Reaching the Moon
Chapter 16

The night is getting late, the air temperature is getting colder. The wind blows through the face like a slap that pierces to the bone. No one can deny that it was the right moment to pamper yourself on the island of kapok soft-covered and warm.

However, in contrast to Nizam who was still at home standing on the balcony of his room. The cold temperature was not much heeded by the man. His mind was so confused and restless until three in the morning his eyes were still reluctant to be closed.

Nizam's mind was filled with Aura's shadow and the fond memories they had shared since childhood. The man's gaze now turned soft, then turned to look towards the pavilion not far from his backyard.

"I'm sorry Aura, it seems like my heart has managed to open up again for someone." Nizam smiled wryly then looked at the sky. "When it wasn't quite a year after you left, my heart was stuck with another woman. Am I too lazy?"

"Yes, take it that way, I also don't know why my heart has opened up to him so quickly, as if I've known him for so long as I've known you since I was a child," the man answered the question he made himself.

The man laughed out loud, then immediately shook his head. "No, this is not true. What I feel is wrong, it's just sympathy and not love" he said. "But why did my heart hurt when I found out he was married?" while pulling his own hair.

"It looks like you're crazy, Nizam" the man said again, then walked into his room and sat on the bedside.

His gaze was now fixed on his cellphone which had since rang with the name Revan listed there. There was absolutely no intention of picking up the phone from the man. Nizam realized, Revan would be very angry once he woke up, and after this he would definitely become a fugitive of the motorcycle gang.

Nizam turned off his phone and immediately pulled out the fake number he accidentally used when it turned into Sky. Yes, Nizam chose to obey his father's request to get out of the motorcycle gang so that the Moon he believed to be the key to his mission can remain safe in his supervision. After all, now Diki and his team will take over the investigation.

Moreover, what was said last month about other destinations until Marcel married her made the man even more curious. He was convinced that the secret had something to do with Aura's accident.

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It has not been two weeks since Moon lived in the pavilion of the Boy and Khaira residence. The woman is now preparing to go to work after breakfast in her own room. Not to forget he grabbed his old phone which lately always sounded. Though he had changed his number since he first stayed in the pavilion at Nizam's request.

The man even banned Moon from raising calls from anyone except her, Nizwa, and the lawyer who handled her divorce case two weeks ago.

The moon is now walking away from the pavilion. His feet continued until he arrived at the front yard. However, the woman's steps suddenly came to a halt when she accidentally met Nizam who was dressed neatly right in front of the gate of her house.

"Can we talk?" asked the man then walked towards an open garden, making the Moon inevitably have to follow him.

"Can I ask you something?" ask Nizam.

The moon nodded slowly while looking down. "What would you like to ask?"

Nizam seemed a little hesitant at first. However, in the end a question began to return he said, "If you may know, what is the purpose of Marcel marrying you?"

The moon immediately seemed surprised when she heard Nizam mention her husband's name. "You know him?"

Nizam nodded slowly. "Actually a few months ago I joined the Black Shadow biker gang, you must have known that."

The moon reflexes retreated a few steps with a pale face knowing that fact.

"You calm down first, I joined not to be Marcel's subordinate, but because I was figuring out who was the mastermind who had made Aura have an accident."

"aura?" repeat with a frown. He knew a name similar to that, and he was a friend of his older brother, Bintang.

"Yes, she was my future wife, but we failed to get married because she died in a car accident the night before our scheduled wedding tomorrow.

The moon fell silent for a moment, then began to ask, "When was the accident, Mas?"

"The 23rd of March."

The Moon's hands began to clench. If indeed the Aura meant by the man before him was the Aura of the Star friend, then it was certain that the accident had something to do with the disappearance of the Star because the time was the same.

Imagining that, the Moon's fear came back. Because, every time he remembers the brother and the case, his memory will return to spin when he experienced bad treatment from a police officer and Simon for trying to report and find out the whereabouts of his brother.

In the end the Moon will again be afraid to reveal the truth because of the trauma he experienced. Now he just wants to find his brother without involving anyone including the police.

"Moon, do you hear me?" tanya Nizam made the Moon wake up from her daydream.

"Sorry, I-I can't answer that. I have to work." The moon immediately left Nizam who was now looking at him confused. However, not far away, the woman came back and pulled her phone out of the bag.

"I can't say what Marcel's purpose is to marry me, but maybe this phone message could be a clue to your investigation." Moon gave his cell phone to Nizam and then left Nizam.

The moon just keeps walking towards a cafe that is not too far away. Although the shadows of the past still haunt him, be it in dreams, or even in the real world, he cannot always hide and rely on the good of people. His life had to go on, and looking pathetic was something he hated.

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That morning, Nizam sat in his big chair checking the old man's phone. As the woman said, she is now checking the messages on the phone.

The man stood up suddenly after reading the message and matched the delivery time to the time of the Aura accident. "So you're the mastermind behind Aura's accident, Marcel!"

Not wanting to back off the clock, Nizam immediately sent the message to Diki as one of the proof if Marcel was the mastermind behind Aura's accident, after which he called his best friend.

"Assalamu 'alaikum, Diki, have you seen the message I just sent?"

"Wa'alaikum hail, yes Zam. Incidentally, me and my team have just followed the person who had done the goods transaction with Marcel based on the video you gave me back then."

"Good, then how?"

"My guess is right, Marcel was involved in a local terrorism group.The person I was following turned out to go to a house in a remote corner of the city. We suspect the house was their lab in creating the explosives."

"Astaghfirullah, I really didn't expect it to turn out that they were much more dangerous than I thought."

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Almost half a day Moon worked in a cafe, and almost half a day she felt uneasy, as if someone was watching her from afar. Until the afternoon when he finished work it still feels the same.

In fact, that unease still bothered him along the way back home. Apparently, a person's instincts are often a sign of something.

A few seconds later, a black car pulled up next to the Moon. A large man suddenly got out of there and smothered her mouth, and carried her into the car, and then drove away at high speed.

"Take me off!" The rebellious moon in the car broke away.

'Hey, he's alive!'

The moon fell silent for a moment as a shadow of her past flashed back through her head.

'Okay, I'll finish it!'

The Moon's body trembled in fear with sweat that began to drench its temples as the shadow where its parents were killed right before its eyes flashed back, especially when the killer's face now he can see clearly.

"No! Don't do that! Father .. mother" cried the Moon with greater strength to make the two men who were sitting to his right left overwhelmed.

"Why is he screaming like that, Revan? Is he crazy?" ask one of the men beside the moon.

"Either way, maybe he has gone mad because his father and mother are gone" replied Revan.

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