My Crazy Rich - Ard

Chapter 41: The Past

“Stop!”

The sound of the trigger on the press booming echoed in an open place. A woman kept running while holding her baby in her breast. The day was so dark without a glimmer of light shining down the road. The sky seemed to cry, lowering the rain speck simultaneously at that time. Thunder boomed so loudly, depicting endless flashes of lightning. They seem to be silent witnesses to the tragedy that happened to a family tonight.

“You run where you are!” From behind some men dressed in all black continued to chase the woman. They did not hesitate to fire a gun at him. However, he still ran as far as possible despite being barefooted.

His soaked body and the blood flowing from his temple slowly began to descend until it hit the son who was now in the arms, not making him tremble.

The little boy fell silent, staring back at the figures chasing him and his mother. Not infrequently the mother had to grimace in pain, feeling her feet pierced by tree branches. Occasionally the woman also had to slip due to the slippery forest road that passed. However, he continued to move for the sake of saving his son back then.

"They can't find you."

The sound of bullets shooting back sounded. Again they hit a bullet and hit the woman's back. However, he still tried to escape despite his steps getting limped and fresh blood flowed without him asking.

"Mama," called the little boy to feel something lodged in his mother's body.

The woman stopped at a large rock to hide and rested for a moment. “Honey, remember this Mama said. You have to stay alive and happy. Grow up to be strong, but don't show your strength. Those who hate you, will not be seen if you look at it from above. Never trust anyone in this world, except uncle and grandfather. Remember!"

The son nodded in understanding, the pale face of his mother who endured the pain alone, he could not see clearly that night. However, the premonition of losing the woman in front of him felt so frightening to the little one.

The woman then wore a necklace of hers on the son. “Shut up here and don't move one bit. Your uncle will find you. You must survive! Remember Mama and Papa always love you, even though we are no longer beside you,” said the woman left a message to the son while peeping his forehead.

Just a small nod that the son gave in response. With great difficulty the woman forced her son to lie down and cover the tiny body using a bush. The tears mixed with the rain did not stop flowing. Pain throughout the body can be held for the sake of the baby. He had to stay put and make sure the son would survive.

Once it's taste enough. The woman ran back to distract those who were after her, leaving her son alone covered in fear.

"I'm sorry Mama" he said in his heart as he tried to save himself.

Not long after, the boy who was hiding again heard a blaring gunshot in the distance. “Mama,” murmured witty. Will she now live a life?

“Mama!” Richard awoke from the nightmare instantly stunned right then and there. Sweat flowed profusely on his face like raindrops in a dream. His breathing sounds very irregular. After a long time he managed to be free from the nightmares that always haunt him. Now they're back.

He slept in a chair next to his Uncle who was still helpless on the bed. However, a childhood tragedy that caused her to lose her beloved family is again present in her dreams. The moment when little Richard saw how his father and all the inhabitants of his residence were cruelly slaughtered that night, while the mother tried her hardest to save him. Until the next day, Richard was found by Reymond and Day in a state of hypothermia and almost died from rain overnight.

If both of them don't save Richard in time. Maybe the poor boy was already killed in the tragedy that befell the Dday family. So they decided to hide Richard. Because the real enemy is still roaming free, while the case of the massacre only lasts for a moment. I don't know who is the main mastermind and what their purpose is to do it.

Trauma of major events experienced, making Richard difficult to communicate with. Luckily after so many years of treatment, he was able to return to normal life like humans in general.

Richard stood up from his position, staring at the two people who had been so precious in his life ever since. He saw how the uncle was still unconscious, while his grandfather seemed to be asleep in the bed reserved for waiting patients.

Slowly, Richard stepped closer to his grandfather. He lifted the cloth that covered the old man's body to the chest. Richard turned to wash his face. Time had already shown almost midnight, but Richard's mind was again on the brink of life's bitterness. He went outside to get some fresh air by sitting on the chair of a garden.

A woman's hand was stretched out to him, handing him a bottle of soft drink can. Richard received it without many words, while the woman just sat down beside him. “Can't sleep?” ask the woman while opening the lid of her soda.

“Why are they so obsessed with my family?” After a long period of silence, Richard finally began to open his mouth over what he was worried about. Usually he is a figure who refuses to tell his complaints. However, the burden that is now being borne is too difficult, Richard can no longer bear all alone.

The mood was silent again. The woman was unable to answer what Richard was asking. He himself did not really understand what their main motive was for targeting the Ddays Family. “Entaih! Compared to their reasons. What action are you going to take in the future? You're going to show yourself to the public and take over Ddays Holdings?”

With confidence Richard shook his head. “Still not yet time. At times like now they will feel above the clouds. Uncle was not a short-minded person, he definitely had plans in advance, despite knowing he himself would get hurt. Too soon they fall if they know this family still has a successor other than uncle. I don't know what their main purpose is, but I'll make sure if they start stepping into the trap I made.”

The woman nodded in understanding. The problem of strategy and strategy, Richard is the expert. The man could always act cautiously for the sake of the smooth running of his plan. Every job worked by Richard, must have always succeeded without a hitch.

“How about you?” Richard turned around to ask this time. However, it is not about work or business problems and grudges as before. He did not not not know the reason the woman still remained here until this late.

“What do you mean?” asked the woman pretending not to understand what Richard was talking about and sipped her drink again quickly.

“Do you still want to be with him later, and accept my uncle's current condition?”

Richard's no-nonsense question made the woman choke. He turned his head quickly and stared intently at the man beside him at this moment. “What are you talking about?”

“I'm no longer a child you can deceive. Even though you approached me in an unusual way. But I know exactly where your heart lives and what your purpose has been. Thank you for all the sacrifices you made, but I think that's enough. You deserve happiness too. The fate of humans who know, it could be Uncle left us or vice versa. I just don't want you to regret having wasted the opportunity,” Richard said staring sincerely at the woman at the side.

Not happy with the advice Richard gave. The woman instead laughed blandly while patting Richard's back, he closed his mouth while laughing widely with eye fertilizers that dammed his sense of smell. “You don't deserve to talk that wise.”

“I mean it this time. It must have been very painful for you, to have to hold back and part with the person you've always loved. Can only stare from afar, silent without being able to get close to show if you are still beside him.”

What Richard said suddenly made the woman speechless, but not for long his laughing expression changed, his body began to tremble violently. Tears that have been held, now spill over just like that. The pain of seeing Reymond's condition which is now stretched helpless, more frightening than being separated but still able to see it.

Slowly Richard grabbed the woman's body. Carrying in his warm embrace, he could not give advice much less wise advice. However, at least Richard is willing to be a backstop when sadness hits the woman's heart.

For a moment the two were in that position for a long time, until after being calm, the woman began to speak. “I will donate a kidney for him.”

“You sure?”

The woman nodded surely while wiping her tears. I don't know when was the last time she was at a point like this, but as a woman, she just wanted to give her best for her loved ones. “I've also done a test. They say my kidneys match Reymond better than yours.”

“But, your life may be about to change. Your space will be limited as well. Are you ready for that?” ask Richard to make sure.

"Me and Reymond can rest after this. But your battle has just begun. Do not let your condition be made a weakness by them. You have to stay strong and fit. It's time you walked on your own feet." The woman smiled, raising her head until the look between Richard and him met. “ Didn't think you were an adult now,” she said as she gently stroked Richard's cheek.

“I know, Aunty.”

Without both of them realizing, secretly someone in the distance photographed the two who were alone. Although he could not hear what they were talking about, but he would use this to break his brother's heart again. “It turns out good fortune is still on my side,” muttered Rose smiling with satisfaction at how clear the face of Richard and the woman was on her phone screen.

Intentions want to abort the content illegally, so it must be done at night. Rose even found the sister-in-law was with other women in that place. Bak getting the durian collapsed, naturally he would not waste this rare opportunity just like that. "Look at Brother. It seems like good luck doesn't always side with you."