BEING THE CEO'S MISTRESS
Feeling Threatened

Helen noticed Sari's mother who looked pensive when she heard her story. While Ibu Sari's hands just stirred the soto in front of him until the sauce splattered on the table with empty eyes. It made Helen finally reprimanded Mother Sari to make Mother Sari gasp.

" Is Sari's mother sick?" helen asked back when Mother Sari had awakened from her daydream.

" Oh, n-no, Mom. I'm okay." Sari's mother tried to control herself so as not to be nervous.

" Astaghfirullahal is ...!" Sari's mother gasped in surprise when she saw the soto soup scattered on the table.

" I'm sorry, Mom. I'm tucked away." While pulling the tissue and wiping the spilled sauce on the table, Sari's mother apologized to Helen, for fear of being considered to have humiliated Helen.

Knowing the attitude of Ms. Sari who looks nervous, it is increasingly clear that Kayra is not the son of Ms. Sari.

" It's okay, Miss Sari. I'd better order some more food, huh?" Helen was not angry, even she had Sari's mother order a new meal.

" No, Miss Helen. Let this be all I eat." Although with an unsettled heart, Ibu Sari continued to eat food in front of her because she did not want to make Mother Helen wonder about her current attitude.

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Arriving at home, Ms. Sari rushed into her room. After hearing the story told by Helen, about the former nanny Erlangga first, immediately Mother Sari's heart was troubled.

All this time the story of who Kayra always kept neat, so no one knows if Kayra is his adopted child. In fact, they left their old house when she found out that the mother of Kania's baby was married by the employer of her husband.

The flashback

Ariyanto stared at the nameplate of a building in front of him stopping his car. The place shows an orphanage named LOVING.

Today, Ariyanto was assigned by Nugraha to escort Arina accompanied by little Rivaldi and two of his household assistants went to Jakarta to take Arina's child who was entrusted to the orphanage.

" Is this really the place, Mom?" ariyanto asked Arina, the woman he almost hit when he drove Nugraha to the office more than a year ago who was finally married by Nugraha who was then a widower.

" Yes, right, sir. Just get in, the car's parked inside." Arina asks Ariyanto to park the car in the orphanage grounds.

" Well, ma'am." said Ariyanto following orders given by Arina.

" Aldi want to come with Mama or want to be here with Santi Tea and Mimin Tea?" Arina rubbed the head of the little Rivaldi who since from Bandung was lying down with her head leaning against Arina's thigh.

" Aldi is with Mama ..." Little Rivaldi immediately got up and replied with a sigh.

" Yes, let's get down!" After opening the door, Arina and little Rivaldi got down from the car. " Mister Yanto, Santi Tea, Mimin Tea, I'm staying a while, huh!?" continued later.

" Okay, Mom." Those who were named one-on-one by Arina answered in unison.

" Come on, Aldi." Arina holds Rivaldi, who is now four years old.

" Accelod ..." Before entering the orphanage building, Arina's arrival had become the center of attention of several orphanage children who were playing in the yard.

" Waalaikumsalam .." Someone came out of the parlour and answered the greeting spoken by Arina.

" Mrs Retno, how are you?" Arina immediately approached, lowering Rivaldi first before kissing the hand and hugging the woman who was called Mother Retno.

" God, are you .. Are you Arina?" Miss Retno, who is the mother of the orphanage, recognizes Arina.

" Yes, Mom. Here I am Arina Pratiwi," a happy smile mixed with her puffed up on Arina's lips.

" Come, get in ...! We'll talk in Mom's room." Miss Retno invited Arina to come in.

" Come, Aldi!" Arina clasped Rivaldi's hand and led him into Miss Retno's room.

" This handsome boy what's his name? Who is Arina?" Miss Retno rubbed Rivaldi's face.

" Aldi, this mother asks what is her name? Come on, answer me, son!" Arina asks Rivaldi to answer Miss Retno's question.

" Livaldi .." said Rivaldi timidly.

" His name is Rivaldi, Ma'am Come Rivaldi salim used to be the same Mother ..." Arina had Rivaldi kiss the back of Retno's hand.

" God, smart boy ..." Bu Retno's hand now caressed Rivaldi's head. " Whose child is he, Arina?" Retno's mother repeated her question, seeing Rivaldi so close to Arina.

" It's my husband's son, Miss Retno." I'm Arina honestly.

" Your husband's son? You're married, Arina?" Ms. Retno was surprised to find out that Arina was married.

" Yes, Mom."

" Mash Allah ... Thank God that you are married. I'm glad to hear that." Seeing the radiance of Arina's happy face, Bu Retno can feel if Arina is happy with her marriage.

" Oh yes, at that time Mr. Krishna's family had come here to ask you, Arina. Mother was worried when Mr. Krishna said if he disappeared from the house when you were pregnant. Where were you going, Arina? We're all very worried about you." Retno asked what happened to Arina after leaving the family home of Mahadika Gautama.

Arina took a breath that instantly felt claustrophobic to inhale when she recalled the painful events of her past.

" I went to Bandung, Miss Retno." Arina then told me why she could leave the family home Krisna until she was married by a rich widower from Bandung.

" Therefore, now I come here to take my daughter Kania whom I had entrusted to the midwife who used to help me deliver, Miss Retno." Furthermore, Arina mentioned her intention to visit the orphanage and also provided funds from her husband for the orphanage.

" Your child? Kana?" Bu Retno's forehead immediately wrinkled.

" Yes, Mom. I can't wait to see my son, Miss Retno." Of course, her longing as a mother who had been enduring increasingly in Arina's heart.

" But no one has ever come here to send your child to this home, Arina" Ms Retno told reporters.

Arina gasps at Bu Retno's confession saying that her son is not in a Loving orphanage.

" I mean mom?"

" In the space of a year and a half, this parlor never received childcare from anyone, Arina." Ms. Retno explained.

" Mom's serious?" Arina instantly stiffened when she got the information.

" Right, Arina. I speak the truth" said Ms. Retno. Although it is heavy to say it to Arina, because surely Arina will be disappointed. But he had to say the truth.

" Oh my God, where is my son now, Mom?" Unable to be dammed, Arina's tears streamed down her cheeks and she sobbed.

" You calm down, Arina. Call the midwife where you gave birth first. Who knows it's the midwife who's babysitting your child." Ms. Retno advised Arina to check at the midwife's place who helped deliver Arina.

" If my son isn't there how is it, ma'am? Hicks ..." Arina was instantly confused. She was afraid she would not find her son again.

" Let's not happen, Arina." Miss Retno was hoping for bad things like what Arina had in mind to happen. " You remember the address of the midwife's place, Arina?"

" I still keep it, Mom." Fortunately Arina had asked the Midwife's address to the midwife.

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From the rear-view mirror Ariyanto noticed a sobbing Arina. She had no idea what had happened inside the parlour earlier and what made Arina cry. But, if Arina saw not bring the baby she wanted to bring home, it seemed that Arina was crying because the baby she was looking for was not there.

" Where are we going now, Mom?" tanya Ariyanto tried to ask Arina who was being pacified by the two ARTs that accompanied.

" We should just go back to Bandung, Mr. Yanto." said Teh Santi.

Finally Ariyanto brought back Arina back to Bandung according to the advice of Teh Santi.

" Sir, please find this address when you arrive in Bandung, yes!?" Arina thrust out a piece of paper that she had folded and she had kept all this time to Pak Ariyanto.

" Well, ma'am" Ariyanto received the paper that Arina had proffered to him. However, he did not immediately see the address listed on the paper. He intends to open it if it has arrived in Bandung.

" Mommy, why are you crying?" Seeing Arina endlessly crying, Rivaldi also joined in crying while continuing to hug Arina. Arina's gentle attitude to children, makes it easy to steal the heart of a child like Rivaldi, so Rivaldi can finally accept and love Arina as Mama.

Arina was unable to answer Rivaldi's question. He just hugged Rivaldi's body tightly.

After entering the city of Bandung. Only then did Ariyanto open the paper that Arina had given him.

Instantly Ariyanto was stunned to see the address listed on the paper. Because the address written on the paper was the address of the Midwife where his wife worked before taking care of Kania.

" Want to find this address?" ask Ariyanto later.

" Yes, Mr. Yanto. I used to give birth and put my baby in Bu's midwife, Does Mr Yanto know that address, sir?" ask Arina lirih.

" Hmmm, i-iya, that path I know, ma'am." replied Ariyanto nervously.

" Thank God that Mr. Yanto knew. Please take me there, sir. I have to meet my son." A desperate feeling of Arina when she heard Ariyanto know the address that Arina was going to.

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" Assalamualaikum's chat. Ms ... Mom ...!" Upon his arrival at home, Ariyanto shouted to his wife. When he found out if his employer's second wife turned out to be the biological mother of his adopted child. Ariyanto rushed back to his home. He felt he had to tell his wife, in order to hand Kania over to Arina.

" Waalaikumsalam, what's up screaming, sir? Kania has just gone to sleep, she'll wake up when she hears the voice of the father screaming." Sari reprimands her screaming husband and may disturb Kania's sleep.

" Mom, Kania's parents are coming, ma'am." Ariyanto gripped his wife tightly.

Sari's eyes widened to hear the husband's words. His eyes immediately turned outside his house. However, he did not meet anyone there.

" Kania's parents? Where, Sir?" Sari's heart seemed to melt knowing that the little baby who since childhood care will be taken back by his mother.

" The mother of Kania turned out to be Mr. Nugraha's new wife, Mom. He went to Jakarta because Mr. Nugraha's wife was looking for his son in an orphanage. But the boy was not there. Then Mr. Nugraha's wife asked to be delivered to the address of the Midwife Eti. Ma'am, we have to hand over Kania to Mr. Nugraha's wife." Ariyanto asked his wife to accept the decision to return Kania to her mother.

" We're gonna lose Kania, sir? I don't want to lose Kania, sir." Sari objected to Ariyanto's plan to return Kania to her mother. " Have you told Mr Nugraha's wife that Kania is at our place, sir?" A worried tone sounded from Sari's words.

" I haven't told you about it. Ma'am. But, we've promised Eti's midwife to hand over Kania if one day her mother asks Kania. We can't break a promise, ma'am." Ariyanto tried to advise his wife to obey him.

" But I love Kania very much, sir. I don't want to lose Kania. Please, don't leave Kania to them, sir." Sari wept hugging her husband hoping that her husband would abdicate his intention.

A few days after learning that Arina is the wife of her husband's boss and intends to take Kania, Sari suddenly falls ill. It seems like Sari was thinking about Kania. He was so heavy as to release Kania to his biological parents.

Not until the heart saw his wife who continued to grieve, finally Ariyanto decided to keep hiding Kania from Arina. Ariyanto even decided to resign from his job as a private driver of Nugraha. They also sold the house they had occupied so far and moved to a place far enough from their previous home. Ariyanto changed his name to Kayra Ainun Zahra.

Flashback off

" Oh my God, sir. Kayra's husband turned out to be Kayra's own cousin. And Kayra's husband found Kayra's real parents. If they knew all along we'd been hiding Kayra, how would this be, sir?" Ibu Sari walked back and forth engulfed in anxiety. He was afraid that if until Mahadika Gautama's family knew his mistake, he would be reported to the authorities because it would be the same as kidnapping Kayra.

" Mom, Mommy ...!" Kayra's voice sounded from outside Mother Sari's room.

Quickly, Ibu Sari opened the door of the room and told Kayra to come in.

" Mommy why? Mommy sick? How come Mom's face was pale like that?" Kayra noticed a change in the look on her mother's face that looked anxious and frightened.

" That's okay, Kayra. I'm fine." Sari's mother brushed off Kayra's words.

" Are you sure you're okay? Did Mama Helen say something that was not pleasing to Mom's heart?" Kayra still felt that her mother was not okay. He was so prejudiced that his mother behaved like this because there was something Helen said that was not pleasing to his mother's heart.

" No, son. Your mother-in-law didn't say anything." Sari's mother refuted.

" How did you go with my mother-in-law, Mom? Where did Mom and Dad go?" Kayra was really curious to hear the story of her mother after going together with Helen. She herself had never even felt like going alone with her mother-in-law.

" So just shopping and eating, son."

" What do you eat, Mom?"

" Same with soto."

" But Mama's being nice to you, right?"

" Yes, Kayra. Your mother-in-law is being nice to you, really." Sari's mother stroked Kayra's face with a smile, although in her heart she felt uneasy because she was threatened if all the secrets she kept were exposed.

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