Chapter 15

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The days went by so quickly. But Ernaline has not been allowed to work again; the band is also on vacation now according to Calvin's wishes. It is not a joke that what happened to Ernaline so it cannot be ignored.

Montenegro is known in the business world because of her older brother as a young successful businessman in the whole wide world. Not only was he is the one who realized his responsibility as an heir early, but the attention of the big investors in the country was focused on her older brother.

"When are you coming back to work?" Saviel asks. "I also miss the condo with you. Did you know that the four of them kicked me out before they left? They're evil creatures. With this beautiful goddess of mine, I'll just kick out?" She added that she seemed to resent what she did when she was evicted by the four men who were with them in the condo.

Ernaline laughed at Saviel, the true nature of those four was not new to her. Harsh actions with a little bit gentle – what a mess right?

"And besides, I can only step in to the house again when you come back. I look like a homeless person because of that,"

Coincidentally, Sinji and Saviel visited their house at the same time today so she took them to their garden where there was a mini-gazebo, her Mommy's trip to hang out there when she was bored. She also delivered snacks for the three of them. With just Saviel's stomach, she knew that the woman couldn't be satisfied with just cookies and juice.

"I don't know," she said as she stared at the emptiness. "Big brother strictly instructed Calvin to let me rest first. He said it might cause trauma to me but I told him that I'm fine and I can work again. And will you be surprised? I told you the mixture of habits was different when those four assholes were there," she added. Such incidents were not new to her but her older brother insisted that she needs rest in their house first, even if only for a short time.

"You can't blame Reiden, even if I'm in his position I'll do everything to keep you safe. What's the use of your money if your life replacement?" Sinji replied.

Ernaline became silent. She understood what it wanted to convey. She knew they were worried about her and her older brother also knew that she had no enemies or whoever she had done wrong so he was furious about her sudden disappearance.

"Drop the topic, witch. I thought you were going to stay in France for good?" she was distracted by what Saviel said to Sinji who was already clapping for food. It also gave the woman in front of her a bad look meanwhile she was suddenly uncomfortable in the seat.

"Did I say that? Don't be a fake I'm just on a vacation," she stammered.

"Vacation, your face!! Isn't your husband looking for you?"

Ernaline's jaw dropped at what she heard.

‘Is Sinji married? Why I didn’t know? '

"You have a spouse?" she asked incredulously.

Sinji doesn't know if she will answer Ernaline or not but what surprised Ernaline more was the sadness on her beautiful face.

"Sad to say girl I have a husband. But we separate already," Sinji replied.

"Why?" She asked in surprise before drinking from her glass of juice.

"It's a long story,"

Ernaline and Saviel both frowned in front of Sinji. During the disappearance of this woman here in the Philippines, is that all she will say? It's very, very interesting.

"We'll listen," Saviel immediately recovered as she unveiled a whole chocolate cake made by her Mommy. Sinji didn't utter a word. Maybe she doesn't want to open up about it so they didn't force the woman. They just talked about other things about the happy things that happened when the two witches met.

Sin and Sav meet on the internet using an RP account. She doesn't know what is the meaning of that word because she is not addicted to social media. According to them, it is a world where you can hide your real personality. There is no trace of the current world, your personality, or your true identity. But these two didn't mind about the rule in RPW. They exchange their real identity then that's the reason why they end up being friends.

"The history of the friendship between the two of you is awesome," Ernaline said sarcastically with mixed jokes.

"Don't be jealous Ernaline, you're an just extra in our friendship. Besides, it's your fault, we don't want to share but you insist," Sinji joked back to her.

"We have another friend in that world but he was so secretive. We both lost by a secretive people," said Saviel.

"Hey? I thought only women have the guts to that world?" she said.

"Excuse me. It's a hidden identity world so there are probably men, women, gays, lesbians. It's like mixed breeding," Sinji explained with a laugh.

Ernaline just shook her head as if she couldn't believe what they were talking about. Maybe she can enter that kind of world to know what is inside. Her Facebook, Twitter, and IG are rotting. She doesn't know how many followers there are or maybe she will only see hate words from their fans.

"You can also try to create an account as our squad goals?" Saviel said with mixed compulsion.

Ernaline stared at Saviel causing the two laughs. "Do you think I can handle that? I can't visit my account; can that be your world?"

"Okay. Your choice," Saviel ended their conversation.

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"What happened to the three of you?" Rent was surprised to meet his comrades who had just arrived at their hideout. Three of them all look wasted and full of dust from their face and shirts.

"You can ask Gun about it!" Cold sat on a bench scattered in the hallway of HuPoFEL. They ventured on the road for a few days just to get home to Manila.

"What happened?" Rent turns his gaze at Gun and Dezrail who were both exhausted as they slumped sit next to Cold.

"We were ambushed on our way to Palawan, the car we were riding in was blown up so in the end the three of us offered to walk," Gun said with a sour face.

"Why didn't you call? One of the Middle Classes is in the area," Rent said.

The three guys groan at Rent’s statement, they didn’t know they had a colleague in the area. They wouldn’t offer a walk if they knew that ‘person’ was there.

"Anyway, Grei wants to talk to you," Rent said to Dezrail.

Dezrail looked up at the man and wondered why Grei wanted to talk to him.

"For what?" he asked. But Rent only shrugged as his answer before the man turned his back to return to his Monitor Room.

“I’m not going to be with you two anymore,” Cold said.

"It was fun, dude! You've been punished early," Gun teased the man.

"Fuck you!" Cold repulsed Gun before he stood up and left the two companions because he still had a lot to do. If they hadn't just encountered a fight, they probably would have come home the other day.

"What does Grei need from you?" Gun's turn his gaze to Dezrail.

"I don't know," Dezrail answered.

Gun leaned against the wall before looking up at the HuPoFEL ceiling.

"Let's go home before we face another mission from Boss's table. It's been a tough day for us," Dezrail said before getting up from his seat and walking out of HuPoFEL while Gun was just blown a sigh before standing up and follow his friend.

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