BEING THE CEO'S MISTRESS
The Personal Life of Rivaldi

" Erlangga, where have you been?" When she saw the appearance of Erlangga accompanied by Kayra in Erlangga's work room, Helen immediately asked where Erlangga had gone to leave her with Kayra.

" I had just met Agnes, Ma." Erlangga's confession about where he had left his parents and his wife also made Helen and Kayra wide-eyed.

" Meet Agnes?" Even the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law said the same sentence simultaneously.

" You went to see Agnes? For what, Lang?" Helen showed her dislike when her son said that Erlangga had just met Agnes.

" I have to teach him a lesson, Ma. So that he doesn't mess with our family. So, you don't have to worry about Agnes' threats anymore." Explain his purpose in meeting Agnes,

Helen snorted loudly listening to Erlangga's reasoning. Instead of feeling happy for her son's actions, Helen seemed disappointed.

" What does it mean that you're not happy if Mama comes to this office and stays at your house, Lang? Your own wife asked Mama to stay in your house, not Mama who asked, really!" Helen glanced at Kayra.

" Mom don't misunderstand me like that. I just want Mama to feel calm and not scared by Agnes' threat. Besides are you sure you're gonna stay at our place anyway?" Erlangga clasped her hands on Helen's shoulders. Little things are almost rarely done since Erlangga often contradict his mother, when he married Caroline. Erlangga then took her mother to sit on the sofa before she explained to Helen.

" Mom said, your wife offered, not Mama!" Helen reiterated that her request to stay for a while in the house occupied by her son and daughter-in-law did not come from her.

" We are now living in our old house, Ma. At the old Papa's house. Are you sure you're going to stay there?" So that Mama does not become misunderstood again, Erlangga explained to Helen, where she lives with Kayra today is an old house that has not wanted Helen to visit.

And sure enough, Helen immediately rounded her eyeballs when she found out that the house occupied by the child and his daughter-in-law was the house owned by his family when Erlangga was small.

" You live there?" helen asked still in shock.

" Yes, Ma."

" Since when?"

" Not too long, Ma."

" Why didn't you tell Mama? Does your father know about this?"

" Mama was always against us. So we need a safe place so that no one tries to disrupt our domestic life." Honestly Erlangga said what was the reason he had to move to that place. " After all, Papa also agreed if we moved into that house" he continued.

" You've always kept everything a secret from Mama, but Papa you told me." Helen is disappointed that she is always late to learn what happened to her son. Her husband always knew first what Erlangga was doing.

" It's not so, Ma. If I tell Papa a lot, because I need to brainstorm with Papa. Whereas if I told Mama, there we'd be a fight." Erlangga explained to his mother if she needed someone to exchange ideas, not to argue.

" Are you sure you're going to stay with us now?" ask Erlangga. He was sure that his mother would refuse.

Helen took a slow breath before she made her decision. Will stay for a while with his son and daughter-in-law, or stay in his house.

" Yes, Mama's gonna try to stay in that house." Helen confirms if she accepts the offer from Kayra.

Different responses emerged from Erlangga and Kayra. If Erlangga responded to his mother's move for a while to his place still with a sense of worry, while Kayra instead felt happy. The heart of the woman is as pretty as her face. Not holding any grudges at all over Helen's poor treatment of her just yet.

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Rivaldi notices Grace talking to the security guard at a high fenced house. It was not long before Grace pulled out her phone and tried to contact someone from it.

Curious to find Grace difficult to meet her friend, Rivaldi immediately got out of his car to get closer to Grace.

" What's up, Rena?" rivaldi asked after Grace ended her phone conversation.

" My friend has been to Lampung since two days ago." Grace breathed in disappointed.

" You didn't tell your friends first when you wanted to come here?" ask Rivaldi later.

" No, I didn't have time to tell him first." I'm Grace.

" What now?" ask Rivaldi.

Grace was biting her clawed fingernails as she walked back and forth as if she were thinking hard.

" Please take me to the hotel, Aldi. I want to stay at the hotel for a few days while waiting for my friend to come home from Lampung." Grace asks Rivaldi to take her to the hotel to stay.

" Would you like to stay at a hotel?"

" Yes." Yeah."

" I have an apartment here. You just use my apartment while waiting for your friend to come back from Lampung." Rivaldi offered her apartment to use Grace for a few days while waiting for Grace's friend to return to Bandung.

" Your apartment? Oh, no, Aldi. You've been very kind, leaving your job in Jakarta to drive me here. I don't feel good always bothering you." Grace refuses Rivaldi's offer to stay in her apartment.

" It's okay, Rena. After all, during my time in Jakarta, the apartment was not occupied," Rivaldi explained.

" Come on, let's go to my apartment." Rivaldi walked first to his car followed by Grace who finally obeyed Rivaldi's steps.

Fifteen minutes from where friends Grace, Rivaldi and Grace have arrived at the apartment owned by the boss of the company Abadi Jaya.

" Please come in ..." After opening the apartment door, Rivaldi invited Grace to enter his apartment.

Grace did not step inside. The woman still looks hesitant to enter Rivaldi's apartment.

" Come in, I won't do anything." Seeing the doubts in Grace, Rivaldi convinced her that she would not do something that hurt Grace, until finally Grace was willing to follow what was asked by Rivaldi.

Grace noticed a masculine interior apartment that was dominated by black. There are no photos of Rivaldi or his family attached to the wall of the living room of Rivaldi's apartment. Just a few vintage wall hangings attached to that light gray-colored wall.

" You can use the room downstairs, my room upstairs." Rivaldi pointed to the room that Grace would occupy.

" Is it okay for me to stay here, Aldi? Is your lover not angry, you brought a woman in and stayed at your apartment?" Grace begins to pry into Rivaldi's personal life.

" I don't have a lover, you take it easy" said Rivaldi with a smile on the handsome man's lips.

Grace opened the door handle of the room she was going to occupy in Rivaldi's apartment. The smell of green tea came out as the door opened. His forehead immediately wrinkled. Rivaldi said that his apartment was uninhabited as long as he was in Jakarta. But the aromatherapy diffuser remains lit inside the room.

" One Sunday I had ART at my parents' house come here to clean this apartment room.." As if to know the question that is in the mind of Grace, Rivaldi explained how the place remains neat, awake and still fragrant even though there are no inhabitants.

" Oh yeah, you didn't bring clothes, did you? How about I take you to the boutique and we'll stop by my parents' house for a second?" Knowing if Grace came to Bandung not bring clothes because it was rushed and not planned, Rivaldi also offered to accompany Grace to buy her needs while in Bandung, Bandung, after that she plans to bring Grace to her parents' house.

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" Where are you getting ready, Ma?" krisna did not take seriously what his wife said.

" We're going to evacuate to Erlangga's place, Pa."

" What are we doing there, Ma? Erlangga was just feeling his happiness in the household. We better not disturb the tranquility of their household. Let them live in peace and peace." Krishna disagreed with his wife to stay at Erlangga's place.

" Do you think Mama's a riot maker?!" Helen protested against her husband who considered her presence in the house of Erlangga would only disturb the peace of Erlangga's life with Kayra.

" Hasn't Mama been like that all along?" sindir Krisna, because he knew all this time his wife was always in conflict with Erlangga about the life companion of his son.

" Ck, stop it, Pa! No need to argue! So Papa wants to come with Mama to Erlangga's place or not?!" Feeling that her husband would continue to be insinuated, Helen stopped choosing to end the debate.

" If Papa refuses, would Mama leave Papa alone at home?" ask Krishna.

" So Papa's come along, so Papa's not home alone." Helen suggested that her husband follow her.

" Mama, do you remember how Mama used to criticize Caroline who was more concerned with her wishes than accompanying Erlangga at home? Now how is it different from Mama? Mama wants to leave Papa and be more selfish?" Remembering his wife's attitude when criticizing her former daughter-in-law for being negligent to take care of her husband, Krisna now uses that excuse to criticize the wife.

" Papa don't compare Mama with Caroline, dong! That's not Caroline! Caroline left her husband to pursue her career. That Mama was looking for a safe haven from Agnes' evil plans!" Not likened to her former daughter-in-law, Helen immediately protested against Krishna.

" It's safe here, too, Ma. Erlangga himself said that Agnes would not dare to harm Mama." Explaining to his wife, Krisna says if Agnes' threat is unlikely to come true.

" Now you better rest. Let Erlangga calm down with his wife there. Papa wasn't sure Mama wouldn't make a fuss there." Krishna got out of bed and put his hand on his wife's shoulder.

" We'd better enjoy dinner, yuk!" Krishna took his wife out of the room to the family dining room. So that his wife does not continue to ask to go to Erlangga's current residence.

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Grace noticed the house where Rivaldi lived that looked cool and beautiful because it was planted with many trees. However, things do not reduce the luxury of the three-story house.

Fortunately, Grace herself was born from a wealthy family, so she was not awkward if she had to deal with a gathering of middle-aged people.

" Bi Sumi's. Where is your mom?" when entering his parents' house, Rivaldi asked ART at his parents' house.

" Same father Mother is having dinner, Den Aldi." said Bi Sumi as she glanced at Grace. He felt surprised to find the woman beside Rivaldi. Because of the fate of his employer's child, he never brought a girlfriend to the house.

" Oh, okay, Bi." said Rivaldi. " We go straight to the dining room, Rena." Rivaldi invites Grace to join his parents at the dinner table.

" But, Aldi."

" Come ...!" Rivaldi forces Grace to follow him.

Garce eventually tailed behind Rivaldi. While his eyes continued to circulate the look for information about Mama Rivaldi and her daughter.

While passing through the family room, his eyes caught a large photo figura. A family photo, with three people Grace knows. They are Rivaldi and Rivaldi's parents. But, the other two men in the photo did not recognize him.

Grace wanted to ask Rivaldi about the family photo. However, he tried to hold it in so that Rivaldi would not feel strange to him if he asked a lot.

" Sir, Mama ..." When he reached the dining room, Rivaldi greeted his parents who were eating dinner at the dinner table.

" Aldi?" Nugraha and Arina seem surprised by the sudden appearance of Rivaldi without telling first.

" Yes, Rena?" Arina is surprised to see Grace behind Rivaldi.

" Good night, Om, Auntie." Grace was sweet-natured greeting both of Rivaldi's parents who looked surprised at her presence.

" Where are you guys from? Why didn't you tell us first?" ask Nugraha.

" I ran Rena to find her friend's house in Bandung, Pa. But his friend was going to Lampung. So I invited Rena to come here" said Rivaldi explaining why he is in Bandung at this time.

" You guys have eaten yet? Come on, come eat together!" Arina offers Rivaldi and Grace to join a meal together. " Bi, please get me two more plates for Aldi and Rena." Arina had her ART prepare a plate for Rivaldi and Grace to eat.

" Don't bother, Auntie." Grace refused.

" We haven't eaten yet, we'd better eat first." Rivaldi then pulled a chair and sat on it, making Grace also do the same with him.

" Papa's happy, Aldi invited you here, Rena. Yeah, right, Ma?" Nugraha who had long wanted his son to be married would be happy because Rivaldi would invite Grace to visit their home.

" Yes, I hope you can come here often, Rena." Arina.

" You see, Aldi never brought a girlfriend here. You're the first woman Aldi ever invited into this house, Rena." Nugraha continued his wife's words.

" Pa ...!" Rivaldi becomes uncomfortable when his parents begin to allude to the issue of a companion. Although not directly stated. However, he knew the words of his parents would end there.

While Grace only smiled thinly while glancing at Rivaldi who looked wrong at the words of his parents earlier.

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