CHAPTER 5

"So?" asked Filda. She demanded an explanation from her best friend

Alicia took a deep breath, and she straightened her body, starting at her best friend's eyes

"actually..."

"Have a good meal, princess," Darius interrupted, who suddenly came carrying a tray containing the order of the three of them.

Currently, they are having lunch in the campus cafeteria after they finish taking courses.

"Thanks yus!!" answer both.

They took their orders. Darius noticed something was wrong with his daughters' expressions. Darius squinted at Alicia and Filda in turn.

"Is there something I missed?" Darius asked, pulling a chair for him to sit on

Alicia and Filda turned to Darius, and Filda poked her chin at Alicia. Alicia sighed softly, and her two friends wouldn't stop asking if she didn't explain.

"Yes, I've eaten first, I'll tell you later," Darius said, seeing the tension on Alicia's face

finished eating, Alicia told, but as usual, she lied to her two best friends to cover up her status as a young lady of the Dinata family.

"So I temporarily work there because their maid is sick."

"If you change jobs in the Prasetio family, your duties in Dinata's family will also be empty," Filda interrogated

"But it's only temporary," replied Alicia

"You weren't fired in Dinata's family, right?" Darius asked seriously

"not really"

"He said the Prasetio family had a single heir, you weren't sold by your employer, were you?" suspicious Filda

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Glucose

Alicia swallowed hard.

"No, there is nothing, where there is a single heir who wants to be with a maid and also an orphan like me," said Alicia quickly.

Lucky, she is very good at hiding her true identity, which she has been doing all her life.

"Yeah, right, you're given the last name, Dinata's family, you're also beautiful, anyone will be interested in your natural beauty," interrupted Filda "but yeah, anyways, Cinderella stories only exist on tv and romance novels' he continued, grinning, confirming.

"Are you all right, El's invitation?" Darius speaks up

"This is only temporary," he assured his two friends

"Yes, maybe because Elis has worked for Dinata's family for decades, that's why he was entrusted to replace the maid in the Prasetio family," said Filda.

Alicia isn't honest about her best friend's status because she doesn't want her two friends to know about his family's crimes. She loves her family so much that she will not make them have a bad image in anyone's eyes.

She confessed to her two friends that she was only a maid in the Dinata family and was given the privilege of entering and exiting the Dinata Mansion, so she could go to school and continue her studies.

Her father's education only funded Alicia until high school, but because she was a smart and outstanding student, she got a scholarship at Gunadarma University.

"Eh, your cafe shop still needs employees or not?" Alicia asked Darius,

"why?" it's Filda's voice

"I want to find a side job," Alicia replied

"Don't you work at Mansion Prasetio?" Darius raised an eyebrow demanding an answer.

"Eh yes, but there again I was given privileges, I only worked at night," she answered a little nervously.

"Lis?" Darius was sure there was something his best friend was trying to hide

"Yes, why do you want a side job when your salary as a conglomerate family servant must be big," added Filda.

Alicia grimaced lazily

"Yes, but my job now is only at night, what do I do when I go home from campus?" pursed her lips, hopefully, that way her friend believes and is given a job

"no. If you don't have anything to do, just take a break, right at night, your energy will be exhausted again," said Darius

Filda nodded in agreement while Alicia let out a disappointed sigh

*I need money if you want to know* she thought, screaming, but she wouldn't tell the truth. she was quite grateful that some wanted to be friends with him and appreciated her as Alicia for who she was.

*I need money God* staring at the cafeteria ceiling as if hoping the money will come down from there

Alicia needs money because her atm savings are running low. She leaves the Dinata family without being given a penny. If she doesn't have a scholarship atm, she will be homeless right now.

Even though she has a balance in her scholarship atm, she can't use it as she pleases because soon she will be doing an internship, and her thesis will cost more than last semester.

***

Alicia sighed harshly as she entered the room, which was so spacious and luxurious, dominated by gray and black, as well as a masculine smell that stung her senses of smell, the room she was going to live in during her temporary marriage.

She has to rack her brain so that she can get extra money for her future living expenses. She will look for a side job anyway now she is no longer at Mansion Dinata, who works in college and comes home from college working as a maid at her own father's house.

She worked not paid with money but with her father's last name and free housing. her stepmother said at the time

Even during her school days, she had to divide her time studying and doing maid work because otherwise, her school fees would be dismissed. And she can do nothing but obey, yet she is also grateful that at least her father is willing to pay for her schooling until high school, even without pocket money.

As she was about to lie down on the sofa, her eyes widened when they caught the thick black book on the table. hastily she straightened her body and grabbed the book then opened page after page

"What the hell!!" Alicia threw the thick book on the floor

but suddenly the events of this morning flashed and made her shiver with horror, again she picked it up and opened it again and again.

"Yesterday the agreement contained several sheets and the core meaning was only one and this is the same, hundreds of pages only about 1 person," she grumbled.

"So what if he doesn't like coffee, doesn't like snoring, doesn't like slow people, doesn't like bright colors, what does that have to do with me anyway?"

"/doesn't like to be denied/ yes I know, / doesn't speak twice/ yes I have to get my ears checked then, / at 07.00 go to work, at 17.00 go home / yes yes yes" she raved

"/don't tell anyone about this marriage/ yes I also don't want to tell other people, I'm embarrassed that I'll be jailed as a widow if it's been thrown away" she was annoyed

sheet by sheet until on the last sheet there is a note there

/obey everything, deliver and pick up out of the house when going to or coming home from work, prepare all preparations when going to or coming home from work/

"This isn't something a temporary wife like me should do," he muttered

even in the book, all of Daniel's favorite measures were written.

last note

/keep your distance, don't touch anything personal/

"I've already touched the things, 5 large cupboards, all of them even the CDs" I became annoyed with the rules in the book

"How am I going to play the role well if I can't say..." Alicia's words were cut off when the book she was reading hit her face and was followed by a work coat and a booming voice.

"How dare you sleep in my bed HAH!!!" someone shouted that filled the room until Alicia's ears were ringing.

"AWWW" Alicia shrieked in surprise and stumbled out of bed, but her legs were tingling and

Dug

"Awww," then her ass is the victim