IN THE CAGE

149. SOMETHING IS WRONG

...NORMAL pov...

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"If life is a game, then my death is proof of your victory. Isn't that right, Fawnia? Since you're on opposite sides of me right now, killing me is the right thing you need to do." Anggara, on the bench of his greatness, said while facing Fawnia Alder who now uses the neck of Indira as the resting place of his knife.

"You can say it so," Fawn responded.

"But, Fawn, if life is a game, then it's no different from me, you're a pawn on this board, right?" Anggara smiled wryly. "You're the pawn Ace used to get rid of me."

"I did this of my own accord" Fawn said, returning Anggara's smile with a look of disdain. "I'm doing this because you're looking for trouble first. If you don't use me and hurt someone I love, I won't hurt you."

"utilizing you? Those words sound funny. You were from the beginning a living tool only for our family to use. You're willing to follow those rules, don't pretend to be stupid and forget about your contract."

"There's a difference between willing and forced, Anggara." Fawn pressed his knife deeper into Indira's skin, his emotions peaking as he exchanged words with the man he once adored as the best man in the world.

How could Anggara betray his loyalty? When Fawn willingly gives everything to the man, but Anggara betrays his trust by showing his disgusting dark side.

"You cornered me to obey your will. You used my mother as your prisoner. Ever since I agreed to work under you, there wasn't a single piece of information on my contract that said my family needed to be involved in my work. You broke that rule, Anggara. Don't you dare just change that fact!"

Just then, as Fawn exchanged glances with Anggara, the fury in her pair of hazel irises collided with a faint anxiety in Anggara's eyes. They are like being on thin ice that can crack and drown them at any time.

"Forget that problem." Fawn said back. "You know I'm not coming to debate you."

"You came to get rid of me" Anggara said. "If you think killing me is the right way, at least leave Indira out of this. He's not involved at all."

Fawn chuckles. "Why should I obey you? Did you forget what I said that day?"

No. gabe. Anggara will not forget the condemnation Fawn gave him. That the girl would get rid of the entire Rashid family with her own hands.

"Is there no way to change your decision?"

"You should have thought about changing my decision when I warned you that day, but you didn't because you put your greed before your own family. What I did today will not change. Because just like you, I have my own greed."

'Things I want to protect.' The image of Ace's face when smiling at him appeared in Fawnia's mind. The only person he wants to protect.

"Now.." press Fawn again. "Choose. Do you want to die before Indira, or do you want to watch her die in front of you?"

Anggara close his mouth, reddened eyes holding back anger as he watched how the blade in Fawn's hand sank deeper and deeper into his sister's pale skin. Anggara wanted to do something to protect his family, but seeing that his life now stood at the edge of the abyss, he found no answer.

Fawn will sooner or later make the decision to get rid of who first. He could not do anything to prevent the situation from worsening. He will eventually find failure.

"Fawnia..." Anggara opened his mouth. "You have defeated me."

Fawn was flirting there. Although Anggara shed tears of despair there, Fawn found no sympathy in him. He had no intention of changing his mind, no intention of withdrawing from his original intention to get rid of Anggara.

"Before you kill me," Anggara said back. "Let me give you one secret."

"Whatever you say means nothing to me."

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Five hours had passed after Fawn had managed to carry out the massacre at the Rashid residence. Although getting rid of lives was part of his job all along, Fawn still felt a little uneasy in his heart when the ability he honed to protect his master he now harnessed to get rid of them.

No, Fawn did not feel guilty or sentimental about the situation. Rather than that, could it be said Fawn was a bit numb?

There were too many deaths he had faced lately. It was too much until he felt the lives of the people were starting to lose their price. Fawn wonders to herself, will there be a day when the lives that fall before her stop?

"Fawnia, the Ace you're thinking of might be a charming savior, but, just a little bit, don't you ever think that the man you're craving is a terrible figure?" His conversation with Anggara was still ringing in Fawn's mind. Waking up unpleasant memories.

Although Fawn loved Ace very much, Fawn knew that he was not a kind man whose purity of heart shone like an angel from heaven. No. gabe. Far from it, Fawn always knew that Ace was the worst of the worst.

This is not new for Fawn, but why does Anggara treat the fact as if the information is something astonishing?

'Did he think I was that innocent?' Fawn took a long breath.

"I chose you as the head of Indira's bodyguard because you have a sharp ability and instinct, Fawnia. I know you must not be stupid enough to be lulled into the trick Ace gave you."

"..." - ".Fawn pensively stiff. Anggara's voice re-echoed in his head, haunting him.

"Open your eyes, Fawn. You know what's wrong with your situation, don't you?"

Something wrong with Ace?

Fawn wondered with a fanged brow, full of questions. If discussing something wrong about Ace, Fawn felt there were so many topics she could raise there. Ace is not a perfect creature. Putting aside the fact that his appearance was like a special sculpture of the gods, Ace was still a human. It has the same flaws as humans in general.

So.., uh...,

"What does Anggara mean? Did he deliberately spill this information on me so that his words would always haunt me?" Fawn mendumel's. "Don't think he can melt my relationship with Ace just because he sows suspicious seeds in my mind."

Ace is the most important man in Fawn's life right now. He will not falter just because of a few words Anggara said to poison him.

Fawn won't...,

"Ah, should I go see Vita?" Fawn recalls the whereabouts of friends she rarely visited.

With the idea that came to his mind suddenly, Fawn sauntered towards it. The Vita Harmond house.

Fawn wants to make a surprise by giving Vita an impromptu visit. However, as if to surprise him again, Fawn found Vita's mini cafe had been melted to the ground. The cafe where he often eats delicious cakes made by Vita, the cafe where he often let go of his complaints. The cafe was on the ground.

"What's going on here?" Fawn asked with widened eyes stunned.

More important things appeared in his mind right then and there. "Where's Vita?"

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