Chapter 256 WHERE IS SHE?
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BAM … BAM … BAM
I bang at the door like a madman, the guard seems to be asleep. Why won't he be after all it's past minding and close to early morning now.
He opens the door startled, looking at me with his sleepy blurred eyes when I push him away from my way and storm inside the villa. It's a very low-key and small villa, not one I would imagine a rich man's only son would live in.
I get inside the door pretty quickly and shout Aiden's name at the top of my lungs, "Aiden…
Aiden Marven…"
The guard comes over from behind and we start to wrestle when suddenly a woman's shrieking voice stops us both abruptly.
"Aiden…"
I tilt my head towards the direction of the voice and see a woman wearing a night robe showing her long legs on the show and from behind her, a man approaches, wearing the same robe as a couple.
My eyes widen and my jaw drop when I realize what they both had been doing, what the…?
"Where is Tessa?" Ignoring everything around me, I question Aiden furiously, and before confusing eyes open wide in shock, "Tessa?" He exclaims looking blankly at me.
"Go inside." He turns to the woman standing beside him showing an ugly expression but still, reluctantly she goes back inside the room.
"You too leave." Aiden gives a hard glare to the guard and in a few seconds, he too disappears leaving me and Aiden all alone inside his villa.
"Where is Tessa?" I ask him again and he starts to ascend the stairs slowly, "How would I know, she is your wife." He points out bitterly and my gaze remains serious and dead at him.
"If you have anything related to my family's abduction, I won't spare you," I warn him and he sneers in response.
"Are you sure she has been abducted?" He questions while standing in front of me, his confidence somehow makes me nervous, "What… does that mean…" I stutter.
"A few days back, Tessa had asked me to help her to escape. Are you sure she hasn't left you on her own?" He reveals and I look at him dumbfounded.
Tessa had asked him to help her to escape from whom? From me?
"No… she loves me…" I tell him confidently and he just scoffs in response.
"You look very bad, come, let's have a coffee…" He invites me so casually as though I am an old friend of his.
Before I am even able to refuse, he casually walks in the direction which I assume is his kitchen.
****
"Who's the woman?" I ask as we drink the coffee in silence while watching the sunrise, my heart calmer, maybe, maybe, Tessa has gone somewhere, I hope so.
"A friend." Aiden shrugs.
"Why didn't Tessa contact you for help yet?" I look at him still not believing his words fully.
"I don't know, I had been waiting though for her to contact me." He replies looking genuinely into my eyes.
"Had she told you where she would go?" I ask.
"Uhmm… No, she just needed shelter for a few days," He pauses, "I think she needed some time to think where to go."
"Don't worry, I have a few friends, they can search if she has taken any flight to leave the city." He says assuredly and I dismiss him by revealing, "She can't leave from here, I still have Aaron's passport with me."
"So then?" He raises his brow worry appears on his face.
"I don't know. I need to find my family at any cost." I tell him as I put the cup down and stand to leave. "Thanks for…" I begin and then trail off the words feeling embarrassed, who would have thought one day I would be drinking a coffee with my wife's lover when he had just f**ked another woman in his room?
God, it's too gross to admit.
"Wait, I'll come with you. She could be in danger." His words make my heart worried again, "no need, I have already filed a complaint and I'll look for them myself."
"How?" Aiden looks at me in doubt.
"I have a friend," I reply and then confidently stride out of his villa.
****
"Such an ungrateful bastard you are, I have done so much for you and this is how you treat me, huh…" Jethro lashes out, somehow he knows that I had filed a missing complaint for my family without even asking for his help first.
Well, my mind was completely messed up at that time.
"I am sorry, Jethro. I didn't know what I was doing at that time." I apologize sincerely and he sneers in response.
"Liar, a f**king liar…"
"Will you help or not, Jethro?" I question, again losing my temper.
"Apologize first…" He demands and I want to strangle him with my bare hands but because he is not in front of me I clutch my phone tightly thinking of it as his throat.
"I am…" I begin with a dark face to apologize again when he interrupts, "Written apology, with your signature."
"Are you high or what?" I groan displeased.
"Do as I say, write a good apology letter for me and then sign in the last, I will call you back once I will get some information on your family." He says dismissively and I make a reluctant sound from the back of my throat when he adds intentionally to piss me off.
"Remember, no apology letter, no help."
"F**k you, Jethro…" I curse and he laughs in sarcasm.
Hahaha
Bloody f**ker what type of friend he is, I am here on pin and needles and he is thinking of all stupid things and fun.
In a foul mood, I start writing a letter, tearing papers multiple times, and then finally with a proper apology and my signature, I keep the paper aside waiting patiently for Jethro to contact me.
I look at the clock, 8 hours have passed since my family was gone or abducted by someone.
I am clueless yet helpless, I feel ashamed of myself, again I am unable to save my family to save Tessy from harm. My eyelids get heavy from the guilt and the tears start to fill in my eyes as I slowly start to lose consciousness.
****
RING … RING … RING
The phone's ringing interrupts my peace and in my sleep, I pick up my phone, "Hello…"
"Wake up, I have got them." Jethro says in an exciting tone and I immediately sit up, "What? Are they safe? Are they okay? Were they kidnapped by someone? Where's Tessa? Let me talk to her."
I ask multiple questions in one breath, my heart thumping so loud that it would jump out of my chest at any time.
"Is my apology letter ready?" Instead Of replying to my questions, that moron still sticks to his apology.
"Yes, keep that letter and shove it into your ass." I gritted my teeth and again his laugh fills my ears making me irritate to the core.
"I am sending you an address, come over here, hurry up." and just like that, he ends the call. I want to curse him but somehow I bite them back. After all, he has my family now, I should get my family back, first and then strangle him to death.
Quickly, I change my clothes because the one I am wearing sting, and then rushes out of the mansion with the paper of apology in my hand. I wonder why he had demanded such a stupid thing, well, God knows.
****
"Apology letter." As soon as Jethro sees me approaching, he holds out his hand asking for the letter. I place it in his hand with a dark face and after glancing at it, he gives me a wide smile.
"Come."
He takes me inside and I follow quietly, my eyes curiously searching for my family finally Jethro opens a door, "Here."
Taking a deep breath, I enter the room and see Cyrus and Aaron sitting together, holding each other in terror, my heart tightens immediately as I see the fear on their faces on someone approaching them but when they see me, their eyes light up and then rush to me, while I rush to hug them both in my arms.
"Daddy, we are scared." They both cry out at the same time, with the same words, and my heart feels pierced by a sharp blade. It's too painful.
"It's okay, everything is fine now." I console both of them in my arms while looking around for Tessa, where is she?
"Daddy, Mommy, they beat Mommy," Cyrus looks up at me with teary eyes and I frown, "Who beat Mommy? Who?"
Before they would say another word, Jethro enters and the kids again shut their mouths shrinking in my arms from fear.
"It's okay, this is good uncle," I tell them and they both slowly peek at Jethro.
"Remember, I save you both." Jethro gives them a wide smile, which I haven't seen before. It's very innocent and harmless.
Aaron blinks his eyes and then looks at Cyrus, "He is right, he is the one." At which Cyrus released the breath that he had been holding since Jethro entered.
"I have brought food and chocolates for both of you. Come, let's eat." Jethro stretches his arm for Aaron to take and he takes it with a calm face while Cyrus still looks hesitant and holds me more tightly.
Shaking my head in distress, I pick him up as we all head to the dining table while my head fills with multiple worries for Tessa, who hit her, and where the hell is she?
Where are you, Tessa?
