Knight

Chapter 6 Of Love and DNA Test

"Sir, there's a Mr. Robert Soedirja to see you. " Ava announced in the intercomm. Ryan and James raised their eyebrows. "Robert Soedirja of Soedirja Telecommunications? " Darrell shrugged "yes sir, it is him" "Hmm… Ryan, James, can we get back to this later? " His two partners shrugged. They were discussing the latest apps release of RDJ Developments and the performance of their newest game release. In fact, the screen still showed Red Castle's graph of reported public response. Ryan and James nodded. "Send him in."

"What did he want with you? " James asked. "He wanted to make an apps, maybe? " Ryan suggested. "The last office suites beats Windows office and Google's office suites for download numbers right? " Darrell smirked, his accounting and presentation software really does wonder as a feature in their office suites. "He might be my step-father in law, so maybe this has something to do with Callie. " It's been a month since then and Callie wasn't even thinking about it. 

A knock stopped his mussings. "Enter" Darrell said. James nodded "okay then, we'll meet again after lunch. I had a meeting with the chef for a bit. He's making trouble again. " "Huh, should we be prepared for a change? I've got my eyes on this candidate from the Master chef series. He's young, so there's a lot of room to grow." James shook his head as he stood up. "I'll try to talk to Sandro first. If it's not working, I'd rather promote his sous chef. He's been putting down Sandro's fires since we started here." Darrell shrugged "sure, I was thinking on funding his dessert bar anyways." 

Ryan chuckled. "And you said I was crazy when I bought that airways. See you" Darrell turned off the projector and stood up. "Good morning, how may I help you, Mr. Soedirja?" The older man shook his hand and sit in front of him. Ava served them their drinks and went out. "Mr. Darrell Santoso, I've been trying to reach you since last month, but you're a very busy man." Robert smiled kindly. "Ah yes, my wife and I went to a honeymoon trip and then I had to visit some of our other properties." Darrell nodded. 

"That's right, you're recently married. I'm sure you know why I'm here. " Straight to the point, Darrell liked that. " I don't, actually. I know about your wife if that is what you meant, but why you're here could be any number of business unrelated to that" He leaned back. "You're right. So, can you please ask Callista if she's willing to at least meet us? " Robert leaned in. "Why is that? If I may ask? " "To be honest, both Helena and I are getting desperate. She didn't respond to her request of DNA test, I don't know what else to do" He run his hand to his greying hair. 

"Helena and I, we have two children. The older one is a boy and the younger one a little girl. My boy, Samoedra is only fourteen, and he was diagnosed with acute leukimia. He needed a bone marrow donor. We've all tested and none of us match as a donor. " Darrell hummed. "So you wanted my wife to test herself? Is this why your wife was very insistent on contacting her? " Robert shook his head. "No! That's not it. Even if she didn't agree to test, we still wanted to get to know her. Helena tried so hard to meet her, but her first husband always blocked her attempts." Darrell stared at him and nodded. 

"See, I can tell her, but I can't force her. She went through a traumatic experience before she married me, so her health and peace is my priority." Robert nodded. " I understand, is it still hard on her? Can we do anything to help? " Darrell shook his head. "She is better now, but still, her life wasn't exactly smooth sailing from the start. I told her that I will support her in anything she'd chosen to do, so any contact had to be her decision. " The old man nodded again. 

"What about you, we wanted to get to know you too. " He said, surprising Darrell "me? Why? " "Because you're our son-in-law now. I was surprised when Helena told me. You and your friends made quite the news when Prescott turned corner and became a success. But I wanted to know the man behind the genius rookie." Darrell laughed. "I'm hardly a genius. We just had a very good mentor and practice. "

"Darrell, can we… oh, I'm sorry I didn't know that you had a guest" His wife peeked through the door of his room inside the office. "Callie honey, come here" He waved her in. "This is Mr. Robert Soedirja. " Callista smiled and shook his hand, and her face froze "Soedirja? Isn't that… ? " Darrell pulled her to his lap and hugged her close. "He is your step father, if the claim was true" He said gently. Callista blinked at him and smiled. "I'm okay. Actually, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." She turned to her step father and nodded. "I've decided to do the DNA test." Darrell raised an eyebrow. "Really? Why all of a sudden? "

Callista snuggled back to her husband. "Because I love you? " He blinked in confusion. "Thank you, and I love you too. But what had that got to do with the DNA test? " She pressed a kiss to his cheeks. "I just come to the realisation that I need to get this out of the way. I'm not in search of approval anyways, so I don't need to fear anything. Besides, you were right, there are some questions that only she could answer. So, I guess, I'd rather do it now when I'm not having too much on my mind." She said that, but Darrell could feel the small tremor running through her body. He tightened his arms around her waist and kissed the top of her head. "Okay then, should we inform mrs. Soedirja? "

"I'll do that. " Robert quickly pulled his phone out and called his wife. At the same time, Darrell's phone rang. He took it and his face turned blank. "Change of plan. Raina's in labour. We're going to Siloam Hospital." Callista immediately stood up to let her husband move "do you think we can do the test while we wait? " Her husband blinked at her again. "Like, today? " She nodded. "Yeah, why not? We'll be waiting for Raina there anyways right?" Darrell stared at her then turned to Robert. "What do you think? " Robert nodded. "Helena had been waiting for this for a month already. She'll be ready."