A Little Hope For Ashma
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Adam immediately sat his butt in his long-abandoned work chair.

Last night Lily's new bodyguard could not come so Adam immediately asked her to talk to him that morning, he could not delay again about the safety of his loved ones.

"So how are you Gerald?" he asked, Adam's eyes turned to look at the man sitting across the table.

Gerald grabs the whiskey he brought as a gift to Adam. "Licious gift to you."

Adam glanced briefly at the whiskey bottle but his gaze returned to Gerald.

"Thank you, but I can't drink that anymore." He said politely, he grabbed some photos on the table.

"Oho can't drink anymore? Are you in a dangerous disease?" ask her with a mocking tone of voice.

Adam smiled a faint smile, "I have no reason to answer your question."

Gerald scoffed harshly, "your arrogant demeanor has never gone away Adam!" he said while opening the cigarette pack while Adam ignored his words, he focused on looking at the photo he held.

"They're all victims of Daxter's abomination this year, he's taken control of their black market business and killed it vilely. Daxter always plays neat and hard to catch!" Gerald let out a heavy sigh after puffing his cigarette smoke.

"You want to?" Gerald offers Adam a cigarette but Adam refuses.

"When has his life been healthy? Though he maniacs drink and smoke, especially when under stress." Inner Gerald captures Adam's significant visible changes.

Gerald put his glass powerful enough to cause the sound clinking quite hard with a table made of glass.

"In essence, who should I escort and supervise?"

Adam put the photo he was holding by throwing it on the table. "He's... Lily's."

Gerald's eyes turned back in shock, whether he might have misheard or indeed Adam really had a problem because of losing Lily which made him crazy like that.

"What kind of madness are you saying Adam? That's right if I have to escort the dead!" Pekik Gerald feels played by Adam's madness.

Adam got up from his seat he went to the window looking at the park out there that Ashma often visited, part of the place in his Mansion and only the park that became Ashma's favorite.

Adam smiled slightly and looked there, but it added to Gerald's assumption that he was out of his mind.

"Hey master is arrogant!!!" He shouted, Gerald's tone was getting out of control because he was annoyed to see Adam like that.

Adam's eyes turned away from the garden and glanced at Gerald with a cold gaze. "Lily's alive. He's back at me."

Gerald laughed out loud, Adam is really out of his mind.

"He's alive!" Adam's stubbornness firmly, Gerald stopped laughing.

"Oh, where is he then?"

"He's in his room."

Gerald caught a serious and confident remark from Adam, is it true?

"How can you?" the question is still not sure.

Adam rolled his eyes lazily, "of course, he came back to me but... Lily lost her memory. That's why I'm calling you to guard and watch him from Edward!"

Gerald was still trying to digest Adam's words, "then why don't you take care of him directly?" he asked in confusion when he knew how scared Adam was of losing Lily.

"Not for now, so I need your help!" Adam did not want to tell him why he was looking after Ashma who was much more alert for his salvation.

Gerald thought for a moment, "but Edward he's all-in" Adam cut Gerald's speech. "No matter what his relationship with Lily was like back then, the man was still a villain!" He said with a sinister aura considering Edward the cold-blooded mafia.

Gerald did not want to ask any more, he immediately fulfilled his arrogant master's wish.

"alright. You don't have to worry, I'll keep Lily from Edward and the other villains!" His words ended their conversation briefly because Adam suddenly got a call from Ashma.

Gerald asked her to leave the room, nodding instead of having to fight with Adam.

"Hmm Ashma,"

Ashma heard her husband's voice seem relieved because she was missing Adam.

"Mas, when are you coming home?" ask her from there in a small voice.

"This one, why?"

Ashma paused for a moment then looked at her large belly, "I want something to be okay?"

Hearing that Adam became excited, somehow his cravings Ashma was the thing Adam had always been waiting for.

"You want something? ah I mean the baby, so what?" he said so impatiently, Adam felt challenged by his future son.

Ashma gave a small smile hearing Adam's once spirited voice, "it-I want to eat ramen!" he said he drooled himself mentioning the name of the typical Japanese food.

"No! I want your ramen Mas!" Her tweet firmly. Adam thought for a moment, "but I don't know how to make it what if I bring his chef lang-" his words were cut off with Ashma's trembling voice.

"No want! I just want your ramen!" Hearing her tone of voice was like holding back Adam's own distraught cries.

"Yes Ashma sorry, I'll try to make. This afternoon I'll be home soon, wait for me and I'll make you a special ramen." Adam follows his cravings, although he does not know how to make ramen he will try for the sake of the mother and her future baby.

"Promise me?"

Adam let out a small sigh, "yes Ashma." After that phone call ended, Adam immediately put on his black jacket he had to rush to the supermarket to buy ingredients to make ramen.

...•••...

Daxter looked at the guts of an old man who was whimpering in pain full of wounds.

"You really don't have Daxter's humanity!" Edward's words witnessed Daxter's savagery in torturing his prey.

"Do you have a sense of humanity?" Daxter asked back, smiling sinisterly at Edward.

"Of course, I don't like to dirty my hands!"

Daxter who heard him laughed out loud, it made Edward grieve.

"Don't be Edward's saint, it's our job!" Daxter said with his ruthless face as he managed to unleash a single bullet in the head of his prey.

Edward laughed, "but I'm not as dirty as your game!" Sizzle Edward, he immediately takes his jacket and leaves the cursed place of Daxter the cruel man.

Edward let out a long sigh in his car he was a little annoyed that Daxter was getting his new business in such a cruel way by seizing his client, the old man he had finished off.

But not long after that Edward grinned considering the fate of Adam later in Daxter's hands.

"Can you survive Daxter, Adam?"

...•••...

Adam decided that afternoon to go home to his wife who was craving so after shopping Adam returned to the Mansion to say goodbye to aunt Marianee and Lily, he had not had time to meet her.

Adam saw Lily in the garden. "Lilly!" Adam called Lily who was mesem-mesem on the phone screen. Lily who heard the baritone voice so familiar in her ears immediately turned off her phone she tried not to display suspicious behavior.

"A-adam?"

"When did you come?"

Adam was sitting next to Lily, "last night."

Lily-Oh ria she's not too enthusiastic. Adam looked at her intensely it made her a little nervous.

"What, why are you looking at me like that?" she was afraid of being found out.

Adam shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "just you're getting prettier!" He said with a thin smile, but suddenly the face of Lily that he now saw instead became the face of his wife, Adam really had gone insane and he immediately realized.

"What the fuck?" adam's mind is a little upset.

Lily who heard his words was a little relieved, she thought Adam was suspicious of her. "Your job is done, right? eat it you go home quickly." Lily tried to find a topic so that her nervousness was not too obvious.

"No, it's I'm going again."

Lily did not hear wrong, she was suddenly happy because her boundary space to meet Edward would be easy.

"Oh like that. Is Adam Ashma okay? I didn't hear from her again after you kidnapped her somewhere?" Lily was wondering where Adam was taking Ashma away she was also curious about them, it seemed like they had a special relationship. There is no way Adam would be as concerned with the nurses he hired if there were no shrimp behind the stone.

"I'm just helping her calm down in a quieter place." He answered so calmly.

Lily's got a dirty look on her face, "you like her, don't you? I'm just Adam!"

Adam shook his head, "have you forgotten who my love is for?" he asked with a cold voice.

Lily panted to hear the same answer over and over again like that from Adam. "Bas on stupid brother! Stupid man" Lily immediately left Adam in the garden.

Adam let out a long sigh, what else should he express this love for Lily? He's confused himself.

But suddenly his memory was fixed on Ashma's face again this time when Ashma cried a little in his arms last time because of cravings to get acquainted with Gelya.

"Why does he always show up in my head like a broken cassette?!"

"Thurghhh!"

"I have to go home soon to fulfill his cravings!"

#TBC