Cold Man And Miss Stone
41. If the Play

Next time Emilia has to tell Mahesa to stop using her images on social media at will. Because of that he had to hear all this.

"The answer is honest! Who told you to?! What is your motive for doing this?! Whatdoyouwant?!"

Emilia was silent.

Letting a number of Argantana's men into his room check if there is something hidden like Nina's accusation.

Emilia's eyes met Samuel and Rowan's. They both kept quiet too. Because it feels like they're the only ones with brains.

Did Nina think she could casually smuggle something inside this house, especially being watched by Samuel Ahkam directly?

Toll*l.

"Is there something?" Argantana was also forced to intervene even though she might be present simply because Emilia was Samuel's person. "There's evidence?"

"Nothing, sir." His man replied sure. "There is nothing hidden. Cell phones, laptops, communication devices, nothing."

"No way!" Soraya immediately denied. "Pa, trust me! We heard clearly the man said he was Ema's lover."

Argantana looked at Emilia. "Ema, your name? What was your purpose in coming to this place?"

Intimidations.

He asked full of the impression he was sure Emilia was the perpetrator, for Emilia to show a loophole if there really was anything she was doing. But since there was none, Emilia was ordinary.

"People in my village say I'm a pathetic girl with no education." Emilia glanced at Samuel. "So Samuel invited me to work in the city so as not to be insulted."

That means I'm a real village person. How could I do that?'.

"Stop this ludicrous accusation." Rowan finally intervened. "Do a background check on Ema, if it proves that there is nothing, then stop making her a scapegoat. Aunt Nina, Soraya, this is the last time you yelled without proof."

"But we rightly heard—"

"You guys made a fuss just for not liking Ema. That's what we heard so shut up, Soraya." Rowan looked at Argantana. "Don't pay for something like this again, Pa. My head hurts to hear these women."

Argantana looked at Emilia for a moment before she turned around. "Dissolve."

...*...

Rowan walked into her room followed by Rangga. The young man sat in front of a computer, started operating it to open an incoming e-mail from someone he had asked for background check.

"I don't think Nina and Soraya are lying." Rowan muttered. "I know my sister does make stupid problems often, but she won't insist on lies, especially in front of my father."

"But you're defending Ema."

"Because it's free." Rowan read the lightning of the data he got just to find the impasse. "Ema is confident."

"The worst fantasy is that."

"But he—"

"The pure village girl. Yeah, I'm reading that now, too." According to the evidence, the real Ema lives alone, lives simply, lives as a villager and is recognized directly by the villagers themselves.

He is a washing worker. From the beginning, the girl was quiet and had no friends.

"If he was just an ordinary person," Rowan turned his chair at Rangga, "how does he always look calm even when accused of doing something big?"

Rangga shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe he .. did not do it?"

"I hope so." Rowan glanced at the data on his screen. "Because if the charade, soon Ahkam is destroyed."

...*...

"Argantana is moving." Nine shared information to Mahesa as the command center.

Nine begins hacking into the network at Ahkam's residence to keep an eye on Emilia. Now they would move more openly, so Nine entered their system at the risk of his tracks being left behind.

The voices of conversations from various phones on Ahkam began to be heard. Nine looks for the most needed voice for information.

"Argantana suspects Emilia." Nine listened as she continued to share information. "He sent someone directly to the village. He asked for detailed information about his personality, tendencies, people he'd interacted with, including his parents' profiles."

It didn't take long, a special connection connecting Nine to Mahesa sounded. Nine connected it.

"Governance?"

"It's time until Emilia kills Rowan."

Nine slightly raised an eyebrow. Although not surprised, because Mahesa is basically a hobby of reading the movements of others without asking directly.

So********will be placed on Rowan?

"After that?"

"Samuel might bring Emilia. If not, get someone to take him away."

".... Copy that." [Understood.]

Now ... what does Emilia do?

...*...