EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 338's

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“How is the situation Gilbert?” Wendy asked without looking at Cilia.

“Gilbert is already in his base, They can run away with as many members as possible, other members are willing to sacrifice themselves to slow down the police.” Wendy's face grew worse when she heard Cilia's reply.

Although Wendy did not notice, but I who was staring at the two of them saw Cilia who was secretly glancing at Wendy before she asked in an awkward tone, “? Will the police be able to track them and us?”

Only then did Wendy turn around to look at Cilia seriously and reply calmly, “we've been involved with the police a lot. It must be the same. After all—” the woman turned back to look at me with a satisfied smile.

“Your husband, Bayu, even if in the end they know there is a base here, but it will be too late. They will be busy searching at other headquarters first. So, during the wait, I will use you as much as possible. Ha ha ha ha.”

I was made to creep at his statement. It was not fear that dominated, but a feeling of disgust and helplessness. I still can't believe it and don't want to admit it as someone who shares the same blood as me.

Then without saying anything more, Wendy asked for the thing Cilia was carrying through her hands. My eyes twitched imagining what if the dose he injected this time would really affect me?

My reflex jumped off this bed, running towards the window that was covered in black duct tape from the outside, trying to find a gap to look out. At least I should find out where this place is and will later plan an escape after they let their guard down.

Although the gap is very small, but I can see out with a glance. The frown on my forehead was getting deeper looking at what I found outside.

Tap

Someone patted me on the shoulder from behind and then his great strength dragged me backwards and pushed me to the cold floor.

Wendy, she who dragged me was standing looking at me down with a mocking smile as if she was satisfied seeing my confused expression.

“As I said earlier, you won't be able to get out of here.”

Unknowingly I gulped with great difficulty, because what I saw just now were houses and similar scenes in a village. But the silence around me confused me even more.

A lot of guesses I'm thinking about right now, this weird silence is like there's nobody but us here, which means it's a village that's been abandoned and left empty. Or the villagers here have been subjected to experiments by Wendy and they are somewhere now.

The afternoon sky I saw also looked beautiful and bright. The orange color that dominates the sky reminds me of Bayu.

Heh.

What's he doing now? Maybe he was busy, struggling to catch these people.

“Tell me, exactly what effect do you guys think after the poison gets into someone's body?” suddenly I was curious, when thinking of Bayu, I became rather curious about the hormone poison they would give. Wouldn't it be useless if they had to give it to me now if the side effects of the poison would make someone sick while falling in love?

“Their head and heart—” Wendy pointed at her left head and chest, “will be in pain as they fall in love.” He continued shrugging his shoulders, as if it were normal.

“You're not in love with Bayu? Your husband? The guy who looks like he'll give you a star if you ask him?”

I chuckled at her, got up to stand up to face her and said, “what do you think was when I was in the hospital since Nadya injected the poison? I was unconscious for a few days while Bayu was busy working and coming home at night. Hahaha geez.” Realizing that they cannot know what is happening in the hospital means that Bayu managed to limit the information that came out.

Of course my words were half lying, remembering how Bayu hugged me while crying and we chatted afterwards, not even though I wasn't in love. My heart skipped a beat like a teenager falling in love for the first time, but I didn't feel any pain.

Wendy's face turned grim, her eyes glanced at Cilia and looked back at me who said, “what are you injecting poison on me to avenge the Danendra family? Your sister is the woman who gave birth to her child, the 2nd wife, just that ‘ right? Because aunt Rose is the woman that Evano's father loved and was his first wife.”

I came to a quick conclusion because they were determined to see me suffer from the hormone poison.

“You said that as if Mona's sister was someone else. Remember, she's your birth mother.” I, who was the first to hear Cilia's cold tone, turned to look at her.

My still calm and indecipherable expression made Cilia's annoyance clearly visible for the first time, “maybe, it is indeed a clear fact that she is my real mother, she said, but I don't know him and people no one's ever talked about him. I'm sure he won't mind my attitude without putting the past on hold. Precisely—” my eyes back to look at Wendy.

“It feels like I have no face to face my husband and his family considering that people like you share the same blood as me. It was better from the beginning that you did not appear in front of me for the sake of each of us happy lives.”

PLAAKKS

A hand slapped me harder than the first, causing my balance to falter and I fell down. As the pain spread from the corner of my lips, my tongue and my nose could feel blood from there.

My eyes glanced at who had slapped me hard. That person was Cilia.

He was looking at me with his arms raised and breath panting as if he was suppressing his anger. My eyes glared back at him and I immediately got up to stand facing him.

PLAAACA

Without warning I slapped him as hard as I could. But I had to be disappointed after seeing the result, only her cheeks were slightly flushed with no blood there, whereas I wanted to avenge her slap this one.

“How dare you, a criminal in the guise of a doctor suit slapped me! Who are you, huh?!” I was angry, my hands clenched hard, wanting to hit him again.

Wendy's hand immediately patted Cilia's shoulder as if she was introducing her, “dia Cilia, the child adopted by our parents. He's the youngest child in the family.”

“Hahaha. Just deserve.” I muttered to understand why he was that emotional when I talked about family.

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