The Passion of the Segara
Eps. #81 Suspicion

They arrived at the eighth floor of the apartment building. Sandra opened the door of a unit there and let Mama Yuna and Pearl in.

Mama Yuna looked at all the rooms in the apartment and a smile appeared to decorate her face, "this place is still the same, no matter how long I haven't been here" he grumbled.

"Yes, Madam. I do keep everything here the same as before" said Sandra explained that she had been doing her job well to maintain the apartment.

"Thank you, Sandra. You can be trusted," praised Mama Yuna.

Mama Yuna then turned to look towards Pearl who was already sitting on the living room sofa with Baruna.

"In this apartment we'll be safe, Ra. That evil woman won't be able to find us here. In fact, my own son never knew this place!" mama Yuna told me.

"This apartment is the legacy of my late husband that was inherited specifically for me, I never told anyone about this apartment," he added, explaining the story, and Pearl just nodded her head. Now she understood the purpose of Mama Yuna taking her to that apartment.

"And during your stay here you don't have to worry, I will serve you well" Sandra said.

Sandra was indeed the person most trusted by Mama Yuna, all this time who knew about the apartment was just the two of them and Sandra was also assigned to guard the apartment by Mama Yuna.

Sandra has long devoted herself to Mama Yuna, she feels indebted, because Mama Yuna once helped her and her family escape from poverty. During that time, many things that Mama Yuna entrusted to Sandra. In fact, some of Mama Yuna's secrets are also known by Sandra.

"There are two bedrooms here, Ra. Madam Yuna will sleep in your master room and that room over there" Sandra continued, showing a room next to the main room to Pearl.

"Well, thank you, San," said Pearl.

"Now excuse me, madam. I'll be out for a while to buy some stuff for Madam and Ara during my stay here" Sandra said.

"Yes, Sandra. Please buy us clothes, don't forget to buy Baruna milk and toys. We got out of the hospital quietly, and we didn't have time to pick up our belongings there" said Mama Yuna.

"Surely, Madam!," nods Sandra in response.

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At the same time in Arkha's office.

Rendy lowered her face not daring to look at Arkha who at that moment looked very angry.

"Basic is not becus! whatever you and your men have been doing all this time, Rendy! it's been a month, and all that time you haven't been able to find a Pearl!" arkha snapped very disappointed, because until then she had not been able to get a bright spot about the existence of Pearls,

"I'm sorry, Boss. Me and my people have tried as much as possible, every effort we have made. But, until now, no one knows where Miss Pearl is," said Rendy trying to defend herself.

"Is our only hope Genta? but we never know when he'll wake up from his coma" decak Arkha felt very frustrated.

Rendy did not dare to say, she kept her head down. For a moment the atmosphere became silent in the room,

Drett...!

Drett...!

The phone on Arkha's desk shook and Arkha quickly grabbed it.

"Hallo, what's up, Doctor?" Arkha answered the call from the mental hospital where her mother was being treated.

"I'm sorry, Sir! there's bad news I want to tell you, sir," said someone from the hospital on his phone.

After a few minutes of receiving the call, Arkha was visibly angrier as she threw her phone at her desk.

Arkha snorted, "ahhhh! what kind of bad luck is this!" his screech with a flushed face could no longer hold back his anger

Okay, Boss!" sahut Rendy's. Without daring to refute and ask what happened, Rendy complied and rushed to prepare the car according to Arkha's orders.

The car they were driving also darted quickly among the crowded city streets to the hospital where Mama Yuna care.

Once there, all the staff, security personnel, nurses and doctors at the mental hospital were waiting for Arkha in the lobby, there was anxiety emanating from their faces after telling everything that had happened.

"You're all sloppy! How the story goes that the nun could have run away my mama!" Arkha shouted with a flaring glare of anger clearly visible in his eyes.

 Those people bowed in fear, no one dared to look towards Arkha. All of them can only resign themselves to their fate and must be ready to lose their jobs.

After finding out that his mother ran away from the hospital, surely they think that Arkha will close the hospital where they have been seeking fortune all along.

"You know, I paid a lot here for my Mama's treatment, but your service was terrible!" Arkha further asserted his anger.

"I'm sorry, sir! everything happened beyond expectations. We didn't expect that Sister Ara who we thought was kind-hearted had such malicious intentions, we were sure that she deliberately kidnapped Lady Yuna for ransom!" The head of the hospital who had previously been silent, tried to speak up trying to find a justification for everything that had happened.

Arkha exhaled violently, there was a sense of disbelief in his mind hearing the accusations of the Hospital Chief.

"What is the evidence that the sister wants a ransom? I promised to give her a great reward for taking good care of my mother. Have any of you seen any suspicious signs of that sister before?" arkha seringai.

Everything in the room remained silent, the Head of the Hospital did not dare to respond again, because Ara accused of having the intention to kidnap Mama Yuna for ransom, there's not enough evidence. However, for the sake of defending himself and all the staff in his hospital, he had no other pretext but to look for the person he could make a scapegoat for all the carelessness that was happening there.

"In addition to the nurse, has anyone else ever met Mama?" Arkha asked again with the look of his interrogated eyes.

However, the atmosphere was still silent no one dared to answer, everyone just stared at each other questioningly.

A nun standing at the corner of the room was seen whispering while accidentally nudging a friend's elbow next to her.

"Let's just say who came to see Lady Yuna?" urge the nurse to her friend who is a receptionist there.

"But Lady Livina forbade me from telling Mr. Kaka that she had been here" the receptionist said.

"Where are you more afraid, Mr. Kaka what is Miss Livina?" the nurse asked with a grin and the receptionist did not reply, she simply lowered her face.

"Hey you two, what are you whispering about! Do you want to say something?" Arkha who unintentionally turned his head towards them immediately pointed towards them and asked.

"Pardon me, sir. Ta-last noon your wife had come here to see Madam Yuna. But, they haven't had a chance to meet, Madam Yuna has already run away from here with Sister Ara." Although stuttered, the receptionist finally said that before Mama Yuna disappeared, Livina had come and wanted to meet her there.

"What?" Arkha rounded his eyes, "Livina came here?" surprised mouth.

Of course she was very surprised because Livina had never visited her mother at the hospital, she was surprised why Livina suddenly visited there.

"Yes, Sir. Ms. Livina also forbade me to say this to you, Mrs Livina did not want anyone to know that she had come here to meet Mrs Yuna," the receptionist said truthfully.

"Livina!" furious Arkha.

"I'm sure this has something to do with Livina. She never liked Mama, and she always refused when I said I would take care of Mama at home. She must have wanted to do something so I wouldn't take Mama home" she said convincingly.

"I have to talk to Livina," Arkha muttered, now implied hatred in the look in her eyes.

Arkha turned his gaze back to look at the Hospital Chief who was still bowing his face.

"I don't want to know any of your reasons anymore, now I want you all to keep looking for my Mama until I see you. And if anything untoward happens to her, then I'm gonna shut this hospital down for good!" threatening Arkha clucked full of anger.