EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 258's

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Bayu glanced at me and the grin came back “You know, looking at you, my heart felt filled with a soft feeling. Feel the rich feeling that accelerates my heart rate.”

The furrow on my forehead deepened, but this man continued to continue “I love you too much, even simple hugs constantly move the deepest part of my heart.”

“Errr--I was confused as to what to react to. Your words surprised me.”

Bayutertawa loudly, who had diverted some people to us. But I still watched him in detail, the look on his face, the lighting of the campfire in front of us made his face more radiant.

One brief conclusion. He's good-looking.

For the next minute, we were both silent, enjoying each other's hot drinks, he also occasionally poked the bonfire with a small twig in his hand to keep the fire from extinguishing.

“Ask only.” He said without taking his eyes off the fire.

“What?”

“You must be curious about Luc. I promised you I'd explain, so just ask me what you want to know, I'll answer. That's ‘kan what you've been thinking since?” I blinked a few times, I wasn't really thinking about it.

“No. I didn't think of it.” Bayu glanced at me with a frown.

“I was just thinking, that my husband is very handsome. Hehehe.”

“Hah?” I widened my grin even more seeing Bayu looking at me in disbelief. Then he pinched my cheek which automatically made me whine to let go.

“You yes! After being in a danger situation, with all the explanations still hanging but you—naughty!”

“I'll be bad just like you!” I snatched away her annoyance, pulling her hand off my face. But this man pulled my head leaning against his chest, cuddling his hands together to wrap my head in a fit of anxiety.

I could only laugh a little, a little rebellious to get away with but not really want to get away from it.

“Good. Tell me about Luc.” I finally gave up and wanted to know everything.

Bayu let go of me but one hand still held my head against his chest, this time he hugged me more gently.

“Actually, besides Lifer, Ronald, Benny and I, there is still one more person, Luc, who became our last member.”

“I've heard that before.”

Bayu nodded and continued his “name Gerry Luco Mahendra. We used to call him Luc.”

I pulled myself out of his arms. “That's an unusual name. Luco.”

“Yes, I also had a chance to think like that when I first met him.”

“Then, what happened?”

“Luco his son is rather rebellious, he several times got warning letters, but he is a very smart and great soldier.” Bayu looked far ahead, from his eyes, as if he was reminiscing with the old Luc.

“Then, when the mission was. He gave us theories and evidence about the sale of illegal weapons, suicide bombings and illegal drugs in one village. Everyone in the small village was arrested, even Luc caught a little boy. Because of the evidence, we didn't question the boy, until we found out that the boy was sandra.”

“More precisely child trafficking. We couldn't save the boy when there were some criminals who managed to escape carrying him, they all carried out a suicide bomb with the boy.” I gasped at it, even a child was a victim.

“But, catch a little kid? Aren't you guys intrograting it?”

“That's the point, that introgration is not us, until the child becomes a victim, Luc talks to us, he gets info about the village case from one of the higher-ups at the headquarters, which in the end passes Luc, he gets info on the village case from one of the higher-ups at the base, that guy destroyed evidence of child trafficking, he was involved.”

“What was that person also arrested? The top brass at headquarters?”

“At last yes.” Bayu looked up but his expression quickly turned grim. “but it turned out, somehow, that person bestowed some big mistakes on Luc. Unaccepting, he escapes and joins the largest illegal arms manufacturing group in the country. The last time I spoke to him, Luc would never trust the military again, he said he found his happiness when he got into the group compared to when he was in the army with us.”

I let out a long sigh, very dear when a talented person like Luc has to be hurt by an insider. “Then, why is his wife Luc targeting you.”

“Because I convinced Luc to speak frankly who the top brass in the headquarters were involved in this child trafficking, she assumed I was making her husband's career and life ruined.”

“What is this woman bothering you all this time?” Suddenly this conclusion sounded reasonable hearing Bayu's last sentence.

He glanced at me, looked at me for a moment and replied “sometimes, he bothers me a little.”

“What does he do?” My jaw hardened, an outpouring of angry emotions bloated imagining Bayu being bullied by the woman all this time.

“Not a serious thing, just sometimes send people to bother me, or send packages of bloody rats. Such things.”

“What?! Why didn't you tell me?” I glared angry at him.

“Honey, it happened a long time ago, when I met you again, he stopped bothering me.”

“Long!” I squinted my eyes suspiciously.

“Truly darling.”

I let out a long sigh and finally believed in Bayu's answer. “then, have they been caught?”

Bayu nodded. “Yes, we caught Luc and his wife, thank goodness the incident ended quickly. In addition we also managed to capture Alfred and even Rey's group on this one-week mission. People who have been bothering you all this time, we have caught.” there is a satisfied tone of his voice that immediately relieved me.

“So, there will be no more poison that wants to harm me.” Hearing Rey's name, I couldn't imagine her face without being accompanied by poison.

“Oh baby, I'm sorry about that. You've suffered a lot from poison, even an hour ago, someone threatened you with poison.” Bayu rubbed my cheek, glaring at her sad and grim eyes.

“So what are you going to do to make me forgive you?” I joke a little.

Bayu pulled my hands together, grasped them tightly and answered “hatiku, my body, my life, to you, how?”

I nodded in satisfaction. “ fun to hear it.” then we both threw silly laughter at each other,

“OK, stop talking about Luc, now I want to talk about you. Are you really okay? The incident-”

“Now I'm fine.” I answered quickly “when I was scared at first, the man who was after me. That pervert makes me angry and scared.”

This man nodded, still looking at me attentively without interrupting my words. “How do you know what happened in that villa? And about the cabinets that block the door?”

“When I came, towards your room, I heard the footsteps of the man who was sneaking into the back of the villa. You know, my arrival was a little hidden back then, I didn't mean to sneak into the villa, but with the reports of Luc's wife following you, I had to be invisible. Then when the power went out, after asking Uncle Kenzo to wake the others up and about to go back to your room, I saw someone slide the closet to block the door. Due to the order that I immediately join the arrest of Luc's wife, I can't accompany you and scare you.” Bayu pouted, looking very sorry.

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