
" Would you like to eat, Kayra?"
Kayra was just about to step up to perform the Dzuhur prayer when Erlangga's voice sounded from the direction of the man's office door.
" I want to pray first, sir." Kayra held back her steps and answered Erlangga's question.
" Yes already, later when it's done, please order food for our lunch. We'll eat together in my room."
Kayra frowned hearing Erlangga's orders this time. The tone Erlangga spoke today really sounded different, not like usual.
" What do you want to eat?" kayra asked about the food menu Erlangga wanted to order.
" It is up to you to choose, as long as it is not spicy," said Erlangga.
" good, Sir. I order now .." said Kayra intended to order food first because she was afraid Erlangga too long waiting for her if she prayed first.
" You pray first, order the food after you finish worshiping." Erlangga forbade Kayra who wanted to order food and had Kayra carry out her duties first. After that, he went back into his room.
After Erlangga's death, Kayra immediately performed Dzuhur prayer, after which she immediately descended down to the canteen to order lunch for Erlangga, Because today Nina's mother did not go to work so she herself had to go to the cafeteria.
The atmosphere of this lunch canteen looks crowded because many office employees have lunch there. Kayra felt several pairs of eyes looking at her seriously, not a few also whispered when she saw her presence in the canteen.
Kayra had no idea what made them look at her like that and tried to ignore the eyes of some employees who were staring at her. He went to the owner of the canteen.
" Mom, please prepare lunch for Mr. Erlangga. What is the usual food Mr. Erlangga likes huh, Mom?" ask Kayra to the cafeteria.
" Oh, ready, Ma'am. Mr. Erlangga usually likes foods that are not coconut milk and not spicy, Ma'am" said the canteen's mother
" Yes, please just prepare, Mom." Kayra asked the help of the canteen mother to prepare food for Erlangga.
" Mrs Nina usually order. Where's Nina's mom, Ma'am?" ask the canteen then.
" Nina's mother didn't leave, Mom." said Kayra. He himself then took the plate and took the rice along with side dishes for him.
" I am yes, Mom." Kayra handed him a plate containing rice that she picked up and put on top of the tray. " How much is it, Mom?" ask Kayra later.
" The one with twenty-two thousand. If you have a boss, count it later, Ma'am."
" Oh, yes already then I pay my own, Mom" Kayra offered a hundred thousand rupiah in cash to the cafeteria. He did not want to invite suspicion and chose to pay for his own food.
" Let's get us on the food later, Ma'am." The cafeteria mother offered to help bring the food upstairs, then handed the change to Kayra.
" Oh, fine, Mom. Thank ye. Then I go upstairs, Mom!?" Kayra said goodbye to the cafeteria mother about to leave the canteen.
" That calm appearance doesn't guarantee that people are good." The grapevine sounded in Kayra's ear as she was about to come out of the canteen.
" Well, have a pretty face dear dong, if not used. Yes even if only as a mistress, the important thing is that money flows smoothly. Moreover, so the boss's own savings, safe, serene and prosperous." There was a voice of a different person speaking the words of the person who had previously spoken.
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Kayra's heart immediately pounded when she heard those people as if they were talking about her. Because ever since he came in, he realized that some people were watching him. And their offending words about the mistress really made her unsettled. Do they know about her marriage to Erlangga? Instantly anxiety shook his heart.
" If the boss knows his assistant cheated on him with his secretary, how about, huh? There's no way Mr. boss fired his assistant, right? Most secretaries are expelled."
Kayra was wide-eyed when she heard about the gossip that the people were exhaling. What are the assistants and secretaries meant by Wira and himself? That's what's on his mind.
" Oh my God, why is there such a rumor? Are those people who mean me and Mr Wira?" Kayra bit her lips and squeezed her skirt.
" Eh, don't just gossip! If it's not true you can get in trouble, you know!" The voice of a man reminded the two women who were whispering.
" The look is smooth, the inside contains poison. Until Mr. Aldi also deceived his calm appearance," continued the person.
Those innuendo words further burned Kayra's chest. It was clear that the woman called the mistress they were talking about was her. The rumors that they exhaled were not true about her and Wira, but had made some people scorn her, especially if the reality of her status as Erlangga's mistress was known to other employees, especially if the reality of her status as Erlangga's mistress, Kayra felt it was like a time bomb ready to explode and destroy her.
" It's going to be brought up now, isn't it, Ma'am?" The waiter of the cafeteria carrying the tray filled with his food and Erlangga made Kayra realize from the seriousness she heard the people gossiping about her.
" Oh, i-yes, Mas. Just take it upstairs." Kayra called out to the canteen maid. Kayra then walked in front of the canteen maid with a raging heart upon hearing the painful gossip about her.
" Let me take it, Mas. Thank you, yes!" Kayra took the tray from the hand of the canteen maid when she reached the floor of Erlangga's room. He took the cutlery first to the kitchen and then to the Erlangga workspace.
Tok tok tok tok
With her elbow Kayra opened the door of Erlangga room because she had difficulty opening the door.
" Excuse me, sir." Kayra was still acting formally to Erlangga even though the man was her husband as well.
Erlangga immediately got up from his seat and slightly ran over to Kayra who seemed to have difficulty opening the door.
" Thank you, sir." Although shocked by Erlangga's treatment that seemed responsive to his difficulties earlier, Kayra did not forget to thank Erlangga.
" What food did you order?" tanya Erlangga looked at the contents of the food in the tray.
" I ordered beaf steak and broccoli for you." Kayra arranged a plate containing white rice and put side dishes on the edge of a plate containing rice belonging to Erlangga.
" Is that your food?" tanya Erlangga pointed towards the plate filled with chicken, tofu and fried tempe that Kayra now held.
" Yes, sir." said Kayra then sat in front of Erlangga.
" Why sit far away? We're husband and wife not enemies, sit here." Erlangga asked Kayra to sit next to him.
" Okay, sir." answered Kayra again.
" Don't be too official if we're both." Erlangga asked Kayra not to always speak like an employee if she was alone with him.
" I'm sorry, Sir. I still can't. In this office I remain the employee of the Father and must respect the Father as my leader." Kayra reasoned.
Erlangga no longer opposed what Kayra said. He let the woman call him as Kayra wished.
" Here's your plate." Erlangga took Kayra's food plate. He then split the steak and broccoli flakes into Kayra's rice dishes and removed the fried chicken and tofu and tempeh from Kayra's plate, leaving Kayra bawling and confused.
" Why, Sir?" kayra asked confused by Erlangga's behavior.
" What I eat, that's what you have to eat, too" Erlangga said.
" I want every day we eat like this, but I want you to cook it for me. Now eat ...!" erlangga said then ate his food.
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Sorry yes, if this chapter is very short, because stomach acid relapse makes ga konsen 🙏
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