HATE Before LOVE
Elif's worries come and go.

"How are you doing now?" ask Sonya.

"That's how it is." Elif shrugged his shoulders. "My stomach still hurts and hurts when I move too much" Elif said.

"Ah but I'm sure Mr. Ardan will really take care of you, he definitely won't let you get off this bed himself, will he?" sonya's tease makes Elif laugh nervously while glancing at Gavin.

"What's going on, Elif? Why would they do that to you?" ask Gavin at the end.

Elif sighed for a moment. "It's more because I'm the one who's looking for that rumor."

"Are you looking for them or those who provoke emotions first?" ask Sonya. "I know very well how the three gossip masons did."

"So when the incident in the meeting room when Mr. Ardan gave time to Kak Gavin, it turned out that it made the three of them make their own conclusions about me. Well that is certainly a conclusion that really makes me feel I can no longer be in that office even though Mr. Ardan and Mr. Gavin would not stay silent if they heard it. Then yesterday when I washed my hands in the bathroom they came again, they were like, what a hypocrite if I could say. Just because Mr. Ardan was in such a good mood by treating everyone, they immediately praised me."

"Huh, you hypocritical sycophant! I want to be as old as I pites them." Sonya clenched her own hand.

"Same, even then I couldn't hold back my emotions, because my mood was not good, so I threatened they would complain about what they were gossiping about me to Mr. Ardan, and I said I'd ask Mr. Ardan to blacklist them anywhere. Well, maybe it's too much."

"What is outrageous?! You should have just stirred it right from the start. Ih, I'm a hiccup!"

"Prophe Sonya, be patient." said Gavin.

"Then they apologized, but I didn't forgive, until Kinan got into action. He was with me when I went out of the bathroom. We had enough arguments, and then he started grabbing me, but I didn't give up. I'm still fighting him. But apparently it did not scare him, instead it became dark eyes. All I remember before I was unconscious was, he threw me and kicked me in the stomach many times. I still hear Ayu and Nanda asking him to stop, but Kinan doesn't care. And after that I don't know anymore."

"Ohhh...." Sonya hugged Elif. The woman was crying.

"Why did Sonya cry?"

"I feel guilty for not looking for you right away when you're not back at the table. After an hour, I just told Mr. Ardan that you wrote a letter resigning."

"You want to resign?" Gavin looks astonished.

"Yes, because. um, because I don't think I can accept all that gossip."

"Yes, I told you, sir. He has Mr. Ardan, the Elif should not have to worry about the rumors. Is that right, sir?"

"Sonya's right. They should've resigned, not you."

Elif smiled wryly. He doesn't even know how to explain to Sonya and Gavin that he and Ardan have nothing to do. The huft!

"You know, if only Mr. Ardan didn't know, aargh! I don't know how you are."

"How did Ardan finally find out?" ask Gavin.

True too, Elif was also quite curious how Ardan could find out and bring him to this hospital.

"Pak Ardan immediately told Mr. Teddy to check all the CCTV, then Mr. Teddy soon came to bring the CCTV footage. Of course Mr. Ardan immediately got angry, then suddenly Ayu and Nanda came, they gave a sneak recording while Kinan was kicking you and disarming your clothes."

"Wait, strip me of my clothes?" Elif asked not understanding.

Same with Gavin.

"Wait a minute, so Mr. Ardan didn't tell me how he found out about you back then?" Sonya asked back.

Elif shaking.

Then Sonya pulled out her phone, and opened her gallery to show Elif the footage she got from Nanda and Ayu in case of evidence that they sniffed in front of the police during interrogation.

Elif covered his own mouth seeing how cruel Kinan was kicking his stomach even when he had fainted, Kinan still kicked him, Kinan even almost stepped on Elif's stomach with the heels he wore. Then not satisfied, he opened the Elif shirt brutally and tore it apart.

"He looks happy kicking me" Elif said in disbelief. "And Mr. Ardan sees me in such a state... is that?"

"What-like?" ask Gavin again.

"Sorry sir, I can't show you this tape, anyway after Elif fainted, the jal*ng took off the Elif shirt and tore it off, he said, Elif was left lying on the bathroom floor wearing only underwear and skirts. That lunatic isn't Kinan?!"

"God! That's very inhumane."

"Are you crazy? Of course Mr. Ardan is unlikely to let your body be seen by many. Mr. Ardan put his suit on you, carried you and I swear it was the first time during my work on him that he looked so angry, so frightened, and panicked."

"really?" Gavin asked.

"Yes, Mr. Gavin must know that, angry Mr. Ardan he never got angry, he always showed it in a cold way. Mr. Ardan also never looked frightened what else panicked whatever the situation."

"You're right." Gavin.

"How about them now?" ask Gavin.

"Ayu and Nanda were taken by the police, but Kinan escaped. Not found yet."

"Undiscovered?" ask Elif.

"Yes, but don't worry, I'm sure Mr. Ardan won't leave you alone again."

"Sonya's right" Gavin chimed in. "I've known Ardan since we went to school, I know how cold he is to women. His relationship with Marsha was not sweet at all. It's just that Marsha is good at pretending to be in a beautiful relationship. I remember, Ardan never even visited Marsha when Marsha was in Macau for a photo shoot and was rumored to be ill. He doesn't care."

"Eat him sir, I also feel surprised, Mr. Ardan can change so much" said Sonya. "To the extent that I can't believe it when I found out Mr. Ardan himself was guarding Elif here. Even bringing work here."

Elif smiled uncomfortably.

"I thought Ardan was just messing with you, but he was serious about everything" Gavin said. "You know, you're a lucky man. You'll be treated like a queen by her, trust me."

"Ihhh, it turns out that Mr. Ardan can sweet that is sir" said Sonya while chuckling.

"That's why you don't like to judge people by their outer cover."

Sonya nodded.

"I'm calm now. You're in the hands of someone who's very proper." Gavin said so sincerely to Elif.

Elif bit her lip. How can he say that he actually likes Gavin, not Ardan. In fact, the relationship between him and Ardan is not real at all. How Elif can reveal all these truths if it turns out that the person he likes feels calm because he thinks Elif is in the hands of someone who is very appropriate. How can his heart accept all this?

Wait, speaking of hearts, actually even now Elif's heart feels an unclear anxiety about where it comes from and what its purpose is. Hearing how Ardan saved her, how she panicked, wrath and fear, and the fact that for these two days Ardan had really taken care of her very gently, she said, attentive and never seen complaining despite sleeping only on the sofa. He always greeted Elif with a warm smile and a shady look in his eyes. Makes his heart worry. Between believing or not.

"Sir Gavin, I'm sorry for Mr. Ardan's attitude in the meeting room at the time."

Gavin chuckles. "No need to apologize. I impeached. Because he's jealous. Ck, when he shouldn't be jealous, he knows I already have a lover and you're his future wife."

"Sir Ardan can be jealous too?" Sonya couldn't believe it.

"Just like you said, Ardan has changed a lot since he knew Elif, I think" Gavin said. "At least the two weeks that Ardan gave me were not a threat to me. Ardan already knows I can finish this project in less than two weeks. Hmm, you could say it's just to make an impression.what aye."

"Geez, Mr. Ardan most always has his own style that makes people talk about it" said Sonya.

"Yes and that makes me the gosipan material of Kinan, Ayu and Nanda." Sulu Elif's.

"Is that why you are fighting?" Sonya started kepo.

"You guys got into a fight?" ask Gavin to follow.

"Eh, um, I just don't like the way he threatens people like that" Elif replied.

Is Mr Ardan really jealous of him? Ah, no, no, Gavin doesn't know Mr. Ardan said himself, he doesn't like people to compare him to Gavin.

Now Elif is worried again.

Two hours passed, Elif, Sonya and Gavin did not feel they spent with casual conversations that no longer discuss the incident two days ago. Sonya always tells with passion and nyerocos like a super fast train to often make Elif and Gavin laugh. What's more he is very expressive and animates whatever he tells.

"It seems like visiting time is over." Ardan had suddenly entered there, no one realized because he was so busy chatting.

"Isn't VVIP the visiting hours are free, sir?" Sonya's protest was immediately pummeled by Teddy's sharp gaze that stood beside Ardan. "Ah, uh, yes, but, right, Elif must also rest. Hehe."