A Man Called Judah

"And what the hell were you doing around Judah? Huh? Why would you give up your abilities for some meagre information?" Jordan started to scold me the moment we landed. 

He really choked my thoughts then I could not think so fast so I could reply to him. I opened my mouth to speak and all that could come out of it was, 'I am sorry'. I rather said apologizing.

"I said stop being sorry!" He asserted firmly. "I blame him instead, but you could have easily sensed he was using you." He pointed that out. It was very funny how I saw what he was doing clearly but just decided to ignore it.

Nevertheless, I was ready to take the blame and I was doing that out of fear, Jordan was actually very scary. And I could not still get why he was so mad when it was me involved.

I sat down on the couch in my living room and that book, was still on the table there. He just stood, staring at it but doing nothing.

 I reached out for the book and then stood up and walked up to him.

"It's yours. I am sorry I read it, I never knew your brother brought it here, I was deceived." I explained, feeling remorse as I returned the book to him. 

 "Don't call him my brother." He corrected firmly and I nodded. 

One major thing I was baffled about was why Jordan got so mad over that one book. Yeah, I got the fact that it was an old, ancient one but then...I felt he was overreacting judging from a natural standpoint.

"Don't leave this house until I say so. Judah is more manipulative than you have experienced, you don't want to play around with him." He warned.

 "O..Kay, but what about work?" I asked meekly, like a daughter to her sweet but strict father.

"Work is obviously not a necessity for you. You get more exposed to danger every day, Mira, stay back." He said and I nodded obediently, ready to comply. 

 He was about to leave then I grabbed him by the arm, stopping him from going. "I am sorry but... how's the Eldrid forest? Even though I have no idea what it is, I know very well how dear it is to you." I expressed myself,not holding back.

He only looked back into my eyes, and without saying anything he passed a message to me. I received that message but the moment he left the apartment, I forgot whatever I had picked from his look.

I ran my hand through my hair as I picked up my phone, it was in my bag and Jordan brought my belongings with us. I wanted to check out what day, date, and time it was. 

Thankfully, it was still that same day but then it was almost 10 PM at night. Just then, Karima's call came in. At that moment, I remembered everything Judah told me about her, and her assignment and also the relationship she had with Jordan even though he was not so clear about the latter one.

I took a deep breath and slowly, I accepted the call. "Hello." I started, reaching out first.

"Mira! I have been trying to reach you but to no avail. What happened?" She expressed so much worry for a team lead who should be annoyed that someone was not at work. She should have scolded me first or something.

"I... something crazy... happened to me today." I was still... contemplating whether to come out clean or not. It was no other she was always taking care of me. Driving me to work, bringing dishes, preparing coffee, buying me lunch, having me do easy tasks, and so many others. It appeared to me that she had never really scolded and if there was one time she did, maybe it was for me not to suspect her or something.

I was now connecting the dots together and they pointed to the same thing. I guess Judah was right on this one. But how did all these plans fall in place? Meeting Travis, then Karima, Greenville resort, then Jordan Reign...how?!!

I could not seem to wrap my head around it.

"What? Are you okay, what... happened?" She inquired hurriedly, and I could sense that she was trying to suppress the desperation in her. 

"A lot, Karima." I said that and cleared my throat to speak properly and firmly. "Can you come around now? I will tell you everything." I said and she agreed. 

After I ended the call, I spent a good while sitting and wondering if I did something proper there. I got up and headed to the kitchen to prepare dinner, something simple but nice.

Many minutes later, Karima came into the apartment, shouting my name.

 "Mira! Mira! Mira?" 

"Over here." I responded from the kitchen, trying to feel good after the scent of onions got into my eyes.

"Are you okay?" She asked and I could hear her rush over.

"It's just...onions." I was literally crying, for help. I hardly did onions but it was in the recipe I was following. "Oh heavens." I lamented.

I heard her chuckle as she held my hand and led me into the living room so I could cool down. When things were back to normal, I opened my eyes again and then she was already behind the counter, doing the cooking herself.

I felt quite disappointed at myself and sighed. "I wanted to treat you." I let out and she smiled.

 "I know, but you should not do these things all by yourself, Mira. I can always help out." She spoke so nicely like she always did.

"So tell me, what happened?" She initiated the original conversation.

 "Oh..okay. I was heading to work this morning as the diligent team member that I am, and..." I spoke so dramatically, trying to put things in a lighter mode.

"I got abducted by a man called Judah."