❝ CHECKMATE, NO ESCAPE. ❞ Despite the struggles of life and disappointment after the process, a waitress working in a well-known nightclub in the city opted to live a normal life with her stepmother after the mysterious disappearance of her parents without a trace. Growing older, hurdles and hassles have only been a speck of dust for her, and now, the curiosity of knowing more about the past she may not or may have forgotten starts to inflame like a fire in a wood, but what if between her searching, a criminal organisation became the hurdle in her life. Small pieces of puzzles come together, knowing she has another future to start, a different future ahead of her. A future she isn't expecting. Wagering her life for the forbidden knowledge, would she continue?
View MoreSudah hampir satu minggu Asty memergoki suaminya mandi keramas setiap jam lima pagi sebelum shalat subuh. Biasanya pria berkacamata itu mandi keramas saat jam enam pagi, atau setelah melakukan ibadah halal bersama istrinya. Padahal sudah lima hari istrinya sedang kedatangan tamu bulanan, otomatis mereka puasa selama hampir satu minggu.
"Mas tumben jam segini udah mandi keramas, biasanya juga nanti," ujar Asty saat melihat suaminya keluar dari kamar mandi, dengan keadaan rambut yang basah dan hanya melilitkan handuk di pinggang."Ah, iya. Soalnya gerah, makanya aku langsung mandi." Evan terlihat gugup saat ditanyai oleh istrinya."Gerah kok, hampir satu minggu. Itu namanya bukan gerah, tapi .... " Asty menghentikan ucapannya di batin, saat mendengar pertanyaannya suaminya."Tumben kamu udah bangun, biasanya juga nanti, saat kamu sedang datang bulan." Evan melempar pertanyaan kepada istrinya."Iya, Mas. Soalnya hari ini Vina kan mulai berangkat kuliah, jadi aku harus bangun pagi untuk masak. Ya udah aku ke bawah dulu ya." Asty beranjak keluar dari kamar, tujuan wanita itu adalah dapur.Sementara itu, Evan segera memakai bajunya, pria itu sudah merasakan kecurigaan pada istrinya. Mengubur bangkai serapat apapun, pasti akan tercium bau busuk. Begitu juga dengan manusia, menutupi rahasia serapat apapun pasti lama-lama akan terbongkar juga.Pukul setengah tujuh, mereka bertiga sudah berkumpul di meja makan. Saat ini Asty sedang sibuk untuk meladeni suaminya. Namun, tiba-tiba pandangan Asty tertuju pada leher adiknya yang terdapat tanda merah. Asty menyipitkan matanya, ia juga berusaha untuk berpikir positif. Ia percaya jika adiknya bukan gadis bej*t."Vina, itu leher kamu kenapa?" tanya Asty, penuh selidik.Reflek Vina memegangi lehernya. "Oh ini, anu. Aku alergi krim, Kak. Tapi udah nggak apa-apa kok, nanti juga sembuh."Asty terdiam sejenak, benaknya berpikir keras, ia sering memergoki suaminya setiap pagi mandi keramas, dan sekarang Asty juga menemukan tanda merah di leher adiknya. Dan ini untuk yang ketiga kalinya, apa mungkin Vina dan Evan melakukan ... ah, rasanya tidak mungkin. Asty mencoba untuk membuang pikiran kotornya."Ya sudah, ayo buruan sarapan nanti keburu dingin." Asty berujar sembari menjatuhkan bobotnya di kursi."Kak, nanti aku titip nyuci mau nggak. Soalnya aku belum sempat nyuci," ungkap Vina.Asty tersenyum. "Iya, boleh kok.""Terima kasih ya, Kak." Vina pun ikut tersenyum. Setelah itu ia kembali melanjutkan ritual sarapan paginya.Usai sarapan pagi, Evan segera bersiap untuk berangkat ke kantor, sementara Vina juga bersiap berangkat ke kampus. Hari ini Vina terpaksa diantar oleh Evan, lantaran mobil miliknya sedang ada di bengkel. Setelah suami dan adiknya pergi, Asty bergegas untuk membereskan meja makan, tak lupa piring dan gelas yang kotor, langsung dicuci.Setelah selesai, Asty beranjak menuju kamar adiknya untuk mengambil pakaian yang kotor. Setibanya di kamar, Asty berjalan menuju keranjang kotor yang terletak di sebelah almari. Tanpa pikir panjang, Asty membawa keranjang tersebut keluar dari kamar adiknya. Setelah itu, ia masuk ke dalam kamar miliknya, untuk mengambil pakaian kotor miliknya serta sang suami.Asisten rumah tangga sedang cuti, terpaksa Asty melakukan pekerjaan rumah dengan tangannya sendiri. Bahkan untuk mencuci pun demikian, saat ini Asty sedang memilih baju berwarna dan tidak. Tiba-tiba wanita berambut sebahu itu menemukan celana dalam milik suaminya ditumpuk baju kotor milik adiknya. Detik itu juga Asty membulatkan matanya."Ini kan milik, mas Evan. Kenapa bisa ada di tumpukan baju kotor milik Vina." Pikiran Asty mendadak kacau. Setelah itu ia kembali memilah pakaian tersebut.Saat Asty merogoh saku jas milik suaminya, ia kembali menemukan benda asing. Dengan cepat Asty mengambilnya, seketika matanya kembali membulat saat mendapati alat tes kehamilan yang terdapat dua garis merah pada benda pilih tersebut. Dada Asty bergemuruh hebat, milik siapakah benda itu, kenapa bisa ada di saku jam suaminya."Awas saja ya, mas. Beraninya kamu bermain apa di belakangku, siap-siap saja jadi gembel." Asty meremas benda pipih itu dengan penuh emosi.***Tidak butuh waktu lama, kini mobil milik Evan sudah berhenti di depan kampus. Evan tersenyum saat mengingat kebersamaannya dengan adik iparnya itu. Ia tahu jika perbuatannya memang salah, tapi entah kenapa Evan justru ketagihan. Begitu juga dengan Vina, mungkinkah perempuan itu lupa jika pria yang selalu menghabiskan malam dengannya adalah suami kakaknya sendiri."Mas, aku khawatir kalau nanti, kak Asty mengetahui apa yang kita lakukan." Vina berujar seraya melepas sabuk pengamanannya.Evan menggenggam erat dengan Vina. "Kamu jangan khawatir, Asty tidak akan mengetahuinya. Percaya sama, mas."Vina tersenyum. "Iya, Mas. Ya sudah aku kuliah dulu ya.""Iya belajar yang bener." Evan mengacak rambut panjang Vina."Iya, Mas." Vina segera keluar dari mobil tersebut. Setelah itu Evan segera melajukan mobilnya meninggalkan tempat tersebut."Vina, kamu itu lebih menggoda dibandingkan dengan Asty," batin Evan. Saat ini ia dalam perjalanan menuju ke kantor."Huh, setelah ini tinggal ketemu dan menghabiskan waktu bersama dengan Rena." Evan tersenyum saat mengingat Rena, sekretaris pribadi sekaligus wanita simpanannya.Tidak butuh waktu lama kini Evan tiba di kantor. Pria berjas hitam itu segera melangkahkan kakinya menuju ke lantai dua puluh, di mana ruangannya berada. Evan tak henti-hentinya tersenyum, karena tidak lama lagi ia akan bertemu dengan pujaan hatinya, yaitu Rena.Setibanya di depan ruangan Evan segera membuka pintu ruangannya. Pria itu tersenyum saat melihat pemandangan yang begitu indah, bagaimana Evan tidak merasa bahagia, setiap pagi ia selalu disuguhi oleh aksi Rena yang sangat menggemaskan. Evan berjalan menghampiri Rena yang sedang duduk di sofa dengan pose menggoda."Good morning, Sayang." Rena menyapa Evan dengan suara manjanya."Kamu memang selalu membuatku merasa bahagia." Evan tersenyum lalu berjalan menghampiri Rena.Untuk sesaat keduanya saling pandang dan berakhir pada benda kenyal yang saling bertarung. Setelah cukup puas Evan melepaskannya, pria itu tersenyum saat mengingat kejadian yang baru saja terjadi. Begitu juga dengan Rena, wanita itu juga tersenyum.Tiba-tiba telepon berbunyi, dengan masih bertelanjang dada Evan mengangkat telepon tersebut.[Pagi, Pak. Di bawah ada ibu Asty, katanya ada perlu dengan, Bapak]Evan langsung membulatkan matanya, bagaimana mana istrinya tiba-tiba datang. Karena sebelumnya Asty tidak pernah datang ke kantor.Any person would freak out if they see this church, even the village itself. Anyone wouldn't dare to go here. But Zacharias and Allura? Why would they be? This place is what they call a beauty, yet none of them admitted that. They kept it to themselves like a secret. Just like before. As to why Zacharias regretted things now. He was indeed too late. "Let's enter?" I asked. "Let's go to the garden," but a different thing was in his mind. "A garden?" I tried to remember what it was. "I'll be left here alone, Ms. Marin. I'll just be waiting here." Willbert said and I just nodded but kept I phone with me. As Zacharias and Allura entered the church, he opened the rusty wooden double door, directing them to the church's garden. There, it shows an old patio, a rusty table and chairs, a cracked small stone fountain, a fence filled with webs now, and those fairy lights still hanging on the tree's branches. My eyes widened as I remember all of these in one place. Why was knowing my p
"She'll never arrive ten minutes early." Toshiro said as he looked at his wristwatch. Zacharias and the others have been waiting inside the van for over thirty minutes. They complain about the time, but they're always too advanced of arrival. Just like any other business trip, they'd all gathered to check that place discussed in the meeting the other day. "Ms. Marin is here," Kanji said, addressing me... formally. "Just came in time." I thought as I greeted each of them and also introduced Willbert to them, the secretary. As Zacharias continued to attempt to avoid her, he couldn't help but notice this one new behavior she developed. Allura never arrive early yet late, but instead, she's always arriving at the exact time. He just gave me a nod and a formal handshake as I then walked out to ride in my car to just follow them to the place. "Now I know the reason why you kept on rejecting Dias Corporation's offer," Kanji muttered. As the van began to drive toward their destination
"Mom, I'm sorry, I couldn't convince that large company to continue the partnership." I said on my phone while I'm currently in my room, and Eri is out of town for business matters, so it's me who's handling the company for now. Eri kept silent for a moment, and my brows furrowed as I looked at my phone screen to check if the call has ended. "Mom? Are you still there?" "Oh, yeah. I'm still here," Eri mumbled, and her tone was monotonous. "Is everything alright there? I should tell Secretary Willbert to escort you there. I can handle the company here." I said, sounding worried. "No, it's fine. I've already spoken to the company you've been mentioning for the past few days, too." Eri said. "Really?" My eyes shone. "I'll surely give you half of my shares when we continue the partnership, but of course, I need to give an outlook to their employees first. We can't just trust the human resources team sometimes." Eri really had no energy left ever since that day Allura asked her abou
They say everything that was done in haste will go to waste.Ever since he saw a glimpse of her, everything felt like reverting from the start.Last week, Friday night, the same exact night where he saw her again. No, he couldn't be mistaken. It was really her.He's at his firm's office, sitting in his office while gazing outside the glass window from the fifty-seventh floor."Sir Sano," one of his employees called.Expecting to sign a fresh set of documents on his desk, Zacharias turned in his chair and tapped his desk."Toshiro, just place them," Zacharias told in almost a whisper."How's your medication?" Toshiro was actually about to ask this. Not bombard Zacharias with tons of paperwork again.Zacharias just nodded and rubbed his eyes as he yawned. "It's alright.""Alright? I've heard from the doctors that you've been skipping your medication." Toshiro said."Then I'll take one today. You can go now, thank you." Zacharias simply said."Wait. Have you told Kanji about the new part
"More?"The bartender asked as I was getting myself wasted on the bar's counter."One more shot," I groggily said as my head was lying down on the counter.The bartender looked at me cluelessly at my state. "A heartbreak?""Hell? Fuck no," I scoffed."My bad. Usually the customers who get wasted, slumping themselves down on that counter are going through a breakup. I believe it's a curse now." He joked."Well, I am not. Just fill my glass up... Goddamn," I grunted as I clank my shot glass on the counter."Alright, alright," the bartender said as he hurriedly filled my glass up. I grabbed the glass from him, and he's just standing there as I gulp the shot of gin straight."Ma'am, seems like your phone has been ringing for minutes now," the bartender said as he noticed the constant dings and rings on my phone beside me.I raised my head lazily as I checked my phone with my squinted eyes.74 missed calls from Erianne Dhiore59 missed calls from Zane WilbertAnd more missed calls from my
"It's impressive, Madame Allura, the company in the meeting a while ago backed out of their contract."Secretary Zane Willbert said inside my office, and he's also the secretary of Eri."Yeah," I simply replied while I was busy signing the files."Uhm, do you know that company has been pestering us for almost a month? They kept on insisting on pushing this future plan of theirs and the partnership." Zane informed."Why am I only informed now?" I stopped with my work and looked at him."Madame Dhiore told me not to inform you since she wants the higher positions to handle this. She didn't want to add up more work for you." Zane said."Next time, tell her to have her inform me of every audit that takes place within the company." I commanded."Yes, madame.""Also, madame. Since you refused that company's offer, do you want to move forward with the next company?" Zane asked as he took his iPad out to list information."The background of their company?""They're also a company that focuses
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