FRANCE: PARIS
The phone keeps ringing non-stop. Fred step out of the bathroom with a towel over his head to dry off dripping water from his wet hair. He just had a late night shower ready to go to bed. He sluggishly pick up the phone from his bed to see who has been calling him.He stare at the strange number on the screen which reads restricted number. Without having much thought he answer the call.“Who is this?” he asked softly slipping his slippers off his feet as he climb the bed.“Huh….” A voice grunts from the other side of the phone which makes Fred squeeze his face. He then wait for the person to talk.“If you need your girlfriend come to the address that will be sent to you. And mind you, nobody should know about this” a hoarse voice threatens.Fred quickly stand up from the bed squeezing his face more in confusion. "Hadiza!" he let out and could hear Hadiza his girlfriend's voice grunting in the background. The call instantly gets disconnected. Fred looks perplexed staring at the screen of his phone confusingly. “What has happened?” he asked no one in particular. "Ding!" a text message pop up from his phone.Fred quickly check the text. It is an address and a picture of Hadiza tied up with blood stains on her face and a gun pointed to her head.Fred's eyes widened in shock. He instantly rush to his wardrobe and quickly pick up a shirt and trousers. He put them on hastily making a run for the door.He seems to have forgotten the car key. He run back inside again to pick his car keys. He dishevel his hair as he look for the car key. Seeing Hadiza in that state makes him panic. He gets into his car and ignite the car then speed off to the address sent to him. Though he did not know the address but with the help of the Gps, he believes he will get to the place.On the way, Fred keeps dialing Hadiza’s number but it was switched off. He tried calling several time but still the same respond. Cold sweat forms on his forehead as he becomes more agitated. Although, Fred is the CEO of Brain, a reputable company in Paris which has other companies crawling behind it. But right now, the Almighty Brain’s CEO looks panicked and frightened. Fred has never thought that anything could cause him to be frightened out of his shell. He has always have everything at his beck and call. Never has he imagine he could be as helpless as he is right now.Fred loves Hadiza so much that he could not bear to lose a strand of her hair. Seeing Hadiza kidnapped and hurt in such way gives Fred so much fright. Apart from Fred’s family, Hadiza is the only person who could move Fred like that. Just the knowledge of Hadiza been in danger scared him out of his wit. The picture which was sent to him makes his mind run wild with bad thoughts. “Who the hell could have done this?” Fred thinks loudly driving with a full speed.After much thoughts he couldn’t figure out who could possibly kidnap his Hadiza just to threaten him. He really hope it was just a threat and nothing else. If anything could happens to Hadiza because of him. He will not be able to forgive himself.Seeing the Gps blinking red. Fred made a rough stop after driving for hours. He quickly get out of his car holding his phone. He look around the place which is full of bushes and just an abandoned building. As he was still looking at the building, his phone rings. It is the same restricted number."Hello" Fred instantly answer the call looking around the place to see who is talking to him but he sees no one. “Come into the building" the harsh voice said and ends the call. Fred sigh deeply and rush into the abandoned building. Fred's face turns dark when he sees Hadiza being held by two hefty men in black with their faces covered while Hadiza has been terribly beating. One of the men holds a big iron rod standing in front like the boss.Hadiza start struggling to get away when she sees Fred, her face already stained with her own blood. Fred’s heart race faster looking at Hadiza's beautiful face battered and covered with blood stains. He made a move forward to approach Hadiza but one of the men instantly place a knife to Hadiza's neck which abruptly stopped Fred from moving any further. “If you move one step forward this goes into her throat” the one holding up the knife threatens.“What do you guys want?” Fred ask furiously. His eyes already lose its color seeing Hadiza in such state and unable to do anything. It makes his heart ache badly. His fists tightens in frustration making his fingernails burrow into his palms. He has his eyes fixed on Hadiza who was in tears struggling to get herself freed.Fred made a move towards them again but the one with the knife draws the knife more closer to Hadiza's throat cutting a little of her neck. Fred widening his eyes in shock.“Stop!” he yell at them and move backward so they will not hurt Hadiza more. Hadiza look so frightened. Her eyes begging for Fred to help her. Knowing that the men are not joking, Fred knelt down.“Take me instead. Just leave her alone” he said pleading. "We will decide about that ourselves, Fred Anderson” the one with the iron rod said arrogantly.Two of the men then start to untied Hadiza and immediately take her away towards the back of the building.“If you dare, follow us” the leader said to Fred who look confused to see them taking Hadiza away."What are you doing?" Fred quickly stand up and run after them but the leader locked the door to the back of the building from outside which hinders Fred from following them. Fred push the door hard to open the door but the door will not budge. “Hadiza!” Fred shout for Hadiza banging the door. He look confused not knowing what to do. He turn around and see a big stick at a side. He quickly run to take the stick if it could help him break the door. Fred keeps hitting the door with the big stick until the door luckily opens.He instantly charge towards the only narrow pathway at the back of the building. He run as fast as possible. Then he start to hear Hadiza’s voice calling for him. “Hadiza!” Fred also call for Hadiza to let her know that his right behind them. Because it was already dark, Fred could not see the narrow path clearly, but with the help of Hadiza calling for him. He keep following her voice using his phone’s torchlight.Fred will have called the police or someone for help. But he did not want to risk losing Hadiza because he believes that those men will kill Hadiza if they know he called the police. So he decides to follow them to plead with them and give them anything they want do he could get Hadiza back.After following them for sometimes. Fred catch up with them. He sees that the narrow path actually leads to small plain land. Before the plain land there is a large river.“What is this place?” Fred thinks and try to hide so he will know what the men intends to do or probably see their hide out. But then, the men brings Hadiza towards the river and make her to kneel.“Blame Fred Anderson for causing your death and not me” the leader said and raise the iron rod in his hand to hit Hadiza's head. Fred knowing what the man is about to do, run out of his hiding. "Hadiza!" Fred shout and run as fast as he could to save Hadiza, but he was too late. The man already hit the iron rod on Hadiza’s head. Seeing the iron rod hits Hadiza’s head hard. Fred’s face flash black and white, his eye balls turns extra large with shock. Hadiza slowly landed on her face in pain with her blood splashed around. Fred falls to the ground on his kneel trying to reach to Hadiza’s body. But the men seeing Fred running towards Hadiza hits him also gently with the rod too behind his neck and push Hadiza’s body into the river. Fred gasps in pain as he gets hit my the rod on his neck. He sees as Hadiza’s body rolls into the river while trying to stay conscious. But he also falls face down and everything turns black.If you like this chapter, comment so I can continue and also vote for this book. Thanks
SOME WHERE IN ITALY Anny quickly rush to Donald's house immediately she received Ricky's call. She has been busy lately that she don't have time to check on Donald, but when Ricky call her to go to Donald's apartment, she quickly left what she was doing and went there. She enter into Donald's apartment, since she knew the password, she open the door to the room. There, she meet Donald her boyfriend with Drisha her cousin. Anny's face instantly turn ugly, she look shocked, immediate anger fills her looking at their position. "Who is she?" Anny ask Donald sternly as if she could not recognize Drisha. She breathe threateningly looking so angry, Drisha's hand interlock with that of Donald's.They are both half naked on the bed, Drisha rest her head on Donald's chest. "Can't you see who she is?" Donald reply Anny nonchalantly. "Did you want me to spell it for you?" Donald adds hissing. Anny's face turns black like the back of a pot, she could not believe Donald saying that to her.
FRANCE: PARIS It's Fred's birthday. Rainbow hall buzzed with music at Genesis hotel. Hayden, Fred's junior brother organise a birthday party for his big brother. Prominent people in France are all present. Hayden wants the birthday party to be big, because it has been a year his brother has smiled since his girlfriend's incident. Hayden wants to use the birthday party to bring back his Fred's smile, looking at everything going on well Hayden smile. "I hope everything turns well from this moment" Hayden thought to himself. "Hey! Hayden" May, call and move closer to Hayden. She wear a black backless long gown, walking in her high heels silver shoes elegantly and holding a matching purse makes all eyes turns towards her. May put on a soft smile knowing all eyes is on her, but she only have eyes for one man, Hayden. "You have been so busy lately that I can't even reach you" May smile softly and eye Hayden sexily. Hayden also smile to her, staring at her gorgeous body, he quickly
FLASH BACK A week ago in Italy. That evening Anny was going to throw away the trash. To her, she is no different from the trash herself, ever since she become of age everything about her was just like trash.As she was going to dispose the trash, a bottle drop from the trash bag, she pick it then throw it to the air angrily, She does that all the time when she is angry, but today all the trash scatter on the ground.She sigh frustratingly and start to pack them with anger. She can only get angry like that with the trash bag and herself, she dare not get angry with anyone else who she thinks makes her look like trash. After Anny finish disposing the trash properly, she turns to go back inside the house but she suddenly hit someone."Oh!" she let out with fear.She has been walking - thinking without putting her head up until she hit the person. "Am sorry that I scared you" Hayden said to Anny."It's really you, Hadiza" Hayden smile, his eyes shinning with happiness as if he saw a lo
When they arrived at the restaurant, Hayden continued to stare at Anny. The waiter came to take their order, and after he left, Hayden kept staring at Anny. "Are you going to keep staring at me or say something?" Anny asked, looking vexed. "I just feel that you two really look like each other, or should I say you are the same person." Hayden still could not believe that she was not Hadiza. "Who are you talking about?" Anny asked angrily because Hayden kept making the same mistake by calling her Hadiza when she is not. Hayden cleared his throat. "Actually... are you by any chance a twin? I mean, do you have a twin sister?" He looked curious while asking. "I mean... did you have any twin sisters?" He could not believe that this person sitting in front of him was not Hadiza. He had known Hadiza for many years. Two years after their parents died, his brother was always sad because of their death. When it came to something like that, his brother was really emotional, and he could not
"One year ago, I receive a sudden call from the cops that my brother Fred is in the hospital then I quickly rush there" Hayden decided to tell Anny about Hadiza's Incident "when I got there my brother was unconscious I was told that some people found him at the seashore i don't know why he was there at such time or what he went there for, his car was also found at the front of an abadoned building" Hayden look at Anny as he explain to her "the cops start investigating what happen that night, they found some blood in the abadoned building and some fingerprints, later we get to know that my brother's girlfriend Hadiza was missing and she was probably kidnapped and my brother went to the abadoned building to save her it was known from his call record that he received a threat call" Hayden pause and continue "the cops search for Hadiza but there was no trace of her anywhere the number that called my brother that night could not be traced either because it was from a burnt phone" Hayden
The next morning Anny wake up very early since she could not sleep very well last night. She cook and set the table, her father is at home that morning, most time her father will not be at home "good morning dad" Anny greet her father when she saw him coming out, Mr Brown looked at Anny as if he did not see her, he has always been like that to Anny so Anny did not mind when he did not answer her greeting. The family of four sit down and start eating, after sometime Anny stop eating and she check out her father's mood before she sum up the courage to ask the question that have been bothering her ever since she saw Hadiza's picture "dad" she call slowly "am I by any chance born twins?" She look at her father curiously, her father instantly look at her face with surprise "what are you talking about?" He said and pause "Twins! I don't understand why you are asking such question" her father's face turn stern then he said "but if I must answer, you are not twins" he reply her as sim
That evening Hayden came to Anny's house as he said, he already knew her neighborhood since it is the place they first met "this is my small abode" Anny muterred and smile forcefully as Hayden enter her house, Ricky was also there "meet my childhood friend Ricky" Anny introduce Ricky to Hayden "It nice meeting you" Hayden stretch his hand towards Ricky, Ricky take his hand "my pleasure" Ricky replied looking at Hayden, they all smile and sit down. Anny then brought the fruits she already cut and place it on the table before Hayden "thank you" Hayden smile "you got a nice place here" Hayden said looking at the house "thank you" Anny answer him and they keep silent for sometime before Anny break the silent "since you said you want to see my album" she stand and bring out the album from the shelf then place it in front of Hayden "this is our family album, you can look at it" Anny told him "alright" Hayden pick up the album and begin to look at it.After Hayden look through
"What!" Anny exclaim with shock and she look panicked "Anny, what is it?" Ricky ask immediately she saw Anny's reaction "dad had an accident" she cried "accident!" Ricky shout and cover her mouth with her hand "which hospital is he now?" Ricky look at Anny "Highway hospital" Anny answer still looking panicked without knowing what to do "let's go to the hospital" Ricky immediately drag Anny and they left in her car, Anny quickly call Jude and Rose to tell them about the accident, the four of them met at the hospital at the same time "Anny what happened?" Jude ask Anny immediately he saw her "I don't know either someone call me to tell me" she said looking worried "let's ask them" Ricky said pointing to the reception and they all went to the receiption to ask the nurse there. The nurse direct them to the emergency ward and they instantly run to the emergency ward but they were stopped by the nurse from coming into the ward, Anny start pacing back and forth in the front of the ward. Wh
Though Fred said that he appreciate Annys effort that is why he appoint her to join the team, he did appreciate her but the main reason he appoints her to join the team is to clear his doubt about Anny, Fred feels that something is not right I have to be sure Hadiza has indeed develop a new skill because of her memory loss Fred say to himself wait he thinks since Hadiza came back she has not have any of her asthma attack Fred seems to realize something is it that she is no longer have asthma then develop new skill? Fred thinks no that is not possible he said to himself thinking then he quickly get his phone to search about memory loss and previous cases of memory loss on internetAs he search about it, he look surprise, there is no case of memory loss patient developing any new skills and also memory loss patient cannot develop a new skill expect learning them, worse thing they might even forget all skills they knew before so, is Dr. Hart lying? Fred asks hi
Fred drags Anny back into his office with his face still full of disbelief, Freds mind start telling him so many things did you think that could really be a mere luck? Dont you think something feels strange? How could someone who never learns about computer be that competent? You have heard about people with autisms developing skill they dont know before but have heard of memory loss? Freds mind is in a mess ruminating on how possible is it for someone who never had any prior knowledge about computer to suddenly pick it up because of memory loss, he thinks is not possible but he could not understand why Hadizas case is different, Fred could not just get, he feel that something seem to be wrong somewhere but he did not know where and what it isFred stands in front of Anny when they get to his office staring at her face strangely, Anny dare not raise her face up to look to Fred because with Freds stares she is already feeling guilty and her heart beat fast, Hayden is also stand
At the building on the hill, the lady with one side of her face burnt look excited, after she heard that the file has been cracked she had rush to the building on the hill to see for herself, the computer experts she hired were working seriously to decode the codes in the file so they could know what the file entails, the lady sit on a big chair focusing on the computer screen anxiouslyShe really wants to know what is inside that file, when her mother is about to die then she remember her mother telling her about a chip containing a file that she have to find that chip no matter what, after her mother died she dont know the chip nor which file the chip contains which her mother talked about or where the chip could be but since her mother said she must find the chip containing the file, she start searching for the chipAfter some years she gets to know that the chip is with the Waltzs family so she try all she could to get the chip containing the file from th
Freds eyes were staring at Anny with much surprise, Hayden who did not react if he believes Anny or not look perplexed, though Hayden knew that Anny is a computer scientist but when Anny said she will try to decode the codes he did not stop her because he thought Anny will not be able to do anything but now he is astonish and petrified at the same time, he is astonished because he did not expect Anny to be that good and he is petrified because Fred will definitely suspect Anny after what she did“Impossible! Amod said with his eyes wide I dont believe this Amod said again, Anny smiled I dont believe it either she said, actually Anny did not believe she will be able to get through the last step of the codes, she feel that she is somehow familiar with the codes and she knows that she have seen it somewhere before but she could not remember where is saw it but when she is trying to get through the last steps, she remember she have seen the code before in her mothers diary,
Fred, Hayden and Anny went to company together, when they gets to the company they rush to where the computer team were, since Fred is the only one who knows the code, he quickly press the code and the door opened, the three went in is the file really cracked? Fred ask as soon as they get to the computer team yes, Mr. Waltz the leader of the team said as they are still on the computers working did you not find anything? Fred ask curiously again not yet but we trying to figure out what is inside the file as we are yet to see any useful information the leader of the team said and Freds eyes darken, Hayden and Fred wait anxiously staring at the computer screens as the team were working on it, Anny also look intensely to the screenThough Fred and Hayden did not seems to understand what is on the screen Anny understands it well, she wish she could just join the team to help them, it will have been more easier to know what is inside the file, even though the file has been cracked,
Hayden open the door and see Fred proposing to Anny, he is really stunned, hearing the sound of the door opening Anny and Fred look towards the door, when Fred sees that it is Hayden he face Anny again Hadiza, marry me Hayden see that Fred is really serious, he quickly run towards them with fear brother Hayden call Fred and Fred look to him Hayden, you are here Fred said as if he just know that Hayden is around, he is slightly angry because Hayden interprets him but he did not show it, when Anny sees Hayden she is a little relieved that her savior has arrived but as soon as Fred talk to Hayden he face Anny again Hadiza, give answer to my proposal, if you dont, I will not stand up Fred said looking determined because he could see that Anny did not want to accept his proposal brother, isnt your proposal too sudden Hayden did not know what to do because Fred looks so determined so he wants to distract him from further proposing to Anny why is it sudden? Fred look to Hayden with surpris
"What! Anny exclaimed loudly and push Freds hand away, her eyes become extra large, Annys brain seems to be shut down, Fred look at Anny with disappointment in his eyes, Anny could not believe what Fred said, she is in disbelief Hadiza dont you say you will not leave me, why dont you want to get married to me? Fred ask Anny sadly, after he calm down from his nightmare and Anny told him that she will not leave him, he calm down then an idea comes to his mind, if he did not want Hadiza to leave him he will have to marry her quickly, that is why he ask Anny to let them get married Hadiza, am Fred your boyfriend, I love you so much Fred move closer to Anny because Anny already move away from him, he wants to make her understand that he truly loves her and they can marry lets get married Fred said again, Anny draw back as Fred move towards her it seems that he is not okay Anny thought and get scared with how Fred is behaving Hadiza, please marry me Fred said again looking at Annys
That night Anny feel a little sad, she did not look so cheerful as before, first Dr. Hart told her that she might be Freds death and now Hadizas parent came arent I putting myself in too much risk by pretending to be Hadiza? Anny ask herself as she lay down on her bed ruminating about that day I feel really guilty she said but it is not really my fault she told herself trying to console herself but she still feel that pretending to be Hadiza is not the right thing to do, she sigh and try to close her eyes but she could not sleep that night she is just turning and tossing on the bedFred notice that Anny seems not to be feeling so good, though Fred is happy that Anny did not follow the Myers, but he feel that Hadiza misses her parent, is just that she could not remember them yet, if she decided to change her mind and wants to stay with her parents Fred feels that he will have no choice but to let go of Hadiza, Fred thinks that since Hadiza did not remember anything
Fred and Hayden immediately calm down, Fred sigh and smile secretly hearing Anny saying she will stay with him, Fred thought that since Hayden said Hadiza only remember his name she must want to stay with him because of that and since they have been together for the last three weeks she must have learn to relay on him and trust him so she chose to stay with him, it is the first time Fred is happy that Hadiza is suffering from memory loss because if not for her memory loss Fred knows the Myers will have take her away but he did not know she is Anny and not Hadiza, Hayden on the other hand knew that Anny will never choose the Myers but when Anny was staring at the Myers pitifully just now Hayden panic in his heart slightly thinking that Anny might say something else but now that Anny said she choose Fred Hayden become relaxThe Myers sigh hearing Anny choosing Fred, Mrs. Myer look disappointed, she thought her daughter will choose them but she did not that Anny is not their daug