LOVE THE RECEPTIONIST

38. Dirga Attention

The new day shows at seven in the morning, new office activities will begin in an hour, but Dirga has arrived at his office in a neat suit.

"Good morning, Mr. Dirga," Rullina said with a friendly smile, welcoming the CEO from behind her desk.

Dirga stopped his steps, when he realized that Rullina was not standing alone behind the reception desk, someone he had been looking for two days in silence turned out to have returned to work.

"Good morning to Rullina too" said Dirga. He who used to be flat on his employees suddenly softened a little. The tip of his lips slightly pulled upwards forming a smile and was barely noticeable.

Deggs.

Rullina gasped, pinching her own hand while gnashing her eyes a few times, he did not expect the flat CEO to return his greeting a second time with a faint smile after the first time two days ago for three years he worked as a receptionist there.

Dirga took his eyes off Rullina and looked at Monaliza who stood up but did not say hello, because she was represented by her best friend Rullina.

"Are you well, Monaliza?" ask Dirga gently. After Megan's death, she greets a woman other than her mother this time in a soft voice.

Hearing Dirga's words, not about her question, but her unusual, soft-sounding style of speech, made Rullina and Monaliza look at each other for a few seconds, then the two looked back at Dirga who was still looking at Monaliza.

"Yes sir, I'm well" said Monaliza with an awkward smile.

"I'm glad to hear that if you feel unwell, or unwell just tell me," said Dirga again, still with a barely noticeable smile.

Monaliza and Rullina looked back at each other, looking at the faces of both of them showing astonishment at Dirga's unusual strange speech. Because the Company has prepared medics who are ready to serve all employees who are working if suddenly fall ill, instead of directly informing the CEO.

"But sir, there are no medics who deal with employees like me," said Monaliza looking at Dirga still with a look of astonishment.

"That's true, but if you're treated by those medics, tell them to report to me" Dirga said.

"Well, sir" said Monaliza, although she still does not understand and still feels strange about the intention of the CEO, she immediately agreed, so that his boss will soon leave them, especially him.

After hearing Monaliza's reply, sure enough, without saying anything more, Dirga-pun left the reception desk with her light steps towards the elevator. His face is back again.

"Mona" call Rullina to her best friend and co-worker.

"Hm, what is Ru," said Monaliza without turning her head, she was checking her work on the computer monitor screen in front of her. Every morning he and Rullina had to first check the guest list, and the messages to be conveyed to all the managers in the office where they worked.

"Sir Dirga, he seems different in recent days" said Rullina. He looked at Monaliza who was still focused on her work.

"Different how do you mean Ru?" monaliza asked, but she still did not take her eyes off the computer monitor screen in front of her.

"Yes, that's right, then?" sahut Monaliza confirmed the words of her friend.

"Two days ago, when you were sick, Mr. Dirga asked me about you. He looked worried when I told him you were still sick. Then today, Mr. Dirga said if you get sick again, you should report to him" Rullina said.

Monaliza stopped her activities for a moment, she turned her face to Rullina who was sitting next to her and looked closely at her friend's face. In his heart he felt something strange about the attitude of his CEO

"What's possible, sir Dirga likes you? It's like that Mona. Did you see how she said softly to you?" Rullina tried to convey the assumptions that were in her mind.

"No way," said Monaliza quickly. He remembered how Dirga was flat and rude the last time his CEO accompanied him in the hospital. Plus now she is not a virgin because she has been fucked by her lover Leon.

"Maybe Mona, from her attitude I feel Mr. Dirga likes you. Moreover, Megan's mother is gone, so Mr. Dirga is a free man," said Rullina eagerly.

"Ru, that's impossible, let alone I already have Leon. I-I can't turn away from her" said Monaliza blankly ahead. His gaze looked far away, considering the events of a few nights ago, what if she was pregnant, should she get married, while he did not know whether Leon's parents approve of their relationship.

The crane! The crane! The crane!

Rullina and Monaliza both flinched when they heard the sound of the office phone on their desk ringing. Rullina swiftly grabbed the phone handle and received a phone call. While Monaliza back on the monitor screen in front of her.

...***...

"Leon, didn't you have breakfast again this morning?" mrs Gamsonrich asked her second son, when he saw Leon did not touch his breakfast.

"No Ma, Leon's not hungry" Leon said without spirit.

"Leon, breakfast is not because we feel hungry, but it is a must for the body, so that we are ready to live the day. Our body health is maintained, .increasing energy, nutrients for the brain, maintaining concentration, and others. Without Mama saying it you would have been, too" Leon's mother said, glancing at her son's face.

"You why Leon? These few days Mama has seen you lethargic, like there is something heavy you are thinking about." looked at Madame Gamsonrich, as a mother she could feel something that her son was thinking about.

Leon looked at the faces of his parents who were enjoying their breakfast. He hesitates when he has to say what is in his heart, until now he has not found a good time to talk more seriously what is contained in his heart.

"Now it's breakfast" said Gamsonrich pointing a plate of bread and fruit juice in front of Leon. Although with a lazy taste Leon still eat breakfast in the morning.

On the sidelines of his breakfast, a notification came into his phone. Leon grabbed his phone, hoping the notification he heard was a message from Monaliza who had not given it days after they returned from the hotel.

Leon was fixated, when his pair of eyes saw the value he had transferred to Dirga's account to pay the debt Monaliza has now been returned in full to his account, without any information or anything from Dirga.

"Leon, what did the message say?" mrs Gamsonrich asked curiously, when she saw Leon's face immediately changed while staring at his phone.