BEING THE CEO'S MISTRESS
Already Repented

After finishing dinner, Grace was invited to have a casual conversation with the Rivaldi family in the family room. The welcome of the Rivaldi family felt Grace was very warm. Maybe because this is the first time Rivaldi brought a girlfriend to visit his parents' house. Because both of Rivaldi's parents were enthusiastic in welcoming Grace's arrival at the house.

During a light conversation, Grace's eyes always pay attention to the family photos in the room where they chat casually. However, he did not get the right moment to ask about the photo.

" Oh yes, Aldi said, you went to your friend's place, but your friend was not there. Then, are you going straight back to Jakarta tonight, Rena?" asked Nugraha after going through some other small talk.

" Rena was staying at the hotel waiting for her friend to come back from outside the island, Pa. But, I told him to just use my apartment." It wasn't Grace who answered Nugraha's question, but Rivaldi was the one who spoke.

" Your apartment?" Nugraha immediately turned to his wife, who at the same time turned to him. So that the two Rivaldi parents looked at each other as if thinking the same thing.

" Yes, what do you think of Papa?" Rivaldi asked his father's opinion.

" Hmmm, no problem. The apartment will also not be occupied if you are in Jakarta," said Nugraha did not oppose his son's decision to send Grace to live temporarily in Rivaldi's apartment.

" Well, you're gonna live in that apartment, Aldi? This time Arina asked.

" I'll be back in Jakarta tomorrow morning, Ma. Maybe I stayed one night in Bandung. If you have to go home tonight to Jakarta, it seems very tired," complained Rivaldi while rubbing his neck.

" You better stay here. Rena also stayed here in Bandung, not in your apartment. Pity Rena if she's there alone. Better here, there's Auntie, so we can talk a lot." Arina suggests that Grace stay at her home as long as Grace waits for her friend to come home from Lampung.

" How, Rena? You want to be in my apartment or here?" Rivaldi gives Grace a choice.

" Oh, I'm so bad to bother Om, Auntie and Aldi." Grace responded with a bad feeling.

" It's okay, Rena. Aunty is happy if you want to stay here. So Auntie can have a friend talk if Aldi's dad goes to the office." Arina happily accepts Grace's whereabouts at her home.

" Thank you, Om, Auntie. Om and Aunt are very kind to me." Grace sits embarrassed for the good treatment of Rivaldi's parents to her.

" You don't hesitate, Rena. Auntie says to auntie prepare a room for you." Arina soon orders ART at her house to tidy up the guest room Grace will be staying in.

" Aldi, Papa wants to talk to you ..." Nugraha got up from his seat. He wanted to talk in his study with Rivaldi. " Rena, Om stay a while, okay?" Nugraha said goodbye to Grace before leaving them.

" Please, Om." said Grace.

" I'll stay a while." Rivaldi also said goodbye to Grace. And this time it was just a nod to Grace's head.

The departure of Papa and the child certainly made Grace feel comfortable. Because he was able to seek information from Arina, without arousing suspicion of Rivaldi and his Papa.

" Hmmm, those are Aldi's sisters, Tan?" Without waiting for a long time, Grace asked Arina while pointing to the Rivaldi family photo.

" Yes, it's Aldi's sisters" Arina said.

" Aunty's son all right, Tan?" Starts Grace fishing for information from Arina's mouth.

" Hmmm, i-yes. Aunt's son all boys." Grace's question was answered flatly by Arina.

" How come Aldi's sisters didn't eat together, Auntie?" grace asks questions about the whereabouts of Rivaldi's two younger brothers.

" Yes, because they both went to college in Australia" replied Arina.

" Oh, so ..." Grace nodded her head slowly to understand what Arina was explaining.

" Aldi looks more like his face, Tan. If her sisters are more like Auntie, huh?" Grace noticed the faces of the three young men in the photo. There is no resemblance of Rivaldi's face to Arina.

" Oh, yeah. Actually this Aunt Mama continued Aldi. Aunty married her father Aldi when Aldi was four." For this, Arina did not hesitate to tell her relationship with Rivaldi.

" Mama connect? But Auntie and Aldi look very familiar and look like a relationship between mother and son, you know, Tan." Grace pretended to be surprised to hear Arina's explanation.

" Yes, maybe because Aunt has been taking care of Aldi since childhood," said Arina smilingly looking at her family photo.

" That means Aunty's really happy to babysit a kid, huh? So it can be easy to get along with Aldi." Grace lures Arina by mentioning the phrase parenting.

Arina turned to Grace as Grace said the words parenting a child. Even Arina's facial features instantly changed and looked sad.

" I think Aldi has a younger sister, Tan. You see Aldi is very good with me, as with his own sister," said Grace later. Because she felt a change in Arina's face, which made her sure that Arina was indeed the woman that Erlangga referred to as Erlangga's little nanny.

" Are you all this time, Aldi just thought you were just a little sister?" A disappointed question was heard from Arina's mouth.

" Huhh? Oh, I mean ... Aldi cares so much, he's like a big brother who cares for his little sister. Sorry, Auntie. I've been so lazy to say this." Despite being undercover, Grace did not want to offend Arina.

" Oh, no, Grace. You don't have to apologize like that. Aunty just hopes if you guys can get closer. Aunty and Om have long wanted to see Aldi end his bachelorhood. Aunty herself does not understand what Aldi is looking for anymore? So that he doesn't get married immediately either." Arina mende is legitimate, like there is a burden that she feels seeing Rivaldi has not also decided to marry.

" Okay, Auntie. I'm not feeling this good." Grace blushed. " Me and Aldi are just friends, Auntie." Grace hopes Arina doesn't expect too close to Rivaldi too far. Because he was sorry to see both of Rivaldi's parents, who seemed to have already fallen for him.

" Aunty hopes, gradually your friendship can develop in a more serious direction," Arina hoped as she clasped Grace's hand.

Grace only smiled faintly in response to Arina's expectations. Especially now Arina clasped her hand as if she wanted more than her closeness and also Rivaldi.

" Oh yeah, Tan. We've talked a lot but I don't know Auntie's name." This time Grace tried to change the subject by asking Arina's name.

" Aunty's name is Arina. You call me Aunt Rina." The long-awaited answer finally sounded in Grace's ears as well.

" Oh, well, Aunt Rina." Grace curled a smile. Allegedly if Arina is the nanny of Erlangga when CEO Mahadika Gautama was proven true. His job is to find information about who the figure of Mama Rivaldi already he got. Now, it is precisely one information about the daughter born by Arina from the actions of Om from Erlangga that is still difficult to obtain. Moreover, Arina seemed to close the meeting about the secret.

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Time has shown ten o'clock at night. Erlangga is still unable to fall asleep. He just looked at Kayra who was asleep with her mouth slightly open with her arms.

" Sleeping with your mouth open like thisyou still look beautiful, Kayra." Erlangga chuckled at the wife who could not possibly hear the insinuation. Erlangga even immediately gave a kiss on Kayra's lips until Kayra immediately pursed her lips, although still with her eyes closed.

" How could your mother give birth to a perfect woman like you, Kayra? Beautiful, kind, patient and loving." Erlangga's fingers stroked the beautiful face of his wife who did not care what he said. " It's lucky your parents have a son like you, Kayra. May our son inherit your attitude later, but if he's a man he must be as firm as his father." Erlangga smiled a smile indicating that she felt happiness indescribable through words.

Erlangga turned to his phone. He's convinced that the person who contacted him was Bondan. Because he did ask Bondan to contact him at any time if there was any important information to be conveyed to him.

Erlangga's hand felt down the nightstand to pick up the phone, as she did not want to disturb his wife who was asleep in his arms. After he got the phone, he saw a message coming in from Bondan.

" Good night, sir. Sorry to interrupt your break. Rizal reports that Grace is currently at Rivaldi's parents' house. And according to the info sent by Grace, Rivaldi's mother was named Arina. She is Rivaldi's stepmother. And about Arina's mother's daughter. Grace still hasn't gotten the information. Because the child recognized by Arina is only Rivaldi as a conjoined child and two boys who are the biological children of Mrs Arina and Mr. Nugraha. There's absolutely no daughter in Rivaldi's parents' house, sir."

It was the contents of a long message sent by Bondan to Erlangga's phone.

Erlangga let out a long sigh knowing that Rivaldi's stepmother was his nanny first. The person closest to her is compared to her own mother.

" It has not been a long time since we met. Yesterday we were in the same room. However, don't realize if there's Sus there." Erlangga regrets knowing too late if Mama Rivaldi is Sus Rina, her nanny first.

" Okay, Mr. Bondan. Please direct Grace to keep finding out where Sus Rina's daughter is." Erlangga then replied to an incoming message from Bondan.

" Okay, sir." Bondan replied quickly.

Erlangga put the phone back on the nightstand after reading a reply from Bondan. At that moment his brain thought hard.

" Where would my cousin's sister be if there were no daughters in Rivaldi's house? Is my cousin's brother dead? Oh my God, if my cousin's sister is still alive, show me where she is?" murmured Erlangga inwardly begging for guidance from the Khalik.

" Uugghh, Mas ...."

Erlangga turned her head towards Kayra when she heard the moans and Kayra's voice calling out to her. However, he saw that his wife was still asleep in her sleep.

Erlangga noticed Kayra's peaceful face. He remembered the story of Kayra who suddenly felt like she was familiar with Arina, but his wife had never met Arina before. Kayra said, Arina was also stunned when she saw Kayra, as if the two people had known each other before.

Erlangga was impressed by Kayra and the house they occupied today. Kayra felt the warmth of being in this house, as if Kayra had lived here in her shy time. However, his wife said, if he began to settle in Jakarta since he worked at the company Krisna. Even so, he always contracted in a small house in a narrow alley that he had called a gubug before.

" What is the secret between you and this house, Kayra? And why do you feel so close to Sus Rina?" The question immediately came to Elangga's mind, because he felt there was a strange relationship that occurred between his wife, his home and his former caregiver.

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Tok tok tok tok

The sound of the room door being knocked from outside, made Kayra and Erlangga set their sights on the door.

Erlangga immediately walked towards the door to open the door and find out who was knocking on the door of his room.

" Mama? Who's Mama coming with?" Erlangga was surprised to find Helen already standing in front of her room.

" Mama delivered Mr. Samsul." Helen immediately broke into the room Erlangga who had once been his room with Krishna.

" Mom ..." Kayra immediately approached Helen and kissed Helen's hand.

" I'm not your Mom, don't call me Mom!" Helen refuses to be called Mother by Kayra. " Call it like Erlangga called me!"

The last sentence that Helen said made Kayra turn to her husband who immediately nodded with a smile.

" ii-yes, Ma. Sorry ..." Kayra also immediately changed her call.

" You changed this room, Lang?" Helen noticed that every corner of her bedroom was different.

" Yes, I deliberately changed the interior to make it look more modern" said Erlangga. " Mom alone with Mr Samsul?" ask Erlangga back.

" Yes, Mama will stay here some time with your Papa." Helen opened the balcony door and stepped towards the balcony terrace. Even going back to that place will remind her of her dead baby. However, Helen braced her heart to come and settle in her old house for a while.

" Which room will you sleep in?" Helen returned to her room after being content to monitor her side yard from the balcony.

" Mommy will sleep in the main room downstairs" Erlangga said.

Fortunately Kayra had asked Ms. Sari to change rooms before, when she found out her mother-in-law had agreed to stay at her place for some time.

" Are you going to the office now?" tanya Helen saw Erlangga who had been neatly wearing her blazer suit.

" Yes, Ma. Would you like to come to the office too?" ask Erlangga.

" Will your wife come to the office?" Helen answered Erlangga's question with a question.

" Yes," said Erlangga.

" Well, if Mama doesn't come with us to the office, I'd better be at home with Mama, huh?" Kayra asked her husband's permission to accompany Helen to stay at home if the mother-in-law did not want to come to the office.

" Dear, are you sure you'll stay here?" However, Erlangga still can not be completely sure of his mother. There was still concern in Erlangga's heart if her mother would hurt Kayra.

" Do you think Mama will harm your wife, Lang?" Feeling that Erlangga was hesitant towards her, Helen immediately protested against her son.

" It's not so, Ma." Erlangga immediately refuted his mother's words. " I'm just still traumatized by Mama's attitude towards Caroline and Kayra." Erlangga conveyed his anxiety.

" Can't you see that this Mama has repented, Erlangga?!" ketus Helen because her son discovered his current attitude.

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