
Let Me Go
The days in the villa passed without waiting, while Lintani continued to be busy practicing, but, she started to be adept at assembling and filling the bullets of the weapons that fit her. He always chose a soft gun that is easy to carry, with Airgun type BB bullet cal caliber 4.5.
After practicing that day, he chose to walk on the beach barefoot, while waiting for the sun to sink. Askelan did not greet him today, as it was towards the end of the preparations and tomorrow they would soon leave for Rasevan.
Yesterday, before she decided to go to the lake, her husband had already told her everything that was happening there. At first Lintani was surprised and did not believe but, Askelan conveyed it according to the information and evidence.
When Askelan said it, he had felt the place stand as if it collapsed to the bottom and the air became a little difficult to take a breath. He knew the intent of everything Askelan had to say along with the evidence was to show that he had canceled his departure, given that someone wanted him.
“Are you still going there?” ask Askelan repeatedly.
And, Lintani always replied firmly anyway, if she would still go there.
“Yes, I want to see what the state of my springs, lakesides and apple trees is like, is it destroyed too?”
“I don't know, I can't make sure you're safe or not!”
“Let me go!” lintani said as she pleaded, and kissed Askelan's cheek to melt her heart.
“Alright, but, promise me you'll be strong later, okay?”
“OK!”
Lintani is now aware, why Askelan is protecting her in such a way. Even now he understood that if he only walked around, there were eight bodyguards following around.
At first he felt uneasy with the presence of many bodyguards, but, after knowing it, the girl was used to it. Especially in Rasevan, where his life is more threatened. He really needs to prepare his heart. There's no more devastating news after this, right? Thus thought.
“Halo Aunty ..” Lintani said to Mo over the phone as she walked around the villa, letting the seawater wet her feet.
“Nona Lin, how are you? I missed you so much! When you guys get home, I'm lonely!” mo said in a row, with a hoarse voice across there, he sounded like a person holding back his cries.
The middle-aged woman now knew about Lintani, because Askelan had already said everything. It was only natural that he was so worried now.
“I'm good, how about Auntie? I miss you too, but, Mr. Askel is holding me here!”
“Stay by your side, because being near him is the safest place, he won't let you get hurt. Believe me, Miss!”
“Yes, I know now. Why doesn't Auntie go here?”
“No, if I go there, sir will be even more difficult, keeping two people at once will be more troublesome. Nothing harms me here!”
“But, you're being guarded by bodyguards, aren't you?” Lintani said that because she knew, Mo was among the people that Askelan loved because her mother loved the old woman.
“Sure, many guards are here, as always, you don't need to worry, Miss!”
Lintani ends her call after telling Mo to take care of her health. He stretched out his hands after putting the phone in his shorts pocket. He only wears a tank top equipped with a thin scarf.
“Viana!”
Lintani heard someone raise her mother's name, this was the second time after she heard the cries of people calling with the same name. However, before he could turn his head that time, the guards had already chased him away.
The guards ransacked the man's body forcibly though, the man rebelled. Once it was confirmed to be safe, then the bodyguards let the person approach.
The man immediately knelt down, making Lintani startled, until he took a few steps back, in astonishment.
“Viana, what is it, you?” he asked, clenching his hands together in front of his chest, with tears in his eyes.
“Ya!” Lintani deliberately confessed, wanting to know what the man was going to say.
“I'm sorry .. I'm sorry .. I didn't know that that person would betray and commit all his crimes to your family ...!”
“What do you mean? Why did you do it, I've entrusted all to you, right?” Again Lintani spoke as if she were Viana, but did not know her at all.
He is Pinot, Viana's maid, who often helps the Syahrain family in their garden, such as planting corn or harvesting it. If it wasn't for the job, maybe Pinot and his mother couldn't have met all their needs. Being a gardener, is his job and his mother's.
“I'm sorry .. don't punish me, I've been miserable like this now, even my mother also left...she kicked me out, she assumed I was a self-involved child, she said, for leaking all your family secrets to Marka!”
The marka? Thought Lintani, it was the name Askelan said, that person who had wiped out his entire family. However, not necessarily true, because other evidence as a reinforcement still needed her husband. Finally, Lintani felt that she could extract information from this lunatic.
Uh! Whether completely insane or not, Lintani did not care.
“We haven't seen each other in a long time, where have you been? I even forgot what your name is!”
“Sorry, Viana, we used to be friends, I'm Pinot. Maybe I'm so ugly now, so you forgot!” Pinot speaks in a fixed bent position.
“Yes, I forgot! Tell me how you can do that, you really let me down, Pinot!”
“I'm sorry, really, I'm sorry! At first I didn't think badly of Marka, because she was nice to me, again, forgive me!” the man cried while bowing to Lintani.
“So, your mother is still alive, and I have to lose my whole family? This is not fair! So tell me everything now, or I—“ his words come to a halt. Suddenly Lintani felt a pain in her heart, until she pulled out the gun and pointed it at Pinot's head, without a doubt.
He concluded that the man before him still had a mother, while he did not. Then, he would not waste the slightest information and asked her to tell him how she had met someone named Marka.
Pinot sees Lintani's gun on top of his head, until his cries get louder like a child whose wishes are not fulfilled. Normally, one would very well know what one wanted when one knew his life would soon be drifting.
Pinot also told me.
Marka was nice to him, became friends and helped out a lot, buying him mountain bikes, shoes and nice clothes. Their friendship lasted for so long, for months until finally, Marka asked about the Shahrain family and asked Pinot to search for all the secrets of the family.
In order to comply with Marka's wishes, Pinot conducts a reconnaissance on Grandpa Shahrain and he sees for himself how the old man, secretly, gives a secret tattoo to his descendants, he has a birthmark like a tailalat on his body.
He saw Viana's little child pinned by hot iron on her hips, forming a picture that circled her mole. Only the daughter received the tattoo, while her brother, did not. That's because they have marks on their noses or on their ears, so they can't be tattooed in such a horrible way on their bodies.
Pinot sees everything, as Viana cries begging her daughter not to be raided, with hot iron but, Shahrain does it anyway. From that event he knew what caused every descendant of the Shahrain to get the terrible thing, because it was related to the inheritance of land containing gold on the Hill Cemiton Shaw.
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