LOVE THE RECEPTIONIST

50. Revealed

"After the doctor who examined me this morning said that I was pregnant" Monaliza dissected her speech for a moment, she adjusted her breath that felt tight in the chest before finishing her sentence. While Leon was still speechless, unable to say anything.

"Sir Dirga said that if this seed in my womb was his, he slept with me that night. Explain to me Leon, why would he say that to me? Until this afternoon he still said that to me?" monaliza said with a trembling voice until her cries finally exploded.

Leon held Monaliza's body into his arms. The pain that he had been enduring was increasingly heartbreaking. His hatred for Dirga became more and more, the man who had usurped the honor of his lover, and was now blatantly trying to usurp his lover to make his wife.

Leon closed his eyes, breathing air to replace the oxygen in his lungs. The tightening of his embrace on Monaliza's body, just to eliminate the anxiety in her.

"I'm sorry Mona, I can't take good care of you" muttered Leon Lirih. He rubbed the long hair of Monaliza who was still sobbing in his arms.

"That night-" Leon started his story, in fact he wanted to keep the bitter story just for himself. But he decided to tell it, because gradually, the story that he considered a secret, is not a secret anymore, because there is Dirga who also knows it. And the man had opened it to Monaliza despite not saying it clearly.

For him, the story is a shameful history in his life, a woman whose status is his lover, desecrated by another man in his own family's hotel, even he himself ordered her for his lover to rest.

Monaliza stopped her crying, hearing the truth that Leon conveyed through her story, it turns out that Dirga did not lie to her.

Monaliza let go of Leon's hand that was hugging her forcefully. The truth of the story made him feel embarrassed mixed with anger.

"I want to go home now Leon" said Monaliza as she stood up from Leon's lap.

"Mona, please forgive me, it's all my fault" Leon pulled Monaliza's hand away from her.

"Let go of Leon's hand, I want to go home now, I want to calm myself down," Monaliza tried to let go of Leon's hand that held her tightly.

"All right, but I'll take you home" Leon said, taking Monaliza's hand off.

"No, I can go home alone," refused Monaliza, she rushed to get her briefcase and half ran she passed out of the room to the front door which was quite a distance away because the penthouse was quite spacious.

Leon does not stay silent, he chases Monaliza and can catch up with her before her lover manages to get out the front door.

"Mona, I was wrong, I'm sorry. But let me take you home, I'm afraid something's happened to you Mona, I beg you," Leon said earnestly.

"I told you Leon, I can go home by myself" said Monaliza still refused.

"Mona, I'll take you, you can't go home alone" Leon said. Monaliza was silent, she had indeed seen Leon several times to be firm with his people, this was the first time Leon had behaved like that to her, probably because he had been stubborn before.

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Monaliza let Leon's hand hold her hand, as the two walked side by side across the narrow alley to her house which already seemed deserted because the night was late.

The doors of the houses of the neighbors Monaliza-pun all closed, only the sound of television that is not too clear heard from the houses of the neighbors left and right Monaliza.

Geck! Geck! Geck!

Monaliza knocked on the door, while Leon stood next to her and had already removed his hand from Monaliza's hand.

Not waiting as long as usual, the sound of footsteps came closer. Monaliza knows her mother's footsteps.

"Come in, Mona, son of Leon," Bianka's mother returned the smile of her daughter and Leon and let the two of them in.

"I'll excuse you, ma'am, it's late at night" said Leon at the door.

"Come on Leon, I've made you two hot tea" said Bianka's mother.

Leon glanced at Monaliza's face beside him, and responded with a nod by her lover. The two then entered, and Monaliza closed the door tightly.

"Sit down first, I'll get you some tea in the back" Bianka's mother said as she passed.

"Let me take her, Mom," said Monaliza as she followed her mother from behind.

"No need Mona, just accompany Leon, you just have to take his tea," said Bianka's mother.

Monaliza according to then turned around, he returned to the guest room of his house which is fairly narrow, relics from his father.

"Aren't you usually at this hour you haven't slept?" said Leon half-whispered to Monaliza who had just landed herself on a plastic chair near Leon.

"Yes, maybe because Rony is asleep and tomorrow will be school, so the mother is waiting for us" said Monaliza. Actually he felt there was a bad feeling in connection with his mother who was waiting for their return.

Bianka's mother finally returned, brought a tray in her hand, and placed what she carried on the plastic-based living table.

"Drink first Leon, Mona, so that your body feels warm. The air tonight feels so cold" said Bianka's mother, folding her hands in front of her chest.

Leon and Monaliza looked at each other for a moment, because both felt quite sultry that night, especially in the narrow guest room there was no fan because it was brought into the room.

"Thank you Mother, there's really no need to bother," said Leon, he grabbed a cup of tea, then sipped it little by little to appreciate Bianka's mother-in-law.

"Come on Mona, drink up. You are new from the outside, you must drink warm so as not to catch a cold," Bianka's mother told her daughter who had not touched her tea glass.

"Yes Ma'am," Monaliza said, she grabbed her tea glass and sipped it softly.

"Take your tea, both of you" said Bianka's mother, as she finished her tea, which was a little on the bottom of her glass. He then watched the two young men sitting in front of him after sticking his empty tea glass on the table.

"Mona, explain to me, what does this mean?" Bianka's mother took out a flat object the size of an ice cream stick from inside her negligee pocket and showed the lovers in front of her, after both of them had finished their tea.

What worried Monaliza also happened, she lowered her head in and squeezed her briefcase in her lap, she did not dare to look at her mother's face.

"Say, who's Mona's baby's father?" firmly Bianka's mother looked at her daughter's face who still did not dare to see her face.

"I'm the father of a baby that Monaliza Bu has conceived?" Leon suddenly spoke. Monaliza was surprised to hear Leon's confession, she immediately opened her mouth to refute. But Leon immediately touched his lover's arm so that Monaliza did not say anything.

"Why do you dare to do that? I'm very disappointed that you've misused my trust" said Bianka's mother with a reddened face and desperate in anger. Various worries since she found her daughter's pregnancy test since this morning increasingly so-so.

"And you want Leon. Don't you know, you two haven't got the blessing of both your parents" Bianka's mother said, turning to Leon.