“Something wrong?” Lucas asked when he saw Diana frown as she read the message.
“It’s Heather. She’s asking if it’s still okay to take mom’s offer for her to move in..” Diana said.
“And?” He wondered why this thing would cause her to frown. To his recollection, she’s been trying to convince Heather to agree.
“I told her yes, of course. But I also asked what made her finally agree….She mentioned that the neighbors would keep getting disturbed if she’ll still keep the unit.”
“”Why is that? I remember your old neighbors were actually nice.”
“She’s not saying.. Can we go meet up with her?”
“Sure.” Lucas nodded.
Diana then called her mom, Rosemary.
“Mom.. Heather just agreed to moving, just now.. When can she move in?”
“Oh! That’s great! She can move even today.. I’ll send a maid as w
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“I heard you and that guy talk through the door. He didn’t believe you when you said Diana already moved away. Hmm.. Yeah.. He sounded like a stalker. You’re safer by leaving too.. Who knows what that guy will do just to check if you’re telling the truth or not..” Mrs. Han said. Although she tends to gossip, having been neighbors with Heather and Diana, she could never find fault in them. Both young women were really good neighbors all these years. They were not the type to host parties in the middle of the night with loud music. Heather nodded. “Yeah.. I guessed that would eventually happen.” She decided to leave not for her safety, after all she can take on Henry by herself. But she didn’t want to trouble their old neighbors. Some of them are already too old to be put through such disturbances. Kyle and Emmett lifted up the last boxes. Now the whole apartment looked empty except for what’s already provided by the
Recently, Diana has been dividing her time to accommodate multiple tasks. During weekdays, she reports for work at Forrest Research Institute. On Weekends, she heads out to work on the project headed by Mr. Aiden Chen, a middle-aged man who works with creating vaccines. Her task is to test the subjects prior to vaccination and after. This will also give her the opportunity to observe the process. If not for Diana already working at the lab, Lucas would barely see her. The same goes for her family. Fortunately, she lives in the same residence. “She’s been busy lately. She does take a rest, right?” Rosemary worriedly asked Philip. During night time, she could see that her lights were still on and even the maids would receive a scare in the middle of the night when Diana would head to the kitchen to grab something to munch on. During night time, she reads books in advance in preparation for the
On the 2nd floor of the Business and Management Building, two young men were viewing the campus from the floor’s balcony. Every now and then they would take pictures of people they find interesting. Especially taking the chance to record videos of embarrassing moments of the students. One of the two whistled. “Check that out..” He tilted his head, signaling the other to look. “Hmm? Better be a beauty or I’ll kick your butt for disturbing my game..” “Hahaha.. If you don’t look now then you’ll regret it..” He teased. The other rolled his eyes and finally looked. His eyes went wide as his lips slowly pulled into a grin. After a long while, Olly Brown still didn’t hear a sound from Jayden Lewis. The latter however was still in a state of shock. He couldn’t believe he would see such beauty on the campus.
After Erin Cook left for the Nursing Arts Building, a group of four young women entered the classroom and stopped at the very front. The students who were already seated there looked up at the intimidating people. Without words, they jumped up and scurried away. The five, led by Halynn Ashton, sat down on the vacated chairs like sitting on thrones. For the students, this was not the first they’ve witnessed such behavior. They are after all graduate students. 4 years prior to this day, they were also around people like those. The senior graduate student looked at the four in wonder. Those four young women looked like they are from wealthy families based on their outfits. Even as a man, he could recognize that their bags themselves were from an expensive brand. If these were only the usual unruly students, he could have used his seniority to reprimand their behavior. But since they looked like
If the four young women couldn’t recognize Diana’s surname, it was different for one young man who was now looking at Diana full of curiosity. He had a feeling that this beautiful woman is not an ordinary person. Just the fact that she is an alumna of the rank 1 University in all of Great Blackhampton, that in itself is incredible. Right after the introductions, they started to elect officers among themselves. Diana remained quiet, trying to be inconspicuous. A good thing that the other graduate students wanted their names to be known so they volunteer themselves to the positions. Halynn and the other three insisted on being in it as well. After that, Ben West handed out the pamphlets from the clubs and some Application forms. With that, they were dismissed. Picking up her bag, Diana stood up and headed out. Moments later, she felt like somebody was following her. She s
Walking around the store, the ladies were followed by four attendants. The man who came with them, sat on a couch, drinking tea. There were sweet treats on the table as well. “What about this one?” Rosemary has been asking for her daughter’s opinion since they started browsing through the gowns. She held a long off the shoulder red velvet gown. Diana liked it but was still looking for other ones, so she just took it from her mom and handed it to the attendant. “I’ll try it out later..” Rosemary nodded and showed her another gown. This time is a white A-line gown that has a long sleeve on one side only. The attendant held that one too. After a while, the two seemed to find something they like. The two exchanged glances. “Take that one too..” Rosemary told the attendant who immediately moved to get it. Meanwhile, the other attendant went to get shoes or sandals as
At the Moonlit Fork Club, five young women sat together on one of the tables, chatting, drinking, and dancing, sometimes with other men. One of them was looking depressed while the other was busy messaging her boyfriend on her phone. The other three kept accepting invitations from men to dance, earning free drinks from them. “He really doesn’t want to come?” Matilda asked Olly for nth time. Her boyfriend responded with a sad emoji. “Baby, I can’t do anything. He really doesn’t want to. He even called up our colleagues to talk about business. I’m stuck here too.” Matilda sent him a gif of a girl with a pouting face. “I miss youuuuu..Mwaaahh” She sent a voice message. “I miss you moooooore… Mwaah..Mwaahh” He replied with a voice message as well. Halynn heard this from the side. Swirling, her drink, she tried to appear nonchalant as she asked.
“Get in.” A cold voice spoke. She raised her head and saw that Jayden was already about to get in his car. Looking around her, she didn’t see her friends. “Olly is taking them home.” Startled, Halynn could only open the car’s door and get in, afraid to be left behind. Jayden didn’t say a word to her the whole time, making her feel anxious. ‘Will he ask his parents to cancel our engagement?’ She feared. Her fists clenched tight, she summoned her courage to bite the bullet. This is her last chance. “Umm.. Can you not take me home? I--I don’t want my parents to see me like this.” Halynn said softly, as if about to cry again. Jayden frowned. “Why did you do this in the first place?” Halynn was quiet. “I know I was wrong. I’m sorry to involve you.” He didn’t say
Lillian, Ernest and the rest arrived at the airport and were quickly assisted through the process. They were able to leave the airport and head to their residence easily. Adrian looked around and saw that everything seemed strange in his eyes. Nothing was familiar to him. It was when they were finally close to the mansion when he recognized the structure. He had dreamt of this place so many times. It had become hazy at some point. But now, he could see that this was more or less the place he lived in before he was taken. It had some new additions along with other changes such as the paint and the landscape design. But the overall structure was the same. As they entered the gates, he saw that there were a lot of people outside of the house. They were lined up even in this cold weather. Most of them seemed to be wearing uniforms under their black coats. The only ones who looked different than the others were the three couples and two young men. “Ah.. Everyone’s here.” Emma smiled
Adrian and Violet were apprehensive when they saw the big plane that they were going to ride on.Fortunately for them, they were flying through the private plane of the Lovell family, else, they would be even more embarrassed by the way they were acting.To their memory, this was their first time being on any plane.That simply was not true for Adrian, as the family had gone on vacations before that needed the plane. It’s just that this memory may have been forgotten by Adrian already.As for Violet, this was her first ever flight.They at least knew what a plane was.They were only anxious as to how they would feel once they’re already up in the air.Lillian and the rest tried to distract them from these thoughts.Hugh and Leroy offered them some wine and snacks.Emma and Priscilla showed them the movies they could watch on the screen in front of their seat.Lillian especially made sure they felt warm and comfortable, giving them blankets and pillows, showing them how to recline thei
“Yes, Dad. Alright–Mn..Goodnight.” Lucas said to Hugh on the phone.Hugh had called him to let him know that they would be heading back in the morning with Adrian and his friend, Violet.Hugh and Leroy’s secretaries have received updates regarding a background check on Violet’s family.They’ve decided to let Violet stay with the Lovell family as a guest.In the residence, there’s usually only the elders living with their staff. Usually, it would be busier during holidays and if there are any special occasions. In those times, everyone would gather in the residence and stay in their rooms reserved for them.Lillian and Ernest have held out hope that Adrian would return to them so they never thought of letting anybody else use it.Lillian would personally clean it and it was only in the later years that she let her staff help her.She wanted to preserve whatever remaining scent Adrian had left.There were times when she would burst out in tears, realizing that she could no longer recall
Soon, the driver, John Garcia, pulled up outside of the hotel where Lillian and the rest were staying.Adrian was no longer as anxious as he was half an hour ago, still he could still remember the bullets trying to penetrate through the car and the explosion after those goons’ cars had collided.Detective Jones glanced at him, noticing how pale Adrian was.Still, he commended him for not breaking down and not getting in their way.And also, because of him, they were able to rescue so many people who have been missing for years.Perhaps the Mayor might even think of rewarding Adrian because of his contribution.At the moment though, it was inappropriate to bring it up, given what the man had just experienced.So after escorting them to the hotel, Detective Jones left them, joining the other Officers with the rescued people.It was a field day for the reporters, gathering outside the police department.On the televisions of most households, they showed several people with their heads lo
As John Garcia was driving the car forward, everyone in the car held their breaths.They already knew that those people were Mortimer’s men. They could only play along for now, hoping for them to think that Adrian was in the other cars.But then–that possibility is very low.The black car they’re in was far from ordinary upon close inspection.And like clockwork, shots rang.Adrian ducked, covering his head with his arms.John Garcia gripped the steering wheel while Howard Dawson and Detective Jones cocked their guns.A voice of one of the policemen came on the comms. “Keep going. Follow the second group!”No matter what, they couldn’t let Adrian and the people who had just been rescued be in Mortimer’s hands again.John Garcia didn’t hesitate and quickly sped on.Mortimer’s men have picked the road where there’s only farm crops on each side, the road only leading one way.The city was still quite far so blending in or hiding in some alleyway would still be impossible.For now, they s
The drive was calm, with John Garcia, the driver not making any stops if he could help it.The car could drive even without gas as it can run on solar power.It could be recharged at a charging station, could store gas and could be powered through solar. This is all thanks to the upgrades done by the Lovell Technologies.With the drive being calm, Adrian fell to sleep.Even Detective Jones dozed off as well, his head hitting the window a couple of times.An hour into the drive, the car suddenly beeped in alarm.Adrian and Detective Jones groaned, having been woken up by the alarm.“What is it? What’s happening?” Detective Jones asked.“There seems to be an accident up ahead.” John Garcia answered, pointing at the GPS shown on the screen in front of him.“Is there another road we can take?” The bodyguard, Hoyt Cole asked.“This is the only road back to Westbury..” John Garcia answered.“Maybe the road is not totally blocked–” Detective Jones said.“Alright then–we’ll keep going..”“Sta
After canvassing the full layout of the building and accounting the number of people inside, Detective Jones and the other Officers made their strategic plan.An hour later, they made their move.Adrian was made to stay in the car while he viewed their perspective from the tablet device.He was given eyes for different cameras. Two more Officers were also monitoring it from their tablet devices.They compared every person found to the sketches from Adrian’s description of the people held captive. And also of the ones Adrian said were the people who ordered them around.Adrian watched as the trained Officers infiltrated the area covertly.CCTV cameras were hacked and made to play the same view over and over again.They knocked out the guards with tranquilizers, making sure they wouldn’t be waking up so soon.They were separated into groups. One made way to the sleeping quarters of the captives, another entered the main building, and another surrounded all possible exits.There were onl
Adrian held her hand, squeezing it.At that moment, Hugh returned to the room and was startled by the silence.“What happened?” He asked. His eyes wandered to Violet who now had her head lowered, her hand covering her eyes and her shoulders shaking.‘Is she crying?’ His brows furrowed.“Violet just remembered what happened that time when she was taken away.” Emma summarized it for him.He nodded. “By the way–I’ve just received information just now. Violet–it has something to do with you. If this is not a good time, I won’t say it.”She looked up, quickly wiping her tears with the cloth napkin.“No, please, I want to hear it.”Hugh nodded.“What is it, Hugh?” Emma asked.“It’s about her family.”They all glanced at Violet, gauging her reaction.“I remember–my mother died that time.” She said.Hugh nodded, confirming what she had remembered.Her heart fell. Deep inside, she was hoping that she was wrong. That she remembered it wrongly.Tears continued to fall down her cheeks. The napkin
Knock. Knock.“I’ll go get it..” Emma said.She opened the door and saw her younger brother, Adrian.“Ah.. Adrian.. What is it?”Adrian was startled.He stepped back to check if he knocked on the correct room or not.“You have something you need from Violet?” She smiled.His brows shot up. “Oh. Um–I was going to bring her to the dining room.”“Ah.. I see. Well, just in time. We’re done here as well.” Emma smiled. She turned her head and called over. “Come on you two..”“Okay!” Priscilla said. “Let’s go Violet..”Priscilla brought Violet over.Adrian was struck for a moment when he saw Violet.He had never seen her so dolled up.Her hair was beautiful and so is her overall look. Her face was even more beautiful than usual.Violet’s head hung as her cheeks blushed bright red.Adrian cleared his throat.“Let’s go..” Adrian tilted his head.“Mn.” Violet nodded.