NOT A WEDDING DRAMA

CHAPTER 32

Clara and Joni chatted while waiting for Aldrich to leave the villa.

"I think the old man's father sucks, turns out cool too." Clara said with a laugh.

"It's a professional office, Ra." Answer Joni.

Clara nodded. Clara learns that Joni is a widower whose wife died in childbirth eight years ago.

"So you want to get married again?" Ask Clara.

"Yes, I want Ra. But finding a wife isn't as easy as finding a boyfriend." Answer Joni.

Then they fell silent, until Joni asked Clara something.

"So Rissa's your ex-sister-in-law?" Ask Joni.

Clara nodded, "He's my ex-husband's only family that's good to me."

"So why don't you tell the boss that you're divorced now?" Ask Joni.

"And you told me to stick with my status because my data has not been changed." Clara turned the word Joni.

Joni scratched his nape, "Yes too, yeah." Then Joni said again, "But the boss is your friend, Ra."

Clara looked straight ahead. "Yes, he was my friend when he was Aldi. Now he's an Aldrich deity, he's my boss."

"The boss likes you, Ra." Joni's word arrived. "He was willing to disguise himself as an ordinary person and remove the Dewantara appendage to be close to you."

Clara sighed, "No, Mr. Jon, Aldrich likes me because he knows I'm not married. When he found out I was married, Aldrich stayed away from me. Maybe now he's forgotten how he felt."

"How do you still like it, Ra? Tanya Joni teases.

"Let's not like it, sir. I'm a widow, she's a bachelor, CEO anyway, no pantes pantes are the same as me, sir." Clara laughed to cover up her slightly claustrophobic feelings.

Aldrich comes with a cold face looking at Joni, for some reason he does not like to see Joni's closeness with Clara.

Aldrich's mind goes through the past when he disguised himself as a driver in Erlasha, he can get so close to Clara and laugh together like Joni and Clara are today. Unlike at the moment, sometimes Clara kept her distance and Aldrich felt it.

Clara opens the front car door to sit down with Joni.

"Ra, you're sitting behind me." Aldrich said a little sniffly.

Clara complied without denying Aldrich's orders.

Clara glanced at Aldrich, the man was silent, his hand still holding the tie that had not been attached to the collar of his shirt.

Once at the location, Joni down but Aldrich still at home sitting in his position.

Clara who was still sitting next to Aldrich immediately turned to Aldrich, clearly there was something Aldrich wanted to convey but he held her back.

Clara grabbed the tie in Aldrich's grasp he turned his body towards Aldrich and immediately made Aldrich face towards Clara.

Without saying much, Clara put a tie on Aldrich's shirt. Aldrich's breath was so felt on Clara's face, Clara just focused on making a knot.

"Don't keep your distance from me, Ra." Aldrich's whisper while Clara was still focused on wearing her tie.

"It's over, let's get down." Clara said she left Aldrich.

Aldrich just sighed, "Can't we still be friends, Ra?" Aldrich murmured when Clara was outside.

In reality, Aldrich had to accept Clara's status which he thought was the wife of the man.

Clara and Aldrich work as professionally as possible, he gets the job done so compactly, plus Joni makes their work easier.

"Eat dong Bos." Joni's chirps behind the wheel.

Aldrich nodded as seen by Joni from the rearview mirror.

They sat all three at one table, eating in silence and occasionally discussing work.

The next day, Aldrich was reading the company's report on his laptop, he saw Clara running in a hurry out. Aldrich closes his laptop and catches up with Clara.

"R.. Wait Ra..." Call Aldrich.

Clara stopped her steps and looked over.

"Where are you going?" Ask Aldrich softly.

"Why is that?" Aldrich asked confused.

Clara saw the clock on her phone, there was still three hours left before coming to the inauguration of the completed project.

Clara thought she only wore formal clothes, did not know it was a party and wore official clothes.

"I don't bring clothes to the party, sir." Lirih Clara's.

"Aldrich, call me Aldrich or Al, Ra. Please don't be so formal with me." Aldrich breathed for a moment. "Wait for me here." Aldrich then left Clara alone.

It wasn't until five minutes that Aldrich came in with the car keys. "Come with me, Ra." Take Aldrich.

Aldrich took Clara to a boutique.

"l.. It's an expensive boutique, I don't want to buy it here." Said Clara.

"Down Ra, or I'll cut your salary by 50%" Aldrich said firmly.

Clara scrunched her forehead, "Why did she get so fierce?" Inner Clara.

"Rba..." Call Aldrich.

"Al, I can buy it myself." Said Clara who finally called out Aldrich's name above her consciousness.

Aldrich gasped. "Can we be like we used to be, Ra? As friends who help each other."

Clara fell silent.

"You can share your laughs and stories with Joni. Can't you share that with me, too? Like before, Ra." Lirih Aldrich's.

Aldrich leaned his head against the back of the chair, "If I could choose, Ra. I'd rather be Joni so you can share your laughs and stories with me, even if only as a friend as you used to."

"I..."

Aldrich turned to Clara, "We're friends again, Ra."

Clara nodded for a moment, making Aldrich pull the corner of her lips smile.

"But I won't accept it this time, Al. It's too expensive for me." Said Clara.

Aldrich glanced at the clock on his wrist. "There's no time, Ra." Aldrich seemed to think, "This time only, Ra. Consider it my friendship gift."

Aldrich got out of his car and headed to Clara's door to open it. "We're friends?" Ask Aldrich.

Clara smiled, she followed Aldrich into the boutique.

Aldrich also chose the clothes he would wear, while Clara was directly in the make up because the boutique was one with the salon.

Aldrich waits for Clara in the VIP room while replying to a message with Davan who will be home in the near future.

Aldrich occasionally glanced at the clock on his wrist, waiting for Clara to immediately leave for the inauguration.

Aldrich's eyes did not blink when he saw Clara in front of him. Clara looks very beautiful by wearing a black dress and neatly styled hair and natural makeup that adorns her face.

"Claras..." Aldrich.

Clara's closing in on Aldrich. "Al, is this overkill?" Ask Clara.

"No Ra, you don't look too much, you look beautiful." Aldrich.

Clara misbehaves when Aldrich says she's beautiful. But he immediately gasped when Aldrich arrived just grasping his fingers.

They look like lovers, not bosses with secretaries.

Joni smiled when she saw Aldrich and Clara arriving at the inauguration hall, she immediately photographed their togetherness and sent it to Fariz.

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