HE IS ME
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The breeze fluttered the hair that no longer looked perfectly black. There were some strands that had turned white but could not reduce the beautiful aura emanating from her face.
The mound of land that looked calm with a sprinkling of flowers on it seemed very tempting his eyes to keep staring there. Lidia re-attached her sunglasses to cover the reddened eyes from crying.
Just came back to meet the late husband at his final resting place after so many years did not make Lydia forget a single word.Not a word came out of her lips from the beginning. Only a strand of prayer was spoken through the look of his eyes that could not be separated staring at the name painted above the navel.
"I'm home!!" In the end, the voice sounded raucous at the end of his composure. Lidia stepped slowly away from the public cemetery and put her glasses back on.
His move must have been towards the car parked by the roadside purposely waiting for him. The car moved slowly after Lidia's body entered and sat comfortably there.
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"There are activities that are done repeatedly in a room. Sometimes they come in carrying eating supplies at certain hours. But strangely, when we tried to find a spot to peek inside. There was no one there, even the room only had a large bookcase and a table with one chair. There's a couch in the corner but no sign of life in it." Anton's message went into Alex's phone.
The man scrunched his temple. What other secrets are there. The existence of the mansion which turned out to be the property of both Jenita's parents alone made Alex stunned. Even his father, Kuncoro did not know about the house.
"Huuft, I think I should ask auntie this. Only he knows the ins and outs of the house."
Alex turned his head towards the courtyard of the house where a car had just entered and stopped there. Jenita came out with a fluffy smile on her pretty face. Andrian came out and closed the car door next to the wheel. The handsome chef stepped behind Jenita who had stepped foot first entering the house.
"Home home?" Alex welcomes his unconscious with both hands wide open. Jenita who saw it chuckled and stepped quickly into the warm embrace of a very lover.
Alex repeatedly kisses Jenita on the top of her head before guiding her to a seat. Andrian who witnessed it smiled a little, although his heart was a little pain but there was a sincere smile on his face when he saw how Jenita laughed freely in Alex's arms.
On the seat of the body in front of the couple who still hug each other. Trying to act normal and put a smile on her lips.
"How was it today?" Alex asked back.
Jenita frowned considering how the cake she made earlier. While Andrian chuckled at the expression of the girl who always looked adorable. With a slight tone of ridicule Andrian told what happened in the shophouse earlier. It made Alex want to laugh but was stopped after seeing how the woman glared her eyes sharply.
Their joke stopped when Lydia's car came in. The middle-aged woman in all-black clothes and also the sunglasses perched in her eyes appeared to descend and step into the house. Her hair that was left to be draped waved in the wind. His stern face displayed a beautiful smile when he looked at the three people who were staring at him in the living room.
"Where's my mom from?" Jenita breaks her hug on Alex and switches to sitting near the very mama.
"Papa's resting place." He answered quietly while putting the glasses and small bag he carried on the table.
"Papa's grave? why didn't you ask Jen to come along? Jen wants to visit, too." The girl looked at me towards the very mama who just smiled while caressing the cheek of the dear princess.
The ambiguous words that came out from Lydia's lips seemed to be teasing her heart. Many secrets were still kept by the old woman. Alex glanced at Andrian who did the same to him. It seemed like the handsome chef also had the same opinion about what they heard.
"Ehm, tan. Can I ask you something?" Alex can't wait anymore. And the nod of Lydia's head made her smile.
"The reading room or maybe it can be called a workspace in the private residence of om and aunt." Alex saw that Lydia was a little shocked by what she had just said.
"Working space on the 2nd floor? the room at the end of the stairs on the right?"
"Ehm, Alex doesn't know for sure tan. But Alex's men found some pride that happened in the room. At certain hours there will be people in and out there. And strangely they brought a kind of tray that was somehow contained, but sometimes they saw there was food brought. And even stranger, in the room it looks quiet and no meaningful activity even though there are people who enter it."
"Why did I forget it." Screeched Lydia slowly.
Jenita who all wrestled spoiled on the arms of the mother immediately took off her embrace. He looked at the face of the mother who looked glass.
"There is a secret room behind a large closet in Mas Ikbar's workroom on the 2nd floor. The room is translucent with several other rooms on the 1st floor, especially in other workspaces located on the 1st floor.But the road to be able to enter the room on the 1st floor can only be accessed through the side garden. There's an exit."
"In the workspace on the 1st floor there will be no buttons or anything to enter the secret room. The entrance is only visible inside the 2nd floor room.However we can still enter it through the side garden."
"There was some sort of bulkhead that bounded between the secret rooms of the 1st and 2nd floors. Although the two are connected, the road passes through them using only a symbol. And Ikbar used morse as his password. The wall will shift and open when the password is pressed on the lower side of the wall on the left. There is a lamp attached that has a dual function. The lights on both sides were blocked only by the parapet."
"So we can go from two sides with the same password?" Alex said and thought for a moment after hearing Lydia's words.
Geniuses
One word that can be caught by him to describe how the father of the lover made things that may not be thought of by others.
No one can pass through the two places even though they are connected without a password that is the key. People who could enter either through the 1st or 2nd floor would be trapped behind the wall without being able to get out.
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