She's gone
" puff!, Final say, my ass!" Nora spat on his face , "you are torturing another woman to escape the reality that you couldn't protect your little lover back then, you monster!. " instead of getting scared she became more aggressive as if she was injected with Wolf's blood .
Xavier's expression darkened, she just touched the deep wound inside him . He lost his cool and roared viciously at her, pulling her hair roughly.
" I dare you to say that again! "
His voice was so cold and his eyes so terrifying, he looked like he was ready to strangle her at any moment from now , if she repeated what she just said .
Clara blinked several times, coming back to her senses. She was so terrified when she saw the enlarged dangerous face before her.
" Huh, sa..y what ? " She said stammering.
What was he daring her to say? Did she herself appear ? What did she say to him to get him this angry ? She was so confused and clueless. All she could do was to stand there, not daring to look him in the eyes .
"Listen , if you dare do anything to hurt Lilac. " I will make sure you and your family face a fate worse than death. "He threatened to release his grip on her hair.
' how dare she threaten me with Lilac? Am I too hard on her?.' he turned to leave .
" Isn't that what you've been doing all this while?"
She asked with a bitter laugh. He has been after her family since she knew him,so what's the need to threaten her with them?
"I am telling you that what I'm doing now to your family is basically nothing. If you want to see them crying out in pain, then try hurting Flora. "
Xavier glared at her coldly before walking to the door. On getting to the door, he pursued and turned to her
"Oh , before we divorce, don't bother keeping yourself for another man because it won't work? I'll have you whenever I want." Bang!, he slammed the door after him .
Clara slowly slid to the floor, trying to calm her trembling heart that was threatening to jump out from her mouth.
" That was so close. "
If her other self now appears during the day, that means she really needs to see a doctor or those personalities will fully take over her body and she can't let that happen, especially now that one of them is bent on hurting Glory. She had to pay Alex a visit .
But how can she go to him without recalling what happened between them that night?
****
Alex looked at the woman who was sitting before him , dressed in a pale yellow dress, her long wavy hair cascading down her shoulders and light make-up, especially those beautiful eyes that viewed him as the serpent, whenever she looked at him .
It was his angel. She finally came to see him .
" Sorry , I didn't make a reservation ? " She said indifferently .
" You don't need one when coming to see me. I've been trying to contact you, so I can check you, Clara, but it seems you don't want me to. " Alex complained with a bitter expression.
Trying to suppress his happiness , afraid that she would hate him once she knew how happy he was that she finally came to him.
" She.... Did she come out often to meet with you?"She asked her with a pale face .
" She did come, but not often, " he answered truthfully, taking a seat opposite her, sitting down beside her.
Her grip on her handbag tightened as she immediately asked
" then did you... Was she.., " too embarrassed to say it?
" No! Even if she wants to , I will never allow something like that to happen again Clara, trust me. "
He will never hurt her again , never .
He was not in his right senses that night and ruined her innocence.
She bit down hard on her lips, leaving red toothmarks there." I don't want them to appear again. Can you help me ? "
She does not wish to see him again , but she had no choice.
" I'm sorry I can't be of help,if there's any one who can fight this, that person is only you, Clara, but I promise to give you all the support you need."
****
Tony looked at the time on his wristwatch and said "Boss, we should get back to the office, you still have a meeting to attend."
Xavier didn't respond. Instead, his eyes were fixed on the woman sitting behind a well-furnished desk inside the small office. She seemed too busy to even spare him a glimpse .
After she regained consciousness that day, Glory refused to talk to him. She was disappointed that he chose to save her instead of his wife, but how could he let anything happen to her under his watch?
He stood up and moved on. When he got there, he stood there staring at her, but she didn't even spare him a glance .
" Let's go. "
He finally said ,as long as she's doing just fine, he was okay with that .
" Boss, I just received some information from the person we sent to Trail Madam. She visited the psychiatrist today." Tony reported gritting his teeth in anger.
Before it was only at night, but now they even dared go on a date during the day .
If not that, he wanted to return the favor , he would have ordered those men to come back because it was of no use wasting human resources on someone like her . He clenched his hands .
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"Uncle, have you gotten any news about him? " Clara asked, sitting down opposite Ryan. She was so anxious and he could see it.
Instead of answering, he punched the purse icon on his laptop screen and Clara's hand flew to her mouth. She used her palm to stop herself from screaming. She couldn't believe what was before her, even if the man in the video had been disfigured beyond recognition. She could tell that it was her uncle, her supposed biological father.
"We received this email this morning. Uncle was kidnapped and those people want us to send a hundred million to an account. I'm thinking it may be a trap. All this maybe fake. Brothers can go to any extent to make money, it's better we wait for some time before sending anything to them." Ryan reasoned to her.
" What type of trap could this possibly be, uncle? He has been missing for months now and we finally found out that my father was actually kidnapped. What's a hundred million to us, huh? Uncle, can't you just send it to them? Please, I will return it with interest to you. Please just save my father." she tried to persuade him.
A message just popped into his laptop and they both turned their attention to it. Both of them were sure it was from those people again.
She wanted to open it but he beat her to it and clicked on the play button .
"Clara. Please save me, I know you can hear me. Please don't leave me here. They will kill me. I'm very sorry for abandoning you and your mom, but please give me another chance and I'll never leave you alone again. Please, they are torturing me with different things here. Now they want to scrape my hair with a chainsaw,ahhhh they are coming. Please save daddy help... " The screen went blank but she could still hear his terrifying cry for help.
She panicked. "Uncle Ryan, please send them the money. I'm taking a loan from the family and I promise to work hard and pay it back. "She shook his hands desperately.
"Our Clara is now a grown up, but that's not enough, you still have a lot to learn. " Ryan said, leaving the confused Clara. What did he mean by not enough?
*****
Clara didn't return home until it was late at night. She never expected him to be home tonight, but to her dismay, not only was the estate more lighted up tonight, they seemed to be a lot of guards around, the security was so tight tonight, as she walked in she couldn't help but wonder what was going on.
" Tony, you have to find her, I don't care if you have to tie her up. Just do it and bring her here! " she heard his furious voice.
Thinking that she was the one they were looking for, she retorted
" I'm back, there's no need for that ". She was tired and wanted to get some sleep, this drama wasn't what she could afford tonight .
Her statement made all eyes turn to her.
All their eyes were screaming unforgivably at her. Why are they looking at her like that?
Xavier took a long stroke at her, grabbed her hand roughly. "Tell me, what did you say to her ? Why did she leave without saying goodbye? " He demanded strongly.
"Huh! " she had been avoiding contact with Glory. Did other her say something to Glory that made her leave?, so finally she hurt her good sister without knowing, she looked at him,how is she supposed to know what happened, she doesn't even remember saying anything to her because the person who spoke was not her but someone else, how was she going to explain this to him.
" I'm sorry... " She managed to say, this was the only thing she could do to apologise, but how long will this continue?
"You are sorry, you think saying those words will bring her back. He pushed her roughly to the ground and she fell with her hands wrapped protectively on her stomach. This action was already a part of her. She quickly got up. " I don't have anything to tell you ". She knew that he was hurting. He waited for years just to have her back and now she was gone, any other person would be scared and angry, scared that he would have to wait for another year again.
" Good, very good, I told you that if you hurt her because you have a divorce, I would destroy your family, but now I know you never took those words seriously. "
Did she threaten him like that before? Was that why he was so sure she said something to Glory ? Under everyone's scrutinizing and sneering glare, she stood up face as white as snow , looking straight into his eyes, she hissed." What you did to the Davis has nothing to do with me, I can only tell you that she will be fine and she is going to come back. "
She was sure Glory would be back because she once told her that she would give her life to the person who gave her that necklace. Even without their memories, Glory loves him. How could she just leave because of something she said to her?
" That person won't hurt her, so she will be fine. I once promised to be best friends, and I know she has been looking for you all her life. I'm sure you were aware someone was behind her, you have that power to investigate but you didn't, did you? lips" she asked with a mocking smirk on her lips.
He didn't investigate because he was afraid to know how she lived without him. Xavier looked at her curved lips and his eyes darkened. He could see something in her eyes , even though she tried to hide it, he could see it.
She jolted his hand off hers and bent over to retrieve her bag, which was lying on the floor and turned to leave, ignoring all the eyes on her, after all she was already used to such looks.
" STOP !"
His cold voice was heard behind her when she took just two steps up the stairs. He still didn't want to let her go or was he bent on humiliating her before everyone tonight?
" You must tell me what you said to her that made her leave just like that " he went forward and grabbed her bag.
The light around her was flickering and she knew that she must not blank out in front of those people.
Hurry up and let her go, mastering up the courage she said, her voice even weaker and face pale, she replied lazily.
" I don't know, I wouldn't know no matter how many times you ask me "
'Hurry up and let me go, she just doesn't want to pass out in front of all these people sneering at her.
" You!.." His voice became more chilly as he became restless and furious.
Kiel quickly pulled him back before he lost control.
" Rey, maybe it's not because of her, what's important was for us to find Glory".
Clara was stunned. She never expected the person who would help her to be him.
" Tony ordered the falcon group to come ", Xavier ordered.
Tony heard him but he hesitated .
The falcon group are the most eligible ones in the organization to exaggerate they can fly high in the sky and on Earth to get anything done in less than a day, but this group are now in India .
" Anything?" he seemed to see through his hesitation and narrowed his dark eyes icily at him.
Tony looked at Clara, who was planning to leave.
He clenched his hands and bowed low. He finally confessed "I am sorry boss."
" I ask you to call the falcon group over,why are you apologizing? " Xavier knew it was probably impossible to transfer them so easily at such a short notice.
Clara, on the other hand, has no idea what the falcon group was all about, but seeing Tony's reaction, she already guessed that the truth would be coming out tonight. Out in the middle of a problem. Could anything be worse ?
" Boss," Judith called, stepping out and she pointed at Clara ," It was her that she used her charms to make Tony send the group to India to look for her missing father. "
All eyes turned back to Clara who was standing on the stairs. She kept telling herself that it was fine. She was already used to these types of looks, so there was no need to worry about them.
Xavier's cold eyes landed on Clara. They had no emotion in them.
" Tony explained ,what happened? "It was too soon. There must be some stories behind it.
" Boss, I acted on my own without your knowledge and am willing to be punished. " even though he now despised Clara, he couldn't hit someone who was already down.
" Punishment? Do you think that was enough? You used my name to order my subordinate without my knowledge and you think you still have the right to stay in the organization? "
Everyone stared at Xavier in shock.
To the people in LOTUS, nothing could be more cruel than being exiled from the organization.
" Boss, no matter what the punishment is, I will take it, but please don't exile me from the organization, please let me stay." Tony immediately went on his knees.
He has no family, no parents, no one to rely on. The organization has been his everything, his home and family? Where will he go now?
Judith also didn't want him to leave, so she glared at Clara and accused him furiously .
"It's her. She used her beauty and weakness to gain his sympathy. "
Clara was bewildered by her accusation. The woman was indeed brainless.
But she just remained quiet looking at Tony. What will become of him now he grows up in the organization? How would she let something like this happen to him? He only wanted to help her ?
