Erica's Secret
The Puppet Master

Joshua breathed his cigarette smoke into the open air. He's feeling good tonight. Nothing makes him happier than knowing that he managed to play a game. A game he never expected that this would be exciting.

He smiled while holding back laughter. He drank the cold water he held in his hand. Sometimes he wiped the tears that came out because he saw a funny scene for him. While listening to the soft song, Joshua played his body following the music that rotated.

I hope that everything he does will never be in vain.

One month ago, before Jonathan and Erica's wedding...

Eshan knelt to Joshua. He doesn't know who else to ask for help.

"Why? What's up?" joshua asked astonished to see Eshan standing before Joshua.

"I can't stand the fact that my sister is married to a man like Mr. Jonathan, Mr. Joshua. I'm sorry."

"Why is that?"

"Father knows for himself what Mr. Jonathan is like. I don't want my sister to be affected by what Mr. Jonathan did."

"You think Jonathan's gonna hurt Erica?" ask Joshua.

"But you know for yourself what Mr. Jonathan did. Instead of hiding it, Amda had to reveal it."

"can't. He's my brother. Where could I possibly make a wretch of my own family."

"I have a way, sir."

"How? What way?"

"Make Mr. Jonathan confess his own crime."

Joshua laughing. "You think that's all that makes Jonathan confess his guilt?"

"At least, make Mr. Jonathan panic over what he's doing. And also create doubts in Erica's heart. The Jonathan Erica had seen all this time was the good and perfect Jonathan in her eyes. Make Erica want to expose herself to what Jonathan's doing."

"I'm not sure it's going to be easy."

"Trust me, Sir. If there is any doubt in Erica's heart, Erica will look for her own" Eshan said confidently.

"You sure?" ask Joshua.

"I'm sure, sir" Eshan replied confidently.

"Sooner or later Jonathan's dark side will be uncovered too, right?" joshua asked looking at Eshan with a meaningless smile inside. Somehow Joshua's feelings finally figured out how to dismantle Jonathan's crimes

All this time he was afraid of being considered to betray his own brother. Namu turns out God is all good. He shows the way for the bad Jonathan to unfold slowly.

They looked at each other and nodded at what they wanted to do. Then, the next day they went to Jakarta to attend the wedding of Jonathan and Erica. Eshan watched with a poignant heart as Erica greeted the lips of Jonathan.

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Erica was silent in her room. Seeing Jonathan, no longer as exciting as it used to be. He was so claustrophobic as to have a doubtful feeling in his heart like this.

"Honey. We sleep yuk." Jonathan said. Erica didn't respond to anything. He was just silent so that made Jonathan's gaze shifted to him.

"Darling?" call Jonathan again.

" Do you think I'm hiding something, Erica?" ask Jonathan. Erica was reluctant to respond to Jonathan.

"good. I'll tell you. You know when we have money there are going to be a lot of people looking for us then borrowing money. And that's it, of the many who borrow, many do not pay. Though I've worked hard to earn money and I want to help their finances. But they always say there's no money to pay the debt "

Erica still cheers him up.

"Until one day there was someone who borrowed my money over a hundred and fifty million. And I gave him that money that he turned out to use that money to gamble. While I have to make money for my new project "

Erica still looked at him.

"When I asked for the money, he said he would sell the house first. Then did he give me the money? No. gabe. He's back to gambling until his fortune's gone."

Jonathan paused for a moment.

"Until I finally asked him. How to pay off his debt to me. He said he had nothing left to sell but himself. And he offered to sell his organs if I wanted to."

Erica was aghast and started to turn her face.

"Is this all serious?" ask Erica

"Why am I lying? Ilove you. I can't possibly make up a story like that. I'd rather tell you this than I'm crazy for losing you."

Erica just shut up.

"But the moment I wanted to introduce him to the doctor to donate his kidney, he ran away. And I told my men to find out where that man is."

"Fruit?"

"Yes. I have some trusted people and I call them my subordinates."

Erica nodded.

"However, he had a knife in his pocket. At first I had no intention of hurting him. But he first attacked my men finally gave me a little lesson."

"What's that?"

"Hit him until he lost" Jonathan said.

"And finally we took him to the hospital for tests before the surgery. And we've also made the agreement signed on stamp duty. So that the treaty becomes lawful in the eyes of the law."

"Why didn't you ever tell me that?"

"If I told you, would you understand my problem?"

"at least I'm trying to understand."

"It's my fault why I didn't tell you from the beginning about my secret" Jonathan said.

Erica started to smile at Jonathan

"I don't want to burden you. But I realized, we're married. And what we're talking about there must be a lot of things. Aye right?"

Erica started to nod. Jonathan hugged her warmly. Erica would be happy to hug as usual. Tonight Erica's doubts were answered already. He hugged her tightly and wanted to go back in time, a wonderful time for both of them.