My Son is Not My Son
chapter 36: A Sudden Marriage?

Reyes exits the elevator and enters the outdoor resto, but her steps are stopped. His heart trembled when he saw Adi. Why is there Adi? His mind drifted to the day that their private plane was carrying Raysha's body.

The sound of the baby continues to echo in the cabin of the plane. He stood up and without making a sound, Reyes' two hands took over the little Febi from the baby sister's sling. He stroked the back of the baby girl who stuck on his chest, usually this was quite successful for Jordan, but this baby did not stay still. It seemed like little Febi was agitated and felt the mother's departure from this world.

Time passed by for more than 18 hours, Reyes worried about her father who had not slept. Even before the stabbing his father was ready in the morning at four in the morning. He was worried that his father's high blood would come back. Little Febi was now sitting on her lap, holding a bottle of formula. The little Febi who from earlier kept on defaming the call 'Ama Aiys' or Mama Raysha.

Will I continue to be indebted for the passing of Raysha who saved my father? Inner Reyes, wiping the milk flowing down Febi's tiny cheeks.

Private plane landed at local airport. At the end of the stairs Adi stood with some of his family. Reyes at the plane door, sees little Febi, a photo of Raysha's copy for the last time and the boy sees it as if waiting for Reyes to speak.

"I'm sorry for what happened to your mother." Reyes looked at the expanding hazel eyes.

"Ama Asiys!" Little Febi kept looking for her while holding Reyes' thumb.

Reyes begins to descend the stairs and Adi's face is hit will lose Raysha. He handed Febi over and Adi's cries grew. Reyes' lips twisted each other and the clear crystal melted back on his cheek.

The procession of the mass prayer and the funeral is over, Reyes and her father even come to the event, although the religion is different. After the loss of mourners, Reyes represented his father to speak and apologize to Adi, even his father every mention of the name Raysha immediately shuddered to never be able to tell a story.

Reyes' daydream was cut off, by Adi's gaze. His heart trembled again. 28 years passed but it felt like it had just happened. So hurt. O time, can you erase my memory of Raysha?

Reyes looked the other way and wiped away a puddle of tears. Actually, he couldn't meet Adi, but he had an appointment here. Reyes' steps were heavy and stared at the parquet floor he was passing by.

Ever since Raysha worked with her father, she has been very resentful and angry because Raysha always makes all her activities like being stripped naked in front of her father. All the time he just found a secretary as thick as that. Raysha is completely unbribable and very obedient to his father's orders, making him often scold Raysha because Raysha always meddles in his affairs, yes even though it is a father's errand. He only realized now that it had become something precious and wanted him to repeat it.

"Go back to your room, wait there and don't go anywhere" said Adi trembling and Martha nodded as she wiped away the frightened tears.

Reyes saw the woman who had just passed by. He glanced at Meyer's father who was looking at him so deeply. Then he passed by Adi with a trembling heart.

"Mr Reyes?" Adi smiled meaningfully, did that person forget about it? He approached because his voice might not be heard. Then block the road. "Mr Reyes, how are you? It's good to see you again."

Meyer's grandfather pursed a trembling lip when he found his son throwing his face away, looking uncomfortable near Adi. As a father, he could feel what Reyes was feeling even though his son had never confessed his feelings to his late secretary.

Meyer's grandfather recalls from the moment Reyes saw Raysha on her first day of work, becoming distracted from frolicking at a nightclub. Reyes, who often bergonta women, no longer do bad activities since there was Raysha. Apparently, Reyes's frustration with Raysha was always vented on one woman named Rose - who was now his legal wife.

"Let him, Adi." Meyer pulls Adi's hand. "We're just talking about Febi's wedding with my granddaughter."

"Dad!" Reyes turned around in annoyance, and in an instant sat down near his father. "Stop managing my son's future."

Adi gulped down the salivary violently while sitting on a chair. "Mr Meyer, perhaps Mr. Reyes' words have a point."

"No, I've set the time for Jordan and Febi's wedding." Grandpa Meyer smiled.

"Remember, Dad. I've arranged Jordan and Jeslyn's wedding in three weeks." Reyes spoke firmly.

"Uwh, but I set it up faster. Tomorrow morning they'll kabul."

"What! Dad's jokes aren't funny at all!" Reyes instantly trembled and nauseated. "Nope!"

"Tomorrow nights?" Adi was surprised. "But, frankly, I'm having a problem with Febi. Although, I know my son in California, I don't yet know where he lives. There's no Febi here anyway how could it be tomorrow morning?"

"What kind of father do you not know where your daughter is?" Reyes scolded Adi. "When do I know where Febi lives better than her own father? Funny." Funny."

"Well, because of that, you'll be watching him a lot. Just rest, so you can be more free to watch near you?" Grandpa Meyers chattered and made Reyes face even more furious.

From the corner of the restaurant, Febi and Jordan appear. Meyers stood up. "Well, the bride is coming!"

Adi stood up while turning around, his heart was as sliced as he looked at Febi's face in a summer dress with lemon cut and orange shades. Her heart melted with Febi's braided hairstyle, so she remembered Raysha as a young boy.

Reyes held the seat in the back with a tremble. He was shocked to see a ghost. The scenery in front of him was like Raysha, that white round hat with orange ribbon, reminiscent of Raysha on Fukusima-Japan beach, he said, at that time Raysha took two big fish and chased after him so he would hold the fish! Sighs.

"Dad? Dad's here!" Febi shouted and walked faster, unconsciously running until the hat was blown off the wind and released. Jordan took the orange banded white hat.

"Eh?" Adi returned his daughter's embrace. "Grandpa Meyer invited me here." Adi rubbed his grim nose and felt his son's body temperature hotter than usual.

"There is business, but .... There is just another thing," said Adi again trembling. The smell of roses from the shampoo her daughter was wearing was pleasant. "I'm sorry Dad, sweetie."

Febi looked up with teary eyes. "I'm sorry, Dad! that, the twins are dying to see Dad."

Jordan had Febi's round hat on his head. He who was standing behind Grandpa, slightly glanced at Papa Reyes who continued to look sharply at Febi. Then, he cleared his throat and made Papa Reyes look the other way.

"Here you go, let's sit down first. We're talking about Febi and Jordan's wedding." Grandpa Meyer sat down first.

"Thank you, Cake." Jordan sat down next to Febi. Not in vain his efforts in seducing grandfather to want to smooth the intention to unite with Febi.

"Now Febinya's here, right?" Grandpa Meyer asked Adi and got the nod. "Jordan also doesn't care about Febi's status pepper who's been married before."

Jordan nodded his head excitedly. He held Papa Reyes' hand, pulling him to sit down.

"I won't approve!" Reyes pushed the chair roughly until it hit the table. He moved away from the table, leaving those dumbfounded.

Jeslyn's parents are coming. "Mr Reyes, am I late? Didn't you rewind half an hour?"

"Cancel." Reyes growling. His mood is not good.

"Your marriage to Jordan is cancelled." Reyes with a cold voice. "My secretary will call you, Jeslyn."

"Can't, Om. How can it be canceled? Is it because of that cheap woman who seduced Jordan."

"Show language. So filthy!" Reyes gave off his killing aura.

"But why Om? Mama Sioban has also ordered a wedding dress." Jeslyn called the number of the future mother-in-law. Soon Sioban appeared.

Jeslyn squeezed the phone in her hand in a fit of annoyance at the way Febi and Jordan looked at each other with warmth, making her jealous, even though Jordan never saw it as soft as that gaze. "But me and Jordan have kids?" Jeslyn cut off Grandpa Meyer's story leaving everyone shocked.

Jordan took a deep breath and told me about the twins who were exchanged for Febi's baby. Jeslyn felt a chill all over her body until she almost fell backwards and was embraced by her mother.

"Where are you going, Mr Reyes?" Shioban blocked her ex-husband's path with a cynical smile.

Reyes shook his shoulders and passed Shioban, but his arms were hugged and pulled by Shioban. He also sent old rang Jeslyn along.

"Who are you ? I just remembered!" Shioban continued to stare at the woman who yesterday called Jeslyn as the usurper of Jordan.

"Auntie." Febi smiled and nodded her head. His hand was held by Jordan. While the other hand held the father's hand because of nervousness.

"Why do you let this woman still be here, Jordan? It's a family gathering, you know?" Shioban asked Jordan while pulling her ex-husband to sit next to Jordan.

"Grandpa wants to marry me to Febi tomorrow night, Ma." Jordan with a shy smile.

"What the hell?" shioban. She turned to glance at her ex-husband who kept staring at Febi like he didn't like it.

"Anduarta," Grandpa Meyer said as he turned left at Jeslyn's newly seated father. "I want to tell .... "

Everyone was shocked to hear Grandpa's story about Febi and Jordan's matchmaking. The one concerned just like getting durian collapsed, then smiling shyly made the Jeslyn family jealous. Reyes and Shioban could not dwell because Mr. Meyer's decision could not be contested.

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Afternoon was warm and pleasant for Febi when she saw her father playing with the twins after watching the procession when Jordan converted to Islam and changed the name Jordan Reyes Muhammad.

Meyer's grandfather had even prepared kyai and penghulu, marriage letters and Febi's move to America and made Mr. Reyes seem most surprised.

Although Mr. Reyes revealed that the twins were Jordan's biological children, the twins remain with Febi until now. He still does not know what happened to Jeslyn who was surprised, because when Jeslyn scolded him and accused him of being the kidnapper, then Grandpa Meyer forced Jeslyn to follow grandfather.

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When the sun starts to set, Logan who starts to get addicted and needs drugs immediately returns to the room. When he returned to cross paths with someone dressed formally who had just exited the elevator was holding a woman whose face was covered with a handkerchief.

The metal came out of the elevator and followed the man out of the deck. After being observed from the second floor, the shoes and watches were similar to Febi's, especially reddish paint. With a daze he walked and turned into a hallway. Logan calls Donna and asks her where Febi is.

Reyes, hearing from his men that Jeslyn had drugged Febi, rushed to the room of one of the ship's crew. He found his men paralyzing two men where on the floor there was a puddle of oil. "What's this?" Reyes's face turned crimson to the sight of a female person being shaven on the floor.

"We bend the target of one who just cut Miss Febi's hair, then the next target two back to bring the seething oil. They said a woman had told them to put the hot oil on Miss Febi's head. Even tonight they're gonna throw the lady into the sea."

Reyes clenched his hands, almost banged up and made Raysha's beloved daughter lose her life. He leaned over and carried Febi in front.

While passing through the hallway, Reyes is blocked by the newly arrived Logan. He was nearly attacked by Logan, but was rescued by two bodyguards who had been standing behind him.

"So, what are your intentions on this woman?" Logan laughed disgustedly. "Do you intend to trap and then hunt her as you used to, Mr Reyes?"

Reyes is a little bit. Was he just accused of this snot kid? Reyes shook his head and passed Logan who was fighting with his two bodyguards.

In her room, Rose took care of Febi at her husband's behest. "Really, it's crazy to do this to her. Jordan would be angry and make my husband, especially tomorrow they're getting married."

"We'll hide Febi's condition until tomorrow's wedding day. I don't want Jordan to make it any more complicated. In the meantime I'll let Jeslyn go." Reyes stared out of the ship with a murderous look.

Rose is trying to contact a cosmetologist who will be working for her stepson's wedding tomorrow. She asked the makeup team to look for a fabric that matched the wedding dress Grandpa Meyer had prepared, which served as a hijab to wear on Febi to cover the woman's baldness.

In another room, the Jeslyn family was pacing around the room waiting for news from their man. Her mother Jeslyn had already deposited her diamond ring as a DP. If that person manages to dispose of Febi without being caught cctv, then another payment will follow.

"Father, I'm impatient! Because of Febi I threatened Grandpa Meyer that he would reveal about Papa's efforts when throwing the twins into the orphanage. How could Grandpa Meyer know, Papa's so late!"

"Don't snap Papa, bad boy!" Danuarta sat down trying to calm down. "You said yourself at that time that the twins were the children of your ex who gambled and cheated us!"

"Well, Papa, if I had known it was Jordan's son, I wouldn't have agreed with Papa's plan to throw them out!" Jeslyn threw herself onto the bed, then rolled around restlessly.

"We need to calm down." Dina, Jeslyn's mother, tried to think. "Anyways, we can't get out of the room! Don't let Mr. Meyer suspect us. Because the only barrier to you marrying Jordan is just Febi!"

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