Enemy

Unfortunately, Laura didn't want to give in to Vina's concerns. She didn't want her to take care of her child and have a negative influence on Mary.

Mary was an up-and-coming model and if Vina caused trouble, Mary would be the one to suffer the consequences.

In the end, Mary finally calmed down after Laura showed the CCTV footage and tried to explain to Mary what would happen if Vina was still by Mary's side. 

Although sad, Mary finally let Vina go. But she still blames Renessa for everything that happened. She promised to avenge what Renessa did to Vina one day.

To Renessa's surprise, her father seems calmer and no longer protests his share of her mother's monthly inheritance. Renessa had initially thought that her father would try to force or even threaten her into giving him a small portion of the money, but he did nothing.

Rudi's actions made Renesa a little worried. If this continued, what about her mother's grave? If her father could actually support the family without the help of her mother's inheritance, what would he do? Will he never know the existence of his mother's grave?

***

A year and a half passed quickly. Renessa was now a third-semester accounting student at a state university. She never expected to become one of the students at the most prestigious university in the country.

Renessa was quite busy at the beginning of her university year. In addition to her studies she had to take private courses to learn the ins and outs of her family's hospitality company. Due to her busy schedule, she only had a few friends who were younger than her.

Since returning to Santoso's family home, Renessa has made some bold changes, one of which is to work with a trusted financial firm to manage the company's finances and family wealth.

This was actually Jefri and Elang's idea and the other two lawyers, Dimas and Yoga also agreed on that. During Rudi's time in power, there were many cases of embezzlement that made the company lose money. Not only that, but sometimes hotel maintenance funds in some areas also seemed to disappear somewhere, which made the condition of hotels in some areas very dilapidated.

Rudi could not make any more excuses and only looked down in embarrassment when he was treated the same as other employees in the company. All his private savings were checked and investigated. Although in the end Renessa didn't claim back all the money she'd inherited from her mother, Rudi felt ashamed and had his pride trampled on in front of many people. Rudi cursed Renessa in his heart and vowed to get rid of her when the clock struck 12 after Renessa's 25th birthday.

Even though Renessa was in control of the Santoso family's finances, she was no match for Rudi, who had eaten his fill of Horizon Company. She only received company reports and couldn't change anything as her father was still in charge and acted as the CEO. She can only oversee everything from afar as the biggest shareholder.

Rudi, who felt that he had the opportunity to bring Renessa down, did not hesitate to work with some of the Santoso family's shareholders and business partners to topple his own daughter. He secretly moved behind Renessa's back and asked several people to deliberately spread bad rumors about the girl and destroy her image.

The Renessa that everyone in the company knew was rude, irresponsible, drunk, hedonistic and a party girl. The rumors were quite convincing considering Renessa had grown up in Country A and away from her parents.

Rudi no longer considers Renessa his child. In his eyes, she was now an enemy he had to destroy so he could get his hands on Horizon Company.

Rudi doesn't even hesitate to spread fake news and say that the reason Renessa attends the boarding school where she used to go is due to her delinquency. 

Renessa didn't know anything about Rudi's actions because the man looked calm as if he had accepted Renessa's presence in the house.

"Dear, should we move out?" Laura said as they slept side by side after making love on the bed.

"Move out? Why?" Rudi asked in a confused voice.

"I can no longer live with Renessa in this house. The servants even seem to respect her more than I lately," fatigue was in Laura's voice. She couldn't bear to live in that house anymore. Some of the servants often compared Mary and Renessa, which annoyed Laura. In her eyes her little girl is the best.

Although Mary was childish and spoiled, she hated it when the servants started comparing Renessa to her daughter. Renessa's calm gaze bothered her as if she felt that the girl was scorning her for living in Claudia's big mansion. 

"Listen to me, dear, just hang on a little longer. I've taken care of everything, the shareholders have agreed to work together and kick her out, and no one will defend her in the company when I kick her out," Rudi tried to hug his wife but Laura moved away. She didn't want to be touched by Rudi.

"You said the same thing six months ago! I don't want to live here anymore if that ungrateful daughter of yours stays in this house!"

"She is not my daughter," Rudy shouted. He really disliked it when Laura called Renessa his daughter. She was not. She was not her daughter the moment she acted so high and mighty in his house and tried to embarrass him in front of everyone.

Laura looked at her husband with disbelief in her eyes.

"Dear, trust me. I won't let you down again. I'll throw that kid out on the street when everything is over. This house and company will be ours. This is the reward we deserve because the Pratama family has made us suffer," Rudi coaxed with a hand that began to caress his wife's bare back. 

Laura sighed heavily and turned to look at Rudi, "We need money for Mary's audition, she wants to be in the same movie as Daniel."

"Audition? movie?" Rudi frowned, he didn't like that his favorite daughter was now starting to like approaching a young man. He had looked into Daniel's background and from his search he learned that Daniel was the son of Lucia, Claudia's best friend who often visited their house when Claudia was alive.

He had heard Lucia and Claudia's ridiculous nonsense that they would match their children when they grew up. Rudi initially thought that it was just a joke but from his investigation he found evidence that Renessa and Daniel had a close relationship.