La Luna (Bias Asa)
Chapter 57

"It's been a while?"

"Lumayan, Uncle. I went to Elea's room because I saw Uncle wasn't there" said Stefan, who was already in Ellard's study. Where they both promised Alex this afternoon. And even now it's dark. Alex has not been seen there.

"We'll wait for Alex for a second. He's still meeting some of his informants."

"Informant to find Luna?" Ellard nodded.

"Uncle can find him today?" Impatient Stefan immediately stood up to convince himself, that what he heard was not wrong.

"Hopefully. At the latest tomorrow, they have to work hard to be able to quickly find out" Ellard said.

The man spoke while watching the square-shaped advanced object in front of him. Occasionally Ellard seemed to shake his head with a sinister smile adorning his lips.

"Hows it? Did you find the phone?" ask Ellard to close the macbook immediately.

"Nothing, Uncle. Just Luna's bag and cell phone. And the phone they're talking about, I can't find anywhere."

Stefan threw his gaze in another direction. He lied, and certainly could not look into the eyes of the uncle. The man is trying to solve this problem himself.

"Then how will they contact you if the phone doesn't exist?"

"Come, Uncle. Maybe they'll send it again" said Stefan. As much as possible the man avoided talking about cell phones.

"Adam's out of the country."

Ellard suddenly opened up about her daughter-in-law.

"What?" Stefan blinked, remembering some of the man's messages on Luna's phone that had been read at a glance earlier.

Even Luna did not answer the call or reply to the message that the man sent. Shouldn't he be worried. Or at least tell people to look at Luna. But it doesn't seem like Adam did, until he doesn't know if Luna's missing.

"Yes, he went out of the country with his mother, to find his sister" Ellard said. The middle-aged man knocked on the table with his fingers repeatedly.

"There's a problem in their family, Uncle?" ask Stefan to know.

"His secretary said that Adam's younger brother, who was believed to be his personal assistant, suddenly ran away and was without news. Moreover, the girl had just been trusted to hold it."

Ellard seemed relaxed about it. Stefan had predicted,

"Then how is the responsibility ? Isn't Uncle Commissioner there?"

Ellard cleared his throat before answering. The middle-aged man seemed to be regulating his emotions.

"He did not report anything to me, as the father of his wife and owner even though legally the company was already owned by Luna. Even with his sudden overseas trip, I was not told either. Let's see, I'll make a calculation at a time when it's never been suspected."

Ellard's breath is hunting. The Uncle seemed to hold a deep disappointment in his daughter-in-law.

"Does Uncle already have a lot of evidence about him?"

"Yes. Aglen kept it. I'm going to unpack everything along with who's been harassing our family lately. I'm already very upset with them. I never nudged anyone into raising my company in Canada, Stef. But they're harassing me."

Ellard clenched his hand. Then hit his desk a few times. The man who still looked handsome at his age who was no longer young was furious with people who deliberately sought things with him.

"How's Luna's company in trouble?"

"Quiet, Uncle. Everything smoothly. Police have not disclosed their investigation. Seems like it was deliberately stretched, I don't know what to wait for. The company is under control."

Stefan did guarantee he would help whatever he could. In addition to the brotherhood and the uncle who was closer to him since childhood, of course because two women are very meaningful in his life.

"Sorry, Sir. I'm late." Alex enters Ellard's study with breath still hunting. Looks like Ellard's bodyguard ran to get here.

The master simply nodded, and did not comment anything. Because fortunately he can still discuss other things with Stefan while waiting for his men. Otherwise, the starch of the middle-aged man would be wrathful.

After breathing out, Alex approached.

"Sir, of the few informants we hired, they called a place that served as the headquarters and containment place of Mrs Luna."

Afterwards Alex walked closer to the side of the master, then was seen whispering something in Ellard's ear.

"Isn't that place on Victoria Island?"

Ellard's forehead was wrinkled to hear it. That place is far away from its location.

"Yes, Sir. And it was true that Lu Xi's gang worked for someone influential in Canada. But our informant has not found who that person is" Alex confirmed.

Even things that are usually easy for Alex to know this time are deadlocked. The brain of all this is hiding well.

"Then what are our plans, Uncle?" ask Stefan who has been listening. The man recorded Alex's every utterance in his memory.

"There is a lot of dry land. So there are only a few houses, and as I recall almost all of the buildings are pretty far from the beach. Did they find the exact point, Lex?"

Ellard opened her macbook, displaying a map of Victoria Island in detail.

"here, Sir. A little further from the beach." Alex matched the info he got with the master's map.

Ellard mapped the distance between the beach to be used as a place to go down by them to the building used by the people's headquarters.

"O yes Uncle, means tomorrow we leave in the afternoon?" ask Stefan to make sure.

"Yes, we better leave when it is light and until dark. The night will help us outwit them. I can't wait to exercise again. I want to live a quiet life in my retirement. But things like I can't avoid."

Ellars bent her fingers until they rattled. The middle-aged man looks still very strong to act as he did in his past with William.

"Well, tomorrow we're ready at 4pm here" Ellard said.

"Tomorrow I'll let you go for a minute to my apartment, Uncle. I had my weapon ready but I forgot to bring it. And tonight, may I stay here again, in Elea's room?" stefan Pinta.

"Of course, Stef. It's better you hang out and play with Elea. Let me take care of the others. One of us still has to give him attention. I don't want my granddaughter to be lonely here" Ellard said.

The middle-aged man left with Alex after Stefan left first and headed for his little daughter's room.

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"What are you gonna do with him?" angeline asked a woman who covered her face as long as she was in their current hiding place.

The two women were watching Luna from outside. Through translucent glass that is only unidirectional.

"Eitherway. Don't you want to do something with him after he insulted you at the police station?" The woman in question threw the question back at Angeline.

"of course. But I'm afraid I'm gonna ruin my Papa's reputation. I've been hiding all this from him. Because he usually knows all my mischief."

Angeline was doubtful of what she had done this time. Though he had gone a long way and bravely did bad things to Luna and the Efrain family.

That rich lady can't come back? Because his involvement has reached 80%, and the woman with him is certainly not going to let Angeline hands off.

"Is your whole life going to depend on your father? And hide behind his big name? Angeline, you're Peterson's sole heir. You're the only legitimate child your father has." The woman approaches, trying to influence Angeline.

"Although legitimate I'm not the only one, brother. There was Nathan and Daniel from my father's second wife, though my mother and our extended family never admitted it."

Angeline. Wiped away the tears that slid unexcusedly on both of his cheeks. His heart was in remembrance of the father's betrayal of his mother. That's why Ronald Peterson defended his daughter so much despite knowing what Angeline was doing wrong.

"They are not legally legitimate. They were both born out of your father's affair. And they shouldn't have gotten the family's property."

"I'm not that strong, brother. Papa is still the one who never listens to others, hard including me."

Angeline's breath puffed. So far the nickname trouble maker that he bears is not something that he does not care about. The girl deliberately made a fuss here to get the father's attention. But even ended up always resolved under the hands of the man who used to be very respectful of it.

"Then do what you like. Isn't it nice to hurt that woman. He's the one who made Stefan reject you. And you're more everything than that bastard son of the Efrain family." That soft yet sharp whisper jolted Angeline.

"A bastard?" Angeline turned her head, looking at the woman she called Kak looking for the truth.

"Luna's father and mother never married. Efrain's blood was flowing in his body, but it wasn't illegitimate, just like your brothers,"

the woman pressed.

He will attack Angeline by influencing her. So that the rich girl remains his accomplice in hurting Luna.

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"Uncle, why is it so long?" elea's whine was late hearing the door of her room being opened by someone.

"Yes, I'm sorry Uncle, honey. This is Uncle already here."

Stefan approached the little girl. Then take a seat next to him. Jemari Stefan formed a comb and gently stroked Elea's black mane.

"Let's play again, Uncle! But El is so sleepy."

Elea was in her subconscious. Every now and then the little girl blinked trying to open her heavy eyes.

"Just get some sleep, let Uncle stay with you" Stefan said.

"Later if El sleeps, Uncle must leave El," whined Elea spoiled.

"No. Uncle will accompany, El. Until this beautiful little Uncle girl sleeps and wakes up again tomorrow."

Stefan's faint smile was visible. He's been so happy with Elea all day.

"Promise?"

Elea folds her fingers and thrusts in front of Stefan. The man scooped it up slowly.

"Yes, Honey. Are you_"

Next came Elea's subtle snoring which made Stefan not continue his speech.

Apparently Elea had unknowingly fallen asleep.

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