SUPPOSE THAT...

TRUTH lll

Eva was stunned, as she bit her lower lip. The look on his face turned sad, he lowered his head, gulping with great difficulty while his hands trembled slightly holding the red map.

It seemed like the moment he was afraid of happened as well, and inevitably he had to explain.

"...His name is Rendy Aryatedja." Eva said quietly after many times she inhaled and exhaled a long breath, just so she could be a little calmer.

For the first time after waking up, Dave turned to his mother who was sitting on the side of the bed where he was lying.

Tucked in an unbearable feeling when looking at the old face of his mother who is always filled with grief. But the angry feeling of being lied to for years filled the chest of the Man who had just come to his senses from his long sleep, made him bear to ignore it.

"...He's like a shadow to your Daddy." Eva told me. "Solve all the scandals that your Daddy did, be his right hand, don't even hesitate to justify all the ways just so that your Daddy avoids trouble and remains blameless in public face." Eva paused for a moment to sigh, unconscious during the talk she held her own breath.

Dave was still silently staring with his two pitch-black eyes on his eyeballs, which again looked so much like someone his mother had imagined.

"She's perfect even though Mom never liked her overly neat style and her formal language that made her careless." The tip of Eva's lips was slightly attracted, forming a flimsy smile. "Mom prefers your Daddy who always looks attractive, stands out with his stature and cold face. I don't know.only then what's in Mom's eyes is only your Daddy." Eva said while looking at her 20-year-old son.

Back he let out a long sigh, it felt heavy for him to tell all the past that he had tried to bury deeply for years. "Your Daddy fell in love with the woman you called the mother." Eva said. "But Mom didn't want to let go." Her eyes were on her, it felt like it just happened yesterday. "Mom and Dad are married. For almost a year married, your Daddy never touched Mom." Eva smiled bitterly, which made Dave's forehead wrinkled dislike. "Until she gets word about the woman, and finds out about her son." Eva tried to smile, not wanting her child to misunderstand again and hate, even though her own chest was claustrophobic.

"Kira ?" ask Dave as if to himself.

"You must be close now to him ?" Eva smile.

Dave turned his eyes the other way. He did not reply, only that he remembered his rude remarks to the girl.

"Marisa was pregnant when Dad and Mom got married." Eva continues the story because she sees no sign that Dave will return the words.

"Dad forced her ?" Dave asked.

Eva was silent for a moment, before she nodded slowly assenting.

Dave menggelos, lost his respect for the man he believed in for years as his biological father.

"Trust Dave everyone must have a mistake, not least your parents." Eva tried to be wise when she saw her son's attitude.

"Don't tell me Mom was also forced by..."

"No Dave !" cut off his mother with a deep frown.

Dave was surprised, slowly the face of Eva who was covered in tension loosened with the eyes of her child.

"That man, let alone force." he said as if he were upset with someone. "the workaholic whose head is filled only has the Marthadinata Family and company files." he sneered as if the person he was referring to was in front of him.

Dave just silently looked at her, making Eva aware that she had overreacted.

Dave could see, his mother was looking away while pretending to justify the location of her black veil, even though she was wiping away tears.

For the umpteenth time Eva let out a long breath. " The shock of your Daddy wanting to divorce Mom." Eva told me again, but this time without looking at Dave, and from her tone it sounded like she was upset.

Eva bit her lower lip, trying to regulate her breathing which seemed very difficult to breathe normally. "...Mom is desperate, feeling like there's no price as a woman with your Daddy's attitude." stammered like holding back the tears she goes back on.

Angrily Eva rubbed the rough self-destructive tears that flowed from the tip of her eyes, she almost squeezed the red map she held just so that her turmoil of heart could be slightly dampened.

Dave looked away at it like that. He looked back at the ceiling of his room, closing his eyes tightly. It was painful and painful to hear the reality that he had to accept.

But Dave Man strong, since childhood he was educated directly by his cold-handed grandfather, making him able to muffle his chest which almost exploded by inflamed pain.

"...Why aren't you married ?" ask Dave without looking at his mother.

"Mom didn't know you existed, and when she knew you couldn't do anything" Eva replied with flushed eyes. "Mom still loves your Daddy, while that guy..." Eva looks difficult every time she tells the person who became Dave's real father.

Dave saw his mother repeatedly rubbed his nose and sighed heavily with her tears that continued to melt even though it had been cleaned many times.

"The priority of his life was the Marthadinata Family, the Family that had adopted him, giving him..."

"What ??" instantly Dave rose from his sleep, making him hold his head dizzy because he woke up suddenly.

Eva quickly put her grimacing Dave back to sleep holding his head and putting him to bed and raising his bed, leaving Dave in a sitting position without lifting his back.

"What does that mean..??" Dave seemed to not understand, but just by hearing the words of his mother, he should understand.

Eva knew her son would be even more shocked to hear her, but she was determined not to hide anything else.

"Rendy Aryatedja isn't your Daddy's brother, she's an orphan adopted by the Marthadinata Family from an Orphanage." Eva says.

Dave's mouth was immediately rounded with a face of disbelief. "Ja, so me...??" her face stiffened with her black, teary eyes.

His pride and pride from childhood have been pinned on him as the Special One of the two great Conglomerate Families in Asia. He who had always heard people say the Blood Business of the Martadinata Family flowed within him. The Best Descendants of two Distinguished and Honorable Families.

Eva was still looking at Dave who was just quietly leaning on his bed that had been raised, looking desperate and like losing half his life.

"He's an antique guy who doesn't like money and fancy stuff." Eva said as she stood up and wiped her tears. "This is for you." he put the red map in his son's lap. "Open when you feel calm" he said later, then walked out of the room.

A few minutes Dave was still pecking, before he looked down at the red map and opened it.

Some savings books, land certificates, shares, an apartment key placed in a plastic clip and a piece of photo.

Dave ignored all and simply took a photograph tucked between the precious letters that he had diverted to his name.

Dave's breathing was choked when he looked at the person who was no more similar than him.

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Bonus chapter as an apology for late Update 😅

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