smile as she walked into her room. There was one more mission to accomplish, to secure Darko's presence in that house.

Anna knocked on the door once she was inside the room where an intruder was kept in it. But Darko was not there, "Darko, where are you? You must be hungry. I haven't sent you any food since the afternoon," but it was silent.

Nana knocked on the bathroom door, "Darko, are you in there?" no reply.

"Darko," she pushed the door open, it was not locked, and Darko was not there.

"Darko," she opened all the wardrobe doors, under the bed, or even the window. There was no sign that Darko had left the room. When she came, the door was still locked.

"DAMN!" Anna was pretty mad. She walked past that room, running down the stairs. She was very confused about where Darko was likely to be. The worse was that she could not ask anyone about him.

And when she walked to the veranda of the main house, she could see a group of aides with sleuth hounds that sniffed everywhere wildly. The dogs barked wildly and raided through the gate once it was opened. They rushed into the magnificent main yard of that mansion.

The dogs' ferocity made the adjutants clutching the leash look overwhelmed, and they seemed to want to run. The aides who knew the dog they were holding on to the leash showed gestures that could have been valuable, especially for the ongoing investigation.

Let the intelligent animals do their job. The rope holders followed the great sniffing animals.

On the other hand, the panicked woman immediately ran toward her room. He deliberately threw several bottles of perfume so that they spilled. The bottle he picked up, but not with water, poured on the floor. Nana let it go everywhere. Air freshener aerosols are also targeted. He sprayed into various corners of his room.

The same madness he also showed, Anna deliberately spilled milk in the hallway around his room, then asked the motherhouse assistant to mop the hallways around where he had hidden Darko.

The dog that Rolland and Herry brought ran into the motherhouse. Sniff and lead to the same place. Very different from the dog that Alvin brought. The intelligent animals headed for the garage, the garage of the motherhouse that offered a row of parked cars lined up.

Unfortunately, the animals that use the smell stopped at an empty location. A place commonly used car Secretary Anna parked.