Love, Treasure And Erlita
Chapter 39
Mbah Minto wakes up to hear the noise of Johan and Farah. He tried to open his eyes and faintly saw someone similar to his daughter, “Ani?!”
Farah's pursuit of Johan suddenly stopped, she turned to Mbah Minto and tried to approach the old man.
Nafan lets the two talk so he leaves Mbah Minto's room and finds out Johan's whereabouts.
Nafan saw Johan drinking a cup of coffee under a tree in one of the hospital gardens. He approached Johan who seemed to be still very emotional because he downed the hot coffee in his paper cup.
“So my guess is real? Mbah Minto who you take care of all this time is my grandfather?”
“So you mean –“
“Lo is unexpected, right? I also never thought that fate would play my life like this.”
Nafan tried to calm Johan whose voice began to raucously resist the crying.
“Myokap I turned out to be the son of a poor farmer in the village and bokap I was the illegitimate son of Eyang Kakung Suryo with their housekeeper named Ratih. Great right?”
“But where do you know –“
“Gue was once horrified when Eyang was angry with me and said that he was an illegitimate child. Bokap I thought that it was just the words of a mother who was emotional to her child. But since that day my life has not calmed down because of curiosity and want to prove that the words of Eyang Putri were not true. That I am a legitimate grandchild who has the same rights and position as Erlita and Kenny. Then I kept looking for information until one day someone ex-helper in the house eyang told me about Ratih who was impregnated by Eyang and then dumped somewhere to cover up the disgrace of their family. Instead, they are willing to take care of their child, my father, as part of the Susbihardayan family.”
“So who met you at a hotel in Bandung at that time –“
“Lo see me?”
Nafan nodded doubtfully, “Sama a woman of the age of Eyang.”
Johan grunts annoyed, “That's Ratih, my biological grandmother.”
“Keep why you booked under the name Om Bram?”
“Because the grandmother would not want to come if I know who invited her there.”
“So –“
“Well, I purposely wanted to meet him. I want to know what a woman's face looks like that's ruined my self-esteem and my future. And snatch happiness, Eyang, the woman who gave her whole life to give life and status worthy of me.”
Now Nafan knows very well how Johan feels. The man who had always considered himself the grandson of the noble family Susbihardayan turned out to be nothing more than the grandson of her husband's illegitimate son with a woman and also the grandson of a con woman who was willing to leave his biological parents for the sake of being a fake child from a rich family who never even wanted to admit his existence.
“So now you know how unfortunate I have to face with Erlita, Eyang's grandson, who has suffered a lot because of my family, especially Bokap I?”
Soon Johan heard from Nafan who had just returned from Mbah Minto's room that he had just died next to his biological son, Farah who was none other than Ani.
***
That night Erlita and Kenny were chatting in Erlita's office. Even though work hours are over and the office is quiet, they are still busy talking about and complaining about their lives that are far from smooth and peaceful.
“Yeah, I don't know why Nafan is angry just because you say it doang, but I don't know anymore why Johan went and hasn't come home until now.”
Erlita rushes out of her sleep, “What?! So brother Jo hasn't returned home until now?”
Kenny shook his head. “A few days ago, I saw Aunt Farah just came home after about two days of leaving without saying goodbye. He did not want to say anything even after Om Bram slapped and beat him at breakfast together.”
It has been a few days since returning from the villa in Bandung, Erlita deliberately missed breakfast together because she was lazy to see the commotion of her uncle and aunt.
“Keep bokap lo where sis? Feelings I also rarely see lately.”
“Bokap go home to his parents because I continue to be angry and threaten to divorce. I've known for a long time that I cheated, just I don't know why just now suddenly I'm the same abis bucin bokap I asked for divorce.”
“Perhaps because Eyang already does not exist, so there is no more that Aunt Sania is afraid to divorce.”
“Maybe also.” Kenny again sipped the liquor that was in front of him.
“Snack I lager, find food outside yuk!”
***
Erlita is shocked to find Rania sneaking near her car.
“Rania! What are you doing there?”
Fearfully and doubtfully, Rania finally dared to approach Erlita and handed over the flash she was carrying.
“This what?”
“Mom can check by yourself when you arrive at home.”
***
After having dinner with Kenny at her favorite restaurant, Erlita rushes home to check the contents of the flash that Rania gave her. There were a lot of tables and data that Rania provided, but none of them could understand.
He intended to contact Rania to ask the purpose behind the data and tables he read, but the intention was canceled because the clock had shown at one in the morning.
“Duh, Brother Jo where the hell? Nafan too! They should be here to help me read this data.”
Erlita finally fell asleep before she could understand Rania's true intentions and goals.
That morning he intended to call Rania personally to his room, but he had not yet entered his room, Lolita, his secretary said that today the board of directors will hold a meeting to discuss Erlita's deviant behavior and worsen the company's image.
At first Erlita did not understand which of his actions were considered deviant. But he then sees a video showing him being with Kenny in his study with a bottle of booze on the table in front of them, also photos of him and his two brothers partying at a hotel in Bandung with a bottle of booze on their table.
