
"The Barbecue party hasn't started yet, has it?"
The voice of the man who had just come joined made Luisa stare intently at Jonas. That look was like saying 'Why invite him?!'. And Jonas just shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
Quenby, who once met the man on the night of the reunion, smiled at his arrival.
"Well, how come you're here?" endrew's chirp that leads to Quenby. It turns out that the man still remembers her.
"You don't know yet, Ndrew?" luisa. Endrew looked at him. "Quenby is Jonas' future wife! Aunty loh's future son-in-law, "tell Luisa with great emphasis.
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Given how wry Endrew's face was, when Luisa made the news at the Puncak dinner a few days ago, Quenby wondered, how close Endrew and Jonas were. Why Endrew doesn't like the news of his friend's wedding. However, thanks to Sagala's family's warm attitude towards her, Quenby is able to get through the dinner without being distracted by Endrew's nonchalant attitude towards her.
The warmth of the other big families of Jonas was the same, making Quenby comfortable and without awkward to be closer. That night, even Hermawan, the father of Jonas announced enthusiastically his son's intention to propose and marry Quenby as soon as possible.
The woman was really moved, because the family of her impromptu husband-to-be was so warm in welcoming her as Jonas' future wife. Although their marriage was based on Jonas' request to help him. But Jonas still officially introduced to his extended family that he was the woman who would be edited by Jonas as Wife
Brak!
Quenby's bedroom door suddenly opened violently. And Kirana's figure entered with a wrathful face. I don't know what a mistake Quenby made this time.
Plaque!
A loud slap was slapped towards Quenby's face without warning.
"How dare you-"
"Don't Ma!" Quenby was forced to hold the hand of the woman who wanted to return to land a blow towards her face. "Later in the afternoon, Brother Jonas is coming. What more reason would Quen give Kak Jo if Quenby's face was battered?" said flat.
Kirana looked hard at her daughter, behind Kirey, her sister who was only a few months different from her.
"Why did you just say that Jonas is the son of Luisa Sagala?" kirana asked with pressure.
"Is that important?" challenge Quenby with a raucous voice.
He remembers the incident where Jonas drove him home from dinner at the Peak. The clock was at 11pm. Quenby was forced to go home in the middle of the event that was still going on. The mother who constantly called him and told him to immediately return to make Quenby inevitably have to be allowed to go home from the warm event.
'I told you not to go past 10pm! It's still a stubborn one!'
Such was the sentence that the Mother threw with a loud screech on him, and of course there was still Jonas. Quenby is so embarrassed. He feels like a teenage boy. His age was about to enter the head of three.
'Shut up!' At that time Kirana interrupted Jonas' explanation.
'Make yourself useful Quenby, at least look for a candidate who is well established in terms of materials!'
The lines that night left Quenby claustrophobic and not daring to stare at Jonas. Quenby thought it was over. Where is there a man who wants to be with him if the mother always blocks the way of the men who intend to propose to her.
"Do you want to know what happened this morning?" Kirana was still talking with overflowing emotions.
Quenby stood up, he looked at the face of the woman who had raised him. Can Quenby guess what happened.
"Did Mom Luisa come to Mama?" Quenby's guess is right. And Kirana widened her eyes sharply.
"You're complaining, huh?"
Quenby smiled bitterly as his mother accused him. Yes, Quenby was always wrong in the eyes of that woman. For years Quenby denied that any treatment of Kirana was different to him because she was sincerely considerate of him. Not for hating her with the fact that Quenby wasn't the daughter of that woman.
Like not being able to go home late at night from 10, even though Kirey the younger brother likes to go home at 1 am because he had gathered with his friends. Quenby knows all that. Or when the mother forbade him to meet a man carelessly.
Quenby thought it was a form of attention so that Quenby could take care of himself. It turns out that the reason is none other than having to find a wealthy man in order to replace the cost of raising him.
"Mrs Luisa came and gave me a blank check. On condition of releasing you to his son! Are you still evading my accusation that you're complaining about everything I did to you!" Kirana held back furious. His face and hands were flushed red holding back the wrath.
Kirana's pride felt trampled as Luisa offered the agreement.
'Is it whatever you want. But ... release Quenby completely on us,'
That was the sentence that made Kirana hold back her wrath. With the graceful and authoritative style typical of a Conglomerate Wife, Luisa offers in an elegant manner. But Kirana did not deny, that a blank cheque that she was sodorkon at that time made her unable to wiggle. Kirana.
"Ma!" Kirey's voice interrupts the heated debate in Quenby's room. "I'm talking about checks!" grumbling woman whose appearance is not in accordance with her age. Quenby's step-sister still acts like ABG's son when he has reached the age of 29 years, this month.
As if remembering something, Kirana turned her attention away from her beloved daughter to Quenby.
"Look! Than I received that blank check. I'd rather marry Kirey to the Son of the Sagala family. Then ... You must give up! Let's just say it's my compensation for growing up, Quenby,"
Kirana said that with a triumphant smile. He was sure his stepdaughter would approve of it. Because of what Kirana knew, Quenby always obeyed her wishes.
"Then ... Mama told Mommy Luisa straight away, do they agree to replace me with Kirey?" challenge Quenby with a smile that leaves Kirana glued.
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