The Bitter Three's
Coffee in the Midnight

Alwa and Hanifah went home first that afternoon, carrying various kinds of groceries.

Susan frees them to buy the things they love in the mall.

But until home, they had not dared to open it. Alwa and Hanifah wait for David to come home from the office for unboxing.

Susan went back to work.

In the afternoon, David came home from the office with a grim face. He remembered Papa Susan all day and their conversation in the office.

In essence, all this time thought that David only temporarily married Susan, because of her position and prestige, would silence the mouths of those who dared to expose the Susan scandal to the media.

Though all this time he sincerely married Susan, and innocently believed that Papa Susan wanted David to be able to guide Susan to a more straight path.

It's not the forbidden marriage of this kind!

Susan won't believe that David has feelings for her, as long as there's Alwa and Hanifah.

All this time David let Susan think that this is a marriage setting because he thought Papa Susan did a contract with him for a halal marriage.

It turns out that Papa Susan also did not like Susan to be a third wife.

"Susan is too valuable to be third, David. My son should be first. After the gossip subsides, you and her are divorced, Susan will marry the man she wants" Papa Susan said.

It makes David's heart hotter.

"Assalamu'alaikum Abiiiiii," said Alwa and Hanifa cheerfully. They kissed David's hand, carrying his bag and suit.

David frowned at the colorful shopping bags of cardboard stacked in the living room.

"Abi, we went to Susan's office, and we took her to the Mall. He said the Mall also belonged to Abi huh?" Ask Hanifa.

David was silent.

He had been hiding his status, position, and assets because he did not want Alwa and Hanifah to be big heads.

They should remain simple, as Suleyman mandated.

"Then Susan said we could pick the things we wanted, she bought them for us, Abi!" Hanifah.

A smile on David's lips. Actually, this was beyond his prediction. He's not sure Susan's loyal either. But the goal is to get Alwa and Hanifah to deliver breakfast to Susan's office, so that his three wives get along.

While Alwa was currently staring at him with puppy-like eyes, hopeful of being given a snack. David even hallucinated seeing the words imprinted on Alwa's forehead saying: May ya? Can ya? Yea? Yea?

Coconut island seduction.

"I sort it out first" said David.

If there is a sentence 'bibelkan by Susan' David's mind immediately worried.

"Starting from," David thought as he stared at the stacked shopping bags. How do they carry this much stuff around the mall?!

"God,"

Why did he choose Alwa? Because David realized his second wife was weak against luxury goods that smelled of fashion.

If Hanifah most of the goods he bought were not far from household appliances.

Alwa brought her shopping bag. About 10 bags, can be more.

"So, I bought perfume! Abi likes the smell, right? I also bought a little skincare to make my face more well-groomed. Sister Susan said the employees at Abi's place were beautiful, unethical when Abi came home and even saw the butt-butek like us,"

David sneering.

Susan and all her brainwashing techniques, in a moment of poisoning Alwa.

"Keep, I also bought a humidifier for the room, a new mukena, beautiful yes Abi! Then the new hijab is present, there are new sandals MasyaAllah expensive but said Ma'am Susan can last up to 10 years because of the original cowhide, then blaa bla bla,"

David just kept listening.

He was dizzy immediately.

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At eleven o'clock in the evening, Susan had just returned from the office.

The woman entered the house with her graceful steps, but her face was full of fatigue.

Because he accompanied Alwa and Hanifah, his work became neglected. He should prepare everything necessary for the meeting tomorrow morning. Fortunately Galuh was very good.

The man should have been promoted to vice-director with such a high ability.

But the issues that circulate around management, if they feel threatened with Galuh's cleverness. So as hard as Susan tried to lift Galuh, the shareholders and other management always disagreed with Galuh's promotion.

The man was able to uncover the existence of embezzlement and tax fraud at the speed of a snap of a finger. And people don't like companies that are built with honesty. Because there is no mistress.

Therefore, the highest position Galuh could accept was on the side of Susan, the personal secretary. His job is to protect Susan from the woman carelessly signing what would be a boomerang for her work.

Good thing, Susan has a 25 percent controlling stake so no one will be able to fire her. But still if he does not meet the target, the company will go bankrupt.

And now, the investor problem.

Susan had to get investors for a new investment. Although their food and beverage products will always be in supermarkets and supermarkets, but competitors with innovation are increasing. Not yet MSMEs that are even healthier and tastier, also sometimes cheaper.

Susan couldn't afford to shut down their factory in the pulogadung. The building he obtained with great difficulty and confiscated energy.

He must defend it.

And why was David in the living room last night?!

Susan stopped her steps when she saw David.

"Just home?" Ask David.

"Yes, my target has not been reached. There's a lot to do,"

David lifted his face.

"Here, come with me" the man moved while closing his laptop.

"Don't be weird. I'm so tired again" lamented Susan.

"I just want to talk in the park, like you're tired of it. You can't sleep too, right? Usually when I talk to you I'm boring, so you'll feel sleepy quickly" David grinned.

"Are you actually joking, huh? Crisp, swear!" Susan grumbled, but she kept following David.

They sit in a walkway that leads towards the garden with colorful flowers and a small fountain.

"You haven't slept?" Susan asked while smoking her cigarette.

"I usually only get to bed at 2 am" David said.

The man also took out a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket and lit it.

Susan snorted at David.

"I thought you were the real one, not in front of your wives" Susan said.

"Suleyman warned me against breaking the faith of his wives,"

"His wife? Now that you're your wife, it's your right, Suleyman's got nothing to do with it,"

"I promised you" David breathed his cigarette smoke into the air.

"Papa, you came to my office this afternoon,"

"Why did he come?" Susa.

"To ask about your situation,"

"I haven't called him in a long time because I'm upset,"

"However he is your Papa,"

"David, an elite woman like me was married off to be a third wife! Just because I was considered to bring family disgrace. For me being a third wife is more disgraceful than my porn videos spread!" Susan Sahut.

"The Western cultural paradigm has poisoned you. Even if you die, the sins of your fingers are still collected until the video is seen by people. You've been converted to nasuha before death will also weigh you fear,"

"Where's the theory?!"

David glanced at Susan, "You're a smart ass, find yourself a theory dong," David sneered cunningly.

Susan threw herself back on the bench grumbling indistinctly.

"Obviously, Papa you are trying your best for you" David said.

"If you are, how?" Ask Susan.

"What's how?"

"You're just a pervert guy, or is there another deal behind me? With my Papa?"

David breathed out his cigarette smoke.

"I love you, but I can't leave Alwa and Hanifah,"

Slowly, David recounts what really happened while Suleyman was still alive.

From Alwa and Hanifah's dark past, David is willing to take on the responsibility of Alwa and Hanifa.

Susan listened carefully. He had forgotten his own problems from hearing tragic things.

Also at once he felt very guilty for treating Alwa and Hanifa so harshly.

To the extent that Susan was unaware that her cigarette smoke was dying on its own and ash fell on her thigh, leaving a sense of heat there.

"Geez!" he nodded while rubbing the ashes on his thigh.

David stood up to get some toothpaste, then put it on Susan's thigh.

"Why are you telling me that now, damn it!" Susan hit David on the shoulder in annoyance.

David chuckles.

"I'll wait until you get along, you're like a time bomb. It exploded" David said.

Then the man moved again to go inside, and came back already with two cups of coffee.

"If you still can't think of me as a husband, let's say we're partners in the household" David sipped his coffee.

He slowly approached Susan.

"You can freely tell me anything, because I am your husband, I will not pass it on to anyone. Different if you tell it to Galuh and Raka. They're other people, and I'm more kosher,"

"Ck! You want that, anyway. Yeah but it's not that you're wrong" Susan also sipped her coffee. Which seems to fit his taste. Not too sweet.

Coffee should be bitter.

Because to make Susan realize that, there is still something more bitter than her life.