Lies
Source of Problem

Karan thought his meeting with the woman would be over one day only. He thought he would only look at that person's face once three days ago. The meeting that made Raya have to leave her home. Karan has to part with his wife. During the three days after that meeting and Raya left home, Karan could not live in peace at all. He had trouble every time he returned to their home. The house feels empty. And for the first time in his life, Karan thinks the house is too big for him.

Due to difficulties, Karan rarely returns home. Probably only twice in three days. It was only two hours to change clothes. Even all day today, Karan has not returned home. He prefers to wear newly purchased clothes from his subscription boutique and sleep at a nearby hotel instead of going home. Karan could not be there, the place where the shadow of the Kingdom danced there. The woman's vanilla aroma and her soft voice. Karan feels depressed about it all so he prefers to avoid the luxurious building and spend time with work. Just like Karan always did before marriage and at the beginning of their marriage.

The tens of millions of dollars Karan gave was apparently not enough for the woman. He returned to Karan's office. Of course by bringing the same thing, a threat. With a smile imprinted on those fiery red lips, the woman named Dona walked into Karan's room. “Hallo, Karan. How are you?” he said that shamelessly greeting Karan without any frills of honor calls. Dona is much older than Karan, but that does not mean he has the right to call Karan that way, a call that seems to show their familiarity.

“Why did you come here again? Isn't the money I sent you enough?” karan ketus exchange. There was no expression of anything Karan showed that second other than annoyance. He gave the money according to what the woman wanted. So, can't the woman just walk away from her life? After all, there was no point in the woman wandering around Karan and spreading threats everywhere. Because when the rumor was revealed, it wasn't just Karan who was destroyed. That woman would be as broken as him. Worst of all, as a result of his past actions, Karan believes that the woman will never leave Indonesia for ever.

“Hey, come. I just want to see my protege. Just wanted to see how he progressed. Yesterday I was in such a hurry that I could not see your face intensely. Now, I've seen it clearly. You're so handsome, especially with that sign bearing Karan Reviano's. You live comfortably apparently now.” Dona very boldly sat down in front of the chair that was in front of Karan's desk. He does not care how Karan looks at him now, who looks like a predator who is aiming for his prey. Dona smiles because she feels nostalgic for the past where Karan's eyes will look like that every time she meets him. “Don't look at me so intensely, Karan. Or you make me flutter and want to kiss those pretty eyelids.”

“Hoeekkk!” Karan felt nauseous. Her stomach churned right after Dona finished speaking. He tried hard to calm himself so as not to look weak in front of Dona because that is what he wanted. The woman wanted to see Karan weak so that he could exploit his weakness. After that, he will have fun with Karan's weakness. “Stop talking silly! Get out of this place before I call your former co-worker here,” threatened Karan, want to prove that he is not a plain young man nan luga like 12 years ago. He can also put up a fight .. something Karan couldn't give when he was a teenager.

Unfortunately, Karan's threat has little effect on Dona. The woman seemed to have guessed what Karan was about to say. That's why he's got something that can go against the CEO. “Yes, with your money and family status now you can call them in seconds. I'm sure your reputation will again improve even if your past is exposed. But Karan, does your wife know who you really are? Will he still be able to accept you?” Dona paused for a moment. He leaned over his body and lowered his voice. “More does your super model wife accept the reality about .... your biological life?”

It was a menacing threat to Karan because that was all Karan feared. To hell with his reputation despite all this time, for many years he worked hard in order to keep his image in front of the public. All for his family, for his father and mother. If by losing his good reputation it means Karan has to lose his parents but he can be free from Dona, Karan willingly accepts. His parents were important, but Raya was much more important than them. The wife has the topmost position in Karan's priority scale, even more important than her own life.

“So, what do you want?” ask Karan. He will negotiate for the last time. He was already caught up in Dona's shadow. The trauma that was so great due to the actions of the woman, could not escape in just a matter of days. Perhaps he could reconcile with his past if he managed to get rid of Dona, either getting rid of it in a subtle or harsh sense. Eliminating one person is not difficult for Karan. With money, he could control anything, including the law. He is not at all afraid even though Dona is a former police officer.

“You know what makes me like you so much? You're very clever. Well, besides that cute, handsome face of yours. You don't like pleasantries either, just like you used to do every time I met you.”

Both Karan's eyes barked. “Until when do you keep babbling in my room? If you don't want to say anything, on the count of three, I'll call the police.”

Dona's tone is still the same as before. So authoritarian and so governing. The status and position of Karan and Dona is different from before. Now, it was Donalah who had such a low status. The woman is a criminal being sought by police. Although not broadcast massively in the mass media, but Karan has several police members who become his confidants. Because that is what the father taught that a successful entrepreneur is not only able to negotiate people in the business world, but also able to compromise with the people of the legal world. Because sooner or later, Karan will need the help of law enforcement to save him or save his efforts.

“You sure you won't come back to Indonesia if I give you money?” Karan tried to make sure of it himself.

Dona nodded. “You know how my life is now. I wouldn't come back here if I had to be in that place.” That means behind bars aka prison. The place he was supposed to guard as a policeman who had worked in the prison. It was unimaginable in his mind if he were even there like the criminals he had once held captive.

Karan had no choice but to comply with his request. He took a check from the drawer and put a nominal 500 million on it. “I can't book you a plane ticket. You know how my family's surveillance is. But I'll give you more money. You can get people to book you a plane ticket with that money.” It does not matter if you lose half a billion rupiah to solve this problem. In fact, Karan can pour more money into cleaning Dona out of his presence.

Seeing that much money, Dona grinned. He feels happy. “Alright, thank you. It was exactly my reason to meet you. You never let me down at all.”

Karan was so disgusted to see the woman's face. Never mind seeing his face, just hearing his voice Karan was unable to. His stomach began to shake and the fine hairs all over his body suddenly stood up. The disgust haunts Karan, making him want to quickly run to the bathroom to clean up his body. Each inhale the scent of a rose that is so concentrated from the same Dona—aroma as a dozen years ago, Karan's head like it was about to explode. It feels dizzy and hurts.

Dona is Karan's biggest source of trouble. The source of the trauma that turned Karan into what he is today. The woman who made Karan could not hug any woman on this earth, except Raya. Only his wife can break Karan's disgust for women. It was something Karan should be grateful for even though the man did not know what the exact cause was. Importantly now, Karan has already managed to get rid of Dona from his life.

After this, nothing will bother him and their married life. All Karan has to do is meet Raya, give an explanation to the woman and apologize. He was sure that his wife would not be too angry with him after getting an explanation. Raya will soon be back in his arms again. And Karan is very impatient to get Raya. It was enough that Karan felt agonized for several days of parting with the woman. Now Karan desperately needs Raya, including to eliminate the painful disgust caused by meeting with Dona.

Raya needs Raya to hug her and kiss her lips. Karan needs the vanilla scent that emanates from Raya's body to replace this stifling rose scent. How much he missed that woman. Maybe when he meets later, he will immediately scatter his body into the arms of the wife.