The Woman Ruler of the Altan Clan

Chapter 86 Move aside

Shanum shouldn't be surprised. He suddenly saw Khan standing in front of the penthouse door. To him, making Shanum shocked was common.

Khan Adrian, the Great One of the Altan Clan, was standing before Shanum, a doubtful smile visible from the corners of his injured lips. And Shanum looks frozen staring at the man.

Khan tilted his head, his pitch-black hair moving following his movements. Both of his golden brown eyes were glistening under the light of the lamp while his gaze was fixed on Shanum. His broken nose and bruised face did not make the aura of majesty that radiated within him disappear.

Shanum frowned, as he remembered, he didn't hit the man so badly. But now, it appeared in his eyes many new wounds that had not existed.

The man looked at her slowly, then his glint dimmed as he looked at the puffiness in Shanum's eyes. Shanum has been crying too much since Khan treated him like trash. Shanum did not expect the man would dare to appear the next day after the event.

"Who, Sha?" reprimand Diva.

Shanum turned his head and heard Diva gasp in shock upon seeing Khan. Farah appeared behind him for a long time. Be the three of them lined up in front of the door.

"Quick get out of here" Farah tried to drive Khan away in a fierce tone of voice. "Yes, it's not enough that you've hurt him" continued Diva.

Khan shook his head with a clear face. "Please give me some time, I have something to talk to Shanum about." The three girls were puzzled to see the expression of the plea from Khan's face. Didn't the man banish and insult Shanum before?

Shanum was too trembling to speak. He can't make his voice. Seeing the man's messy face and his bleaching eyes had made him barely soften. His hands were itching to heal the man's face. But Shanum tried to hold him back, he was still hurt by the man's harsh treatment yesterday.

"Can't, sir. There's nothing more to talk about." Farah replied representing Shanum with a ketus.

"Yes, you calm down. We'll be getting out of here as soon as your Mom gets back" Diva added.

Khan took his breath. Then he suddenly turned his head when next to him was already standing Jullian. "You are sought by Doctor Lian, the Great. You should not leave the room. You simply panic the people who are taking care of you downstairs," Jullian said with his flat face.

Khan stiffened while looking towards the man. "Jullian is soon! I have to say something to Shanum."

Khan took a step forward towards Shanum, his eyes turning mellow. "Give me a chance to explain, Shanum. I'll wait for you in the nursery." Khan smiled at him.

Khan turned his eyes back to Jullian. "Take my phone in my room in this penthouse, Jullian. And take it to my ward." Khan's voice and expression turned stiff again as he uttered the command line to Jullian.

Then Khan nodded his head politely towards the three girls who were watching his movements vigilantly. Khan turned around, casually stepping down the hallway after finishing saying what he wanted.

They all watched until the man's back disappeared from view with a half-amused astonished expression.

The man runs away from his treatment room only to meet with Shanum and retrieve his cell phone. He should be able to send or leave messages through others, without making a furore like this.

Shanum moved back into the penthouse. He headed to his room, followed by his two best friends. She's standing at the dresser. Looked at her reflection in the mirror. The girl felt she looked pitiful with her eyes and her disheveled clothes.

It was strange that he was still worried about his appearance in front of the man. Even his heart seemed to be singing getting a smile from him earlier.

"You're not going to follow his will, are you, Sha?" ask Farah while holding her back. His two best friends looked at him with curious faces that were very visible.

Shanum sighed tiredly. "I haven't made a decision yet." Shanum felt a dilemma. If he met the man, he was afraid to feel back the harsh words that would incite pain in his heart. But if he does not come, his mind will not calm because he is curious to know what will be conveyed by Khan.

"Think about it, Sha. He is different from what he was before. It's best that you keep your distance from him for now. Let her memory recover first, and then you meet her again." Diva gave him advice.

"I'll think about it," Shanum replied with a faint smile.

"And we'll appreciate, whatever your decision is, Sha." Farah connected the Diva's words.

Shanum nodded his head while smiling. Diva and Farah immediately came out of the room, leaving her alone. The girl bit her lip. There's only one way he's currently thinking in his brain, he has to contact Khan's mother.

Shanum grabbed his phone and searched the woman's mobile number. After finding it, he pressed the call button. Eej answered a moment later.

"Yes, what's the matter Shanum?" ask the woman directly without further ado. Shanum grimaced, knowing where Khan got exactly the same attitude, which turned out to be from his own mother.

"Em, I want to say goodbye, Eej. I'm moving to a hotel." Shanum replied also straight to the point, as per the woman's request.

The woman did not respond.

"Hello, Eej."

"Yes, Shanum, I hear you. I was just thinking, and suspecting that Khan did not keep his promise to me. He's being rude to you, isn't he, Shanum?"

Shanum.

Does the woman know the news? Or just the instinct of a mother. To Shanum's astonishment, he felt as if the woman could read his mind.

"Tell me, Shanum. Even though he's my son, I still need to punish him for what he did, if it hurt anyone else." The woman sounded angry.

"Don't! I don't want you to punish him. She's not the real person, Eej. He just felt alien to me. So it's not his fault" Shanum argued.

"I'm still waiting for you to tell me what my son Shanum did" he said, repeating his previous request.

"I will say it, but you must promise me first, not to punish him" urged Shanum. However, Shanum could not bear to see Khan beaten or punished again.

"All right, I promise. Now say!" promise the woman while sighing in defeat.

Then the story flowed from Shanum's lips about the treatment he received. He said what it was, nothing covered up. After the story was finished, Shanum did not hear a reply from the woman.

"Eej, are you still listening to me?" ask her to make sure she's still connected to the woman.

Then Shanum heard the sound of breathing. "Shanum, I can't speak to hear your story. I feel like right now I want to hit my son like you do. He's really outrageous. And how come you're still defending him." Eej's tone of voice rang out furiously in Shanum's ears. She understood, of course, a mother will still be disappointed in her child, if the child does bad to others.

"But I promised, now it's up to you. I can't stand in the way anymore. If indeed your decision has been unanimous to move to a hotel, may be, Shanum. But let me help reference my hotel which of course is more secure. I'm still worried about the current situation. The perpetrator who tried to kill my son is still out there. And I don't want you to get hit, either" Eej said.

"Alright, Eej. Me and my two best friends will follow your will." Shanum responded with pleasure to the woman's decision. He was also anxious if the evil man reappeared, and tried to injure those around him.

"Okay, Eej," the girl replied briefly.

"Hmm, Shanum.pardon my son. I didn't expect him to turn that drastic. If I knew, there was no way I would ask you to look after him. I'm really sorry."

"Enough, Eej. You don't have to feel that way. It's not all your fault." Shanum tried to quell the guilt that the woman must have felt.

"Actually after that incident Khan had come to see me, Eej. He escaped from his nursery. And he confidently said he wanted to speak to me with four eyes. His attitude changed, he was no longer as rude as before. Unfortunately, Jullian came and had to take him back to the nursery. Because he has been sought by the medical team who are treating him," Shanum told in an amused tone that sounded between his voice.

"Geez, you little boy! Just make it ashamed! He must have made an uproar among the doctors who were the nurses who were there. Looks like I really need to pick her ears," Eej scolded. Shanum became eager to laugh at the thought of the man still being picked up by his mother at that age.

Then there was a noise from inside the phone. "Sorry, Shanum, I have to end our conversation. Soon the meeting of the Clan Elders and the Nobles Council will begin soon. Let's continue the conversation, Shanum. Bye."

The woman immediately turned off her phone. It might sound disrespectful, since Shanum has not ended their conversation. But Shanum understood and did not bother about it. The woman was in an important meeting, it was only natural that she suddenly had to decide on her call unilaterally.

Shanum looked at his phone with a bright face. She was glad that the woman could accept her decision well. And promised not to punish Khan.

Shanum then rushed to wake up, impatient to immediately tell his two friends, about their planned move to the hotel owned by Khan's mother. As well as telling both of them, that they should start packing their luggage.

***

Shanum gasped awake, he had yet another umpteenth dream about Khan. This time it's even worse. He dreamed the man was being chased by the black fog and the man disappeared in the mist. Shanum was worried. If the dream is a future event, of course dangerous things will come back to the man.

During this week Shanum hid, running away from himself. And from his feelings that he could never forget the man. Khan may no longer care about him. The man never heard of looking for her.

Shanum clucked in annoyance, for what he had strange thoughts, wanting Khan to chase after him like he used to. What a very sad desire, from a girl who has been let down by her man.

Shanum bit his lip, he suddenly had doubts. Should he give up and come to see the man? After this week she disappeared without any news, and ended her own nelangsa.

The girl took her phone. He saw the time still showing at one o'clock in the afternoon. The man should still be in his office. Suddenly he became convinced, he had to meet the man. Mumpung his two best friends are going out, so don't start to break his spirit.

Shanum did not want to come with them to visit Sergei's house. He felt lazy to go out of the hotel environment. After three consecutive days of traveling with his two best friends, he felt tired if he had to see other people's conflicts.

He has helped give encouragement to Diva to be brave and immediately look for her lover. Not just waiting for uncertainty with many questions raging in mind. While they were still in Astrakhan, the girl should have taken advantage of it. Finally today Diva decided to come to the man's house with the address she got from Taban.

Speaking of Taban, Shanum seemed to need to ask him first about Khan's current whereabouts. Don't let him come suddenly to the man's office, and don't find Khan there. Shanum pressed Taban's number, and was immediately answered on the third ring.

"Hey, Shanum. Don't tell me you're in danger right now" the man said in an anxious voice.

Shanum grunts. "If I'm in danger, there's no way I can call you, Taban. Of course I won't have time to contact anyone, because it's busy fighting."

"Yes too. Your magic will be better than me, you can definitely master the situation well without my help. And of course you will only contact one man if pressed, which is who else if not the jerk," Taban said cynically.

"Alright, Taban! You hit him that time. Isn't that enough." Shanum already knew about the beating from Taban himself. The man recounted when he came to the hotel to meet the Diva. Finally Shanum knew where Khan's additional injuries came from.

Shanum. "Baban, how's he doing?" shanum asked in a half-nervous scared voice.

Taban laughed mockingly. "It turns out you're still thinking about it, Shanum. So, is the intention to break your soul's bond threatened to be void?" insinuate the man.

Shanum sighed tiredly. "That guy's haunting me, you know. I dream of it in every sleep. Even a nap was always there for him. How can I avoid it if it is? Although that soul bond can be broken, I can pessimistically forget it." Shanum's desperate voice was heard by Taban. And the man chuckled amusedly.

"You can be happy Shanum. As long as you leave and are nowhere to be found, Khan's old attitude returns, he becomes cold and untouched and seems to lose his way" Taban said.

"Is he looking for me?" sahut Shanum with his heart pounding with hope.

"Yes, he's looking for you. And I know that from his conversation on the phone with someone. He mentioned about the plane's passengers on your behalf. I don't know who he was in contact with at the time. There's no way he'd book a plane ticket for, if not for information about your whereabouts."

"Maybe his memory has returned, Taban?" shanum's voice sounded choked. A question at once a request.

"About that I can't be sure. Because since the fight the other day, I've been reluctant to talk to him if I don't have to" he said.

"Taban, I want to meet him now. You know where he is?" shanum asked in a clear voice.

"You sure you want to see him, Shanum? Didn't she at your last meeting behave badly?" Taban reconfirms the girl's wish, he does not want Shanum to feel disappointment again.

"In our last meeting he asked me to speak four eyes, Taban." Shanum then recounted Khan's arrival to the penthouse at that time. Shanum half forced it upon Taban, asking him to arrange his meeting with Khan. Quietly, without the man's knowledge.

Shanum wanted to surprise the man, as well as see his reaction. Finally Taban relented, he could no longer resist Shanum's wishes. The girl can be very persistent in order to achieve what she wants.

An hour later Shanum had been standing at the door of Khan's room. Shanum's first instinct was to be afraid, his heart was afraid that he would find a barrage of bad experiences that the man would recite.

But his courage still comes out as the winner. He turned the door knob of the room. And Shanum found the man pensive in front of his phone. Khan did not realize that Shanum had already opened the door.

Shanum cleared his throat and said, "Good day." He then closed the door and stepped closer to the man's desk.

Khan flinched from his daydream. He blinked his eyes, then fell silent.

"Am I interrupting?" shanum asked with a faint smile. He immediately pulled out the seat that was in front of Khan, and sat there before being invited.

"I'm sorry, I'm being impolite to sit down before asking your permission" the girl said.

Khan was still glued, he looked dazed. "You're really here?" muttered. The man was afraid he was just hallucinating. Dreaming, he could see the girl he had been looking for one week sitting in front of him.

"Yes, now I show up here. Because I heard you looking for me," Shanum replied as if he had known the news for a long time. He only found out about it from Taban today.

"What do you want?" Shanum looked at Khan, surprised by the depth of his curiosity for the man's answer. Shanum really hoped Khan would start remembering.