The Love That Is Taken

Three Friends Unite

“You...you are interested in jumping into the property business?” asked Jonathan stammering.

Mina was immediately shuffled. “Jon, Jon…. You are so surprised. Do I deserve to be in the property business? It's just a beauty business?” ask the girl Kenes.

“Bu..not that, Min.”.

“Keep what?”

“Well, you have never mentioned the property. So I thought you weren't interested at all.”

“Yes, abis you guys never asked me to talk about that, anyway.”

“Emang you know business property?”

“Hahaha. Nti y'all teach you, yes.”

Mina laughed again. This time her tears came out. The two men in front of him gawked. This girl's eccentric, Bastian thought. It's hard to guess his way of thinking.

“Udah, already. That's his property marketing office so it's open, right? I want to join a third. But there are conditions,” said Mina asserted.

Jonathan looked at her inquisitively. “What are the terms, Min?” tanyanya. He frowned to look at his best friend.

“I want to be the head of accounting. I've been bored for years with working people as an accounting staff. I think now is a good time for me to develop myself.”

Bastian was so shocked. “You want to resign from your regular job, Min? Crazy, desperate! I have not dared. If this business will not succeed, how?” it's spontaneous. But then he regretted what he said when he saw Jonathan's dislike of him.

“Ups, sonny, Bro. It's not that I don't believe in your vision of mission in the property business. My wife is not working. I take full responsibility for his life and our two children. So I didn't dare risk giving up my current job. Ok-lah if only a third of the capital deposit, I am still able to. Help-help about marketing can also still be. But my job now I still prioritize.”

Mina immediately mediated a somewhat heated atmosphere. “Bas was right, I think. Indeed among the three of us only he still has dependents, right. It’s ok-lah. I will also be working on my freelance as a make-up artist. Is that okay, Jon? You are the only one who is the director. I hold his accounting, Bas helps me take care of the concept of marketing and IT. You manage the office operations. How?”

Jonathan nodded in agreement. He was quite satisfied with the management idea that his best friend had just expressed. Bastian also seemed to have no objections. He then added, “We also need a secretary or a reliable head of administration. Who yes, approximately?”

“Aday,” replied Jonathan straightforwardly. Both of his friends looked at him question mark. “Sunday is still working in the company of your father-in-law, Jon,” chirped Mina with a confused expression.

Jonathan immediately explained, “Udah is no longer. He was fired today with Papa.”

“Hah?!” bastian and Mina together. They were both very surprised to hear this news.

“Karin has indeed submitted his resignation to the head of HRD. But he was asked to wait until there was a replacement. Only when Papa found out about it today, he did not like it and immediately fired Karin.”

“He said, so. I don't know,” said the man who was asked while shrugging his shoulders. In his heart he prayed that his best friend did not suspect something was happening between him and his former secretary.

Bastian interrupted the conversation, “Udah night, nih. I have to go home now. Yes, use Karin only for the head of administration. But you have to talk to him, Jon, his salary can't be as big as working in your office first. We are still pioneering. Would he be paid standard salary?”

His best friend nodded. He answered Bastian's question with confidence, “He would have liked to, Bas. The guy's good, really. No calculation of salary problem.”

“Good then,” comment Bastian pleased. “Ok, Bro and Sis. Means we compact so business partner, yes.”

The man then advanced the back of his hand in front which was immediately greeted with a sign of agreement by his two best friends.

***

Thus finally Jonathan, Bastian, and Mina shoulder to shoulder opened the property marketing office. It was Jonathan who was everyday in the office as director. Bastian and Mina only come a few times a week to run the part of the job that does not require their presence every day.

Meanwhile Karin who works as the head of administration gets closer to Jonathan. They meet every day because of work. Karin still calls the man she loves as Mr. Jon, like an employee to his superiors. The two never touched on the matter of being taken where their next relationship will be because of Jonathan's stalled divorce process.

Slowly the man complained about the expertise of Theresia's lawyer in stalling the trial schedule. Five months have passed and Lucia, Jonathan's lawyer, has not received any certainty as to when the first hearing will take place.

“Then this is how, why do I hire the services of a lawyer, Rin. It has been five months and there is no development at all,” sigh the man annoyed. His face looks gloomy. He's just alone with Karin in the office. The office was deserted because the day had shown at six in the afternoon. They were both forced to overtime to prepare for the property exhibition which will be held in three days at the mall.

Karin tried to calm her boss's heart. “Sabar, Sir. His opponent this time is indeed a well-known conglomerate in Surabaya. So he must have known influential people in the government apparatus. Maybe Ms. Lucia tried. But since his opponent was too strong, he was a bit difficult fighting the case of Mr.”

“I can't stand being in a position like this anymore, Rin. Until when is my status not clear like this?”

The girl smiled patiently, which made her boss' heart melt to see her. “You are so beautiful when you smile like this, Rin,” Jonathan commented wistfully. Suddenly he stood up from his chair and approached the girl sitting in front of him. Subjugated face looks and warm lips Karin with warm.

The girl who had not been touched for so long by her boss gasped. As fast as lightning released the kiss that actually missed him so much. “Oh,” said Jonathan disappointed his romantic attitude was rejected by Karin. “Sorry, I can't bear to see you smile earlier. So beautiful and..”.

“I want to be kissed,” as the girl cuts off her boss's words. “But not here. Shame to be seen by office boy.”

Jonathan's chest rumbled to hear Karin's statement just now. “Then, let's go somewhere safe. In your house how?” the man was impatient.

Karin shook her head. “I'm afraid Aunt Rosa suddenly came. He already knows that I am working with you now. But absolutely unsuspecting there is nothing between us..”.

His boss seemed to think of something, but he did not dare to say it to the girl. It is precisely Karin who says gently, “In the place of the Father alone is okay..”.