
Mariana rubbed her tired face too tensely following the entire information she had just received.
"It's been almost four hours, still very far from the main purpose of this story. Are you sure you want to keep hearing this, Mariana?" ask Grandpa Bima.
Mariana took a deep breath, nodding.
"But I'm so hungry. It's past lunch time. I'll be angry later."
"Well, Grandpa...." Mariana complained.
"Tompson, can you buy us all food, while we continue this story? My stomach is really struggling to fill."
Thompson stood. "Okay, big sir. It doesn't matter" he said, then walked out.
"All right, Mrs Sandiago. What do you want to know next?" asked Grandpa Bima, leaning back in her chair.
"How can Bima lose everything, or as sarah says, she takes off all the luxuries she has."
"Before that, you should know that Bima has to go through very sad days. He withdrew from everyone, shutting himself away from all the crowds he had all along. I tried to help him, but I couldn't. Two years he lived in a slump, especially his father leaving him and his mother just like that after insulting him all-out in front of his friends."
"How did his father know he wasn't his son. I mean, what made him suddenly do a DNA test."
"Hortensia gave him a canned message, you know? message without name. He told Bima's father to do a DNA test, because the child was not his child. Not wanting to just believe the information he got, Bima's father did not ask his wife that question at all. He only invited the two to do a health check up at the hospital, arguing he read a lot of news about diseases that are not detected symptoms. As a submissive woman, Marian took Bima to the hospital with her father, without asking much."
"And they did a DNA test?"
"true."
Mariana took a deep breath.
"Then, what happened after Bima's two years of confinement? Isn't the company he currently owns, the result of his hard work since before his mother's death?"
"Yes. The news reached Jeremi's ears, and the man came to see me. I almost killed him for setting foot inside my house."
Mariana scowled disapprovingly.
"No, I didn't do it. Although I was still angry that he had ruined my son's household and had my grandson slumped, I each remembered he was the best friend I'd ever had in my entire life."
"No, you don't remember if I hadn't come in time, by then."
"Yes. That's when I found out Bima wasn't Javier and Maria's son, but the bird's peddler. I lost control and almost killed Jeremi, if only your grandfather hadn't come to help."
"So, what caused Grandpa to abort from killing Grandpa Jeremi, for the second time?" ask Mariana calmly.
The old man smiled. "He brought evidence that over the past five years Javier has been unfaithful. She has a child from another woman who is three years old."
Mariana gawking.
"That's what makes Bima rise again. He wanted to prove to his father that without him, he and his mother would still be alive. Bima rose, with a new spirit, into the gangster group that I led. In no time at all he could become the most feared person in the entire region of this eastern state. He grew into a cold man, moving full of calmness but pouncing very boldly at the right moment. His claws and fangs are so deadly. That's why when he replaced me in the leadership seat, they gave me the nickname Leo Atlas."
"Leo Atlas?!" Mariana. widened wide until the ores of her eyes almost popped out.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you so shocked to hear his name?" asked Grandpa Mariana frowned in surprise at the behavior of her granddaughter.
"N-no, it's just that I'm very idolizing that guy."
The two old men before him frowned those who were already wrinkled inedible with age.
"Yes, Cake. Leo Atlas' name is so big. He pounced on many companies in one go, including JkA Coorp. So, that mysterious man who never showed up, turned out to be my own husband?" mariana asked between admiration and pleasure.
"I think you already know that from Sarah."
"So, you don't know that MBC's company also belongs to Bima?"
"What?!" Mariana's eyes once again widened in shock.
"But he said...."
"It all belongs to Bima. The apartment, the house you live in, the company you work for, the entertainment center that shocked the entire city, until the foreign company that brought down JkA belongs to Bima, your husband."
Mariana pecked, her lips forming a perfect circle.
"K-grandfather knows?" ask Mariana, stammered.
"Of course I know."
"Then why are you silent?!" shouted Mariana annoyed.
"I don't want you to fail and be controlled by a treasure like your other three brothers, Mariana. You're so pure. I don't want the overflowing treasure to poison your mind and make you fall later on. That's why I just shut up and pretend everything's going the way it looks."
"Did Bima know grandpa knew everything?"
"No. He knew me and his grandfather knew each other, but he didn't know I understood so far. He thinks we're just close friends."
"So, after her success, Bima met Sarah, impregnated her and...."
"Wrong. Sarah was sent as a trap. The woman had never known Bima before. He came as bait. Too bad, the bait used actually entangled fish hook and can not be separated."
"What does that mean?" mariana did not understand.
"Look...."
Bima's grandfather, Mariana's grandfather, also Mariana turned his head when Thompson returned with several plastic bags filled with food.
"Well, this is what I've been waiting for since. You've been buying this food for a long time."
"Sorry, Big Master. Your order is long in line," replied Thompson, putting the whole meal on his desk and then dividing it.
Mariana stood up, helping Thompson.
"Is this all the same, Uncle?" mariana asked as she was about to share food for her grandfather and Bima's grandfather.
"Together, Mistress. According to both orders," replied Thompson. He leaned over in the fridge, taking out four new bottles of lemonade from it.
"The most delicious risotto in the city. Aah I haven't eaten it in a long time." Grandfather Bima received the bowl from Mariana's hand, inhaling her still slightly steaming smoke with a satisfied face.
"Ravioli? Ooh that's delicious too." Her eyes sparkled happily as she watched Mariana put a large plate of ravioli button mushrooms on the table.
After handing over all the food and arranging the rest on the table, Mariana took her own and sat down.
"So, how's it going, Cake?" ask Mariana who is still curious.
"Eat first, eat not while discussing too much matter." Grandpa Bima showed a bowl in her hand, her head hinting Mariana to eat hers.
"Well, Grandpa. But I'm very curious. It could be three full times if you put it off again. Readers can get angry because they are restless waiting for the continuation of your story, Kek." - protested Mariana as she clenched her feet.
"It's okay. They also fill their stomachs first. It's past lunch time. Later they are sick if late eating only to hear the story of Bima's past," explained Grandpa Bima calm down, again bribing food into his mouth.
Mariana pouted, clenching her feet, but her hands were slouching at the food she had been holding and began to bribe into her maniacal mouth.