The Murderer Who Loves Me
Episode 10 — Memory
Since long ago, Lana grew up to be a jolly and adorable child and very obedient. Jeffrey and Charlotte are very proud to see the growth of their child who always brings a positive aura around him. Both parents are always trying to be good parents for their daughters to adulthood.
That day, a pair of small feet stepped down the hallway of the Lyxander family's mansion. Lana looks for the butler's aunt who often accompanies her to play with her. Chloe's aunt said, if Lana can find him hiding, then Chloe's aunt will make Lana's sweet cookies.
Lana eagerly searches for Chloe's aunt with hands clutching adorable gray bunny dolls. Her feet continued until the girl came to a halt right in a room where her grandmother used to read books there. There was a curiosity when Lana heard the voice of the grandmother who looked angry but also faltered.
In the end Lana approached at the opening of the door. He was silently glued to look inside with pupils that looked enlarged and trembling, and his hands increasingly clasped the rabbit doll in his arms.
"You're really greedy! Don't you dare touch my son and his family! Gillian Lyxander, you crazy bastard!" I heard the granny cry that looked so angry
"I can't expect anything on your fucking son! He brazenly defied me, refusing all my orders! That damn kid will never be able to take me to the top level of leadership and wealth!" reply Glorious with an elevated voice.
"I'm sorry to marry you, you devil-loving treasure, die with a sin that will curse you!"
"Sadly my wife, you're the one who will die first. The poison you drink from your tea will eat away at your soul slowly, until at last you will first go to hell, and it will be difficult to know what is the cause of your death." Dillian laughed bitterly.
Lana saw how the grandmother's body began to twitch and the breath faltered. The lips of the grandmother began to look paled like an already lifeless body. Cerbera odollam, one of the poisonous plants, was introduced intentionally into the grandmother's tea.
The poison spread rapidly, paralyzing the nerves of Lizzy, the 42-year-old woman who claimed her life in a stiff body, also the widened eyes revealed a gaze of pain and unacceptance where she ended up in the hands of her own husband. Lana's little fingers are getting shaky. How could a seven-year-old child have to witness a scene where his own grandmother claimed life because of his grandfather?
Lana certainly experienced the shock and fear that gnawed at her, the little girl cried softly, with her legs slowly stepping back. Until a hand smothered her mouth that almost let out a sobbing, the frightened round eyes turned to get Aunt Chloe who turned out to smother her mouth.
Little Lana was only able to fall silent with her fingers squeezing tightly, when she saw Chloe's aunt pointing her index finger at her mouth hinting her not to make a sound, and wordlessly immediately carried the body of his young miss away as quickly as possible from there just as the door of the room opened displaying a Lilian staring expressionlessly at a gray stuffed rabbit lying on the floor.
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Lana's pretty eyes opened in one sudden jolt. Lana immediately changed her position to sit down, her fingers squeezed tightly into the blanket that covered her body. His breath was also seen how the sweat grains that seemed to flow down the temple, indicating that the sweet girl had just experienced something bad in her subconscious.
"Are you okay, Lana?" asked Leonard who approached him with a worried look.
Lana immediately regressed her body when Leonard tried to touch her forehead. Leonard was only able to let out a slow sigh and retract his hand, intending to just look at Lana who was asleep for a moment. Who would have thought that the girl even looked frightened after waking up.
"Drink" said Leonard and gave him a glass of water. Lana used the water to drain her throat that felt dry and hoarse.
Dreams during childhood that are so haunting come back. Over the years he buried the bad memories without wanting to remember, making his childhood trauma continue until he fell ill and was eventually released to Europe by his father.
No, the sweetie is aware now that she has witnessed a murder by the person closest to her against her own grandmother. His grandfather was an evil man and greedy for power and wealth. Lana has to remember everything she knew in the past. This made his head throbbing in pain and made Leonard look worried as the young girl held his head in the ringing pain.
"Lana, you don't look good. I'll call a doctor to check on you" said Leonard, who intends to get up. But his hand was already held back by Lana who was looking at him with eyes that were difficult to interpret; anxious, afraid, worried, and angry mixed into one.
"What's wrong? Please speak up. You made me and the others worried when you suddenly fell unconscious after I explained so much."
The fingers trembled, and Leonard realized that. He sat down at Lana's sweet side and took her into a warm embrace. The fear that Lana felt as if evaporating until she could feel it. Although Leonard had no idea what was making Lana so messed up at the moment.
"Grandfather……"
"Grandfather Xander killed Grandma Lizzy" said Lana.
The hug tightens as Isak weeps louder and Leonard is fixated on Lana's unexpected words. He turned towards the door to look at the two figures who were also silent with the facts they heard. Chris and David are quite unsure of what Lana knows.
The case twelve years ago was never completed fairly and completely.
"At the time Jeffrey said he didn't believe that Chloe had poisoned Lizzy, neither me nor Samuel and Volker believed. The butler was never guilty and only made a scapegoat to cover up the actual murder. Gillian Lyxander, who oversaw the autopsy on his wife and the police, said without saying much, that if Lizzy was poisoned, Chloe was a suspect just because she always made tea for Lizzy," obviously Clifton Dixon Leonard's father.
Leonard listened to all the words of the father silently and watched the paintings of the Greek gods displayed in his room before looking back at his father.
"What happened to that butler?" ask Leonard.
"He was put to death and hanged on charges and evidence that I found absurd" Clifton said.
Leonard breathed heavily, recalling Lana's words about Gillian Lyxander killing his wife. Leonard could only wonder, not yet able to open his mouth to ask a lot of things because the girl still looks traumatic after saying it.
"Leonard, beware of Theodor Weaver's son. His son is Gilbert Weaver and may have had a relationship with NooblesStray" Clifton said.
His forehead shriveled when he heard his father's words about Gilbert Weaver. Leonard gave a questioning look like he wanted to ask for further explanation.
"That damn bastard, whoever he comes into contact with, that person doesn't deserve to breathe calmly" Clifton said in anger.
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