EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 257's

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Fifteen minutes later, after grandma watched and forced me to gargle with cooking oil and water, she said, then it forced me to brush my teeth by the side of the road after picking up a toothbrush and toothpaste inside the villa - - the Kenzo uncle who volunteered to pick it up quickly.

I refused because I was ashamed to see them all, but Grandma glared at me, not wanting to be denied.

“Bring this to the hospital for a check. I've contacted the director of the hospital and they promised to get the result in a few hours, two of you wait there.” Father handed the plastic-wrapped poison bottle to one of the men from the security team, both nodded and turned away.

“So, Bayu, exactly what happened? What's the explosion?” Kenzie's aunt's husband's question seemed to wake us up to the sound of the explosion.

Everyone started to look at Bayu curiously, knowing he was the center of attention, this man cleared his throat slowly before glancing at me and saying. “You remember the woman who called earlier?”

“Of course.”

“She is the wife of Luc, the man behind the illegal arms and narcotics trade. We managed to catch him yesterday afternoon in a joint operation. Then his wife suddenly disappeared, after being tracked, he was moving here, apparently following you.” Bayu glanced at me, I could feel Aunt Kenzie sighing in shock.

“Because you buy time talking to him, we managed to get a definite position. He's a kilometer from the beach, in a house with a kid hostage with an active bomb.” Now everyone's getting shocked to hear there's a bomb so close to us.

Bayu looked back at father and the others while continuing “Before I got there, it turned out that Lifer and the others managed to catch the woman, release the bomb on the boy but there's not enough time to defuse him, so we're safe to release it at sea. Thankfully it was just a bomb with an explosive range of no more than three meters. I rushed back here after hearing from Benny that the woman had contacted the villa several times. Turns out, he took advantage of the employee's grudge here to harm you.”

I can guess the look in Bayu's eyes at me when she looks back at me, as if saying ‘actually, she is targeting you with someone else's intermediary because you are my wife. She's revenge because I caught her husband.’, her gaze is livid and grim. I wanted to give him a hug but we I didn't want to do it in front of Danendra's family.

“So so.” Grandpa Alvaro frowned thinking hard, his face looking up, staring at the dark night sky, no stars at all.

“Sorry to involve you, because this incident is rooted in the people we arrested.” Jayu sounds guilty.

Grandpa shook his head quickly. “No no! It's nobody's fault, son, you don't have to apologize. In any case, the woman saw an opportunity in our vengeful clerk, which was finally realized.”

Evano's father stepped closer to Bayu and patted this man on the shoulder while saying “father was right. We're one family now, so there's no need to apologize. You must be tired because you just finished the mission but have to take care of the case again.”

“To come see Icha anywhere, I'm not tired at all.” Dad laughed and nodded, which I felt was my face warming up.

“Yaa.. Your father and I owe you a honeymoon. After marriage, you must return to your respective work, when the time comes, you can ask for any place to spend time together.”

Aunt Kenzie giggled softly then said “what about us, Sis?”

“This offer is only for newlyweds.”

“In that case, how about we get married again, baby?” Aunt Kenzie embraces her husband's arm, in response to the grin and nod from Giliant.

“Konyol.” Father shook his head, glancing at the couple with a small smile.

“Have you got a hotel room?” Dad asked a man from the security team who came to us.

“Already. Car is waiting.” He said pointing back. Then he turned to look at us all.

This man was also watching me, whether telepathic or indeed I understood the look in his eyes. He asked me if I was okay just from his eyes.

I reached out my hand, touched her arm and pulled her closer and said “I'm really fine.”

She nodded small and lowered my hand towards her palm, grasping it tightly.

“Come go. Bayu, you're in the car too. The motor let it go, later on brought.” Dad looked at us both. Bayu nodded and we stepped together behind the Danendra family.

The police car is still waiting for us, two of the arrested perpetrators were loaded into separate cars. One of the policemen came over to my father, talking to him for a while.

Bayu let go of our grasp, put strength in his arm, gently pulled my body closer, whispered softly. “honey, I love you.”

My whole body shivered, hugging Bayu's waist firmly and sticking my face tightly to his chest. “How many times have I heard it, I will never get bored. I love you too, Bayu-ku.”

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Beach.

After Evano's father took us all to the hotel and gave us the keys to each other's rooms, Bayu and I decided to get out when the others would choose to take a short nap before seeing the sunrise.

Time is almost four in the morning. The two of us joined hands tightly towards the sand of the beach, choosing to sit by the light of the lights that faintly lit up the beach.

The rumbling sound of the pounding waves sounded consistent, there was only darkness before us, the faint silhouette of the waves crashing on the beach was a little scary but it turned out that it wasn't just us who were around here, the, a group of young children and some couples also chose to chat and light a small bonfire.

Bayu ordered a warm drink for us, he also managed to light a small campfire with the remnants of garbage and coconut skin that was found quickly, then out of nowhere, this man carried a large dark green blanket that was enough to wrap us both, from the smell, this new blanket.

After all that, I draped the blanket on her body as well, we sat down to get warmer.

“Shouldn't we just rest? You're going to work in a few hours ‘ right?” I asked to glance at him.

Although his face looked more tired than last time, but the radiance of his eyes was precisely a mixture of pleasure and calm.

“Fatigue of my mental strength is already close to tens, basically it has been restored without the need to rest with you beside me.” The answer is really understand what I think.

I was silent, frowning at him, a little incredulous we always understood each other without needing to talk about it in detail.

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