Chapter 7 - Devil

"Good morning," Jodi said to Nathan, everyone suddenly gathered in his room, including Crystal and Alam. Nathan opened his eyes slightly.

"Oh, yes," Nathan replied lazily, he was too weak to get up now and still wanted to date with pillows and blankets.

"One, two..." Alam counted looking at his brother who shifted to sleep.

"Three."

"ANNA!" Nathan shouted he immediately got up and looked at Jodi. Crystal sighed heavily, this was the second time she saw her brother sleeping at night and getting up early.

Then for the second time, he also woke up and immediately asked a woman that even Crystal herself had not seen clearly except on CCTV.

***

"Stupid! You idiots!" Nathan snapped. he massaged his temples again just like last month, except that no one was on their knees, all neatly lined up and bowing their heads.

Alam leaned his chin across from Nathan, and saw his brother who was frustrated with himself while Crystal was right behind Nathan's brother, she massaged the neck which was said to be stiff and supposedly, had to be hit with a pillow to relieve the pain.

"She's smart." moaned Alam. Last night Jodi arrived five minutes late to pick him up, but his boss was fast asleep on the boat, then the driver also said that the woman told him to wait until someone picked up someone on the boat. And she went first.

"Twice, big brother fooled." Alam reversed his brother's words, Nathan was getting more and more frustrated with the prey.

Nathan's anger could not be contained anymore, the notification about the withdrawal of three billion in arrowroot made his blood boil, Anna took Nathan's wallet again when he was unconscious.

"Great blackmailer." Crystal moaned. she breathed over her brother's head to see the central bank notification message. This is truly intolerable treatment, thieves, swindlers, and seducers.

Okay, Nathan will pay her three times over for that.

"Come on! I'll lead the hunting mission..." asked Nathan to leave the house and approach the KLX motorbike in the yard.

This time he intervened to find a woman named Anna, the little devil had to be handled properly, it couldn't be given leeway.

His siblings couldn't come, they were busy for Zoger who kept crawling up, only their brother's dark business was slowly but surely going down and steadily decreasing.

Income was low with lots of goods coming out, it was the result of repeated thefts by Rey and Cristian.

Jodi and five others followed from the car, two on motorbikes to balance the boss's path.

Jodi was also busy calling the central bank in garut to provide CCTV footage, then called another agency to freeze Nathan's cards, which Nathan had just changed last month.

The problem is that some of Zoger's company cards are in the man's wallet, it's very complicated and cumbersome when they take care of changing company cards, who would have thought? Some managed to steal money straight from the boss's pocket, twice in fact.

"Extraordinary." Jodi praised, twice it turned out that Nathan could be tricked, he wanted to see more, and a woman named Anna who was successful was able to make his boss fall asleep twice.

***

Nathan used the same trick, he used wind speed, and Jodi was busy giving directions and traces of Anna's figure which was captured by several CCTV buildings, even the black box of a taxi was successfully obtained.

Taking Jodi and the others across several cities, Choco and Orangelight, then Greenland until they ended up in Lilac the next day and that was in the afternoon.

Nathan smiled sadly, turning around even though Anna's closest destination was only Lilac, knowing this he immediately departed from Purple Winter to here.

It would only take an hour instead of a day, Anna might also think that she needs to go around several cities so that her tracks are not caught by field dogs that have already been spotted. taste the essence of the pain of this world.

"Whose house?" Nathan asked Jodi who was on the other side. He uses earphones to facilitate communication.

"Her father." When Anna returned to her residence, Nathan was on his hips looking at a beautiful house with a high fence, two levels, and cream-colored marble walls.

The sedan stopped right in front of Nathan at the same time as his two bodyguards who had just arrived.

A man in his fifties with a bald head looks ridiculous because his stomach is allowed to protrude forward with an open shirt button, and his face is as wrinkled as Nathan's.

He doesn't look in the mirror inadvertently laughing at someone who is just as messy in terms of appearance this time. Brake The bald man closed the door roughly.

"Who are you guys?" asked the bald man half snapped.

"He's Josen, Anna's father." Jodi gave directions to his boss to do as he said, then Nathan looked at the CCTV in front of the gate facing him and winked.

He knew very well that Jodi was watching him from there and was now busy cracking the camera inside the house after a few minutes ago he managed to hack the CCTV at the gate.

"Christian Emissary." Nathan was flat.

"Again?" Ask Jose. ah, it turns out that Nathan is not fast enough, his father's men already have him, he is silent while the clumsy father then bends down and tells him to come in.

"Did she steal money from Mr. Cristian? Why can Anna collect Five billion in one month to pay off my debt." He complained. Nathan just nodded the money was still there.

"After this, please tell me, I have no business with Mr. Cristian anymore, and I have given it to the guards in the cash that Anna brought." It was clear again.

Josen reported Anna's return to Cristian, he didn't expect Anna to drag a bag filled with a lot of money.

But it wasn't enough, she was a fugitive, and Josen didn't want anything to happen to him because Anna came home after running away from Cristian.

"How many people are inside?" Nathan asked hand e confirmed how many triggers he would use.

"Five." The answer.

"Easy." Nathan's bodyguard joked that made him smile a little, money was not wasted, and e was proud of Alam and Jodi in terms of recruiting.

After receiving information that no one had a gun, Nathan let his bodyguard handle the five of them, he sat with Anna's father, then the two bodyguards were ushered in by the waiter there up to the top floor of his son's room.

"How much do you owe?" Ask Nathan.

"Five billion." The perfume factory is not doing well, the more the road is forced, the more financial problems become even more swollen.

"You're the same as me," said Nathan. They laughed together lamenting the critical business that hit.

"It's just that I'm worse, on the verge of going bankrupt and then becoming a victim of theft," Nathan added. her father nodded, he emptied a beer to drink together, intending to comfort each other in facing the tragedy that occurred.

"I bought your son... Five billion." Nathan said, it suddenly surprised Jason, what kind of business aisSteven's men running? To dare to buy Anna at the same price.

"I already sold it to your boss" Jason replied.

"He's not my boss!" Right After saying that there was very noisy fighting from up there. Josen went upstairs, followed by Nathan who was walking leisurely.

Even Nathan still had time to look down to count how many stairs he had passed.

***

Anna was struggling to hide when she heard a groan from outside, it was confirmed, it was Slendrina the red hair, she struggled with her eyes closed and her hands tied behind her back by a script.

She looked for the name under the bed, her face and thighs felt sore after being slapped and then kick a few times.

The door opened, just as Anna reached the middle under the bed, as well as Anna's heartbeat, was so turbulent that it couldn't be adjusted properly.

There was silence for a while because Nathan entered silently, is this what you mean by the girls' room?

Messed with various pieces of belongings, he closed his eyes, focusing on relying on instinct to find this woman's breath.

"Gotcha., Nathan muttered, Jason, thrashing loudly silently in the doorway, with five people sprawled horribly. then grep! found, Nathan grabbed Anna's leg and pulled her out.

There was no scream, the only thing that came out of Anna's mouth was "Nathan?"

Another surprise succeeded in making Nathan stagnate. He didn't even open his voice and intended to give a surprise when she saw his face.

He was surprised by Anna who he realized had already mentioned his name several times.

Nathan gave a code for the guards to close the door, giving himself time to think for a moment.

"Are you a psychic?" Nathan asked opening Anna's blindfold.

"Oh thank goodness." Anna breathed a sigh of relief, only Nathan was silent, what was this woman thinking? he was hunting, not helping or protecting.

Anna turned around, groped with her hands tied to hold Nathan's hand then closed her eyes, not ten seconds Anna closed her eyes and clicked. Ripetnya just broke off.

"I knew it," Anna explained, it was another surprise for Nathan too, the first time seeing a weak woman break a ripet, he just had to train for two weeks for something like that.

Anna grimaced, rubbing her sweaty temples roughly, and then took a suitcase to tidy up her things.

"Where do you think you're going?" Nathan asked, he just looked on and on his hips let Anna sort out the things.

"Darkest, the item I was looking for was not in Ringlight," Anna replied casually, she thought for a moment and then walked again to the drawer near the bed.

Nathan raised one corner of his lips, this prey is indeed different from the others. Nathan walked over to Anna, took her hands, then let them both fall on the bed.

"I already bought you five billion to your father," Nathan whispered, briefly kissing Anna's ear.

"I'll still be chasing Cristian and Slendrina." Nathan looked at her for a moment, then chose to sit on the edge of the bed, too tired to carry the weight of a thousand questions for this woman.

What is Anna's relationship with his father? and look at the things she put in, a plastic bag of white marbles that had made his body invisible, a rabbit hanger, then a black bracelet that attracted him.

"Arkhhh," Anna screamed and fell to the floor while backing away until her back was stuck in the wardrobe, she saw Nathan like seeing a ghost.

Suddenly the man holding the bracelet looked behind him and there was nothing. Anna suddenly grabbed her hair hysterically, while Nathan was confused at every mystical behavior of this woman, he didn't even answer whether she was psychic or not.

"Hey." Nathan walked over to Anna, who suddenly burst into tears. And kept backing away, cornering herself for a millimeter to shift.

"Why?" Nathan tried to calm down, I don't know what happened to this merciless killer, he rubbed Anna's face, her body trembled violently and now instead pushed Nathan's hand away.

"It's okay Anna." Nathan tried to calm down again. brought pushed Nathan and tried to run out, too bad, there were still two guards with the servant who became their guardian with a knife to their neck, unable to move or scream.

They faithfully waited at the door. It's true, today's humans are given the heart even more so, who dares to push Nathan if he doesn't intend to commit suicide? This woman named Anna does feel troublesome.

"Let's teach some manners," Nathan muttered now, Anna turned around, and saw someone who could melt herself was approaching, she was like a rabbit pressed against a doorway.

"Don't come any closer.." Anna whispered, Nathan was fed up with this fugitive woman. He was forced to hit her on the neck, then took her away.

Father and son, now Nathan's hostages, the money came back even though it was not intact, after all, it was useless to buy this woman, this woman will die in his hands when all questions leave his body.

***

Anna opened her eyes, to a very familiar place, where she first met Nathan. the kennel, the rancid smell in here, even the dog was barking too loudly incessantly.

Someone came in, luckily not Nathan, but his men, he called his boss saying that Anna was awake.

okay, this is a chance. Anna suddenly asked for a bathroom, of course, because of the insistence of Jodi's call and Nathan's confused bodyguard this became an easy way for Anna.

"You want me to pee here?" asked Anna, a cheap trick that always managed to fool people, in the end, the guard untied her chair and refused to untie the knots in Anna's hands... holding the prisoner tight with every possibility, This woman ran away again.

Just out of the dog kennel, the bodyguard felt dizzy in his head, weak and exhausted, grunted, fell on his stomach on the ground, helpless without a fight.

Anna felt energized now, it was time to run away again, without wobbling or weak legs, she could pass through the forest with ease.

Pebbles and twigs and tied hands are no longer a barrier when she feels full, this is not true according to Anna, it's not yet time to meet another would-be guard, She has to go, go away and "argh, swamp!" Anna screamed in annoyance.

She didn't want to put her foot in her enemy's house, there was no other choice but to turn around, and it was impossible to return.

Nathan is tired! He was tired for the umpteenth time facing a woman who kept slipping away from his grasp. He wasn't even okay, he hadn't had time to cut Anna's fingers one by one but he felt tired.

Nathan ordered another bodyguard to help the underlings who were currently making out with the ground, focusing on hearing which was a mainstay when in a place like this.

Anna doesn't seem like a very good listener either, Nathan told her this was her playground... because it only took a few minutes to catch up to a woman who he knew exactly where she was.

Six minutes later ago

In the end, Nathan was caught again.

"Damn woman!" The more. Anna was now moaning, her shoulder ached, with the full energy she had, the blow didn't make her faint, only whimpered in pain and fell to the side of the swamp.

Nathan pulled Anna's collar to look into his eyes which this time was serious, draining Nathan's patience.

"Once again run away, I'll cut off your leg." The threat. Nathan hit harder until now Anna passed out. It's troublesome and having to be patient again waiting for her to wake up.

Argh, it makes Nathan frustrated, Anna's identity is tearing him apart, what's with this excessive curiosity.

Nathan's attention caught something on the surface of the marsh, only nothing appeared, but bubbles popped.

He closed his eyes to feel something, too rattling with bats, wolves eating a few kilos from a distance, then, chuckles in the swamp.

"Ghost or monster?"

To Be Continued...