Ash peered from the window and saw cars parked outside and some able bodied men jumped down from the car. There was no doubt they were from Ivan. Fortunately for them, Emma went to ease herself. Ash and Nelly exchanged glances and they both nodded. They had similar idea, to keep mute and pretend like they weren’t in. The door bell rang again, furiously. Then the men set to banging the door. The door shook so hard that Ash feared it would break even if it was made of iron. Soon, the knocks were no longer heard. Ivan had instructed his men to abort the mission. They jumped back into the car and zoomed off.
“Are you sure it’s safe for you here?” Ash asked immediately everywhere was calm.
“Yes, I’ll be fine…”
“Are you sure? He came with harmful men!”
“I know. He doesn’t want to harm me. He wants another chance and he thinks you are hiding me. Maybe he saw the news before it was taken down. You know these powerful CEO’s in the country,” Nelly explained.
“Another chance my foot! How bloody dare he!” Ash fumed. He was red in anger and he wanted to punch Ivan’s face!
“I’ll be going home tomorrow. I need to go see my father.”
“Will you be fine?”
“Common Ash, I’m not three years old!” Nelly joked.
“Alright. I was only being a caring friend,” Ash said and raised his hands in surrender.
Aria Dean sat on the floor as tears fell freely down her face. She had refused to put herself together. Her first attempt to librate herself from the fierce hands of Easton Landers only put her life as well as as her father’s in danger. Now, she had only seventy two hours to return to the country and get rid of Nelly. She didn’t want to die and she didn’t want her father to die either.
“What does this man want from me? What exactly? Have I not suffered enough?” she asked herself for the nth time that afternoon.
There was a knock on the door and she sprang to her feet. No one knew she was in the country and her only likely visitor was Amon but he always called her before coming. She wiped her tears and walked cautiously to the door.
“Who’s there?” she asked but got no response aside from the ringing of the door bell. She took a deep breath and opened the door. She came face to face with Amon.
“Get dressed, others are waiting in the car. We have an assignment. Be fast, you have three minutes.”
Before she could even process what he had just said, he had vanished. All she could remember was that she was given three minutes and Amon was very time conscious! She was out in no time and they set off. Amon was driving and he pulled to a halt in front of an unknown house. He came down and walked towards the house. Few minutes later, he was back.
“She’s not around. Her friend said she left that day, in the morning to meet up with her flight at noon,” he explained to the other occupants of the car.
Aria was finally able to get it now. This was Nelly’s house, and consequently, Amon’s neighborhood as well.
“This is serious. What do we do now?”
“We can’t report a failed mission without proper findings. Any other idea of where we should check? Amon?”
Amon tapped his finger on his head as if that would put brilliant plans into his head.
“Yes!” he exclaimed suddenly and snapped his fingers!
“Her work place, or no, let’s check Neuer’s workplace or house.”
The comment was met with eight expectant ears and eyes.
“Who’s Neuer?” they questioned.
“Her friend, or should I say, boyfriend. Let’s go. We have little time.”
“Alright. We are here!” Amon announced as her swerved the car expertly and brought it to a halt.
“Phew!” another breathed and made to open the door but Amon thought otherwise.
“Wait guys. What’s the plan here? We don’t have any plans!”
They all paused, realizing that fact.
“Well, I think it’s going to be very suspicious if we all go in like that asking Neuer for Nelly. Besides, this is a hospital with high security standards.”
Everyone nodded. They all agreed with him.
“What do you suggest we do?” one asked.
“It’s best Amon goes in to find out from that guy. After all, he knows your relationship with Nelly.”
“Emm.. I don’t support that.”
It was Aria Dean. Everyone turned to her in surprise. She rarely contributed in gatherings and discussions like that.
“So, what’s best, Aria?”
“If Amon goes to ask after Nelly, it might arouse suspicion.”
“And why is that?”
“Nelly told them all that she was travelling. It means that Neuer knows that Amon is aware that Nelly travelled. He will probably be wondering why Amon is asking a very silly question,” Aria explained smartly.
“Yeah! You have a point there. How come we didn’t think of that? What do you suggest?”
“Sneaking up on them,” Aria stated matter of factly.
“Since it will not go well if we ask directly, we can watch from the window. If Nelly’s still around, she might be in his office or we might find a trace of her in there.”
“Right!” They new plan was met with general approval. It was decided that Aria would carry out the task.
Aria looked very innocent and harmless on the surface and no one would ever suspect her of creepy acts or evil intention. But it is said that evil lies in seemingly quiet ones. She made her way into the hospital like every other person. When she thought no one was looking, she sneaked into a room nearby.
Ohhh! Lucky her! There were nurses’ wears in the room. Again, there was no one in sight, so she quietly and quickly made her way towards the uniforms. She put one over her body, she wanted to disguise as a nurse. She looked perfect and anyone would swear she was an employee in the hospital. As soon as she got to the door, she realised everything was not alright again!