Daddy My Son's
46. Not Who

The man smiled in his heart. He was sure, his bait would be instantly devoured by the foolish young man.

For a while Joe was still thinking while spending the food that was still on his plate.

"You don't have to answer tonight. I gave you a chance to think first" said Mr. Loenhard, seeing that Joe did not immediately respond. He took a quick glance at Lirasa who had just finished her dinner.

Joe sipped a glass of water until it ran out, then tidied up the dirty eating utensils he had used to make it look neat.

"Sir, I'm sorry. I couldn't accept the Master's offer, "Joe finally made his voice, keeping his polite and respectful attitude towards the father-in-law.

"I told you, you don't have to answer tonight. You need to think well if you really love my daughter. I don't want my daughter to have a mediocre husband" she said looking into Joe's look, trying to keep up her demeanor.

"Sorry sir, I know who I am, I am a nobody. And I know enough about this" he said as calmly as possible.

"I am also well aware, it is not good to refuse such a valuable offer from Master, the father of the woman I love. But I can't force myself. Because I don't have the science to be a director. That's too hard for me, sir. I fear that my inability can humiliate you and your family. I will continue to pursue my work as a pilot" Joe said carefully.

"Maybe for some people, being a pilot is not difficult, as easy as turning the palm of the hand because they have a lot of money. But for me, being a pilot is a great gift. And I have to appreciate it. To achieve it, I had to do an unusual job as a man."

"But I'm determined to leave everything that's past, and focus on my job and my future with my little family, sir," said Joe.

"Unusual work how do you mean it?" ask Mr. Loenhard to catch something that seems odd to him.

"Once again please forgive me, sir. I can't afford to open it directly to you, because it's a shame. I've tried so hard to forget the things that I find so embarrassing" Joe glanced at his father-in-law, who kept looking at him in full search, while her mother-in-law had just listened to every speech without any expression.

"Maybe this young man is a thief, a robber, or a fraud," the inner master Loenhard thought of the possibility of the shameful work that Joe had intended.

"With your refusal, does that mean you're ready to lose Virranda? Because Virranda's husband must be the owner of the company." said Loenhard then still in a flat tone.

Joe swallowed his saliva until his jaw was seen going up and down. He had guessed that the father-in-law's offer was not sincere to him, just a mode, looking for an excuse to separate Virranda from him.

According to him, if he accepts, the result will be the same, his father-in-law will still look for fault to bring him down. The goal is only one, to separate himself and Virranda.

"I'm not ready Sir" Joe said in his calm tone.

"I can't show love in a fantastic style like the rich in general, with all the wealth they have,"

"I can only show my love in my humble way, sir. But my love for your beloved daughter is very special and extraordinary" Joe said.

Mr. Loenhard immediately chuckled, something he was not used to as a rich man who always maintained his dignity.

"It's so naive, just swallow your silly ways, young man. My good sense as the father of my beloved daughter, absolutely cannot accept that simple way of you. You are indeed inappropriate, and unworthy," he said disparagingly.

"Forget my daughter from tonight," she broke with her sharp glare while stopping her chuckle.

"Enough Mami, don't defend her. This was all because Mami who was willing to accept this poor man was so easy, that she was not willing to try as hard as I was building a business. Just being an officer. I don't want to have a daughter-in-law just an officer. I want to have a son-in-law of a businessman, Ferdinand for example" he said blatantly.

"Quite you've ruined my beloved daughter" he said, turning to Joe. "By depositing your disgusting seeds first so that you can easily get my daughter because you are pregnant with your bad boy," he said with emotion.

"Enough Papi! Papi's outrageous!" subconsciously, Lirasa raised her tone, making the invited guests stare at the three of them with a questioning look.

Joe could only close his eyes, restraining and swallowing his own pain.

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After cleaning himself up in the bathroom after his corporate birthday party, Joe grabs his cell phone left in his room. He saw a dozen missed calls from Virranda.

His busy life with all employees made him forget his phone on his room table when he rushed to the company party.

He glanced at the clock on the corner of his phone, that means in Indonesia it is now showing at 5 am, and Virranda must have woken up.

Joe's feelings from yesterday afternoon were already bad, plus Virranda did not pick up the phone until several times. He immediately called home, hoping that a housekeeper would pick up his phone.

📞"Hallo, the family residence of Mr. Loenhard here," a woman's voice sounded from the end of the phone line. Joe's heart cheered, finally someone picked up the phone.

📞"Aunt Arin, Miss Virranda is awake? A few times I did not pick up the phone" he asked hurriedly, directly to his destination.

📞"Miss Virranda is sick sir," said the middle-aged woman. Although Joe has repeatedly forbidden him to call her that, but aunt Arin still do it, because Joe is the husband of his employer's children.

📞"What pain Bi?" ask Joe worriedly.

📞"Said the family doctor who checked, Miss Virranda has a fever due to fatigue, Miss also does not want to eat Sir," he explained.

📞"Since when is Bi?" joe asked, getting worried.

📞"Before afternoon Miss has come home from the office, Auntie see Miss's face puffy, like weeping Mr. Miss just locked herself in the room, only Aunt occasionally to visit her to deliver food or ask for Miss's needs, because Miss does not want to be accompanied," explained bi Arin again.

📞"Verrel how Bi?" ask Joe to remember the boy.

📞"Den Verrel healthy sir, yesterday Miss asked me accompanied by a driver to pick her up from school," said aunt Arin again.

"📞"Titip miss Virranda and Verrel ya Bi, tomorrow I'm already in Indonesia. If Miss is still sick, please tell me to rest, don't go to the office today."

📞"Good sir." said aunt Arin obediently.

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