LOVE STRATA 1

CS1 The Puppet

Friday morning. Hope the blessing approaches. Mario-Anjani starts the morning by sharing rizki. Make some food boxes, and distribute them to people who cross the roadside. The food was not ordered, but was cooked by Anjani, Mommy Monika, and of course assisted by the cook in the house.

Mario supports Anjani's good intentions. Although he had given suggestions that the food that was distributed should be ordered, in the end Mario actually volunteered to help prepare the food box.

"Before marrying me, did you often give alms like this?" ask Mario.

"Yes. Especially since Uncle Sam married Aunt Sarah. We routinely do this even if only a few packs." Anjani's sweet smile expands.

"It's nice to have a sholihah wife like this" said Mario.

Anjani's smile expands. It was so beautiful to see Mario.

"May this day be made easy. So that the mastermind of the spread of the photo can be found soon," Anjani prayed. "So, my husband is not confused anymore. His good name can come back. Aamiin," added Anjani.

Mario is growing his smile. With one quick movement, one brief kiss eroded his distance with Anjani's lips. Anjani who was shocked was quick to reward Mario with a pinch of anxiety in the stomach.

"Aw! Your pinch doesn't hurt, honey" Mario chuckled. This morning he was right. Intentionally, so that Anjani does not worry too much about her problems.

"Will someone see how?" anjani protested in a half-whispering tone.

"Nobody saw. Most of us only Mommy mergokin," said Mario without fading his ignorant smile.

"Let's go. Let's get this over with. Let you leave soon, too" suggested Anjani.

"Do you have a class schedule?" ask Mario.

"Today there is none. Only upload one online task only. Em, today permission to shop again, huh?" permit Anjani, be careful.

Actually Mario hesitated to give permission again, whether it was to the campus or to the shophouse. As long as the mastermind has not been found, it is feared that unwanted things will happen.

Anjani catches Mario's worries.

"My dear don't worry too much dong. Exaggeration is not good. God willing, I'm fine. You know for yourself, didn't you know how Meli defended me yesterday?" Anjani.

Mario nodded. "I'm glad you have a friend as good as Meli" said Mario.

"cn .... Actually, Meli is preparing to go to Jogja, anyway. This weekend Meli, Uncle Roni, and Aunt Fatimah went to visit Eyang Probo. So, chances are Meli's not with me. Hehe." Anjani was finally honest as well.

"What condition does Eyang Probo drop again, so that Meli family to there?" ask Mario.

"Lack of knowing too. Meli didn't tell me more. Meli just told me if she wanted to go to Jogja. After all, even without any reason they can still go there. Meli has become Mas Azka's wife" explained Anjani.

"May they also be friends with the Jogja family. Oya, Adit's not coming with them?" asked Mario who immediately remembered Roni and Fatimah's adopted son.

"Might not come. It must be Adit who was told to guard the house here. Meli mana want to be pilus same Adit fit again together with Mas Azka. Eh? Oops." Anjani instantly closed her mouth so consciously. (Meli and Azka, read in the novel THERE IS ALWAYS A PLACE TO LEAN)

Mario's smile is back. Anjani catches the prank that the husband will do. Before Mario could tease her. Anjani first switched the topic.

"Easy-after. My beautiful, righteous, and understanding darling. I'm going to the shophouse, okay?" Anjani's gaze was hopeful.

"Ah. If you get that look, it's hard to avoid it. Ja. You can go, but you have a driver. Careful, dear." Mario stared at Anjani's friendly eyes.

"You're careful too. If the mastermind is known, find out first what the reason is. If possible for peace, it is better not to be extended to the court, let alone to jail. Forgiveness is so much better" said softly Anjani.

Mario knows how Anjani is. His wife was too kind. Especially since being able to overcome his grudge with the father who had abandoned himself and Ma, since then Anjani has always been generous to forgive others.

"heeem. See you later, deh. If again the furious mode yes I can not be stopped," seduced Mario.

Anjani blinked quickly. I do not believe the words of my husband. As soon as Anjani was about to respond, eh Mommy approached first.

"Hayooooo-chan. Pantes old. It turns out that your ignorant husband was the one who helped. Let Mommy replace him. Mario, you better get ready. There are father's men waiting in the front yard" explained Mommy Monika.

Mario's face immediately turned serious.

"Good, Mom. Mario ready first. Honey, I'm going first."

Anjani. He looked at the back of the husband who passed away. In his heart, Anjani prayed that the step of the husband be facilitated in revealing the figure of the mastermind who had damaged his good image.

***

In a car, around the area of the Great East Dedaun, the professional showed an important part of the CCTV footage. Mario can clearly see the stature of the perpetrator of the cellphone mugging, also the motorbike and the plate that was caught clearly.

"Next we will take Mr. Mario to meet with the perpetrators of mobile phone sabotage. Gun, run the car!" the professional orders the driver.

"Has uncle tried to extract a description from him?" Mario asked after a few minutes of re-observing the CCTV footage.

"It has. This guy is involved. The photo shooter Mr and Miss Vina have also been arrested based on the description of this person," explained the professional.

Mario was surprised to hear that. The performance of the professional and his people is too fast according to Mario. Although he had long known about the people who worked for his father, but only this time Mario knew their performance directly. No wonder the father can always dig up the desired information easily. Behind it are professional people who are reliable apparently.

"Then do they want to say their Master's name?" ask Mario, make sure again.

"Sorry, Sir. Until now they both have been silent. We intend to force them to open their mouths with physical violence, but yesterday Mr. Mario advised not to use violence. We're rethinking" I'm a professional.

"alright. We try to think of a way" said Mario trying to calm down.

Along the way Mario thought of ways that could be used to unmask the mastermind. It feels tired when there is no road that can be taken.

"The caption in the photo makes it very clear that the target is not only me, but my wife as well. The culprit must be holding a grudge against both of us," Mario thought.

For a moment his eyes were on the streets. While his mind kept turning. "The good way can't be. Violence cannot be tried. But ... their way of dropping my and Anjani's image is really sneaky. What if I play sneaky too?" think Mario again.

Mario breathed deeply. His guess is strongly directed at one name. Moments later, Mario's hands clenched. He's very furious.

Sorry, I have to do this. Dear Anjani, I'm sorry, yes. Inner Mario.

***

At ten, Anjani was shocked to enter the room where two people were held captive. Anjani had already made it to the front door of the holding room without the guard. With trembling hands Anjani opened it. Once open, there were two men sitting with ties on their hands, feet, and body.

"Anjan! How dare you release sandra!" shout Mario.

"Go you! You cheating husband!" anjani on Mario.

Anjani's footsteps who intend to free Sandra also stopped. He looked quickly at the door, then locked it again.

Two sandras looked at each other. They were wondering about the commotion that was going on.

"Are you two the ones who managed to uncover the facts of my husband's affair?" asked Anjani hastily.

Although he did not understand what was really happening, the two people who were held captive nodded.

"Thank you for helping me. I really don't know anymore if I'm late knowing this. Since when do you know my husband's affair?" Anjani slightly sobbed.

The two men held back looked at each other. Until then one of them nodded.

"We don't know for sure, Ma'am. We were just told to photograph the affair of Mbak's husband and told to spread his picture without a trace" explained one of the sandra.

"But thank goodness that you were helped by the photo. Cheating husbands cannot be allowed to. It should be abandoned soon," added another sandra.

"Yes. I'm gonna leave him. I'm sick of a cheating husband like him! Over where? Where is your Master now? Please take me to him? I have to thank you. If necessary, I'll just marry him!" Anjani.

Both sandra enthusiastically intend to bring Anjani to his master. However, they themselves cannot do much because they are being made into sandra.

"Why did you get in here so easily?" ask one of sandra.

"I poisoned their food. My husband realized and instead wanted to drag me home because I threatened to ask for a divorce from him! But, soon my husband must have felt the side effects of the poison he drank too! Hixes. I'm afraid! My life is so fucked up like this!" Anjani's heart was too tight to say it.

"Quiet, Ma'am. Better to stay with our Master. The master who told us must love Ma'am very much, so he was willing to pay us expensive to photograph their behavior" explained the sandra who was in charge of sabotaging the mobile phone.

While the sandra who was in charge of photographing Mario and Vina only agreed, because during the mission he was only tasked with standing in one of the subsidiary parking areas and then photographing two pairs of lovers who were fighting. That was the only order he got.

Anjani sobbed more, making two sandra could not bear to see it. They also have a wife and a child at home.

"Already, Ma'am. No cry. We want to deliver Mama to him. But we ourselves are tied up like this" he lamented.

"Attent. I'm looking for a cutting tool for that rope!" Anjani.

Anjani surrounds the containment room. There was no tool for cutting the rope. There's only one little stick in there. Anjani. Desperately, he pointed the stick at the rope tie. Free. Vain. Won't break the bond.

"Let's open. What the hell knot they use!" yelling Anjani desperate.

"That's it. Contact our Master. It's with great pleasure that he'll pick up Mommy here. All set us free. It is impossible to ask for help from people around here. We could all be arrested by the police. Let alone depleted poison toys," explained one of the sandra.

"Ouch. Let's just run away from here. I don't want to go in the box, Ma'am. My son's still kind of kindergarten," I'm the other sandra.

"Same. My son is still a paud, too" added the other sandra.

Anjani's heart was immediately pityed to hear the confession of the two sandra. It could be captured by him that the two sandras were only given limited instructions, without knowing any clear info. Really money and the crush of circumstances sometimes blind the wrong and the right.

"Give me his cell phone number. I'll help you after this, too" promised Anjani.

"Hp we are immediately told to dispose of after carrying out the mission. I don't memorize it" explained the cell phone saboteur.

"Silent. I'm memorized. Gini-gini my brain is diluted, you know, explained the photographer who already knows the saboteur mobile phone.

Anjani hastily picked up a smartphone. It's a little hard for him to operate a smartphone that doesn't belong to him. Once the number is obtained, the dial of the caller is immediately pressed. A few seconds of ringing sounded, the call was received by the person across.

***

"Meet! Immediately glide to the location of the Southwest Dedaun. Map I sent. Get him here!" the professional's orders next to the containment room. "Your wife is good at drama, sir," he said.

Mario smile. A moment later, he rushed to run to meet Anjani. As soon as the door of the holding room was opened, the two sandras looked unusually shocked.

"Sir, you lied to us, yes! They say they've been poisoned?" Sandra did not accept it.

"Sorry," said Anjani lirih, then turned around and approached Mario.

Mario clutches Anjani's body. He could feel the arms of his wife so tightly in his body.

"My husband is cunning, but I like it." Anjani praised Mario on the sidelines of his fear.

"It's called a brain game, honey. Be calm. After this, we know who is behind it. Hopefully," said soft Mario.

The two sandra that Anjani has tricked into can't do anything. Now the professional and his men are threatening to physically harm them. Just a bluff, but it works. While the other professionals were dragging a man in a housing complex.

***

"Take me off. I'm not the mastermind. Someone told me to!"

A lekasi in a red shirt and still wearing knee-length pants was forced to follow the steps of four burly men.

Mario was shocked. He knew the man. He is a former employee of a subsidiary that has been fired for helping to launch a drug-stimulating trap.

"I'd guess. I already know who's behind it!" mario suddenly. He growled.

Anjani quickly clasped her husband's hand tightly. Anjani was so worried that Mario even did the unexpected action.

"According to Mr Mario, isn't this guy the mastermind?" ask the professional.

"No! I swear not to me! I was just told!" sahut the former employee who is still supervised by four men of stout stature.

The professional immediately instructed his men to take the former employee to the same room as the other two sandras.

Mario smiled at Anjani. Slowly rubbed the wife's cheek.

"Your prayers are answered, dear. We don't need to send the mastermind to jail, because he's already in prison" Mario told Anjani.

"Who?" Anjani still can't guess.

"Those who have liked you in the past. He was in prison, but he still seems to be. Leon, he's the mastermind!"

"Leon?"

The mastermind has been found. What would Mario-Anjani do? Look forward to the follow-up, yes. Sorry this episode was a little bit frivolous. Idea author menthok 😗 May be entertained. Hayuuuk, also follow the visit of Meli and her family in Jogja. Did Meli have time to make out with Azka if her parents come to Jogja? Find out yuk in Kak Cahyanti's kece novel, THERE IS ALWAYS A PLACE TO LEAN. Support our work. 😉