19.   Crazy Plan

Thud thud thud

Finally the heart of that cold girl was able to beat again. It was triggered by the words of the blue eyed man.

Hendra stood up slowly. His eyes were looking at her eyes closely: "If you face difficulties, just tell me. I may not be able to help you directly but trust me I will always be with you. I am around you."

Aruna nodded.

"so, do you have anything to tell me?"

"No. Nothing ."

"How about with your study? Is everything okay?"

"Yes, it's fine."

_Ugh…Aruna, you really give me hard test_

"Give me a hug" that request was responded quickly by her rushing to the arms of the blue eyed man.

"After this, I'll be very busy" He tilted her chin up and washed her eyes with kisses. He touched her eyes with the tip of his fore finger and then kissed it.

"That would mean I don't have much time to spare with you." He then touched the tip of her nose. Then his lips kissed that nose.

"So far you don't have much time for me as a matter of fact" Aruna imitated her husband's expressions.

"The problem is that you may hear a lot of news about me" Hendra brushed her red lips. He moved his in a softly his wife enjoyed the most.

"Does it mean your reputation will be worse?"

"Yes, it could be"

_if I saved my own reputation, yours will be even worse_ a separation either done on purpose or not would create a scandal. And the public would always demand an explanation about who the third person that caused the separation.

He went deeper and deeper.

"Ahh…uhhh" Aruna was panting.

There was a push to make her lie in bed. And the way to do it was like a hunter chasing his target, unstoppable.

He held the blouse button hesitantly. One button was loosen. She was not aware yet until it reached the third one, a hand was trying to touch her chest.

"Stop!" she pushed the man who was on top of her body.

There were eyes pleading for his desire to fulfill. But the other eyes in front of them stared at him sharply.

"Sorry. I'm not ready yet."

She held the unbutton blouse and hurriedly buttoned it back. She turned around. Her back was facing. He threw himself on the bed next to that girl.

He reached her when she had finished with the buttons. But she gestured a refusal.

"You love me but you don't want me"

"Not now Hen…"

_Your life is too complicated. I'm afraid we won't be able to be together anymore"

Mahendra waited for his wife to sleep soundly. He checked on her several times, held her. He turned her to face him when she was really in deep sleep.

Aruna was the first woman who was able to challenge his instinct to do unpredictable things.

He released his hug to leave her. Separation was always a pain. But as long as there were hopes, he would never give up. Giving up feared him more.

***

"Bang bang bang"

"You know for sure that I don't like such a place!" Gibran protested to the heirs of Tarantula Group who held a meeting in a night club. Loud music offered inconvenience to him. He hated noise.

"Common.., you are too busy with the lady threatening to kill herself. It is boring." Rey Braga, the man who called himself Gibran went undercover.

'Just marry her. Don't think too much. If she happened to run away or had an affair, you have married her" Heru Atmojoyo gave suggestion.

"It is not as easy as you think, though" Gibran threw his blank look on groups of men and wemen dancing on the first floor.

Not long a bartender came with a tray of drinks one of them had ordered.

"Hey, here is for you!" Nakula Christian handed a glass to Gibran, another glass was for himself.

"You know I don't drink." he refused and pushed away the glass

"Give me a break! You still lead a healthy life? No coffee. No beer. Your life is too straight, Gibran." Nakula chuckled.

A lady with a low cut blouse exposing her open cleavage walked gracefully to their table. It was Tiara Susmita Salim, the second child of Salim, She had a contradictory life from her older sister. She was a rebellious child and lived an extravagant life. Her father did not mind that as long as she joined the conspiracy his father built with Tarantula.

Meanwhile, her sister, Intan Sasmita Salim was a respectable woman. She took care of the family business and was very responsible with it. So much contradictive with Tania, her younger sister.

"Wow, sexy! Come to my lap!" Nakula offered his lap to that girl. She ignored him and sat next to Gibran and Rey, instead. Tiara was so crazy about Gibran since she was very young. Unfortunately, Gibran did not see her even a blink. And finally she went o the arms of Key Barga, a big brother of Rey Barga.

'When will your brother leave the prison? Only he is the one who knows what I want and I can fully enjoy my life with him." Tiara hadn't married Key. But they had a private house for themselves and they lived together without marital status.

Key was imprisoned for a drug user. Tiara was involved. But she managed to get away when the police raided their place.

And Key had to stay in prison. He had been caught three times for the same case.

"Tell Key to stay in prison much longer so that all the stocks of Barga will be mine" Rey got tired of his big brother. That guy was the source of the family troubles that his mother and father had to stay abroad ease themselves. Rey was the only person remained in Diningrat family. He took over allhe responsibility of Barga Family. Key dropped by and asked for his shares

"Rey, you are his brother. And you haven't visited him. He looked for you" Tiara passed the messages from Key. She was the only one visited him while he was there.

"I don't care. Let's drop the topic, shall we?" Rey was trying to distract that girl. A young man with glasses and vintage style lost his interest when his brother was raised as the hot issue.

"Have you heard? The young master of Djoydiningrat family was left by his wife." Rey was tring to change the topic to be discussed. Their meeting this time was to discuss things related to the falling of Wenceslas.

"Sometimes it crosses to my mind why we have to do all this" Gibran voiced his mind. It was low voice but it was heard well by his counter parts.

"Out of discussion. It has been our destiny to do that. It is a dispute over generations. And we have to continue it without looking back." Nakula, the smallest among them, sounded wise but heartless.

"If I am allowed to choose, I would prefer to be the family of Uncle Adam." The voice was soft but it was quite audible to other ears. Uncle Adam did not allow his children Angga Hyuga and Bianca Nalendra o join things illogic. For him revenge would never end. He was not afraid towards some threats that he lose his credibility or his stocks would be taken away from Tarantula Group. He held up his principles firmly. He was the only family who had normal life and looked so happy.

"Call Oliver!" Heru broke the ice. One of his aides did what was instructed to him.

"Oliver has never changed. He is always like that" Tania insulted Oliver Abraham for his hobbies to play around with girls and loud music.

While waiting for others to join, Rey made a confusing statement: "My mission is to win Mahendra's Ex wife. I will keep that mission."

"Don't hurt that innocent girl. She left Mahendra,the only heir of Wenceslas Group. Why do we waste our time by hurting her?" Gibran led the discussion.

"I won't hurt her. I want her" Rey's statement brought a big question to the mind of everyone in that meeting. They raised their eyebrows and frowned.

"Hahahaha… now you are obsessed by that good girl. You will try to prove your own words" Oliver who suddenly came up replied lightly.

"So you tried to influence her brother, Anantha. But now he has influenced you. You both are just the same." Heru participated.

It seemed like only Gibran did not really know one of his friends was trapped in their emotion while he was undercover: "Don't use my name. I don't want to get involve in your crazy plan."

Additional Explanation:

Tarantula is a name taken from the names of the seven founders. T: Tanto Kristian, Ra : was an intial name of a woman who later changed into Julia, Rio's mother, Gibran's grandmother, N : Ndaru Dirga Atmojo, T : Tegar Markus Salim, U : Untung Braga, L : Linus Abraham, and A : Adam Nalendra.