MAFIA VS CEO
TWENTY-ONE

Inside the study, Adair closed the mouth of Ajeng who was about to kiss her and squinted at dislike.

"You know he's outside?"

Ajeng knew Adair's intent and then shook his head innocently.

"Down!" Adair's orders.

Get down from Adair's lap.

Adair stood up and walked away from Ajeng.  "I don't want to repeat myself."

Ajeng bit his lower lip with a sad look. I'm always by your side and accept everything, but why don't you want to see me?

You can have Adair's body while I have his treasure.

Ajeng who remembered that, asked Adair. "Sir, listen to what the lady said, he feels he has your property, are you not angry?"

"Ajeng, I don't like any personal feelings here."

He fell silent and then lowered his head. "Sorry."

Adair came out of the office room and went to Erina's room.

Locked up.

Adair knocked on the door hard. "ERINA!"

Erina who was watching tv, did not reply.

"ERINA, OPEN THE DOOR!"

Erina ignored Adair's orders and was busy reading the news on her phone.

"ERINA!"

Erina wears headphones casually. He was lazy to look at Adair's face, reminding him of Ajeng.

"Are you doing this out of jealousy?"

Erina's high self-esteem, suddenly makes her get out of bed and unlock the room door. "I'm jealous?"

"You know what Ajeng did to me at the office."

Erina's head looked up to stare at the tall Adair. "Is what you did to her a mistake?"

Adair was confused as soon as he heard Erina's sentence. "Erina"

Erina closed the door lazily.

"I only give gifts to Ajeng, nothing more."

Erina locked the door and dropped her body on the bed, remembering her mother's advice. 

Men always say women are always right, but they forget to reflect and judge themselves. 

Adair stared at the confused door that had been closed. If he's jealous, why not say it straight away? Maybe I can stop everything.

From the point of view of some women, men are sacred creatures that must be guarded when married. If a man cheats, then the only one to blame is the actor. If men commit domestic violence, then women will shut up under the pretext of keeping disgrace. If a woman is raped or abused by a man, then the one to blame is the woman.

Why can't you keep your clothes?

Why can't you keep a man's eyes?

Why run away on your own?

Erina felt wronged to be born a woman. There is no freedom in the eyes of the people.

Erina laughed grimly and without noticeably dropping her tears. "My mother comes home every night scolded by her father's family and berated the neighbors, said women are not right, but only work but the father who came home the night after going out with his lover is said to be a diligent man working. Isn't that unfair?"

Adair could hear Erina's complaint behind the door and walked back and away from Erina's room, without saying anything.

The Goddess and Rei who saw that could only quietly wait until Adair left and Erina regained her composure.

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Adair sat in his study, hearing the nagging of the butler.

"When are you going to behave like this? You've become the head of the family."

"I'm just looking for comfort."

"By playing with women?"

"Sir, may I tell you one thing?"

"What?"

"Do you remember your uncle master?"

"My uncle? Who is the priest?"

"Do you know why he prefers to be a priest?"

Adair started thinking about it. "He wants to repent?"

The butler sighed ironically. "The priest fell in love with the young lady's birth mother."

Adair surprised. "My uncle's in love?"

"Beauty of Miss Erina is like her real mother, in your opinion - if you make a mistake with young lady, what will the priest do?"

Now Adair started thinking clearly. "Uncle will kill me and take the family treasure?"

The butler let out a long breath again. "Sir, if he doesn't think about blood relations, he could have done just that, but the pastor loves you as much as his own son. If my estimate doesn't miss, maybe the pastor will try to keep the young lady away from you."

"Keep Erina away from me? No, uncle can't do that."

"It can."

Adair could not accept the opinion regarding Erina being kept away from him. "I've considered Erina like my own biological sister, if she's far-off how can an uncle take care of a child like Erina?"

"Master, young lady can't be said to be a child anymore. Everything can be covered easily because he is a child but master must remember how the past must be faced by the young lady. You yourself also know clearly how the treatment of the two ladies' parents."

Adair's lips thinned. What the butler said was true, his uncle was able to keep Erina away from him and even most likely his fiance would have stayed away willingly.

"As long as the young lady is here, please stay away from women. Miss Erina, your fiancee. Although he was more silent, he must have also kept a lot of wounds."

Adair took a long breath. "I understand, thank you for giving me input."

"No problem."

"Maybe this is all I can do to apologize to him indirectly."

"Yes?"

Adair handed the approval documents to the butler. "As long as he's in this house, respect him. Even though we are not married, she is still my future wife. All the activities and expenses of the house, he handled. You should be able to teach him well."

The butler seemed to disagree. "Sir, please rethink. Miss's parents just died and have to run their own company. So-so"

"His condition is not much different from mine. The old man died and even I am now the head of the family, if he wants to complain about my behavior - he can definitely also compensate for what I want."

"And what if the young lady can't do it?"

"We haven't tried, tell him now."

The butler bowed then went along with the documents to Erina's place.

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Haris closed his eyes and lay on the sofa of the house while Endang sat by holding his aching head, the two of them had just received some unpleasant news. The commissioner had heard Erina started paying off the debt one by one.

"What should we do now? The hospital will fall into the hands of small children" asked Endang.

Haris growled furiously. "Didn't you have an idea to help me? Why just ask without helping your husband."

"I asked because you started all his plans, if only you could be patient waiting a little more. Erina couldn't possibly have an idea of paying her entire debt."

Haris got up from the sofa and sat down and looked at Endang. "You blame me? After emptying out my sister-in-law's collection and keeping it to yourself, you blamed me instead?"

"That's because you can't give me a gift."

Haris laughed grimly. "I never thought I'd marry a crazy woman of treasure."

"What did you say?!" Endang stood up and was about to attack Haris.

Dian who was sitting not far from her parents, rushed to protect Haris. "Mother, relax. I'm thinking hard for the happiness of our family."

"Happiness? He even made me kneel on the cold floor to curry favor with others, now what are you guys going to do? The board of commissioners had already heard Erina pay the debt and started to change opinions!"

Edi scolds his mother. "Mom, we're thinking. Don't mess up the mood."

Endang regained his composure after his beloved son reprimanded himself. "You're right, mother's wrong."

Edi and Haris exchanged glances, they had to make a plan for Erina to fall and be judged badly by the board of commissioners. But how?