The Wedding

Chapter 17: Till Death Do Us Apart

"How was it?" I asked as soon as Lintang came to my room a few minutes after Quinn and Desmond left.

"Oh my heart beats so fast. I could hear it! It was thrilling! I felt like I was in a spy movie," said he. At the same time Hendra entered my room without knocking. "...well, I imagined I was in Breaking and Entering movie."

"That's not a spy movie," I whispered.

"Who is this?" Hendra quickly asked, cutting Lintang's monologue about the movie he was mistaken as a spy movie. "And why I saw him entered Desmond's room?"

I bit my lips.

"Who is he?" asked Lintang pointed at Hendra.

"Meet the tech guy I mentioned before. Hendra, this is Lintang. Lintang, this is Hendra," I introduced them.

"Ahh.. So this is the Hendra," said Lintang while winking at me.

"Are you doing it today?" Hendra asked. "Without letting me know?"

I shrugged. "You, Hendra, are my boss. I can't take a risk of you being dragged into this mess. Plus, I'm afraid you might say about this plan to other people."

"No, I won't say it to other people. I plan to take this secret to the grave," he shook his head. "I don't believe you disbelief me."

There was a silence and tension in that room. Thank God Lintang cracked it on time.

"Well, I think I should just share my findings to you guys," said he crossing Hendra and sat on the sofa.

I followed him and sat right beside Lintang leaving no room for Hendra to sit beside us. Hendra sat in front of us.

Lintang opened his laptop. He connected a flash disk and opened a file from that disk. Inside the file there are tens of files and more files inside those files.

"These are all what's inside his computer and laptop. When you said he doesn't really understand computer, it might be right." Lintang opened a file. "You can read his files but something caught my attention. And that thing is... this."

The file Lintang showed was a pdf file which contains two files. One was named 'before' and another one was named 'after'. Lintang opened the files and showed it to us.

I closed my mouth in disbelieve and shocked.

"I am truly his next target," said I.

Remember the recipe book project I made for a famous chef? My last project was submitted a few days ago with so many corrections from Desmond and I already fixed that. The pdf file was not that book, but it was a letter. The letter mentioned about my inability to make the book thus it resulted in the delay of the production and publication of the book. In that letter I admitted my wrongs and accepted any consequences from the company, including the termination of my contract.

"He wants to get rid of me..." I whispered.

"I saw many other files in his computer. He did most of his jobs in that computer. That was quite surprising especially because he's cunning and tricky. Well, he might clean up his computer regularly cause the last activity on his recycle bin was one hour ago," added Lintang.

We spoke for a few more minutes before Lintang left my room. I thanked him for his help while asking the possibility of deleting the cctv video of Lintang entering Desmond's room to Hendra. Hendra promised he'd delete it directly from the server room.

"What's your plan? I hope you don't do something silly," asked Hendra.

I looked at the wedding invitation card.