"Why the fuck were the cameras in your company not working?! And on the day that Aria visited?!" Dalton spat angrily at his elder sister, who was forced to visit the mansion with every ruckus that had been happening, ever since Aria's whereabouts was unknown. After an entire day of checking bus points to another and Aria's random manner of boarding cabs, they were able to trace the fact that her last stop was at the ML gallery. It was evening already, but Dalton and Alex rushed to the gallery themselves to confirm. The billionaire didn't understand why Aria would go there because she was not exactly friends with Eva, but just kept good hope as Alex drove as fast as he could to the gallery. The first turnoff was the already locked gate that Dalton shook so violently, to see if it would open. That, insinuated that there was no way anyone would be inside the place. "Shit! She left here already. How on earth do we know where she is now?!" Dalton kicked at the gate angrily, and
Collin's eye remained so fixated on the lady that laid lifelessly on the bed for minutes, as he continuously wondered in his mind what could have caused her to go to the gallery. He didn't need to be told that meeting her being exposed to a harmful gas was an attempt to murder her, in the most gentle and brutal way that would slowly bore a hole into her lungs and kidney if she was left there overnight. The doctor had explained that fact to him, and was really thankful that she was able to escape that fast. However, when the doctor did some further tests for her he noticed some things that were not normal in her health. He advised Collin to bring her to the standard hospital where they could test her further, but transporting her without getting caught was the major problem. Instead, he just did some years of experience test for her, and he figured out that she was having an Illness that only she could say for herself. More than ever, it scared Collin so much in his heart
'Where are you? Where exactly are you? Are you okay? Have you given up already? Please come back home.''Why aren't you checking your text? Email when you see this? Are you intentionally ignoring? Are you still alive?''Can you just call someone and tell them that you are fine? At least give a hint. Don't you care about anything anymore? The fight isn't over yet. Can you reply?' 'Dalton would hang everyone dry if you don't come back.' Aria's email address had been flooded with emails from the same person immediately she turned on her phone, and there was quite a number from Amelia too who continually asked about her whereabouts. It was her private email that even Dalton would have no idea about. Thinking about him, she missed him. But facing the realization that was on ground, had spoken the vivid truth without even having to dig further into it. The person who had been sending her emails and information, who had dared to go against the family by washing out their dirty lin
"Do you want to stay here? I think my family pressure might be too much for you to handle," Dalton turned to Aria and spoke to her in low words, trying to consider her in the best way that he could. He wanted to ask her so many things too about what really happened at the picnic. The curiosity of what happened was eating him up, and he hated to admit that he was listening to Alex's advice. 'It was really weird that he was becoming calmer and nicer than he usually was.'"No. It is okay. I have a lot to still do anyways," she chuckled dryly, and turned to the front of the car mirror to check out something insignificant. She needed a distraction. "Alex is on the move and we are going to get to the bottom of all these incidents. I will not allow anything to happen to you, Ari," Dalton said to her, with a hundred percent assurance in his eyes. 'Just how did both of them become like that? Their final goodbye would be more painful than the grand plan ass-kicking parade she plann
"Why do you look startled?" Dalton asked Aria immediately he entered the room and closed the door, as she dropped the call and put the phone on the table beside her. "Nothing... it's nothing," Aria chuckled dryly and turned her face immediately from Dalton's sight, but he moved closer to her and held her cheeks with his palms. "Why do you look so pale? Who was that?" He asked with concern for her in his eyes, trying to steady her face which kept looking towards the floor instead of looking at him. "I'm fine. Just under the weather and maybe PTSD. So many doors have been shut behind me lately, and it is giving me some kind of creep and fear," she said whatever came to mind, and he kissed her forehead gently to console her. She was really stressed. Her mind was distressed, and it was really difficult to focus her mind. Her body was numb and weak by the news she received, and it was kind of hard to digest because her head had been in the wrong direction all along. She needed a distr
Miller's mansionEmma's room"What...do..you mean? Who is that? What are you even saying?" Emma asked Aria with a puzzled look on her face, and the billionaire's wife was glaring really hard at her. She had so many things to say and ask, but she was being calm to watch what would happen. "You know very well what I am saying. You are MAS and you know what I am trying to say. The clothes, lingeries, facial masks, are all hidden in your dressing room," Aria persisted with a scornful look on her face, as she posed the violent aura like she was going to beat Emma if she denied any further. "And I cannot own anything I wish because I might be sharing the same fun clothing with a dancer?" "Oh girl. Don't try to play dumb with me. It sounds really stupid for you to say that you do not know who MAS is. I mean how wouldn't you know the good masked bitch, who had been calling out your family on social media for their wrong doings. How do you think Dalton would feel if he knows that you are the
The next morningMiller's mansionAria's bedroomAria woke up tired and stressed on the bed that she was sprawled upon, with so much that seemed so strange to her. The last thing she remembered from the previous day was drinking from her tequila, and feeling so drowsy till the point that she could stand up again. 'I could have just died like that if last night was a plot to kill me.' Aria shook her head in her carelessness, as she tried to stand up even if her entire body was aching badly. Suddenly, her brain awakened and she realized that her drink being drugged, was a bit of an issue she should not take with levity. She quickly stood up and casted her dress to the floor in front of the dresser, as she checked every part of her body to see that nothing had gone wrong at all. "Shit. What happened when I fell asleep?" Aria mumbled over and over again, as she moved in circles because of the restlessness that hit her heart. 'Only she and Dalton shared the room, so there was no wa
FlashbackYears ago sometimes in winter. From the uncompleted old house that was covered in dust and surrounded by dirt, a man rushed out of the building with some scrunched-up clothes in his hand. He threw it angrily into the dust at the swing of both hands, as a woman rushed out after him to rescue the luggage from him."You should not do this. You shouldn't split the family like this!" The weak woman tried to make her intentions known so loudly with all her strength, as she held the man tight by the waist in an attempt to beg him. In anger, he flung her away from his body with disgust, and she fell to the other side immediately. Her body, which would have hit the ground in the rage of his force, was held to pause the arms of her daughter who was in time to hold her tight. That was how he usually hit her every time she did something displeasing, and had been so violent throughout the years of their marriage. He had never seen anything good about her or the kids, and had made the