Forced Marriage Alea
PPA 96# The Past

"Do you have anything to do with this, Erica?" said Bayu after Ravka left his study.

"Papa accusing me?" sambar Erica won't take it.

"I ask, not accuse," Bayu replied straightforwardly.

"I don't know anything about the company, Pa. And I don't want to interfere" Erica said.

"Why did you ask Alex to marry Sherly?" cycar Bayu's.

"Because Papa always made golden children of Ravka. I just hope this way Papa can see Alex as Papa's grandson. He is willing to do anything so that Papa does not always turn his face away from him" said Erica sarcas.

"I've never distinguished them. I just don't like Alex's attitude that is too free and irresponsible" Bayu said.

"Hhhh .. " sighed Erica annoyed. "From the beginning, we never expected. Had it not been for Mas Dika's request to continue to strengthen the family ties with Dinata, I might have returned to America" Erica turned her face away.

There was such a huge feeling of disappointment in his heart. Her eyes began to glaze over as she again mentioned the name of the husband who had long since left her.

"Bak, less good especially Papa is the same? You really don't know yourself, Mom!" tukas Dilla rough.

Derry grabs Dilla's hand, gesturing her not to start an argument with her late brother's wife.

"Why Mas? you still want to defend him? you still love her?" tuding Dilla to her husband.

"It's not so Ma. Why are you bringing up everything that's long gone?" said Derry softly, trying to calm the heart of Dilla who seemed to have begun to spark the flames of jealousy.

"I'm sick of Erica's hurt attitude in this house" Dilla smiled, looking at Erica sharply, "as if she were the only victim here."

"The reality is like that, Dilla. Me and Dika love each other. Our lives are happy abroad. Just because Mas Dika still considers this family, that's why we came back here. But what do I and my son get here? Just hatred from Papa,"

"Erica enough, don't overdo it. You have always been selfish. Because of your selfishness and Mas Dika, the two families became hostile and almost destroyed the company" said Derry began to be provoked emotions.

"That's enough. I ask you to come here to resolve the issue. Not to see you fighting here," said Bayu mediate the dispute that began to arise.

Dilla's face seemed to hold back indignation and disapproval of her father-in-law's decision. Same with Erica. Only Derry is seen trying to control himself so as not to drift in emotions.

"This time, it's not a minor issue. We have absolutely no idea what really happened. But I believe everything that has happened is related. And it all started when you caught Ravka with Alea in the hotel room back then,"

"I don't understand what the company had to do with the events of that time?" sambar Derry with eyebrows interlocked.

"Ravka had trouble putting together the puzzle that night because she couldn't find the motive for the trap. But later he discovered all planned fraud was done inside the company. It seems like what is happening inside the company, related to her entrapment," explained Bayu to the child and his two daughters-in-law who still showed a confused look.

"Therefore, I ask you to speak truthfully here. Especially you Erica," said Bayu later.

"I don't know anything about trapping or anything. Especially the problems that concern the company," said Erica indifferent.

"Aren't you the first to know about what happened in a hotel room?" ask Bayu again.

"It's not me, but Sherly. We were shopping together at the time. He suddenly gets shocked to get a call from someone who says Ravka is having an affair in a hotel room. She was hysterical at the time. I tried to calm him down. Then we decided to catch Ravka. I did deliberately contact Dilla, so that she knows how the behavior of her proud child," explained Erica at length.

"It really means to me that this is all still something to do with past grudges?!" bayu murmured faintly in the ears of the other three people who were in the room.

"I still don't understand what Papa means" said Derry with both eyes tapering sharply.

"Do you know who Sherly really is?" bayu asked the three who still looked at her in wonder.

The three shook their heads. Bayu took a deep breath once again. He did not expect that the root of this problem was from a mistake in the past.

"Sherly is Elijah's nephew" Bayu's words make his son and daughter-in-law widen their eyes.

Elijah's name caused the four people who were in the room to drift in their minds. However, the four of them were thinking of interrelated matters.

Their minds floated on the scene more than thirty years ago. At that time, Derry was forced to marry his friend who is now faithful to accompany his day and give him three sons and daughters. Derry is forced to marry Dilla because her fiance is none other than Erica, run away on her wedding day. Worse yet, Erica runs away with Derry's own sister, Dika. At that time, Dika also had a fiancee named Elijah.

"How could he have anything to do with Elijah? Was not Elijah an only child?" said Derry still flabbergasted.

"I've only known this for a while now. While conducting an investigation into the trapping of Ravka," Bayu said later.

Hearing the baby's speech, Derry's mind returned to glare. Derry still remembers well after the escape of Dika and Erica abroad, Elijah went berserk because he did not accept the betrayal of Dika and avenged by trying to destroy Dinata group which was then still a national-scale company. Unfortunately Elijah's efforts were in vain, the destruction turned instead on the company of his own parents. Elijah has been lost to the earth ever since.

"It looks like Sherly was deliberately feeding herself into our family. I also did not realize when Ferdi so intensely cooperated with Dinata Group. He has a clean background as an investor. That's why I easily fell into his trap,"

"But we've known the Ferdi family for a dozen years. Even Sherly's closeness to Ravka is not a blink of an eye" Dilla said.

"It seems like they did plan this very carefully. Until we are overwhelmed by the kindness and sincerity they seek to show. Ferdi turns out to be Elijah's sister. Therefore they do not have the same family clan and it is very easy to blur the closeness of the relationship between them," explained Bayu again.

Erica's face looked pias. His body was as if a boneless warp that was able to refute him to stay firm. He did not expect at all that his son would get karma for his bad behavior in the past. Even he himself has plunged Alex into ruin by marrying Sherly. He who has pushed even forced Alex to get recognition from his in-laws. In fact, it will only bring downfall for the only child he has.

"It's very late now. We have to talk about this again after the kids know what really happened. You have to be prepared for everything that Erica can do. This will affect Alex's household" Bayu said, closing his eyes slowly before taking a deep breath.

"It's time for Papa to take the medicine. I'll take Papa to the room" said Dilla to see Bayu who looked exhausted.

Dilla invites Bayu out of the room with a mind that is still floating thinking of Sherly. While behind him Derry still hasn't budged from his seat.

"Do you know Erica? All of your living expenses and Alex's diving in are thanks to Papa's kindness. It's just that he won't let anyone tell you the truth,"

"I live on my husband's legacy" Erica said softly with the remaining strength she still had.

"As you know, Mas Dika took you abroad by selling a number of company assets that Papa has built from zero" said Derry with great emphasis. "We are quite difficult to be able to rise from the slump due to the actions of the two of you," continued Derry with blasphemous eyes.

Erica was silent at Derry's words. He could not deny that what was said by Derry is true. They can survive in a foreign country thanks to assets belonging to the Dinata family who had been taken away by her late husband. However, on the land of the region they can achieve success. Until Dika was sentenced to have cancer and expect forgiveness from family. For this reason, they returned to Indonesia and met her husband's family.

"One thing you didn't know all along. Mas Dika came back here not only to get sorry from us. But he also begged us to be willing to accept you. You and Alex. Willing to keep you as he left you, because the company he built in America was declared bankrupt. The company can continue to stand and can make money sent to your account every month because of the injection of funds from Papa. Papa also sent his widest man so that the company could get out of his slump," explained Derry at length before he followed his wife out of his father's office. Leaving behind Erica who was already flooded with tears.

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