"You two have a way with words you know," the driver says with a grim smile."Thanks, Mama says I got it from Papa," Ash replies proudly.Though I'm not certain that was much of a compliment from the driver in the first place."Haiz, this is gonna cost me a lot. Let's go,"Onwards we go, as he changes his direction and we continue tailing after Miss Linda. I'm worried that he's going to tell me later but by the time we're done, Mama and Papa are gonna be so proud of us, it'll be worth it.Nodding in agreement with myself I keep my eyes on the road, observing as we drive farther away from civilization.I'm a bit bothered by where we're heading as the houses seem to be smaller, and looking less extravagant as well.I glance at my watch, it seems we've been driving for at least forty minutes, my goodness, just where are we going?Just as I begin to wonder about this and that, I spot the driver watching me from the front mirror.He clicks his tongue and begins complaining."You do have a
Dexter's POV"Sir!"My office door is thrown wide open as my secretary runs in, holding his phone, ignoring the fact that I'm in an important meeting.I stare at him wondering what it could be that would have him so perplexed.The man I know to be a man of order barged into a meeting, panting heavily, surely this isn't a small matter."You need to take a look at this," he says.I signal at him and he hurries over to my side at the table, I can still hear his heavy breath while he makes his way toward me, it seems things are serious."What is this?" I ask in a low voice as soon as I get my eyes on the screen, "Why would I care about her?""Just a minute Alpha," he urges me.Sighing, I take the phone into my hand and connect to my air pod and that's when I start hearing things.At once I stared at him, completely unsure if I was seeing a ghost, but then I realized this wasn't a dream but reality."Gentlemen, I'm afraid we'll have to continue this meeting another day," I tell them, hurry
"I can't reach them,""So can't I," I tell Vida.Right after our call, Vida arrived before me within ten minutes, this is a place that would take at least thirty minutes to arrive at.I can't help but wonder at what speed she was driving but that wasn't important at the moment. The most important thing right now was how to get the kids, which isn't going so well."It'll be best if we go there ourselves, I already have the location and everything, we can go there ourselves and check for the kids," I tell her.Vida is everything but calm, she's tossing and turning, looking left and right, her breathing is fast and so is her heartbeat."Please Vida, you have to stay calm," I begged her.Before I know it, my collar is being tightly pulled with Vida shaking me violently."Calm, how can you say that to me right now, those two are the only thing that's keeping me alive, and you want me to stay calm," she yells.I don't know what to do or say to her, I'm just as upset as she is."We'll find t
Full speed ahead we drive, desperate to arrive at Linda's place before anything funny happens and all through the drive Vida holds my hands, her palm, sweaty, and continuously slipping away from mine.At long last, after a while, we arrived at the place we were told about.But… the car is nowhere to be found. I thought he'd be around here somewhere.My anxiety begins to get the best of me as I panic."D… Dexter…," Vida stutters."It's alright, everything is going to be fine, we'll find the boys," I tell her.She nods as we proceed to Linda's house.Upon our arrival, we knocked but there was no answer, we rang the doorbell but there was still no response.Enraged, I decided to take matters into my own hands. My only solution was breaking in, but… the door wasn't locked in the first place.I'm disturbed and yet curious as I take Vida's hand leading her inside but the moment we take a step in, Vida breaks free."Where is she?" Vida yells as she jumps straight into Linda's house without h
"That woman!" Vida yells, slamming the car door aggressively.Knowing better than to disturb her during her outburst I do myself a favour and follow her back inside the car.But what now?I'm stuck with absolutely no idea of what to do next, our main priority at the moment is how we can find the kids.I halt the ride barely a couple for seconds on the road and Vida turns to look at me, her eyes screaming with questions, the most important would be why I stopped the ride.For that I could give her no response but there was something urgent I had to say."Where are we going?" I asked after much deliberation and a very difficult conclusion.Her brows knit, and suddenly she raises one eyebrow in question as she nudges her head."Excuse me! What do you mean by that, you're the one with the senses, you know where the kids are," she says.I can't refute her words as they hold a lot of truth in them.I gulped hard, and now my head, "how am I supposed to tell her this…" I groan.It's only a ma
"Ash? Neo?" Vida screams, her eyes widening.She stands before the cargo, completely horrified in shock.That man really mean it when he said this was a cooling room, but… to think he would keep my kids in a cooling room, that alone is enough to fill me with great contempt. no one but two children alone in a cargo.Was Linda intending to drop the cargo into the sea.Just thinking of it fills me with hate."How dare that woman, how could she do such a cruel thing," I mumble to myself.Tears begins to stream from her eyes, each step she takes inside feels weaker than the other."My children…" she cries.Seeing how dispirited she is, I head inside first.There they are, sitted besides each other, cold, asleep and pale looking.I carry both of them into my arms, their weak bodies already feeling as light as a feather.Suddenly I feel a light movement on my shoulder.I look to my left shoulder and find Neo slightly awake."Papa… did we do well?" He whispers with his remaining strength, his
Right after the crazy situation, I had Linda arrested and that b*st*rd was caught while trying to leave this country by jumping from one border to another.Tch! How foolish he was to think he could beat me. I'm glad that's all in the past now but…"Dexter… can you hear me?"She asks, turning back to stare at me, her eyes beaming with expectations as she waits for my response.Right after Vida was able to find the kids, two things happened.The first is that her spirit is back and perhaps double what it used to be.The second–"I can hear you loud and clear, you did perfectly well, even much better than I did when I tried my first mind link," I told her.Although I'm not certain why, I can't help but be happy about this."Cool, now we can all say whatever we want to say to each other without saying it out loud," Ash yells cheerfully.With roaring laughter, the place echoes loudly, filled with the once grim life.Finally, our engagement was just an hour away.For our engagement, I had s
What is this?My smile vanishes as I stare at an unbelievable text.Nothing, save the time and address is in the text message, with a small note to me saying, "Dear Vida, if you would like to know the truth about how your parents died, then do endeavor to show up at the appointed time and place."I'm taken back in shock as I try to make sense of this.My parents?Didn't they die in a car accident? Could there be something more to it?As much as I am baffled by this, I take into consideration that this could be a trap, but who will want to trap me?Who would know about my parents wanting to use this to lure me?Linda is already behind bars and so is Erik, and I don't think I have that many enemies."Ha! This is a really difficult situation," I murmur to myself, covering my face as I brace myself."I'll just have to let Dexter know that I'm going out for security reasons."With my mind made up, I grab my purse, make my payment, and dash out of the spa without waiting for my session to e