BEING THE CEO'S MISTRESS

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After getting information from Rizal if their disguise has been sniffed by Rivaldi. Grace immediately prepared to leave the Nugraha Wijaya family home. Because it can be ascertained Rivaldi will meet him to extract information from him about their plan to do this disguise.

Not wanting to make Arina suspicious, Grace chose to leave the clothes that had just been purchased, to make it easier for her to get out of the house and not be expected to run away.

" Room, where are you going?" As Grace walked down the stairs, Arina was already welcoming her downstairs.

" Hmmm, Aunt. I'm gonna let you go for a second, Tan!?" Grace reasoned to go for a while to Arina.

" Where else do you want to go, Rena?" Getting a mandate from Rivaldi that forbids Grace from leaving the house, Arina asks why Grace wants to leave the house again, even though they just arrived after shopping for Grace's needs earlier.

" Hmmm, Papa I just called. He said Papa had just arrived in Bandung. I have to see Papa for a second, Tan. You're worried about me." Grace gave a reason for Arina to believe in him.

" But Aldi just called Auntie, Aldi forbade you from leaving here." Unaware of the problems, Arina tells Grace the truth if Rivaldi has just called and holds Grace back from leaving the house.

Grace gasped at Arina's honesty about Rivaldi who had contacted her.

" A-Aldi forbid me to go? Why is that, Tan?" ask Grace astonished.

" Aunty doesn't know. But Aldi ordered Aunt not to let you leave the house." Arina explained what Rivaldi had asked of her.

" Well, Aldi forbid that, Tan? Aldi just happened to help me, and I'm not his prisoner. Why am I locked up like this, Tan?!" It's certain that Grace knew the reason Rivaldi had forbidden her to leave. But, he had to keep on playing the show before Arina, as if he was annoyed at feeling that his activities were being restricted by Rivaldi.

" Aunty is sorry that Aldi's attitude makes you uncomfortable, Rena." Arina feels guilty with Rivaldi's attitude which looks like it is indeed restraining Grace, for banning Grace from the Nugraha family home.

" Aunty, please give me permission to come out. It won't be long, Tan. I don't intend to run away anyway. Auntie see for yourself I just brought a sling bag, right?" Grace tries to persuade and convince Arina to let her go.

" Please, Tan." Grace holds Arina's hand, so that Arina is affected by it.

" Hmmm, okay. But, come back quickly, Rena. Don't let Aldi know Aunt let you go." Still worried that Rivaldi would be angry if he found out she was letting Grace go, Arina asked Grace not to leave her home too long.

" May, Aunt. I just want to see my dad for a second, really." said Grace.

" You'll be delivered with Auntie's driver, huh?" Arina offers to have Grace driven from her family

" No, Tan. I've booked a taxi, all right." Grace refuses Arina's offer. " Thank you, Tan. I'll go first." Grace hugged Arina and pressed her cheeks alternately onto Arina's cheeks to say goodbye. To be honest she was very pleased with the attention that Arina had given her. Grace herself did not expect that behind the meek figure, there was a painful story that Arina had to go through.

Hearing the story of Arina, actually Grace felt filled with the story of Arina's past. Unknowingly even Grace also shed tears when she heard Grace's story about the journey of life in the past mother continued Rivaldi.

After saying goodbye, Grace leaves Arina. Maybe if he wasn't undercover, it felt like he could continue to communicate with Arina. Because honestly, she couldn't be this familiar with her own mother.

" O Allah, if the servant cannot be reunited with the servant's daughter again, the servant begs that Rena may become the servant's daughter-in-law someday." By staring at Grace's body that was getting away from her, Arina slipped a prayer so that Rivaldi could match Grace.

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Arina looks restless walking back and forth waiting for Grace's arrival. Several times he turned to the clock on the wall of his living room.

Today, time is nearing the Maghreb. However, Grace did not return, and even her phone could not be reached. Especially when the sound of a car stopping in front of his house. Arina turned towards the door of the house, seeing Rivaldi walking into the house.

" Aldi?" Arina felt guilty for not listening to what Rivaldi had ordered and letting Grace go.

" Where's Rena, Ma?" Rivaldi immediately asked Grace's whereabouts to Arina.

" Mrs ...."

Not waiting for Arina's answer, Rivaldi immediately ran up the stairs to the guest room occupied by Grace.

Braakkk

Rivaldi rudely opened Grace's room door while shouting Grace's name.

" Rina! Where are you!?" rivaldi shouted full of rage.

" Mrsai!!" Rivaldi looking from balcony to bedroom. But Grace was not met either.

" Aldi, why are you screaming like that?" Arina, who followed Rivaldi to Grace's room, asked why she was screaming like an emotional person.

" Ma, where's Rena?" tanya Rivaldi grasped both arms of his mother.

" Mrs ..." Arina paused her speech. He saw Rivaldi's current face filled with anger, making him fear himself.

" Where's Rena, Ma!?" Not getting an answer from Arina, Rivaldi increasingly clutching and even shake Arina's body.

" R-Rena, Rena had permission to go to see her father, Aldi. Rena said her father just arrived in Bandung and wants to meet with Rena." Arina explains the reason given by Grace when asking her permission to leave the house.

" And Mama gave her permission? Didn't I tell you not to let Rena get out of here, Ma!?" With a slightly jolting tone, Rivaldi felt disappointed towards the Mama.

" I'm sorry Mama, Aldi." Getting the rough treatment of Rivaldi, Arina immediately sobbed.

" Ma, I'm sorry Aldi." Awakened and seeing Arina crying because of her attitude, Rivaldi immediately embraced the woman who since childhood gave a mother's affection to him.

" What's the matter, Aldi? Why are you so angry?" Arina questions the reason Rivaldi looks emotional like that.

Rivaldi broke his embrace from Arina's body. Then Rivaldi's grin was immediately heard, indicating that the man was experiencing disappointment.

" Rena is a fraud, Ma." said Rivaldi to answer his mother's question.

" Astaghfirullahal enzyme ...! Rena con artist? What's he cheating on, Aldi?" Struggled to hear Rivaldi's answer, Arina seemed to not believe that Grace was a fraud.

" He was not the son of Mr. Satria, the owner of Langgeng Putra Persada company. He and his friend who claimed to be named Firman, initially came to my office and claimed to be a messenger of Langgeng company, wanted to cooperate with my company. In fact, Rena herself claimed to be the son of the owner of the company." Rivaldi told me as clearly as possible what happened to him.

" Then how? Has your company suffered a loss, Aldi?" ask Arina worried.

" Thankfully not, Ma. Because we have not reached an agreement. They ask for a long payment period. It's a good thing it was all revealed early, so my company wasn't harmed." Rivaldi sat on the edge of the bed by massaging his temple.

Arina looked at Rivaldi who was so disappointed. He did not expect that the woman Rivaldi had brought and introduced him to was a deceitful woman. Though he himself already felt a match for Grace, even hope Grace can be.

***

" What is this, honey?" Erlangga read write it on the label on the bottle.

" It's a vitamin, Mas. Mama told me to take that vitamin so that the fetus in my stomach was growing healthy" Kayra said.

" Mom gave you this vitamin?" Somewhat surprised Erlangga found out his mother gave vitamins to his wife.

" Yes, I'm so glad Mama was so attentive with this baby in my stomach, Mas." said Kayra while rubbing her stomach with a sparkling face.

Erlangga looked at the face of his wife who looked very happy. Can't he imagine if his wife knew if her conjecture about Kayra was Arina's real child. Kayra will be devastated.

" Why are you staring at me like that?" kayra asked in wonder because Erlangga was looking at her so fixedly.

" It's okay, honey." Erlangga rubbed Kayra's head. " You know what, honey? You look more beautiful when pregnant, Kayra" said Erlangga later.

" It's because I'm so happy, Mom." Kayra put her head on Erlangga's shoulder spoiled.

" What makes you happy?" erlangga asked with her fingers playing Kayra's hair.

" I'm happy because I'm surrounded by people who love me so much" Kayra said.

Erlangga sighed hearing what Kayra said. He will definitely try to make his wife always feel comfortable and happy like this. Even though in the future there are serious things that his wife must know. And he hoped Kayra would be able to accept the reality that might be bitterly accepted by the wife.

" I love you so much, Kayra." Erlangga kissed Kayra's head.

" I know, Mas. Because I've loved it since I first met you, right?" Kayra looked up at the handsome face of her husband.

" Yes, you're right." Erlangga's hand now rubbed Kayra's face which indeed made her amazed since the beginning of the meeting. And now that he found the answer, why was his feeling towards Kayra so strong? Because it turns out Kayra's cousin's sister. And he loved Kayra when she was still in Arina's stomach. Although he has not found the truth about his wife is his cousin's sister, but Erlangga is so sure of his assumption.

" Dear, I want you to be sure if me, Papa and maybe Mama will also love you more," Erlangga said looking lovingly towards his wife. He had to convince his wife, whoever Kayra was, no matter where Kayra came from, that she would not lose her love for him.

" Because I'm pregnant with Mas's child, right?" guess Kayra.

" It's not just that, Kayra. I love you even more, because you are my cousin's sister whom I have been looking for." Erlangga's inner self as she kissed the sweet lips of her beloved wife.

***

" Mom's not asleep?" Erlangga saw her mother-in-law sitting in a kitchen with some ART at her house.

" Oh, not yet, son. Mom is discussing Kayra's four-monthly cooking. Kayra's pregnancy is now in her second trimester. That's why I talked to the others to prepare food for the event." Ms. Sari explained what she was talking about with ART.

" When is the show, Mom? Later order in catering alone let's not bother." Erlangga suggested using catering services that will handle food affairs.

" What's the catering message for, son? It's just a home study event with the people who live here. But later the neighbors around here are sent alone thanks to the four months." Ibu Sari explained if the four-monthly event to be held did not invite others as Kayra requested, so it does not need catering assistance.

" Just a house guy? What is the show usually, Mom?" ask Erlangga who does not understand about the four-month study event.

" Normally mostly invite neighbors around the house, son. But, since we don't really know the neighbors here yet, so the plan is to have a self-study." Sari's mother explained.

" Yes, I'll talk to Kayra about her four-monthly show, Mom." Erlangga pulled the chair and sat on it.

" Yes, Son." said Ms. Sari.

" Hmmm, you used to work as a midwife, didn't you?" tanya Erlangga began to pry the information from her mother-in-law.

" Yes, the mother was the assistant midwife, who helped the midwife work to take care of the baby and also the mother who gave birth," said Ms. Sari, not realizing that her daughter-in-law was currently fishing information from her.

" How long did it take to be a midwife's assistant, Mom?" ask Erlangga back.

" Since I wasn't married until I had Kayra. Because no one was taking care of Kayra, so I stopped working." Ibu Sari explained.

" That means you've quit working a long time ago. After Kayra was born?"

" Yes, after all, the mother-in-law who used to help me move to Medan, brought her son who was married to Medan people," said Ibu Sari.

Erlangga focused on the sentence 'Mother midwife moved to Medan'. Doesn't that fit with the story of Arina who said if the midwife where Arina gave birth moved out of the island shortly after helping Arina deliver.

" So the midwife where Mom worked before moved out of the island huh, Mom?" ask Erlangga to make sure.

" Right, son." said Ms. Sari.

Erlangga took a breath and exhaled slowly. The facts about Kayra, which is likely to be her cousin's sister, seem to be wide open with information given by Ibu Sari.

" Kayra looks more like who's Mom? Mom or Dad?" ask Erlangga later.

Sari's mother was silent for a moment when she got a question from her daughter-in-law.

" Hmmm, m-similar as his father," said Sari's mother nervously.

" But it's very similar to Mom." Erlangga.

" Oh yeah?"

" Yes, Mom. I thank you, Mother, for taking good care of Kayra, so that I can marry an angelic hearted woman like Kayra." It is undeniable that Kayra's soft, polite and affectionate character is the result of the upbringing of Ms. Sari and her husband. Regardless of the reason why Kayra was not entrusted to the orphanage as requested by Arina, Erlangga was very grateful that her cousin's sister was taken care of by a kind husband and wife such as Ibu Sari and Pak Ariyanto.

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