The Missing Princess

Chapter 20 Old man's secret

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Sunlight pierced through the window of the room which made Wulan feel something dazzling her eyes. He opened his eyes slowly and looked around differently from his bed. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Keyla lying next to him. Apparently, he slept in Keyla's room after crying and telling her a lot about it last night.

"Key wake up!" He patted Keyla's shoulder.

"Please Keyla can be late for work." He panicked when he saw the clock in the lower right corner of his phone screen.

"Keyla's back. It's seven o'clock!" Her scream while hitting Keyla's shoulder was rather strong.

"Huh, what? What was? Is there an intruder?" Keyla woke up, he moved like he was practicing silat.

"Udah's seven, Keyla. Don't you have to go to work?" Deuteronomy.

Keyla began to realize, he glanced at the clock located on his dressing table. "Geez!" His shouting.

He ran towards the bathroom nagging, upset that Wulan did not wake him early.

"Light be me. You are hard to build." Cibir Wulan who does not want to be blamed.

When the two friends were arguing, in his magnificent house Bara was trying to spend her morning breakfast. Jehan watched her since then and forced her to eat her breakfast to the end.

"Je, this is I'm really gonna throw up. It doesn't fit in my stomach anymore." Pretending to vomit.

"Spend young master. I don't want to see the young master constantly lying on that bed." Rigorously. He looked deeply into Bara's eyes.

"alright. I'll spend it." Scoop up some more food.

"Some who wants to keep lying here. After all, I'm like this too because of his carelessness. Lousy and less thorough." Runuk Bara while chewing her food.

Jehan understood what his young master said. He was also still regretful until now, so he was determined to help the young master recover faster. As Salman's doctor suggested, Bara should eat three meals a day, be on time and eat a nutritious diet, especially green vegetables.

"Sorry to disturb the young master!" Susi went into the room to arrive.

"What is it about Susi?" Ask Jehan.

"There's someone looking for a young master."

"Who?"

"A father, he said he wanted to see the young master. There's something important he wants to say."

"Good mbak. Susi please come back. I'll see the guest." Jehan.

"Good with Jehan. Excuse me young master." Just a slow nod from Bara to Susi.

"Young master, I'll see a guest for a while. Please finish your breakfast."

"Good morning, son. Sorry for my intruding." Politely said.

Jehan just smiled. He looked deep into the old man's eyes. "He's just an ordinary person and doesn't seem dangerous." Thought Jehan.

"What do you need to come here?" Jehan did not even allow the man to sit down.

"I want to meet Mr. Cakra. But, mbak who said this is not the house of the lord of Cakra, this is the house of the young master of his son the master of Cakra." The man began to speak.

"Why did you meet Mr. Cakra?"

For a moment the man looked frightened and confused, then he suddenly knelt before Jehan.

"Please forgive me. Please meet me with Mr. Cakra. No, no. Meet me with the young master is also no problem. There is an important secret that I must reveal immediately. This secret concerns the story of twenty years ago." Said the man. He rambled like memorizing a script.

Jehan started to get suspicious and felt that there was something strange about the old man.

"What secret do you want to tell Mr. Cakra?" The words that appear arrive.

The man looked up and stared at Bara's face for a few seconds. Then he went back down and begged to be forgiven.

"What do you do, until you get down on your knees begging for forgiveness like this?" Bara squatting. He stared at the frightened face of the man who did not dare to look at him.

"Look, sir, actually…"

The man started to tell stories. Twenty years ago, when the house of Cakra was burned, he saw a masked, black man burning the house. After the masked man left, he approached the house and heard the sound of crying babies. With all his courage he broke through the fire and managed to find the baby lying on the floor, while Cakra's wife was already lying unconscious.

The old man said that night he managed to save the baby Cakra from the fire. However, he failed to save the mother from the baby.

That night he was terrified, worried that the masked party would return and arrest him. He ran as far as possible from the house to find the home, he remembered it was at three in the morning. The poor baby he put right in front of the orphanage.

To this day, he has always kept the secret to himself. But, a few days ago while passing through the parlour, he saw a man who looked younger a few years from him visiting the parlour. He tried to listen to the conversation between the caretaker and his guest who he did not know.

The guest claimed to have met a witness who saved baby Cakra. However, in reality he had never met that person before.

The man also said the intent of what he was telling, not only for Cakra to save his daughter who might be taken by the person.

"Are you writing a story, or are you writing a novel!" Shouted Bara growled.

"I'm really telling you the truth young master. I could die if what I said was a lie." The man said with confidence.

It was very difficult for Jehan and Bara to believe the man's story.

"I'll make sure first, young master." Jehan.

"And you must leave this place immediately, old man." Jehan pulled the old man's body firmly to his feet. Then Jehan drove the old man to the front of the house and put him in a taxi.