Mothers

10 Choices

The fourth day of investigation...

Renata sets his heart on staying strong and looking for who killed Kinanti. Whatever Kinanti's background, Kinanti was still her mother and died in an unnatural way.

Renata and Mahendra are on their way to her Grandmother's house, Herlina. Renata already knew that Nina would definitely stay at Herlina's house. Renata trembled slightly as he got down from Mahendra's car. But it covered his anxiety. On the other hand, Mahendra is worried whether Renata is ready for all this?

"Are you ready for Renata?" mahendra asked before they rang Herlina's bell.

"Yes, come on." Renata nodded and they immediately pressed the bell of Herlina's house.

Because Herlina's house was large enough, the bell speaker could be used for direct communication greeting them after Mahendra squeezed his bell.

"Who?"

"I'm Mahendra, from the Western Prosecutor's Office. I want to meet Nina's mother. Can it?" Mahendra answered the bell speaker. But the voice that was in the speker bell immediately rejected it.

"I'm sorry, Nina's mom isn't home."

The bell speaker was immediately turned off and Mahendra could not ask further.

"He didn't accept me. This time I think you should try."

Renata understands. Surely this family does not accept people carelessly. Therefore, the bell speaker is installed so that there is no need to bother checking out who is coming.

Mahendra took a step back and Renata pressed her bell button. Again they say hello through the speaker bell.

"Who else? I told you nothing." replied someone at the bell speaker in an annoyed tone.

Although Renata does not like who answers the bell speaker, but he must be patient. Renata breathed.

"I am Renata, the granddaughter of Mother Herlina, does my Grandma exist?"

"Oh yes, Miss Renata. Please come in."

There was no more talk on the speaker bell, the luxurious-looking turnstile opened.

It is very difficult to enter a house as luxurious as this if not a person who is very interested in the owner of the house.

A servant came out to Renata. Although the waiter is somewhat confused by Renata's arrival, they still serve Renata well because Renata is the grandson of the owner of the house.

"Welcome Miss. The madam in her room will also be ready to go down." the maid looks misbehaved but tries to control her emotions well.

Every now and then he looked at Mahendra, the handsome man walking next to Renata looking quite mismatched.

"I want to meet my Grandma and Aunt Nina. Is there Aunt Nina?" asked Renata firmly without a smile.

The waiter looked increasingly misbehaved with an irregular eye view.

"There certainly is, Miss. Nina's mother never went anywhere." The waiter made a slightly forced smile. Renata who already knew it, returned her smile and walked through the Servant.

"Then who said that Nina's mother wasn't home? Hmm.." said Renata slightly insinuating one of the servants.

Mahendra smiled looking at Renata who was slightly upset with the Servant.

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"Madam, there's Miss Renata coming" said one of the servants as Herlina tidied up her hairdo. Herlina was surprised by what her servant said. There was no way Renata would come all of a sudden.

"For what? Why didn't you call me?" Herlina immediately rushed to tidy up her hair and went downstairs. Sure enough, there was already Renata standing with a smile adorning his face.

"grandmother." Renata smiled and approached Herlina who already looked beautiful. Mahendra's heart was filled to see Renata able to meet his family.

"Why are you here, honey? You didn't call Grandma first?" she warmly hugged Renata.

"Sorry, Grandma. But I have urgent business here. Grandma doesn't mind, does she?"

"No, Honey. What'sthat?"

Renata took off her embrace from Herlina and looked at her seriously.

"Can I meet Aunt Nina?"

Herlina scowled in disbelief. Why would Renata want to meet Nina?

"For what, dear?"

Renata did not answer her grandmother's question. He whispered something in Herlina's ear and Herlina looked surprised.

Renata nodded and stroked his Grandma's hand.

"Nina!!!" Herlina immediately called out to Nina with her distinctive shout. As usual, there was no need to wait for long, Nina had already descended from her room. But this time Nina was surprised by Renata's sudden arrival.

"Remissed?"

Renata smiled at Nina and Ninapun immediately came down from the stairs.

"You here, Renata? How you doing?" Nina was about to hug Renata but Renata had already dodged.

"Good, Auntie." Renata kept smiling as if there was closeness between them. Obviously Herlina was also very curious about what happened to Renata.

"Please prepare a drink for us and I'll go to the office later" Herlina told her servant.

"So, look. My arrival here with sister Renata is to investigate the case of Ms. Kinanti." Mahendra said.

"Then what will you get by interrogating me at my house?" ask Herlina to Mahendra. Mahendra did not have time to answer, Renata was faster to reply Herlina.

"Tante Nina."

"Me?" Nina does not believe that Renata came with a prosecutor to interrogate her.

"Yes." Yeah." Renata stared intently at Nina who still looked confused.

"Based on our research, Ms. Nina is someone who is most likely to have a motive to harm Ms. Kinanti" Mahendra said. Whether or not this opening worked, but he tried hard.

"It's not harming, it's killing." Renata corrected her still with her sharp gaze.

"So you're accusing me of killing Kinanti?" Nina was very surprised by the statements of Renata and Mahendra.

"I had expected this to happen. So, Nina, can you clear this up?" tanya Herlina seemed unconcerned with the look on Nina's face.

"You listen to me. I didn't kill Kinanti at all." Nina was completely cornered by this state of affairs.

But Renata with her sharp gaze slightly sat back down casually while crossing her chest.

"really? Then why is there always a commotion in my house?"

"Ruckus? Renata we're not fighting!" Nina tried to defend herself. Mahendra is still watching the inter-family debate without interrupting.

"So, what does Aunt Nina mean every time I come to my house to bring peace to my mother?"

"Renata, every time I go to your house it's sometimes not because of my will. Sometimes your mom calls me asking me to come." Nina started to tell me what happened at that moment.

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"Nina, come. I want to tell you something." Kinanti said on the phone

Then after I came, the atmosphere of the house was empty. Kinanti is cooking. And I was shocked when he gave me raw chicken legs.

"Eat. I thought you liked someone else's ex. Here I give you chicken feet.I cooked chicken. Eat it." Kinanti's eyes looked sharp, he was smiling but not a cynical smile. A smile that is hateful but disgusting.

"Kinan, what's wrong with you? I thought you wanted to tell me something."

I was so scared of his eyes. It's like it's not the Kinanti gaze I know. More scary than that.

"Yes, I want to tell you that you are the same as this chicken leg! You are stinking, rotten and disgusting!" shouting Kinanti.

"Kinan, you can touch me as much as your heart. But remember Kinan! I'm not the one who came to Candra! He came to me and told me that he always wanted to be separated from you!"

"You want to make up a story, especially? You're the rotten woman I've seen even imagining your rot makes me disgusted!" Again Kinanti yelled uncharacteristically. Nina became afraid of Kinanti.

"Wait, Kinan, let's agree on one thing."

At that time Kinanti looked curious about the deal I was going to talk about.

"Do you want something from me to make a deal? I'll leave Candra if that's what you want."

I said that solemnly because I thought I couldn't face Kinanti like this continuously.

"alright. This time I'll say a deal. I know Candra might love you very much. He won't do anything to make you physically ill. Give me compensation for all that."

At the time, I was confused by what he said.

"What do you mean?"

"When Candra doesn't love you anymore, she'll make you sandbags to beat her every day. That's how Candra treated me until I went crazy!"

I was surprised by what Kinanti said. Because Candra's been treating me so well.

"Well, how much do I have to pay?"

"Fifty thousand every day."

"Are you kidding me? That's pretty big money!"

Kinanti then got angry and threw a bell plate containing raw chicken legs at me. I covered my face with my hands. I was scared of Kinanti.

"Alright, alright! Fifty thousand every day."

Then the Kinanti died down. He's not angry anymore. Then he touched my hair with hands that had chicken leg blood.

"Have your hair been burned by cigarettes, Nina?"

At that moment I looked into Kinanti's sharp eyes and not like the kind and gentle woman people always talk about. I saw his eyes like the eyes of a tiger that wanted to pounce on me. Then I left.

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Renata remember. At that time Renata came home and his house was a mess with chicken legs thrown everywhere. At that time Kinanti cried and said that Nina messed up while she was cooking.

For whatever sake Renata is very dizzy with the reality so far that Renata got.

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