IN THE CAGE

138. ASSURANCE

...NORMAL pov...

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A box with a large light blue ribbon encircling it was in the Anggara's arms. The box was a gift Anggara would give Fawn.

Of course, Anggara's arrival to Fawn's room was not just to hand over the box. If he wants to be a courier, he can ask the bodyguard or housekeeper to hand over the gift. Butno. Anggara's goal to see Fawn was to be able to talk to the girl with four eyes.

'If anyone Fawn believes, it's me. I will make him carry out this mission smoothly without a change of heart in the middle of the road.'

Anggara said that to Evan, and that's not blind confidence. He was indeed the master of Fawn, the figure that Fawn had sworn to protect life and death. The girl will obey whatever she asks, even if it means Ace Hunter from her life.

So, this is where Anggara is now, at Fawn's doorstep carrying a large gift box that Fawn needs for her dinner with Ace tomorrow.

When the black wooden door was opened by Evan's bodyguard, Anggara waltzed into the room that locked Fawn now. A dark and gloomy atmosphere surrounded the room, as if another being was accompanying them there with its evil aura.

This is daytime. Is it because the window curtains are not opened at all?

"Good day, Fawn." Anggara retraced to the center of the room with light steps, he tried to appear as usual. He didn't want Fawn to see him as an opponent.

"Fawn?"

"Boss Angga?"

On the floor, sitting leaning against a small closet adjoining the bed, Fawn looked up with quite a chaotic appearance. A thick black bag under his eyes. A face that often glows merrily and is full of life-energy-now looks like an undead. His black hair looked messy, as if he had messed it up over and over. No, maybe he did.

"What are you doing there?" Spontaneous approach approaching. He pulled Fawn's arm attentively and sat the girl on the bed. "You're supposed to take care of your health, what have you done?"

Anggara raised his voice as the more he watched Fawn, the more he realized there were many wounds appearing on the girl's body. The claw wound that emerged from anxiety lodged in his arm, the dried blood at the end of his fingernails, and his palm which was a deep-set nail imprint...

"Why did you hurt yourself?"

"I didn't hurt myself." Fawn chimed in and was about to bite her thumb back until Anggara held her back.

"This is a form of hurting yourself," Anggara said, his gaze softened with pity. "Does this mission make you so depressed? Is this my fault? Fawnia..., do you hate me?"

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"..."

Fawn kept silent for a long time and looked at Anggara before finally sighing deeply. "Boss Angga.., although all this time I've devoted my loyalty to you, never once did I think you would win against the Hunter family. Because I know how competent and organized they are

However, even though I know you won't win I'm still on your side because I think you who face immediate defeat will forget your grudge against Ace and start a new life from scratch. I'll keep on siding with you. I left Ace to side with you."

"I really appreciate your loyalty, Fawn. But I don't fight for lessons, I want to win. I want all this discrimination to end and the situation to go back to the way it was."

The discrimination?

"Didn't the four of you live side by side peacefully all this time? Ace is indeed an amazing figure, but he doesn't even bother you at all."

The Ace Fawn had in mind was different from the Ace Anggara had in mind, no matter how Anggara tried to rationalize his actions, Fawn would defend Ace with his version. If it was like this, instead of having Fawn's support, he could have destroyed this mission first.

"Forget it," Anggara said. Closing the topic up there and turning to the box he put on the bed. "I came to give you this."

"What's this?"

"This is the dress you're going to wear to face Ace tomorrow. I have prepared all the jewels there. Even though you're the bodyguard of our family, you must have the desire to look beautiful in front of the man you like, right?" Moreover, this was for the last time.

"Is this a funeral dress?" Fawn glanced at the contents of the box and looked at Anggara with disillusionment.

"Don't interpret it too deeply. It's just a dress. Make sure you don't hurt yourself anymore. Ace must have been hurt if he saw the person he loved in this miserable condition."

"Is that all you want to say?" Fawn felt right then and there, he better not listen to another word out of Anggara's lips.

The past week, after Evan visited her, Fawn had already felt tremendous distress. He felt that he could die because of the burden that had accumulated on his shoulders. Fawn has always felt, as a bodyguard-bringing aside her feelings and focus on the mission are the main criteria required in this work.

But when the mission becomes personal, his body is shaken in fear and sinful feelings. Was this the karma he had received after eliminating many lives?

Fawn tries to find a solution, a way to save her mother without her needing to get involved and get rid of Ace. However, he found nothing. His fear and anxiety had already greatly worsened, and instead of coming to calm him down.Aggara, the figure he adored like an angel, came to push him down into the deeper abyss of hell.

"Honestly, I'm not done..." Anggara again sat on the lip of the bed, some snoring quite far from Fawn.

"As you said, your loyalty is to the Rashid family. Therefore, I want you to prove your point on Fawn's mission. I know I shouldn't keep your mother as a guarantee of success, but just in case you stray...,"

"You're gonna get rid of my mom? What's that what you mean?"

"That won't happen if you work well, so don't think too much about the negatives."

Fawn felt the blood boiling in her crown.

"Then Anggara..." When the honor was lost in the inscription of his name, Anggara who smiled faintly at Fawn immediately lost his hospitality.

Fawn looked up with a black strand of hair falling down her cheek, she looked Anggara right in the eyes like a lion staring at its prey. "Can I ask you for the same guarantee?"

"Huh?"

"If.., just a little bit, something happens to my mom..." Fawn approached an inch to Anggara, hands anchored on his shoulders. "No one in the Rashid family will live to celebrate whatever happens after my mission."

Anggara. "Are you threatening me, Fawn?"

"I'm just making bail" Fawn said. He pulled himself back and looked at the bed lamp.

"Are you going to get rid of Indira even if she's not involved in anything?"

Fawn pulled a shoulder. "That won't happen if you protect my mother well, so don't think too much about the negativity."

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