The CEO's Second Wife
IKSC Chapter 84 ~ True Bladder Child

Nia is in the same car as Alex. Of course he is not alone because there are two daughters who want to come with him.

Actually he wanted to leave his two daughters to Yuni. However, just as he was about to get into the car, suddenly his daughter Alana whined to ask to come along. Be Nia deliberately bring Yuni along with the two twin boys.

Nia herself was like a boss sitting in the back seat with Yuni and her two children. While Alex they let be the driver up front.

"Have you asked your husband's permission if you wanted to leave?" Alex glanced at the woman who was holding her son from the front mirror.

The man wondered for himself why there were men willing to go with such a creepy woman as Nia.  Alex himself shuddered in horror at what Nia would plan if the woman's husband was caught cheating. Making him impotent, draining his property, then looking for a young man. Alex alone the man shuddered in horror with a sinister planning like what the woman had said.

"Not to be afraid. Besides Mas Bima is not a man who likes to curb like you," said Nia regarding Alex's sensitive point.

Alex himself is a possessive man who is often jealous of men who intend to approach his wife. It could be said if Alex often curb Bella so that the woman remains a home woman and rarely goes out of the house.

Alex was silent no longer willing to talk to Nia. The woman only knew how to insinuate and utter a scathing sentence to him. If only the woman sitting in the back seat was not good at giving bogem, it would be like Alex pinched this woman's heart.

"Don't grumble and take revenge in your heart, Lex. Gini-gini, I am the source of information where you can find Bella's whereabouts.*

"No, Nia. I have no grudges or grudges in my heart."

In addition to having a sharp mouth, it turns out that Nia also has a strong sense of taste. It is proven that the woman has an instinct if she is currently nagging him in the heart.

Soon they arrive at a 2-story house where the house is holding a family meeting and discussing the heirs who will continue the reins of the company left by Astrid's grandfather.  Alex knew this from Astrid herself who told him last night.

Nia immediately got off and requested that Yuni keep her two daughters in the car while she and Alex stepped closer to the main door.

"Are you sure you want to come now? Why don't we just postpone it later?" Alex looked at him doubtfully. The man was afraid that their arrival would mess up the event that was going on inside.

Nia folded her hands across her chest while looking at Alex with her cynical look.

The woman said, "lacking I'm still in a good mood to tell you where Bella is. If it's later, I don't know if I remember Bella's address or where she lives."

Alex bit her lips to hear Nia's words. The man let out a heavy sigh then knocked on the main door and rang the bell until shortly the door opened and featured a beautiful looking middle-aged woman in a black dress revealing her white skin.

Alex knew this woman in front of him.

"Aunt Monika. Astrid exists?"

Alex asked without further ado. Moreover, right now the woman standing beside him was knocking the tip of his shoe to the floor impatiently.

"Oh, Alex boy. Astrid's inside. Come on, come in." Monika immediately invites Alex to come in. However, the man politely declined and asked Monika for help to call Astrid out. Unwilling to insist, Monika finally re-enters to call her daughter.

While Nia and Alex chose to sit in a chair neatly arranged on the porch of the house.

"Alex?" A warm greeting was heard from a woman. Her voice was so soft that Nia almost rolled her eyeballs.

This woman is too far-fetched, Nia thought inwardly.

"Astrid, I came here just to ask you for help, please explain to her best friend Bella that we have nothing to do."

Alex immediately got up and stood before Astrid. So did Nia who immediately stood up and approached the two.

Nia looked at Astrid from toe to head with a thought that only she herself knew.

"Why indeed? We are a legal entity, right? Is Bella still mad at you?" Astrid's voice sounded very calm as she looked at Alex with her gentle gaze. Astrid then turned to look at Nia. His posture looks so soft that even thugs will not have the heart to hurt a gentle woman like Astrid. "You're Bella's best friend, right? I just wanted to explain that Alex and I are friends. There's no relationship."

"Oh, huh?" Nia replied with her eyebrows raised. "Keep, if you have nothing to do with Alex, why is it that the person who spends a lot of time with Alex is you, not his wife?" ask Nia right on target.

"That's because I'm used to being friends and friends with Alex. Alex is the safest place for me to vent. Not more." Astrid still remained calm untriggered by this sharp innuendo of the woman before her.

"Yes, is it?" Nia looked at Astrid from head to toe with a strange look.  "You're beautiful. You got a job. You have a family. You have friends, and maybe you have friends besides Alex. Is Alex the only one you can be comfortable with?"

"I-i"

"Don't tell me your family doesn't want you. Don't tell me either, only Alex can make you comfortable in telling stories." Nia interrupted first. "You know the friendly relationship between a man and a woman is not really pure. Alex has a wife and children. You are a single parent. Is it appropriate that you two go out together often and spend time together without caring about the same child and wife who are waiting at home?"

Nia's words were not only directed at Astrid but Alex as well.

Knowing there was a commotion outside, several family members came out upon hearing Nia's voice blabbering at length. Seeing that there were already many people coming out of his house, Astrid was of course anxious.  The woman immediately looked towards Nia with a pleading gaze.

"Please, you don't talk in vain. I'll explain everything to you later. But, I'm sure Alex and I don't have a relationship." Astrid looked at Nia then turned to look at Alex.  "Lex, please take your friend away. Later we arrange a meeting so that we can have a casual chat" he told Alex.

"Why do you want me to leave so quickly? Are you ashamed that your family knows you're often way out and spending time with people's husbands?"

Some people who are not known to Nia look surprised when they hear his words. One of Astrid's uncles stepped forward then stood beside Astrid.

Uncle Astrid looked at Nia with a sharp look.  His gaze seemed to warn Nia not to say anything more at this time there were many family members gathered.

"I'm telling the truth. This gentle nephew of my father, often spent time with my best friend's husband, until finally my best friend chose to go and bring his two children." Nia raised her chin returning Astrid uncle's gaze fearlessly. "Every one of my best friends wants to spend time with her own husband, your niece always distracts him."

His voice sounded out loud without any shakes.

"Somethe day she was hospitalized, whether her parents were fighting, whether it was because her ex-husband was always bothering her, whether it was a work problem, whether it was a work problem, my nephew always came to my best friend's husband. If you don't believe it, you can ask the person directly."

Nia casually pointed towards Alex and Astrid simultaneously.

Uncle Astrid then replied, "for me it's no problem. As long as they never do anything more."

"Oh." Nia clapped her hands and did not care about Alex trying to calm her down and invited her home. "Then I ask the mothers here."

Nia looked at the few women standing behind Astrid. Including Mama Astrid is a Monik who does not know what to do now.

"All of you aunts, it doesn't matter if your husband spends more time with other women outside than the same family? If I'm a big deal.  I won't let another woman grab my husband's attention."

There was firmness in Nia's tone of voice. It certainly got the nod of agreement from the women present. In this world, which woman would willingly see her husband spend time with another woman? Of course no one will be willing.

"Nia, that's enough. Don't embarrass Astrid. After all, it was also my fault for agreeing to meet with Astrid. But, Nia, we are really purely friendly. Not more." Alex looked at Nia trying to make the woman realize that what they were doing right now was going to trigger a commotion between families.

"Oh, friend? You certain? Then what is this?"

Nia accidentally pulled out her phone then opened the WhatsApp application to search for Bella's name. Nia first pressed the voice note that Bella passed from her phone to Nia's phone.

"You want to know, Bell, I'm having lunch with Alex right now. Spend time, both with your husband. While you?" There was a mocking laughter. "You're home like a fool."

"See, talk to you, Astrid. Are you proud to have lunch with someone's husband? Apparently, people with higher education don't guarantee that they have good morals either."

The two voices sounded different but Alex and some people of course knew the voice. It was clearly the voice of Astrid and Bella that was deliberately recorded by the woman as evidence.

"Bella-Bella, you're too stupid to believe that Alex is loyal. Just so you know, Alex was never in love with you again. You want to know why?" I heard a pause for a moment. "Because Alex himself said he loved me. He's not in love with you that turns out to be boring."

The sound of the recording stopped and Nia showed several videos and voices where there was Astrid who kept teasing Bella so that the woman would leave Alex. In fact, the day before Bella actually left, the woman had come to Alex's residence and asked openly for Bella to leave Alex.

"You're just upsetting me and Alex, Bell. You should know yourself, Alex is not in love with you anymore. If not for seeing your kids, you think Alex still wants to stick with you?"

Alex constantly watches both the voice recording and the video showing how Astrid is trying to corner Bella's position. His wife's psychic condition is never good when hearing the word infidelity. His wife did experience trauma to her parents' household which was destroyed by a third person.

After watching all the videos and voice recordings, Alex looked at Astrid with disappointment clearly visible in his eyes.

"I really didn't think, Trid, it turned out that Bella was always suspicious and kept accusing me of cheating on you!" Alex pointed at Astrid's already pale face. "I guess we're really friends. It hurts you, Trid," Alex stared intently at Astrid.

Never did the man suspect his whole life if the cause of his household rift was his own best friend. Alex always thought that Astrid was a friend who understood him. As time passed, he thought human nature would not change. However, what Astrid did was completely slap Alex in the face.

"Alex, this is all a misunderstanding. I-i-"

In fact, to explain even Astrid was confused about where to start. The woman stood in a daze not expecting all her actions to be recorded by Bella.

"You may not realize, the last time you came to Alex's house, you know, the first one recorded what you did to his mother and it was used as evidence to open Alex's blind eyes to see what kind of woman you were."

Nia then waved her hand at the people around and turned away after being satisfied to have successfully dismantled Astrid's real face.

While Alex himself could not speak with the facts he just knew. The man said a few words to Astrid not to bother him again and assumed that they had never known each other. In other words Alex broke off his friendship with Astrid. Only then did Alex return to the car and find the woman who had helped him sitting in the back seat.

"Now can you tell me where Bella and my kids are?" Alex turned his body back to look at the woman who was holding one of his daughters.

"Bella and your kids?" The woman raised her eyebrows looking at Alex. "Did I forget to tell you that Bella and her children have gone home?"

"What?" Alex's facial expression broke when he heard what Nia said. "You mean, Bella and the kids are home?"

Hearing that of course Nia put on a confused expression. "Lex, aren't you coming home? Bella and your kids are home from yesterday."

Nia smiled broadly at the disbelieving face displayed by Alex.  The man has not been home for the past week since his wife and children left. 

"Take me to Kello's school first. You can just go home."

Alex nodded obediently then drove his vehicle to the school that had been shown by Nia.

While the woman smiled to herself imagining if she managed to prank Alex today. It's also her plan and Bella's to resuscitate Alex if what the man is doing is wrong.

The woman managed to persuade Bella to go home and provoke her best friend to not want to lose to a woman who only wants to snatch her husband. As a legitimate wife, do not be afraid to move and fight in order to defend what is ours.