Love is Noiseless
Chapter 36's
Layla had just finished cooking breakfast when Dinan came down from upstairs. The man immediately took the plate and filled it with rice. Layla cooks roasted chicken with stir-fried vegetables as a complement. He confidently sat in front of Dinan, convinced that his cooking could make Dinan addicted to eating voraciously.
“You're still going home late today?” ask Dinan.
Layla was shocked to hear Dinan's question. “I ...” says Layla stamped. He was afraid that Dinan would find out that he had met Bayu. “Ngak, Sir. Later I go home as usual, will not be late again.”
“Good, later we have dinner at dad's house.”
This time Layla was astonished to hear the words of Dinan, “Have you and Mr Marc improved?” ask Layla curiously. He saw Dinan enjoying his cooking.
“Don't ask much, I don't like it if outsiders know a lot about me and my family.”
“But my wife, Father,” sergeant Layla spontaneously.
Dinan smiled cynically. Making Layla nervous, she hesitated to explain.
“Se-at least my status is still wife, Mr,” Layla said again.
“Until when do you want to hold that status?” asked Dinan flatly.
Layla took the plate, she was too nervous to discuss something like this. “Until you send me back to the shabby contract you said.”
“Oh, what if it never happened?”
Layla looks at Dinan. His hand stopped moving. “Meanourself? You want me to stay here together, Mr?” ask Layla nervously.
“I was thinking of sending you to hell.”
Layla immediately swallowed. Dinan's words made him lose his appetite. The woman stopped taking rice, she only drank tea water that she had prepared. While Dinan looked to be eating voraciously. The man raised his head, looking at Layla again intently.
“Dad always said don't turn a good cat into a cruel lion. You know what that means? So don't make my kindness a deeper hatred than this.” Dinan finished his breakfast, he stood up and then left Layla.
The girl was silent there. The father and son turned out to be the same, both good and equally scary. “Did Mr Dinan not like it because I came home too late these two days?” ask Layla wondering, “then I have to how? Mas Bayu also asked for my time ration for him." Layla held her hair in frustration.
Dinan was knocking on the door of Richarcd's apartment. With three taps, the door was open. Richard knew who was coming. He came out holding his briefcase.
“We go directly to the office?” ask Richard.
Dinan did not reply, he immediately headed for the elevator.
“You've given Layla a lesson, Nan?” ask Richard to make sure.
“Come get info from foundation, Chard. We don't have time to mess around.”
“That's a work problem, it's not working hours yet, so what about Layla?” ask Richard again.
“No problem with him, I don't want to take care of things like that.”
“He trampled on your pride, Nan. I don't like that.”
Dinan exhaled a rough breath. “Yesterday you said he was better than Jenny, now it's like this,” complained Dinan.
Richard scratched his unscratchy head. “I guess she won't meet that man again after you guys get married, but it turns out I was wrong, she's a woman who also has no self-esteem.” Richard embraced Dinan's shoulder familiarly. “By the way, how does he feel? good no?”
“What feeling?” Dinan looked at Richard with a confused face.
“That feeling, taste what else?”
Dinan was still watching Richard full of probing.
Dinan pushed Richard's face very close to him. “I didn't say anything to him.”
“Ha? seriously?” asked Richard in disbelief. “Loss is very much your life, Nan. I've got a wife even taken, finish it until you are satisfied, after that just throw.”
“I don't want any next Dinan-Dinan, Chard. You know he's unbelievable, behind me he dares to walk with another man. Even from the beginning I've threatened to kill him if he betrays me. But still he did, he was no different from those women. And the children who will be born of him will be like me in their childhood. I don't want to have a child whose fate is as bad as mine,” Dinan explained at length.
Richard was speechless, what happened to Dinan really made the man afraid to have ties with women. The severe trauma had to be treated immediately, or else, until whenever Dinan would never want to start a relationship. The man will always be haunted by the shadows of the past.
Richard understood that well, but he did not know how to help Dinan. Dinan's tough attitude he can't fight. Layla also disappointed herself. Layla has entered into Dinan's life, should the girl be able to behave better.
Dinan had already arrived near the car. He waited for Richard to walk far behind. The man looked around. There was a sense that he could not understand in his heart. A sense of disappointment that had passed long ago, now evaporated back to the surface. The man rubbed his eyes. He did not want to cry, remembering how much pain he had felt. Including when Jenny betrayed him, humiliating him in front of many people.
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“Tak much we have, Sir, This is one of the documents still saved.” Mulia— was one of the foundation administrators who met Richard when the man came looking for information.
“No landlord's name, Buk?” asked Richard, he decided to come there himself, not telling his people to take care of it.
“Snow I'm her name is Herman. His name was mentioned by the foundation officials who had retired during the auction process yesterday. Letters about the land given by Herman to the foundation caught fire around 1999. The shop's office was on fire, important documents were lost.”
Richard listened to His Majesty's story carefully. “Burned? why, Buk?”
His Majesty took a rough breath. “Investigation says due to electric short-circuit. But the foundation believes there is intentional.”
Richard's eyes narrowed, His Majesty looked agitated.
“Today, Buk?”
“This is confidential, Sir. Don't tell me I told this to my dad. I don't want the foundation to fire me.”
Richard nodded.
“I don't want your company to lose big due to negligence of the foundation in those days,” Mulia continued.
“I won't complicate Ibuk's position. I just need information about the land owner,” Richard assured His Majesty.
His Majesty took a deep breath. “The Barata family does not accept Mr. Herman giving the land to the foundation for free. It really harms them, the value of the land will continue to increase because of its very strategic position. The foundation suspects Barata deliberately set fire to the home office so that important papers were burned. The day after Mr. Herman died in a car accident.”
“At that time I was young, did not understand very well the problem. But the more I got here, I realized the problem was very complicated. The foundation did not want to lose the land, long before the fire they had pawned the land to the bank to get large amounts of money. The mortgaged ownership letter that was auctioned by the bank and purchased by the company Mr.”
“While other letters include evidence of land handover from Mr. Herman was also scorched during the fire. This is an old incident, everything I tell you is only known by some people who have long served for the foundation.”
Richard nodded in understanding, “then, the person who rented the land for the inn where now, Buk?” asked Richard who remembered something.
“Said she died in the fire. This is another awkwardness, sir. They were locked inside so they could not save themselves. Several caretakers were killed, including the woman.”
“So she's female, what's her name?” ask Richard to investigate.
Noble Buk looked uncomfortable. He did not like the attitude of Richard who seemed to be an investigator.
“I don't know, maybe you can check the police data for that case. There were several women killed. Or better you ask Buk Irma. He knows many things about the parlor, including the history of its establishment.”
Richard smiled cynically, rightly guessed. “Bu Irma huh? the caretaker?”
“He previously worked at the inn, after turning into a parlor, he took care of it until now. He knows better than me and everyone in this foundation.”
Richard stand. He then decided to continue his work. The information from His Majesty made it to a new chapter of the land case.
