The Sweetest Harsh
Episode 58 - Lurking

Jonah was sitting quietly on the back porch of a villa with a cup of warm tea on top of a limp. The time was still five o'clock in the afternoon when the waiter brought him a small plate of snacks to the table beside him. It was always like that, but Jonah never wanted to eat small meals like cakes or snacks provided for him.

That day, he spent all day visiting his business colleagues in the city he was living in. Branch company issues? Ah, it was just her nonsense just so that the man could keep a little distance from Helmia. Everything has been arranged neatly and in detail, so it looks as if it really happened and real, artificial problems that are being designed and implemented today. He has contacted the crucial parties in his company to cooperate with him if one day his wife comes to his office and asks about the problems facing the company. And sure enough, from the information he got from his secretary, Helmia was even in his office from noon until late noon to examine all the reports, including financial statements.

Silently, Jonah had installed a jammer on his villa so that his wife could not contact him in the form of communication through any application. Helmia must have been assuming that her husband was in an area beyond the reach of telecommunications signals so that he could not be contacted. The man used his other cell phone to communicate with his directors and employees to crosscheck and supervise the running of the company and of course he had to do it outside the villa given the jammer in the house his residence. Yunus was forced to complete his entire work with online facilities in order to continue to be able to carry out this covert plan well. Actually, he was eager to attend the opening event of the Alfa exhibition which will be held in a few days, but, the time was increasingly urgent because he also had to immediately complete various kinds of company affairs that he had to conclude.

The man sipped his last sip of tea and then put the cup back on his lap to the table and stood leaving the spacious terrace with a stretch of blue swimming pool in front of him. The ripples of the pool water had also emitted an orange glow when Jonah decided to re-enter the house.

“Mr, there is a call for Mr.” said a waiter when his master was about to step up to the stairs to the second floor.

“Oh yes. Thank you.” Jonah turned back and stepped towards the telephone table of the house not far from the stairs.

“Halo?” greet the man initiating the conversation.

“Papa?” the voice of Alpha was clearly heard across there. His voice sounded anxious.

“Alfa? What was? You know papa's at the villa?” he asked with a frown when he found out that quickly his son could guess where the papa was going.

“Of course. What's papa doing there? Gosh darn. Why are papa and mama like young people who are fighting and sulking with each other? Anyway what's the question between you guys so papa dodges like this?” the cerocos.

Jonah. For a long time he had not heard such a long Alpha when speaking to him. Apparently, Helmia complained to Alfa? “Papa is not sulking, just running a covert mission to save your relationship with your mother,” he replied with a sentence that of course not understood by his son.

“Coverted mission?” Alfa raised next to an eyebrow in her expression, trying to guess.

“Yes. papa is teaching your mama a lesson. There is no question, papa just pretends to be completing a hard job that must be completed for days and does not contact him at all to make him miss,” kekehnya.

Alfa widened her eyes, surprised when she received her papa's answer as if she was playing around. He did not expect, at their current age, Jonah could still tease Helmia with such a joke. Then, what is the relationship of his covert mission with him?

“You will understand later,” said Jonah with an enigmatic sentence again. The boy did not reply, only responding with a long breath.

“Yes. Whatever it is, if it makes things better, I definitely support,” he said. “Good. I just want to make sure that Papa is okay there. Good night,” close it and disconnect the phone.

Jonah only responded with a nod of his head and a big smile. It seemed, his plan this time went smoothly without a hitch. He will continue to lurk, to what extent Helmia will be able to survive.

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"Mama sure? Don't push yourself, stay here until you're healthy" Tiara persuaded her mother who insisted on coming home from the hospital that morning. Berta said that he wanted to get treatment at his home. Tired of being in the room continuously and want to feel the cool fresh air out there, but, the daughter continued to argue on the grounds of ease to get access to emergency treatment when her mother was in the hospital, considering Berta often had a sudden down. Tiara was just worried about that.

"Mama is feeling fresher now. There is Widya and one nurse later who will continue to monitor the condition of the mother. You don't worry too much" he said.

"Certainly so?" Ask the woman again doubtfully.

"Yes. Mama will be fine," he replied with a smile and patted the back of Tiara's hand that had grasped one hand.

"Whatchu mean? You're going to drive alone? No. gabe. Don'tdon't. Mama disagreed," she refused with a frown. Does Tiara want to harm herself and the baby in her womb by driving alone?

"It's not. Alfa ordered one of the employees at the exhibition house to take her home. Is Mama okay if she's taken him?" Tanya Tiara then.

"Oh. Alright. It's okay" Helmia said, nodding her head and smiling thinly.

Alfa's early departure reminded her of Jonah who contacted her yesterday evening. The man apologized to him for not being able to visit anytime soon because he was out of town. Alfa's father also told her of Helmia's plan to separate her daughter from Alfa. However, in various ways, the man said that he was trying to melt his wife's heart. Not to say that Tiara is pregnant again, let it be a surprise for Helmia one day when the woman knows for herself.

"Is Jonah good to you?" Helmia who felt long enough to be noticed by Tiara for daydreaming then asked.

"Yes. Papa is very good. He even looks very familiar with Alpha and is equally seen as a good father figure." Tiara said with a look, recalling the flash of memory that just cut through her mind, a few months ago when her husband and father were having fun with each other in holding a baby who came to the house of Alfa with the mother to do a baby photography session. "Well, did you suddenly remember Papa Jonah? Did he call my mom?" Ask later.

"Yes. Jonah called my mother yesterday. Thank goodness he was good to you" he replied.

"good. Let's take Mama home. Leon's waiting ahead." Tiara stood up from her chair and approached the bed and asked Berta to get down to sit in a wheelchair.

Widya who had been on standby beside the sofa also moved and also guided until the woman was comfortably seated on a wheelchair.

Tiara let out a long sigh with a grin on her lips, preparing to push on the wheelchair.

"Tiara, let me do it. You keep yourself from getting tired and working too hard" Widya interrupted quickly as the woman was about to step up a step in pushing her mother's seat.

Tiara turned her head quickly and removed her hand from the wheelchair's handle. Weighing quickly his decision then nodding. "Yes. All right," he said, then rewinded, giving room for Widya to do her job.

The three then walked slowly out of the treatment room, followed by Leon who was ready to wait on the sofa waiting room and several servants who brought their Madam's things to take home.

When their steps were almost through the glass door of the VIP room boundary, Tiara suddenly stopped making the steps of the people behind her become stifled and shocked.

"What's Tiara?" Widya frowned as she turned to the side and found her master's daughter thinking for a moment. Berta also looked up and expressed the question in his face mimic.

"I left my stuff in the nightstand drawer of my nursery." Tiara smiled wryly. "You walk first, I'll take it," he broke.

"I need to drive you?" Rose Leon.

"No need. I'll be quick to come back" he said, turning around and passing away.

"Be careful," Leon looked at Tiara who was walking behind him. The woman looked over for a moment and nodded her head. The man decided to wait for Alfa's wife where she was standing.

Tiara slightly braked her steps as her breathing gasped. He has walked fast apparently. He took her stomach with his right hand. Said inwardly that he would be really careful this time around. After looking back at the sealed room that was only about six steps away from her position, the woman exhaled a sigh of relief. Slowly but surely, he walked closer to the front door. The whiff of the doorknob when it suddenly clapped its shoulders shocked him.

Tiara turned her head quickly with a small scream that involuntarily came out of her mouth. His eyes were perfectly rounded when his gaze met that blue-eyed bead again.