EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 337's

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Wendy signaled Cilia with her eyes to prepare for what she had just said. My gaze could not be missed staring at Cilia's back who was slowly heading towards the door and disappeared behind it.

“Are you still disappointed with Cilia?” Wendy looked at me with a small grin.

I who this time looked at him with a cold look just chuckled a little and replied, “hate? Huh! That word is too fancy for people like you.”

Wendy frowned, from her expression she did not like my answer but somehow she held back her anger.

“You really look like my sister, Mona Keilani.” I just silently looked at him, completely unappetiting to respond to his statement.

There was a fairly long pause before Wendy continued, “...you are not curious about Mona? What was he like, how was his life or how did his life end?” he folded his hands in front.

I did not let go of our gazes, folded both hands in front like Wendy did and replied, “no.”

“ha...” she clucked as if laughing at my stupidity.

“Why?”

“Why should I answer that? Especially to someone like you.”

Wendy's expression turned irritated and angry. His face turned red quickly. Seeing that, I was secretly flabbergasted in shock, because this was only the first time for me to face a person whose face was blushing quickly.

“I almost forgot that there is still Danendra family blood in your body.”

“I don't care who's blood in my body, all I care about is that for the rest of my life, it's only Aunt Rose that I've considered family.” My answer is firm and I don't care.

“Rose? Ahhh. Mona's. Right, he's dead. That woman—of course I remember.” Wendy looked dreamy, as if reminiscing about the past.

Then he grinned while looking at me, it gave me goosebumps instantly, “he was our first subject to conduct a clinical trial of the drug.”

“APA!” I was shocked. Rise up to sit up straight and look at him as sharp as I can.

“Ha ha ha!” he laughed satisfiedly at my reaction, “ very sad if remembering from whose hands he could be our first subject.”

Wendy slightly bowed, looking at me with a gaze that was playing tricks on her prey, “all of it from the hands of Mona, your real mother. He who caused Rose eventually died.”

My hands were clenched, my jaw was clenched hard and it felt like I wanted to hit this woman, but I couldn't be lured by her.

Strangely, though emotions overpower me, but I can think clearly, my head is cold to determine what to do.

“Ha ha ha.” This time I laughed, trying to imitate his laughter like before.

“Yes I know that, actually you instigated your sister to give the herbal medicine to Aunt Rose. It's worth your life to hide in a remote place like this, since you were a coward, not daring to step in front. Lookie! What was the lab called? The awira? Alila's? Whatever the name of this lab, not famous despite trying more than 27 years.” I mocked him, hoping he would get angry and leak everything.

Wendy looked at me with an angry expression, then suddenly her hand was raised to pull my head up until I had to look up and grimace at her.

“Bigger! A spoiled child like you will never understand the suffering of our family. You should know how your mother and I lived.”

Oho! It's as easy as I thought, with a bit of ridicule, he would instantly tell me everything.

“Our lives have to suffer because of the demands of parents who want their children to become professor-class. We had to suffer day and night because of the strict rules that our father gave us. We cannot play, friends are chosen by them according to the level of profit and even we can not eat if it does not meet their standards. A child like you will never understand suffering

“Haha! Of course I will never understand.” I replied directly, “but at least according to reports, your brother is not interested in all this, he will not be like you, obsessed with clinical trials of drugs.”

The clutches of his hands took off my hair, throwing me into the bed even though his sharp gaze had not changed.

“Mona too good. He obeyed all our parents' rules despite being cruel. But I can't! It all violates our right to freedom as human beings!”

I chuckle at his statement, “freedom? Hahaha that's so funny! You, the one who conducted clinical trials on humans and the one who locked me up here, talk about freedom??”

“At least, this is what I can do to satisfy their desires, to become a professor. All this time they were proud of me even though I also suffered from—” long ago

“HEI!” I pointed at him, stopping his sentence for not being able to bear to hear his defense anymore.  “You are too many reasons! The fact that you are doing illegal actions is inevitable.”

THE PLAQUE!

His hand floated up to slap my left cheek.

There was a small sigh and twitching pain from receiving the slap, but I did not waver at all to look back at him sharply.

“Little boy, you will never understand our suffering.” Wendy was still defending herself, she said with emphasis as if she was suppressing her past trauma.

“Understanding? You seriously say that now?” I mocked him again, and said, “do you want people to understand you? or do you just want to believe that the one who suffers is just you?”

Wendy looked at me, she suddenly fell silent, seemingly thinking about what I said.

“But, just because you suffer, does not mean you can make others suffer too or you can do anything!”

However, our chat had to stop hearing the sound of the door on a slow tap, followed by the figure of Cilia who entered. I could see one of his hands carrying an injection and a small medicine bottle.

“It looks like I interrupted your exciting chat.” He said as he approached us. He looked calm and his face smiled at me, exuding an innocent aura.

I threw my face away, not wanting to talk to him.

“Whatever you said earlier, will not stop us from making you the subject of research, because before, this hormone poison has no effect on you.” Wendy's expression turned calm.

“Hahaha. Absolutely classic. Criminals like you are always in movie scenes, novels even soap operas.” Mumbles.

“Aha! That means I'm the main character here. Then, Bayu will definitely save me calmly, ambush you from behind and finally imprison you. Don't all criminals end up like that? They are overconfident as if the world is under their feet.”

I could see Wendy clenching her hands furiously, while Cilia looked at me with a frown. At least, attack is the best defense in war. That's what I'm doing, I'm going to keep making Wendy upset and angry, even though I've been nervous since I realized, my attack has no protective armor, no protective armor, I don't know what Wendy would do if she couldn't stand me.

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