HIDDEN RELATIONSHIP

"Yes, of course, I remember our agreement. I will not break my promise. When have I ever lied to you when I made a promise?" Cheery asked confidently and without guilt.

"For the umpteenth time, and I can't remember how many times you broke your promise. You were always looking for excuses to make me accept your excuse for not meeting a guy on your blind date!"

A joke from Keanu makes Cheery go crazy. She couldn't answer after Keanu reminded her again of her every boast of refusing to come on blind dates.

"Okay, okay! I will keep my promise to you this time. Let's go so we can get to school soon and after that, we go to my office. Don't you want to know who your model partner will be?" Cheery started to change the subject.

"Have you found a child who won't bother me later? The agreement regarding the child who will become my partner is still valid, Mama!" Keanu grumbled as he asked.

"Of course, I'm sure because you've met him too, and you've already confessed to me that you like him!"

"Who is he?" Keanu asked briefly but curiosity couldn't be seen in his eyes.

"That child is Sunny, my own boss's nephew. How do you like it? Didn't you tell yourself you were comfortable with them?" Cheery answered honestly and it made Keanu gasp.

"Really? You're not lying to me, are you? I'll see Sunny again later, Mom?" Keanu began to be very enthusiastic about himself meeting Sunny again.

But Cheery, who was smiling at first, turned gloomy as she remembered that Sunny probably wouldn't show up on something as trivial as this.

"Just pray to God, hopefully, Sunny will come to shoot in a few days. We all know what happened to his family, don't we?" Cheery explained gently and calmly.

"Hmm, yes... I understand, Mama. I also really hope that Aunt Alice and Brother Shine are okay!" Keanu understands what is happening to Sunny right now and hopes that his new best friend will be there at the time of the shooting.

"Yeah, I hope so, son. Come on, now we're going to your school and we'll hear what the principal will ask of me." responded Cheery who started the car engine, "Put on your seat belt, Keanu, and sit quietly honey!" continued Cheery said.

Cheery's departure with Keanu turned out to be the main concern of the man named Damian who was staying at her house. After the car moved away from the wooden fence of the courtyard, Damian started to speak.

"Lisa, seeing them I feel even more guilty. I am a bad man who is not responsible for you to let you live your life by raising Cheery alone,"

"Look at Cheery, she has grown into a strong woman like you. Raising her son without a man by her side. I'm sorry, Lisa... All the hardships in your life happened because of me. Please forgive me..." Damian said softly while crying while holding hands with Mrs. Lisa.

Damian was as sad as he was crying, as was Mrs. Lisa, who was no less saddened by tears in her eyes.

"Never mind, Damian... why regret what you've missed? Cheery is happy now. There is Keanu who is the handle of her life like I used to be who continues to endure everyone's insults,"

"Cheery is stronger than me in the face of all the pointing fingers of everyone who questions who the father of her son is. It is tough to face the trials of her life even though it's clear that Cheery doesn't know who the father of the baby is. Our daughter is really sad, Damian!" Mrs. Lisa roared in tears.

After tens of years until Cheery was that big did she cry loudly like this. Her relationship with Damian in the past was so complicated that it brought all the consequences to Cheery's future.

Los Angeles, Twenty Nine Years Ago...

A beautiful young girl is doing homework that she brought from the university where she goes to school.

That night, Lisa was in her boarding room, in a house for female students from Indonesia who are studying in that country.

The portable alarm clock on her study table showed 2 in the morning local time. But Lisa didn't want to close her eyes yet.

Lisa is still busy completing assignments from the lecturers she hates the most on-campus and until evenings like this, Lisa can't help but have to finish the assignment before the next day's class.

In the silence of the night, Lisa's ears heard the sound of someone groaning in pain under her bedroom window. Lisa happened to be on the ground floor, so the window was on the side of a small hallway that connected to other hallways.

Lisa ventured to open the window curtain behind her study table, but Lisa didn't find anyone there. Even though Lisa had ignored the moaning sound, the sound continued to be heard and disturbed her concentration in studying.

Lisa, who couldn't take it anymore, finally got up the courage to open her bedroom window and widen her ears.

But what happened after that? Lisa heard the moaning sound from under her bedroom window and how shocked Lisa was when she saw a man curled up covered in blood there.

Lisa wanted to scream as loud as she could when their eyes met but unfortunately, the man's movements were faster than expected.

Even though he was seriously injured with a lot of blood all over his body, the man was still able to jump into Lisa's room window which was quite large, and immediately covered Lisa's mouth tightly while holding the tip of the gun to Lisa's cheek.

Who wouldn't immediately shut up at gunpoint by a bloody foreign man in the middle of the night like that?

"Don't make any sound or your face won't be this beautiful anymore, Miss!"

Seeing Lisa who didn't fight back and followed what he was instructed to do, the man quickly closed the window of Lisa's room and turned off the lights in Lisa's room, indicating that the occupants of the room had fallen asleep.

By keeping Lisa's mouth shut, the man looked wary.

"Listen to me, Miss! Right now, many people are looking for me and will kill me. If you make a stupid move or make any unnecessary noise, then your life is at stake!"

"I'm sorry that I involved you in this, but it seems that fate wants to bring us together and make you my helper! So please, cooperate with me, ok? I will pay for your services!"

Lisa nodded her head in agreement to remain silent. Slowly the man removed his hand from Lisa's lips so that Lisa could breathe a little relieved.

But a second later Lisa's heart seemed to stop when the man again covered Lisa's mouth with one hand, and the other hand hugged Lisa to get away from her bedroom window and immediately lay on the bed when their ears both heard a lot of people running with fast steps and speak strongly to the rest of their flock.

'Hurry up and find him dead or alive, if necessary we'll search every flat building in the area! I don't want to die silly at the hands of the boss if we don't find that bastard! Hurry up!'

The sound of people talking harshly from outside the walls of his room made Lisa so scared that she couldn't feel it anymore, her body was already tightly hugging the man with a bloody body who was currently hugging her.

The tense atmosphere made Lisa very scared and had to hold her breath for fear that the irregular breathing would provoke the hearing of the people outside. But in reality, it was just a high level of anxiety from Lisa herself.

When the noise from the people outside disappeared and it was confirmed that they were no longer there, only then did that man loosen his embrace on Lisa's body, but what happened? Lisa was the one who fainted.

"What a cute girl. She was so scared that she held her breath and she finally passed out on her own!"

"But anyway I have to thank her for helping me. If she hadn't opened the window, I would have died at their hands!"

Who knows? An accidental meeting and with such a tense situation just now became the beginning of the introduction of Lisa and a man with a gun full of blood named Damian.

Their story will be continued again tomorrow, huh! So, stay tuned for Between CEO And Single Mom every day, and one more...

For new readers who immediately follow this story, there will be explanations of characters such as each member of the Troy family and the relationship between them all. Even though the explanations for each character are very complete, if you read the story of BLOCKED LOVE first. For your sake, the author will explain again as neatly as possible!