The Throne Of The Heart
Section 9

"I don't know! I don't know you!" lashira screamed, her body trembling as the man walked closer towards her.

The man; Greyson, combed his hair back with a slanted smile.

"After you avoided me and even blocked our friendship now you pretend you don't know me?" Lashira frowned confusedly, she did not understand at all the direction Greyson spoke.

Her tears dripped, fear, confusion, and anger mixed into one. Greyson pulled out his phone and showed her a chat conversation he had with Clarissa using a fake Lashira account. The girl's forehead creased deeply, "i don't have my mukabuku account. Nobert's sister forbade me to use the app." lashira recalled her conversation with Nobert when the man bought her a new phone.

‘I have created you several social media accounts, I have also chosen which applications you can use. In addition to the application on the phone that you should not use it.’

“Norbert? Where do you know him?”

“In-he was my senior on campus.” Lashira replied faltering as she was still hiccupping.

Greyson shouted, “Norbert come here you!”

“What's up?”

Without taking his eyes off Lashira, Greyson asked, “you disguised as his senior on campus?” norbert's forehead shriveled when he heard Greyson's absurd-sounding question.

“I don't have that spare time Grey, my men who've been watching him.” Norbert was calm.

“He's not Nobert's brother, can you let me go? I promise not to run away.” saw Lashira pleading with tears, making Greyson turn his face away. But when his gaze met the eyes of the right hand, he nodded his head.

Norbert orders his men to untie Lashira's hand. “Thank you,” said the girl with a smile.

“Urus dia.” After speaking like that, Greyson immediately left.

Norbert took Lashira to a room that was quite spacious, but very closed. Lashira believes that if this room is indeed made for her, it can be seen from her windows that are coated in trouser iron.

“If you need something, there are several maids in front of the room.” Lashira nodded in understanding, she held back the hand of Norbert who was about to leave.

“Why did he hold me?”

Slowly Norbert took off Lashira's hand, “I don't know what you're doing with her to the point that she's gone crazy lately. But my advice to you, do not try to run away if you are here.”

“A-I don't even know her,” Lashira replied in a tone of confusion.

Norbert frowned at Lashira's explanation, he pulled out his phone and searched for something there. “This is your photo, right?” Lashira nodded, but she remembered that she had never taken a photo with the clothes.

“Do you remember?”

“What should I remember if it wasn't me he meant. What app is that anyway? Why didn't Brother Nobert create an account for the app?”

“I have to go.” After Norbert's departure, Lashira fell silent to remember the events before she could get here.

After Theo and Chika get out of the villa in search of food, Lashira tells Leon and Nobert to go around the estate like yesterday. At first Nobert volunteered to accompany her but the girl refused him out of fear of trouble.

Just like yesterday, he helped the workers pick tea and relax under the same tree; where he fell asleep yesterday. Then after that it fell quite heavy rain, he also took the initiative to return to the villa by crashing the increasingly heavy rain.

But in the middle of the journey, suddenly someone smothered him. And he doesn't remember anything after that.

Lashira got up from her seat and noticed the room she was currently occupying, what was she keeping me for? thought the girl.

His eyes widened when he realized something, everyone must be worried about him at this moment. He slowly turned the door knob of this room and he was surprised that this room was not locked.

“What's non?”

Lashira bit her lips in doubt, “I want to meet your master, can you?” the waiter smiled slightly and asked one of the guards.

“Come me between.”

***

“You're holding me here and you want to go now?” lashira's voice rose when she heard Greyson's conversation with Norbert.

“First I will ask you this, why are you holding me here?”

“Why did you do it?” lashira's forehead shriveled in hearing Greyson's question. “What am I doing?”

Lashira gulped her saliva nervously as Greyson continued to approach her. The girl walked backwards away from Greyson's movements, “do you want what Grey?” lashira's great-grandson stopped Greyson's movement.

“You still pretend you don't recognize me?” Greyson smiled faintly.

Lashira looked at Greyson in disbelief, “I called you that way because I heard the man called you that way. I really don't recognize you, I'm not lying!” lashira's voice was shrill with emotion.

Greyson was also surprised to see it, he grinned. “This is the real you?”

“Yes! This is the real me, and then you're gonna let me go?” shouted Lashira.

Greyson approached again, and locked Lashira in his support. “You think I'll be that easy to let go of you?” lashira's face flushed red from Greyson's distance too close to her plus her already-subverted anger.

“Why did you lock me up? What was my mistake? At least tell me the reason.” Lashira's tears just came down, making Greyson turn his back in surprise. Where's the girl's explosive rage? Thought Greyson.

“I have to go now.”

Lashira held Greyson's hand with a face flooded with tears, “you held me down and now leave instead?!” the girl screamed in the middle of her cries.

“I have a business.”

Lashira pulled her snot and wiped her tears, “then let me go.” Greyson glared fiercely at hearing that.

“No will.”

“I don't know you and have never done anything wrong to you, and then I'm held up like this while you yourself don't explain my mistakes and want to leave? ****!” hiss the girl threw Greyson's hand with all her might and ran out of the room.

Norbert who was in front of the room jumped in shock as the door opened tightly and looked at Lashira who was running with an angry expression. He immediately ran when he saw the girl go downstairs, fortunately he managed to catch the girl before the girl made it to the door of this house.

“You guys why stay quiet instead of preventing this girl from coming out?!” snarled Norbert at his men.

“The girl bit us, boss said we shouldn't touch her.” is obviously one of them.

“Let him go, take him to villa Chika. And you're Lashira, our business is not finished.”

Lashira was silent but her gaze seemed to want to skin Greyson alive.

“But-” Norbert again covered her mouth as Greyson raised his hand. Greyson's gaze locked completely on Lashira, only this time was there a woman who dared to look at him like that.

“If you want to come back, come with me now.” The man went back upstairs leaving Lashira who was still growling annoyed at his place.

***

“Tuh his son is back.” Everyone turned to hear Nobert's words. There Lashira was silent still digesting the incident that had just happened to her. Greyson's men just drove him back this morning, even after going through a long debate with Greyson that was not really needed.

“Your business is done?” lashira's forehead shriveled deeply, but the girl kept nodding softly, she frowned as she felt the shakes in her pants pocket.

The girl's eyes widened when she got a message from Greyson, and I don't know when her phone has returned to her hands. Theo who noticed Lashira's facial features asked, “ada problem?”

Lashira raised her head and gave her best smile, “no kok kak.”

“So I went to the room first yes.” the four nodded at Lashira's weak-sounding words, they

aware that there was something the girl was hiding at the moment but they would not ask if the girl tried to cover it up once like that.

“Ah I forgot to say this to you yesterday.”

“What?” sahut Nobert quickly.

“I saw Greyson yesterday, right we're out.” Theo's eyes were directed towards Chika who yesterday went with him. Everyone fell silent, their minds turned in the same direction after hearing Theo's words.