Stealing The Wife's First Kiss

"I trust him... He will return to normal when he wakes up. Hendra is someone who is strong enough. I'm loyal not because I'm under him but because I'm his best friend!" The secretary closely stared at Diana.

"I'm afraid that the doctor doesn't have faith in Hendra, still considers the patient is a little boy whom you met 22 years ago." The secretary's words shocked Diana.

"It has been twelve years since I followed Hendra. With a solid and hard life, never once did I hear him complain. Even though I did not know he had such a bad past."

"So please use your point of view, and leave me with my stand." Surya left Hendra's doctor who looked even more gloomy.

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The secretary came to Hendra's room, sitting there, and waiting for him to wake up.

"I don't know what you will be like after this, but I'm sure you can handle it mate."

"Get up soon! Don't let yourself look weak in my eyes."

"Oh yeah, I'm a little disappointed with you. You taught me that falling in love is not important. The most important thing is to make ourselves lucky. I won over you one level this time, because you are consumed by your own talk."

"One more time, don't read romance novels. You don't look cool."

Surya talked to Hendra's unconscious body.

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A pair of blue eyes started blinking, slowly disappeared and came back. A moment later, it opened, looking around trying to find someone.

"Hey Surya, wake up." The blue-eyed man moved his knees, woke up his secretary who was sleeping near his thigh.

"Haish, don't disturb my sleep!" Surya was delirious.

"Wake up!" Hendra tried to sit up. His movements took Surya by surprise. 

The young master spontaneously was attacked by his secretary's embrace.

"Tch, get away!!" The CEO encouraged Surya.

"If you're like this, we look like gay." Hendra violently hit his secretary.

"Get me my cloth and coat. We'll get out of here asap." 

The man pulled out the IV in his arm. He then got a little plaster sticking together, pulled and carelessly threw it away after squeezing it.

"Hendra, are you okay?" Surya asked, made sure.

"I've never been this good." Hendra began to move away from the patient's bed. 

He seemed to be holding his head and a little carried away then tried to shake his head. He also stopped for a while.

"Do I need to call Diana for you?" Surya asked for approval.

The CEO immediately grabbed the shirt in Surya's hand.

"No... No need. I have my own way of dealing with myself."

"Enough playing here."

"Oh, yes." He paused for a moment.

"Throw away all yesterday's novels. I don't need them anymore." Hearing Hendra's order, who then disappeared behind the bathroom door, Surya was still standing there, composing the neurons in his brain.

'Ah, he's back into himself. Worse than he was right now. But it didn't matter that way he should be. Maybe this is better for him than being constantly injured.' Surya thought.

Surya actually asked Hendra's bodyguards to pack the novels.

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The now returning CEO found his old self walking down the hospital hallways. Diana and her team were trying to stop Hendra.

"Hendra, have you given up?! Please give yourself a chance." The middle-aged doctor looked exhausted.

"Chance?"

"Chance for what?" The man paused for a moment to stare at his psychiatrist.

"There's still hope for you to recover. Even though it's full of risks. There's always a way as long as you believe in us." Diana used her last chance to convince.

"Hehehe." The Wenceslas Group's CEO laughed at himself.

"All doctors always say there is hope even though the patient's disease is chronic."

"I don't want to be fooled by you. You and your team gave up 17 years ago after 5 years trying to recover me."

"So after decades you suddenly say I can recover 100% just by believing in you?!"

"Sorry, I prefer being realistic than hearing nonsense. If I could recover now I shouldn't hate my mom. In fact, I can't even communicate with her." Hendra no longer looked at Diana. He walked away without hesitation.

Diana asked her three assistants to take turns following Hendra's activities. The doctor decided to monitor her patient remotely.

***

A few days after Surya's prediction was bang on, his boss returned to the way he was before knowing Lesmana's daughter and struggling with work as a living robot. 

He didn't talk much, rarely smiling, and was cold.

"Give me my schedule next week." Surya responded to Hendra's request by handing over the 11-inch Apple iPad Pro.

"Tomorrow you should go to Singapore for the inauguration of the second Mentari Plaza there. The day after tomorrow, your schedule is to meet Riswan and his wife."

"He turned to ask you to attend his banquet and refused the offer to come to our invitation." Surya added.

"It's very clever he tries to reduce the risk of being rejected." Hendra interrupted.

"Apart from that, the offer isn't bad either." Surya defended.

"Continue."

"The next two days are pre-wedding photos...." 

Not finished yet Surya explained, Hendra interrupted.

"Ask Aruna to come to my meeting with Riswan the day after tomorrow. She must learn to be the Wenceslas family mistress. Don't forget to tell her to use a dress code according to my family's habits. If needed, ask her to use heels so that she is accustomed to appearing like a girl."

"But... You know she will be in trouble." Surya interrupted.

"Who cares? Joining this family means having to follow the habits therein." Hendra was really cold like he used to be.

"For pre-wedding, make sure everything is according to my taste." Hendra explained.

"You still know my taste right??" He added.

"Yes, of course." There was a sense of bitterness in Surya's heart. But it was immediately ignored.

'This was how Hendra should be.' Surya muttered, missing the time when this man was warm.

"It looks like my explanation cannot be continued. Those people are already waiting for you in the orange meeting room." Surya looked at the clock, curled in his hand for a moment. 

Hendra stood up and rushed to meet five people from the D floor, including Andos.

"They will put on unpleasant faces because you chose the meeting here, not on the D floor." Surya whispered as Hendra's footsteps.

"Now I lead them, not Wiryo, it's time for them to adapt to their new leader."

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Hendra opened the door and sat back in his style, putting his right leg above the left leg, crossed.

"We will work differently from now on." Hendra opened the meeting without further ado.

"I heard you also didn't find any suspicion in any subsidiary unit of the Wenceslas Group regarding yesterday's sabotage." Hendra looked at Vian. The man didn't move. He was speechless.

"It could be that your way of working is outdated like Wiryo. That's why there is no significant improvement." Implicitly, Hendra was showing comparisons of his brilliant leadership as Wenceslas Group's CEO.

"Where should we start?" Hendra looked at the D floor leaders one by one.

"Alright the simplest! Escort system."

"Can you change the way of escorting your team that seems protocolly and tacky?" Hendra started the discussion with his own sharp words. 

Raka almost got angry, but he couldn't fight Hendra's plausible idea.

The Wenceslas group's CEO suggested that the escort be done in a hidden and more systematic manner. For example, in the case of Aruna's guard, Hendra suggested that Raka's team first study the girl's habits.

(Habits are actions that are carried out automatically. Even we do them without thinking or an activity that is carried out continuously so that they become part of us.)

And after that, they could disguise themselves and infiltrate into someone in Aruna's habits circle. 

When this girl was at the campus, one of Raka's teams should have the role of Aruna's campus friend so that this girl wouldn't notice if she was being watched. 

The strict guard only for urgent events.

Likewise, with himself, Hendra would only ask three people to participate in his activities. Surya, Raka or Andos and their assistants Dr Diana.

Hendra realised that he still needed Diana's team. Meanwhile, for large activities such as attendance at several official events that many people participate in, he suggested that Raka and his team be ready with the shadow method. They infiltrated among the people present.

"Hey you, you said you are an IT expert. Prepare me quality data!" The Wenceslas Group's CEO also gave Pradita directions to trace all of his family histories, something that wasn't interesting for Hendra, but it had to be done this time. 

Through warm discussions with Wiryo's subordinates, he just found out that his grandfather's madness in building the D floor was a form of boredom.

It was because they got threats from people whose identities have not been found too often, including removing Hendra's name from the presidential candidate. It turned out to have the same reason.

Now under his leadership, Hendra must succeed in exposing all of this, or he would become a terrible human-like Wiryo.

"Don't forget to learn about the business opponents we have defeated in big tenders, Thomas! They could (the threatening) come from our business opponents." Hendra asked to end the meeting this afternoon.

"May I give advice?!" Andos interrupted.

"Yes, please."

"This important meeting should be held on the D floor, not here!"

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Don't be sad readers, CEO Hendra will remain charming in all his conditions.

'someone who is trying must have their ups and downs.'