Last Words: Married for Revenge

To me, life is uncertain beauty and pleasure. It's beautiful to have what you're dreaming of and the pleasure of living second by second of time turning around. I don't know how many mouths say how fortunate my life is, but still I'm just an ordinary human being who still has a few words to say in climbing this path of life. The conglomerate family nickname's been hit in the ears a lot. However, no matter what my family title is, it's not my job to have a father.

Laila Safa, that's my full name, which is often asked by Laila. A young woman who currently works at a startup company as a business manager. Not only that, I was also given a textile company by my father as a 17th birthday present a few years ago. I refused a thousand times, but I didn't hesitate to force me to accept it and follow it. My decision to work was also opposed by him, but I'm still able to handle it. So now I'm in control of two companies in a row.

At the age of 24, I met again with my first love, Renald. He was a very smart man when he was in college a few years ago. Maybe it's because of his intelligence that I fell on him in silence. However, suddenly he disappeared from my sight when I returned after studying abroad. Rumor has it he moved to a college that no one ever knew. I lost my trail back then.

Until a year ago, I met him at a textile conference on the capital city.

"You, Renald, aren't you?" I asked in front of the entrance that had just finished filling in the guest book and taking the souvenirs of the event.

"Mom Laila, please sit on the VVIP bench," said my assistant, who pointed her hands forward as if asking for immediate entry.

"Okay, a minute, Tika," I answered Tika, and turned my eyes again toward Renald's eyes.

He was still silent as if thinking who the woman was suddenly guessing. He looked at me carefully, his eyes didn't blink at me, and soon he smiled.

"Laila, a management student at Merdeka Campus?"He asked with his wide open eyelids and a smile carved on his lips.

"Hahaha yes, luckily you still remember me. Try if not, I'm ashamed of you," I replied as I invited him in.

However, the opening conversation was interrupted by the start of the show. Yeah, I can't stand by him, because in this event there are three kinds of invitations based on office and interest in the conference. So hard for me to be next to him. I represent the company as the CEO at the same time as the speaker, so the kind of invitation is a diamond with a seat in the front seat facing the stage speaker. While he's a medium-sized businessman with a silver-type ticket sitting in the rear area.

As the show went on, my focus was disrupted by thinking if I could see him again. Yeah, I don't want to be rude, I want enough to talk to each other and share my post-university experience. So, several times I turned my head back to look for the face of all the participants in the ballroom. Luckily our eyes never looked at me as long as I searched for it.

After the activity, I followed the red carpet towards the exit. My eyes were constantly turning in every direction to look for the man in the navy suit, the clinical hair that I had just met. My eyes were like spinning all over the room, but I couldn't find her.

"After a long time, he's easily gone," I said in my heart.

"Mom, the car's in front of me," said Tika, who realized that she was busy receiving coordination calls related to my vehicle. Tika directed me out, but my eyes were still looking for something in the room so my footsteps were so slow.

"Sorry, ma'am, is there anything you're looking for here?" Tika said

Tika is an assistant who understands me very well, even though she's only been working for the last year, but for me, she's been like a sister, so there's never been any boundaries between us. She can even know what I'm doing and cleverly take the initiative, so I sometimes call her a secret agent to accomplish all the missions I want, one of which is hiding my sister-in-law while abroad.

"Oh I'm looking for my college mate. He seemed to be sitting right here. Maybe he's home, "I said with my eyes looking for Renald.

Tika knocked, it seemed like she was confused, and she had to respond to my speech. Then, I went on walking to the very front of the big door that says exit door, Tika road ahead of me to open the elevator which is less than 200 meters from the view. However, as my foot approached the door of the elevator, someone called my name from the back, and there was a clear noise for the shoe shoe that was getting closer to me.

"La, Lailaaaaa wait.........."

My contact turned around, and it turned out that Renald, the man I was looking for, finally showed up. I didn't think I could still see him.

"Tika, you go down first. I have a little chat with a friend. I'll tell you later," I said.

Tika bowed her head and closed the elevator door to get straight into the car that's been waiting for us. While I still have to finish a brief meeting with limited time talking to him, Renald.

"I think you're home," I said, as I walked, directing him to join me on the side of the ballroom.

"Of course not, I'm waiting for you. I'm so stupid not to take the opportunity to ask your wealthy big businessman. Besides, you're my friend," he said with a smile, asking me to sit down.

"Hahaha what the hell are you, yeah I run a dump company. So, I'm not the great one. If you want to ask my dad," I'll answer him.

"You're really lost after college on the edge of the earth, yeah," I added again, directing my eyes right in front of his eyes.

"It's not after college, you're going to exchange. So when you got home, I didn't see you, did I?"

He's trying to talk relaxedly in front of me. It's seen from his body gesture, the way he put one hand in his pants pocket.

"Where are you? Even I'm trying to get in touch with you. I've never been able to do it after I got home from London. I'm in London and I can't play my phones at all. Yeah, my life waking up, eating, college, work, and sleeping, yeah, that's the cycle. By the way, I didn't even realize that my friend was missing."

"Hahaha yeah I'm there, I just moved the college to somewhere more interior. Yeah, it's due to my parents. After I graduated, I started this business. It's still a little bit, La. By the way, I have to learn a lot from you, too."

At the end of the little chat, he asked for my personal contact, saying it was just to exchange ideas about his business. Without thinking long, I'll give him a personal phone number, not an admin number.

"Are you sure this is a personal number? Isn't the CEO class not supposed to have any kind of contact, is it?" he said with a smile.

"Yes, why Re? "What's wrong?" I replied calmly.

"I'm your co-worker. It's usually a position as a business partner in relation to an admin rather than a CEO," he said in a joke tone.

"Oh so you don't want to have a personal account with me? Do you want to go through the admin? Hahaha," I replied laughing.

"Hahaha, no, La, you're kidding me. You mean I can get in touch tonight, right?" He laughed.