The Seventh Secretary (Secretary to Seven)
Still Imelda

The contents of the short message sent Pak Andi made Stella's forehead twitch. His head was suddenly migraine.

Stella got up slowly and gestured to David if she came out for a while and nodded back.

"Is mom looking for me?" stella asked as she made sure the door was closed.

"Stella baby, of course I'm looking for you, son. Can I ask for a minute of your time? I promise just a little while drinking coffee in the building"

"Then in the cafeteria only because I also just returned from the outside and there is still a lot of work"

Imelda slightly smiled stiffly. Because the cafeteria must be a public place with a fairly hot room temperature because of the lack of air conditioning, as well as a popular menu that does not match the tongue and stomach.

While the cafe in sebrang building is a modern cafe with coffee milled impromptu five hundreds

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"Then in the meeting room alone, I only had 10 minutes before the meeting" without waiting for a response, Stella walked towards the elevator because the meeting room was 1 floor below.

Imel was forced to follow with disappointment while scrapping 2 large suitcases of his. Expect all to eat a good snack plus coffee to fill his stomach which had been asked to be filled with expensive snacks, boro boro invited to eat in European restaurants.

Stella whispered something to the OB she met as she was about to enter the newly cleaned meeting room for another 30 minutes of meeting preparation.

"Please sit down" with courtesy Stella invites as if talking to her client.

Imel put his suitcase next to the chair he was about to sit on. Along with the arrival of OB who brought a tray containing 2 cups of coffee and milk specifically pregnant women and brought 2 plates of snacks in the form of green tea tart as a coffee companion for guests.

Imel stared at the coffee that steam billowed, slightly tempted but because of the aroma of coffee that he guessed must be the brand when brewed from the pantry he did not swallow his saliva.

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"Bonafide office kayak gini his coffee cap ship? that's right" she lamented in her heart.

Stella noticed the expression of Imelda who was sneering at the coffee and snacks perched on the table. But Stella doesn't care. His obligation to entertain guests has been fulfilled.

"So, what do you want to talk about, ma'am?" Stella started the conversation. He did not want to be alone with a woman who definitely wanted something.

"Ah, yes. Look son, I'm so happy you finally get married and happy despite having to take away your own brother's happiness but-"

"sorry. Please do ma'am. Who takes whose happiness. Mom's time is 8 minutes"

"A ah, sorry I misspoke. So gini, it was when your husband married your brother"

"I'm an only child"

"I mean mother, L.. Lusi, your husband's family always routinely gives pocket money to mom. You know, you also need to go to the salon, hang out, massage, street, pay for a visit, just so many needs of the mother. And your husband who used to be Lusi's husband can fulfill it and I'm very happy.

"6 minutes"

"5 minutes"

"Mom asked for the monthly money to be sent" quickly although Imelda's response was directly at the point of fearing Stella would end the conversation before her goal was delivered.

"Did I not hear wrong? My mother's son is divorced from my husband. Why does my husband still have to send money to my mother? after all, there's a mother's husband who should support my mother, not my husband"

"But you're a mother's son"

"Lusi is the mother's son. Anyway I don't remember getting out of a woman's body if it was you. All I remember is that my mother had the heart to leave me and my father in our difficult times for the sake of the wealth of others in order to live comfortably and gloriously. Are you the one?"

Imelda was unmoved and looked pale.

"Your time is up"

Stella got up and ignored Imelda's shrieking cry

A speck of liquid escaped from the corner of his eye. This is not what he really wanted. The dilemma between staying away from him, but he does not want to be an ungodly child. But he recalled the father's own suffering, and the selfishness of the mother who had left them because of poverty, and now came back because of the treasure he had. Not because of regret and repentance, but solely because of material things. Stella is not a vengeful person. Especially now that he has everything. He does not want to be stamped as a proud and disobedient child.

"Yes God. Forgive me" she said, sobbing as she walked into the husband's office. Not paying attention to the existence of Pak Andi who called him from his desk.

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Stella wanted to spill all her grief on her husband, but.. "Darling, are you okay?" ask David who is finished with his video conference and is receiving guests. But David prefers to approach the wife who looks sad.

David approached and immediately welcomed Stella's helping hand asking for a hug to calm her husband.

Stella was stunned in David's comfortable arms. He poured out all the burdens in his heart with a cry he never made.

"Sshhh.. it's okay. You have me baby. You're not alone.. cry. not always you have to bear all the burdens alone.." David comforts her, channeling affection and providing comfort to the only woman in David's life.

"Am I an ungodly child, mas?" ask her between her lines.

David couldn't answer, he just stroked Stella's soft hair.

"Why did he come for money, not for me, mas. is money more important than me, his son... was I so disgusted that I was abandoned because I was born from the seed of a poor man like my father.."

"Sshhhh. You are special. Very special. Only the blind man and his heart don't think you're special. I told you you're not alone now. Forget the past that makes you unhappy because you have me and our future son who will always make you happy" David rewinded his body and flanked Stella's face and gently wiped the tears that could not stop coming out and then kissed both eyes making Stella feel calmer and the stuffing slowly stopped.

"Take me off. I have to meet my son, don't be rude yes you, I can get you fired know no" pekik Imelda who seemed to have been blocked Pak Andi but managed to enter also with a face reddened with anger.

"Stella.." the loud cry hung when he saw the presence of someone in the room.

"You..."

"I thought you were going to come here" said the guest who had sat down and watched the live drama show between husband and wife.