Jason walked towards Julia and stood next to her. He pulled her into his arms, and she collapsed on his chest, breaking down in tears. Jason rubbed her back gently trying to calm her down, first before asking her what the problem was. Jason led Julia to the sofa. They both sat down, and he made her rest on him. After a while, Julia was calm and was resting her head on Jason's lap as he ran his fingers gently through her thick wavy hair. Jason may be cold inside out and has grown to be worse with the recent incident of being rejected by the people he once believed were his family, but he does care about her. "Do you want to talk about it?" Jason asked, still running his fingers through Julia's hair gently. "I miss my mum," Julia replied and covered her face with her hands sobbing. Jason rubbed her shoulders to calm her down. Pulling her up, he carried her in his arms and walked towards the bed. He laid her on the bed gently where she would be more comfortable and climbed into bed
Julia was thinking about her mother while Jason was thinking of what to do with the information he had while waiting for the report on his second investigation request. The night to Sunday morning felt like forever for both of them as they pretended to be sleeping. Julia's alarm went off, and she quickly put it off, not wanting to disturb Jason, whom she assumed to be sleeping. She dragged her out of bed and took her shower before going out of the bedroom to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. She felt a little dizzy while making breakfast, but that went away as quickly as it came. After setting the table, she decided to visit a nearby church to pray since it was a Sunday. Sometime back she had prayed to God for something and she got it. They need God in this messy situation of a perfect pretense that everything is going well. "Please tell Jason I will be back shortly," Julia said to Peter, who had just entered the dining area from his room. "Won't you have breakfast first?" inqu
Julia's eyes were going around the room, trying to understand where she was and why. She pushed herself to sit up on the bed. Her eyes quickly moved towards the direction of the door when she heard a door creaking sound, and it was followed by the door opening slowly. She kept her gaze on the door, wondering who was going to enter. The door flew open, and a familiar figure entered the room, closing the door and standing in front of it. Julia gasped in shock and pushed herself backwards on the bed. She fell to the floor as she failed to notice the full length of the bed. "Hello Julia, I told you I would find you and I did," came James's voice. "I am a man of my word," he added. "Please let me go," Julia begged, recalling what James had done to her the times he had found her alone. "Awww, why do you want to leave so soon? I just got here," teased James. "Hey, don't you want to experience another superhero scene?" he teased and walked towards her. Still, on the floor, Julia pushed
James was sitting on the floor with a gun in hand, pointing at Jason. Jason stopped in his truck and raised his hand in surrender. James, still pointing the gun at Jason, stood to his feet cleaning the blood coming from his broken nose with the back of his free hand. "Now, you will do exactly as I say, else you will die here, and your body will be found tomorrow with a bullet between your eyes," James warned, and Jason only stared at him coldly. "You are going to untie Julia from the bed and tie her hands behind her back. Put that jacket hanging there over her and push her to me," he instructed. Jason stood there still with his hands in the air with no attempt to do as James said. "Did you hear me? Move now," James yelled, and Jason turned towards the bed Julia was lying on like he was about to go carry James's orders but, in his turn, he quickly delivered a kick to James's hand with his back facing James and spun around to take a stand facing James. The gun flew into the sky
Jason ended the call and turned to look at Julia, who had finally managed to fall asleep. He sat on the sofa watching her. Back in Mr Dickson's apartment, he was returning to the living room after getting himself a glass of wine when his phone rang. He quickly answered the call. "Yes," he said. "Sir, I couldn't get to Ms Harrison, but she is safe now," reported the man. "Who saved her?" Mr Dickson asked. "She lives with some two gentlemen, they came to her rescue," the man reported. "Okay, go back to our initial plan," Mr Dickson said and ended the call, assuming the rescuers included her husband and probably her husband's relative. He sat down on the sofa and continued to watch his favourite game on TV knowing Julia was safe now. Back in Jason's apartment, Jason draw the curtains as it was already late. They had only returned home with her a few minutes ago after rescuing her from James. If not for the tracking device Jason had put on her diamond earring, they wouldn't hav
"Do it now," Jason commanded and Mr Dickson grabbed his phone and dialled the number of the guy he asked to spy on Julia. "Put it on loudspeaker," Jason commanded coldly. Mr Dickson, quickly obliged, putting the call on speaker. "Hello sir," came the voice of the spy. "Have you found Ms Harrison?" Mr Dickson asked trying to sound normal. "Kind of," the spy replied. "My contact tells me the car with the specifications I gave you was seen around the airport," he added. Jason left the office immediately without a word. Mr Dickson was more relaxed when Jason left his office "Follow them," Mr Dickson said, ended the call and stood there wondering if he should still keep Jason as his deputy as he tried to recover from Jason's dangerous move on him just now. He thought about all the achievements the company had made since Jason joined and wondered if it would be a good idea to terminate him because of what just happened. Thinking about it, he knew he would have reacted in the same
"Now get out, I need to rest," Mrs Haward said and Mirenda left her room but instead of going into her room, she went out of the apartment. "Ma'am, are you going somewhere?" asked one of the guards who met Mirenda at the entrance. "Yes, but I don't need your help," Mirenda replied angrily and walked past him heading for the gate leaving the guard astonished. Mrs Haward looks down on people below her level, and James cares about no one but himself, so Mirenda is the only one who is nice to people. Jason does not look down on anyone but he doesn't like women around him but he has a good heart. The guard was surprised by Mirenda's reaction as it didn't seem like her. He walked back into the house dismissing what just happened as her having a bad day. "Since Jason left it looks like this family is falling apart gradually," the guard thought as he used the stairs to the guards' apartment. At the gate, the security man saw Mirenda and realised she didn't look okay. "Ms Haward, pleas
At 6 pm, Jason's plane landed in Florida, meanwhile, Julia was lying on the bed, eyes wide open and wondering why Jason did that to her. Jason, after going through the checkpoints, hailed a cab to what used to be his apartment. It was 8.30 p.m. when he arrived. Nothing had changed about the apartment. "Sir, you are welcome," said the security man with a smile. "Thanks," Jason said and headed for the apartment entrance door. He used the elevator to the 7th floor first. He still had the spare key to that apartment on that floor. He unlocked the door and entered. He went straight to his room and unlocking the drawer he opened the safe inside and took an envelope out. He left the bedroom and exited the floor locking it. He used the staircase to the 6th floor and entered the living room. "You are finally back and your emotional bag of a sister is out. I thought I was going to stay in this apartment alone tonight?" Mrs Haward said without turning to see who had entered. "Good evening