FOUR

[Breaking News]

There has been an attack on Jacob's residence that killed many victims, including Jacob himself. Currently the police are evacuating the bodies of the deceased at Jacob's house, which is suspected to be most of Jacob's men and several servants who worked at the businessman's house. However, until now the police have not found the body of Jacob's daughter, according to the testimony of one of the servants who managed to escape, when the attack took place, Jacob's daughter was hiding in the back garden.

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Aiden pressed hard on the television remote while glancing at the young woman who still closed her eyes peacefully on his brown bed. Finally today his new work officially started. But he doesn't know whether his job this time will be easy or difficult, because he still needs a lot of information regarding the Jacob’s family beyond the unilateral information provided by President Moon. Moreover, he also felt strange about the old man. It was as if there was something odd about the look in his eyes, but he couldn't be sure what exactly it was.

"Ugh... Father...."

Aiden stared blankly at Calistha's movement on his bed while anticipating the next things that would happen. At least she would have screamed for the first time when she found out that she was now in an unfamiliar place. After that she will scream to be released, or at worst she will attack him with a female indiscriminate attack. Tsk, Aiden already knows too well how the reactions of the women. His wild life that is never separated from women makes him learn a lot from them.

"Are you one of my father's men?" Calistha shouted softly at Aiden while occasionally massaging her dizzy temples.

Meanwhile, Aiden looked surprised to see the calm reaction shown by Calistha as he approached the woman with calm steps.

"No."

"Then? You were one of the people who attacked my house last night?” asked Calistha getting wary. Instantly her brown eyes widened, and she immediately inched backwards away from Aiden's body that seemed to dominate in front of her.

"No. I'm more than that."

“Why did you bring me here? I want to go home," said Calistha slowly with a bitter tone.

Her consciousness slowly began to gather perfectly, and now she remembered all the terrible events that happened at her house last night. The sound of broken glass, gunshots, the sound of humans physically fighting each other, then the sound of screaming. All of that now began to swirl in her mind until it created a tremendous fear in her heart.

"Where to? Do you think you still have a place to live after what happened last night?”

Aiden suddenly grabbed his television remote and turned on the square object so that soon Calistha could see a collection of pictures that began to show the process of evacuating the dead at her house. There, she saw her house full of police lines and uniformed men busy carrying so many bags which she thought contained the bodies of her father's men. Instantly Calistha jumped down from Aiden's brown bed when the television showed a picture of her father's body that had been put in a yellow bag.

"Father! Tell me that everything I see right now is a lie!” shouted Calistha wept bitterly.

She didn't think that her short time with her father would end like this. Even last night she had not come to her father's study to discuss an important matter that her father wanted to say. Regret always comes at the end. That's the emotion that Calistha is currently experiencing that she hates herself so much. She shouldn't have fought her father, she should have gone to her father, and she shouldn't have been constantly resenting her father for something that was clearly for her own good. Ever since her father gave her training schedule and unilaterally terminated her studies, she has been blaming him all the time, hating him for bringing too much hassle into her life. But if it ends up like this, she vows that she will never hate her father and will do whatever her father wanted, as long as her father stays by her side to accompany her to become the successor of her family.

“Are you done crying over your father's death? Come on, he's not coming back either." Aiden said flatly without feeling.

For him death is something very common, and often happens in his life. Death, is something that always comes and goes like the seasons, always certain, but unpredictable how the process, even the end.

“I want to see my father. Take me to my father," said Calistha with a sad cry. The woman chose to hug her own knees in front of Aiden's black television which no longer broadcast news of her father's death.

"You can't go anywhere. Right now it's the only safe place."

"I don’t care. I'd rather die and follow my father."

"Hah..." Aiden chuckled at the words full of frustration and emotion that just came out of Calistha's quivering lips. She thought her life would end so easily if she showed herself right now in front of everyone who was looking for her? It was the most ridiculous thought Aiden had ever heard. Calistha must have no idea how many people out there want her alive rather than her dead.

“You think you will die so easily? Tch, don't ever think about that. If they find you, you'll just be a lowly woman forced to tell your father's big secret. This world is crueler than you think.”

“I don't know anything about my father's secret. He had even died before telling me all his secrets,” replied Calistha gulping in her place. Right now her mind was completely deadlocked because everything Aiden said made sense to her mind. Now she must be wanted by many because she is the sole inheritor of all her father's possessions. But she swear, she didn't even know anything about her father's assets other than the television station she had wanted for a long time.

“Then you should find out, because your current position is really very difficult. Like it or not, you have to keep looking for the treasures that have been hidden by your father. And oh... did you know that your father was a mobster?”

Aiden smiled mockingly when he saw the look on Calistha's face that conveyed an intense surprise. He had expected that a spoiled woman like Calistha would never know anything about her father's dark life. Well, that's natural because all fathers just want their daughters to be happy. But if it was fate that pushed him to know it all, what was all that life of luxury for? In fact, everything that Calistha has gotten so far will only be bullshit that will make Calistha's own life miserable in the future. Like now, Calistha is completely unprepared and instead looks like an idiot after her father died very tragically without telling her, his true dark life.

“My father… mobster? Impossible! My father is a businessman with various properties around the world. Don't you try to lie to me! Do you want my father's treasure too? I will definitely give some of my father's property to you, but please help me. Take me to my father."

“Well, it was quite tempting, but not worth the risk I had to take. You will never go anywhere Calistha, because out there you will never be safe.”

“Please let me go. Please. I don't want to be here, I want to see my father." Calistha pleaded with a pitiful face.

After she calmed down a bit and got her emotions under control, she tried to negotiate with Aiden to let her go. But it looks like it's not easy because Aiden is clearly not going to let her go. Aiden must carry out his job as a guard for Calistha, as well as find out the places that Jacob used to hide all his valuable stolen treasures. But when he saw how Calistha was in real condition, he became unsure. How could that woman lead him to all of his father's possessions if she didn't know her father's dark identity. After this he had to go to president Moon and tell the old man this directly so he wouldn't be pushed to keep dealing with a troublesome woman like Calistha.

“For now your place is only here, you can't go anywhere. You better eat, or clean up if you want. I have to go."

Aiden glanced briefly at the pizza box he placed on his nightstand. He hoped that Calistha wasn't a spoiled woman with a lot of requests for food because he couldn't possibly provide a luxurious menu like what she had gotten so far. At least a box of pizza was much better than the cheesy treats he usually gave his captives. Well, but Calistha wasn't his captives. The woman is his responsibility now.