MY STEPBROTHER'S REPLACEMENT

Chapter #13

The morning felt a little different for Henrietta, usually she would make breakfast with Della, Ely's aunt, or other servants. But, now she was accompanied by her mother-in-law.

Sometimes her mother-in-law would invite her to talk while making breakfast.

"Ah, mommy is very happy today, from the first mommy really wants to cook with Henry's wife," said Emma with her carefree.

A bright face full of smiles that never fade from her beautiful face, sometimes small wrinkles will appear when Emma laughs or smiles.

Henrietta smiled at Emma's happy face. "What kind of food does daddy like mom?" ask Henrietta.

"Your Daddy loves Spanish food, his former secretary used to cook it for daddy" Emma replied.

"Mommy's not jealous?" ask Henrietta.

Emma chuckles small. " Of course not, they became coworkers long before mommy met daddy, daddy already thought of her like his own sister and vice versa, if daddy wants to have been dating or married to him for a long time,"

"Is she pretty?" ask Henrietta.

"Yes, she's very pretty, just like you" Emma said.

"Even mommy can cook because of her, at first mommy is just a career woman who rarely goes into the kitchen, but she teaches mommy very patiently, she's a very gentle woman" said Emma.

"Then where is he now? I wanted to see him" said Henrietta.

"We don't know, he suddenly quit his job and went somewhere, Elijah's been looking for him everywhere but the results are nil" Emma replied.

"First, when Henry was five years old, he had a wish that if he had a daughter he'd marry her to my little Henry" Emma said, laughing happily.

"She will also name her daughter with a name similar to Henry, so that we can easily recognize her" she said.

While stirring the cuisine that is being made.

"Elijah was even very protective of him, he did not allow an obscure man to approach him, because later he himself will find a future husband for his secretary," said Emma chuckled remembering Elijah's attitude first.

"What's mom called?" asked Henrietta who was very curious about the name of the woman who always told her mother-in-law.

"Ruth ... His name is Ruth Miller" Emma replied.

Henrietta immediately stopped the movement of her hand that was cutting tomatoes when she heard the name called by her mother-in-law.

Emma continues the story without realizing the change in the look of Henrietta's face is only a fraction of a second.

"Elijah said Ruth was a migrant, she came to New York to find work, when she was 23 years old, she met Elijah while helping Elijah's mother who was almost robbed, then Henry's grandmother took Ruth home and hired Ruth in the family company" explains Emma.

Henrietta said nothing more after hearing the story told by her mother-in-law.

Emma resumed cooking, suddenly as if remembering something Emma immediately looked at Henrietta.

'The face, the same cuisine, a name almost similar to Henry', ' Emma thought.

Suddenly the shadow of the past as he spends time alone with Ruth while looking at Henry who is running around with Elijah, words that reoccur in Emma's mind.

"If I'd been married and had a daughter, I'd have given a name similar to Henry, I wish they would be a match someday, I'm sure Henry will grow up to be a good, responsible man. And, if I were to go after my husband and we'd be apart for a long time, I'd like you to recognize my daughter by a name similar to Henry's,"

Emma's past memories are shattered when she wakes up from her.

Emma had asked quite often about Henrietta's mother and Henrietta always told her, but Emma forgot to ask her name.

"Henrietta?" call Emma while pressing Henri said at the beginning of her sentence.

"Yes mom?" suhut Henrietta is still focusing on his vegetable slices.

"Who's your mother's name?" emma asked, at once Henrietta immediately shifted her focus to the mother-in-law.

"Leonah ... Leona Rodri" replied Henrietta confidently.

Emma doesn't know if Henrietta is squeezing the edge of her dress to relieve her nervousness.

"Of course, mom, from my childhood with her, I may have been wrong with my own mother's name" Henrietta said.

"What's wrong mom?" ask Henrietta.

"There's nothing, mommy just wants to know your mother's name" replied Emma.

Henrietta just nodded and did not say anything, he resumed his duties and so did Emma.

Then don't make Emma's belief fade about Henrietta's mother, she'll find out later.

"Darling, is it still a long time?" elijah asked who was approaching them.

"Wait a minute" replied Emma.

Elijah kissed Emma's lips right in front of her daughter-in-law.

Emma pinches Elijah's shameless waist.

"Here is Rietta, aren't you ashamed?" said Emma.

"Leave it, Rietta doesn't mind either, does she?" elijah.

"Yes dad," replied Henrietta who felt a little awkward.

"Where's Henry?" ask Emma.

"He's in his gym room" Elijah replied.

"Call me when it's over, I'll be in Henry's study" Elijah said, kissing his wife's lips before leaving the two women.

"Your Daddy is like that, maybe Henry will follow in his footsteps later, too" said Emma intends to tease Henrietta.

Henrietta did not respond to the words of her mother-in-law, she was quite embarrassed and awkward to be in the middle between the husband and wife.

Not long after the cooking cooked by the two of them became.

"Mommy will call daddy first, you can call Henry" Emma said.

"Good mom" replied Henrietta.

Henrietta walks into Henry's gym near the back garden.

But when he got there he didn't see Henry.

"Excuse me, have you seen Henry?" henrietta asked who stopped a waiter.

"So easy sir went to his room" replied the waiter.

After saying thank you Henrietta went straight to her room.

He opened the door to the room to coincide with Henry who had just come out of the bathroom using only a towel wrapped around his waist.

Henrietta instantly stopped her steps when she realized that, she turned her face the other way without even seeing Henry.

"What's wrong?" ask Henry.

"Breakfast is ready, come down when it's done" replied Henrietta.

"Mc ... I'll be down later, " Henry said.

After Henry said that Henrietta came straight out of the room, and he subconsciously closed the door hard enough to shock Henry.

"What's wrong with her?" wonder Henry.