EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 124

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Now I'm lying alone on the bed, in the room, in Aunt Rose's lonely house. The sound of vehicles from a distance was heard and tonight it was very difficult for me to sleep.

After aunt Yuan and aunt Nuri came home earlier, I immediately opened the contents of the large brown envelope Bayu gave me, about the Eternity group. The files inside are complete and easy to understand.

I didn't know what to react to when I realized I had something to do with the company.

The owner of the Eternity group is Alvaro Markus Danendra. The man had three children. His first son was Evano Kavin Danendra, then his second daughter was Kenzie Latinka Danendra and the third son was named Kenzo Elvan Danendra.

Kenzie was married five years ago to another business owner but they don't have children yet. Then Evano, the man turned out to be aunt Rose's husband, was told in the file that it turned out that after they married aunt Rose could not have children, she said, so Alvaro arranges to remarry Evano to another woman.

She is Mona Keilani, Rose's best friend since childhood who turned out to be my real mother. But Mona died after giving birth to me. Since Evano was the successor of the Eternity company, the man had to have offspring to pass on.

Alvaro, - my grandfather - who knew I was born, immediately changed the name of the ownership of his property in my name. Natasha Icha .D.

Not Natasha Icha Davindra who has been my full name, but it turns out Natasha Icha Danendra.

But, when I was a few months old, Evano had an accident until he was paralyzed, unable to walk. She knew what happened to her was no ordinary accident, so she asked Aunt Rose to take me away from her family.

Aunt Rose who was also the target did not want to let me fall into their hands, the only way was to leave me to mother. Let me use Davindra's name on my identity card.

And again, all the inheritance that Aunt Rose gave me was actually a small part that Evano left for my life. No wonder when I want to change the name of the ownership of the land, money and house I have to get approval from them.

Getting to this reality feels like a dream to me. Too complicated and unbelievable.

The struggle for property to get rid of heirs sounds like a story in the drama.

But why should it be now? After twenty-four years. Knowing this made me not want to deal with them because I knew I would get in more trouble if I entered their circle.

Then there was another profile whose face looked familiar.

I remember a man who came to see me in front of the restaurant when I promised to meet Mr. Seno, his mother and Daniel. The man turns out to be Evano's confidant in the company. Wildan Mahendra's.

Reading all this I wonder in my heart why Aunt Rose never told me.

Why are they just looking for me now?

And why is it like this I know everything!

Now my head is throbbing pain, dizzy thinking about all of this but what is certain is that my heart says I don't want to interfere with them.

I'm an adult and I'm going to decide my own future.

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“Good morning!”

“Again!” I smiled broadly as I exited the gate, Bayu was already standing next to his black Jeep.

“Oh the glass is fixed?” I said stale while locking the gate.

“Yaa, fixed quickly.” Answer Bayu.

“How do you sleep?” Ask again after I'm in front of him.

“Cannot sleep.” I answered honestly.

“I guessed it. Then I will take you to the office today and will pick you up later.” Bayu opened the front passenger seat for me.

“I'll start busy again today.” I said as I got into his car. Bayu ran round and entered sitting in front of the wheel.

“And it looks like this morning I will be fired because it has been a long time permission to work.” I added again while putting on my seat belt.

“If I am properly fired, you must be ready to bear the cost of my life!” I exclaimed in spirit.

Bayu started his car engine and stepped on the accelerator, answering. “I'm ready! Anything for you.”

I couldn't help but smile, this man had seduced me this early in the morning. “Good! I'm counting on you!”

“Hehehe. So have you read the results of the investigation I gave you yesterday? Now what are you gonna do?”

I was silent, not answering her question. Staring out the window, daydreaming with the plan I had in mind last night to ignore it.

“Au—“

“Let me guess!” Bayu stopped my speech. I looked at him curious.

“If I guess correctly, grant me three requests.”

“Why three? This is just one question!” I protest. Bayu shook his head, his eyes were constricting looking ahead.

“Well two.”

“One!”

“Three!”

“Dua—eh not one!!” He set me up!

Bayu laughed in satisfaction because I agreed to his two requests. “Two requests! You said it.”

“Isshhh... Okay two if your guess is right!”

Bayu still chuckled and glanced at me briefly before replying. “Now you're thinking about not thinking about that and just wanting to finish your work and college assignments. Actually you don't want to get involved with them, just want to live as you normally do.”

“Kau—“

“But your mind will be worried if someone from the Eternity group comes to see you. You can't ignore your own family. And you need answers from them about what you think.” I always really understand what I'm thinking.

“Record me ‘kan?”

“So you're really a vampire descendant, eh? I got goosebumps.” Bayu laughed at my question.

“But wait a minute! I'll guess something! You came here to pick me up because there's something else you want to say!” I quickly responded that immediately made Bayu's laughter stop.

This guy glanced at me. “You know where?” is from

I smiled happy and proud. “I can already read the look on your face.”

“Why am I goosebumps now.” Alternian, I was the one who chuckled at Bayu shuddering in fear at me.

“If I can guess, please grant me three requests!” I started to imitate his style of speech.

“Darling, you want revenge? Now replace me who will say ‘Why three? This is just one question’” Hearing Bayu's voice imitating my voice earlier made me laugh loudly until the corner of my eye let out water.

“Hahaha. All right, two to be fair.”

Bayu snorted in annoyance but he finally agreed to it as well. “OK. Guess what I'm going to say?”

I stared at Bayu's serious face from the side, trying to guess what he was going to say. But the feeling about him going to talk about his grandfather is so strong now, I don't know where this feeling came from but I'm absolutely sure of my guess.

“This is about your grandfather ‘kan? About the event that will be held this weekend. You want to talk about it.”

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