Cassandra POV:"You don't know Ricky like I do..." I said and she sighed at the mention of his name."You know... I was once grateful to him that he let you use his black credit car and you ended up giving me a free car... But now... not anymore..." Lydia grumbled."I'm sorry about the car... I shouldn't-""Oh, stop it... I'm not even mad that I needed to sell it back. It was never mine, to begin with. I'm simply borrowing it from you. I had enough savings to buy a new one anyway. But this..." she pointed her hands at my body from the top slowly going down."How could he make Cassandra Moore cut her majestic hair and wore cheap clothes? It feels like you are an entirely different person right now. I couldn't even recognize you anymore," Lydia whined hard like she was my big sister."That's the intention... To be unrecognized..." I said calmly and she sighed again.Lydia gave me the paper bag she held before and just had her face frowning all the time. I guessed she really disliked it
Leonardo POV:I woke up in the morning feeling tired mentally. Cassandra called me last night and said she had left Ricky's mansion. But then she just suddenly cut the call abruptly and told me that she would reach me back. But she didn't and that had bothered my mind the whole night.I was so worried about her that I kept thinking of calling her back. I did that during breakfast while at the dining table but her phone was no longer in service. That instantly added to my worries. What if Ricky got her back and found the record of my call and my text messages from Cassandra's phone? Wouldn't that might worsen the situation?"Why are you looking so tense this morning? You had black eyes too. Did you not sleep last night?" My brother, Lorenzo asked. He was the middle child."He probably hooked up with a new chick and got into an argument with her. Then, she refused to call you back, isn't she?" Louis the last child teased.Lorenzo turned his head to Louis immediately and gave that little
Cassandra POV:Minutes later after the call ended, Leonardo sent me a location in a text message with the time he planned to meet up. It was far, almost at the border between the Xavier's and De Luca's regions. It probably took over an hour of driving to reach there.Should I go? I didn't know. Taking a taxi there? It seemed inconvenient to do that too because it was too far. Maybe changing several taxis along the way? Probably a good idea, but still, should I go?I could understand though why Leo didn't just pick me up again like how he did when he took me from the company before. I think Ricky probably had ordered some of his men to watch the border to see if Leo might enter Xavier's region again.Regardless, I found it strange that Leo think my place might have been exposed to the enemies. How? I had just stayed here for a day. It was kind of impossible that my place had been known that fast. I had changed my appearance too, so it should be harder for the enemies to find me, right?
Cassandra POV: I lay on the sofa and just stared at the ceiling emptily. How did my perfect life turn this way? I had a good job before, bought my dream apartment, had my first car, living my life comfortably with freedom and without fear of getting killed. Now, all those had gone. I was fired, my apartment was sold without my will, and I had to abandon my car because Ricky could track it and had to live my life in hiding due to fear of Ricky's enemies. Everything went downhill the moment Carina got into our life. It felt like falling into an abyss. My tears fell unexpectedly as I pondered over my fate, but then those sad feelings were shunned away by the ring from my phone. I wiped my tears immediately and took it. Maybe it was Leonardo. I stared at the screen and saw the caller ID. It was Lydia instead. Well, I needed someone to vent out anyway so I just took the call. Besides, I had no one else to talk to other than Lydia. I could have called Leo but it was just weird if I compla
Cassandra POV: I woke up the next morning feeling empty. Usually, when someone tried to move away, there should be a lot of things that he or she would feel heavy to leave behind. But in my case, there was none. Maybe just one, Lydia. But then it was not like I couldn't contact her again after moving abroad. So, there was no heaviness there. I got ready and rearranged my stuff inside the travel luggage before zipping it. I wondered if I should just bring it along with me when seeing Leo later. It was just one piece of luggage and not heavy at all. I could even run while holding it on top of my head. Nonetheless, I still wanted a reason to come back to this apartment later. I had a hunch that I would be gone for a very long time, so I wanted to have a proper goodbye with Lydia. She deliberately only worked half-day today so she would be home by noon. She would come to my place later so I could give her back my apartment key. Estimating the journey back and forth from the secret locat
Leonardo POV: After getting caught up in a traffic jam for more than thirty minutes, I finally arrived at the location I was supposed to meet with Cassie. It was weird that there was a traffic jam today. The road I had taken wasn't usually packed with cars unless it was a holiday session. It was not right now so I couldn't understand why there were so many cars on the road today. That had totally ruined my original schedule. My new driver, Adriano parked the car in front of the Lombardi Company building. So did the other four cars that were filled with my bodyguards. They all parked behind my car. After Logan died due to the bombing incident at the airport, I made Adriano replace him since this one guy was also among those that I trusted dearly. I didn't usually use a driver but going here was an hour's journey and I didn't like getting tired due to driving. Cassandra should be inside this building waiting for me. I tried calling her but the call didn't get through. I wondered if sh
Lydia POV: Cassie didn't come back. It had been two days that I waited for her to return and take her stuff from the apartment but she never showed up. Did she abandon her luggage deliberately or did something wrong happen? I didn't know how to judge this situation because I never assumed that this would happen. I kept thinking that Cassie was probably going to come home again and take her luggage someday or maybe she just abandon it and buy new stuff later for herself. Regardless, I couldn't deny the uneasiness inside my heart. She said that she didn't want to lose contact with me. I tried calling her phone so many times but my calls never got through. Something must go wrong then and I knew I shouldn't just stay quiet about it. She might be in danger now and if that is the case, I should act fast to save her, right? Cassie had reminded me before that if I suddenly couldn't contact her, I should call Leonardo De Luca for help. But then, she went missing after meeting that man. What
Riccardo POV:Cassie had been missing for five days now. I had told my men to watch over all her close friends' houses, just in case she came to see any of them. Yet until this point, the search didn't give me any positive results. It felt like she just vanished into thin air. She couldn't be tracked at all.Two days after she left, the police found an abandoned car in the city without a plate number. It matched the car that belonged to Cassie. So, I went to check it and confirmed that it was indeed her car. We then checked the CCTV footage of the nearby stores' buildings. In the video, she was seen walking two blocks away before vanishing again without a trace. The police assumed she was taking a taxi in a hidden area and just moved to another place. That was the last trace of her.Now, I had nothing. No new information about her at all. She didn't even use her credit card nor did she withdraw any money from her bank account. It really felt like she was trying hard to avoid getting c