Marrying for a Bet

Truth

Vanka was standing at the door of the room. Slowly, his hand stretched out to grab the door knob and open it. Dark, that's what Vanka first saw. He pulled out his phone and turned on the flashlight.

Vanka's forehead shriveled because she smelled a very fishy smell. Actually she was nauseous, but Vanka held it back and continued walking while pointing her phone forward.

Soon in the middle of the room, Vanka saw the body of a woman hanging with a candle on her left right.

As Vanka approached, he sat down and closed his mouth and shook in disbelief. His tears slowly began to fall and his chest was extremely tight. Why, why could his friend die in such a terrible condition.

“ Widya... WIDYA!! ”

Vanka was crying because he saw Widya's body dripping a lot of blood. Starting from his head to the hand of the woman was a lot of blood. But when Vanka got up and wanted to approach the corpse, he heard a voice like a rebellious man.

Vanka quickly pointed her phone to a corner of the room and saw a man sitting on one of the chairs with his hands and feet tied and a duct tape covering the man's mouth.

Vanka quickly walked to the man to get closer to him. His eyes were rounded when he knew who the person was. Vanka blinked in disbelief because she saw her husband's forehead bleed a lot.

“ Naufal?! ”

The man looked up, then he smiled with a drop of tears coming out of his eye patch. Soon Vanka might open the duct tape in the man's mouth and untie the bonds that ensnare him.

“ Van, sorry,” Ogre Naufal.

“ Silence is stupid, I'm sorry you,” replied Vanka who is still sobbing. His heart really hurts now.

“ He who has killed Widya and sir Surya! ” says Naufal growled.

After Vanka managed to untie the bond from Naufal's hands and feet, at that moment Bian entered the room and immediately approached the two of them.

“ Fal, you are ok—”

Bian's speech was stopped because he accidentally saw Widya's corpse hanging. Bian immediately closed his mouth and shook in disbelief. And immediately, the Algar entered the room clapping his hands.

“ Wah wah... very moving as ya.”

The three of them immediately turned their heads and looked at Algar who was already standing in front of there while folding his hands on his chest. Vanka continued to sob while Bian and Naufal stood in front of the woman. They're trying to protect Vanka.

“ Sister really evil,” shrewd Vanka. That woman really doesn't believe in any of this.

“ Why Van? Wicked? Ahaha! Van, van.. You're stupid, so don't know anything.”

“ But before Van,” Further Algar. “ I want to give you a look nih.”

Algar walked up to the table there and took a remote. On the wall next to it is already a projector screen and some audio visuals. Algar pressed the remote and saw a video.

* This incident started about two years ago. At the time a middle-aged man known to be his father Naufal was sitting in his work chair flipping through a document. The middle-aged man was inside the basement which was a secret room belonging to the Nugraha family.

Mr. Nugraha meticulously examined the documents. But at that very moment, someone entered in all black clothes with a knife in his hand. Mr. Nugraha immediately stopped his activities and began to rise from his seat.

“ Who are you?! ”

The man did not reply and instead approached the Nugraha master who had already taken a few steps back. But mister Nugraha directly pulled the mask that person was wearing. How surprised he was when he saw the face behind the mask.

“ Naufal…? ”

Again he did not answer. But Mr. Nugraha felt a little strange because his son's gaze looked blank.

“ Yours why?! ”

“ Noisy,” replied Naufal cold.

“ This isn't you, is it? It must not be you! ”

“ Not me? Of course it's me.”

“ Please be aware of Naufal! Conscious! ”

But the knife had first stuck in the stomach of Mr. Nugraha. Naufal stabbed his father in the stomach repeatedly until he was unconscious.

Mbok Ten who at that time was in the garage and saw the basement door open, he went straight in there and saw the terrible incident.

Naufal looked back and saw Ten who was covering his mouth while shaking in disbelief. But Naufal did not care and he dragged his father's body, then put it in a car trunk until Naufal's car darted out of nowhere.*

After the CCTV footage ended, Naufal was sitting limp down below holding his head with his hands shaking violently. Vanka who saw it immediately held Naufal into his arms.

“ Arghh!! ”

Naufal's shout just now made the Algar laugh out loud, while Bian was still grinning on the spot. Before long he turned to Naufal and crouched down in front of the man.

“ Fal please explain, do you remember your treatment? ”

Naufal shook his head slowly. And finally Vanka remembered something. Right, he saw that Naufal's gaze was empty. Vanka recalled a book he had found in the Algar library some time ago.

“ Not Naufal the killer, but Brother Algar! ” said Vanka and he immediately stood up while pointing his index finger at the man.

“ Not Naufal? Obviously it was Naufal who killed him! ”

“ No,” Vanka shook his head strongly. “ Brother Algar must have hypnotized Naufal at the time!”

“ Mean Van? ” ask Bian.

“ On the second floor, there is a library. There I saw there was a line of magic books and one of them was a book on how to hypnotize someone.”

After hearing Vanka's explanation, Algar clapped his hands while laughing.

“ Hahaha! I pulled my word Van, it turns out you're smart too. It's just that suddenly Widya asked about it, it turns out you already told her. Well as a result of that, you can squirm him now what has become. Who told her to do so to me.”

Vanka bowed while clenching her hands. He cried and could no longer see his friend's body.

“ Why, why is sister laspin the same Widya?!! Widya doesn't know anything but sister killed her sadistically!! ”

Now Vanka stared at the Algar with reddened eyes and tears that did not stop dripping. While the Algar pulled up his stool and sat there playing the gun in his hand.

“ I put it this way because they are both Van,” Algar said as he glanced at Naufal and Bian.

“ Three years ago my father committed suicide in this place, and Flowgear almost went bankrupt! While Nugraha and Giovano just kept quiet without helping at all.”

“ Then you think I'm sincerely Van? Hahaha, no! I envy them and I finally broke up for the second sheepfight.”

Algar laughed in satisfaction while clapping his hands, while the three of them shook their heads in disbelief.

“ I've started to remember a little. At that time I buried my father's body and came to your office, kept the knife in the bag of Mr. Daniel and finally accused Mr. Daniel as the perpetrator,” Naufal told Bian.

Vanka stared at the Algar sharply. “ Brother also killed Sir Surya right?! What is the purpose of that brother?! ”

“ My destination? Of course to take power! I don't want Nugraha to be the same Giovano who leads because they're a subsidiary of my company. I will work with Surya, Louis, and Cecile.”

“ Cecile? Why is he involved too? ” ask Vanka wonder.

“ Cecile is my girlfriend. We already knew him from Junior High and now he's humming my son, hahaha. I'm sorry Naufal because he lives in your house it's just being a spy.”

After that Algar directly pointed his gun at Vanka while smiling with a grin. “ Van, you don't want to follow Widya? ”

Naufal turned his back and immediately got up from his position then pulled the woman's shoulder to keep Vanka away. Unfortunately though…

Dor's!

The bullet directly hit Naufal's chest, making the man sit weak while bleeding a lot from his mouth.

“ Well, wrong target deh.”

“ NAUFAL!! ”

Vanka shouted and immediately approached the man. While Bian immediately ran towards the Algar and beat him all out. Vanka placed Naufal's head on her thighs in a great cry and held onto the man's chest which was now covered in blood.

“ Hey, don't cry,” said Naufal while rubbing Vanka's wet cheeks.

Vanka shook his head. “ Let's rise Fal! We're going to the hospital now! ”

But at that time Naufal also held Vanka's hand. “ Van, take good care of our child yes.”

“ You say what?! We'll both take care of this kid! Come on up Fal, come on! ”

Vanka tried to carry her husband's body but he could no longer. His body feels weak.

“ Fal, hiks.. let's go to the hospital.hiks..”

Vanka was no longer able to stem her cries and she lowered her head until tears hit Naufal's face.

“ Van, uhuk! uhuk!” Naufal coughed while bleeding. “ I have one trust, please marry Bian. Because I'm sure he can take care of you.”

“ Not Fal.enggak,” replied Vanka weak.

“ Van, one thing you need to know. I love you the same. I really love you. Sorry I ever made you as a betting tool.”

“ I'm sorry you baby. I love you too Fal.”

Naufal smiled then closed his eyes slowly. “ Thanks Van.”

“ Fal, wake Fal, wake up baby! ”

Vanka patted the man's face firmly while shaking his head. “ Fal, Naufal Nugraha, let's get up baby! Wake up!”

Bian who saw that immediately bowed while clenching his hands firmly. Tears were also unceasingly wetting the man's face.

“ NAUFAL!! ”

Vanka drowned her face in the man's chest and cried loudly. He was banging his very claustrophobic chest. Soon a bunch of cops got in there. The still-exposed Algar grabbed his gun and shot himself in the head.

Yeah, the guy committed suicide.

Please wake me up from this nightmare!

SERIATE.