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**King's POV Continued**"Son, calm down, even if anything happens to her, don't blame yourself for it. We have been told to prepare for the worst already, so just pull yourself together," Dad kept saying to me while holding my shoulder, but half of all he was saying fell on deaf ears.I started pacing the hallway when I could no longer stay comfortably seated. I can no longer keep track of the number of times that I have peeped through the door, even if I cannot see anything from outside since they closed the door already.Dad's words kept rummaging through my head. No, I don't want to prepare for the worst. I cannot lose her too. I kept muttering to myself, and I could feel my tears building up already. I had to keep blinking to prevent them from pouring out.After what seemed like a decade, the door was finally opened, and her doctor came to us. "Congratulations, she pulled through," he said, and I was so happy that I did not even listen to the rest of his words before dashing into

Rita's POV I asked the question that had been bugging on my mind that day when he left the room. Debby was shocked when I asked her if her boss kidnaps people for a living and if he had kidnapped her as well. I was beyond shocked when she told me I was in the Charlie mansion and that the boss is the only surviving child of his parent. Although she does not know the details of what happened to his twin sister, knowing his identity made me feel guilty for being rude to him earlier when he was just being a good Samaritan. I tried approaching him a couple of times to talk to him, but he is always in a hurry to go somewhere, thereby making him inaccessible. She has been taking great care of me, ensuring that I did not stand up from the bed until the nurse confirmed it after a week of my bed confinement. She also kept me company, reading me stories like a baby and talking to me. I am being treated, and I know I do not deserve this. Moreover, I like Debby a lot, and I know if I am to s