
At home, Hazal is helping her mother-in-law in the kitchen. Suddenly his phone rang indicating an incoming call.
At the grab of the flat object that is placed on the dining table.
"Hello".
"..."
"alright. We meet in a normal place".
"..."
"OKs. I'll be there in 30 minutes".
Hazal ends the call and asks her mother-in-law for permission. After getting permission from the middle-aged woman, Hazal went into the room to change clothes.
The woman wore a blue dress and used a leather sling bag. He got the car keys on the nightstand and then drove his car to a restaurant.
****
At the restaurant, a man was sitting while drinking coffee. On his left side was a brown envelope.
"Mr Reza".
"Miss Hazal. You finally came along".
"Sorry I'm late. It was after you called me straight here, but I made sure our situation was safe".
Yeah, the one who called Hazal was Detective Reza. The man wanted to give the results of his investigation over these few months. The investigation that Hazal had forgotten for a while was now complete.
"This is the result of my investigation over the past two months. I hope this report can help you".
Hazal took the brown envelope and tore off the tip, but the woman had not read what the report said.
"One more Miss Hazal. I don't think Mr. David is involved in this, nor is Miss Helena involved. The woman was a cousin of Mr. David who was in need of money".
"Miss Helena has advanced breast cancer. So the woman needed a lot of money to operate on her mother. So he asked Mr. David for help. That is why almost every day the two meet".
Hazal is shocked to hear Detective Reza's report. It is unexpected if all this time Helena keeps a pretty heavy burden of life. Luckily, David, who is a cousin of the woman, is still willing to help her.
"Then what about the phone number?".
"You can see everything in this report Miss. But remember one thing,"
The look on Detective Reza's face turned serious, the man brought his face closer to Hazal, and said,
"Be careful of those around you Miss. Sometimes what you consider loyal is a true traitor".
Hazal's eyes were perfectly rounded as if he could not believe the burly man's words.
"All right, Mr. Reza. Thank you for your help so far".
Hazal delivers a white envelope in return for Reza's detective work. The man left Hazal, who was still loyal to the restaurant. Without realizing it, there were a pair of eyes that watched them from a chair not far from the two.
****
For 30 minutes Hazal was in the restaurant staring at the brown envelope that Reza's detection had given her. The end of the envelope had been opened because Hazal had ripped it off, but the woman still had not seen the contents of the large envelope.
Hazal hesitates about the report, after hearing Detective Reza's last sentence, for some reason Hazal's heart becomes riled up. The envelope looked at her with doubt.
"What if what I think is right. Ah, it's impossible. I can't believe it". Hazal is getting riled up, playing around with his mind that is beginning to doubt something.
Hazal finally opens the envelope and sees the results of the Detective report that almost 30 minutes ago left her.
How shocked Hazal was to see what Detective Reza reported. The woman's hand shook, her eyes began to glaze over, a very clear hue of disbelief emanated on the woman's brown-eyed face.
"I-this is impossible. Not likely. There's no way he's. Not likely. No way...".
Hazal repeated the same sentence in disbelief. Hazal's heart was broken, sick, disappointed, and wounded at the same time. Tears that had been in the seat now can not be contained anymore.
"Hw... Hu... Hu... Not likely. I can't believe this. Hu... Hu... Hu...".
Hazal cried while squeezing the white paper. The woman's body was still trembling violently, her heart was racing, even her head was getting dizzy, and the woman's tears seemed to still not subside.
For almost an hour Hazal cried in the restaurant. After the cry began to subside, the woman finally left before finally she put the paper containing the report in the bag.
****
One week after meeting Hazal and detective Reza, Hazal returns to terror.
'How are you?. Are you having fun as long as I don't bother you?. Don't be happy, I'll make sure you're crushed to the bottom of the earth, until you forget that you've lived in this world'.
"What are you doing?".
"Sonia?".
Sonia touched Hazal's shoulder and made the woman flinch.
"What's wrong?. Did something happen?".
Sonia was getting worried. But Hazal tried to neutralize his feelings that had been riled up. He wiped away the tears at the end of his eyes that were about to fall and took a deep breath.
"I'm doing fine. My eyes were dusting".
Hazal is forced to lie, he recalls detective Reza's remark last time that the woman had to be careful of those closest to him.
"Ah, okay. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to ask you something".
Hazal's forehead was wrinkled questioningly.
"About what?".
"What about Helena and David?. Is there any evidence to suggest that they are the real perpetrators of terror?. For a few months I've forgotten about your problems. Ms. Riyan almost every night doesn't let me sleep on time".
Hazal had not budged, he stared fixedly at Sonia's eyes, trying to find something inside.
"I think Helena's one of the terrorists, but for David I'm not sure".
Hazal finally said after a moment of silence. The woman lied about her suspicions to Helena.
"From the beginning I had suspected that Helena was the real terror. And David helped the fox woman". Sonia looked upset when she mentioned Helena's name. Evident from the look of his face red because it held back anger.
"What if the culprit is someone else who is very close to me?".
DUARR...
Like lightning during the day, Sonia listened to a question she had never thought of. The woman's eyes were round, her heart racing violently.
"W-what do you mean?".
Sonia's voice turned riled up, as if she was afraid of something.
"Forget it. I was just thinking, what if that person is not Helena but someone else?. Hehe".
Hazal gave a discordant smile, while Sonia exhaled a sigh of relief as if she had just slipped out of a burden.
"You're scaring me".
"Fear what?".
Once again Hazal stares at Sonia's brown bead of eyes, making the woman feel awkward.
"I'm afraid if what you're saying is true that the culprit is not Helena but rather your closest person. What if it's skinny Wawan?. He's the closest person to you in this restaurant".
For a moment of silence approached the two, until Jamil who was a courier at Hazal's restaurant entered the woman's room.
"Excuse me Hazal, there's someone looking for you downstairs".
"alright. I'll be right down".
Hazal turned to look at Sonia who looked pensive.
"Do you still want to be in this room?".
"Huh?. Ah, yes. Let's go downstairs".
The two women went to meet a man who was going to meet Hazal.
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TBC.