The Revenge of the Injured Woman
Meet Again

Larry Cox, the man who in certain moments often comes to mind, is now standing right in front of Athana, with the same face and voice. Ah, not only that, his gaze was still the same—cold, sharp, but also alluring.

"Larry, that's right .. you? Can you come back?" ask Athana with a little stammer. It was still difficult for him to calm his turbulent heart.

Larry smiled, then stepped onto the chair and then sat there. Raising one leg, Larry turned to Athana.

"Your place of work is good. You're really living a good life right now" Larry said, deviating from Athana's question.

"Larry, you don't divert the conversation!" Athana catches up with Larry and sits down before him. "Explain to me why you can come back!" continued.

Athana was completely confused by Larry's presence. Wasn't he happy with Deschara, why did he come back? And again, so easily he crossed time. Is that as good as Larry?

"I failed into the past" Larry said with a rough breath.

Athana was surprised, "You ... failed? Keep ... all this time?"

Larry leaned back, then folded his hands on his chest while smiling wryly.

"Eitherway. The time machine I created failed miserably. I just got stuck in it, and after getting out .. I'm going back to the present." Larry took out a pack of cigarettes and lit one. "But from there I learned a lot of things" he continued.

Athana has not said, just looking closely and waiting for word for word again that will come out of Larry's mouth.

"As I've told you, improve the future by learning from past mistakes. Maybe ... it's what every human being should do, including me." Larry smoked a deep cigarette after finishing his sentence.

"It's okay, I've accepted all this. A year of self-soothing, is enough to let go of whatever was in the past."

Athana smiled, "Good then. I wish you could be like me too. Look, I'm happy with my life now. I can settle the past and make better strides."

"Yes, I would do that too. There's been an agenda that I've been working on since yesterday, and .. I came here to talk about that too." Larry flicked the cigarette ash into the ashtray, then straightened his seat and stared intensely at Athana. "Let's work together! We're after the highest position in the business world, just like Red used to rule the dark world" he continued.

Hearing that, Athana smiled widely. His ambition to be the best is back. Perhaps, indeed that was the dark side in him— became the ruler and held the control of many people.

"But .. I don't want to dirty my hands anymore. My fake family I just put in jail, I didn't finish myself off" Athana said a moment later.

Larry nodded, "I get it, and I'll also avoid all of that. Johan will be the last man to die at my hands. Athana, our experience is quite a lot. Without killing anything, we can spread our wings everywhere. Growing up does not have to drop or harm the other party. We can use the healthy and legal way."

After a moment of silence, Athana extended her hand towards Larry.

"Deal!" said it.

Without hesitation, Larry immediately shook his hand while saying the same word.

Then, they begin to discuss the steps that will be taken to run the business. Both seem compact because they have the same ambition and nature.

Seriate...