Chapter 6

Emily was breathing, the scene was getting to her brain and her eyes were starting to blur, she doesn't remember anything about this incident.

The little girl on the screen might look like her when she was a child, but she never experienced something like this, she was not the girl on the video.

“That is not me”

Emily sounded again. Lucas eyebrows slowly pushed down to his eyes, but he calms the pressure inside him.

“Mrs. Emily, if you are afraid, I can assure that nothing will happen to you, if you give out these people names I will protect you”

Emily's hands were shaking, she started murmuring to herself.

“That is not me”

“Not me”

“Not… me”

Lucas' face squeezed completely, he couldn't hold the pressure inside him anymore so he raised his voice.

“Hey!! Listen. That is you, and you are going to tell me what I need to know. Eighteen years ago, my parents were murdered, and you happened to experience everything. Tell me what I need to know”

Emily covers her ears and keeps murmuring to herself.

Lucas couldn't take her behavior anymore so he walked to her.

“Why are you pretending that you don't know anything? Were you threatened, are they after your life, What are they threatening you, tell me and I will help”

He stood close to Emily, Emily raised her head to look at him, tears were coming down from her eyes.

“Please…. ”

She collapsed to the ground. Lucas squeezed his fist hard, he doesn't know why she refused to say anything, and she ended up fainting, what a joke.

He believed she was threatened, his eyes moved to the large screen on the wall, Emily was definitely the girl he had been looking for, now that he had finally found her, the truth is closed now.

He would find those bastards and put an end to them.

Lucas brought his phone out.

“I want you to send the medical team here, somebody just collapsed in my office”

Emily was carried to the hospital and Lucas requested her background details, he wanted to know everything about her and if she had any dark secret that could be used by others to threaten her.

She is a popular artist not in the country though, but abroad, she held her stand there.

He flipped through the documents that were given to him.

Lucas' best friend, Kai Walker was standing opposite him.

“She must've gone through a lot. I finally understand why she behaved that way”

Lucas moved to the next document, Emily lost her parents eighteen years ago, her father committed suicide and her mom couldn't take it so she killed herself.

She had a rough childhood just like him, no wonder she couldn't reflect what happened in the video. Eighteen years ago was a nightmare to her.

Lucas finished scanning through the documents.

“I believe you have the answers I am looking for”

Kai handed Lucas another document.

“It's not clear yet, but according to the information and the people I asked, it's truly her father who really stole from the company. He was said to be a gambler by his employees”

Lucas read through the document, he threw it on his desk when he was done, the record says it all, he was a gambler, and this was not his first time of gambling with the company funds, he just wasn't lucky that day, and he lost the money; however, something doesn't feel right.

Lucas wanted to say something when the office door was opened.

“She is awake”

The lady sounded immediately as she entered.

Lucas stood up from his seat, he took the paper at the middle table and approached the door.

“You can leave Kai, I don't plan on coming back”

Lucas comes out of the special guest room in the hospital, he was a friend with the owners of the hospital, so his special guest room was separated from the rest, it was more like a second office for him.

He spends most of his leisure time here if he doesn't want to go home.

Lucas reached the room Emily was resting in, he opened the door without knocking which drew Emily attention to him right away.

Emily felt her heart pounding a little when Lucas entered, Lucas shut the door immediately he entered, he walked to Emily and threw the paper he was holding on the sick bed.

“Take a look at it, and sign the paper if you agree to the conditions on it”

Lucas remembered the text message he received on his way to the hospital, his anonymous helper that had been helping him since his parents died sent him a text message.

He demands that Emily should be treated properly in order for her to regain her lost memory of the incident, that he shouldn't rush her in any case.

Everything should be carried out slowly, Emily is the only way to the truth about his parents' death.

Emily stares at the paper without intentions of reading the content.

“What is this about”

She faced Lucas, this man came out from nowhere, and he had turned her life upside down, she demanded an apology for what he did to her earlier, she almost lost her sense of reasoning a while ago.

Lucas walked to the window

“I did a background check of your past, and you are currently under a debt of 100 million dollars, that is why you want to sell your gallery. Even though you don't want to”

He faced Emily.

“What you saw earlier wasn't a misunderstanding. The doctor said you suffered some memories lost in the past, that is why you can't remember anything about what happened eighteen years ago.”

Lucas slowly steps closer to Emily who was staring at him in a confused manner.

“What you are holding is an agreement that I have arranged for the benefit of both of us. You need money, and I need you to remember what happened eighteen years ago”

He brings out a pen from his suit pocket.

“Sign this, and I will provide your every need from now henceforth, but in return you will be willing to do what I ask you to do without hesitation nor complaints. If any of us breaks this rule, the fine is one billion dollars”.