THE SACRED LOVE OF MENTARI

PRIVATE SECRETARY

"Excuse me, Mr. Luke, I'm sorry if I interrupted your time" said Firman as he entered Luke's room.

"What's the Word."

"We have found a private secretary for Mr. Luke, after going through a fairly strict selection, we have finally decided to choose someone who is truly worthy and in accordance with his field and certainly experienced." The Word explains the purpose of his coming to see Luke.

Luke took off the minus glass that framed his eyes, he sighed heavily, in fact he did not need a personal secretary, he was enough with the Word, but what power, he was, he could not resist the desire of the great mistress in this case was her mother who insisted on asking the Word to open a vacancy to find a secretary for her.

"Where is the Word." he asked indifferently and went back to flipping through the file in his hand.

"Come, introduce yourself to Luke" call the Word to someone waiting outside.

The person who was called just walked into the president's room, he stopped right beside the Word and began to introduce himself.

"Good morning, Mr. Luke, please introduce me to Mentari Whardhani, the new secretary of Luke, and I will try to work well to be a secretary that you can rely on "

Upon hearing the name of the new secretary, Lukas looked up to the girl who had just entered his room, very clear that Luke was surprised to see the girl who had been shadowing his dreams, even the file in his hand fell down.

"Oh my God, all this time I've been trying to get rid of the shadows about her and now the girl is standing in front of me, what should I do now, what should I do now, if from now on I'll always see him every day." Luke's head suddenly felt dizzy which made him squint his forehead.

Dance and Word throw one another's gaze when they see Luke's expression that immediately changes when they see Dance.

"Why is Mr. Luke so surprised to see me, have we met before, have I ever made Mr. Luke uncomfortable, but as far as I am for the first time I met Mr. Luke." wonder Dance.

"Sir Luke, are you okay." Fiman approached trying to ascertain whether his superior was okay.

Luke raises his hand as a code that he's fine, "You two better get out, leave me alone." he said.

"Actually what happened to Mr. Luke, he saw that I had just seen a ghost." Dance wondered in her heart.

"But sir..."

"Out I said." snapped Luke.

"Okay sir, we're going out."

"Corn Dance, we're out."

"But I am still welcome to work in this company." Dari was worried that she would be fired on her first day considering how Lukas looked at her.

"Yes, but we'd better get out for now, let Luke alone."

Dance resignedly followed Firman out of his new boss room, or maybe he did not have time to call the boss because of the possibility that he would be fired without making a mistake.

"Sir Word, what really happened to Mr. Luke, how he was so shocked when he saw me, before this, I felt I had never met Mr. Luke, he said, so I couldn't possibly have done anything wrong to her considering this is the first time we've met." Dance voiced her astonishment.

"I also don't know what happened to Mr. Luke Tari." The Word is as confused as Dance.

"Yes yes I had to be fired on my first day of work sieh, even though I defended again resigned from my office yesterday, and now if I am really fired, I really fired, I have to find another job." Dance let out a heavy sigh, seeing the way Luke looked at her, she was already sure she would be fired.

"Calm down, I'm sure you won't get fired, so don't think about it."

"Hopefully."

Meanwhile, in the room, Luke tries to control his feelings as soon as Tari is out of his room.

"Why can she, out of the many female population in Jakarta, why should she be chosen as my personal secretary, now what should I do if every day I have to see her." Luke sighed in frustration at this situation, as his life improved a little more and the shadows of the past began to fade, now one of the cast members was present in front of him as if he did not want to let Luke live his life in peace.

"And what if one day he finds out that I ruined his happiness, he's gonna hate me for the rest of his life, and I deserve to be hated by him."

For a few minutes Luke stood in love with his feelings and guilt, the more he tried to forget, the more vivid the shadows of his sin in the past before him, Luke pulled his desk drawer, taking a small clear bottle from there, pouring a pill in his hand and swallowing it, Luke grabbed the glass filled with water and pointed it to his lips to make it easier for the pill to enter his stomach.

After a while, the effects of the pill he swallowed began to feel, he began to feel rather calm and able to think clearly, no one knew that all this time to eliminate his trauma and guilt, no one knew that, Luke took a tranquilizer pill, in the beginning, almost every day he had to swallow it, but this was the first time he swallowed it again after two months of never swallowing it again.

"I must be calm, the past must not affect me, even with the presence of the girl near me."

After feeling fine, Luke reached for the phone next to him to contact the Word.

"Firman, tell the girl to come into my room" he ordered, and without waiting for an answer he hung up.

Five seconds later, there was a knock from outside his door.

"Look in." he ordered.

Luke is desperately trying to behave appropriately and is not affected by the shadows of the past when dealing with the girl.

Luke put on a flat face with a sharp look as soon as the door opened which housed the body of the Dance that walked in.

Dance lowered her head, not daring to look into Luke's eyes looking at her sharply.

"Sit down." Luke ordered

Dance sat in the chair facing Luke.

"Who was your name, I'm sorry I forgot." asked Luke as a mere formality considering he remembered outside the head of the name Dance.

"So Whardhani sir, you can call me Dance alone." replied Tari still lowered her head.

"I think you've been taught manners by your parents, if people talk to you, look at the person, not even look down."

Dance looked up immediately, and her neutrals immediately met the male who was currently the boss.

"I'm sorry Mr. Luke if I'm impolite, but I don't mean it that way."

Luke's feelings were mixed when he looked at the sad eyes, in those eyes as if Luke could see all the ill-gotten flashes that happened that night clearly, therefore, Luke instantly turned his attention staring in the other direction.

"I am sure, you were chosen by the HRD because you deserve and have the potential to work in this company, therefore, I also have to accept you as my personal secretary" said Lukas steady, who is also a member of the company, although he knew it would be very heavy always close to this Dance.

"What's right sir, you didn't fire me." Dance's eyes lit up.

"Why do you think I'm gonna fire you."

"Finally my father was shocked and I didn't like that when he saw me, I thought..."

"I'm sorry for the discomfort just now, it's just my reflex reaction when dealing with a new person." she said.

"Ohh." Dance only mangut-mangut.

"Alright Mentari Whardhani, welcome to join this company, I hope you can work well and help me."

"Of course sir, I will work well, you can count on me." replied Tari steady, "Order do not just odd like my previous bosses, who did not want to, but it seems like the father is the kind of good man deh." value Dance in the heart.

"Well, you can start working today, and regarding your duties, let the Word explain."

"Yes, Mr. Luke, thank you."

The Word is now standing in front of the boss's desk, waiting for what his boss will say.

"Firman, please direct you to Dance, tell her what she's supposed to do."

"Good sir."

"Corn Dance, come with me."

Dance nodded, and excused Luke before following the Word out of the room.

Luke sighed in relief as soon as Dari was not in front of him, I swear, being in close proximity to Tari made him tormented because the flash of the past just kept on shadowing him.

****

The day went smoothly without a hitch, and Tari could absorb well everything the Word said, and now it was time to go home from work, Dari had ordered an ojek online to take her home.

The dance stands in front of the company waiting for the online ojek ordered through the application, but after a few minutes of waiting, there are no signs of the brother gojek coming.

While waiting so, a car stopped right near her, Tari wondered in her heart who was in the car, the question was answered when the windshield was lowered which made Tari can clearly see who was in the car, Lukas his boss.

"Tari, you're trying to stand alone in front of this." Luke asked, his looks still the same as it was this morning, flat and cold.

"I'm waiting for a gojek sir."

Dari was sure Luke would offer to deliver her, and Tari was also prepared to refuse.

"Ohh, well then, I'm ahead."

"Road sir." Luke orders the driver.

"Ehh." Dari wonder, he's just kegeeran if his new boss will offer him a ride, ehh yunya pure just a doank, just a doank, maybe because it's used to Dance often offered a ride by her previous bosses so she became kegeeran like this, I swear it was like Dari wanted to laugh in his heart, "Haha, my God, I kegeeran once, I'm very happy, but thankfully, hopefully Mr. Luke is not like my previous superiors." please Dance inwardly.

And after Luke's departure, before long the gojek he ordered arrived, Tari rushed up to him, he wanted to get home and rest.

****

"Where's the new job." asked Laura from the phone.

"Mmm, it's only the first day, so I can't say that the current job is okay, isn't it usually going to be good at the beginning."

"Yes, you're right too."

"Where with your boss are there any signs of his incongruity showing up when he sees you for the first time."

"Hmmm, I think my boss is a little different Ra."

"That's not odd and flirtatious you mean."

"It could be, because the first time I saw him he was like he saw that ghost, pale in face, he even pushed me out of his room."

"Ohh yeah, pull nieh, keep going."

"Well, after a while, he called me back, and he basically said welcome to join the company, and you know not when he came home, he stopped the car right near me, I thought he'd offer me a ride like that, uh years he's just how I was gonna stand alone, and after that he left, though I was already geer and prepared words to reject her." Tari's story about her first day working in Luke's company.

"Hahaha." from across the laughter Laura sounded as Tari finished her story, "Your oath is the kegeeran Tar."

"It's only natural that Ra, given the company I used to work in, almost all of my superiors always take me home together, but I'm grateful that Mr. Luke is not like that, and I hope sieh's attitude will continue like that until the end."

"Thank God Tar, you finally get the boss you want, I hope this time you last a long time in your new workplace."

"Yes, I hope so too."

****

"So how, did Firman find a new secretary for you." asked Mama Lili at dinner with her family.

"The new secretary ma." wonder papa Sebastian who does not know about this.

"Yes pa, my mother asked the Word to find Luke a private secretary that you know, to facilitate Luke's work." explained Mama Lili to her husband.

Papa Sebastian is only mangut-mangut, because he was not allowed to have a private secretary by his wife, allowed indeed, but his secretary must be a boy, thought papa Sebastian, was allowed to have a private secretary, if the men of the Word are enough.

"Luke mama let have a private secretary, mama used to not allow papa at all have a private secretary."

"Who says you don't allow it, you allow it."

"Yes mama allows it, but her secretary has to hunker down."

"Yes, if a girl is afraid, papa will cheat again."

"This mom, not believing at all in her own husband, papa is loyal ma."

"It's pa, let's say it's over, so why is it still mentioned, let alone now papa is retired too."

"Hmmm." sighed papa Sebastian.

"So how dear, the Word has found a new secretary for you."

"Hmmm." muttered Luke.

In his heart was a bit sprained also with his mother, considering because the mother who insistent asked the Word to find him a private secretary so that he was reunited with Dance.

"Good, tomorrow mama will see him."

"Make what ma."

"Yes there are some things that you have to tell your secretary, for example asking him to control so you don't get late to eat."

"Ohh ma, no need, just shy, let alone it is not the task of secretary ma, Luke promises never to forget to eat."

Luke was really surprised by his mother, he could have asked Tari to remind him just to eat a doank.

"Yes ma, Luke is right, let's say our son is not a child anymore, if he is hungry yes he will eat by himself, do not need to use any reminders." papa Sebastian supports his son's argument.

"Hear me."

"Well well, you won't meet your secretary, just as long as you promise not to forget to eat even though you are busy with your work." Mama Lili gave up.

"Yes mama, mama take it easy, I really can't be sick, if I'm sick no one will take care of my company."

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