PRISONERS END IN LOVE

Snack Outside

Rizal spread his body by folding his hands behind his head to serve as a backrest. He's still thinking about his act that kissed Grace in the cafe's parking lot. He didn't even expect him to dare to do so in an open space that people could see.

" I can't be .. I can't possibly be interested in him." Rizal tries to deny the strange feeling he feels towards Grace.

" Gi la, how could I possibly be interested in a teenager my child's age!" Rizal closed his eyes and shrugged his head at the possibility of him falling for Grace.

" The al!" Rizal then got up while rubbing his face rough. " I'm like a young man just interested in women." Rizal laughs at himself acting like an upset teenager because of a woman.

Rizal then stepped towards the bathroom to cool down his body which felt the heat when he came into contact with Grace earlier.

Next day

Grace left earlier than usual. He deliberately came before Rizal came because he did not want to give Rizal a chance to call himself to Rizal's room if he made a mistake

Grace felt that if what Rizal had done lately was to deliberately call himself into Rizal's study, it was just an excuse for Rizal to be close to her. Especially when considering Rizal's plan to make it one room with the man. Therefore he must immediately avoid Rizal.

" Morning .." said Grace as she entered Rizal's office.

" Are you, Grace's Tumben has arrived?" Indra immediately replied.

" Rather than having to reprimand your boss, mending depart quickly." Grace reasoned.

" Tumben, usually not afraid of the same reprimand boss sir, Ma'am?" chirps Jamal chuckles.

" It's a righteous person again ..." Grace gave her excuse.

" Where did Mr Rizal go yesterday? Dating, huh?" Indra began to pry information about the departure of Rizal and Grace ahead of office hours after yesterday. Given that Grace changed the clothes that made the charm of the woman's beauty more radiant.

" Hey, don't just talk! Who would want to date that old man!" Grace spread her shoulders hearing Indra's words earlier.

" Don't say that, Grace. Who knows if you will love Mr. Rizal, regret you know, say it like that ..." Jamal is teasing Grace.

Grace rolled her eyeballs in response to Jamal who also started talking like Indra.

" That you, instead of praying that I fall in love with your boss, help your boss find a soul mate!"

" We met with a client yesterday. Her name is Aunt Monica. She needs a bodyguard to protect herself from her future ex-husband." Grace started telling me what they were doing last afternoon with Rizal.

" Ex-husband candidate?" jamal asked confused.

" Yes, she is filing for divorce with her husband. She was afraid that her husband would refuse the divorce, so she needed an escort." Grace made clear what she meant.

" So, Miss Grace wants to match Mr. Rizal with the aunts, is that it?" ask Indra.

" His aunt is young and beautiful! Yes, it is appropriate to accompany your boss. Moreover, Aunt Monica seems to have a crush on your boss, you know!" Grace unknowingly spreads rumors about Rizal to Rizal's men.

" What the hell, Ma'am?" Indra started to seriously listen to Grace's story.

" Yes, because he asked your boss to be his bodyguard instead of the others. What does it mean try? He must be interested in the old man, right?" Grace expressed her opinion about Monica's attitude to Rizal yesterday.

" Well, what's the license, Ma'am? Does Mr Rizal want to?" Jamal is curious about the story of his boss being liked by other women.

" Sorry your boss is a big selling snob! Refuse to be told to escort the aunt." Grace snorted as if she was disappointed that Rizal and Monica's arranged marriage failed, especially after Rizal kissed her without her expecting.

" Pak Rizal is not easy to like just any woman, Ma'am. In the past there were often some beautiful women come here, because they want to use our services to help overcome their problems, it was just a mode to approach Mr. Rizal alone." Yuanita joined in chatting with two of her colleagues.

" Iiihh, it's old to wear picky looking women!" Grace sneered at Rizal.

" You guys don't crawl in here. Soon Mr. Rizal comes, if Mr. Rizal hears you are gossiping about it, then you can be reprimanded again!" Vito who walked down the stairs and had heard the chatter of his fellow colleagues tried to warn his friends not to continue gossiping.

" Mal, please file this atar to Mr. Ridwan if you meet with him." Vito handed over an archive bendel that had been checked by Rizal to Jamal.

" okay." Jamal received the documents submitted by Vito.

" It's best for Miss to go upstairs before Mr. Rizal comes." Vito encourages Grace to go to the upper room.

" Depay, on top of that I'm stressed about facing people like you! It's delicious here, it's more exciting!" Grace refuses to follow Vito's advice.

" Alright, Miss. But today Miss stays on duty above." After she warns Grace, Vito climbs the stairs to her desk.

" He's so stiff, just like his boss." Grace commented on Vito being too formal to talk to her.

" Hahaha, right, ma'am! Like the dubing in the movies just call Miss everything!" Indra chimed in while chuckling.

Tiinn

Grace turned to the office door when she heard Rizal's car horn indicating the office owner had arrived.

" I'm going to the toilet first, I'm going to go get a pup." Grace pretended to hold her stomach. He wanted to immediately dodge Rizal. So I rushed to the toilet.

" Morning, Sir."

When Rizal emerged from the door, the man was immediately greeted with the greeting of his men.

" Morning," Rizal retorted a glance at Grace's table below the empty one then stepped towards the steps.

" Morning, Sir." Vito also why Rizal when he saw the presence of his boss

" He hasn't come yet, Vit?" Rizal asks for Grace's whereabouts because he also does not see Grace's whereabouts at the woman's desk in the upstairs room.

" Miss Grace was downstairs, sir." Vito wondered why Rizal did not find Grace downstairs, but the woman was there.

" Oh, yeah ..." Rizal stepped into his room.

" Oh yes, sir. What's the plan to move Miss Grace inside so, sir?" asked Vito who was honestly a bit strange to hear his boss' request yesterday.

Rizal held back his steps hearing Vito's question and turned to his son.

" No, Vit. Let him be here!" Rizal has decided to cancel his request to move Grace into his room. He is also afraid of his own feelings. She was afraid to renege on her statement saying that she would not like a young woman like Grace. Rizal had intended to keep his distance from Grace. He doesn't want to get romantically involved with Grace. She must also consider Isabella's feelings if she falls in love with Grace.

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Time keeps passing. It's been six months that Grace has been in Rizal's office. Both Rizal and Grace, they both kept their distance. They minimize the interaction between the two of them.

Grace was relieved, since kissing her, Rizal never approached her again. While Rizal himself must desperately dampen his own feelings that had faltered because of Grace's attitude who previously liked to tease him.

Tok tok tok tok

Grace blinked her eyes when she heard the sound of her bedroom door being knocked down hard enough. His hand touched the side of the bed looking for his cell phone.

Currently the time has shown at 00.05 in the morning, making his forehead wrinkled. Who knocked on his door early this morning.

" Ck, who is this midnight bothering people to sleep?" Grace grumbled and stepped up to the door.

" Surprise ...!!"

Grace was aghast when she saw her mother, and some of her colleagues from Rizal's office were at her doorstep and gave her a surprise twenty-year anniversary.

" Happy Birthday Grace ..." Agatha hugged and kissed her daughter's cheek.

" Thank you, I didn't expect you to come here and knock on the door." Grace was moved by the presence of Yuanita, Indra, Jamal and several other colleagues at her home in the early hours of today.

" Your mom told us you were having a birthday. And your mother planned this." Yuanita explains that all of this was Agatha's idea.

Grace looked at her mother. She didn't expect her Mama to finally give her a surprise birthday back to her, after several years of never again done by her Mama, in recent years, Grace has always been with Joe past her birthday.

" Thanks, Ma." Grace rubbed Agatha's arm in thanks for this surprise.

" Mommy hopes that at the age you grow up, you can find your true happiness. Mama wants to see you be Mama's son like you used to be." Ever since she married Gavin, and Grace was in a relationship with Joe, she felt that Grace was like a lost child because she was moving away from him because of Joe's influence.

Grace only smiled faintly in response to her Mama's expectations.

" Amijn ..." While his comrades amused Agatha's hopes.

" Oh yeah, Auntie brought a lot of food for you. You better eat first. You guys are staying here, right?" Agatha had coordinated with Grace's colleagues so that they could attend a surprise event on Grace's birthday and told them to stay at Grace's house which was quite large if inhabited alone.

" So dong, Tan!" answer some of Grace's colleagues in a compact manner.

***

The alarm on Rizal's phone rang, waking him up this morning. Rizal checks his phone after turning off the alarm. After he saw the message that went into his phone. Now he checks the story in the chat application of some of his employees who look at the same time making the story. Feeling curious, he also opened one of the stories owned by his employees who were in the top row in the update story'.

" Happy brithday, Grace. 🎂🎈🎊🎉 Long life, cheap windfall and hopefully quickly given a soul mate. Wish you all the best."

It was Yuanita's story that contained Yuanita's image together with Grace.

Rizal remembered the date today. She had no idea that Grace was twenty years old today when Grace was only one year older than her daughter Isabella.

Rizal then opens his other employee's story. All of them took pictures with Grace with the caption that is almost the same is praying for goodness for Grace

Rizal sees Grace's happy face with her colleagues. There were even employees who uploaded videos as Grace joked and laughed to show the dimples of the beautiful woman.

Grace does look loose if joking with Rizal's men, different if the woman is dealing with him, and it makes Rizal jealous.

" Oh my God ..." Rizal ruffled his hair. " Why should I feel this? I must be able to suppress this feeling." Rizal determined and walked out of his room.

Rizal Office

At nine o'clock Rizal arrived at his office. Upon arriving upstairs, she saw Grace slumping her face over the folds of her hands on the table. Last night just two hours of sleep made Grace unable to withstand her sleepiness.

" Have you come?" ask Vito who just came out of Rizal's room after putting the documents that must be checked by Rizal.

" When did he fall asleep?" rizal asked because Grace was unaware of his arrival.

Vito glanced at Grace's desk. " Since I arrived, sir. According to Miss Grace, she was sleepy because there was an event at her house late last night with these office colleagues. Because today just so happens to be Miss Grace's birthday, sir." Vito tells Rizal about his birthday.

" Yes, let it go ..." Rizal then stepped into his study. She had no intention of teasing Grace and letting the woman sleep on her desk.

Ddrrtt

Rizal took his phone which read. She saw Agatha's number calling her, making her forehead wrinkle.

" Hello, good morning, Madam." Rizal picks up an incoming phone call from Agatha.

" Good morning, Mr. Rizal. Mr. Rizal, later tonight I want to hold a dinner with Mr. Rizal's men as a celebration of Grace's birthday. Would Mr Rizal like to come to the show tonight?" Agatha said her goal was to contact Rizal because she wanted to invite Rizal to come to dinner later.

Agatha did plan a dinner to celebrate Grace's birthday with Grace's colleagues from Rizal's office.

" Hmmm, what time is the show, ma'am?" Rizal doesn't expect Agatha to call him just to invite herself to come over for Grace's birthday tonight.

" Hour seven, Mr. Rizal. Is Mr Rizal coming tonight?" ask Agatha hoping.

" Well, madam.maybe I have no obstruction to come there," said Rizal is not good if he refused Rizal's invitation.

" Thank you, Mr. Rizal. Then I'll say good." Agatha wanted to close her conversation with Rizal.

" good, Madam. Good day." Rizal instantly turned off the phone call with Agatha.

Rizal sighed while sitting his body on his chair. Today Grace's birthday and herself are invited to dinner with her other men.

" Do I have to buy her a gift? What do I have to give her?" Rizal massages her head because she is confused about having to think of a gift for Grace.

***

Rizal the arrival of his old friend. He and his best friend are currently talking in his office. Bondan, his best friend's name was once a martial arts college with him. Bondan also now has a profession that is almost the same as him. The difference is, Bondan works for a private person, to a wealthy young businessman CEO of PT. Mahadika Gautama's. He rents his services to the public.

Bondan enlists Rizal's help to investigate someone who is intruding on the comfort of his boss's life. As a friend, of course Rizal accepted Bondan's request for help to him.

After discussing the task that Bondan handed to Rizal, now they are both chatting casually discussing their personal problems.

" Oh yes, by the way ..who is that young lady in front of your room? Not your son, is he?" Bondan is curious about Grace, because she was sitting with her legs raised on the table when Bondan first entered Rizal's office.

" Oh, he .. city prisoner." Rizal chuckles while joking.

" City prisoner?" Bondan frowned at Rizal's words.

" He had committed a crime almost to harm people, but the man did not want to put the woman in prison. They handed it to me to give her a punishment that .. yes at least makes her better than ever given her young age." Rizal explains who Grace is to Bondan.

" It's better? By raising both feet on the table? Not showing a good personality at all." Bondan sneered at Grace's way of sitting which he found impolite.

" Yes that's how he is. I hired him voluntarily to carry out his sentence."

" You didn't put her here because she's beautiful and young, did you?" sindir Bondan is meredek.

" What do you mean, Dan?" Rizal glanced at Bondan.

" He's beautiful and pretty much s. Aren't you gonna be tempted by him, Zal?" Bondan grinned.

" You're gi la!? She's almost my daughter's age." Rizal dismisses Bondan's allegations. Though what Bondan said fuses properly happened. He's been tempted by Grace's mischief

" Have you remarried, Zal?" ask Bondan who knows Rizal separated from his wife six years ago.

" I haven't thought that way yet, Dan." said Rizal.

" Have you been able to move on from your ex-wife, Zal?" bondan asked curiously, because for a man like Rizal where might be able to stand not being close to a woman for six years. " How do you vent your biological needs? Are you out there?" Bondan's prank makes Rizal widen his eyes.

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