EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 55's

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If indeed later he will be fed up and leave me, at least I can feel loved. At least this time I want to change the perception of fear left behind replaced with a precious moment in my life.

“Do not pity me.” I warned him again.

“What happened to you? Say!” Bayu looks start to fidget and worry. He held his sitting position.

“I'm sick. I was in the hospital for over a week. Actually, the kidnapping on the train that afternoon,

I will take the land certificate to give to my mother with the Cilia doctor accompanying me. At first he didn't let me out of the hospital but he allowed it after he was the one who would accompany me.” I looked at her, Bayu was speechless not saying anything. I then stood up, behind him while staring at the flickering stars above the sky.

“This pain happened after I disconnected you, after graduating High School I traumatized can no longer bear to hear all the words of mother if she does not like me who is chatty, if it wasn't for my voice maybe mom and dad wouldn't have parted. And you know, actually that trauma came up again recently. In the past week I couldn't hear my voice until the time of the abduction I was still sick until when you came, you pulled my hand yesterday and I could hear my voice again.”

“What's that sounding word Sorry?” I turned and answered him. Bayu sighed and then got up. He immediately hugged me carefully so as not to touch my injured left shoulder.

“You've been working hard all this time. I'm so proud.” His whisper next to my ear. I just sniffled small

from behind his back.

“You're mine now, hm? I may not be the best man but I will try my best for you. I'm sorry for being insensitive all this time. I'm sorry to let you say sorry for the first time after your voice came back. And thank you for telling me about your problem.”

My right hand lifted back in his arms. The heavy weight that was on my shoulders seemed to be lifted by half. “I also want to thank you for making me feel like the luckiest woman in the world.”

Bayu let go of our embrace, he looked at me deeper with worried eyes. Both hands

raised cupped my cheek. “Tonight think nothing of it. You need to rest, look at your pale face. I've been patient enough since I didn't pull you to lie down to sleep.”

This man was trying to melt the atmosphere.

“You also have to shave, this has grown again.” I replied while touching his chin. My palm felt a sharp damage from its short hairs.

Bayu reflex rubbed his chin and nodded slowly. “You're right, I'll later borrow the razor to the village chief.”

I nodded slowly while removing the hairdo that was blocking my view from the wind.

Bayu's fingers also helped me to tidy up my hair.

“Come, you must rest until our flight.” But I shakes her rejecting it.

“It's a shame to miss this beautiful sky, hm?”

As if knowing I would answer that, Bayu sat back down and pulled me closer. “I'll keep you company until you fall asleep.”

“What?? I'm not a kid.”

This man ignored my words and pulled my hand back, making me sit sideways on his thigh. Then he allowed the blanket on my shoulder to cover my body, one of his hands was coiled on my back and my head he pulled so I could lean on his shoulder.

After I felt a comfortable position, Bayu rubbed my head with his other free hand and said. “Now sleep baby. Take it easy you will be safe. Don't dream of anything, sleep.”

I just laughed a little at it, she called me a darling that tickled my ears. But she also knew what I was thinking, I would not be able to calm down if I had to sleep in a foreign place let alone this place where I was kidnapped.

“My grandmother used to sing lulabi songs when I was a kid first, but she always slept first.” We laughed after hearing her words.

“Tell me again about your grandmother.” My eyes began to close while yawning, it felt very comfortable to hear the voice and heartbeat of this man. But I actually don't hear anything anymore. I fell asleep so fast.

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“People you've been helping with their school fees, people who have been secretly using your money for failed investments. The one who boldly borrows money to the loan shark and takes your name. That guy's Daniel.”

My eyes slowly became clear, I could see the ceiling of the familiar wooden house. I already exist

at the house of the woman who led me up the hill. Then my ears heard the sounds of feet passing by.

As I was about to get up and sit down, I felt my left hand being held back by something. It turned out that there was a cloth coiling around my neck to support this left hand of mine. And again now that I'm wearing a dark green sweater, someone must have changed my clothes.

Although a little hard, but finally I can sit leaning on the head of the bed. I rubbed this sweat on my forehead and neck with the back of my hand and my breath felt extremely hot. Many times I had to close my eyes to relieve dizziness and immediately grabbed my phone located on a small table on the edge of the bed.

As soon as the screen is turned on, the time shows at five in the morning. I only slept for two more hours.

Then the sound of the door of this room opened which immediately got my full attention. A man in dress

an all-black with bulletproof vests on his body appeared from there.

“Oh Hello.” Sweep smiling.

I smiled back to let this man slowly approach me. Now I can clearly see many of the tools attached to his legs as well as his arms. I can only guess there's a gun and a small knife between those pockets.

I remember his face clearly. He's one of the Bayu team members I met at the mall incident. His body is shorter than the rest of the group.

“Captain asked me to check your condition before the flight home. Take it easy, I am a doctor graduate in the military academy.” He pulled up the chair to sit next to me. The man opened the medicine box he had been carrying.

“Include my name Jack. They used to call me Snoopy.” He again pulled out a device to measure blood pressure.

“Natasha. Just call me Icha.” My reply noticed that it was starting to check on me.

“When are we leaving?” I break the silence.

“About thirty minutes more waiting for other members to come over to check this place.”

“Other members? Oh what time did you come?”

“Tim Shadow came at three this morning.” I nodded, guessing if team shadow was the name of team Bayu.

“Waahh you have to drink a lot. You must be dehydrated and feeling weak.” His comments after checking my blood pressure. I just nodded in confirming.

“With your condition of fever, dehydration, injured hands and shoulders like this should be brought immediately to

hospital to prevent things from happening worse.” He said after checking everything and he was cleaning his equipment. I accidentally saw a plastic containing an empty injection, the same injection Rey gave me.

“The injection is from Bayu?” I asked. Jack who knew I pointed at the item nodded then replied.

“Injections contain this poison which is the hallmark of the group being pursued by the government. They are very

smart and always move around without leaving a trace.”

“You will check the poison type?”

“Yes, doctor Stefan is in charge. I'll give it to him soon.”

“What do you think? What is dangerous poison?” I'm wondering because since Mike's incident

injecting it to me, I have not felt anything other than just dizziness from fever.

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