Arabella Secret's

Gathering

Neal, who had just arrived at the office, was immediately in her room, before sitting at her desk glancing at the stacks of newspapers from various publishers on the sofa table, halting her steps and immediately taking the newspaper, her lips revealed a cynical smile looking at a page full of wedding photos almost all newspapers covering the same thing so that her wedding photos almost filled the pages of the newspaper because in addition to the news with her love story with Anara and also congratulations from the company he worked with, and did not forget the congratulations of some important people in the country. After seeing him Neal immediately threw the newspaper haphazardly.

"It's worth it to get an oscar for being so good at acting," Neal quietly muttered as she stepped onto her desk, after lowering her body she stared intently at her confidant,

"Mark..From tomorrow I don't want any media to cover anything about me and that woman, don't let her get close to the media" Neal said with a flat-topped experience and a cold face.

" Okay sir" Mark replied quickly.

"Now read my agenda" Neal ordered.

"This morning you will check some files for cooperation with oil companies from Indonesia, after lunch we will hold a meeting on handling new oil mining exploration contracts in Kuwait" said Mark

"Well get the file down to my desk, and please deliver breakfast for me" Neal added. Mark agreed and soon passed from Neal's presence.

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With a little hesitant step Ara stepped through the entrance of the house that was almost the same size as her husband's house, once she arrived at the door of his arrival was waiting for a maid, Ara followed the maid's steps, and then she followed the maid's steps, while entering Ara was at odds with some women who were wearing the same clothes as the woman beside her, each time they had a dispute they lowered their heads with Ara, Ara only replied to her by throwing her smile, she said, it did not feel like they had reached the second floor of the mansion but there was no sign of them going until they walked back through some rooms, and finally they stopped in front of a door, the maid immediately knocked on the door, only then did she open the door.

"When you enter Miss" he said. Ara hesitated a little but kept her foot in because curiosity so lingered in her mind, as soon as Ara entered the maid it soon passed away Ara died.

The view that Ara saw was that two people were sitting facing a bed, but Ara could not see clearly who was there, slowly Ara moved her legs, and she could not see who was there, after his position slightly approached he volunteered to say hello,

"Excuse Me, sir...Madam," said Ara quietly. The two people quickly turned their heads towards the voice that greeted him, Ara was very surprised because it turned out that the person in front of him was Mr. Ivander and his wife Helena, who was very surprised, they were now Ara's parents, although nervous Ara tried to smile. As soon as Ara Helena could not hold back her tears, Ivander rubbed his wife's back slowly.

"Come, son," Ivander called Ara with an adorning smile on her lips, a smile that seemed a little forced as she was trying to cover up her sadness,

Slowly Ara stepped closer to Ivander and Helena, so that Ara could clearly see who was lying on the bed, immediately Ara covered her mouth with both hands, for a moment she held her breath, ara's knees were limp, but she quickly clung to the sofa in front of her so that her body would not fall to the floor.

For God's sake Ara could not hide her surprise seeing a woman lying on a bed, with so many tools attached to her body, that made her shock was the woman's face, as if he was reflecting with her, they were so similar, then Ara looked at the faces of Ivander and Helane, although without speaking but Ivander could see a million questions in Ara's eyes.

"This is the reason why you're here" Ivander explained.

"She is our only daughter, her name is Anara, she is Neal's fiance, they met when they were both in college in America and fell in love, one year ago they got engaged, they got engaged, but something unfortunate happened exactly one month before her wedding to Neal, we found her dying of an overdose in our hotel room that Anara would often use when she went to America." Ivander paused for a moment, guiding his wife to sit on the sofa, while Ara was already sitting beside Anara's bed, unable to hold back her tears.

"We knew Anara had never used illegal drugs, we checked all the cctv cameras to find who was the last person with Anara but nil we found no evidence whatsoever, really we can not if the media to know about this news, so we try to hide this from the media, even though the return of Anara we do secretly, we do,  until the marriage issue came up how do we tell the media what our reasons were for canceling Neal and Anara's wedding.

"Until Neal's mommy finds you by accident, so until now this news does not reach the media" Ivander told Ara, he helped Ara stand up and sit her down next to his wife, he took Ara's hand and held it gently.

Ara's shoulders trembled with a sobbing, she squeezed her hands tightly, Helena immediately grabbed Ara in her arms. "Be our daughter son, we will love you as we love Anara, for your calling is also the same as our daughter, Ara it is our beloved calling to her, " said Helena gently rubbed Ara's hair, Ivander hugged both of them while crying, long both of them drifting in sadness.

Ara sat by Anara's bed, clasping Anara's hand, she kept looking at the face, slowly turning her face to Ivander and Helena, and she looked at it,

"Papa.mama.I will remain Anara until Anara wakes up again, after she realizes from her coma, my task is done, I will return to my city," said Ara slowly.

"No son, you stay with us, remain our daughter" Ivander quickly cut off.

"No papa. That's Ara's decision, you also have to respect it," Ara refused politely, Ivander and Helena looked at each other and then nodded her head.

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Ara was sitting on the balcony of her room, even though the night wind was so bone-chilling, Ara remained seated while looking at the night sky, she tightened her selfie her mind back on the events of two weeks ago, she said,

The Flasback

Ara had just placed her customer's coffee order when she heard a voice calling her name, the woman's face was so foreign to her but how could she recognize it, slowly the middle-aged woman approached her.

"You Anara? "

"Not Madam.I am Arabella but people call me Ara."

" Can we talk for a minute, son?" ask Mary

"Let's wait a minute Madam my working hours will be over soon," replied Ara smiling, Maria nodding her head, then Ara begging her farewell, Maria continued to watch Ara from behind, "How could they be so similar, I'd better call Helena." Maria took her phone and began talking to Helena over the phone.

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