PRISONERS END IN LOVE

Old Lion Versus Lion Females

Rizal focused his gaze on the cctv screen that was in the room near where Grace was sitting, after the woman came out of her room. Her net kept paying attention to what Grace was doing after coming out of her room.

His eagle eyes watched as Grace and the two members of his team chatted. I don't know what's being said, it's not very clear to hear. However, what caught his attention was when Grace laughed with Indra and Jamal.

During getting to know and be with the woman, only this time Rizal saw Grace was able to laugh freely. It made his forehead cringe. Not curious about what they are talking about. But, the taste is strange because Grace looks familiar and enjoys her chat with Indra and Jamal. Distinct when dealing with him, the woman is always unfriendly when talking to him.

" I thought, he must be just bothering my men!" Don't know why? Seeing Grace's familiarity with her men, Rizal seemed to dislike her.

" I told him to work! Not to be snuggled!" as if Rizal was upset as he got up from the chair and stepped towards the door of his room.

" Vito, have Jamal and Indra face me now!" Even Rizal had Vito call the two people who were talking to Grace to face her immediately.

" Good, sir."

After getting a reply from Vito, Rizal went back in and sat back in his chair.

It was not until five minutes for Rizal to wait, now his two men were in front of him at this time.

" What did Mr Rizal call us?" tanya Jamal who thinks that Rizal will assign himself and Indra to cope with the case.

" How long have you been working with me?" Rizal stared at the two members of his team sharply. Even the question that came out of Rizal's mouth sounded serious and cold.

" I'm five years old, sir." replied Indra

" I'm six years old, sir." said Jamal.

" You two have been here a long time. You know your job here is to work, right? Not to chat let alone gossip like in a tongkrongan?!" Ketus Rizal began to show his anger.

Jamal and Indra looked at each other. They immediately thought that Rizal knew they were talking to Grace below. During working with Rizal, they were never at all reprimanded as they are today, let alone for what they consider unimportant.

In between their activities, they often talk and joke like that and there is never a problem as long as the work they do is done well and correctly. So why is this in question now? Didn't Rizal hear the contents of their conversation with Grace? That was the thought that came to mind of Indra and Jamal.

" Hmmm, we're sorry if we made a mistake, sir." Jamal has apologized.

" It's true, sir. We are sorry." continued Indra chimed in.

" What were the three of you talking about? You guys talking about me? You guys are laughing at me,?!"

Jamal and Indra looked at each other with their eyes wide. They and Grace were talking about Rizal. But, there was no way they would answer honestly if they did talk about the boss.

" Hmmm, we .. we just want to know what happened after Mr. Grace was called Mr. Rizal. That's it, sir." replied Jamal.

" Jamal's right, sir. You see, we feel sorry that Ms. Grace got angry with Mr. Rizal. Because that was the first to start the fight was Isabella, sir. Isabella who initially approached Grace's mother continued to say rudely to Grace's mother, sir." Indra was impressed to defend Grace.

" So you think my son is wrong?" Rizal did not blame Grace. However, he did not like Indra blatantly defending Grace.

" Do you secretly like that woman and then you blame my son?!" Rizal instead accused Indra of putting her heart on Grace to defend Grace.

" Oh, no, no, sir. That's not what I mean." Indra had gone awry explaining the reason to Rizal. " I just ....,"

" Come, now you're back at your table! Focus on your work! Not for chatting let alone for gossiping!" Rizal did not want to listen to the defense of Indra and instead told the two men to leave the room immediately.

The strange attitude shown by Rizal sontak makes Jamal and Indra amazed. They even talked about it when they both got home from work.

The two of them are currently talking in the living room of Grace's house. While drinking coffee and eating snacks ordered by Grace online, they discussed the peculiarity of Rizal's attitude towards them after work was over.

" Rizal sir's time accused me of having a crush on Grace Ma'am, just because I was defending Grace Ma'am? I'm self-conscious, don't dare look up." Indra chuckles to see Rizal suspecting him.

" For six years working with Mr. Rizal, only this time I had to reprimand him. Moreover, the reprimand is not a matter of directly concerned with the work." Jamal.

" We're used to joking every day. But just this time I got angry Mr. Rizal," continued Jamal.

" Yes, Mr. Rizal is firm but rarely angry with his employees. That's why we respect him because he has authority. That's why we were shocked by yesterday's video." Indra grinned. If the video business that Grace sent, she looks very excited to comment.

" But we understand, anyway. Because it has been a long time Mr. Rizal is widower," he added then accompanied by half a laugh.

" Well, that's what you understand if your boss has been widower for a long time. So let's just understand that he's angry. His name is also old man, no wife takes care of it as well, so it's like that." Grace responded immediately with a nyiny.

" Rizal sir is not very old, Ma'am! Still under forty. It's still cool and handsome!" Jamal chimed in. " We are the ones who are far below Mr. Rizal still lose when competing about physical appearance" he continued.

" But, by the way, Miss Grace doesn't feel the same way Mr Rizal? Ma'am would've done something with Mr. Rizal." Back Indra's kepo soul thrashed.

" How many times do I have to say? That I don't like that old lion?! I can get a younger man than to be attracted to a man who deserves to be my Papa!" argue Grace. I don't know how many times he's confirmed that he's not interested in Rizal.

" Well, there is no interest, Ma'am Grace looks very good in the same team with Mr Rizal, especially if there really is a taste, Ma'am? The hotter, the hotter it must be. hahahaha ..." Indra laughed out loud in response to Grace's reply.

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The next day, when he entered his office building. Rizal's view immediately centers on the seat that Grace used to live in for almost three months. However, there was no appearance of the woman in her place.

" Morning, sir." the greeting of his employees seemed to resuscitate Rizal who was too focused on staring at Grace's place.

" Morning .." answered Rizal and climbed the stairs to his office. And it turns out that even upstairs Rizal did not find Grace.

" Morning, Sir." Vito greeted as he saw Rizal emerge from the direction of the stairs.

" Morning, where is he, Vit?" asked Rizal while replying to Vito's greeting.

" Who do you mean Father?" Vito asked in wonder. Because he didn't know who Rizal meant.

" Women. I told him to go back upstairs" replied Rizal.

" Oh, maybe Miss Grace hasn't come yet, sir. Hmmm, isn't Miss Grace always late when she gets to work, sir?" Vito's starting to poultice with Grace's working hours. Maybe because she felt she was not an employee of Rizal's office, Grace had her own hours, Vito thought.

" This clock hasn't come yet?!" Rizal glanced at his watch. " He thought this was his ancestral office until it hadn't come yet!?" gerutu Rizal walked towards his study.

While Vito immediately frowned. Actually Rizal himself already knew about the habits of the woman who often came late and went home sooner. However, all this time there was no complaint from Rizal. Just this time he saw his boss commenting on Grace's late arrival at his office.

At home, Grace herself just finished bathing after doing sports to maintain her stamina and body shape to keep it looking okay.

Using a yellow mustard shirt and torn jeans on the knee, Grace finally came to Rizal's office.

" Morning, Madam Grace." said Mr. Abidin, security at Rizal's office other than Junedi.

" Morning" said Grace then took out a hundred thousand from her wallet which she handed over to Mr. Abidin. " Now, to my father," he said later.

" What's this money, Ma'am?" asked Mr. Abidin in wonder.

" To buy food, to buy cigarettes, to buy gasoline. Not enough?" ask Grace.

" Oh enough, Ma'am. More than enough. In fact can make fifty kitchen money deposit to bini at home." Mr. Abidin replied with a chuckle." Thank God, thank you very much, Ma'am." continued while kissing the money given by Grace.

After Mr. Abidin received the money, Grace entered Rizal's office.

" Morning" said Grace, glancing at the wall clock, which was almost ten in the morning.

" Morning, Miss Grace ....*

" Morning, Grace ....*

Some of Rizal's officials returned Grace's greeting. Because Grace has indeed started mingling with the rest of Rizal's team. For three months his association was limited with employees Rizal made himself inevitably have to get used to interacting with them.

" From today I'm moving upstairs again, at your boss's behest." Grace told the officer downstairs.

" Yeahh, quiet dong here ..." Indra. Indra is a Rizal model who is most familiar with Grace.

" You have to get used to it. Ten months down the line, I'm not here either, am I?" Grace smiled back at Indra.

" Where are you going, Grace?" ask Yuanita.

" Maybe back to Germany" Grace said.

" We're definitely - we're going to miss you, Grace," Yuanita said.

" Yes, Ma'am. Later no one likes to treat food for us-we again .." lamented Indra chimed.

" It's easy, I'll transfer money for you guys to have fun." Grace embraces Indra's shoulder, and promises that she will not forget the staff of Rizal who has been her friends.

" But it's different if the person isn't here, Grace" Yuanita said sadly.

" Are you expecting me to stay here, is that it?" Grace rolled her eyeballs. " I just hope to get out of this place quickly, so that I can be free from your boss's old lion!" keep Grace.

" Help ...!" their chatter paused as the sound of people throbbing sounded from the top of the stairs. And they were all aghast when they found the figure of Rizal who was standing at the end of the stairs with a ruffled waist.

" What did I say yesterday is less clear, Jamal, Indra?!" asked Rizal in a tinge.

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After sitting in his chair, Rizal looked at the computer screen connected to the cctv at the entrance of his office to monitor Grace's arrival. And after waiting for nearly fifteen minutes, she saw Grace's reappearance from behind the door. However, instead of immediately going upstairs, Grace actually looks fun talking to some employees downstairs.

Rizal snorted as he watched Grace casually chatter even the woman clasped her hands together onto Indra's shoulders sitting on her chair. Especially when he saw Indra and Jamal chatting as if not to pierce his warning yesterday when he rebuked.

Rizal then got up from his chair and left his study.

" What's up, sir?" Vito who was on the move was surprised when he saw Rizal come out of his room with wide steps.

Not responding to Vito's question, Rizal now stands at the end of the stairs listening to his men and Grace chatting casually.

" I just hope to get out of this place quickly, so that I can be free from your boss's old lion!"

This time Rizal's ears heard Grace calling him the old lion in front of his men. He deliberately throttled.

" Ac.hmm ...!"

Rizal saw everything below looking at him. The frightened face was immediately visible on the faces of Rizal's men when he found out he was monitoring those who were talking. But that doesn't apply to Grace. As usual, the woman never showed any fear towards him.

" Have you come here just to interrupt my employees at work?!" rizal asked, staring with the eyes of his eagle at Grace.

" And you guys, what I said yesterday is still unclear?!" Highlight Rizal's eyes now turned towards Indra and Jamal who he just rebuked yesterday.

" I'm sorry, sir." Jamal and Indra compactly expressed their apologies with guilt.

" You, I'm waiting in my room!" Rizal then passed from before his men back into his room.

" You saw it for yourself, right? This makes me want to get out of here. Tired of seeing that old lion pretentiously rule my life!" grace then followed what Rizal had ordered.

" Because she was angry again .." regretted Indra felt sorry for Grace because surely Rizal would be furious because he heard directly what was said by Grace.

" Relax, Bro! He is fierce like a lioness, where he is afraid of him as much as Mr. Rizal," chirped Jamal "An old lion versus a lioness,"' he continued while giggling.

" Once you have, you don't keep gossiping! Later to be reprimanded Mr. Rizal again, not out the annual bonus, know your taste!" Sam who did not follow the conversation of his colleagues from the beginning advised not to continue their chat.

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