Rey’s guess was correct. During the trip to the inn, his cell phone rang non-stop, vibrating his thighs.Sitting next to him, Mia occasionally glanced at him with a face that showed she knew who was calling at the moment. And before they arrived at their destination, Rey took out his cellphone and gave it a quick glance before silent the call.It was quiet in the car again, so Rey turned on the radio to fill the silence.Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Mia’s tense shoulders relaxing even more than before. Apparently, the woman agreed with Rey’s decision to not pick up calls from Jaxon.Seeing her marriage at a very young age, Rey didn’t want to get the same thing. And getting married may not be on his list until he’s old.Rey’s car turned to the side of the road, and that’s when Mia spoke, after a long silence.“Did you talk to him when you were... outside?”Her smooth voice was barely audible due to the music from the radio.Rey turned the volume down before he turned to t
Meanwhile, Jaxon, who was in a room in the Red Cage building, looked restless. Since last night, he couldn’t sleep, and several times he tried to call Rey and Mia in turn, but there was no answer. The call was rejected.“Just watch. I’ll make him pay for all of this,” Jaxon growled as he texted furiously at his target, Rey Fredrick.Feeling irritated because his cellphone had fallen on his face several times, Jaxon, still enveloped in anger, unconsciously threw the object hard against the wall until he heard a crashing sound.Taking a deep breath, he got up from the bed. But of course, with great difficulty, because one hand was still bandaged, he shouted angrily that his deep voice with a frustrated tone could be heard downstairs.“Don’t you want to see how he’s doing?” asked Gavin, whose eyes kept glancing at the second floor.Nicko and Gideon focused on their phones and just shrugged their shoulders.“If you want to live, you better not go near there,” replied Nicko, who seemed bus
A take away bag was present in front of Mia’s face, who was pensive. She was a little surprised when she saw that it was Rey who was standing in front of her.‘How can I get in here?’ Mia thought as she looked at the closed bedroom door, even though she didn’t hear the door open or close or the man’s footsteps. And, as Mia recalls, the entrance to the room had been locked, with only Mia having the key at the time.Seeing the woman’s gaze as if putting a puzzle together in her head, Rey gave a faint smile.“I know how to open a locked door. Because that’s my specialty,” he answered, which instantly made Mia blink her eyes. She didn’t think that such a thing would become a specialty. Or is she the only one who doesn’t understand how their world works?“Don’t look at me like that,” Rey said as she put the shopping bag on the bed, Mia was sitting on. “I’ve never used my abilities for anything useless.”Immediately, the woman lowered her gaze because it turned out that Rey could read her e
“Eat it,” said Rey, while thrusting the food in front of Mia, which the woman again didn’t touch.She chose to stay in her room since she woke up in the morning. So Rey had to be patient and wake her up so they could sit together at a restaurant table not far from there.Mia seems reluctant to touch the food on the plate, and somehow the woman has played with the food several times by stirring it with a spoon and fork.In the end, Rey just let it go because Mia’s mood seemed to worsen.And when he turned his head towards the window, Rey’s body tensed up instantly because he saw a very familiar figure at the end of the parking lot.“Huh,” Rey muttered as he rolled his eyes and waved his hand faintly in the air, signaling the figure to leave immediately. Not long after, Rey’s gaze grew sharper when he found the figure chose to stay where it was.That is leaning against the body of a car in a parking lot. The rest of the Red Cage seemed to restrain the figure from going further.“You stu
Gideon parked the van he was driving in front of a mansion surrounded by gates. He looked around for someone to open the gate in front of him. However, after a long wait, there is no sign of their welcoming arrival.“Are you certain the homeowner will accept us?” Gideon eventually questioned.All the men looked out the window at the same time, and as Gideon had predicted, the homeowner had purposefully ignored their presence.“I just called him, and he didn’t answer,” Danny said, drawing a sharp glare from five pairs of eyes.“How come you didn’t tell me sooner?” Nicko inquired, followed by another irritated growl.Danny shrugged, his face innocent.“We can try it again,” he said to the men around him, who grunted.“Okay, just once more. If he doesn’t answer the phone, you should forget about him. We can think of a new strategy after we get to the house,” Nicko explained, receiving approval from the four heads.Danny stared blankly at his friends before calling the homeowner again.Th
Sean Reviano looked at the group of men who had just gotten out of the car in front of him in the same way he looked at insects in the back garden; it was very irritating.“I thought you came alone,” Sean Reviano said, his hands in his trouser pockets, his gaze sweeping over all the new faces in his memory box.Danny simply stretched his arms in the air as if to say, ‘You look at them. I have no choice.’ Sean snorted and opened the mansion door wider.“Come in,” he said coldly, eliciting the same expression from five pairs of eyes.Sean calmly took his visitors into a big meeting room. He didn’t have to respond to who the intruders were because both of his parents were outside.“What exactly do you expect from me?” Sean asked, closing the door behind him and allowing the six men to sit on a sofa in the center of the room.Jaxon fixed his gaze on the man in front of him as if judging Sean Reviano from head to toe. Sean followed suit.Meanwhile, Danny, seeing that the table in front of
“Do you want me to wait for you?” Rey inquired as he drove Mia to the Deli.The woman shook her head, indicating that she didn’t see the point.“Go, I know you have a lot of work,” she said, looking at the restaurant entrance where she used to work. “And if that’s what you’re worried about, plenty of people there will look after me.”Rey simply stared at her instead of leaving, as Mia had requested, creating an awkward atmosphere that forced the woman to clear her throat while lowering her head.“For many years, I’ve known this city and its people. So you have nothing to be concerned about. “Mia raised her head after saying that, but Rey remained expressionless.Knowing she couldn’t easily escape the man in front of her, the woman sighed and said, “Okay, you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t disrupt my friends’ time there.”The man smiled after saying these words, making Mia curse herself for thinking Rey was only looking for sympathy so he wouldn’t be kicked out.‘You ob
“Try again?” Mia’s former Deli coworker, Dorothy, suggestedMia was nervous because of her friend’s reaction after she said something personal, so she widened her eyes as if her eyeballs were about to roll out of the socket.“Which one?” Mia inquired a little hesitantly.Seeing the woman in front of her who pretended not to know, Dorothy slammed into the table so hard that their drinking glasses flew into the air, unexpectedly surprising Anne, a new employee at Deli, and Ruella, one of the restaurant’s loyal customers.Because the Deli is currently understaffed, the restaurant only operates for half a day.This is due to Matt’s desire to travel out of town for business while one employee is on leave, another is hospitalized with severe flu, and another is absent. Only Anne and one other employee remained. As a result, the man decided to close the Deli early after lunch.As a result, the four women were free to use the space as they pleased. And here they were, exchanging news after a