"I feel sorry for Arneta, she is a single parent who sometimes struggles when she has to leave her daughter with a nanny. Moreover, it's not just Arneta's daughter who can use this room. All employees who have children can use it without exception. They also don't use this room every day, only on certain days," Candra explained honestly.
"But it's still wrong, do you think our company is a daycare center?" Lio snapped with such emotion that Candra was silenced.
Both of them were now not speaking at all, especially Yogi who had been a listener in the room.
"Do you have a special relationship with Arneta?" Lio asked after a long enough silence to calm his emotions.
Because it was impossible for his close friend to behave like that if they didn't have an intimate relationship.
Candra nodded. "I consider her like my own sister."
"Sister?" Lio burst into laughter, even tears came out of the corners of his eyes. "Do you really think I would believe that you only see that cheap woman as your sister?"
"What do you mean?" Candra asked, starting to get emotional when Lio referred to Arneta as a cheap woman.
"Oh come on, how long have you been in a relationship? How long have you kept Arneta as your mistress? I never thought you would get involved with such a cheap woman like her."
"Enough!" Candra couldn't accept it and even pulled on the collar of his good friend's shirt. "Arneta is not a cheap woman, but she—" he fell silent when he realized something. "Did you know Arneta before?"
Lio swatted Candra's hand away from his clothes with a sly smile, then patted him to straighten it.
"I even know her very well, because Arneta is my brother-in-law's ex-wife," Lio answered.
"What? So Bara is Arneta's ex-husband?" Candra asked, surprised.
Both men looked at each other intensely. And they began to reveal Arneta's story from their own mouths. Lio told the whole past of Arneta without mentioning that he had slept with her. And Candra matched Lio's story with what Arneta had told him before.
"I never thought the world was so small. Turns out the person Arneta talked about is Bara and Lea, your sibling and sibling-in-law," Candra said after hearing Lio's entire story about Arneta.
The same story that Arneta had told before about her past in Paris. But what surprised Candra was that the people from that past were none other than Richard and Klopper's family.
"Arneta is a very evil, cunning, and cheap woman, she doesn't even know who the father of her own child is. Isn't it ridiculous?" Lio said with a sly smile as he remembered Lea's story.
How Arneta claimed to be pregnant with Bara's child when she was involved with Brian. But after a DNA test, it turned out the child didn't belong to either of those men.
"The woman you call evil, cunning, and cheap has now changed. The Arneta now is a good and hardworking woman. The Arneta now is a good mother to her little daughter," Candra explained with great certainty.
Because he knew well how Arneta had been for almost three years. The woman was so determined to raise Ivy on her own, and she never even had a relationship with any man. Despite many men approaching and desiring Arneta, including her business associates who were mostly successful entrepreneurs. But all those men were rejected by Arneta because she only wanted to focus on raising Ivy.
"Tsk, you have been deceived by her beauty and tricks. She may have changed on the outside, but deep down she is still that cheap woman who will trap a man like you," Lio said as he got up from his seat. "I suggest you forget about her, find another woman who is more beautiful and kind when you're in Paris."
"Wait!" Candra halted Lio's steps as he was about to leave the room. "No matter how bad Arneta is in your eyes, and whatever has happened in your family's past. But I beg you to treat her well. Consider her as your sister, just like how I consider her as my own sister."
"How can I consider Arneta as my sister. After all, I have slept with that woman," Lio said, but only in his mind.
The man chose to leave without responding to Candra's request, which he considered irrational. Because in Lio's eyes, no matter what, Arneta was an evil woman who had hurt his beloved sister. So it was impossible for him to be kind to someone who had caused his sister so much pain. In fact, Lio had a whole bunch of plans to make Arneta suffer, just to avenge the pain that Lea had once felt.
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