EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 281's

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“Your grandmother likes people who actively ask, even silly questions.” Tell grandfather who again got a glaring gaze from this old lady before me.

However, before I responded, the noise not far behind Grandma returned me to reality. Ceasar, his girlfriend, the hotel staff, the elderly couple Jona-Lelei and the 2 newly arrived policemen looked noisier.

“So, exactly what happened?” Grandma asked me, back to the main topic.

Finally, I briefly told them both. How it all started when I was chatting with Bayu on a video call connection until I beat up Cayasar because she was babysitting her boyfriend and she was hiring mercenaries at the villa.

“Ya yes. Grandpa remembered the incident. The first day you came to our house, to discuss Ceasar. It's all grandpa's fault for being too rash.”

“I don't mean to blame grandpa.” I said quickly, it's true, now, when dealing with Ceasar, I don't blame grandfather.

“Let grandfather take care of. You stay here.” Grandpa Alvaro turned around before I answered him.

She called out to Dika, seemingly begging him to accompany grandfather to meet with the group of people, whereas me, grandma and Lucy were just staring at the backs of two men who were getting further away.

“What did you think of your grandfather when you first met?” Grandma who suddenly asked like that made me a bit surprised because she did not expect that she would ask such a thing.

I glanced at Grandma but her eyes were still staring at grandfather in the distance.

“That day, I didn't think too much about it.” I replied, recalling the day I met grandfather, “but importantly, my opinion about the Danendra family changed now.”

“Change?” Grandma glanced at me curiously, the frown on her forehead somehow reminded me of aunt Kenzie.

“Especially grandma. The first time Grandma spoke to me at my wedding was ‘ right? At that time I was thinking, the way grandma spoke, the words of grandma, the eyes of grandma, very similar to mother version 2. But, the longer grandma talks to me, it turns out that grandma is different from mom.”

“Different in what way?”

I thought for a while to find the right word, then smiled and replied, “although we have recently known each other, but I thought, grandma understands me, without even needing to say. As for mother, even though I have known her for life, but mother does not understand me. You just know me from the outside and never really want to understand.”

Grandma sighed softly, she was still standing beside me with two hands folded over her stomach, “blood is thicker than water. The phrase there is not just a phrase ‘kan?”

I nodded in agreement.

The next minute, the two of us no longer spoke, only paying attention to the grandfather and those people. When Ceasar got closer to Grandpa and they had a short talk, Ceasar's expression turned startled and he immediately saw me.

I guess, Grandpa must have told her that I was Icha, the one who almost wanted to be paired with her.

As the man continued to look at me from a distance while chatting with grandfather, I glanced at him, turned my face away and put on a cold face full of vengeance.

But shortly after, Grandpa and Dika turned back, stepping closer to us, this time with Ceasar following behind them.

Before I protest, grandpa already said, “Ceasar would like to talk to you alone for a while.”

“No!” Reject me.

“I just want to tell you something, personally. You'll regret it if you don't hear it.” Said Ceasar stepping forward until now standing next to grandfather.

“This is the last one, I don't want you to bother my grandson again.” Grandpa glanced at Ceasar sharply.

“I give you five minutes.”

“One minute is also enough.” He said approaching me.

I immediately turned around and took this man away from my grandfather, grandmother, Dika, Lucy and the people passing by around us, until a distance of ten meters separated us.

“What's up?” Ask me directly without lowering the sharp look from my eyes.

“Yeah, how fierce.”

“Quite base of the battery. You said one minute!”

“Good good!” he raised both his hands to calm me down, “I just want to say the reason I sent those mercenaries.”

“Confess also now that you hired those people to harm Bayu?”

“I have a strong reason why send those people.”

“Say the clear!” My insistence.

“Begin, after your grandfather talked about our matchmaking, I looked up information about you first, I said, but my people have not been able to find a picture of the granddaughter of the Danendra family and instead found a photo of a man named Bayu whose rumors circulated that he was your boyfriend. Before I went looking for more info about you, I just remembered that I had met Bayu. He is a dangerous person, which is why I sent those people as a warning so that he does not approach the granddaughter of the Danendra family.”

“What do you mean he's dangerous?!” I'm getting mad now, “and where did you meet him?”

“At that time I was meeting a broker at a hotel restaurant near the Prognoz building and accidentally saw the man named Bayu was meeting Madam Carol. The broker I met said madam Carol was the one who worked at the MeFa group company. I noticed Bayu because he was the guest who made a ruckus by hitting two big men next to madam Carol.”

“Then what is dangerous about it? Maybe they're friends.”

“You know, one of MeFa's subsidiaries is sponsoring a research lab and this past month there's a drug that's been covertly disseminated, this drug has become an open secret among the directors of the company. Many of them wanted to buy it in bulk. You can find out the research lab named Osa and the subsidiary that sponsored the lab is Raksa. After that, you'll understand why I said Bayu is dangerous.” Ceasar gave a small smile at me before he turned around, about to leave but I immediately stepped forward to block this man's footsteps.

“You mean, Osa it stands for Asura lab and the company it's called Giant?”

Ceasar frowned, “so you know about this company? Whilst Giant companies are difficult to track and only certain brokers and people know.”

“So, explain more details about the woman called madam Carol.”

“It's been more than one minute, so..” Ceasar raised both hands, “if you need me, we can meet later, the police are still waiting for me, remember?”

He casually talked about the police as if the one waiting was his friend. He suddenly turned around and said, “oh yes, it's a pity that I couldn't meet you sooner. If I had known that the granddaughter of the Danendra family was as beautiful and attractive as this, I would have used all means to stop your impromptu marriage.”

“Try repeating once again!” I was ready to take off my heels to throw at him, but Ceasar laughed cheerfully and turned around again, stepping further away.

I don't want to stop her from leaving, and now I have another clue to give Talia.

But when I was reaching for the phone in the small handbag I was carrying, I just remembered that Talia's number was on my personal phone that died from running out of battery, and I don't remember the number to call on one more phone.

Madame Carol? Who her? And if Bayu really met him, why didn't Bayu tell me? What exactly is he hiding? And the Prognoz building he said? Isn't that the name of the community fortune-teller Prognoz that Fiona once mentioned?

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