One Night With A Foreign Man
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The next morning, Melisa wakes up quickly and then she goes to her son's room and finds Fernando still asleep so she goes down to the kitchen to help her mother cook.

"Good morning ma'am" said Melisa to her mother who was then slicing onions to make Fernando's favorite fried rice.

"Good morning baby, you got a good night's sleep?" Novia asked while looking at her daughter's face, and she could see Melisa's somewhat pale face that worried her.

"Yes, good luck" said Melisa while looking at her mother who immediately went to make drinks for Melisa.

"Sit there, I'll make you a drink" said Novia immediately made Melisa sit on the chair that was occupied by her mother and Melisa replaced her mother slicing onions on the table.

Moments later, her mother came back to Melisa and put down the honey tea she had made for her daughter.

"Drink this out" Novia said, taking over the knife and tray from her daughter's hand.

Melissa did not say anything, she followed her mother's orders by drinking a drink provided by her mother.

"What would you cook?" Melisa asked as she held tightly to the glass in her hand to enjoy the warmth of the glass because of the hot drink in the glass.

"Fried rice is Fernando's favorite," replied Novia smilingly taking rice from the rice cooker to make fried rice.

Melisa also disturbed her head while standing up to open the refrigerator and she took some fruit from the refrigerator to make juice.

While busy with her vows, Novia glanced at her daughter while cleaning the fruit, "today you don't have to work, just at home just rest and spend time with your son." Novia reminded her daughter of their conversation last night.

"Yes, ma'am," Melisa replied in a soft voice.

So the two men were quietly immersed in their respective work until breakfast was prepared and Novia went to call her husband while Melisa went up to the 2nd floor to wake her son.

"You woke up from that?" Melisa asked as she approached her son until Fernando closed the book and looked at her mother with a calm look.

"Hm, didn't you go to work?" Fernando asked while watching his mother who was still wearing clothes last night.

"Yes, today I will stay at home to be with you" said Melisa as she stretched out her hand stroking her son's tiny head.

"Thank you Mom, but I have a question for you" Fernando said in a hesitant voice that made Melisa anxious.

"What question is that?" Melisa asked as she watched her son's face.

"But I have to promise to answer him honestly and not be angry with my question" Fernando said with a face that seemed anxious to talk to his mother.

'Does he want to ask about his father? But would I be able to answer honestly if the question concerned his father?' melisa said in a worried heart she could not keep her promise to her son.

Melisa held out her hand to her son and said, "mom will answer honestly all your questions, whatever they are but something about your father."

Fernando's eyes narrowed at his mother's words, "but I've met a man named Raka, then a woman claiming to be my grandmother. Anyway Now that I'm an adult, Mom, isn't it time for Mom to tell you everything?" Fernando said immediately to make the feeling of Melisa feel like a random.

The woman felt her breath become somewhat tight with her hand which was now trembling slightly holding her son's hand.

"Mom, I promise to protect Mom, and I promise to keep you company forever, but how can I protect you if I don't know what you're dealing with? Yesterday I was just pretending to sleep when my mother was crying beside me" Fernando said with teary eyes as he felt so sad as he kept remembering How his mother cried silently.

Melisa was even more surprised to hear the words of her son so that the woman finally chose to hug her son tightly.

"Sorry baby, I'm sorry, I don't know that you haven't slept, but I shouldn't cry in front of you" Melisa said, struggling to hold back her tears from falling, but because of her guilt to her Son, Melisa's tears finally fell on her cheeks.