28. Dominance
"Let's meet my father together, Hendra. We tell him what we want" she stroke his arms and he hugged her in response..
"Do you have any idea why I am this crazy? I am afraid to lose you, my love" He coup his hands on her cheeks.
"I believe we can pass all this, Hendra.. don't think negatively." Aruna comforted him with her hugs.
"Alright, I'll drive you home"
"Okay..."
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Hery took Aruna's motor home with a luxury huge pick up Sierra 2500HD. Its price was fantastic for a pick up. It was US$ 63.905 or 811 million rupiah, the fourth generation of GMC Sierra offered elegance and luxury to the users.
Chrome accent dominated the exterior of the Sierra, especially the front. It displayed the luxury and elegance to that giant truck
Aruna could not believe in what her husband did. He did not allow her to ride her motorcycle home. It took more than two hours to reach home in this busy traffic of the morning. But Aruna was just relaxed in the very comfortable Rolls Royce next to the man who was busy replying calls in his mobile phone.
"he..he" she chuckled to see how her ride looked so contrast with that luxury truck. That old red matic looked so pathetic behind the Sierra of Wenceslas, a wreck on the rich land. She scratched her hair behind the ear.
"Hendra.. will you drop me right in front of the house? I don't think it is a good idea…" Aruna's house was located in a crowded area in East Jakarta. It would definitely invited people's curiosity such a car went to such neighborhood. Initially Anantha offered another house to live in. unfortunately, father Lesmana let down the offer and preferred to live in the house he used to live in his early marriage with Aruna's mother.
It was the house father Lesmana purchased before father he worked for Grandfather Wiryo as his most trusted assistant which later father Lesmana became the delivery director of Wenceslas. his decision not to put his son in trouble was actually a problem for his children. Their house was not convenient for commuting in their daily basis.
Just like Anantha, he got difficulties to go home everyday so he preferred to go home in the weekend. Aruna thought that there had to be something important he wanted her to spend time this weekend. He had contacted her many times just to know when she would be home.
"it looks like I can prolong the summon from the court due to my busy work. Actually I will be really busy next week. In that week time, please don't sign any appointments and let meknow in case new thing arises in that time." Hendra spoke while checking the notebook in his hand.
The girl next to him was looking at him attentively to what He said to someone on another end. " We don't have any time to meet this week?"
"No. I may not be in Jakarta the whole week. I'm flying to Singapore, to Sidney, and to Surabaya on the last visit. Then, I am flying back to Jakarta." That man typed something on his note while replying Aruna. He looked much busier than when they were together.
"You are very busy" It was rather a complaint.
"There are things to deal with the stocks rate that are still going down because of the gossip about me. I need to strengthen my cooperation with the investors. I haven't dealt with issues with the public. Allof these problems will go worse if our divorce really happen. You will understand what I am talking about" He stopped working on his note
"Aren't you very rich? Why do you have to work really hard to deal with all of these? I believe the failure of some subsidiaries won't affect you that much." How simple her brain worked .
"You brain can't understand the complex things. Once we run a company, we will be responsible for the life of our employees. You can't imagine how big the responsibility a businessman has on his shoulders. There are hundreds or even thousands people's life are dependent on that company.
Once the company grows bigger, automatically the responsibility it carries also grows bigger. As the company's owner, I may face losses. But my loss is nothing compare to the losses of my employees relying their life and their whole families on the salaries they get from my company." Hendra smiled as he explained a bit long about things Aruna missed to catch.
"Oh, you are right… I didn't know that" She looked at him proudly.
"So you are very busy to save the life of the subsidiaries of your company right now?" She asked again as she heard the latest hot issue which spread to the public. It resulted in the potential boycott of the products of Wenceslas Group.
"You can say that again. And I really hope you are by my side in my difficult times" that blue eyed man touched her cheek and stroke it softly.
"I am so sorry Hendra. I'm so childish and don't know how to behave properly" She looked down and felt so much guilty.
"And because of my hard life I don't know how to make you happy" He smiled and tilted her face up. He did not like to see her like that.
"When are we meeting our father?"
"After I'm back to Jakarta"
"I'm going to miss you, Hendra.."
"Glad to hear you say that,hehe"
"I mean it.."
"I didn't say you were joking, though" She smiled to his reply.
"Come over here. Let me get my breakfast before you get out of the car" soon they were carried away in their deep kiss before they had to say good bye.
"Hendraaa.." Aruna ran to her husband and hug him tightly after she rested her motorbike once it was dropped from the truck by the guards of CEO.
"I am away only a week. Please rest assured. " he hugged her back and caressed her hair.
"Don't forget to pick up my calls, will you?"
"No I won't..!"
"Remember, don't be too tired! Mind your own meal" Aruna nodded to agree with his instructions, the behavior of dominance which she disliked sometimes. But she took it differently now. It was the expression of his big love to her. He expressed it in a different way.
If only she could put up with all his treatments to her, they would have a different stot=ry to write. Unfortunately, they started it in a wrong way
It might be what they faced at the moment was a cure to a better path. They repaired what had been done wrong since the start and rebuild it.
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"Make sure Raka keep a better look at my wife while I'm gone" he instructed it to the manbehind the drive.
"Yes, Sir"
"I forgave him upon his failure on the mission my grandfather had given to him. But when bad things happens to her, no one can escape from my anger" He opened his notebook again.
"Yes Sir. We understand"
"How about Tania?" Hendra changed the topic this time.
"She was waiting for you in your office, Sir. She refused to leave the office before she could meet you. We had to handle her."
"Have you talked with her manager?"
"Her manager can't put up with her behaviour any longer". She has changed a lot. We came up with new facts from her manager, though"
"Facts??"
"They said after Grandfather Wiryo let the two go, there was another woman often see Tania. Her name is Tiara Susmita Salim"
"Hmmm…the daughter Tarantula founder?"
"Unfortunately, there was something odd when we searched her further"
"Go on!" In the car that speeded up smoothly in the middle of heavy traffic of the cosmopolitan, the talk inside was going very seriously and challenging.
"When Tania was meeting Tiara Susmita, we kept watching the schedules of Tiara Susmiita and her sister, Intan Susmita. They led their activities as normal. It turned out that it wasn't any of them but someone else. We tried to make a sketch of that lady" The guard hand out a sketch made based on Tania's manager memory.
And the candidate President of Wenceslas Group looked at that sketch carefully. He felt familiar with that face but who was she?
"I feel she is one of us" Hendra tried to guess the face sketch in his hands.
"That's Leona face, Sir!"
"Oh..how possible??.. she is trying to destroy me. Isn't she the adopted daughter of Grandfather Wiryo? Who the hell is she??"
"Our team couldn't believe this fact, Sir. We kept watching them for the last week. It turned out that Miss Leona herself and her people did the brainwash to Tania.
"Get as much information as possible so that I can catch her red handed, no rejections from the people of D floor"
"Yes, Sir"