
Melani looked at the door where the short-bodied man and the two women walking behind her had just walked out of the meeting room.
Melani does not expect, Jendra can hold back his emotions. The lion gil* was able to play leisurely without removing his neck muscles.
"Does it matter if we don't accept the offer of cooperation with his company, sir?" ask Melani to Jendra.
"No. We don't need to be friends with such a cunning man" replied Jendra who was leaning on the chair.
"I mean, does this rejection not cause new problems?" To be honest, Melani was worried because the man looked cunning. They even met without any other staff. Not without reason, Jendra does not want anyone to know about this problem.
"You want me to get tangled in a case just because of his business, honey?"
Melani. "But, it looks like he won't stop, sir!"
"Mas. Call me Mas if there's no one dear!"
"Ehm, yes." Melani thinning lips.
"He wouldn't dare because I would destroy all his business to the root!"
Throughout the meeting, it was not the usual cooperation they discussed. The man asked Jendra to help launch his illegal business.
Jendra clearly refused, but the man threatened to spread the word about his behavior that had left many women behind.
The man also threatened to bring the women to the media.
Jendra threatened back by showing the evidence he had. Jendra also promised to issue other evidence until the man did not dwell again.
***
"We're getting married soon!" Jendra sat on the sofa inside Melani's apartment. "So, it looks like you should enjoy the last seconds of staying in this instant noodle box, Mel."
Melani is drinking in the kitchen. Their distance was not too far away so Jendra's voice sounded so clear.
Melani laughs. "Enak alone equates this apartment with an instant noodle box. I bought it with my hard-earned money, Mas. That has not been paid off either. Ahaha!"
Yes, he still has a debt to the company he cicil every month. Instead of heartache, Melani was stupefied. It seemed like he was getting used to the spicy mouth that liked to joke around.
"I'm just kidding, baby!"
"I think two more weeks is the right time!"
"Not suddenly, too, my friend. Everyone needs preparation."
"I can do it in a week!"
"You don't want to see my parents first, Mom?" asked Melani who was currently sitting next to him.
"You got parents, Mel?" tanyanya was surprised. Jendra even changed his sitting position so that he could look at Melani's face.
"Where?"
"I want to meet them."
Melani laughed softly. "Not my mom and dad, Mom. Just the home mom and her husband that I've considered my own parents."
"We go there sometime?" bring Melani.
Jendra nodded immediately. "Can."
Jendra had not been able to come to the orphanage Melani meant. Not because you don't want to, but it's not the right time.
Jendra rubbed Melani's hair. He felt sad to see Melani's expression that harbored sadness. The girl must have had many difficulties during her life.
Jendra put his hand on Melani's cheek and rubbed it slowly. "From now on, you won't be alone anymore, Mel."
"I will also give you the figure of mama and papa. They must be happy when they know our relationship."
Melani was surprised and rounded her eyes. "They don't know yet, Mas?"
Jendra. "I'll surprise them, later."
"We're getting married here, and the reception's in two places, which is in this town and in the town where my parents live."
Melani frowned. "Isn't it too much, Mom?"
He never dreamed of a super luxurious wedding even to be done in some places.
Jendra. "No."
"Aren't you afraid that your exes are working together to destroy our marriage?"
Jendra laughs. "As a result of watching too many soap operas!" Jendra pulled the girl's nose.
Melani laughs. "I'm just worried, Mom. A once-in-a-lifetime marriage that was supposed to be solemn was destroyed by the attacks of the former."
"You're so smart to talk, Mel!" Jendra growled. He cupped Melani's cheeks and pinched her slowly.
"Let go, Mas!" rengek Melani holds Jendra's hand.
He released. "Either, don't put together such neat words just to say that I have a lot of exes who still hold grudges, honey!"
Melani covered her mouth so that her laughter would not break. "If I'm not smart, how could you make me a secretary, Mas."
"And, you can't possibly trust me to hold your former partner back to the office."
Jendra moved his lower lip. "I'm not a nice guy, am I?"
"It must have made you doubt me."
Melani smiled slightly and shook her head. "We're together now. Your past remains yours. So do I, Mommy."
"But the future belongs to both of us!"
"Ohhhh!" Jendra sighed and dropped her head on Melani's shoulder.
"Don't make me melt, honey!"
Melani laughed until her shoulders were shaken. "Yes, a flocker can blush while it's being combed?"
Jendra looked at Melani. "My cousin is indeed Mel's crocodile, but my heart is still hellokitty."
Melani closed her mouth again. Unexpectedly, this man who usually acted jutek, judes and fierce in front of him could laugh as well. You can even joke.
"This is your real thing, Mom?" asked Melani who immediately made Jendra sculpt.
"This is your real thing? Cheerful, joking and easy to laugh?"
"Why have I seen you bend your face more often, moody, and angry?"
"Very different from what I see now?" Melani placed her palm on Jendra's head, near her ear. Melani rubbed Jendra's temple which was still on the plaster with her thumb
Jendra looked down and smiled a little. "What's so obvious, dear?"
Melani nodded.
"So I get tired of my life sometimes."
"So, my mischievous son, it might just be a form of escape from my fatigue."
"You know, Mel. I'm the heir to the Dewandaru Group. The only heir."
Melani nodded. He let Jendra tell him a story. Maybe he needs someone to just hear the story.
"Since childhood, my life has been arranged. It may look more like a table. Everything is arranged in such a way. I have little time and little chance to enjoy my life."
"Until I grow up, papa did direct me to hold the company."
"When he was 25, Papa made me CEO."
"Papa retreats from the world of work. Papa just set it up from afar!"
"I lived alone after they lived in Bali."
"I'm not angry and blame them. Instead I'm happy to be able to make my parents happy in their old days."
"I'm happy to see them loving each other to old age. I'm glad they have more quality time."
"But I was misguided when I was tired of my daily life."
"I was wrong to look for an escape. If Kalandra prefers to go to the gym, I'm going to the club." Jendra and Melani laughed together.
"After marriage, I hope that habit doesn't get carried away again, Mom."
Jendra nodded. "I haven't been there in a few months, Mel!"
"Are you really penitent, Mom?"
Jendra nodded. He grabbed Melani's hand and kissed her one by one. "Hold my hand, baby, so that I don't get scared and stray there again!"
"Or just imprison me in the prison of your love!"
Jendra recalled the words of two men who were Melani's neighbors.