ILLUSIANA (CONTRACT MARRIAGE)

CHAPTER 12

The clanking sound from the elevator room rang out and before long the door was wide open. Reynard's figure came out from there because his goal had already reached the twenty floor.

Then the man lightly stepped closer to the reception desk located not far from the elevator door.

The two women made-up thickly, the occupants of the reception desk immediately stood up to greet the charming man. A sweet smile was compact from the lips of both. Either it is a work procedure or it is a charm.

“Good day, Sir. Can we help you?” hello Intan, glasses receptionist.

“Siang, I want to see Mr. Ferdian,” Reynard replied later.

“Do you have any prior appointments, Sir?”

Reynard momentarily sighed lazily. “Please tell me your boss, Reynard who is looking,” Reynard replied a little annoyed to serve the two receptionists who are pretentious formil. Although it is like a procedure that they must undergo when there are guests who want to meet with the leader.

'Since when should I make an appointment to meet my best friend first.' he thought annoyed.

“But, sir...” serve a receptionist named Dewi.

“Hello, Reynard.... “ Suddenly the voice of a woman calls him from behind. Reynard also looked.

Vika, the Ferdian secretary whom he had known for quite a long time, smiled broadly at him.

“Vika, how are you? More beautiful aja.” Reynard stroked Vika's shoulder without hesitation and then thrust both cheeks Vika, a friendly cipika cipiki on the fashionable-looking woman.

Vika also reciprocated Reynard's treatment with the same familiar.

“My news is good, Rey. Tumben to here?” ask Vika.

“Iya would like to see your Boss. Ada?”

Vika nodded confidently. “There is, just finished meeting. Go straight to the room, Rey. Do you want me to drop off?” Vika offered herself politely.

“No need, don't bother, I can do it myself,” Reynard replied directly.

“OK lah if so. Please, Rey.”

“Thanx yes, Vik. Oyya. Greetings to your husband and children.”

Vika just nodded with a big smile and gave her thumbs up to Reynard.

Arriving in front of a room, Reynard just opened the door without knocking first. Then step lightly into it.

The work room was quite spacious with aquamarine-colored walls that seemed warm. In the middle there is a set of white leather sofas and in front of it is a square glass table.

Two wall hangings in the form of abstract paintings perched on two sides that cross each other.

One word for the atmosphere of the room. Cozy's. Warm as the owner. Ferdian Adiwijaya's.

“Good afternoon, Bossque,“ call Reynard light and relaxed.

Ferdian who was seriously struggling on his laptop screen looked up and turned briefly at the origin of the sound. As if it was just the wind then, Ferdian resumed his activities.

Unasked, Reynard threw himself on the leather chair in front of Ferdian.

“Busy, Bro?” he asked again because he saw Ferdian so solemnly staring at the screen of his laptop.

“Not too, just again check the financial statements,” replied Ferdian just then close the screen of his laptop and tidy up the files scattered on the table.

Gerakan Ferdian terhenti saat tangan Reynard terjulur bersama sebuah amplop coklat besar ke hadapannya.

“What is this?” ferdian asked after receiving it and opened the fastening rope of the envelope.

“That's all the reports from our informant. About Susi, the girl who lives in your house it.”

Ferdian immediately took out the files from the brown envelope and read them one by one.

“It turns out Lusi is the son of an expedition businessman, Bro. She was already an orphan, her father had just died a few weeks ago and was forced to live with her mother and step-sister.

And all the stories of Lusi turned out to be true, that he was 'sold' by his stepmother to Bramanto with a very expensive value. Our people got that info from one of his stepmother Lusi's colleagues who became a broker between Bramanto and Merry's mother, his stepmother. And there are also attached photos of Merry's mother taken remotely." Reynard explained with a serious look.

Ferdian takes a deep look at the pictorial photographs of Merry's mother, Lusi's stepmother, taken from several different angles. Sometimes he seemed to shake his head and let out a heavy sigh.

“And our informant said, many are looking for the whereabouts of Lusi. Including the mother who has a flower stall where Lusi works. He was so worried that he made a missing person announcement on social media.” Reynard again.

Ferdian mangosteen understood to hear information from his best friend.

“This is very good information, Bro,” exciting Ferdian later.

“Known, the late father of Lusi has a considerable debt in several banks. And the deceased guarantees all his assets including the house. It could be that his stepmother Lusi was selling Susi to Bramanto to pay off their debt in the bank and intend to control the assets of the late father of Lusi who should have been the rights of Lusi as a biological child.“

“That's fine, I'm sure so. Absolutely outrageous evil stepmother was. Once,“ reply Ferdian while shaking his head, then looked at his friend's face with a serious look.

“Eeehmm, Bro.... I have a real proposal, and I think it's best for now.” Reynard's tone began to sound even more serious.

“What is it?” ask Ferdian more curious, because usually Reynard to the point talk to him if there is something that feels important.

Reynard stared deeply into Ferdian's face before revealing what he was proposing.

“How would you marry that girl. Lusi.” 

Reynard's words made Ferdian stare and gape at hearing it. He looked for a joke on the look on his best friend's face. But it seems he failed to find her.

Reynard's handsome face remained with a serious expression and showed no signs of joking at all.

“Ah, you're crazy. Wherever I may marry her, there haven't been two weeks I've known her, Rey," Ferdian protested spontaneously. He felt that Reynard's proposal was very unreasonable and far-fetched.

“Begini, Bro. You and the girl are facing the same enemy. Bramantou. You know who Bramanto is? A sly and sadistic person who has the power and wealth to destroy his opponent. To deal with such a man we must also have the same cunning way, Bro. We have to attack him from all directions. Including utilizing the case of Lusi.”

Ferdian looked deeper into Reynard's face. And trying to digest the sentences per sentence Reynard spoke.

“Yes, but why marry her, Rey? Is there no other way?” ferdian protests again accompanied by a dispute because they did not understand what his best friend proposed.

“I thought you would react like this. You remember the saying, once clap two dead flies, once row two three islands exceeded. With you marrying Lusi, you can use her case against Bramanto and you also have the legal power to act to protect the girl.

And in return for Lusi you helped him to take back the company and assets of his late father, which his stepmother now controls. How?“ Reynard explained it very clearly and clearly, also carefully.

Because Reynard found Ferdian who immediately seemed nervous in a meaningful confusion.

Evidently his finger twirled the pen in front of him with the eyeballs twitching straight at Reynard, a sign he was thinking hard about what he heard from the mouth of his best friend.

To be honest, there was a sense of hesitation swaying his mind. He did not expect the solution offered by Reynard quite confiscated his brain work.

And Reynard understands there is a deep concern in Ferdian at the moment. Especially if you talk about marriage in front of his best friend. He knew 'Marriage' was a very sensitive word in Ferdian's ear

“Quiet, Bro. Don't stress it dong.” Reynard patted Ferdian's arm to melt Ferdian's inner atmosphere.

“This wedding uses a pre-wedding agreement. I'll arrange whatever the deal is. Let's target your problems to be solved in five or six months. Our goal: your revenge is avenged, Lusi is safe and all the assets of the late father of Lusi come back to him. After all the business is done, you want to separate well yes please.”

Ferdian is drowning with his dilemma. On the one hand he admitted that Reynard's idea was right, but on the other hand the road to make it happen was too excessive by marrying the girl he had not long known.

He scratched his head that did not itch at all while sighing his breath that suddenly choked.

“Married? With the girl? Even she's the age of Cantika, my sister. My God, how could I do that. Yes, even though I admit he is a good and adorable child,” Ferdian's bathin voice disturbs his doubts.

Moreover, during these two years Ferdian was very anti-talk about marriage. Even he felt he no longer had the courage to knit a marriage relationship with a woman. Because he still has trauma and his heart is still injured.

Two years ago, in a hotel room he caught Amanda, his future wife was struggling hot on a bed with a man.

In fact, the next day was the day he would say kabul ijab in front of the penghulu to tie Amanda in a marriage.

Since then his heart has been broken, his trust in women has worn off and he tries to forget everything related to marriage.

Although Amanda repeatedly apologized to him in various ways, but still not able to heal the heart injury that was very painful he felt.

Reynard patted Ferdian's still dumbstruck arm staring at the end of the table. He knew his best friend's mind was in turmoil.

On one hand he wants to protect Lusi from the same enemy as him, Bramanto. On the other hand he had absolutely no right and no power whatsoever to go far in order to provide security to the girl.

“I unplug first, Bro. You try to reconsider my advice. It's for your own good, too. Because ever since you brought that girl into your house, you've been involved in her business ever since. Moreover, this enemy we are facing is not arbitrary, Bro. The cruel man named Bramanto was able to do anything, including eliminating people's lives,” said Reynard as he rose from his seat and prepared to step foot out of the room.

Ferdian moved from his seat. “Rey, thanx for the info. And your proposal I will consider. Keep contact, okay, Bro?“ said Ferdian with a flat but weakened tone of voice.

“OK," said Reynard giving his thumbs up at Ferdian. Then he stepped out of his best friend's office.

Ferdian breathed heavily. His mind again thought hard to digest Reynard's proposal earlier.

Lusi's sweet face in her mind. Immediately came a sense of compassion for the girl.

Already orphaned, his rights were taken away by his stepmother and now the safety of his soul was threatened. Complete is his suffering.

Ferdian recalls the events of that night, where Lusi with a frightened face banged on the door of his car begging to be rescued from the pursuit of Bramanto's guards.

What a great panic was clearly drawn on the face of the innocent girl. The wounds all over his body and face made Ferdian's heart witheringly imagine his pain.

True said Reynard, since that night inevitably he involved with the problems that now faced Lusi.

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