Wyne put the cooking equipment into a short stainless steel cupboard in the tiny kitchen of his rented house, his face looked bright because she could live independently again as a commoner. Since she was little, even though there were many servants at home, Kate taught her to do housework. She even tidied up the room.
Why did the grandmother do that? So that she would be ready to be in any condition, whether as a princess or a citizen.
Kate, despite being from a noble family, was educated very well by her parents, so she was not awkward when she was released to study in another country without a maid. Kate also became a reliable businesswoman because she had much work experience as a commoner. This made Carter calm down when leaving Wilson Group to Kate.
After finishing arranging the cooking equipment, Wyne smiled.
"Done!" she exclaimed softly, "Tomorrow, I'll come to that Mikumi Mini Market," she said making a plan, "Hopefully I'll get a position as a mattress there."
After shopping to fill the rented house, Wyne saw a pamphlet on the front window of the Mikumi mini market that needed a female cashier aged 25 to 30 years old—qualifications from high school to bachelor's degree.
Seeing this, she was interested because he met the required qualifications. She was only 27 years old and had a bachelor's degree from Dallas University Jakarta.
Is Wyne not doing his job as CEO of Wilson Group? She still does it through Dareck Scoot, his deputy. She has called the deputy, asking to be his hand in Wilson Group. She also told Dareck not to tell her where Kate or Sahid were. Dareck who faithfully works for the princess agreed, asking Kate's grandson to take care of his health and days.
Wyne sighed, his mind remembering Bella. She wondered if his daughter was comfortable being taken care of by Kate and Dolce. Although the child had always been entrusted to Children Care since she was little, a place for baby and child care whose parents were workers with lower middle-class strata, the child was used to being taken care of by her.
How she wished she could call Dolce with her new cell phone number. The old number was temporarily deactivated, so that Sahid would not nag her about where she was. This time she went not just to avoid the arranged marriage, but to keep an eye on Arifin and Susan. She wanted to avenge her ex-lover's heartache.
She also wanted to calm himself down because after being dumped by Arifin, his mind was in chaos, she couldn't concentrate on doing the CEO's job.
She left the kitchen, went to the room, spread the mattress on the floor, sat facing the folding table, grabbed a new cell phone with a new number, and then accessed the photo gallery. She clicked on the option titled "My Sweetie Baby", then many photos of Bella appeared. From the baby to the age of four. There was even a photo of them at Heathrow Airport, in London, England.
Her tears began to roll, missing her beautiful and adorable little daughter. Bella's presence made her life with Arifin in England feel lighter. She also didn't mind her ex asking for Bella's status to be kept secret as the man's biological child. She even accepted her ex's sincerity in telling everyone that they were just friends.
"Sweetie-" her voice was heard softly, "I'm sorry, I never told you that Uncle Arifin was your biological father." Apologizing to Bella, "Mami also made your life in England unpleasant. Now, Mami lives with you and Gemmi."
However, Wyne did not know, Bella enjoyed life as her daughter. For Bella, as long as Wyne took care of her with love, she was not sad that Arifin did not acknowledge her as her biological father. Bella also enjoyed being cared for by the Children's Care staff while Wyne worked and studied, then when her mother picked her up, she was always bright and told stories about her activities. Then her mother sent her to playgroup, and she was very happy, studying hard.
Now that his mother is gone, she doesn't mind staying with Kate and Dolce, because both women love her.
Wyne wiped her tears with one hand, "I can't be too over the top!" She scolded herself, "Everything I'm doing right now is for Bella. I don't want to get married carelessly, I want to avenge my heartache on Arif. So I have to be strong. I'm sure Oma and Dolce are good at taking care of Bella."
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At night, along the road leading to Kate's house, there were rows of street food vendors. There, Ricardo's chicken sempol cart and the CEO were seen frying two dozen chicken sempol skewers in a pan filled with hot clean oil.
Then around the man, there was a queue of buyers who were mostly teenage girls and young mothers. Although he was new to selling here, because of his dashing figure, buyers came.
He deliberately sells here to watch over Kate's house, hoping to approach the houseguards to find out the whereabouts of Wina David, the woman of his dreams. The strange thing is, that he seems to have amnesia, not knowing Kate's house, even though he often goes there with Gordon and Rose.
Maybe because when he went to Kate's house, he didn't memorize the gate of Grandma's house, because he came by car. If he had been inside the house, he would have known Grandma Wyne's house.
He finished frying the chicken sempol and drained it into a clean sieve. He is not like most chicken sempol sellers, because he always fries with new, clean oil, then the sieve where he drains it is also clean because he brings several. Then he wears cloth gloves to keep the chicken sempol hygienic.
He also made his chicken sempol by modifying several recipes obtained from Guggli and the results of repeated experiments. The ingredients used are also of good quality with an economical selling price. One skewer of sempol is priced at two thousand five hundred.
He fried twenty skewers of sempol again and while waiting for them to cook, he packed the twenty cooked skewers into two plastic bags of ice.
"Miss-" a teenager standing near her asked, "Do you want the sempol seasoned or plain?" The teenager asked whether the chicken sempol was seasoned or plain, "I have spicy seasoning, cheese seasoning, and sweet seasoning." She explained the seasonings she had.
"What about the seasoning-" the teenager said while looking at Ricardo's dashing face, "Is there any as dashing as Akang?" a little flirtatious to the CEO, "So the chicken sempol will be delicious, Kang."
Well, Ricardo pouted when he heard this, but this wasn't the first time he had been flirted with by a woman during his time as a CEO and chicken sempol seller.
"Hehe-" he chuckled, "I'll give you sweet seasoning and cheese seasoning, okay?" He immediately seasoned the chicken sempol with the two seasonings, then gave it to the teenager, "I guarantee it will taste delicious."
The sullen teenager didn't get this flirtatious attitude from Ricardo, took the bag of sempol, gave him fifteen thousand rupiah, and then left.
Ricardo just smiled in amusement, put the money in the bag at his waist, then continued his work.
At that time, Sahid had just come home from rummaging around Jakarta and Bekasi to find Wyne. The assistant was driving a D****I motorbike and both eyes saw Ricardo selling. He immediately remembered the dashing figure who had taken Wyne and Bella to Kate's house. He first brought the motorbike to the front gate of Kate's house, took off his helmet and jacket, slung it over the motorbike's handlebars, then opened the motorbike's trunk, took out his sling bag which contained an envelope containing Wyne's money for the CEO, then locked the motorbike, then slowly approached the man.
He borrowed a plastic chair from a drink seller on the right side of Ricardo's motorbike cart, sitting there watching Gordon's grandson. He didn't approach him because he saw that the man was busy serving customers. A flash in his mind began to see the figure of Kang Sempol in the photo that Martin showed him.
He slapped his forehead, just realizing that Kang Sempol was Ricardo Elmer, Gordon's grandson. He slowly took a breath, just understanding why the man refused Wyne's money, because for what? The CEO's money was as abundant as his miss. Then he remembered that the logo on every package of Bella's medicine was the logo of Gordon's GE Hospital. It was no wonder that Ricardo took Bella there because it was Elmer's family hospital.
'Hais!' his heart whispered, 'If Miss knew that Kang Sempol was Mr. Ricardo, she would faint. Because Mr. Ricardo was the man who liked to tease Miss when she was little.' he felt that if Wyne knew that Kang Sempol was Ricardo Elmer, the princess would faint. 'If Mr. Ricardo knew who Miss was, he would ask Mr. Gordon to marry him and Miss, because Mrs. Kate said that Mr. Ricardo had a crush on Miss when they were both little.' He also felt that if Ricardo knew who Wina David was, he would ask Gordon to marry her to Wyne. 'But would Miss want to? Apart from Miss being annoyed with Mr. Ricardo, Miss's heart was still hurt because of Mr. Arifin.'
Ricardo realized that Sahid was watching him, recognized the assistant, his heart became happy, and he could soon meet Wina David. He didn't know that Wina David ran away from Kate's house.