The Estuary of Desire Baruna
Eps. #14 Working Together

Alfin then held onto both of Diaz's shoulders and continued to stare at his face.

"How's Aryo doing, your dad's Diaz? Why did you say he was dead?" Alfin again asked, there was curiosity and curiosity painted from his face.

"My father died fifteen years ago from heart disease, Om" Diaz said. Suddenly, there were tears in his eyes. There was sadness as he told me.

"Fifteen years?" Alfin again widened his eyes to hear Diaz's story.

"Yes, Om. Papa had a sudden heart attack due to too much stress thinking about his company, which at that time had a very drastic setback. In fact, after the company went bankrupt, my mother left my father, me and my sister Floretta, who was then only four years old. Mama chose to go back to her home country and leave me and Flo abandoned here. Mama can't afford to live hard here" Diaz recounts her own bitterness-filled past.

"Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un." Alfin rubbed his chest.

"So many things happened while I was in prison. I was completely isolated and knew nothing about the outside world after crouching there. In the past, your dad was Om's best business partner. But now he's gone" said Alfin sympathizing with Diaz's story.

"All this could happen because of that arrogant man named Arkha Om! After he managed to retake the company from the hands of Om Alfin twenty years ago, he immediately cut all cooperation contracts with papa companies, so the papa company had to lose big even to go out of business!" The flames of anger grew more and more in Diaz's eyes. All the things he told Alfin, already burning a grudge in his heart grew even smoldering.

"Actus ..." Alfin smiled wryly at the name of Diaz.

"Arkha has ruined my life! He put me in prison, and because of him, I've lost the person I love most in my life!" alfin growled with a look of eyes that also looked to hold a grudge against Arkha.

"I know all that, Om. That's why, I purposely got you out of jail. I'm sure, Om Alfin can help me get us together to take revenge and destroy that person. Just as I felt the destruction in my life as well as my family, like that I will destroy the Waradana Family!" Diaz's fervor grew more and more, his hatred for Arkha growing in his chest.

"Then what's your plan, Diaz? Have you prepared a plan to execute all your revenge? Arkha is not an indiscriminate person, we will not easily be able to subvert Arkha and all his followers!" Alfin also now looked doubtful. He knew very well that Arkha, who was previously his childhood friend, was a man he could not take lightly. In addition to having a lot of influence, Arkha is also very prominent in the city.

"That's my purpose in getting Om Alfin out of prison, Om. I know only Om understands Arkha's weaknesses. I'm sure, if we work together, we will be able to overthrow the power of an Arkha Waradana" Diaz asserted with a tone full of emphasis.

Alfin simply held his chin up with his two fingers while linking the two ends of his eyebrows together.

"Ok, Om agreed with your plan, Diaz. We'll both think about how to overturn Arkha. Om also hates that guy so much!" alfin growled while nodding his head and smiling cynically.

"From today, Om Alfin can stay in my house. And now Om must also be my follower. I'll make sure that I guarantee Om's safety during his stay!" diaz and Alfin did not deny what Diaz had confirmed to him.

"Hahh, this was all the work of that son of bangs*t, that first boy from Arkha, Om!" diaz ketus.

"Baruna! That bratty kid last night dared to beat me up!" diaz said bluntly still with his furious voice.

"What ... A baruna?" Alfin rolled his eyes again. He immediately remembered an old news that had been conveyed by Livina, Arkha's first ex-wife who had also been his ex-wife.

"Baruna is right, Arkha's son with Mutiara, the village woman whom Arkha married when she lost her memory," Alfin's inner voice muttered.

"Really, Om! Baruna has also twice foiled my plans. Before taking revenge on Arkha, I must finish off that bastard first!" Diaz again showed a flash of furious fire in her blue eyes.

Alfin also kept replying with just a nod of his head.

"Baruna is Arkha's biological child, it is certain that he will be the heir in the Waradana Family. As for Ardila, I had to fight for her to get equal rights in that family and get some of Arkha's wealth!" grunt inner Alfin again.

"Alright, Om. Now, Alfin please rest first. We'll talk about what our plans are going to be!" Diaz flicked her finger gesturing for Alfin to come out of his room.

"Oscar, please take Om Alfin to his room! Ask all the servants to provide the best service for him. All his needs must be met properly during his stay here!" diaz orders his assistant.

"Ready, Boss!" oscar sends Alfin out of Diaz's room.

After Alfin and Oscar came out of his room, Diaz then stepped towards an ornamental table in the corner of his spacious room. Slowly his hand reached for a photo with a unique wooden frame from the table. The two neutrals stared fixedly at a family photo behind a glass frame. Diaz's face suddenly looks very sad when he looks at the faces of the people in the photo.

"I really miss everyone in this photo" Diaz said. Without realizing it there were tears dripping from the end of his eyes.

"I'll avenge everything you've felt so far, Pa." Diaz rubbed a picture of a man's face in the photo. "By the man named Arkha, our family is divided!" Diaz growling.

"Mama left me without a trace. And now, Flo won't be living in this house with me anymore either." Diaz also rubbed a picture of the two women's faces in the photo. There was a clear shudder on his face as he looked at an old and worn-out photo before him.

"Om Alfin is now in this house, I am very sure he will help me a lot to finish off everyone in the Waradana Family. I'll get them all to bend their knees and apologize at my feet!" decak Diaz with a pushy look and smiled, while again putting the photo on the table.