
"Have you seen this bracelet, Sha?"
Shanon nodded his head. "Is this Ethan's?"
"No, it doesn't belong to Ethan. Arsen, can I just keep the bracelet? I've seen this bracelet someone wears, but I'm not too sure."
"Of course, Sha."
Arsen then gave the bracelet to Shanon, and he seemed to observe for a moment the bracelet in his hand while smiling wryly.
"Udah yuk darling, we eat malem first for provisions."
"Equired what?"
"Energy in the room after eating malem."
"Basic!" reply Shanon while touching Arsen's forehead.
After dinner, they went upstairs. "Arsen, I'll take the cell phone to the room first."
"Yes dear."
Shannon then picks up her phone, and when she sees the screen, she turns her eyes wide when she reads a message from Ethan saying that she is going home, and is likely to get home the next day.
After reading the message, Shanon rushed into Arsen's room, which was sitting at his desk.
"Arsen!"
"What's up, Sha?" asked Arsen when he saw Shanon who currently looked so panicked.
"Arsen, look at this!" shanon answered while showing Ethan the message he sent.
"So, Ethan's coming home tomorrow?"
Shannon nodded her head. "What should we do, Arsen?"
Arsen then held onto Shanon's shoulder and raised his chin. "Look at me, Sha! You believe me, right?"
Shanon nodded his head. "Then how do you feel about Ethan?"
"See, Arsen. I don't know, for now it's very hard to believe him after all the lies he's done to me. But, after all, he is my husband. I honestly don't know what to do."
"So you don't trust Ethan anymore?"
Shanon nodded his head back. "Good Sha, then it looks like I have to tell you a secret."
"Consecrated? What secret?"
"Sha, you know about our past, right? Then, do you think I want to live in one house with my first love married to another man?"
"That's my question, Arsen. There's gotta be one reason you're going home, though that means you have to endure your heartache from having to stay at home with me and Mas Ethan, right?"
"You're right, Sha. There was a certain reason that made me choose to go home and live with you guys, it was because I found something strange in Papa's company, there were some strange transactions, fictitious projects, some kind of thing, even the losses were quite significant in the last two years. And, do you know, actually what made your parents' business go bankrupt in Japan was Ethan's sister."
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"I have proof, Sha. At that time our subsidiary also attended a tender held in Japan, and a few days before the tender presentation, one of Kak Ethan's men stole data to be presented by a company owned by your parents. He was working with an insider who worked at your father's company, and it just so happened that he made that design. After that incident, your father got into a lot of trouble about theft, copyright, and loss of trust from clients. That's what caused your parents' business to go bankrupt, Sha."
Shanon was so angry to hear Arsen's words, his chest seemed to rise and fall accompanied by a breath that was so roaring. "Basic jerkkkkkk! So, she's the one who actually caused my parents that disaster?"
Arsen nodded his head. "Basic jerkkkkk! You fuck, Ethan! Damn you!"
"Sha, calm yourself, Sha."
"Arsen, please tell me, why did he do all that to us? What a mistake we made on him that cornered us and so foolishly followed the scenario from him!" furious Shanon.
"Not you, but me."
Shannon looked at Arsen. "Whataa?"
"Yes Sha, the main goal of Ethan's game is not you but me."
"You? Why should you, Arsen?"
"Because he wants to knock me down mentally. He knows I love you so much, Sha. Do you know, back when I lost you, I was so devastated, my life was so messy, I was almost crazy and so desperate to live this life. He knows I love you so much, and after knowing you're in Japan, Ethan's sister ruined your parents' business, so you could get into his trap. That's why she married you, to ruin my life, and to make me fall. She must have thought that if you married her, I wouldn't go home and she'd be free to run Papa's company."
"Gosh, so he's doing all this to get Papa's company?"
"Yes dear."
"So the meaning of your return to Indonesia to seize Papa's company?"
"And snatch you, dear," Arsen replied, then kissed Shanon's lips which made the look of Shanon's face red. Arsen chuckled at Shanon's behavior.
"Arsen, then what should I do?"
"Descending from Ethan's brother, I don't want you to serve him as his wife."
"Maha..."
"So you're jealous?"
"Of course."
"Don't serve, Ethan. Now serve me," said Arsen, carrying Shanon's body onto the bed.
"Aaaaaa... Arsenic...."
***
The clock was showing at 07:00 a.m., a man came out of the airport in a hurry. After that, he seemed to get inside the black-colored car that had been waiting for him.
"Let's go now!" the man orders his personal driver.
Before long, they had arrived at a small house on the outskirts of the city. He got out of the car, rushed into the house, and opened one of the rooms in the house. He then approached a bed in the room and smiled at the man who appeared to be lying weakly on the bed.
"How are you, Papa?"
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