Love Redux: Fated to the Handsome Doctor

Seno stared blankly at the ceiling of the room. The image of Lara’s face suddenly appeared. At the moment, he shuddered in horror and began to reassure himself that everything would be fine.

“How did it go? Is the woman dead?” Seno asked when the henchman he ordered to eliminate Lara had just shown himself.

“I … I–” He couldn’t continue his sentence.

“Tell me, Fucking Bastard?! How did it go?” Seno yelled angrily. He couldn’t afford any traces of his crime left on Lara. His wife, correction, his ex-wife, had to disappear from this world along with her identity, which had been thoroughly wiped clean without a trace.

“Someone saved her, Boss!” he reported with a strengthened tone. He had to appear firm if he didn’t want to end up as a corpse at the hands of the employer.

“YOU BASTARD! How could this happen?!” Seno rose from his seat. He had just enjoyed success with the discovery of a remedy drug that had always failed before.

Thanks to Lara, Seno’s dream became easy. The child she bore was now kept in a special incubator in the secret lab. A special body cells from that child carried the healing components for the drug Seno has developed!

***

This story began when Seno was in despair and burdened with a lot of debt due to his carelessness in playing the stock market. Seno was forced to borrow money from loan sharks, unfortunately, he got entangled in even bigger interest rates.

“Do you want to be free from debt and live in luxury, Seno Adhijaya?” asked a middle-age woman named Madam Xenia, one day.

Seno wouldn’t ever forget the day he met his life’s savior, Madam Xenia. Of course, Seno nodded. “I’m willing to sell my soul to the devil just to stop suffering like this, Madam,” he said at that time.

Madam Xenia smiled broadly and snapped her fingers. From that moment, their work contract began. Seno had to take care of everything related to the development of antidepressant drugs from Madam, including permits, healthcare facilities, and the required workforce.

“Illegal but legal, you know what I mean, right?” Madam asked with a raised eyebrow.

“We just need to bribe the officials.”

“Exactly.”

From then on, Seno became Madam’s puppet and amassed wealth thanks to massive injections of funds from the Bank in Canada. Madam’s shell companies became money laundering tools, so… the true source of Seno’s company wealth wasn’t clearly identified.

“This drug is sure to be a huge success. I brought it from the best researchers in the world. Unfortunately, those people have died due to their own carelessness.”

Seno swallowed his saliva, understanding the risks of the project he took. However, Seno kept going because nothing was scarier than living in poverty drowning in debt!

“II’m just your hands and feet, right?” Seno began to examine the information in front of him.

“Yes. And one more thing.”

“What is it?”

“You have to marry Lara Selene Smith, your classmate’s.”

“Sure! I would do anything!”

***

Seno was reminded of his initial meeting with Madam X. Indeed, the unreasonable requirement to marry Lara bothered him. The girl was pretty enough, but her heart was cold, and there was no spark that could ignite a man’s passion.

“What good is a pretty face if it can’t seduce? Even dolls can talk,” Seno grumbled then when he approached Lara.

But, who would have thought, a drunken condition and a hot night after the party gave Seno the opportunity to impregnate Lara. That was the only way Seno had. He was just an ordinary student. How could he win Lara’s heart?

“You have to take responsibility!” Lara yelled at that time. Seno nodded in agreement. “That’s what I want, Darling.”

***

Seno couldn’t say anything when he looked back at the warehouse, where he had imprisoned Lara. The woman wasn’t there. She had completely disappeared!

“You idiot! What have you done?!” Seno cursed his worker who couldn’t do his job properly. However, he also roughly grabbed his own hair. Seno was the one who had lost his mind for entrusting this sadistic job to an inexperienced person.

“II…”

“What’s so hard about slitting her throat, or… stabbing her in the stomach to kill her instantly? Why did you have to tie her up like that? You! ARRGH!” Seno beat his worker with boiling anger.

Operating on Lara alone was difficult enough for him, of course, Seno couldn’t kill his ex-wife with his own hands. Lara’s words about divorce ignited Seno’s emotions. He couldn’t wait to take what he had planned since the beginning: their child.

Seno then sedated Lara, operated on her, and let her die without anyone knowing.

BAM!

The big man collapsed under Seno’s punch. Of course, it wasn’t because of Seno’s mighty strength, but because of the bitter fate that made him suffer. A subordinate like him had to be prepared to accept all the cruel treatment from his boss.

In the pale moonlight, the shadow of the big man’s body lay on the cold warehouse floor.

“Argh!” His face was pressed against his boss’s shoe, with all the remaining anger in his chest, Seno continued to torture the man.

“Bastard!” Seno cursed as he stepped on the man’s back with his shiny shoes. His face was filled with rage.

The man groaned, but his protest words were choked by the injustice that shackled him. He was a wretched man who couldn’t say anything. The man just remained silent in the face.

“Bastard!” cursed Seno as he stepped on the man’s back with his shiny shoes. His face was filled with rage.

The man groaned, but his protest words were choked by the injustice that shackled him. He was a wretched man who couldn’t say anything. The man just remained silent in the face of the cruelty of his employer.

“I need to find that bitch!” Seno then walked away, leaving the man lying there alone.

***

Meanwhile, in Mahya’s apartment, Lara was still sitting alone, lost in thought. The files brought by her friend made her heart ache. All this time, it turned out Seno had been hiding the big truth about his wealth.

Ironically, Lara had been enjoying it too. Lara felt disgusted with herself.

“What if I also get punished, Mahya?” Lara suddenly said.

Mahya-still busy looking for a loophole to steal more documents from Seno’s server-looked at her in surprise. “Punished?” he repeated.

“Yes. Aren’t I his wife?” Lara sighed deeply.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“Lara. Let me ask you one thing.”

“What?”

“Did you two get married officially?”

“Wwhat? Why are you asking that?”

“Lara. You have to be prepared for another bitter reality,” Mahya began to speak calmly, trying not to hurt Lara further.

“Wwhat is it, Mahya? Don’t scare me….”

Lara then remembered her marriage. Indeed, there was no lavish wedding because Seno said they were short of money. “We just had a blessing ceremony and…”. Right. Lara never received any written documents about their marriage.

Mahya then played his fingers on the computer keyboard. He searched for the boss’s personal data that should be there. At least, family records as data that should be owned by the HR department at his workplace.

“I’m sorry, Lara. This news might surprise you a little.”

“Tell me, Mahya. What did you find there?” Lara was impatient. She was really curious. Lara didn’t understand how the world worked. She was too innocent, naive, and… foolish! Lara really believed all of Seno’s sweet words, which turned out to be lies!

“Here it says, Seno’s wife’s name is… Olivia Wilson.”

“WHAT?!”