HER BODY started to calm down, yet her heart ached so much.Dried were the tears she had shed moments ago. Her breathing went back to normal, and the cold that made her tremble finally left every bit of her skin. Sitting on the couch, her gaze was focused on the glass on the table. But her mind was somewhere else.That explained everything…The reason why Marsha felt that there was something different about her father when she saw him at the park; was the same reason why Michelle felt that something was off when she saw him in person in front of the company building.That explained why despite knowing the name of the woman he was with at the moment, Ethan never bothered to seek his way to escape, and why he never tried to go home even once after the plane accident.Everything was planned without their knowledge. While everyone, including their family, thought he was already dead, somebody out there was brainwashing her husband, confining him, and telling fake stories to keep him in th
“ANSWER ME!”Taking a deep breath, Jasper raised both of his hands to indicate that he wouldn’t fight. He slowly spun around, and stared at Ellaine. The look in her eyes was filled with hate and suspicion. There was a hint of fear too, which trigged the woman to keep pointing the gun on him.“Where have you been?” Ellaine asked one more time through her gritted teeth. “It’s past midnight.”“Don’t I have the liberty to go to a bar and have fun?” Jasper asked in low voice but filled with sarcasm.Ellaine clenched her jaw tightly. She sniffed many times, even came closer to him, and sighed a relief when she realized that he was telling the truth. His smell reeks of alcohol, as part of the plan, so that Ellaine would not be suspicious of his sudden disappearance at midnight.“You should have drunk alcohol here,” Ellaine said.“I need some sex too,” Jasper retorted. “There’s only one woman here, who’s apparently not available to have sex with.”Ellaine put down the gun and pushed him on th
ETHAN did not know what to feel at the time. He was sitting on the edge of his bed, waiting, contemplating. For him, it felt as if the time was ticking away. Bullet sweats had formed on his forehead as his chest was completely engulfed by all his emotions.He could not even process it all. It was all too much for his mind to take. A lot of questions whirled through his mind and made him even more stressed. The fact that he could not remember even a single memory from his past was another thing. Ethan thought it would have been easier if he could at least recall some fragments of it, but no. There weren't any. He was in total oblivion—dark oblivion.That was the reason why Ellaine used it as an opportunity to brain washed him. Jasper told him everything about that woman, who apparently needed a mental help because of her love obsession disorder. The man even told him that she almost harmed his real daughter, his real wife, which he still could not remember. At some point, he felt annoy
MARSHA CRIED the moment Michelle went out of the house with Andrew. The little girl was carried by Megan, who only gave Michelle a worried look.She looked back at her daughter, kissed her on the forehead while caressing her cheeks. Marsha was worried, and she was completely aware of that. However, no one in the house would make her sit back and wait. She wanted to make sure that Ellaine Suarez would be arrested. She wanted to see it for herself..."Mommy, please don’t go..." Marsha begged.Smiling, she cupped her little girl’s face. "Don’t worry. Mommy will be back. You shouldn’t cry. Your Daddy will be here anytime soon, and Mommy needs you to welcome him with open arms. Can you do it, sweetheart?"Marsha pursed her lips, but her chin still quivered. "But I want to welcome him with you, Mommy!""I will come back once Uncle Andrew and I are done with our mission," Michelle tried to explain to her. "I have to make sure that the bad people will be arrested so we can have a happy life."
TIME slipped away like a thin wind blowing her hair. After driving for hours, they arrived at the abandoned building where the arrest operation would be held. The police arrived before them, and were only hiding at the back of the building, waiting for Ellaine to arrive at the scene.Andrew parked the car in a discreet space near the building where Ellaine would not see them. Michelle could not utter a single word at the moment. Her entire body was tensing up, nervous that the operation would not work out; worse, it became a failure. As far as she recalled, Ellaine was so smart. She outsmarted even the Swiss police back in Switzerland, and even the U.S. police, faking her death just to escape the lifetime imprisonment. Michelle knew that the woman could do some stunt like that all over again, and she wasn’t sure if she could still handle another nerve-racking situation caused by that woman.Her phone chimed, which ripped her out of her thoughts. With shaking hands, she took her phone
"YOUR wife didn’t reply," Jasper informed him as they drove the long road going to the house, which the man referred to as his home. "They are probably busy dealing with Ellaine now."Ethan sighed nervously in his seat, leaning against the backrest of the front seat, and let himself be immersed in his thoughts. Needless to say, he felt a sense of fear creeping over his skin. He didn’t know where to start at that point of his life. All he knew was that he was like a dog, completely lost and confused."You’re quiet.""I don’t need to speak," he said."Are you nervous?" Jasper asked. Ethan had no idea why the man sounded like he was teasing him. "Come on, you’re going to see your family. I mean not literally see them but you will be reunited with them.""The family that I don’t even remember, yeah...""With proper medication and follow ups from the doctor, I could tell that your memories will come back.""What if it won’t happen?" Ethan tilted his head and clicked his tongue. "The fact t
AT New York City Police Department,Her gaze was hard as she watched Ellaine being interrogated by the police. The handcuffs on her wrist that was keeping her from attacking the men around her brought a satisfaction to Michelle. However, she still wanted to hear something very important from the woman.She wanted to know who the person she was working for was. If that man had the power to make a plane crashed so easily then it was possible that her husband’s life was still in danger. The thought that they would face another trouble by the next coming days made her heart panic a bit, so she wanted that person to be arrested before he made any attempt to harm her family.“Ms. Suarez, you have to tell us who help you all this time.” The chief officer of the police looked at the woman warily.Ellaine laughed like a lunatic, giving all the police around her a deadly glare. Michelle narrowed her eyes as she looked at the woman while standing from the corner and with crossed arms against her
SHE lost count on how many times she cried every midnight, missing the man that was supposed to be right next to her and keeping her warm. Her heart longed for him so hard and deeply that she already forgot the world. The pain that consumed her almost led her to a fatal disaster, but despite everything that happened... despite all the words she heard from the people around her and how they accepted that he was dead, she did not lose hope.Michelle held onto the hope that one day Ethan would come back to her; that one day she would overcome the darkest part of her life and her family would be complete all over again. She hoped by then all the hurt and pain would go away...Her eyes fixated on the man she longed for all these restless months that passed. Using her hands, she covered her mouth in disbelief. Her tears streamed down her cheeks like Rapid River and her heart pounded so wildly inside her chest to the extent that she felt her rib cage ache.She felt like it was a dream, and i