PRISONERS END IN LOVE

Will You Be All Right?

Rizal turned his car in front of Padang's restaurant. Of course, because the time is now showing at 12:30, it means that it is time for lunch.

Grace spontaneously turns to Rizal when she finds out that Rizal parked his car in the courtyard of the restaurant.

" We'll eat first." Knowing if she would be asked by Grace, Rizal immediately gave an answer, before Garce threw a question at her.

" You go down, I don't want to!" reject Grace.

" You told me to have lunch alone inside and let you starve in the car?" rizal asked, turning his body to Grace.

" I won't starve to death, even if you eat two hours in there!" answer Grace ketus.

" You're not good, are you? If not against me?" Rizal sometimes gets annoyed with Grace's stubbornness.

" Of all of a sudden your princess came and doused my face again. He will play the victim again, feeling the most pain!" sindir Grace threw a glance out the window. It seems that Grace's annoyance is still not lost because of Isabella's abusive behavior at the time to her.

" Come down, there won't be any Isabella in that restaurant. He's been having activities on campus till the afternoon." Rizal opens the car door and forces Grace to come down.

Grace eventually descends following Rizal to lunch at the restaurant. Choose some special foods from West Sumatra served in the restaurant.

Grace chose the menu of chicken pop and vegetable jackfruit and omelet, while Rizal chose the menu gulai fish, fried lung, parchment and sambal ijo.

Grace noticed Rizal eating food by hand, making her frown.

" What is the use of spoons and forks provided if you eat with your hands?" Grace protested against Rizal's disrespectful way of eating at the diner.

Rizal glanced at Grace who was protesting her way of eating and immediately chuckled.

" Eating with your hands is more delicious. You have Indonesian blood. Don't confess to an Indonesian if you've never eaten with five fingers!" Rizal showed his fingers littered with rice and his side dishes.

" Ck, flick it once!" Grace kept her face away from Rizal's palm, making Rizal chuckle and continue enjoying her meal.

" Oh yes, Rivaldi is a very cunning person, you have to be careful when dealing with him later! Don't let him know we're undercover to trick him." Rizal reminded Grace.

" What was the beautiful wife of Erlangga until Rivaldi wanted a married woman?" Grace had been briefed by Rizal before, why Erlangga asked to monitor and limit and stop Rivaldi's actions. " Aren't there any single women she could make her companion? He was very handsome, young, a boss and wealthy. He can get single women as he wants." Grace still remembered how Rivaldi's physical appearance was so enchanting.

" Sometimes that ambition trumps common sense. Real examples? Not as far away as it is with the woman in front of me right now." Rizal insinuates Grace.

" What am I ambitious for?" Grace denies Rizal's allegations.

" Your ambition is to take revenge on Mr. Gavin, but Mr. Gavin is not what you think he is. You seem to close your eyes and even work with your lover to harm Mr. Gavin." Rizal insinuates the case that Grace experienced to make the woman finally deal with him.

" Hey, why bring up my problem?! You're not happy if you don't tease me, are you!?" Feeling insinuated Rizal, Grace immediately protested.

" I'm not insinuating, just talking facts." Rizal grinned. It feels so good to be able to invite Grace back to argue to make the woman shrink her beautiful face.

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" How, Grace? Success?" yuanita asked as she returned to the office with Rizal. Yuanita and colleagues in Rizal's office are very curious about the duet Rizal and Grace cope with the case received from their own boss's best friend.

" Yes, that's the way it is .." said Grace sitting on the chair she was sitting on downstairs. " It turns out that the person we're investigating is handsome as well, is still young again." It seems that Grace is still unable to finish her admiration for Rivaldi's physical appearance.

" Well, be careful, you know! Don't let you fall in love! It could be that Mr. Rizal is jealous." Yuanita responded with a small laugh.

" Huhh?? What's the business of him being jealous??" Grace rolled her eyeballs.

" Aren't you feeling, Grace? Or are you pretending you don't know?" Yuanita asked by moving her eyebrows up and down.

" What are you talking about, anyway?" Grace did not take Yuanita's words too seriously. Not that he doesn't understand. He knew where Yuanita was going. However, he did not want to think about that.

" The time you didn't feel that Mr. Rizal actually had the same heart as you, Grace." Finally Yuanita explained the meaning of his words.

" No need to gossip! Later the old lion heard, end your story, Nit!" Grace did not want to discuss Rizal's feelings for him.

" Feeling me anyway, Mr. Rizal likes you, Grace. But, she's confused her son is just as you're hostile. So actually that Mr. Rizal felt a dilemma with his own feelings. Look at her attitude towards you, huh! Sometimes away, but suddenly approaching by itself." Yuanita seems to have been able to feel Rizal's attitude which she thinks is very strange.

" Yesterday said your lunch time was his. Then there's the case of you fighting the same way his son dodged. Now instead choose you as his partner to handle this case. Isn't that my boss?" Yuanita laughed at her own boss.

" Let's see it later, huh! You were told to approach ... What is the name of the person you are investigating?" ask Yuanita.

" Rivaldi."

" Yes, if you can get close to Rivaldi, then it turns out that Rivaldi actually likes you. Hmmm, how do we see Mr Rizal's reaction? I think Mr. Rizal's got the wrong strategy, huh." Yuanita even giggled at the thought that Rizal would be made jealous by his own plans.

" Your idea could be, Nit!" Suddenly Grace finds an idea to prank Rizal. If Yunita's conjecture was true about Rizal's feelings towards her. It felt good that he could make Rizal suffer if he took advantage of his acting when he started approaching Rivaldi.

" What idea? What do I give you, Grace?" Feeling that she was not giving Grace any ideas, Yuanita asked puzzledly.

" The idea of making your boss fire his crack! Hahaha ..." Grace immediately got up and walked towards the stairs to return to the top floor.

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Rizal is receiving a report from Vito about his investigation into Agnes. Rizal always asks his men to act quickly in tackling every case given by his client. Fast and accurate, that's the principle he holds in his business.

" Hmmm, so he's been in your trap, Vit?" rizal asked after listening to the report submitted by Vito.

" It seems so, sir. He invited me to come to his fitness club often" said Vito.

" You have to be careful, Vit. Do not be tempted by the temptation. Women are the hardest temptation in a man's life." Rizal tried to advise Vito. At least that is what Rizal felt when he was almost swayed by the invasion of temptation thrust by Grace to him.

" Yes, Sir. Looks like I should focus on the task and not think about anything else." Vito chuckled realizing that the task he was facing was quite heavy. Not because of her case, but because she had to face the temptations of women that she had to avoid.

" Milk ..." Rizal let out a laugh, as if he was happy to see Vito suffering half-dead dispelling the temptations of women.

" What is Mr Erlangga's own case, sir? Does Rivaldi believe in the disguise of Mr and Miss Grace?" Vito tried to shift the subject, because he did not want Rizal to continue to tease him.

" Of course, Vit. He already knew the name of the company owned by Mr. Satria, although he never met directly with Mr. Satria while still disguised as an employee of Mr. Erlangga. Of course it's easy to make him believe" replied Rizal.

" Isn't that because Rivaldi liked Mr. Erlangga's wife?"

" Rivaldi infiltrated Mahadika's office before getting to know Mrs Kayra. I don't think that's the main reason Rivaldi wants to take down Mr. Erlangga, Vit. And it's our job to investigate" Rizal continued.

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" Excuse me, sir." Sam is seen coming into Rizal's study.

" Well, Sam?" asked Rizal because he knew his men would report the results of the investigation about where Rivaldi used to spend his free time.

" I've got a few places that are usually visited. In addition to the boxing club there is also a cafe commonly visited by Rivaldi after returning home from work." Sam then mentioned the place he was referring to.

" Okay, Same. Keep watching him. If he's at the cafe, let him know immediately, so Grace can move fast."

" Good, sir." After giving a report, Sam came out of Rizal's room.

" Are you sure you'll leave Miss Grace alone with that Rivaldi, sir?" ask Vito.

" Are you afraid he's running away from here?"

" Not that, sir!" vito Tepis.

" then?"

" What if Miss Grace has a relationship with Rivaldi, sir?" It seems like all of Rizal's men know how Rizal's relationship with Grace really is. Not only Yuanita who felt that their boss actually had a special feeling towards Grace.

" What do you mean, Vit?" Rizal was surprised that Vito asked him that

" I'm just worried that Miss Grace will leak our plans to Rivaldi, sir." Vito certainly did not dare to blatantly explain the intent of his question.

" He can't be a traitor, Vit" Rizal said.

" I know too, Sir. But what I fear is what will happen if Miss Grace turns out to fall for Rivaldi's charm. Are you gonna be okay?" Vito only dared to ask that in his heart.

***

Rizal waits for his phone call on someone to pick up. This is the second call he made. However, the person being contacted has not yet responded to the phone call from him.

Rizal finally put down his phone because he suspected the person he was calling was currently busy with his work.

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After five seconds he put his cell phone on the table, now the flat object of his communication device reads. And Rizal quickly picked up the phone call, because the person he had been in contact with was now calling him back.

" Hello, Boss. Sorry to interrupt your time." The person contacted by Rizal was none other than Dirgantara Poetra Laksmana, his friend who was a director of a famous property company.

" What did you call me, Zal? I don't think I'm asking you to investigate the case." asked Dirga from across Rizal's phone.

" I need your help, boss." said Rizal, not to mince words.

" Call me how much do you need, Zal? Do you need capital to marry your young wife?" Dirga ended his question with a laugh.

" Fuck you, Boss!" Rizal laughed. " I don't need the money, Boss." Rizal brushes off if the help he needs is money.

" What do you need help with, Zal?"

" Lend me a luxury apartment unit belonging to Angkasa Raya, Boss."

" Hey, you don't need to borrow it, Zal. I'll give it to you as a wedding gift if you really want to marry that young woman, Zal." Dirga chuckled while speaking.

Rizal just smiled at Dirga's words.

" This has nothing to do with personal matters, Boss. This is about the case I'm investigating." Rizal again refused.

" Hey, you don't involve the name of the Great Space in carrying out your mission, Zal!" Dirga seemed to object when Rizal said if he planned to borrow an apartment related to his profession as an investigator.

" Look easy, Boss. It has nothing to do with criminal crimes." Rizal finally told the outline of what he was planning.

" Okay, when do you want to get the key? You just come right there. I'll arrange to meet you there to hand you the keys, Zal." Dirga finally agreed to lend one of his luxury apartment units that are usually rented.

" Okay, thanks, boss. I'll be there this afternoon, boss. How's it?"

" Okay, I'll get people there later this afternoon. Good luck, Zal." Dirga hung up his phone call first.

In the afternoon, Rizal and Grace went to the apartment owned by the company Angkasa Raya which he borrowed from Dirga.

After meeting with Dirga's man and receiving the keys to the apartment unit he borrowed. Now Rizal and Grace are already in a spacious apartment unit with a very elegant and luxurious interior.

" Where did you get this apartment?" grace asked as her eyes continued to look at the corner after corner of the room, a much nicer apartment than hers. " Rather than renting this apartment, why don't you just let me live in my own apartment?" tanyanya.

" And you want Rivaldi to know who you are? Or, you want to flirt with Rivaldi there, like you started teasing me first?" rizal sneered as he approached Grace to stand up.

Saying Rizal immediately made Grace remember Yuanita's words some time ago. " If I tease him, why? Now Grace is moving, walking slowly around Rizal

" Nothing's wrong, is it? He's younger than you, very handsome, a boss and certainly rich. If you tell me to choose I'll choose him instead of an old man like you, old man." Right behind Rizal, Grace whispered to the man.

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