Rheas

Part 8: Wedding Play

“Do you mind if I take you stay at the main Mansion for a while?” Daffa dared to start his conversation with Rhea after he confirmed that his entire room had been locked up after the wedding reception.

“I'll follow your decision.” Rhea sounded uninspired.

As per the scenario, both have been announced to be a major part of the decision of Mergernya Media Naratama and also Adya Utama belongs to the Devian extended family.

AR Group, Devian's private start-up company has also been merged into Adya Utama and become a new subsidiary that is part of the Acquisition process. The decision on their marriage is also believed to only take place for the sake of the company.

How not, just a few months since the status of Rhea turned into a widow due to Devian's actions. And now she has returned to be the daughter-in-law of Adya Utama Group, and this time with her status as Daffa's wife.

The media has also begun to gossip about how the kekeuhnya Adya Utama wants to invite Media Naratama to make their children's marriage as a game. Not least also the support that arose to support Rhea who is known to have been a victim of Domestic Violence by her ex-husband Devian.

“Will her marriage this time achieve true happiness? Is going to bed is the best choice both Rhea, the child who has been dumped?” at least that was the content of the highlights of every headline for him.

But as a husband, Daffa chose to hide all of that from Rhea and asked her to stay away from the media for a while.

“No one lives in the same mansion as them. The elders as well as their maids lived in separate buildings. I think we can get each other's room if it's there.” Obviously Daffa who somehow even made Rhea's heart as if slashed.

Her husband never wanted her. It is this mind that now torments him more than any physical torture. Yes, at least Devian had still been affected by it, even though they had never done anything, other than give each other food and help change clothes for each other.

But Daffa was so different, he didn't seem interested at all. His current attitude seemed to indicate that just looking at the girl under the same roof might have made him feel reluctant.

“I've secretly ordered an extra bed. You can sleep in bed, and I'll sleep downstairs. Rest, you must be Tired.”

“Why did you marry me?” Daffa was fixated, but it only took him about fifteen seconds to regain consciousness and continue his work of arranging the bed.

“I just want to make amends for my sister. What wrong? You're actually helped, too, because if you don't. I can't guarantee that you'll be reunited with the wrong person.” Daffa threw his mattress on the floor and jumped on it without noticing Rhea's facial expression.

He pretended to be asleep and tried no longer to care about the crying girl.

Rhea sobbed and began to cry in the silence of the night which might have felt even more gripping to her. He continued to cry all night, until without realizing it his eyes slowly fell asleep because he was so tired he was crying.

“What should I do? My sister hurt you. I can't just be ordinary by saying that it's all gone.” Daffa also involuntarily dripped his tears when he heard the sound of stuffing stuck on Rhea's lips.

***

Everything that happened the next day went according to Daffa's plan. They moved into a family mansion consisting of one luxury residential complex with several separate buildings. 'Lavina Mansion's'.

The house units given by the elders for them were actually also quite large. The house consists of two floors that have an area almost equal to the sports stadium. A large house with a total of eight rooms are separated from each other between the large living room that doubles up as a family room.  They don't need a house that big. Especially because they only live together without a maid in it.

Similar to Devian, Daffa also did not allow anyone else to enter his residence other than his secretary Steve.

Steve was in charge of delivering all the needs of the homeowner as long as they chose to stay in the mansion. The atmosphere inside the mansion is safe. They are surrounded by super-tight surveillance where not just anyone is allowed to enter without a clear identity. They had to have an extremely difficult appointment to make in order to enter the mansion complex.

“I want to stay in my own apartment Mom." Daffa immediately called his mother after arriving at the mansion.

"I can't do anything here. Or you'd better send me back to Paris. Rhea will start her career as a model there. He will realize all his dreams that have been held up all this time. And I, I can still control my own business. Business that I have built with my own hands without the help of Adya Utama.” Daffa protests to her mother, who is now the ruler of AR Group after the Devian scandal.

“Are you crazy? I tried so hard to put you here, but you even thought about leaving him alone. You know what I've done to keep you here?“ adamant rebut.

“Keep Devian, don't you think?” daffa whispers sounded intimidating.

"Daffa listen to me carefully. What a good thing is to start your own business. You're not getting anything. AR is the only quickest way for you to climb to the top of Nak."

“Not me, but this is a good decision for you Mom. Not that with my departure you can manage AR with the full consent of grandfather. So you don't have to lick anymore. While I will take care of myself." Daffa said indisputably.

"Daffa are you really my son?" shouted Adriana did not accept the rejection of her son.

"No, I'm your pawn to get rid of everyone. I am a pawn for you to climb a path that is not your path. After all, Rhea also felt very uncomfortable with her current status.”

"We don't want a company, we just want freedom." Daffa closed his phone unilaterally and decided not to listen to his mother's answer.

"It's no use arguing. I'll stick to my decision." clamor Daffa with the phone still in his grasp.

Daffa is not prevented let alone offered. He had his own stubbornness, similar to his late father Frans.

"Your mother asked me to stay here." Daffa was still adamant, and not even Rhea's persuasion could stop him from returning to his native Paris.

He has prepared everything. He alone handled all legal documents related to the transfer of power and management of his company to the mother and Aqsa.

He asked Aqsa to control his wife's company under the supervision of Adya Utama. While his mother will supervise his own company under the supervision of his grandfather.

He chose to leave. He chose never to engage in power play in his family. He chose to go away from all the scandals that had tormented him and also Rhea was born and bathed.

"I've decided it." said Daffa, indisputable.

“Why?”

“I know you're distressed by all your family's news, and so am I. I didn't go and disappear for no reason Rhea. I chose to leave it all to Devian. He is more prepared and more experienced than me. While I was just a puppet played by my mother without pity.”

"I'm not interested in company or power. Being there means being prepared to die. You see my sister, I don't even know if she's alive right now or not. I don't want us to be the next target."

Rhea can't change that. The girl could only think of obeying him. He is bound to Daffa now. Not only Daffa, but also his past with Devian. A past that he never remembered why and how he could go and stay away from him.