Lying Above Love
News Threat
Sutikno can breathe a sigh of relief for now because he is confident that at this time the prosecutor will not process further on the corruption case that ensnared his name but he now has to solve something that is none other than with Sun News due to the news published by them, Sutikno's image was worse in the community and then Sutikno invited the board of directors of Sun News to his home service but of course there was
various requirements that they have to go through is that there should be no recording devices both voice and image recorders because all journalistic equipment has been temporarily confiscated by the Sutikno team before they are allowed to go to meet the mayor in his study.
“Please all of you sit.”
Sutikno welcomed all those who came to his office including the journalist who had interviewed his mother Inez and made the news viral in various media.
“I don't want to mince words with you guys, I know that Sun News is a trusted news portal by the people of the city and it's a pity it's not that your permission should be frozen or maybe revoked?”
“You can't do that all Mr Mayor, you don't have the right to do all that, it's against the press freedom rules!”
“Of course I can do all that, you forget who I am? I have great authority in the city and this I can do whatever I think is necessary to maintain my power.”
But then Sutikno again smiled and said that he brought good news for Sun News, Sutikno will not revoke the permission of Sun News as long as they want to make the news clarification and attract the viral news.
“Thus you can again become a news portal trusted by the community and your popularity I am sure will be able to skyrocket.”
“But we preach fake news when we tell the truth,” Dea said.
Sutikno seemed to smile at Dea and he said that he liked the courage of this journalist when dealing with him.
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His mother Inez repeatedly told her daughter that Belinda was not a bad person and Sutikno was the one who tried to kill him until Inez slowly thought that maybe what his mother said about Belinda existed veridicality. When Inez was alone in the room of his hospital a nurse appeared in this room but something made Inez wonder that the nurse looked strange once plus the nurse was wearing a mask that covered her face.
“I came to do a check on you.”
“Why have I never seen a nurse huh?”
“Because I just got accepted here.”
Inez still could not believe what the nurse was saying and suddenly the nurse took a syringe and was about to inject something into Inez's infusion bottle.
“What will you do?”
But the nurse was silent and behind the mask worn by the nurse, Inez was convinced that the nurse was grinning at her. Hurriedly Inez yelled before the nurse wanted to inject the syringe into her infusion bottle and apparently her mother immediately showed up and caught the action of a self-styled nurse who was about to harm her daughter just now.
“What do you want to do to my daughter?!”
The self-styled nurse was shocked and immediately ran out of the room as Inez's mother screamed for help.
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As requested by Sundari, Laila met Hanggara to talk to the man. Initially, Hanggara of course rejected Laila's wishes for various reasons but in the end the man was also devastated and wanted to meet him at this restaurant. Hanggara did not seem to want to mince words with Laila and urged this woman to immediately say what she wanted.
“Hanggara, why does your mother want us to get married? Did something happen to her?”
Laila also told him what Sundari said at that time and Laila thought that Sundari was suffering from a serious illness and his age would not be long.
“You are too bad-minded about my mother's health condition, she is fine.”
“If he is okay why is he behaving like that?”
Hanggara initially does not want to be honest with Laila about the reason Sundari so behaved like that but in the end Hanggara is convinced that telling Laila that he loves another woman will make all this end.
“Alright, I'll tell you something about the reason why my mama behaved like that, the reason is that she doesn't like the woman I love.”
“So you already have the woman you love?”
“Iya, I already have it.”
“Then who is he? Why does your mom disagree with the woman of your choice?”
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Sutikno keeps Dea in his study and tells Dea that he will do whatever it takes to make Dea's life better if Dea will cooperate with him in making fake news to raise it
its popularity is falling in the eyes of the people. As a journalist with integrity of course Dea rejected it and said that what was done by Sutikno was disgusting.
“You're saying I'm disgusting? All the politicians you've met aren't disgusting, hm? They're no better than me.”
Dea chose to leave Sutikno's office because he was uncomfortable with this conversation, especially Sutikno asked him with a very pushy and threatening that made Dea even more fed up with all this.
“Do you need extra money? Is your salary as a journalist enough to finance your life?”
“Do you think that I am a cheap woman who can be pawned for a sum of money? You are wrong Sir, I am not such a woman!”
But Sutikno grinned and then he pushed Dea until the woman's back hit the wall and their faces were very close at the moment.
“You are so beautiful, will you make love to me? I'll give you whatever you want.”
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Belinda returned to the hospital to visit Inez and when she saw Inez it appeared Inez apologized to her for being prejudiced at the time but Belinda did not bother about it at all.
“Thank God you've realized that I'm not what you think.”
“Yes, I was too stupid and naive to believe too much that Sutikno wanted the child I was born with, he planned all that and kept trying to kill me.”
“What did you say? He's been trying to kill you repeatedly?”
Inez recounted what she had experienced earlier when her mother went to buy breakfast, Belinda seemed to be inexhaustible with Sutikno it felt like what Sutikno did was already very outrageous. The door to Inez's room opened and revealed Sutikno's figure there, which suddenly made Inez and Belinda look at the man.