Picking Up the Past

Prepare to Fight

A bright morning accompanied the human rush of the day, in a large three-story mansion, with white paint with a large green courtyard in front of it, in the park there is a small pond decoration with a fountain that never stops flowing. Inside the house, a family was enjoying their breakfast.

A well-built man walked into the house, the man wearing an elegant suit with a communication device attached to his ear, at the top of his suit was a pin indicating he was a special bodyguard of the Adinata group.he passed several bodyguards of the house who were also the same body as him and dressed like him.

The man walked towards the dining table where the wealthy family still enjoyed the breakfast made by the housekeeper, he then saluted a middle-aged man sitting at the end of the table. “what info?” asked the middle-aged man in a flat tone without stopping his breakfast activities.

“i have followed Mr. Rahman, sir, he met some shareholders in Jakarta” reported the sturdy man with his flat tone, he said, the man who has accompanied Rahman several days to visit several shareholders in the Adinata group, including when visiting Mr. Sarman.

“so my guess is right, he's one of the guard dogs for Gibran” said the middle-aged man who is none other than Aliando with his cynical voice.

“just finish him well, don't let those om Gibran be in the company again, dad is too soft on them” Arnes told his father with a

resolute tone.

“I will not dirty my hands with that man's dirty blood, I will prepare a game for him, he will soon follow Arjun into jail” said Aliando still with a cynical smile.

“the news of your arranged marriage with Hardi's child is very fast spreading, even Rahman has moved to fight us when it was just a matchmaking” continued Aliando.

Aliando's wife then looked flat at her husband after hearing what he said, she could see the cold face of the man.

“next you want what mas?, surely some shareholders have been affected by him” said Aliando's wife named Ratikah, or commonly called Madam Ratih.

“they must have guessed our plan, maybe at this time they are preparing a shareholder meeting to bring me down, and return the mandate of taking care of the company back to Gibran” lawyers, Aliando said.

“I will meet Hardi, and your engagement with Hardi's son must be implemented immediately, my status as a candidate for Hardi will make shareholders think 2 times to bring me down, he said, they are unlikely to bring down the largest potential shareholder in the company at the moment, they will be on my side to benefit themselves from every line of our company's business for their business” said Aliando still with a cynical smile.

“what's still no word from the kid?” aliando asked the bodyguard who was still by his side,

“yet sir, all data of patients who are the same age as Mr. Gibran's children from all hospitals in Jakarta are always checked every year in our hospitals, none of the patient data is the same as Mr. Gibran's DNA, data from schools and campuses are also reviewed and there is no data that matches Mr. Indra, currently some people trust you are collecting data from several areas around Jakarta, but the results are still nihil” explained the guard.

Aliando took a rough breath hearing it all, he was really desperate to find Indra's whereabouts.

“do I have to try falsifying his death data again?” he said it coldly.

“I don't know anyone in the company who is still loyal to Gibran, which is obviously the one who has been working to thwart all my efforts to shut down the boy, they did not want Gibran's mandate to be the basis for Gibran's inheritance of property to me” the man stopped his breakfast.

“dad already have plans to marry me to Anjani, why else think of the boy?” annoyed Arnes to his father who was still dizzy looking for the existence of Indra, while his sister just stared at the serious trial with a sullen face, his mind was not able to fully understand the contents of the conversation.

“you are indeed stupid, the child must still we look for, the child's life is the key we master everything without having to bet with others, while your matchmaking is a gamble, it could be that Hardi betrayed us later after the shares of Gibra released to the capital market, for that you should be able to fool Hardi's son so as not to be separated from you if you are already engaged and married later, he guaranteed you to be CEO at the company” Aliando said that in a half-angry tone to Arnes.

“i can not last long in the company, my age is old, sooner or later I definitely have to step down from the position of CEO, hardi's son is the only way for us to keep all of this if that child is never found, and you should be able to play your part later so that everything remains our family's property, if everything goes well you can also seize all Hardi's possessions to be ours, and most importantly now, you must be prepared to lobby the shareholders to side with us, offer them what they want and they need, make sure they support us” continued Aliando again, which made everyone who was there staring long at him.

*

Arya is still fighting against the documents that are still piling up on her workbench, she must immediately finish all her work so as not to pile up for long, because he must focus himself to immediately make plans to deal with the turmoil in the internal Adinata group.

For a moment he stared deep into the skyscraper on the glass wall of his room, he recalled that 22 years ago, he needed more courage to face the fear that loomed his heart, he still remembered those painful moments, he still remembered when the bullet penetrated his mother's body, he still remembered his mother's breath snorting death in his embrace, he still remembered his father's body lying stiff in front of the door, he still remembered when he ran towards Aliando to ask for help, but apparently he heard himself that Aliando was the mastermind behind the dark history of his life.

‘dad, do I really have to go back?, I don't want to get involved in this fight, I want to live happily father, I already have a wife, I already have a wife, I don't want to get involved in this fight, I want to build my family like our happy family, I want to be a father like you, I want to age like the grandparents I met in Sulawesi, happy to love each other to old age, father, mother, are you looking at me right now, I married the child who rejected you father, I even felt pain many times because of the attitude of his son, he said, but now that God seems to have destined it for me, he holds my secret about our family that I, Tomy, Uncle and Aunt have kept for years, dad, I see he's so scared of losing me, he was so afraid that I would leave him, did that mean he really loved me?, father, am I wrong if I stay like this, become Arya and bury Indra, he said, bury everything about our family, and live with my wife while still burying it all, but I'll never be at peace if the world still knows you as the evil man father, he said, my heart would never sincerely hear it until whenever Arya's inner’ held tightness over everything, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath to give her peace of mind.

The door of the room was heard knocked by someone, and Rita then entered carrying a document, she walked casually to Arya's desk. “ini documents from Hardi corp, the, miss Anjani contacted me so that the design for the second hotel can be completed as soon as possible” said Rita by staring at the work documents Arya is still piling up.

“So soon he takes care of everything” said Arya inhaling a deep breath.

“Maybe he wants to see you again soon, it seems he is interested in you Mr. Arya” said Rita tried to tease Arya, because in fact until that moment he still could not sincerely be a part of the family of the Rakarsa, the grudge that had long been buried in his heart in the family was still not gone.

“I'm married to Rita, so don't talk like that to me again, and one more, I don't like the call of your sir it” Arya said briefly, he was annoyed by Rita's words, but on the other hand he also still understood with a grudge in Rita's heart, due to the fact that he and Rita are victims of the greed of the pursuers of wealth and power, plus Rita's family as immersed into the bottom of the ravine by the family of Rakarsa, Rita's, the grudge against the Dakarsa family will not be easily extinguished in the heart of the woman.

“I love to call you sir,” said Rita with a smile to Arya, she then put the document on Arya's desk while looking at the skyscraper on the glass wall of Arya's room. He then breathed a long breath and let go.

"you have to finish the plan for Miss Anjani's hotel quickly, I don't want to see her angry like yesterday when she came here” said rita while turning her body to get out of Arya's room.

“Rita, can I meet your father?"