BEING THE CEO'S MISTRESS

What Do You Do With a Hero?

Kayra walked slowly towards her desk but her hearing continued to catch the debate going on inside Erlangga's work house. His heart was immediately struck by anxiety. She was afraid that if Erlangga and Caroline separated, she would definitely feel guilty because she made Erlangga wish for her heart.

Kayra felt that she was the most evil woman in the world because she had taken her husband from another woman. Remembering that instant the heat attacked his eyes to make clear fluid accumulate in his beautiful eyeball.

" Oh my God, why does it have to be like this?" Kayra closed her eyes until the clear liquid that she could stand to not fall finally spilled also soaked her cheeks. Kayra immediately pulled the tissue on the table and wiped her tears. He didn't want anyone to know he was crying.

While in the room Erlangga fierce debate still occurs between Erlangga, Vishnu and Caroline. Erlangga felt entitled to regulate and prohibit Caroline from pursuing her ambitions because she felt she was the husband of Caroline, while Vishnu himself felt entitled to Caroline because Caroline was bound by a work contract with a well-known agency in the country.

" I can pay damages as a fine for the termination of employment between my wife and the agency! How much nominal should be paid? Just say! I can afford it!" Mendegar Vishnu who acted like a hero to Caroline made Erlangga even more inflamed. He felt Vishnu had been too involved in interfering with his household affairs. Even Erlangga always considered if Vishnu was the mastermind who always instigated Caroline until his wife was often against him.

" You think your wife can't afford to pay for the damages, Erlangga!? It's not about the money, it's about her reputation as a model! How could she become a professional world model if she could not submit to the cooperation contract she had made with the agency!?" Vishnu still trying to defend Caroline.

Erlangga was now staring at Caroline who was still sobbing.

" You can abide by the rules that the agency set up, but you can't bow to the bonds of our marriage, Caroline!" A disappointed tone was heard from Erlangga's sentence.

" If indeed you are heavier on your career, I don't think there is any benefit to our marriage being maintained!" Erlangga.

" Dear, don't be like that! We can talk good about this. There must be no parting with this marriage." Caroline hugged Erlangga with a sobbing cry.

" I'm tired of always fighting with you over your career, Caroline!" Erlangga unraveled Caroline's hand that was coiled around her body.

" But I don't want us to be apart, honey." Caroline did not want to accept Erlangga's decision about separation.

" You can't choose between our marriage or your career. You always thought I was getting in the way of your career. If that's always your excuse, we'd better end this marriage." Erlangga believes Caroline will not dare to give up her career, so she decided it was time she had to make a firm decision with her marriage.

" Dear, give me some time to think. I don't want to part with you .. hiks ...."

" As long as you feel the weight of leaving your career, there's no need for me to give you more time to think, Caroline!" Erlangga.

Caroline continued to cry, even now sitting on her knees before Erlangga while holding her husband's leg, so that Erlangga would change her decision.

" Caroline, stop! Don't humble yourself in front of a selfish husband like him!" Seeing Caroline sit on her knees, Vishnu became furious. He helps Caroline to stand up and end embarrassing herself. " You'd better leave your husband as inconsiderate as he is, There are still many other men who want you, why do you keep this arrogant man!?"

Buugghh

A fist immediately landed on Vishnu's handsome face shortly after Vishnu ended his sentence. And that fist came from Erlangga's fist that could not stand him being insulted and underestimated by Vishnu.

" Breng sek!! Get out of my office, and never set foot in my place!!" Erlangga who was influenced by anger expelled Vishnu who he considered to be outrageous.

" Fuck, you!!" Vishnu wanted to retaliate but Caroline quickly restrained Vishnu's body so as not to retaliate against the fist that was cast Erlangga.

" No, Vishnu ...!!"

" If it wasn't Caroline, I wouldn't have set foot in your place either!" ketus Vishnu. " Come, Caroline! We better get out of here!" Vishnu pulled Caroline's arm and took the woman outside the room.

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Kayra saw Caroline sobbing walking with Vishnu embracing her out of Erlangga's room. Kayra bit her lips, she felt sadness in Caroline's heart with the parting words Erlangga said.

" Once, Caroline. Why are you crying over a stubborn man like Erlangga? He wants you to understand him but he himself doesn't want to understand you." Vishnu tried to influence Caroline to accept the separation offered by Erlangga.

" But I love her, Wis.." tepis Caroline still with sobs.

" Your love doesn't bring you happiness, Caroline! Oh, come on, Caroline .. I'm sure you'll be able to get a better man than Erlangga and understand yourself."

Kayra widened her eyes at Vishnu's words as Vishnu and Caroline waited for the elevator door to open. Kayra did not expect that Caroline's friend was giving bad advice, because she told Caroline to agree to a separation with Erlangga.

Prang

When the elevator door carrying Caroline and Vishnu closed, the sound of a glass impact that hit a hard object from inside the Erlangga workhouse made Kayra gasp in shock.

Kayra could have guessed if the sound was from an object that Erlangga might have thrown. Kayra was doubtful whether she wanted to go inside or not. But because of his worry, Kayra finally ventured into Erlangga's room.

Kayra saw Erlangga standing around her waist facing out the window. Looks like the man is trying to temper his anger because of the quarrel with Caroline and Vishnu. Kayra then looked towards the dining table, she did not see the plates and glasses Erlangga used to eat. He saw it fall on the floor with a carpet. Even Erlangga's glass can be seen breaking because it hit the wall that caused the sound he heard earlier.

Kayra tried to pick up the broken glass from the glass scattered below. His eyes occasionally glanced towards Erlangga who was unaware of his existence in the room.

" Abueh ...!" peekit Kayra's. His busy eyes watching Erlangga who was still standing by the window made him not see until his finger was hit by the broken glass that was being cleaned by him.

Hearing Kayra's cry, Erlangga suddenly turned her gaze towards Kayra's voice. Erlangga who had not noticed the presence of the woman in his room immediately ran and approached Kayra.

" Kayra, what's wrong with you?" Erlangga saw Kayra's index finger bleed. " You hurt?" Erlangga immediately sucked the injured finger of Kayra with her mouth making Kayra gasp with Erlangga's attitude that looked very worried about her.

" You should have just had someone clean, so you're not hurt like this." Erlangga then took a tissue and cleaned the blood on Kayra's finger.

" I'm fine, sir." said Kayra.

" I'm calling the doctor, huh!?" Erlangga was about to get people to call a doctor for Kayra.

" No need, sir. It's just a small wound." Kayra forbade Erlangga who wanted to call a doctor for her.

" You shouldn't clean it yourself, Kayra." Erlangga was really worried to see Kayra who was injured even though only a broken glass was injured.

" Do you really want to part with Mom?" Kayra ventured to ask about the matter that became the quarrel of Erlangga and Caroline as well as Vishnu earlier.

Erlangga snorted violently at Kayra's question,

" Is it because you married me and you wanted to divorce Caroline's mother?" asked Kayra with a tight chest. Had his conjecture been true, how sinful he would have been for destroying the holy marriage of two men who loved each other.

" Don't you love Mom so much?" Kayra tried to meet with Erlangga. He saw the disappointment behind Erlangga's anger.

" Love alone is not enough to sustain my household with Caroline, Kayra. His ambition to achieve his goal is no longer in my control. I'm tired of always arguing like this with Caroline and she doesn't want to indulge in my willingness to leave her career as a model." Erlangga explains why she decided she wanted to end her household with Caroline.

" I feel bad if you part with Mom, sir." Kayra could not hold back her tears.

" Don't blame yourself, Kayra. You're not guilty of this." Erlangga wiped away the clear liquid dripping on Kayra's smooth cheeks.

" I beg you to stay with me and accompany me, Kayra." Erlangga pulled Kayra's body and drowned into her arms, making Kayra instantly sob because after all she still felt guilty if the Erlangga and Caroline household was really over.

***

Caroline was still crying in her car driven by Vishnu while exiting the parking lot of Erlangga's office. And Vishnu also repeatedly tried to calm Caroline so as not to dissolve in sadness.

" Once, Caroline! Stop acting bo doh by crying over your useless husband." Feeling annoyed that Caroline did not stop her crying, Vishnu cursed by mocking Erlangga as a useless husband.

" Don't keep crying like this, Caroline. You'll have to meet people from Germany tomorrow, if your eyes are swollen from crying too much, how will they trust you to star in that cosmetic commercial?"

" Do I have to cancel that ad, Wis? I have to talk to Erlangga again, I have to persuade her that she would abandon her intention to part!" Caroline was completely unwilling if her marriage to Erlangga ended.

" Are you already gi la, Caoline? Have you canceled an event in Brussels some time ago, and now you want to cancel the opportunity to star in this big ad? Your reputation and career will be ruined if you do that, Caroline!" Vishnu opposed Caroline's plans to cancel plans to star in a famous German cosmetic ad.

" Caroline, you have to listen to me! You really have to choose one among Erlangga or your career. Erlangga already firmly wants to separate, why are you begging him? You should show Erlangga that you can succeed without being accompanied by him. You must fulfill your ambition to become an international model, Caroline! You must make Erlangga regret having dumped you!" Sentences of the spirit of provocation continued to be launched Vishnu so that Caroline was affected and heard his advice.

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" Are you done, Kayra?" erlangga asked to see Kayra who was trying to finish her work. Because the incident had honestly made Kayra lose focus on doing the task at her desk.

" No, sir." Kayra stood up and glanced at the clockwise direction on the wall that just showed at four in the afternoon.

" Pick up your desk, we're going home now!" Erlangga told Kayra to tidy up her desk and take Kayra home.

" But my work is not done, sir."

" This is my command, Kayra! Quickly clean up your desk!" Once again Erlangga gave the order. She did not even sit waiting on the sofa but standing in front of Kayra's desk made Kayra immediately follow Erlangga's orders.

After finishing the table, Kayra and Erlangga walked to the elevator door to the basement.

" Didn't Pak Wira play with his secretary Mr Erlangga?"

Kayra rounded her face as someone spoke as they exited the elevator. Spontaneous eyes turned towards Erlangga who directly directed his gaze towards Kayra with a sharp gaze. It seems Erlangga also heard the security speech in the basement.

" The rumors are like that. Someone saw the secretary of the boss crying in the room Mr. Wira." one other person said the security.

Erlangga immediately approached the person who was talking earlier.

" Are you guys working here just to gossip!?" asked Erlangga with a growl. His emotions that had not subsided seemed to be splashed back on hearing the exhaled gossip related to Kayra.

" Mr Erlangga??" The two people who were shaking Kayra were aghast with pale faces seeing the appearance of Erlangga in front of them.

" Get me your ID Card!!" Erlangga asked for the ID Card of the two people who were gossiping earlier.

" Pardon us, Mr. Erlangga." The two men bowed their bodies and apologized for not being taken out of their jobs.

" Get me your ID card!" Erlangga repeated his words. " Tomorrow take your last paycheck!" After receiving the two employees' ID cards, Erlangga immediately rushed to his car with wide steps.

Kayra looked at the two people who fired Erlangga earlier.

" I'm sorry, Ma'am." The two men apologized to Kayra.

Kayra didn't know what to say. He knew it was not them who initially spread the rumor but they were both affected until they were fired by Erlangga. Kayra then left them running when she heard the sound of Erlangga's car horn that signaled for her to quickly approach.

" What do these people mean, Kayra?" erlangga asked loudly when the car Erlangga was driving out of the basement and office building owned by Erlangga.

" I-it's just a misunderstanding, sir." Kayra was afraid that Erlangga would be angry with her because she knew that she was crying in the room of Wira.

" Misunderstand me? Then what does it mean to you crying in the room of the Hero?" Feeling dissatisfied with Kayra's answer, Erlangga demanded an explanation from Kayra.

Kayra was silent, she did not know how to convey the reason she was crying at that time.

" Why silence? What are you and Mr. Wira doing without my knowledge, Kayra!?" Erlangga's tone rose because Kayra did not answer her question.

Kayra closed her eyes, she was afraid Erlangga would get even more angry if she said back then she was complaining about Erlangga's decision forcing her to marry the man.

" Answer Kayra! What are you doing with the hero in his room?" Erlangga grabbed Kayra's arm until Kayra turned to her with a face grimacing in pain because Erlangga's hand grip was so strong on her arm.

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