Dusk And Suffering

37. Commemorative

"Why don't you ask your men to take care of you there?"

"It was from me to there that day. But they reported nothing. Just once Dusk came out of the house, and that was Leo. He said they went to the hospital, my men couldn't follow them in, someone took care of them from afar. Only one man, but he's a danger. Mafia plot."

"What are they going to the hospital for?" Aldi seemed to think hard, "Don't they be programming baby tubes? Or anything related to the child? I'm sure of that, Mal. There was no other reason for them to go to the hospital. You remember she said she was gonna borrow Dusk's uterus, right?"

Akmal drowned his face in both palms, not knowing what to do. He can't go back to Leo anymore.

"There's no other choice, brother. We need to get the police to Leo's house. How about we go now. I don't want my son to be that depraved boy-making machine."

"You sure? I'm worried that this will affect my family and your family. Tell you what, tomorrow try to come to..."

Aldi's words stopped because of the sound of the phone in his pants pocket.

"Yes, Deck? Why?"

"Manda fainted, Mas. I don't know why he fainted, I went home to eat food lying in the kitchen."

"Yes I've come home now, try to put oil on his nose later if we don't consciously take it to the hospital."

"Why, Brother? Who is sick? Manda?" akmal asked a little panicked.

"Yes, he collapsed in the kitchen. Indeed some days he was complaining of pain in the waist. I'll go home first, yeah."

"Yes, I'll be there if I can get out."

"Take family first, don't drown in the past. Not good." Aldi patted Akmal's shoulder twice and then rushed off.

Akmal really felt useless, he could not do anything when everything was precarious. The company that the client left suddenly, Dusk is still under pressure, and now Manda must also be sick. Not to mention about Clara who every day cringe.

On the one hand he wants to forget the woman of his past, but on the other hand he finds it difficult to do that. Akmal's current feelings are very difficult to understand.

***

"Hows it? Is he unconscious?" ask Akmal with a breath of frenzy.

"Not yet, from earlier I also poured oil on some parts of his body, but no change. Take it to the hospital, Mas. Afraid there's nothing."

When Manda's body was lifted from the floor, inundated with blood flowing, not much, but managed to make Aldi's wife scream because since then he did not realize Manda's back was injured.

Manda immediately got treatment when he arrived at the hospital. The couple waited in a huff outside the room. Aldi's mind focused on Manda's wounds. Does this have anything to do with Leo? Is this the result of Dusk's courage to contact him earlier? That means that Dusk was really found out?

"You know who did this?" ask Aldi.

"His injuries I just found out when you picked up, how do I know who did it?"

"Nobody came to the house?"

Laura seemed to think, "There was, not long after you left, Manda had a male guest, but Manda I saw nothing, just as there was that guest. He was able to drive to the terrace. I don't know who he is. Half an hour into the house, Manda was lying on the floor. I didn't know she had such a wound."

"That means, the suspect went through the back door. Manda's just the stumbling block in the kitchen, right?" Aldi. Encourage his brain to think hard.

"Do you know who the suspect is?"

"No, Deck. I also thought, does this have anything to do with Leo? You know, Dusk called me, didn't know whose number to use. From his tone in fine. But not long after we chatted the connection broke suddenly, I tried to call again raised but he did not say anything. Just a few seconds, then cut off again. After that I can't call anymore. I was at Akmal's house, another fact I heard from him. Dusk's body was filled with wounds when Akmal came there."

"Do you think that what happened to Manda is a form of bluff from Leo, so that Dusk does not dare to do anything anymore. It could be that Dusk often tries to escape but does not succeed, and it makes Leo finally make the closest person to Dusk as a weapon. That way, surely Dusk will not dare to do anything, right? Are we thinking?"

"That's what I was thinking. Everyone knows Dusk is stubborn. He certainly did not want to resign with Leo's confinement. And I can't do anything until now. We don't report to the police if there are victims like this, how about we do it? It all started with Manda himself, if he didn't take money from Leo, we wouldn't be in this position."

"Certainly? Do we have to wait without doing anything? It's a pity that the boy, from childhood it's hard to be happy."

"I have no power whatsoever to save Dusk. Akmal company just somehow. He lost many clients and stock growers, because he had a past that could be considered a form of criminality. Leo did that because he was beaten up by Akmal. His home is in trouble now. Between survival and not. I also can't press Akmal continuously in the middle of his condition like this."

Momentary silence. No one wants to be in their position. Until now they do not move does not mean they do not love Dusk. But winning they can not move at all because it is tied too strong, moving wrong, just silence is getting tormented.

Amidst the silence that afternoon, Aldi's cell phone rang.

"Who, Mas?"

"Not known by his number." Aldi swiped the green icon to receive calls.

"Yes, hello good day" said Aldi.

"Pakde, it's me Dusk. I just wanted to say that I'm okay here. I'll be home if it's time to go home. Promise me not to look for me first. I'll definitely be home. I'm fine here, I can take care of myself. Greetings to Mom and Grandma. Take care of them before I go home."

Aldi had opened his mouth to make a sound, but the phone connection had been cut off. He tried to call back, ill-fated that number was not active.