
From a distance Reza watched as a man got off a sedan and got into Ellen's house in a hurry. He knew a tall, thin man who stepped quickly and pressed the bell of Ellen's house impatiently.
It is true that Ghea said that her father still comes often.
The door of the house opened and the man pushed it wide open and hit the wall. Not long heard the sound of a small child's scream that made Reza immediately go down and run into the house.
“Let's go with ghea's father, come now!” darwin shouted as he pulled Ghea's hand violently.
“No! I don't want dad!” screech the little girl while holding on to Ellen. The woman was all her might holding Ghea.
“Mas, do you want anything ghea?! Don't take him.” Shouted Ellen.
“DIAMEN YOU!!" Darwin's snapping with barking eyes.
“Mother, sick mother.” Isak Ghea who was in pain when his body was pulled to and fro.
“Sorry mother ghea.” Forced Ellen to take off her hand so that Ghea would not get more pain.
Darwin laughed with satisfaction at Ellen letting go of his hand. “From now on, ghea will stay with me. He'll be my son and Marisa. You don't need to see her anymore.” Darwin said out loud. It was easy to say that Darwin had said that he did not want anything to do with Ellen and Ghea. Why did he change his mind?
“Don't mas! Don't bring ghea!” ellen came back to Darwin. Holding his feet so as not to go anywhere.
“Mother, I am afraid..” Tangis Ghea increasingly broke making the atmosphere more panicked.
“REMOVE! FREELANCE ELLEN!!!” darwin cried while wagging his feet.
One powerful kick made Ellen slammed into the wall. Ellen grimaced, she could feel her spine ache and pain at the same time.
“You girls are useless and I will not let ghea grow up with women like you.”
“Mas I beg you not.” Ellen crawled over to Darwin, holding the man's leg unreservedly, though perhaps Darwin would kick him back. “Ghea the only one I have, don't take her. After all, mas said that he did not want to be related to me and ghea.”
“I beg mas. I will go as far as I can and will not appear again in the presence of mas and marisa.” Ellen sobbed at Darwin's feet.
He can give up everything. Her good name, her honor as a woman, the family that left her but, she would not let Darwin take her daughter.
“Hah, can what you! Ghea would better stay with me.” Triviality.
One more kick he gave Ellen until the woman slammed. Luckily Reza came at the right time, holding Ellen's body from hitting the wall.
“Reza?” lirih Ellen when she saw Reza's sturdy hand holding her body.
“Stop. Don't treat them like this. We can talk carefully.” Reza's focus is more on the little girl who is scared and in pain.
“Om reza, ghea afraid..” his sobs make Ellen's heart more sick.
“OH, here comes your cheating partner. You cheap girl. How many men did you snare and you sleep with hah?”
“BUK!” one punch landed in Darwin's sassy mouth. The skinny man staggered, taking a few steps back when he got a fist strike from Reza.
“Dragon your mouth!” exclaim Reza did not accept.
“For so long I kept quiet, for still appreciating you as the father of ghea. But, your treatment of them has crossed the line.” Reza cried with ferocious.
“Oh, you want to interfere huh? Not kapok apparently almost in bui because so this woman's affair!” Darwin with barking eyes pointed at Ellen who was standing next to Reza. His gaze was like he was extremely disgusted at the woman who had given him one child.
“Mas! You have enough of me. All this time I was silent but that doesn't mean you can continue insulting me especially in front of ghea.”
“As evil as you are, I have never ridiculed you in front of ghea. But your mouth is so lightly insulting me like I'm just trash. You think I have no feelings huh?!”
Ellen barked. His tears broke when Darwin insulted him again.
“You dare bark in front of me huh?! Goddamnit!” darwin's hand floated about to slap Ellen but Reza quickly held her back. He clasped Darwin's hand still in the air, so tightly that the man snorted in pain.
“Oh you want to be the protector of this woman? I warned you, you will regret it. We are both men and we know the price of a cheap woman like this.” Darwin does not stop dropping Ellen's mentality, making Reza's patience run out.
On the banks of Darwin's hands before then, “BUG!” another blow landed on Darwin's face, causing the man to fall.
The third blow lay Reza, fourth and fifth until the man's face bruised and dripped blood at the corner of his lips. Not in vain all this time he trained at the Nasep gym. Darwin was exhausted, his breathing was breathless, he could not keep up with Reza's current energy.
“Reza! I beg you to stop!” Ellen immediately held Reza's hand ready to take the next blow towards Darwin. The man shrieked, blocking his head with his arms.
“You see, this woman that you often despise, still defends you. Aren't you ashamed huh?!” shout Reza. Only this time he got out of control to beat up his opponent.
“Yes you are right, we are both men. But we have a different view of this woman. If you think this woman is lowly, I think different things.”
“She's a strong, independent, intelligent, brave, kind woman and I respect her. One disadvantage for you is letting go of women like Ellen and one lucky thing for Ellen can be detached from a jerk like you.” reza reps smoothly.
Ellen stared in disbelief at what Reza said. All this time, he thought that Reza hated him, considered him inferior and a source of trouble for his peaceful life. But what Reza just said, like an oasis in the middle of a dry desert. No one has ever defended her this bravely, not even her family. All this time he was alone. To endure hardships and embarrassment alone.
“From now on, stop bothering them or I will hand over a recording of your treatment of ghea and ellen to the police.” Reza showed Darwin his cell phone, making the man tremble.
“Don't you think yesterday I was silent because I didn't dare to face you. Today, this second, if you're going to report what I did to you, please. And you will have more consequences than what you do. Understand?!” gertak Reza at the end of his sentence.
Darwin did not chim. The pain in his face and chest was still very painful. Staggered, he tried to get up. Ellen tried to help him, but Darwin quickly shook her off.
When he stood up straight, Darwin snorted angrily while looking at Reza with a smirked sarcasm. He pointed at Reza but said nothing. Maybe his mouth hurt too much to just curse. Not long after, Darwin left them and was left with only exhaust fumes from his car.
“Hey, are you okay?” Reza immediately approached Ghea who was hiding under the table. Closing both of his ears with his hands and looking shaky.
The girl looked at Reza timidly, seeing Reza fight with her father made her feel like no one could believe her.
“It’s okey ghea, let's same mother nak.”
With a bated cry Ellen tried to persuade her daughter. Scared Ghea came out from under the table and immediately hugged Ellen. The girl was crying out for a while, putting out the fear that lingered in her heart.
Which mother's heart didn't hurt to see her daughter scared like this. Ellen tightened her arms, “Maafin my dear mother, sorry mother..” watered Ellen while rubbing her daughter's back and peeping in the tops of her head. Ghea just cried without saying anything. He was still too shocked after the incident.
Ellen carried Ghea to her room to have her mind slightly tidied up while Reza just looked at her from the door.
In her seat Ghea carefully after the little girl was a little calmer. “It’s okey dear, there is mom same om reza here. Om reza doesn't mean to be rude, he's just trying to protect us.”
Ellen kissed Ghea's hand and hugged her back. The girl's cry began to subside but still looked frightened. In the lyrics Reza who stood at the door of the room and approached them.
Pulling up Ghea's study chair and sitting near the little girl.
“Ghea afraid of the same om reza, om reza galak.” He pulled his hand from Reza's.
Reza became misbehaved, his guilt arose when he saw Ghea's response. He should not have been hooked.
“Hey, om reza is not fierce dear.” Ellen tried to calm her daughter down.
“You remember spiderman?” Ellen mentioned the name of her daughter's favorite hero.
Ghea nodded slowly.
“Spiderman also hit his opponent because he was willing to protect many people, but his intention was not to hurt others. He just tried to defend, not oppressed by his opponent, like om reza.” Trying to make an easy comparison for his daughter.
“What is the father of the bad guy until om reza has to hit him?” changing Ghea who asked, a question that was quite difficult for Ellen to answer.
Ellen and Reza glanced at each other, trying to find the right answer for her daughter.
“Your father is a good person, only that he is currently upset by the circumstances. Maybe at work dad is too tired or there is another problem.” Ellen tried to reason, whether this could be accepted or not by Ghea.
One thing that makes Reza admire Ellen is, he never vilified Darwin in front of his daughter. As he once said, he did not want to traumatize his daughter with men. He wants to keep Ghea's good memories of his father a little.
“But dad pulls ghea's hand like this. Ghea's hands hurt. Dad also kicked mother, mukul mother. Ghea hates dad.” The little girl's lips pursed in annoyance while crossing her hands in front of her chest. His eyes were back in tears when he remembered the incident earlier.
“Honey... That father accidentally.”.
A confused Ellen could only lie. He realized, Ghea was already big enough and understood what was happening before his eyes. Giving one any reason would not be easily accepted by him. However, there was no other way but he had to do this. Can this be called lying for good?
“Ghea.” Reza grabbed a tiny hand that clenched firmly holding anger. “Whatever ghea saw today and whatever happened to ghea and mother, is for the last time. From today on, your father will not bother you and your mother anymore. Om promise.” For Reza, this was the only way for this little girl to feel calm.
Ghea stared fixedly at Reza. He did see how Reza tried to help him and Ellen. As Ellen said, Reza is her superhero.
The girl hugged Reza, buried her face in Reza's chest.
“Om reza will always protect ghea and mother right? Om reza will not leave us, right?” the question was answered with sadness.
Ellen turned to look at Reza who seemed calm to face Ghea. Swiping his daughter's head in love. I don't know what Reza's answer would be, but Ellen is skeptical.
“Sure ghea, om will always be there for you guys.” He shrieked at the head of Ghea.
Ellen's breath seemed choked at Reza's reply. How could this man easily promise in front of his daughter? Did he realize that his promise was difficult? Why Reza's sentences always give calm but at the same time, the attitude is the opposite.
Reza looked at him with curiosity while Reza seemed to enjoy his moment with Ghea.
“Please, Don't confuse me za,.”
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A new problem Kean got when he came to one of the factories in the Jakarta area. A company leader was found to have made an agreement with a local factory brand for the sale of fabric without Kean's knowledge.
This is of course prohibited given in their agreement when a company has cooperated with buyers who will buy their products then they are prohibited from selling the same production to local consumers especially under the hand.
Kean became inflamed when the man before him could only bow down in shame without being able to chim in.
“You know what you're doing right now?” asked Kean with anger that he did not hide.
“I apologize sir, I do not intend to harm the company apalai make bad company image.” Answer the man
Kean only snorted, hearing a cliche answer like this. Every time one of the leaders makes a mistake, they must reason for the good of the company and this makes him sick. It is true, with this kind of company profits increase only if it is known by their partners, this will have a bad impact on the image of the company. Instead of profit it is a fortune. Maybe this reason is also what Sigit always uses why he always maintains a good image of the company.
Just about to continue his anger suddenly Roy approached him. “Excuse me sir, there's something you should see.” He whispered an ipad in his hand.
His face looked tense, making Kean's anger sidetracked at Roy's expression.
Roy takes Kean a little away from the person in front of him and shows him an online news article that was released a few hours ago.
“A finalist of a design competition in know ngamar with a man in a hotel.” The title of the news instantly made Kean's eyes round.
He stared in disbelief at the provocative content of the news and mentioned the initials of the name Disa in it. Not only that, this news was also clearly sharing photos as Kean entered and exited the room Disa.
“What-is this?!” Kean. He was very sure that in the early hours of this day no one noticed his arrival to Disa's room but this news?
It may be trivial matter to enter the room Disa but that makes this news like a hot ball because they carry the name of the competition that is being followed by Disa.
“Journalists are waiting in the office loby, waiting for clarification of the truth of the statement delivered by the great mistress, mr.” Roy continued which made Kean increasingly glared in disbelief.
“Mamah? What is the relationship with mamah?”
Roy did not answer, he first showed a news article containing Arini's statement. “It looks like a reporter came to the hospital and suddenly interviewed a mistress.”
Kean looked at Roy in disbelief and Roy just shook his head, whether he should respond.
In this article contains Arini's statement, complete with a video of Arini when giving an answer.
“Can your son meet the finalist of the design competition at the hotel? How do you respond?” that trap question that was thrown by reporters and made Arini's face look tense. Like he was not ready to give an answer but was forced to comment.
“You mean to meet disa?” Arini asked back. His face looks confused.
“True. Do they have a relationship or do they have other intentions? Aren't the finalists currently in quarantine?” the question of reporters is getting urgent.
“Em, they,” Arini hang up her sentences, look at the cameras that recorded her statement one by one.
“They do have a relationship and plan to get married soon.” Sahut Arini is like a lure for the next questions.
“What the hell is this?!” kean exclaimed uncontrollably to make many pairs of eyes look at him.
“We are there sir,” Roy who noticed the curious gazes of the people around him, immediately brought Kean to a quieter place, away from the people passing by. Statement after statement delivered Arini and make Kean increasingly agape in disbelief. Since when did his mother lie?
“They are getting married in the near future. Maybe after the competition ended. I can't wait for that time to come. Even now we are preparing many things for their wedding.” Arini said with hunting breath like holding back nervous.
“WHAT!” only that comment then came out of Kean's gaping mouth in disbelief.
When will they get married?
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