Zulaikha's Last Love

Chapters. 18. Cooperation

"Mom!"

Sita's shout echoed in the room made a sleeping girl jump in shock and immediately jumped out of bed.

"what's up? why?" ask her while looking to the right and to the left.

"Syifa, here help Ma'am!" call Sita who is currently massaging Zulaikha's shoulder, Syifa immediately ran away when she heard the call of her friend.

"ay Allah Ma'am! Why mom?" syifa asked when she saw her sister vomiting.

"Bak seems to catch a cold" said Zulaikha who felt his stomach was very uncomfortable.

Then Syifa and Sita brought Zulaicha into the room, and laid him down to rest.

Syifa rushed to the kitchen to make a ginger drink, in order to warm the body of the sister. While Sita took eucalyptus oil to be applied to Zulaikha's stomach.

After being given eucalyptus oil and ginger, Zulaikha is no longer nauseous. He immediately woke up to take ablution because indeed the time of dawn prayer has arrived.

Zulaikha decided to go back to sleep, after finishing performing dawn while the two girls prepared breakfast for them.

The clock is 8 o'clock, all breakfast is available on the table. They returned to the room to wake Zulaikha and cleanse each other's bodies.

Elsewhere, a man still faithfully coiled under a thick blanket. Though the sun had gone up, but the man was still surfing in dreamland.

Suddenly, a strong enough ringing phone boomed in the room. The mobile phone came straight out of the blanket, he clucked irritatedly because he was disturbed by the loud voice.

"hello," he said in a distinctive hoarse voice waking up.

"Sir, we'll have a meeting with a new client in 30 minutes. But why haven't you reached the office yet?" ask Irham over the phone.

Defin immediately looked at the clock hanging on the wall, his eyes perfectly rounded when he saw the clockwork that had shown at 8 past 10 minutes.

Defin immediately turned off Irham's phone call without answering the man's question, he went straight into the bathroom to clean himself up.

It only took 10 minutes, Defin was out of the bathroom. He immediately looked for clothes on the bed, but Defin found nothing there.

"Zulaikha! didn't you get my work clothes ready?" defin yelled as he pulled his head out of the door, thinking that his wife was in the kitchen.

However, a few moments later Defin only realized that at this time he was only alone in the house. He then threw his towel on the bed in annoyance, then looked for the clothes he used to wear.

Defin long enough in front of the closet, usually everything he is doing now has been prepared by the wife. He had a little trouble finding the trinkets he used to wear to go to the office.

After almost 20 minutes of struggling with clothes, Defin finally got out of the house and drove his car to the office.

He kept glancing at the clock in his hand, because he was 5 minutes late to meet a new client.

After a trip of about 15 minutes, Defin has arrived in front of the office. He sped up the pace to head for the meeting room, while Irham was already pacing back and forth awaiting the arrival of his boss.

"Sir, Mr. Fateeh is waiting inside" cried Irham when he saw that Defin had arrived.

Without saying anything else, the two of them went straight in to meet his client who had been waiting for 25 minutes.

"good morning sir, forgive me for being late for this meeting" Defin lowered his head to apologize for being late.

"but yes, don't be frequent," he added, making some people in the room giggle amused, while Defin also pulled a thin smile at the corner of his lips.

They then returned to their respective places to immediately start the meeting this morning.

"before, I want to apologize to all of you, if at this time I will cooperate with this company," said a man who had just set foot in the company Defin.

"my name is Muammar Al-Fateeh. I am the younger brother of the late Muhammad Al-Azzam, the leader of the Azza Company," the man introduced himself completely to everyone in the room.

"After he died, I replaced him in the company. So I hope, Mr-Bapak all of you can tell Me if later performance I am not good or less satisfactory for all of you, let us work together and remind each other that our company is more prosperous."

Prok, prok, prok, prok. The clapping from the company officials for the young leader, even Defin also clapped his hands to make Irham frown.

"tumben Mr. Defin applauds, but indeed Mr. Fateeh is really cool!" Irham admired the figure of such a young and friendly leader.

After the introduction was completed, they continued the meeting on the cooperative relationship between the Noble Company and the Azza company led by Defin.

The meeting apparently took a long time, almost one o'clock in the afternoon they just came out of the room coinciding with lunch time.

"how about we have lunch together, sir!" take Irham to Ammar who is currently compiling some files in front of him.

"of course, let's go for a delicious meal" exclaimed Ammar cheerfully, while Irham and Defin looked at each other for the nature of the company's leader.

They then went to a restaurant that is quite famous in the city of Jakarta, to enjoy delicious food like what Ammar wanted.

"i'm very happy if I'm in this city, the food is delicious," cried Ammar while enjoying the food that has been presented in front of them.

"right Sir! I also really like the food here" said Irham agreeing with what the man said.

"cheek, if you want anywhere you want to like," Defin sneered at his secretary, while Irham just smiled shyly because what his boss said was the truth.

"sorry Mr. Fateeh, may I ask you something?" ask Irham while sipping juice with a lot of ice.

"maybe, just ask. But, call Mr. Ammar aja yes, rather another I think if calling the last name," said Ammar who was used to being called by his first name.

Irham nodded her head to obey what the man wanted, "why didn't you bring your secretary? isn't it a hassle if business matters go away on their own?"

"it's not that I didn't bring in, it's just that my secretary wasn't there yet" Ammar replied in shock. A company leader cannot possibly not have a secretary.

From a distance, there was a woman who approached the three of them while opposing a Hermos-branded bag.

"Defin, are you here?"

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TBC.

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