Cold Man And Miss Stone
33. Third Party

If there was one thing that made Emilia feel childish, it would always be Mahesa.

Her first love, the only man Emilia considered truly existed, her senior as well as her pedestal. Of course when she got married, Emilia felt sad.

But more than that, he is also annoyed at how Mahesa always forces him subtly.

Sending Rashi to Emilia was not a sign of her worry. It was a signal that Emilia was not too kind and instead dragged on in her role as a maid.

I think it sucks to just play in a small realm like this house. Emilia thought when she was alone because Rashi could not linger to see her.

Then ....

How about a moment of distraction and outwit Ahkam?

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"Boss."

Samuel could immediately hear the sound of a listening device on his eagle when the beast landed. To minimize the possibility of being tracked while moving in the shadows, Samuel did not contact Oto through a mobile phone line.

Mahesa Mahardika taught her to communicate through an eagle. Normally Ryo would slip a letter at the foot of his eagle, so this signaled an emergency as Ryo was using a two-way communication tool.

"Say."

"There was an attack early this morning. Three people were killed and some data was stolen."

Samuel frowned. "Suddenly?"

"There's a trail they left on purpose. Shi and the higanbana flower emblem."

Shi, it means death. Higanbana, the flower of death. From the trail it is clear they are deliberately attacking for a purpose that is not information alone.

"The data they got?"

"There's some, including Ahkam's family list and details of the suspects we've kept."

Rouse suspiction. At a glance, Samuel would have thought that it was the killer behind Ahkam's death some time ago.

But if thought more deeply, why did he appear when he could have just continued to hide? Why did he leave the trail too clear as if asking to be found? Trap, huh? Or is it a public act?

"He touched my part." Samuel murmuring. "Do you think this is a declaration of war?"

"The possibility of that increases. Your orders?"

"Riokay."

Samuel squeezed the communication device in his hand to a crumble, and let the eagle named Tobi fly away.

Samuel's brain was working on figuring out who might be the one who attacked his organization. The strongest assumption now was that the man knew that Samuel was the owner of Oto, but the information about it was never given to anyone but ....

Argantana and Mahesa.

"One of them."

Or.... a third party?

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If you know this, Emilia did it from the beginning. It's been two whole days, Samuel didn't show up from his room. He didn't even come down to eat, and Emilia assumed that Samuel had food supplies.

Now he must be wondering who attacked his organization. It would take a long time for her to know it was Emilia's doing unless she started glancing at the Nugraha family.

Although Emilia did not say that if Samuel glanced at Nugraha then he would know.

"What happened to Uncle, Ema?"

Now, Emilia's only business is Rowan Ahkam. "Not knowing."

"You didn't check it?"

"No."

Rowam watched him for a while before he sat down to pay attention to Emilia's activities.

The pleasure of Emilia because Samuel was not intrusive was great, but basically if there was no Samuel, Emilia did not know what to do. Samuel himself said that Emilia was only his servant, so he was not the servant of this house unless Samuel said 'go help another servant'.

So Emilia took light work, watering the plants.

"Can I ask you something, Ema?"

"What?"

"Why did you become Uncle's servant?"

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