EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 283

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Suddenly the sound of notifications from my phone broke the daydream. I immediately stood up, stepping towards the small table beside the window, where my phone was placed due to charging. Several messages from friends appeared on the screen, but one message came into the email that caught my attention.

I turned towards the laptop on the table, back on the soft single sofa in front of the desk I was sitting on, after which opened the web, intending to open the email on the laptop.

Before long, the web I wanted was open, and as I expected, an email made my heart beat fast. This is not an ordinary email, but the name of the email belongs to the doctor Cilia.

Soon we will meet. That destiny has existed since you were born.

You'll know when it happens and I'm sure you don't want anyone else to know. You can reach me by email and I'll take you where you need to be.

In the end, you won't be able to come back, no one can help you.

I felt goosebumps with a strong adrenaline surge. The message was very ambiguous but it had a dangerous hidden meaning, it made my chest cavity hurt and ache.

Quickly log out of my email account and close the web. I couldn't bear to read that message over and over again. The bad feeling that had been coming even closer to me since noon.

Destiny?

Destiny what does it mean. But reading the word ‘born’, for some reason, I suspect all this has something to do with my real mother. Mona Keilani's.

His identity is secret, the father also does not tell much, the Danendra family does not offend further if I am actually the son of Mona Keilani, they actually discuss aunt Rose a lot.

The only thing I heard about my real mother was that she and Aunt Rose were best friends. Aunty could not have children, so she was willing to bring her best friend closer to Evano's father, but it turned out that my real mother had to die after giving birth to me.

I was thinking, you better ask me to show you mom's grave. Ever since I found out that Danendra's family is my real family, I've never been to my mother's grave.

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“Macam?”

“Yes. I want to visit my birth mother's grave.” I said sure the next morning, before breakfast, I approached my father who was in his study.

The hand that had been searching for the file had stopped immediately when I asked about Mona Keilani's tomb.

“I never knew his figure, so—“

“No.”

“What?” I looked at him confused.

Dad took a deep breath, he leaned back on his chair with his head turned up, as if recalling the figure of the woman who gave birth to me.

“Dad knows, sooner or later you'll ask about Mona, but I can't tell you more details because this has something to do with the Red Apple case. Before everything is certain, I can only answer that the tomb does not exist.”

“Not here or—“ Suddenly a crazy conjecture excited me staring at dad, “mom still alive?”

Dad looked agitated, he immediately got up from sitting leaning against him, about to answer but had to stop because of the sound of his phone ringing.

While answering the call, my father's eyes glanced at me briefly before he stood up then turned around, stepping slightly away from me.

Bayu must be reporting something to dad. The man hasn't called me since last night we argued and my phone has to run out of battery.

I took a deep breath, then stood up and said, “dad, I came out first.”

Dad glanced at me and nodded, because dad didn't tell me the phone was from Bayu, and my reaction when he answered my question about my mother's grave was ambiguous, I realized I had to wait again.

Just as I closed my father's door and was about to head to the kitchen for breakfast, my footsteps came to a halt as it turned out that Wildan, accompanied by a familiar woman. He's Diana, a trust employee of the father, who blatantly tells me that the employees at the company already consider him Evano's father's son, considering there's no word that the father has a child.

“Good morning, miss Icha.” Sapa Wildan smiled nodding at me.

“Pagi.” I replied smiling back at her while Diana said nothing, just smiling a little at me as her greeting. I didn't want to force it and decided to ignore this woman.

“Search Mr Evano? Dad is receiving a phone call, just log in first.”

“We will wait here.” Answer Wildan.

“If so, let's have breakfast. I'm going to the kitchen.” Take me.

Before the two of them answered, the arrival of Uncle Felix, the butler in the house, told me that breakfast was ready.

“Come sir Wildan, Diana.” Take me around and follow Uncle Felix to the kitchen.

The two people followed me without refuting, seeing from the gazes of the servants in this house who passed by us, I could guess that they must have come to the house a lot, already, the two were not awkward at all, especially Diana who occasionally greeted some people she knew.

Seeing Diana's familiarity with the workers at Danendra's house, I couldn't stop thinking about my presence here.

Mother, Daniel and father Davin, the three people I've always thought of as my family, turned out they weren't my family, they were blatantly using me all this time for treasure. And then in the Danendra family, I couldn't just join them, there were a lot of secrets they kept, which actually had something to do with me but I couldn't force them to explain. My position now seems to be the wrong place.

I don't know, what with waiting would be better? Or is it just that I'm waiting for a time bomb?

However, my mind came to a halt as I felt my clasped phone vibrate at the sign of an incoming call just before I sat down on the dining table chair.

An unknown number.

Without hesitation, I immediately answered the phone, “Halo.”

“Icha? It's Fiona. Remember me?”

“Yes. I remember, we met on the toilet.” My memory revolved that day, when I met Fiona in the toilet mall. The beautiful woman claims to be the granddaughter of Tiara's grandmother who is said to be a famous fortune teller in the community of fortune tellers Prognoz.

“Sorry suddenly, but can we meet now? There's something I need to talk to you about. It's critical. I'll send you the address.”

“So? Good. I'll be leaving soon.”

After a short conversation, I looked up at the two guests who were already sitting in their respective seats, then at Uncle Felix.

“Sorry, you can continue your breakfast. Consider it your own home. I have a sudden affair.”

“Oh? Miss Icha, you don't have breakfast first?” Ask uncle Felix.

I shook my head and once again paused on them, not wanting to until Fiona waited for a long time. Anyway, when he said this was important, I had a feeling it must have something to do with my turmoil.

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