The Rhyme of the Depositary

002 - SEASON 2

Have you ever understood the meaning of tragedy? Do you understand the meaning of loss? The people who became your qibla were snatched away in just the blink of an eye. Lost in something that people call death.

Life is fragile. However, it has great meaning and meaning. It's just that, when death takes away, we no longer have anything. Just a name and a bitter memory.

Bereft. A word that people often simplify its meaning However, it has a thrilling effect. Until many people who decay are destroyed because they cannot deal with it. How many suicides are caused by loss? How many people lose their minds because of loss? How many people are helpless because of loss?

Alice stood stiffly in the room. In one week, he lost three of the most meaningful people in their entire lives. Anson, Kimberly and the baby. The only thing left is Axel. If Axel had gone, he might no longer be able to continue living. What does sunshine mean if your heart freezes? What does cold wind mean if your heart no longer reacts? What does it mean to be a tinge of twilight if your life no longer has color?

Fortunately, God still left his little angel to accompany his days. The four-year-old can still hug. As solace and sorrow that come in many years. If night comes, they hug each other in the lower room with a dim light of lights, accompanied by the sound of a wall clock ticking slowly.

Anson accident. Kimberly and her baby died of sudden respiratory distress. Alice must now be the backbone of the family. Give strength and channel fortitude. He can't be weak. Axel needs it as the main support.

At thirty years old, Alice had gone through the salt acid of life. Feel all the bitterness of life and dive into all the waves of trouble. He was full of twists and turns. He had felt enough of all the suffering.

How to scrape the wound? The pain is still crashing in the heart. Like a stone that cannot be removed. Rachel, trying to make Alice forget all the pain. He often visited and brought a lot of snacks. Alice receives Rachel's kindness. But the wound still went deep without being healed.

One afternoon, ten days after Kimberly's departure, Rachel takes Alice and Axel for a walk to the park. They sat on stone chairs near the main lights of the garden.

"I used to go to this park with Anson." Alice suddenly recalled the old memories she had stored. Rachel just listened with sympathy while watching Axel who was playing not far from them.

Axel is a kid who has a hard time getting anything done. He still railed against Alice with many questions, so Alice sometimes felt unable to bear it. But it seems like this afternoon the boy was quite able to forget the sadness. He played happily alone. Makes Alice feel good. Because usually, Kimberly would accompany him and never far from Axel. They are like an inseparable couple.

"You need to be strong and look ahead, Alice. Don't let old memories weaken you." Rachel advises.

"That night when he was going to the party, he wanted to take me too. But I don't want to because my content has exceeded that of HPL. Fear of sudden contractions during the party.

"Anson wanted to cancel her intention to come to the party. But I encouraged her to keep coming because the event was important to her business colleagues. Now I'm thinking. If only I had Anson in custody, maybe the accident wouldn't have happened." Alice's eyes were far away. It was as if he was trying to replay the event in his brain. His logic began to imagine many presuppositions. If Anson stays with him at home, if he is spoiled and detains Anson, if he goes with Anson and prevents him from getting drunk.

Wait for. Alice remembered something.

"Rachel?" alice asked as if she had discovered an important fact.

"What's wrong?" Rachel sounded worried. She felt sad whenever she heard Alice bring back Anson's death.

"Didn't the hospital claim that Anson's accident was because he lost control of being drunk?"

Alice recalled the fact. At that time Anson's body had just been brought home, so Alice ruled out the explanation from the doctor who was in charge of examining her husband's death. He said that the factor behind Anson's accident was the excessive alcohol content so he was drunk on his way home.

"Yes. Anson was drunk enough that he hit a roadblock and rolled several times over the asphalt. Polosi said he was dragged fifty meters over." Rachel remembered that was the explanation said by the police who accompanied Daniel when bringing back Anson's body.

"Something's up." Alice stood up, feeling stinky.

Rachel looked at her theme full of curiosity. "What's up, Alice? Did you find a new fact?"

"Anson wasn't drunk. He called me before the trip home and told me he only drank two glasses of wine. That number is the number that won't make Anson lose consciousness."

Anson is a man who never lies. He said that even if he drank five glasses of wine, Anson would still be fully aware. So, it was impossible for him to get drunk just because of two glasses of wine alone. Something's not right here.

"You mean?" Rachel started to wonder. He pulled Alice's hand and asked her to sit down.

"Sit down and explain to me."

Alice sat down and took a deep breath. He began to connect with something he remembered in his brain memory. Alice pulls out her phone, researching the timing of Anson's last call for her. 00.20.

"Anson called me last at 00:20 in the morning. Police said Anson's time of death was 00:30 in the morning. Only ten minutes difference."

Rachel blinked her eyes knowing the truth. He shook his head in shock.

"That means, if Anson is drunk enough, you should be able to detect it in your last conversation. However, you feel Anson is fine." Rachel guessed the possibility.

Alice flicked her finger, confirming the brilliant guess Rachel had revealed.

"true."

"So you mean, there's a cause of Anson's death that's somehow covered up?"

Alice nodded, again confirming. He felt the awkwardness was starting to make no sense. It's impossible for Anson to have a drunken accident. If so, there is only one possibility. Anson was in an accident due to carelessness in a conscious state. Pure carelessness, there is no other vehicle factor that is the cause of accidents.

Thinking that Anson was too careless to drive, something almost impossible happened. Indeed, an accident could have occurred without our knowledge. Anson has had the same accident before. But somehow, Alice felt that this was all too strange. Something is trying to cover up.

"Alice." Rachel broke all the reverie of her theme. Alice looked over with a bit of surprise.

"Does Kimberly have a history of asthma or things related to breathing? Does your baby have any of these symptoms?" Rachel recalled another important thing.

"No."

Kimberly is a healthy child. Real healthy. He rarely complained of pain, let alone pain such as respiratory disorders. Joseph, the baby did too. Alice saw that morning Joseph was still fine. The doctor said all of his body functions were normal.

"Then, how could they suddenly die almost at the same time from the same cause as well? Breathing disorders?"

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The night is late. Alice had just put Axel to bed. Putting that child to sleep is very difficult and mentally draining. He constantly asks about the whereabouts of Daddy or Kimberly. Alice often ran out of sense to appease her only son. How should he explain to a four-year-old about someone's death? Alice said many times that Daddy had gone to heaven. But the boy wanted to follow him there. Makes Alice's heart even more unhinged.

Daniel, who had arrived here an hour ago, had been briefed by Rachel on the strange things Alice was feeling. At this moment, the man was pensive, thinking of something.

"So, you think this is all wrong, don't you?" Daniel started talking.

Alice nodded in confirming.

"Coffee?" bargain Alice with them before she orders her danger to serve a light meal.

"Yes. No sugar" Daniel asked

"Full Cream" said Rachel.

Susan, her loyal cook nodded and went by to bring their order.

"You're really going to experience body swelling if you continue to consume cream, Rachel," seduced Daniel chuckled. Rachel glared in disbelief at the words of her theme.

"A little cream won't change my beautiful body" Rachel replied. Indeed, if you want to admit, Rachel's body is quite beautiful. Formed perfect and become the dream of women.

"Memag not now, but ten years to come your husband will complain you're swollen." Daniel laughed, making the atmosphere slightly melt.

Lately since Anson's departure, this house is like a grave. The atmosphere of grief is too thick to surround every room of this house. Daniel felt moved to bring a little warmth to his theme. He wanted, slowly, to make Alice rise again to face life. With a smile and steel willpower.

"So, back to the original discussion. Did you find any irregularities in the death of Anson and your children?" Daniel is getting serious.

Alice nodded.

"What do you think, Daniel? Didn't Rachel explain some of the awkwardness we felt?"

Susan interrupted them with a hot drink and a light treat. Rachel immediately took the coffee and blew the liquid to cool. All three of them had coffee. Coffee was an irreplaceable favorite drink.

"Yes. I also feel weird. You said Anson only drank two glasses of wine, didn't you?"

Alice nodded. He recalled their brief conversation.

"Anson said she was detained by an old friend and forced to spend two glasses of wine to accompany them."

Daniel's eyes narrowed in a straight line. It seems like all this is getting interesting.

"Old friend? Do you know who that old friend Anson meant?" Daniel asked curiously.

Alice was confused and shook her head. He shrugged, feeling dead.

"Do you think the old friend Anson meant was the one who had the possibility of harming her?" Alice guessing.

Daniel stood up, circled the room and knocked on the end of his shoe.

"It's impossible that two glasses of wine could make Anson drunk. The only possibility is that the wine was mixed with something that made Anson lose control."

Alice and Rachel stared at each other for a long time. What Daniel said has a point, too. Alice was supposed to ask Anson who asked her that night. Unfortunately, Alice did not think that far so she did not pay too much attention to details.

"Should I find out who that guy is?" Alice asked.

Daniel took care of his hair and thought a little. The person who accompanied Anson must not be a careless person. Anson is a smart person. His instincts were too high to feel anything was wrong. That is, the guy was slippery enough that he could outwit Anson and trap him. What's more, he was recognized as a friend by Anson. That means they never get into a dispute. What is the motive of this person to do all this? Everything becomes a little runnyam.

"We'll find out together. Can you show me the transaction records and names of Anson's colleagues in his dark business?" Daniel asked slowly. The first step is to make a list of names. If later there is the name of the party guest whose name is the same as the name he got from Anson's note, that person is quite suspect.

"Daniel, seven months ago, Anson had quit illicit business. Do you think Anson's past has anything to do with this?"

Alice recalls that seven months ago, Anson officially quit all illegal businesses he owned. All his assets he sold and he left a few. The business he did was also limited to property and stock investment. By law, Anson was clean and did no harm to anyone.

"We have to check everything, Alice. Prohibited businesses are vulnerable to enemies."

Alice nodded and remembered something.

"It looks like Anson kept some special files in his personal safe. It's likely that his colleague's records he kept there."

Anson is a very cautious man. He will usually keep meetings of all illegal transactions that he used to run. Luckily the man was quite open to Alice. He once said all important records and proof of transactions were kept in his personal safe.

"We have to move very carefully, Alice. Whoever is the mastermind of all this must not be a random person. The one who can outwit Anson is too clever and cunning."

Alice and Rachel obey. They knew their current condition was too vulnerable. If the case of Anson's death was a coincidence, then surely the person behind this was all observing Alice's actions. The woman's space is getting limited. Daniel took the initiative to help fully so that Alice was not dragged into danger.

"Isn't it better to ask the hospital? Maybe they found something other than alcohol in Anson's mouth." Rachel proposed something. Daniel nodded in agreement. That could be a good move.

"One more, Daniel." Alice looked at Daniel attentively. His adult brown eyes revealed seriousness.

"Regarding Kimberly and Joseph. I think their deaths are too odd."

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