Stepmom Cold Bed
Riswan Promise

The anger is still burning. Maureen with her shaky steps, moved away from Riswan. Riswan's confession became a turning point that made everything feel even more destroyed. He sat his limp body on an iron bench facing the pool, feeling strange.

One by one, faces appeared in his mind. The faces of Renita, Malik, Anggoro, Edwin and people who at that time came to the funeral home and only took pictures with the bouquets they delivered.

Miris, at a time like this Maureen just found out the truth. He thought all this time, Anggoro was the one who made his mother depressed. Intimidating her mother to make Renita desperate.

But it turns out that what makes Renita destroyed is not intimidation but rather indifference and not wanting to know from the party who should be responsible.

So devastated when Renita lost the man she loved so much and the attitude of people who were indifferent to her sadness made Renita dark eyes to choose to end her life.

Why should everything be delivered by Riswan? Why isn't Edwin the director of development coming? The question remains unsolved by Maureen.

“Mistress,” Riswan approaches the weakly seated Maureen. He no longer had the energy to curse Riswan.

“I know that my mistakes are huge and inexcusable. But really, I never expected that Miss Renita would end her life because of our lack of empathy. I'm so sorry about that.” Riswan said it really.

“Funny, you think such a remark is enough to comfort my grief and loss? Moreover, you have been deceiving me all this time Riswan. You never once showed good faith in admitting your wrongs to me. You keep convincing that Mas Anggoro is not wrong because you know, you are the one who is guilty in this matter.”

“Now I'm not sure if you're really sorry. Because actually, a snake can change skin but its figure is still a snake.” Maureen turned to look at Riswan with a cynical smile.

Riswan nodded in understanding. Maureen did indeed deserve to be angry and wrathful towards him. If he could repeat the time and not do the stupidity, maybe he would be very lucky to meet this girl.

To be honest, he also wanted to admit that he loved Maureen very much. But what would that confession mean for Maureen?

The hard decision was actually when Riswan promised Anggoro would look after her young mistress. Inevitably, by being next to Maureen his regret was increasingly clear and could never be lost. But he had no other choice, to atone for his mistake he was determined to always make sure that his young mistress would always be fine and be under his protection.

“Mistress, you deserve so much to be angry and wrathful at me. You want to curse and hit me too please. Do what the lady wants to do. I accept all the anger of Madam. But, let me do something for you. I hope, this can make the burden of your feelings a little reduced.”

Riswan said really. His determination was already unanimous to fully open all the veils that enveloped the reason for Maureen's parents' death.

“Terusslah. I don't even think every word of yours is right. No need to make any effort to promise me anything. Because I don't need that anymore,” Maureen said solemnly.

Riswan was speechless, Maureen's trust in him was the woman's absolute right. He can't force it. He will only show that he really meant what he said.

The firm footsteps belonged to Riswan, bringing the man out of Anggoro's house. With his luxury sedan car he went to Anggoro corp.

He really regretted that he had wasted so much time hiding this matter. He should not be complacent with Maureen's attitude that began to calm and did not look to destroy Anggoro corp. He understood that Maureen's anger would never go away. But at the very least, time could make Maureen accept everything slowly.

Unfortunately, Riswan's prediction was wrong. Maureen's anger is like a time bomb, she's waiting for the right time to explode. And right now he could only make his last attempt to fix everything.

Half an hour's drive, Riswan arrives at the Anggoro corp. He opened his safe and took a file of documents that he had kept for some time. He examined it and found that some parts of the document were missing.

“Sial, sir Edwin definitely took some important pages from here!” grunts Riswan. He knows exactly what the contents of this document are like then he will be very unfortunate if there is one sheet that is missing.

“I'll ask for it. I won't put it off again. Even if I have to deal with that guy.” Riswan's determination was completely unanimous and he would not delay it anymore.

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After Riswan's death, Maureen opened a scan of Renita's legacy documents. He cried over every handwriting his mother made. So great is Renita's effort to prove that Malik died not because of an accident but because of the negligence of the contractor where he worked.

For many years Maureen worked at Anggoro corp, trying to understand the working patterns of each contractor partner in this company. Not a few partners who work in accordance with their SOP but there are people who cheat and are negligent in their work.

Malik was a victim but there was no defense for the man. This is what Maureen believes hurts her mother a lot. At times he needed support and defense, but one by one people went and left him in grief and despair. Maureen could understand her mother's grief.

In the past, when Anggoro was still around, Maureen had checked all the project documents to find out his father's case. He found a hidden, albeit incomplete, document. Unfortunately, at that time Anggoro learned of Maureen's efforts to dismantle this problem. The man offers Maureen a deal.

A few sentences Anggoro then ringing in Maureen's ears. The sentence was said exactly after Anggoro saw Maureen scrambling the documents to look for evidence of Anggoro corp misconduct. The man catches Maureen wet who wants to destroy the Anggoro corp.

“I can't bring your parents back, I also know that my regrets and apologies won't make you feel better. But please, don't do anything to Anggoro corp.”

“This company I started alone and with great difficulty. I can give you anything including a power. I can also give you a chance to conquer the Anggoro corp, but please don't destroy it. There are a lot of people hanging their lives here.”

The sentences were then buzzed in Maureen's head. At this time he realized, if Anggoro did not know anything.

“Astyria...” Maureen was upset considering what she had told Anggoro at the time. His anger was no smaller than it is today but until now he had not yet obtained any actual evidence.

Would it be better if he saw what Riswan would do then?

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