Behind the Rain and Memories

79. Suspicious

Alina blinked her eyes as soon as the sunlight that entered through the air vents dazzled her sense of sight. He raised his hand in front of the fair so that he could adjust his view.

What the hell's going on? Alina tried to remember the previous events. He only realized that if he became a victim of kidnapping, two people who stood in front of the toilet drugged him after that he also fainted and was here.

As Alina moved out of bed, her eyes circled around. A room where the floor and walls are made of wood. Not much furniture but gives the impression of neat, not dusty and well-maintained souvenirs, in addition to a minimalist bed, there is only a small nightstand and also a closet. Even if there is no AC or fan, the atmosphere here is so cool. Alina was surprised, it is not unusual if the kidnapper instead put his hostage in a place far from the impression of frightening.

Not wanting to continue guessing, Alina walked towards the window, her eyebrows wrinkled because the window could not be opened, like someone was holding her back outside. Of course, surely this situation had been replaced so that he could not escape.

As he turned to the door, he banged his gedor from within hoping that someone would hear and kindly help him.

" Help! can there be someone outside?"

There is no speech, only silence and the sounds of birds chirping are heard.

" Whoever, if your goal is money, believe me my husband will give you whatever you ask, please let me go! "shout Alina again.

Again no one answered, Alina sighed nelangsa. her body slumped to the floor behind the door, tears began to wet her face.

"Max, come quickly I'm afraid, torment" he sobbed, he hugged both legs, trying to calm himself.

Crutches.

Alina held onto her stomach which rang, she felt hungry. He had not touched his food at all when it was restored. How long has he been here?Alina glanced at the left wrist watch, seven in the morning with a forward date a day, meaning she was here all night. He should have been rumbling.

Alina got up from sitting down, stepped towards another door that is believed to be a bathroom, it turns out that a bathroom with a rustic feel is equipped with shelves that contain the needs of the bath in general, neatly folded clean towels, soap and also a typical toothbrush lodging, but there is no brand that shows its existence now.

If you look at this room like an inn room, more precisely a villa, it is likely that he was taken not far from where he was kidnapped.

" Will Max find me here?" he muttered alone. His phone is gone, surely the kidnappers have taken it, even though he always activates the track mode.

Benak Alina continues to think who is the culprit, because she feels she has no enemies, if there may be people who are not happy with Max and make him bait to avenge her husband. I don't know for sure everything is out of reason, he was just locked up but not tied up and tortured as he saw from movies or news on television.

The woman immediately cleaned herself up, a few minutes Alina spent with a bath, now she was already feeling refreshed. Once out he was surprised by a tray of fried rice and a glass of juice served on the nightstand. Means there was someone who delivered when he was busy with his activities.

Alina banged on the door

" I know you heard, whoever you are please let me go, my husband will definitely reward you, believe me I will not report you, so please let me go, I beg you! "

It was just the silence he got. Alina sighed, there was no point in her continuing to waste energy, it was better for her to wait for the person to show up on her own, that was when she would try to negotiate.

Immediately he ate the food that had been prepared, for a moment there was doubt that the food was poisonous, seconds later Alina shook her head, there was no way the person had poisoned her, if their goal was to eliminate Alina would have been done from yesterday.

While elsewhere, Max has no taste at all, he only sips the black coffee he ordered from the resto waitress at the hotel where they were staying, realizing his men are exhausted, and, he also took the initiative to give them time to rest for a while because until the early hours of the day their efforts did not produce results. There's no clue what they have.

Max himself can not close his eyes, he continues to think about how his wife is now, surely Alina is very frightened, hopefully he can survive his inner hope.

Max has informed the brothers Alina, Aditya had wanted to follow but Max forbid, however Aditya's wife had just given birth and needed the presence of the man. Papi and Mami also leave all the affairs to her son, because it is not possible to come to Bandung, the company must be supervised while mommy still helps Adinda.

" I knocked on your room repeatedly, I thought you were still good, didn't know it was here." Orion said, carrying a tray containing some kind of breakfast menu that he took from a buffet at the restaurant.

Max did not say, he again sipped a cup that was almost empty. It then ignited the fire on the clove she had tucked in, an old custom that arose when the man was distraught. Max accidentally took a seat at an outdoor table close to the swimming pool in order to freely smoke.

 Orion understands his sister's feelings, where there is a husband who can calm down when a beloved wife is lost without a trace.

" Have you heard from your people? "

Max asks Orion to interrogate some of the people he suspects.

Orion nodded but did not immediately reply as his mouth was full of food. He's really hungry for nothing from last night.

" Now, they're not involved at all! "

" You sure? "

" That means only one person can!"

Orion frowned.

" Evan! "

Orion hesitated, because what he knew Evan had an emotional connection with Alina in the past, that's what he had heard from mommy some time ago.

" I'll go back to Jakarta and make calculations with Evan, you and the others stay here, continue the search at any cost!"

" Max, just think about once again what's the point of Evan kidnapping Alina, you know how she was with Alina before, where she might have hurt her! "

Max shook his head, "His arrival in Indonesia was not just about demanding rights, he wanted to take revenge on me, he once said that he would not let Alina be mine, "

Max recalled the incident before the press conference. He lied to Alina about the real story

" It's good to see Maxime Arlingga Yogatama" Evan's circus after hitting Max's sports car on a deserted road to the apartment, Max has just returned to making calculations with Brandon, he believes the viral video has something to do with the man, because only Brandon knows about Aditya, from where he learns that Zaky is behind everything.

" Evan Williams welcome back to Indonesia, you seem to miss me so much that you've faced me on a street like this." Max doesn't lose the sarcasm.

Evan snorted, "Whatever my bro, I'm just in shock, my sister's in a scandal, I think you're a homegrown man, a bastard as well as it turns out, ckck"

Max smiled cynically, "You're a connoisseur of cheap gossip as it turns out, I don't have time to serve your pleasantries!"

" Alina Maharani, since childhood she was adorable, very beautiful"

Max tightened his jaw, not accepting Evan mention the name of his lover, what did he say since childhood? what that means is Evan knows Alina.

" Shut your foul mouth!"

Evan moves his hands in front of his lips, making a code of silence.

" You're so emotional, you want to race?"

" I don't have time to serve you!" Max is leaving.

" I loved her a long time ago too, I won't let you take all of mine!"

Max frowned, his clenched hands signifying a stirring emotion

" You!" hiss Max growled.

" See you later, you're ready Max because this time I'm not messing around, I'll get what I want" Evan got into his car and left.

Just a few meters away Evan drove, Max caught up and gassed his car loudly, the man opened the window.

" Never intimidate me, prove you can beat me!" max shouted from behind the wheel and was quite clear in Evan's ear even though the noise of a speeding car engine broke the silence of the night.

Both are involved in the race, ahead of each other and no one wants to succumb alternately they lead the front position in the end Max heard a loud bang behind when they were banged, Max said, from behind the rearview mirror he saw Evan's car run over but Max didn't care.

He continued to drive at high speed until he accidentally got out of control and hit a roadblock, his car stopped instantly, shards of windshield grazed on the man's boat. Max grimaced as he pulled up the shattered piece of glass, blood soaking into the shirt he was wearing, Max felt his gaze twitching. The man fainted. It was only the morning he was found by people who passed and asked to be delivered home kemansion.

" I thought so" Orion said, hearing Max's story.

" Wow, my two brothers are gossiping about me apparently!" greet someone who suddenly appeared with a shitty smile

Simultaneously Max and Orion clucked in annoyance.

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