Because I Don't Want to Lose
57 - Encounter

According to the map clues on his phone, the distance of his trip to the police station was only ten minutes away. Anaya opened her bag to get her wallet. He chose to pay cash for his taxi this time.

His hand touched something that felt like paper. He also pulled it because he felt he did not know what paper. His finger clamped a brown envelope, exactly the same as Sandra had proffered earlier. He also cursed in his heart. Very smart his best friend took the opportunity to slip into his bag.

After weighing for a while, Anaya opened by tearing off a bit of the tip. A piece of check paper poked, with the nominal equal exactly to the payment to Izzar the other day. The payoff of her marriage contract.

Anaya fretted guessing the meaning. He searched the paper for other notes in the envelope. But there's nothing that goes with it.

“After arrival, Bu.” The driver told.

“Oh, yes!”

Anaya tidied up the check and slipped it in the middle of her notebook, and put it back in the bag. The driver dropped him in the police station lobby. Ridwan's lawyer welcomed him there. She's a young woman of Anaya's age named Tania.

While accompanying his steps, Anaya tried to brush off the anxiety that appeared in the car earlier. Tania asked him to wait in the waiting room.

“We wait here. Bu Anaya has registered as a visitor this morning.”

He was nervous.

“The entrance is only one?” anaya asked Tania.

“Iya, Mom. We go in and out through that one door. The detention room is in the basement. Later we will be escorted there,” explained Tania. “I'm sorry to go to the toilet for a while huh, Bu.”

Anaya nodded. Tania left him.

This waiting room is glass. There aren't too many people here. Anaya's eyes circled around her. Then, suddenly his eyes were pounded on someone who was not foreign. The man just came out of the room. His eyes were fixed on Anaya.

Izzars.

Anaya. He knew there was no way he could hide even if he really wanted to avoid it. The man walked towards her. His steps stopped when a man behind him called out to him. He spoke something as his hand pointed at Anaya. The man nodded and pulled over to the other side of the room.

“Hai!” Izzar greeted and sat down beside him without any hesitation.

Anaya's chest rumbled.

“You want Ridwan?”

Anaya stiffly nodded. His face was straight facing the face.

“How are you doing?” ask Izzar. He did not give up until Anaya noticed him.

Anaya. Face grumbled. “What do you mean send me that check?”

“Oh, already you received means.” Izzar smiled happily. The suspect was captured by Anaya.

“Why not give directly to me?”

“What do you want me to see if it's not a coincidence like this? My number is still blocked. I dropped it to Sandra too, you initially refused right?”

Izzar looked at Anaya's face. Although her heart was hot, Anaya could not keep challenging her eyes. He looked away, looking ahead. Izzar doesn't care. He even enjoyed the view of the profile next to Anaya's face.

“Ridwan asked you to come? Or are you the one who wants to see him?”

“Not your business.” Anaya answered slowly, but sharply. “You yourself are doing here.”

A moment passed by the idea of giving an answer as early as Anaya, that it was none of her business to be here.

“Delivering the data that the investigator requested,” replied Izzar. A silly idea that would make Anaya even more inflamed in his head.

“Why didn't you answer my question about that check?” anaya asked, without looking at Izzar.

“The answer can be long and wide. Not comfortable to talk about here.”

Anaya snorted in annoyance.

“Anaya Paramitha!” The attendant by the door called out to her, along with the arrival of Tania who had just returned from the toilet. The time of his visit has come.

“I'm waiting for you here, yeah. Later we talk,” said Izzar softly.

Without answering, Anaya headed towards the door with Tania. Inside, an officer who had been waiting, gave a sign to follow him down the stairs and down the hallway. Either a dull wall, or minimal lighting. The atmosphere through it felt gloomy.

In front of an iron door, Anaya and Tania were asked to store their bags in lockers attached to one of the walls, before being allowed to enter. Behind it, there was a living room separate from the holding room section. Ridwan was waiting for him.

“Our time is only half an hour.” Tania told before taking the distance and space to give the freedom to Anaya and Ridwan.

Anaya sat across from Ridwan. The haughty man looked haggard in a black T-shirt and shorts. Anaya was concerned about looking at him.

“How are you doing Naira?” Ridwan opened the conversation.

“Good.” Anaya answered short.

“He knows about me?” ask Ridwan.

“I don't tell any story.”

Anaya had indeed banned Mba Kemi and Randi told him. He had also warned Sandra before leaving earlier, so that his men in the office no one talked about Ridwan's case.

Even so, he knew, they could not cover forever. Naira will soon start attending school in a new place. Who can prevent the rapid flow of information in the environment later.

“Why could this be, Wan?” ask Anaya carefully.

“All because of your husband. He had already incited my father, until the ownership of the company was simply handed over to him. Dumped me as his son.”

“I still can't believe your dad is that old?” Anaya doubted Ridwan's statements he had heard.

“The reality is so. He doesn't care about me at all. Even he won't help me.” Ridwan looked disappointed.

“Your mother how?”

Mr Arsyad is sick? Why is he hearing the news now?

“Kok, I didn't know your father was sick?”

Ridwan shrugged his shoulders.

“Then, what was your purpose in asking me to come here?” Anaya crossed both hands on her chest.

“You have to help me.”

“Please what?”

“Talk to your husband to stop suing me, and also persuade my father that he would help me.”

Anaya. It was a difficult request to remember his relationship with Izzar.

“Wan, I never meddled in Izzar's work. And, what capacity would I have if I had to persuade your father. How about it, if he is sick and can not be visited?” Anaya tried to dodge.

“Izzar. Persuade my father through your husband. Because my father has mastered it” Ridwan tells me how.

“I can't,” elak Anaya.

“Hould be able! You have the heart Naira knows her father is in jail.”

“You are the same boy!” Anaya.

Ridwan.

“But, are you really doing the alleged thing?” ask Anaya.

Ridwan. He did not dare to look at Anaya anymore.

“How can I help you if I don't know the real events?” Anaya fishing.

“You have to help me! Because, all this because of your husband!” Ridwan glared furiously. Repeatedly blaming Izzar.

“You already know that he's after me? He waited until he could take control of my father's company, then destroy me.” Ridwan.

“I don't know about it.” Anaya answered honestly.

“Do not lie and defend your husband it.” Ridwan doesn't believe it.

“I'm not lying.”

Anaya warns her not to be lured by Ridwan.

“After all, why would he do that?”

“Kok is still naive too anyway you? I told you, he used you and Naira to take the company!” Ridwan's voice was loud. Tends snapping.

Tania was in the corner of the room until she turned her head towards them.

“ Anyway, you have to help me! Tomorrow, your husband must revoke his report and charges!”

“Do not force me!”

Anaya's chest was pounding hard. He's getting pissed. Ridwan's habits have not changed, accusing others of the problems he faces.

His head felt again. Without saying anything, he moved on, coding Tania to leave, ending his visit.

In the waiting room, Izzar faithfully waited for Anaya. He stood up as soon as he saw himself. Anaya walked quickly towards the exit. His face was sour withstanding dizziness and nausea. He could not cover his irritation because it seemed to be held responsible, because of the problems of Ridwan and Izzar.

“Anaya!” Izzar chases and lines up his steps.

“Ngga need to follow me!” ketus Anaya's.

“We want to talk?”

Anaya just remembered again about the check Izzar gave. He also became aware that the number is very large to be owned by Izzar who only started his business a year ago. Where did he get the money?

Anaya's steps stopped in the parking lot of the police station. He also realized that he was not carrying a car. How he avoided Izzar. His sense of shame increased.

“Have spoken here only. Check it, whose money?” Anaya turned to face Izzar.

“Yes, my money is!”

“Where did you get that much money from?”

“From someone.”

“Pak Arsyad?” anaya fishing rod.

“Why do you think of him?” Izzar.

“Because I'm sure, there must be a connection between you, Mr. Arsyad and Ridwan. Me and Naira. You still have not explained the reason Mr. Arsyad gave control of his company to you and not to his son. And now, you brought down Ridwan on charges of embezzling his company's money. You got rid of him on purpose!

“Then, suddenly you also have money, as much as I paid to you to be my pretend husband. What it means to be returned, I don't understand. Maybe you want to insult me. But I got suspicious, lest it's company money or from Mr. Arsyad!”

Anaya spoke in flames. All his emotions were reflected in his enlarged eyes and the reddened skin of his face.

In fact, he still wants to continue his tirade. But, the pulsation in the lower abdomen that followed the cramping stopped him. Anaya held him down.

Izzar quickly propped up his body. "Why?"

"Take me to the hospital." Anaya grimaced with pain.

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