Chapter 12

She was not comfortable with the way he had spoken to her over the phone. It seemed like something was wrong with him.

She was standing in front of the building where she was about to drop Aurora. She had wanted Chris to go in with her but since he was big there with her, she had to go in by herself.

She hated the feeling that she was having as she went there alone.

She was attended to and they are so happy to have her daughter there.

It was a smooth registration and she succeeded in keeping Aurora there.

After making sure her daughter was fine, she headed to her shoot venue.

She thought about Chris and how he did not sound okay over the phone. She wanted to go to his hotel room to find out what was wrong, but she had a shoot to be present on.

" Ava, can we have you here?" One of the directors called her; she was torn between going after Chris, who did not sound okay, and going for her shoot.

" I am not going to be here for a long time; something just came up, and I will have to attend to it," she told the director.

He was a bit sad but he had to let her go where she wanted, he was convinced that it was something important as she was always serious.

She stayed for the shoot; it was a short one, and she quickly left the place.

She got into her car and drove to Chris's hotel. She got there, got into the building, and found her way to his door.

She raised her hands and knocked on the door. He opened the door and was shocked to see her there.

" What are you doing here? You were meant to be shooting" he said.

" I know about that, but I can not leave you all alone; I was so worried about you," she said.

Her eyes and attention were all on him. Then Chris looked around the room and she did the same.

She covered her mouth with her hands in shock as she saw the state of the room.

" What the hell happened here? Who did this to you?" She walked around the room.

There were lots of things on the floor, someone came into his room and scattered his room. Some of his clothes were torn as well.

" I do not know who did this, I only know that they did this to me last night. I was not here last night; they would have done something terrible to me if they had met me here last night," he said.

Ava could not believe that this actually happened.

" I do not think so. I think you are being monitored. They knew you were not at home,, and then they decided to come here and do this to you," Ava said.

She went round the room picking up things that she could pick from the floor.

A lot of things were going through her mind.

Someone was after Chris, or was it after her? She could not tell.

" I think they are after me, and they just want to start from you," she said.

Chris moved to her and held her shoulders.

" Can you not say this? I am not okay with you thinking this way already. Let's hope that they are random people and not someone that was sent to pass a message" he said.

He hated that it happened to him, but he was even more scared that Ava thought that way about it.

" I do not know what else to think apart from this." She shrugged her shoulders.

" It is not it, do not give in to those thoughts," he said.

They began to get the room arranged. It looked like the room that did this to Chris was looking for something in his room, from the way they scattered his room and left it that way.

" Is something missing from your belongings?" Ava asked him.

" Nothing is missing at all; I just do not know what the person's was here," he said.

" I have something to say, but you might not like it, and I do not want to hear you talk to me about how I should be positive about something," she said.

" Okay fine, I am not going to do that. You can talk about anything with her right now. I don't think I have the mental strength to give you hope" he said.

" Fine, I think they came to look for something. Maybe you are with something that they are searching for. They did not take anything from your room. They probably came to take something" she said.

Chris looked around his room. He had to agree with her but he had no idea what it was that they were searching for.

They cleaned up the place and made sure everything was in order.

" I think you should move out of here, you can come over to my building and get a space there. I wonder why you chose to stay far from me in the first place," she said.

" I'll send someone over to get my belongings; let's go secure a place," he said.

They left the place and drove to Ava's place, then they paid for that room that was meant for Chris.

" I need to go pick up Aurora"

"Yes, that's right, you said you were going for a registration; I never knew you could start immediately," He said.

" I do not know about that. I think they let her stay because of me." She got into the car and drove to Aurora's daycare.

They got there and Aurora was brought out of the building.

She ran towards her mother as soon as she saw her.

Ava wrapped her hands around her daughter. They stayed that way for a long time.

" Did you enjoy your stay here?" Ava asked.

" I did"

Chris tapped Ava on her shoulders.

" I think we should leave here," he said. He kept looking around the place.