The Temptation of Si Lugu
Longing

Joana really felt like a Princess, as Akihiro adored her with great politeness. Akihiro was very careful about treating Joana. Akihiro also had a lot of respect for Joana. Even just to kiss Joana on the forehead, Akihiro asked permission first.

He is very different from Mario. Inner Joana.

Akihiro immediately escorted Joana to the room she had specially prepared for Joana after she reached her private villa. Before leaving Joana alone in the room, Akihiro said, "The party starts at eight p.m. I'll check everything first"

Joana smiled and nodded her head.

Joana immediately turned around when she heard the sound of the window opening and she suddenly snorted and shouted, "You! Why did you get in here? The guard around the villa is, right, very strict"

Mario jumps in and runs to block Joana's hand and says, "You need to get out of here!"

Joana immediately pulled her hand from Mario's grasp and as she glanced at him she said, "What am I going to do from here and it's the same for you? That's right, aja"

"Akihiro is not a good person as seen in the front"

"I don't believe in you!" Joana is going to Mario.

Mario immediately reached into the pocket of his shirt and showed a recording on his mobile phone. "Look at yourself if you don't believe it!"

Joana instantly covered her agape mouth and while returning her mobile phone Mario he nodded his head.

"Why nod?" Mario asked as he put his phone back in his shirt pocket.

Joana pulled her hand from her mouth to be able to say, "Take me out of here"

Without thinking, Mario immediately took Joana out of his private villa room Akihiro.

Joana boarded Mario's speedboat and suddenly said, "My suitcase is still in the room"

"You brought your sling bag, didn't you?"

"More. Good thing the bag's still stuck in my body"

"What's your suitcase?"

"Just clothes, anyway. If I don't have clothes, how do I change? I haven't had a shower, have I?"

"I'll ask you to buy some clothes after this. Strong grip, I'll speed!"

Joana tightly hugged Mario's waist and placed his right cheek on Mario's back.

Unbeknownst to Joana, Mario smiles happily to feel the warmth of Joana's embrace.

Arriving at the beach, Mario immediately took Joana to the helicopter and they flew away from his private island Akihiro.

"Since when did Akihiro use his private island for booze, drugs and party games to change partners?"

"Since he was a teenager. She's going to be Aika's son. The sole heir of a great conglomerate. So, it's only natural that he likes to party strangely until finally his kidneys are badly damaged"

"Oh. Then, he's in a coma"

"Hmm" Joana said.

"Don't worry, I've called the police I really trust. Akihiro villa will be raided tonight as well and for sure, Akihiro will be staying at the Prodeo hotel tomorrow" said Mario.

"Why are you helping me?"

Mario instantly sculpts. She doesn't want Joana to know her true feelings because it's not time for Joana to find out.

Joana then sat down and answered her own question, "It must only be because of a sense of humanity, right?"

"Hmm" said Mario.

Mario takes Joana to a hotel and says to Joana, lock the door and don't open the door when you hear the door being knocked. I brought the spare key to this room, so if I come, I'll open this room without knocking. This is all for your safety. We're in a foreign place and we can't trust anyone here"

"alright. Then where are you going?"

"I'm going to meet someone who can bring me back to my real father"

"Your biological father is alive?"

"Hm"

"Can I come? I also want to meet him"

"Too dangerous. Don't follow! If my father can meet me today, I'll bring my father here and you can meet my father here"

"alright. Careful" Without Joana noticing she hugged Mario.

Mario gasped in shock and quickly returned Joana's embrace, saying, "Thank you"

The next few hours, Mario meets a middle-aged man who looks very foreign to him.

The man handed him a box that was not so big and not so small. The box is medium size.

"What's this box? Why don't we go to see my father?" Mario knitted his two eyebrows.

"Before we go to your father's place, open the box first"

Mario opens the box and finds a tape recorder and a flash and an expensive camera. With trembling hands he took out a tape recorder to tune it.

His father's voice immediately sounded, "My son, sorry if we can not meet again. Dad had a computer program that many entrepreneurs around the world wanted. However, Father decided to cooperate with the Alexander Group. But, before Dad signed a contract of cooperation with the owner of Alexander Group, Dad realized something was wrong and Dad found out that the owner of Alexander Group would betray and kill Dad after Dad gave up his program Dad. They're gonna use Dad's program for evil. So, Dad ran away and ran away from Dad's program before Dad signed a contract with Alexander Group. They were furious and they lured Dad out by kidnapping you and your Mama. Your mother could not survive and I deeply regret it. However, Dad breathed a sigh of relief, you are still alive. When you listen to this tape recorder, it means Dad's dead. I'm sorry I couldn't meet you. Forgive me for being a cowardly father who always hides. Daddy loves you. Use everything in the city that your friend handed you to send Leonard Alexander to prison"

Mario looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with a puddle of tears in both eyes.

The man nodded slowly and said, "Your father was shot. Leonard's men found your father's hideout and killed him when they didn't find the stuff they were looking for"

Mario rubbed the tears dripping down his cheeks, the man said, "Take me to my father's grave, can I?"

"could. But, you better save this box to a very safe place"

"alright. We go first to save this box to a very safe place and then we go to my father's grave"

A few hours later, Mario sat down in front of the tomb bearing his father's name. Mario hugged the navel and cried all the way there to let go of his longing for his father.