The Pledge of the Ingkar
IYI 72'S

William, who was burned with jealousy, chose to return home with a burning anger. The scene that he saw earlier in Zoya's place still continued to ring in Liam's eye pelt. How his wife laughed cheerfully and looked so beautiful. Also how the gaze of the young man, continuously turned to his wife, Zoya. 

The eyes of the man, clearly full of adoration towards Zoya. It makes William's heart hot when he sees it. It was very curious that William pulled the man and gave him a few punches to warn him not to stare at anyone's wife carelessly anymore.

But he did not do it because William still has high self-esteem and ego. William chooses to leave Zoya there. He who initially wanted to pick up his wife, finally went home alone without her.

Arriving at home, William got out of the car and closed the door violently, so his voice sounded loud enough to attract the attention of the woman who nurtured him first, as a child, Leila.

"Sir William, what happened?" leila asked curiously to see Liam's unnatural look on his face.

William ignored Leila at first. Choose to go inside the house and slam himself onto the soft sofa in the living room. Closing his eyes, the man tried to shake off the image of Zoya and the man together.

"Damn it! Goddamn bum!" as if William was upset in the middle room.

Soon, the man opened his eyes and sat down on the sofa.  With a face covered in his large palms, William tried to temper his ever-peaking emotions whenever the glint of the shadow flashed before his eyes.

When the corner of his eye caught Leila's passing shadow, William immediately called out to the middle-aged woman. "Leila, come here first" called William waving his hand at the woman.

Leila who understood, immediately approached William. "Yes, Mr William?" 

"Leila, do you know about a young man close to Zoya?" ask William straightforwardly.

"Young man?" Leila tilted her head to think for a moment.

 "There are a lot of men trying to get close to Miss Zoya, what do you mean handsome young man gym owner?" ask Leila.

"Yes, he is" William insisted with a flat face.

Soon Leila recalled someone's face, but she glanced at Liam's face hesitantly. 

"What's? Don't you know about him?" william without notice.

"Yes .. I know about him. A little" Leila looked at William thoughtfully.

William remained silent, waiting for Leila to say everything the woman knew about the young man.

While Leila who does not know if Liam is fighting with his wife, Zoya, actually has thoughts regarding William's feelings for his wife. Therefore Leila tells about the young policeman who is none other than Damar and also how Damar has long liked Zoya.

"The young man was named Damar and he was famous for being very kind and friendly to anyone. But especially to Miss Zoya, because they have known each other for a long time. So it's not strange that the two look so close, because it's true that they're both friends." 

Leila begins to tell the story of Damar to William. Trying to see the change in expression in the man. But Leila failed to see the anger that was in William's heart. Taking a deep breath, the woman then continued her unfinished story.

"And at first, many people thought that the two of them would get married and live together, because it was no longer a secret that Damar really liked Miss Zoya. He has always looked after her from long ago to now. So naturally, if many people expect marriage between the two of them," continued Leila closed the story about Damar to William.

Meanwhile, the longer William listened to the story, the hotter William was and the greater William's jealousy toward the man. Ignoring Leila, she went up the stairs to her room upstairs.

Upstairs, in Willia's bedroom, the man had just walked in and stood in front of a glass window. With both hands clenched, it went into his pants pocket. It was obvious the emotion on the man's face.

Just at that moment, William's cell phone rang. The man immediately grabbed his phone lazily. But when he saw that the name on the phone screen belonged to his personal assistant who was in the company, William immediately received the call.

"Hello."

As soon as the phone was connected, a voice came from his personal assistant on the other end of the phone. From the tone of his voice, the man sounded panicked and agitated. Although his personal assistant managed to say everything calmly, but Liam's ears were sharper and observant than anyone.

"So, Mr. Liam. Can you come back now? I really can't do all this alone here. The matter is too complicated for me to handle alone" William's personal assistant said on the other end of the phone.

William's speechless. He did not immediately answer the question from his assistant. There was doubt in the man's heart when he decided to leave or not. On one hand, it was a corporate matter that concerned the fate of many people, so William had to settle things immediately. On the other hand, he could not leave his wife here alone because William had already promised the woman to go with him.

But a memory of what happened today in Zoya's gallery flashes through William's eyes. Making William's still-hot heart, it grew hotter as growing jealousy burned William's heart inside. This made the man decide to go home without caring for his wife.

With a steady decision, the man immediately answered the phone that had been connected since. "I'll go right now!" william in the end.

Closing the phone without waiting for a response from the other party, William immediately prepared to go home now. When he was ready with the small travel suitcase in hand, the man stepped down to the bottom floor.

Downstairs, she sees the father waiting for William there. As William got closer to stepping where his father was standing, the middle-aged man frowned as his gaze fell on the small travel suitcase that William was dragging in his left hand.

"Pa," call William to the middle-aged man.

Rian looked up, staring at William's face for a moment before turning around. "Follow for a moment" Rian said as he stepped into the private workspace of the house.

Seeing his father walking away, William let out a long sigh. He then followed his father, walking behind Rian.

"Pa, what's–"

Cut the words of William. The man stopped right in front of an elegant black wooden door.

"Lake in!" rian's orders opened the big door firmly.

William was silent for a moment, but he still followed his father to step into the room. It was a spacious room, where there were many books neatly arranged on large shelves standing on either side of the opposite wall. While on the other hand, there was a large sturdy wooden table with a computer unit and writing equipment on it. Also a soft chair wrapped in real leather that looks harmonious is in the room.

William saw Rian stepping towards the chair and then sitting there. While he chose to sit on the sofa on the right side of the work desk of the father.

"So, Papa ... What is it that you brought me here? I have to go home" William said, glancing at the watch that was coiled around his wrist.

Seeing this, Rian immediately said his goal was to bring the man into the room.

"Where are you going? Why carry all the suitcases? And what do you mean by going home?" The row of questions slid from the figure of Rian who was famous for his calm long ago.

William was a little surprised. But he immediately calmed himself down quickly. Until no one could see the fluctuations of his emotions for a moment.

"Return to the central company. There's a problem there" William replied briefly.

"William, you don't have to go alone. Papa will find someone to replace you to handle the matter there," Rian suggested, especially considering all the plans they had prepared would fall apart if William left.

"No Pa, thank you. But I have to go alone now." William refused an offer from his father.

"But if you go alone, what about your wife, Zoya?" rian asked William.

William said nothing. Until he finally leaves, he doesn't say goodbye to Zoya. He deliberately does this so that Zoya knows that she is angry with the woman.

"William!" call Rian unresponsive by William.