Stealing The Wife's First Kiss

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"Don't forget to write down my prescription!" He was still confident.

"There is no medicine like that! HENDRAAAAA!!" 

"huhuuh." Doctor Diana was irritated and sighed

"Bwahahaha." Diana's three assistants couldn't help laughing. They were laughing, chuckled. Tio, one of them, beated Firman's shoulder, so excited.

"Hey you! Stop laughing!!" The CEO was getting annoyed.

"What's wrong?!" Diana also looked confused.

"Diana, where is your professionalism? You shouted at me?!" Hendra's face slowly frowned, showing an angry expression.

"You three come out!" Diana kicked out her team. 

The three of them seemed to object but couldn't go against the senior doctor's order they admired.

As the three of them stepped into a faint chatter:

Tio: "Hey, how could he doesn't know that it's a broken heart? Hahaha."

Natasya: "I've been experiencing it since elementary school. I know heartache hurts."

Firman: "If you knew how his daily life was, you wouldn't talk much." Said the only Diana team that had been assigned to participate in Hendra's activities.

Firman: "He's very busy and doesn't have time for himself. I don't even know when he's had time to eat and relax."

Tio: "Tell me again, I'm curious"

Natasya: "Yes-yes continue."

The three of them disappeared and Diana returned to focus on Hendra. Unfortunately, the young master's expression became disgusting.

"What's wrong with what I'm complaining about? Why does it seem strange to other people's eyes?" Hendra really wanted to know.

"Every now and then read fiction, indeed... that kind of thing doesn't look useful to your knowledge."

"Moreover, romance stories or books like that at least can tell you about various kinds of love stories and feelings in them." Diana explained. 

The doctor realised that she wasn't the one who would be able to teach Hendra about love and its various impacts because he needed a separate understanding.

"Oh, it's fitting that The Empty Space novelist managed to beat me." Hendra was spontaneous on fire. (The Empty Space was Damar's indie novel before becoming a newcomer musician Chapter 11, Heartbeat)

'What's now?' 

Diana found Hendra's expression change suddenly jumping off the track. It was maybe because this big baby just fell in love. That was why his emotions were moving up and down that couldn't be read.

"Well, let's end the consultation session now."

'I can get dizzier now.' Diana gave up.

"Come to me every day from now on."

"Ah, I can't. My schedule is very busy. If it's like that, I look like a prisoner that must report." Hendra disagreed. 

"How about once a week?" Hendra's suggestion.

Diana stared at him, glaring.

"Okay, once two weeks." Hendra seduced.

"Huuh..." The doctor sighed for the umpteenth time.

"We are in chase with your wedding day."

"Yes... Unless you don't want to sleep with your wife after marriage." 

"Is that possible??" Hendra's eyes suddenly lit up.

"It depends on your efforts..." Diana mocked at him.

"Alright...!! I will try to come every time. Haah.. even though it's very difficult." Now, Hendra's expression was even funnier. 

The CEO seemed to be smiling to himself with a flushed face like a baby who was happy to get his favorite toy.

"Oh yeah... You can't go home yet. I added one more day of hospitalisation." Diana informed him.

"Why?? The consultation is over, right?"

"You need rest! No one cares about your rest time when you return to activities. So enjoy your holiday this time."

Hendra looked thoughtful.

"Not bad. I can use it to read fiction." Hendra was really determined.

Diana broadly smiled, realising that her little boy was late enjoying adolescence.

"Don't forget romance fiction." Diana boasted. But, Hendra took it seriously. 

The man immediately contacted his secretary to buy dozens of romance novels including his competitor's novel. 

***

Hendra's secretary put the next 20 novels. Since finishing his consultation with Diana, his boss had become even stranger. 

He was the one who used to think that fiction was rubbish because it had no impact on work and knowledge. But he was also the one who suddenly became crazy. 

Surya had gone back and forth to the bookstore three times to hunt for his request. Hendra did have an extraordinary reading speed. The CEO spent his time reading a novel like eating snacks.

"Hen... This is the last book! I don't want to look like a fool going back and forth to the bookstore." Surya grumbled.

"Aish, go away. You're noisy!"

"You disturb me!" Hendra expelled his secretary.

"You are gradually getting weird..." Surya slowly left him.

"Wait! Wait..." Hendra called.

"Why is the language in this novel difficult to understand, huh?" Hendra asked Surya to listen to him.

"What is the 'double-edged knife woman'??"

"How do I know?! You are the one who read that and I have to answer it." Surya showed a tired face.

"Ah, why is literary language so complicated? I'd better do an indefinite integral." 

It was Hendra's favorite subject during school, Science and Math.

(Indefinite integral or indefinite integral is a form of integrated operation of a function that produces a new function. This function does not have a definite value (in the form of a variable). The process of solving the calculation requires a fairly complicated 'basic theorem of calculus')

Hendra threw the book away because he gave up.

"The more I read it the more my brain feels numb." Hendra's expression made his secretary laugh.

"That's why I once said your rival has a 'strategy beyond expectations'." Surya lowered his voice, burning Hendra's jealousy.

"Huh... looks like you're right." And the two friends began to speak in an absurd language.

***

"Aruna, why did you stop?" Lesmana asked.

"Come on girl..." Lesmana asked Aruna to walk faster down the VIP hall of the hospital. 

The girl looked very scared, especially when she stopped at one of the room doors guarded by two bodyguards.

The bodyguard looked polite, immediately opened the door to Lesmana and his daughter. Aruna held her hands together, shaking just to enter.

Her face was down as she didn't want to see Hendra's guards. They have become terrible ever since the incident at Damar's house.

"Oh, Dad...??"

"Aruna??" Hendra was very surprised. 

How did his future wife and father in-laws know that he was sick? Shouldn't this incident be hidden?

Hendra had been left blank for a moment. After that, he was shocked when he realised his hand was carrying a romance novel. Hendra immediately slipped his absurd reading under the pillow.

"How's the arm? Is it okay?" Lesmana asked.

"Oh yes... Yes... It's okay." Hendra's talk was messy because he wasn't sure what he saw. 

The CEO glanced at Aruna, who was hiding behind his father's body. Fortunately, Aruna's father asked about the arm, which meant they thought Hendra's pain was about the bone fracture.

"I have to pick up the phone for a moment, are you okay if I leave you?" Lesmana asked her daughter's permission.

"Dad..." The girl was holding her father's shirt, begging like a child who didn't want to be left behind.

"Hold on Aruna." Lesmana showed his phone.

Aruna helplessly stood without a word. Her gaze turned to another corner, not wanting to see Hendra.

"Em... you don't want to sit?" Hendra gave a suggestion. He understood that Aruna wasn't that interested in him.

Surprisingly, the man removed the IV in his hand, getting out of the patient's bed.

Hendra hurriedly tidied up his fiction books. The man looked confused, heaped his rectangular objects collection on the nightstand and cupboard in the VIP room. 

Every now and then, his books fell, and he picked them up again.

This time, Hendra looked more human than usual. He even grinned and approached Aruna. 

"Em... please sit down... you can use the sofa." Hendra showed the sofa of VIP room patients. 

It was a corner sofa in grey and three additional cube sofas were placed around the glass table.

Aruna slowly walked to fulfil Hendra's direction without seeing him.

"I don't have any meaningful food or drink. If you want something just say it so I'll have my bodyguard prepare it."

"No need." Finally, Aruna made a voice.

"This is for you." Aruna put the package she was carrying on the glass table. 

Meanwhile, Hendra, the man, had been busy looking for a glass to make a cup of tea. 

After looking complicated squeezing the heating device, finally, the CEO came to Aruna's seat with warm tea in his hand.

"You don't need to bother." Said Aruna.

"It's okay just occasionally." Hendra replied.

"May I open it?" Hendra tried to be warmer. 

The man carefully opened the package that Aruna was carrying. It turned out that inside was a lunch box even though it was already late in the afternoon.

"Wow, it looks good. You made it?" Hendra asked his future wife to talk more.

"I'm just helping. My mother is more busy preparing." Aruna's expression was greeted by a nod from her future husband.

Hendra immediately grabbed the spoon and started tasting. Actually, this CEO has already eaten, but he was trying to make Aruna more comfortable. He even ignored all his opposite will. 

It was a behaviour that would have been impossible for him to do before he knew Lesmana's daughter.

"This is delicious." This man complimented the food as a small talk. He actually was used to eating 5-star chef dishes from Wenceslas Hotel's premium menu.

"You don't want to eat with me?"

"Nope." Aruna briefly replied.

"Oh yeah, as long as my father hasn't come, I want to tell you something." Now, Aruna finally looked at him. 

Hendra answered while enjoying the meal even though he was already full.

"Can you stop our marriage?" Aruna's words were shocking, making Hendra choke and cough.

Aruna shifted the tea served by Hendra towards its maker. Hendra was a little hesitant about drinking it, but he had to.

"I can't." Hendra replied, enduring a sharp pain in his chest.

"Don't you have unlimited power?!"

"Why can't you?" Aruna was a little demanding.

"My power is no more than my grandfather." The man put down the food and drink he was holding. 

He had tried very hard to fight the syndrome he suffered in order to prepare for marriage with the woman in front of him. But this girl suddenly changed her mind. 

If Hendra was still the same person he used to be, Aruna could be dragged and thrown out.

Hendra, who now didn't have the ability to do that, was held hostage by the love that ran all over his body for the tiny girl who was his future wife.