The Honorary Owner
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As Genta said earlier this afternoon, they will pick up Ruby right at the office. Ruby had already given an excuse to Kyai Nur if she had overtime at the office and would come home late.

Ruby was standing a bit away from the Inwork building, she did not want her office friends also consumed by gossip if she saw Hiko pick her up.

Ruby immediately got into the car when Nara opened the back door of Hiko's car.

"Hi, By." Sapa Genta is sitting behind the wheel.

Ruby smiled, She could see from the beginning Hiko sitting in the front seat and ignoring her.

Genta drove up his car after hearing the sound of the car door shut tight.

Meanwhile, Maria is busy with some of her assistants preparing dishes to welcome Ruby's arrival. Ever since Hiko gave him a message this afternoon, he didn't stop nagging. Too sudden, but he also did not want to miss the opportunity to meet his future daughter-in-law.

"Assalamu'alaikum." Handoko's voice sounded just entering the house.

"Wa'alaikumsalam, Papa just took a shower. Mama get this ready first." Shouted Maria from the dining room

Handoko took her to the dining room, "Why did Hiko suddenly bring Ruby here, Ma?" Ask Handoko.

"Come, Pa. Maybe he was serious and asked for marriage." Maria answered, her hands were busy with dishes filled with side dishes.

"Papa thought Genta just as long as looking for an excuse, not to know it could be this serious."

"Our fortune pa, can get my son's ghost. Hopefully Hiko can change better after marriage, Pa." Maria's face was endlessly spreading a smile of excitement. "Already, papa hunted shower. Mama's prepared everything above."

Handoko nodded and left Maria who was still busy.

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Genta stops Hiko's car in front of a cafe not far from the entrance of the housing where Hiko's parents live.

Nara pulls Ruby to sit in front, while Hiko has changed position behind the wheel of the car.

"We're waiting for you here." Nara waved at Ruby.

Hiko immediately runs his car into a luxury residential. Some of the guards who were guarding the front post already seemed familiar with Hiko, Hiko also did not hesitate to open the car glass just to greet them kindly.

No conversation in the car. Ruby silently stared out the window, while Hiko remained focused on the streets.

Dione Diin!

Hiko honks the car horn to ask the security guard at her home to help open the gate.

The noisy sounds of the iron gate started to sound when a man pushed him. Instantly Ruby could see a large house with a luxurious exterior design standing firmly in front of her.

Hiko stopped his car right in front of the big door that became the main door of the luxury house.

"Assalamu'alaikum, Ma." Hiko said as she opened the door and entered to see her mother whom she had guessed was in the kitchen.

"Wa'alaikumsalam, son. Finally came." Mary took off the aprond she was wearing and kissed her son's cheeks and forehead.

Maria looked behind Hiko, "Where's Ruby?" Ask Maria.

Hiko looked back and was shocked when she saw that no one was there. "Well, Hiko thinks he's behind Hiko from earlier."

"How are you?" Maria patted her son's upper arm. "Let's go ahead."

Maria and Hiko went ahead.

"What are you, Ko! It could leave Ruby on the porch alone." Handoko has invited Ruby inside.

Ruby approached Maria and kissed the hand of a middle-aged woman who still exuded the beauty of a young mother.

"Assalamu'alaikum, Mom. How's things going?" Greetings Ruby.

"Wa'alaikumsalam, son. I'm glad you played here." Maria was ceaselessly smiling at Ruby. "Let's sit down, first."

Ruby sat on one of the very soft single sofas.

Handoko starts asking for news of Kyai Abdullah and Nyai Hannah. They chose to have a light chat around Ruby's busyness until the magrib adhan stopped their conversation.

Ruby accompanied Maria to pray in a small mosque inside the house, while Handoko went to her residential mosque for congregational prayers. Don't ask Hiko where, maybe he's negotiating with the hell guards to get in there without checking.

After doing their duty, Handoko immediately invites to move to the dining table for dinner.

"It's Mom's own cooking, let's try it. Don't you hesitate." Maria gave rice to Ruby's plate.

"Good, Mom." Ruby took the side dishes that had been provided, did not forget to read the prayer and then he ate the first feed.

"How did you get to know each other and decide to have a serious relationship?" Finally Handoko asked the question that Hiko and Ruby had prepared.

"Because I often meet with Nara, making me also often meet mas Hiko, sir. It also happened that we were involved in the making of a drama series. And everything just goes by." Ruby was just telling the truth, she didn't want to lie too much.

"Then, why did you decide to get into a relationship. You should have known that Hiko wasn't a nice guy."

Ruby was eager to answer out loud, 'Right! Your son is a jerk!'

"Come, Sir. I myself don't know either." Ruby said followed by a small smile that made her look cute.

"So maybe this is what you call a soul mate, pa." Added Hiko. "Some of Hiko's assholes, Hiko also wants to have a good girl's wife."

"Haha!" Handoko laughed loudly at Hiko's reply.

"Ruby, are you sure you want to accept him as your husband?" Ask Handoko

Husband? Why is this so far the question. Shouldn't this still be limited to knowing each other, who still don't know will continue or not.

Dugm!

Ruby felt a small kick in her leg, she could guess easily if the one who did it was Hiko.

"Ah, yes. I'm sure." Ruby replied, and at once she regretted the sentence she had said.

He wanted to rectify it, but when he saw the smile on Handoko's lips and Maria made him undo the intention.

Ah, nevermind. Let it be Genta and Hiko's responsibility. Inner Ruby.

Again they continued the dinner with small talk.

After dinner, Ruby asked for permission because she could not go home late at night. Handoko and Maria understand that. Maybe for those seven o'clock it's still afternoon, for Ruby it's curfew.

Ruby and Hiko take turns saying goodbye to Handoko and Maria then immediately get into the car.

Maria hands off delivering the departure of the car driven by Hiko and Ruby. Her heart already wanted to explode her happy rank hearing Ruby's answer if she could accept Hiko being her husband. Unexpectedly, God loved him so much that he gave the future daughter-in-law of a Sholehah woman.

"Tomorrow during a visit to East Java, Mama joined papa. We will continue this conversation more seriously. Honestly, I was afraid that Hiko would change her mind" Handoko said.

Meanwhile, the two couples who did not greet each other were busy with their own thoughts in the car. Hiko chose to play music to relieve her awkwardness.

"Why keep going?" Ruby asked when she saw Hiko's car driving without approaching the cafe where Nara and Genta were waiting for them.

Hiko gave no answer, he opened his phone and threw it slowly into Ruby's lap.

/Some people recognize me, I don't want reporters to meet me here. So me and Genta came back first./

Ruby put her phone on the dashboard of the car, "Let me down here." Ruby Pinta.

Without a second thought Hiko pulled her car over, letting Ruby out.

Ruby already holds the car handle, but seeing the circumstances outside makes Ruby afraid. It was dark and he was in a strange place that was not so crowded.

Ruby finally decided to go out. Let Hiko go with her car.

Ruby closed her eyes to convince herself if she could get through this. He walked to find a place with better lighting while ordering an ojek online.

Suddenly his feelings became unpleasant, as if someone was following behind him. He quickened his pace and ventured to see the situation behind him.

"Huf."

Ruby let out a long sigh when she saw that no one was there. Fear makes him think no.

Ruby stood under the street lighting pole and again ordered an online motorcycle taxi that had been delayed because of her panic.

Zrap!!

"Murkey!!!"

Ruby shouted when she found her phone stolen by two men who were riding a motorcycle quickly.

No one could help him because the streets were too quiet. Cars and other vehicles traveling at high speed, the drivers must focus on the road in front of it and do not pay attention to the edge of the road.

Ruby started to get scared because she didn't know where she was and was confused about how to contact other people. He decides to go back to Hiko's house only to ask Handoko and Maria for help. Although it was quite far away, at least there he could get help to go home.

His hands and feet did not stop trembling in fear. His mind was everywhere thinking bad things.

A motorcycle with two men suddenly stopped in front of him. Ruby took a step back as the man in the back got off the bike.

"Hape you, Neng." He's giving Ruby's phone.

Like a breath of fresh air, Ruby did not expect the man to still be merciful. Returned his phone.

"Thank you."

Ruby wants to take her phone, but the man pulls back Ruby's phone.

"There's a condition." Said later.

Ruby.

"Main-play used to be with us, Neng."

The deg!

Ruby felt she was insecure. His feet were heavy to step on. He just shook his head.

"Don't approach me! Don't touch me! Just take that stuff away." Ruby said in fear.

The man put Ruby's phone in his pocket. Then pull Ruby's hand.

"Deliver!! Don't touch me!!" Ruby shouted and pulled her hand.

"Tolooong!!"

Because the man's panic pushed Ruby into the yard of an unused shop so as not to seize the attention of road users.

"I give you anything, but please don't touch me." Pinta Ruby asks for mercy.

"Udahlah, Neng. Just clash." Another man got off the bike and approached Ruby.

Ruby shook her head, her cries getting broken from fear. "Please, I'm mohooon."

"CRUMBLE!"

Suddenly the man who had just come down from the motorbike fell down. In the dim light, Ruby saw someone carrying a block of wood approaching her.

"Please take your hand off him or I broke your hand!"

Ruby can recognize who the owner of the voice is.

"Mas Hiko, help me!" Ruby Pinta

"Lek, Escape Lek!" Shouted the man who had fallen down due to Hiko's punch.

Immediately the man who grabbed Ruby's hand let go and immediately fled following his friend.

Ruby fell weak in her fear, she cried so much that she let go of all her fear.

"Let's get in the car, someone else might think I'm the one who said lo!"

Ruby tried to stand up but her legs were too limp to make her fall again.

"It's up to you to be angry what's not, it doesn't matter. From me in the amuk time is thought to be lo!"

Without permission from Ruby, Hiko immediately lifted Ruby's body. Instantly Ruby was surprised, she stared angrily at Hiko's face which was very close to her. But he could not struggle even just to talk to lower it.

His eyes were fixed on Hiko's handsome face. He often saw that annoying face but not a bit he roared at it. Why is this time different.

- Connected

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