Aster Veren
Episode 37's

- Ansel

A few days earlier, I asked Rigel to pick up Claretta and drive her to my house because I was lazy to come to her residence.

Besides, I deliberately called him because I wanted to show him the condition of Tesar.

His face completely turned deathly pale when he found the battered figure of Tesar slumped on the floor, and his eyes turned to look at me questioningly.

"Ah, you've come." I said as I stood not far from where Tesar fell.

"A–ada what is Ansel?" Her question seemed to tremble and spread her legs closer to me.

"What's wrong?" I muttered to her, "you sure asked me?" I continued to make his steps stop right near Tesar.

"Hey, tell him!" Let me glance at Tesar who is trying to get up from his prone position.

"Ka–you asked me to harm the child ...." He said after successfully taking a sitting posture as comfortable as he was holding his stomach that I had kicked when he tried to fight me before Claretta came.

"Ha–ha? A–what are you saying?" Claretta asked looking nervous in half a panic, "i–I never asked you to harm Aster, don't recklessly accuse!" Further.

"What did you say? Didn't we agree to keep the boy away from Ansel? You said you wanted to marry Ansel so your daughter could be the successor to the Veren family, right?!" Clearly Tesar with his up and down voice, tried to hold his emotions as best he could.

"I never said that, don't just accuse! You said you wanted to take revenge on Ansel through that kid, right?" Claretta almost shouted.

"And you asked me to harm him!" He stared intently at Claretta's eyes.

Hah~ they really ... piss me off! My mind felt irritated as it sighed harshly upon hearing the stupid debate of those who accused each other.

Then I saw Tesar reach into his pants pocket and pull out his headphone. The next second I heard Claretta and her mother's voice coming out of her headphone.

"... You sure Ansel said that?"

"Yes, he said his mother would take Veren's name from him if he were to marry me .. If this is the case we won't be able to make Kalea the successor to the Veren family, now what?"

"Hah~ looks like we should start from Marta first."

"What does mother mean?"

"We get rid of that guy first, so you can marry Ansel without anything getting in the way, Veren's name can also be owned by Kalea and you later."

"Si–kilan how? I didn't mean to hurt Aunt Marta, did I?"

"You!!" Claretta snapped at Tesar along with the finished sound recording.

This woman!! My mind felt even more upset at him.

"At the end of the day your words are the opposite of what I just heard. You said you only wanted to marry me for Kalea no matter if Veren's name was on me or not. But it turns out that you wanted Veren's name so badly from me and intended to get rid of my mother ...." I guess I surprised him.

Maybe before he had forgotten my presence beside him until he evaporated his emotions by yelling at Tesar like that.

"That–that's all–" he said trying to explain but I immediately cut his words.

"Not right?" I continued to stare at her sharply along with her dripping tears.

"She–that voice, it's definitely not my voice! He must have faked the tape to frame me." He still insists on defending himself.

"... When are you going to lie to me?" I asked her sobs.

"He?" His murmur looked confused.

"You think I haven't been watching you all this time?" I asked the more I did not want to take my eyes off her, for some reason I even enjoyed the fear that was depicted on her face.

"You ... spying on me?" He asked after being silent for a few seconds.

"I? Why am I spying on you?" I answered back asking.

"I just got help from an unexpected person." Obviously I immediately glanced at Rigel who had been watching us by the door since.

"Master?" His words immediately put his headphone into his black suit pocket, I asked him to record our conversation secretly as evidence.

"The unexpected?" His murmurs were getting more confused.

"Rigel take them to the police station!" My word made the man walk quickly towards Tesar who had been silent listening to my conversation with Claretta.

"No–listen to me first Ansel! Everything the man said was not true, everything was a lie! Ansel–" He said, I immediately stopped with my sharp gaze, actually I really want to teach him a lesson like I did to Tesar. But I can't mistreat a woman.

"Ka–police station? Why?" Claretta asked looking so surprised when she heard my earlier remark.

"Why?" I was full of emphasis trying to stay patient by holding back my own emotions.

"I'm not wrong Ansel!" He continued, grabbing my hand and putting on a hardened expression, while Tesar seemed resigned to Rigel's hand.

"Hah~ looks like you've been a good father to your daughter huh ...." Tesar's murmur made me look at him who was looking down on his blood spot on the floor.

What'd he say? My mind wondered along with the sound of police car sirens entering my yard.

"Ansel!" Claretta made me look back at her.

"You're kidding, right? You're not going to put me in jail, are you? I'm not doing anything–" continues blabbering still holding my hand tightly.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" I asked while pulling his hand out of my hand.

"No Ansel! If I go to jail ... Kalea, what about Kalea?" His words shed tears again.

Kalea ya .., my mind feels sorry for the boy, however long I have known him. She must be sad to know that her mother is in prison, and when she finds out that I kicked her in jail, she must hate me.

But I can't just let this matter go, if it's kept quiet they will continue to disturb Aster.

"Ansel!" The one who was sitting drowning in front of me.

"Kalea .. You just give her to Victor." I immediately left it in the living room.

"How can I entrust Kalea to that person?" His cry stopped me, "do you know what kind of person he is?" Further asked.

"Yes. Looks like Victor's changed a lot, I've seen him not long ago. And the unexpected person who helped me uncover who you are is him. Take them away Rigel!" Obviously before I go to my room.

"Ba–how did you meet Victor? You are! Ansel!" His screams sounded faint from inside my room.

"How can you?" I murmured while throwing my body on my bed.

Victor you said that heartless br*ngs guy was tarnishing you, didn't he? But in fact he was framed by you and then you approached me and asked for my protection.

"From the beginning you've been planning it ...." I muttered as I recalled my first encounter with Claretta.

Victor doesn't even know that Claretta is pregnant with her child. Then the reputation of the Victor family was destroyed. My mind remembers my conversation with Victor.

"Are there really any grudges with my family?" I was wondering when I remembered Claretta and her mother's plan that I heard from Tesar's tape.

"I have to ask my mother everything, she must know the point of trouble. And again ... If it's not wrong before the Victor family is a co-worker father right? But when his reputation was destroyed, he let go of his cooperation with the family" I continued, rising from my newest position to try to remember all the events before my father let go of his cooperation with the Victor family.

Claretta traps Victor and destroys the family's reputation, and Claretta and her mother plan to get rid of her and Aster's mother to take Veren's name from me by marrying her daughter to me and making Kalea the successor to the Veren family. Then after that what? Is that just until the plan? My mind can think of nothing more.

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