KAYLA, The Substitute
Don't give me hope!

Two months later.

Dev gestured to remain silent with his index finger taped to his mischievous smiling lips, Adrian nodded in understanding pretending to be unaware of the arrival of the father who was carrying a bouquet of roses in his hand.

Kayla is busy giving cake, she started from the beginning again cake and catering business from home since a month ago, through marketing through social media and online platforms.

With the child he made a variety of cakes and snacks as his merchandise, on weekends Adrian always accompanied his mother in the kitchen.

Adrian asked Kayla to take something she needed from the refrigerator, but the boy did not get it until he was about to turn around to catch Adrian suddenly Kayla was surprised by a kiss of the cheek of a man who kept bothering him since Dev moved to teach there.

"Bang Dev!" kayla raised her eyes.

Dev grinned, he kissed his ex-wife's cheek once more while giving her a bouquet of flowers from her hand.

"Bang Dev, don't be like this. Shame to see Adrian!"

"If there's no Adrian?" fishing Dev while chuckling, he grabbed the slender waist of Kayla who was still wearing the apron affectionately.

Kayla rolled her eyes lazily, she glanced at Adrian who shut her mouth holding back laughter seeing her mother's father close together.

"Take me off! You're shameless."

"Hey why be ashamed, he's our son! This is for you," said Dev giving the flower again to Kayla who was looking at him in annoyance.

"My hands are full of flour, just put them there!" kayla answered while pointing at another table with her tail.

Dev breathed a rough breath, since he moved to teach there he aggressively approached Kayla, but until now the woman was still selling expensive to him. Dev does not want to give up just like that, for the sake of the future and his son he is willing to beg for love on a substitute figure in his past.

Dev wants Kayla more than anything else, he has no intention of marrying a woman other than the mother of his son.

Unlike Kayla, she is not easy to accept Dev back after what has happened to her previous life especially she has just failed to marry Gilang.

Very different from Kayla who was chasing Dev's love, willing to humble herself to be considered a real wife, but now Dev is in front of her eyes, hoping to get back to her for Adrian and a better future, but somehow Kayla still turns a blind eye to start the romance again even though all possibilities have opened up for her to be with Dev again.

"Can I help you? Where did Mama not see it?" said Dev after putting the flower on the other table.

"Grandmother was going to visit a sick neighbor" Adrian answered approaching his papa.

Dev nodded in understanding. The two handsome men approached Kayla, helping out even though Kayla did not ask for it. For refusing to argue the woman relented as well.

In the process, the intimacy created between the three of them brings a deep sense in Adrian which is still strange it feels to have a father and a biological mother who get along like now.

The sight made the boy smile. Which child is not happy if the parents are close together like this even though they have not been together in the true sense.

"Huh, you're making my work slow, look at you! Aaaahahh!" Kayla is upset herself to see the behavior of the father and son who continue to disturb her.

Dev chuckled, "May marry me so there's no need to make any more of this, let me work" Dev jokingly said.

"Well, baby?" ask Dev to Adrian. The boy nodded while continuing to chew.

Kayla just kept quiet while turning her direction, she did not want to respond.

"Kayla, I'm serious!" Dev stops Kayla's hand from printing the cake again.

"When reality is as easy as your talk Bang Dev, I'm tired of hearing it!"

"Come baby!" rengek Dev grabbed Kayla's hand to his chest.

Kayla wanted to laugh, Dev was never this cute when they were together, the man was cold and expensive but very different now, Dev so easily expressed love.

"Take me off!" kayla said immediately away again dodging.

Adrian again made the atmosphere of both parents to get along, helping each other finish Kayla's work. Every now and then Kayla glances at the actions of two men who make her destiny truly winding, her smile never fading as Dev and Adrian seem compact to each other.

Without them realizing it, there is a parent's heart that is wiping the corners of his eyes that are wet by the scenery that should be in reality.

Mama Hana saw the intimacy of the three of them, her heart was really sad to see the happiness of Adrian as if pseudo. Kayla and Dev are not a couple in a whole house for Adrian, they just have a good relationship, somehow this scene makes Mama Hana sad.

"I Love You" whispered Dev to Kayla who was busy washing dishes. The man teased Kayla with his mischievous hand touching Kayla's waist with a gentle elusan to the point of making the woman flinch amusedly.

"I want you Kayla" said Dev again in a soft but clear voice on the edge of Kayla's ear, a heavy sound that made her blood rustle.

Kayla glanced at Dev with a sharp look, she pushed the man away, Kayla was at a loss for words. He went to the toilet and disappeared there.

His chest was up and down, his eyes wet by something he had been holding back from earlier. Seeing Dev happy with Adrian made his heart weaker. Laughter Adrian kala with his biological father, when Dev longed to return to him really make Kayla dilemma.

But somehow all that is not enough for him to be sure to accept Dev back, I don't know only Kayla who understands his heart at this time.

"Kayla," said Mama Hana as they finished their dinner.

"Yes Ma."

"Don't give false hope, pity Nak Dev," said Mama Hana softly.

Kayla fell silent. He seemed to be breathing.

"Mama doesn't intend to interfere, but what's wrong if you take a stand, see Adrian think about his feelings too."

Kayla was silent.

"You love Nak Dev?"

Mama Hana clasped her daughter's hand, again Kayla fell silent.

"You can't answer that."

Mama Hana seemed to take a deep breath.

"You shouldn't be like this Kayla, if you want you to be able to go back to your son's father, think of your happiness son.... Mama saw Nak Dev was serious about you, weren't you just involved in a misunderstanding in the past?"

Kayla.

"It's not easy, Mama understands how you feel. But if you're stuck in a pseudo-relationship, there'll be a time when Nak Dev is saturated waiting, what if he leaves again? Adrian will lose his father figure again, you feel yourself a widow for a long time."

"Look, you didn't accept but also didn't reject Nak Dev's presence in recent times."

"If not, make it clear to Nak Dev that there is no need to wait for you, so that he does not expect more from your current closeness." Connect Mama Hana while standing from her seat.

Kayla looked at her mother, she only spoke a thousand languages.

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Forgive author who hiatus long enough, authoritarian children are not healthy in recent times, the firstborn are muntaber until treated at rs. So his mother who had a big stomach was tired.

Two weeks away from the plan to be born, pray for a smooth and safe driver. Amens. This novel will I continue anyway, I can not if not halu, the world is enough to make the stress sy ga stress is very the same mortal world which is all very expensive now. 🤪🤪🤪

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