Chapter 1. Passionate Dreams and the Suspicious Necklace

"Ah, I want more." The sound of sighs drives the man crazy as he presses down even more on the woman beneath him.A hot kiss adds to the passion of the lovestruck couple. The man is so aggressive, his muscular hands creep up to the woman's breasts. Then when the action between the two intensifies.....

The girl was wide-eyed, waking up with a pale face, her chest heaving. All the hot scenes were just a dream. Damn it! The hot dream was not with her future husband, but with another man. A strange dream that had been happening for a long time since the girl entered college. It was excruciating.

"Kalina, are you awake, dear? Is it that dream again?" A baritone voice rang out.

"Elard." The girl called Kalina sighed.

      Kalina Adnan moved to sit up as her black eyes focused on the necklace she had been holding. The necklace that had been given to her by her future in-laws as an engagement gift. A beautiful woman named Anantari, a beauty that had made Kalina envious because at an age that was no longer young Anantari still looked stunningly beautiful.

      "Do you like it, darling?" came a baritone voice. The man approached and embraced the woman's body. The evening breeze wafted in through the uncovered window of the room. The faintly lit lamp added to the romantic impression of the two lovebirds in love.

       "Sure, look at this very nice pendant," Kalina said. "Honey, there's Mrs. Anantari," added Kalina, reminding the man who had begun to nuzzle his head into the crook of her neck.

        Well, the man who became Kalina's fiancé was Elard, the headmaster of the girl's dream husband. After the incident that happened to Kalina, the two grew closer. Several years passed, during which Kalina had now graduated from college. Finally, Elard proposes to her.

       "Mommy's asleep, dear." Elard summarized Kalina's face. "Your lips are so seductive," he babbled and then kissed Kalina's lips.

         "Kalina accepted them at first, until an image faintly emerged in her memory. The figure of a handsome man covered in white light, Kalina spontaneously pushed Elard's body away. "Sorry," Kalina pleaded feeling guilty. It didn't occur to her to push Elard, it was just that the shadow that always lurked was very torturous, suffocating the chest.

         "Are you okay, darling?" Elard frowned at his lover's pale face. "You're---?"

         "The image in my dream flashed in my mind. I'm tired of being like this," Kalina lamented. She recalled the aftermath of the accidental fall from the cliff while camping before the final high school prom. Kalina often dreamed of meeting a man with wings, a handsome man like an angel. The image of the man was now appearing more and more often, even when she was close to Elard. Her fiancé knew that Elard was the one who knew about her dreams. Kalina told this to her future husband. 

      Dreams, of course, what happened to Kalina must be what Elard knows best. An accident falling off a cliff and then the appearance of a winged figure. Until finally Anantari, the mother, cast a spell for Kalina. Everything went back to the time when Kalina fell off the cliff. Elard doesn't know what the spell is, of course, but the mother only says that her friend Sekar told her that if Kalina is the Devil's Successor that Sekar meant, then the girl will pick up her destiny. Everything happened just like that, Elard and Anantari also went back in time with Kalina who fell off the cliff and was found back in the river near the waterfall safely.

       "It's okay, darling," Elard replied, stroking Kalina's cheek gently. "You've been looking at that necklace all day, shouldn't you wear it? It suits you perfectly." Elard turned Kalina's attention to the necklace Kalina was still holding. "Want to wear it?" he asked.

     Kalina nodded and handed the necklace to Elard. Elard swallowed saliva at the sight of Kalina's smooth neck, where her hair fell to the right side. Ah, it felt like Elard wanted to bite down and put a red mark on that seductively smooth body. The man let out a long breath and then concentrated again. He positioned the necklace and brought the ends together.

       "Beautiful." Kalina held the necklace and then turned to Elard who was sitting next to her again.

       "Very pretty," Elard said.

Suddenly from the pendant of the necklace emerged a dazzling bluish light. Elard closed his eyes, a few seconds later when he opened them. Elard could no longer see Kalina. Elard's heart was beating very fast, panic was certain. He looked for Kalina in the bathroom and ran down the stairs through the house.

         "Kalina!" shouted Elard in frustration. The man knelt by the pool.

       Anantari was lying on a golden bed when she heard Elard's shout and opened her eyes. The woman who was older than she looked got up from the bed and ran to find her son. The woman who had not aged held her chest in pain. Her son's anguished cry made the world seem to come crashing down. Anantari had been hurt when she did not get the love of King Arsen in the past. However, it was not as painful as it was now when she saw her son down.

      "Elard," she called, stroking her son's shoulder.

      "Kalina's gone, Mom," he said helplessly. Anantari collapsed and hugged her son.

     "I'm sorry, I was just carrying out a mandate from Sekar to give the necklace to Kalina," Anantari explained.

       Elard clenched his fists in anger, ah, it felt like his world was completely shattered. What was actually happening right now, Elard was still very confused. Although he understood that he had great strength compared to ordinary humans, but for this. Elard didn't understand, he was still shallow. There were so many secrets about his mother, including her figure that did not age.

       "Mother, why do you dwell so much on the past that has clearly passed!" Elard screeched. The man gripped his mother's arm with bulging eyes. "Look at me, Mother." Elard forced.

       Anantari looked sadly at her son. Anantari had indirectly caused her son's misery. Clear water melted on Anantari's face. Confused about how to act now, wrong. Anantari was indeed in a false position. Seeing her son down, it felt like Anantari's heart was being squeezed.

       'I have wronged my son, oh Almighty. What have I done. I was only carrying out the mandate of my best friend,' she monologued.

       Anantari remembers well what happened some time ago, when she came to Kalina's luxurious residence to inquire about her son's marriage to Mr. Adnan's daughter. The look of happiness was evident on her son's face. It's just that he doesn't want to be so heartless, considering Kalina is in a state of memory loss. He returned Kalina to the past, where before the meeting with Gavin made the girl's memory at the time of the meeting with Gavin disappear.

        "How am I supposed to explain all this to Kalina's parents?" Elard wondered.

        Anantari had never thought that far ahead, Kalina's parents were currently away on business. For two whole months they had left their daughter with her. Now she herself was at a loss, not knowing how to catch up with where the necklace had taken Kalina. In a period of two months.

       "I made a big mistake," Anantari says.

The woman rose from her seat and ran into the house, followed by Elard. Anantari opened the door to an old room, it contained the ancient books Sekar had left behind, as well as some other records. She searched every corner until the place was a mess, opening books and throwing them on the floor.

      Elard watched her and asked, "What are you doing?"

      "Looking for Sekar's book, I hope there's a small note from her about traveling back in time," Anantari replied.

       Elard followed her mother into the library. Opening one book after another until the morning sun's rays seeped through the open window that was not covered by the curtains. Anantari collapsed, crying bitterly.

        "There's not a single record," she said resignedly.

         Elard's face grew even more pained, sitting helplessly next to his mother and reaching out to take her in his arms. "What exactly is your secret, mother, and what has happened?"

Continued....

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