The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 14 Teka Teki

It was early in the morning when Tiara had already taken her thousand steps inside the house. The woman continued to move to and fro nimbly, doing all the housework cheerfully. Alfa sat quietly staring at the laptop screen and occasionally glanced at his wife's activities with a glance as Tiara walked past her desk again and again.

“Stop.” Alfa said with a slight raise in her tone when the woman had stepped away from him. Tiara, who had disappeared behind the wall, then only raised her head to hear her husband's scream at the desk. Both his eyebrows raised.

Whahuh?

Tiara was still silent at the spot waiting for a reaction from her husband.

“Are you exercising on foot inside the house?” Alfa propped up her chin with the back of her hand, looking at the head of his wife who looked funny with her hair pinches that were almost above her head and the children's hair that was messy because of the activity.

Tiara finally showed her whole body and slightly walked over with one big hug of the clothes she was about to carry.

“Can be considered as such. Cleanse the house while exercising. Isn't that good?” Her lips pursed, judged by her husband's unblinking gaze.

“Why are you so cute so early?” Still with his mysterious eyes.

“Eh ... What?" Tiara touched her hair child and fluttered behind her ears, awkward and nervous as her question was instead responded to with a response that deviated a hundred and eighty degrees and made her flinch in embarrassment.

“You're getting prettier when you're pregnant.” Alfa was already standing in front of him. Also grabbing the child's hair like Tiara did earlier, then smiling. “I will prepare breakfast this time. Be sitting. Make yourself relax. You must be tired.” The man held onto Tiara's arms and led her to sit on a dining table chair close to the kitchen set, then took out a pile of clothes that his wife had brought.

“Sit. Okay well? You can move to move seats. Not for others.” Alfa said as she pointed at Tiara with her index finger, ruling with her joke that made Tiara chuckle.

“Siap.” Tiara did a respectful attitude without being given any cues.

The woman looked at her husband, who was on his back at the kitchen table, busying himself with his cooking activities.

“Don't you have to leave this morning for Papa's office to have a meeting?” Tiara, who suddenly remembered that she was not working today, spontaneously asked and stood up to replace her husband's cooking.

What if Alfa's late?

Alfa turned her head in three seconds and smiled and turned back towards the drill pan.

“Iya. I'll get ready after this.”

Tiara sat back down.

The smell of the grill makes Tiara realize that it turns out she needs to fill her stomach which began to harmonize unceasingly.

Shortly after, Alfa began arranging the food it processed onto the dining table. It starts by putting two roasted chickens to himself and Tiara, arranging the vegetables he only cooked by steaming, steaming, then put it in a different bowl and take a plate of rice from his Pressure IH rice cooker and bring it close to his wife. Not to forget scrumble egg with tomato sauce. Alfa still returns to the kitchen table and is seen picking up two highball glasses and pouring two different drinks. After moving it to the front of the Tiara, Alfa still struggled again to take a porcelain cup and poured coffee with hot water that was still billowing smoke.

The man slammed his body into the dining chair. Looks sweaty. However, just as he was enduring fatigue, Alfa looked back at Tiara who was scanning the food on the table in amazement and sat quietly there.

“You like this every day? Tired of preparing breakfast for me?” Alfa asked with a wrinkled face.

“It's too much.” Tiara propped her head up with her hands and puffed her cheeks. Not responding to Alfa's question for him even said softly like muttering. Alfa raised an eyebrow to hear his wife's words.

“I'm not tired. I'm used to it," he said later.

“Eat. Pregnant women need three times the nutrition of ordinary people. You must stay healthy.” Alfa said after putting the first mouthful into her mouth.

“Can I eat with just a tasting?” Tiara started to take a fork and put the vegetables on her plate. “My stomach won't fit to eat all this at once.”

Alfa chuckles. “Does your life really weigh on Tiara, so you have to pay for the food I made in installments?”

“How about I get fat?” Start chewing with one big mouthful.

“Originally you're healthy. After all, you do have to put on a little weight to make it sexier.” The man did not notice his woman who was about to cough, but was held back by Tiara when he heard Alfa say so.

“Good, I'll eat a lot.” Tiara continued eating and drinking voraciously but with an annoyed and grumbling gesture.

******

“You're fascinated with me.” Alfa stood in front of a mirror that was about the same height as her body, observing Tiara beside her who was looking at her. The man pretended not to see. However, his words had managed to get Tiara cornered. “Because I'm more handsome with this look?" Ask a single question that was instantly given a hundred by Tiara in his heart because the rhetorical question was true. Tiara simply nodded in embarrassment and smiled.

Alfa wore a dark black suit with an old grey shirt and navy blue tie that made her look different and so handsome today. His black hair was neatly combed as usual and his legs were wrapped in matching shoes with the color of the suit. Really Tiara was indeed stunned by the appearance of Alfa today.

“You like my appearance like this or as usual?” Ask while then justifying the tie he wears.

“I'd rather you were ordinary.” Tiara replied while confirming her husband's suit button.

“I know. Apparently, I don't need to be rich to get you, because all you need is my heart. Not an attribute that shook my name," he said, then facing the body towards Tiara.

Tiara's pounding not playing. The woman understood, this rich man's son, although humbly willing to start his own business in terms of work, he knew very well that out there, he was out there, many people knew him as the son of a wealthy businessman, which boosted his popularity as a photographer and painter.

Tiara looked at her husband without a sound.

“I'll be home tonight. I have a lot to finish. Be well at home.” Alpha kisses Tiara's lips with enough intensity to make the woman's body groan because of passion. Alfa put her lips away and smiled obliquely looking at the stuttering Tiara.

Tiara was flabbergasted at being kissed suddenly, then with an unordered breath, she said. “Yes. May you successfully execute your plan today.” Tiara smiled. A sense of happiness was in his heart.

******

The CEOs had gathered in a large room that was the location of the meeting. They talk to each other at the round tables that are widely available there. Alfa who was stepping foot into the room, got a lot of questioning gazes.

“Alfa!" One of the men of sufficient age was far away from him, approaching.

“Beny.” After scanning for some time, Alfa finally recognized the interlocutor.

“You came alone? Where's papaamu?” Beny rubbed the young man's back and pointed with one hand where he was sitting and let Alpha down to it.

“Papa could not attend. He's overloading today.”

“Walau Sunday? Ah, yes he is always immersed in endless work.”

The two then sit side by side while listening to the stage where the MC has started to open the show. Alfa also enjoyed the banquet and a series of events until the meeting was completed.

******

Alfa was in her father's corporate IT room, as she originally planned. The man came to this place on a mission. He has to find out who really did the Tiara photo thief while he was in his company. He is ready to know whoever did it and will beat up people who have dared to harass his wife.

Faced with many computer LED screens that light up with his light. Alfa then began to insert a small card into the reader available there.

There appears a photo of Tiara with small writings on the side like an exif viewer in general. But with the technology owned by his father's company in managing the production of image capture tools, in one click, he can get all the detailed information about one photo.

His heart was pounding, as he began to scroll through the many writings that appeared there. His body stiffened when he learned that the photo was taken from a button-shaped mini camera that would completely make people unaware that he was being stalked.

Allegedly right. There are people who deliberately want to raise the rating of Tiara Fashion company name, but by dropping the name of his wife because it is considered to have abused his authority to become a secret model that assesses the results of his company's production. Ignoring supervisors in their field.

The device on the computer can even show GPS where the camera is likely to be.

Niente. The perpetrator seemed so ingenious because he had managed to turn off the mini camera's GPS signal.

“Ah.. Shit! " Alfa cursed because he almost succeeded. However, disappointed that he did not get a meaningful clue.

Who her? Is the company intern his wife? Or ... who?

Alfa was hopelessly wracked with curiosity.