เข้าสู่ระบบ“ You don't carry arms into a place like that,” I told Vicky over the phone. “ This is not something I can involve the military in.”“ I understand your point, but she might not be with them. Going in there is like getting entangled with the devil for no good reason. Wait, let us confirm that they have her. For all I know, your girl might be finding her way home now.”I paused for awhile, but the next time I spoke, my tone dropped like ice in my own ears. “ Sister…time is what she may not have.”I got off the phone and turned to Melissa. “ Just before you try to convince me to stay back, bear it in mind it could have been any of you.” I said to her, and the rest of the team gathered in my office. “ She's my wife. If making a deal with the devil is what it's going to take, I will dine with him.”Seconds after I left the building, I felt my pocket for my phone. Empty I reversed, and lumbered inside. Melissa met me downstairs, wearing the widest smile I have ever seen on her.“ She di
Maya came up with an idea. Catch a rabbit and put the jacket on it.And that I did. After long hours, bruised elbow, sprained ankle and a broken nose. I have seen worse.“ I guess that is it. We just have to run in opposite direction of the rabbit.”I nodded in agreement, hoping that the rabbit doesn't come running after us. “ Now that I think of it, you can't be menstruating when you're pregnant. You deceived me.” She complained, wearing a rueful look.“ I'm grateful you didn't realize that back there. Deceiving you was vital towards a convincing act.” I explained, dragging my sprained ankle across the forest floor, while trying to fix my nose. Climbers barricaded most ways, like eternal sentries guarding secret treasures. I broke out a strong stick from a fallen bough, breath about my arm size, making a way deep into the forest, while Maya followed closely behind. “ How did they pull up your grandfather's voice and how are you sure we are not running from the good guys?”I halted
Words, carefully chosen, and one of them was "home". Right outside the door, he could hear me, but nothing stung inside. I felt plain and empty. Lighter, with nothing bearing down on my chest like a sack of grain." Sister Nicki," Maya called again. This time, like she could not recognize me. I turned my attention at her with a slank stare. She looked muted by the intensity of my gaze. " Go home and pack. I'm taking you with me." I spoke casually, straightening up to leave."I don't want to go with you." She protested, firm on the decision with an unyielding gaze. It came with a hum in my ears, striking past archives to open a closed chapter of our memories. I don't trust her enough to leave her with Aaron in the house. Not in the current state. " This is not up for a debate,” I insisted, about two feet away from the door. “ I said so as your guardian. Let's go..."" If this is how you intend to leave the Devinsky family. I do no concur. You both are hurting. Do you not see that wha
It felt tasteless on my tongue when I said it the first time. His eyes shifted, flickering like a faulty bulb. The way his eyes narrowed, lips pressed tight, reinforced my decision. This is not something I would want to hear. “ No. Keep it to yourself.” I said, and took up the spoon. The broth reached my tongue with a sting. “ Urhh! This has vinegar.”“ I did mention that it is bitter.” He droned, with his gaze fixed on me. I felt like coughing it out, but that would bring him closer…he might say something. Something that would eventually break what is left of me. So, I took it. Slowly at first. When I couldn't bear the intensity of his gaze, I downed the whole broth, face contorted from the bitter sting. “ Thank you,” I whispered, dropping the plate. “ Do excuse me. I would like to get some fresh air in Mr. Li's garden.”I got up to leave and seconds later, his hands were firmly wrapped around my waist.“ I'm sorry, Nicki—”“ No, Aaron. I don't want to hear it. Please –”“ Out of m
I received the report with mixed feelings. Everything blurs for a moment. The words echoing in my ears were “ critical condition.”Of all news to come by on a day like this, it had to be this. I shut my ears against the echo of my own voice reading the test results. But it keeps coming…amplifying…getting tense. “ So, even destiny can't watch me keep it.” I chuckled dryly, voice devoid of mirth. “ It can be treated. You will be on medication. You both will make it.”“ Will make it?” I snapped at him. “ Are you interested in watching us make it? Weren't you up for it to leave? You know for months, I thrived in the dream that you really wanted a baby and just when—”“ Could you stop with all of these insinuations and assumptions? When have I not wanted a child? When?”“ I came in here, after the butler told me you have been waiting. I see you, crestfallen with a hollowed out voice. Of course the first thing that came to my mind is that our baby is gone. How could you assume that I didn'
I kept thinking of Melissa on the drive home. The birthmark. Her Vicky- like persistence. The kind that pushes you into areas you have sworn never to wander. But she died. My little sister died. Years when I woke up in the middle of the night, with her name on my lips returned like a flood, engulfing my mind. I steer away from the road and parked the car. “ How did you survive, Melissa?” “ Or, shall I ask, who faked your death?”It was clearing up in my eyes. Something was definitely wrong. I lowered my head on the steering wheel, brooding over the last eighteen years. Her birthday was the same day I met Nicki for the first time. I remembered her. I always do. And everytime, I always give out something dear to me to satisfy the longing of sending gifts to her on her birthday.The second time Nicki and I met, I had nothing close to give besides the Rolex. Thinking about the lose that has haunted me for my whole life, I drive straight home, and met the butler outside, like he has







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