FF9: Kidnapped

"Life is full of surprises. It would surely give you goosebumps, whether it's good or bad." - FF9

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'What? I've been kidnapped last night!' she thought to herself and her body froze.

"What do you mean kidnap, Couz?" Princess asked Aeron, her voice trembled a bit in a concerned tone.

"Whose clothes are you wearing, bro?" Lucas asked him.

"You're supposed to bring Yrrah home, right?" Neisha asked.

"Ohh, Fafa Aeron, who hit your handsome face?" Barbie yelped, both in startled and scandalous tones.

Aeron released Yrrah from his arms. She scrutinized him. He got bruised on his right cheek. He was on pair of old jeans that were bigger on his waistline and shorter on length, paired with an old white shirt. Not his clothes and not his style.

"I remembered that I'd carried Yrrah to my car and put her on the passenger seat then, someone just punched me harder. I guessed, I passed out," Aeron started his story.

Aeron told them that he woke up the next morning with only his underwear on, in the remote area a couple of hours drive from where they were last night. Someone just found, helped, lent him clothes, and fare back to Manila. He went straight to Yrrah's condo at once to check on her. Other than a bruised on his cheeks, he didn't have any other wounds or pains.

The initial deduction was merely robbery as his watch and cellphone were also missing. But they were not sure, why does the thief need to bring him the remote area if he already unconscious? He could just undress him and grabbed his valuable things.

"I'm glad you're fine. How did you get home?" Aeron asked her.

She actually couldn't reply at once. Since he was telling them what had happened, her heart started to beat erratically, and couldn't decide if she wanted to tell them the truth. Was she kidnapped or someone with a big heart just brought her to the hotel?

If someone was after her, they would probably bring or locked her to a remote area as well. But she woke-up in a four-star hotel closer to the bar. She was probably just a casualty and they were really after Aeron.

Now, she's confused if she just had a wet dream or she was raped or had a one-night of mistake with a random stranger? Her clothes hung nicely on a hanger, not scattered on the floor. But yes, she woke-up on her natal suit just covered by the blanket. What happened to her last night? She should know the truth silently.

"I c-couldn't even remember. B-but you see I'm fine," she said stuttering.

"You should report that to the police, bro," Lucas suggested, "Where's your car?" he added. Aeron shrugged.

"I can come to the police station," Yrrah offered.

"No. It's probably better if you're not involved. You're here and safe anyway. I'm just going to them that I'm alone when it happened," Aeron said.

Though she was still confused, she thought that it's better. What statement she could give to the police anyway? She couldn't even remember that she passed out on the dance floor, with a few drinks of tequila. Did her alcohol tolerance become even lower?

If she was laid down by a stranger last night, she could investigate it secretly. Her dad's lawyer always reminded her to keep out of trouble as she's the heir of their business. She has a reputation to be protected.

Right now, their business was being managed by his late father's appointed CEO, Mr. Jayden Mateo.

After this Christmas break, she's going to start her on-the-job-training and she requested Mr. Mateo to keep her identity a secret as she wanted to start on the lower position. She was never been to any corporate events anyway before.

And since her mother passed away, they never had a party in their home. Even on her debut, she just requested her dad a European Tour. She was homeschooled until high school and she didn't have any friends.

LUCAS went with Aeron to the police to report the incident. She went to her room and contacted someone to meet with her later. She would deal with it privately.

When the rest of her friends went home and Neisha napped. Yrrah met up with her private investigator and asked him to identify to the person who brought her to that hotel. She only remembered the name of the hotel but she didn't pay attention to the suite number or even the floor, as she was in a hurry. Mr. Santos said not to worry, he could request some CCTV footage.

A few months ago, she used their services to dig up more information about her mom and her car accident, as well as about Zach's family. She was shocked by the result that she found out about it.

"Here's the result of what we dug up," Agent Santos handed her some papers, he met with him on their mansion.

She read the contents and gave a questionable glared with the agent. "But dad said that mom and I had a car accident. How come there's no car accident recorded on that date? But the hospital record confirmed that I had trauma?" she asked the agent with more confusion.

"I couldn't think why your dad wanted to cover-up the true accident, Miss Olevar. Here's additional information that I found out from the emergency personnel's respondent on that accident." He gave her some more documents and pictures.

The twin waterfalls of tears freely ran down from her smooth cheeks, when she saw the image of her mom on a flood of blood from her broken skull. According to the emergency respondent, her mom fell on the cliff when she tried to save her daughter, and the daughter's head hit on the solid rock that caused her trauma. She couldn't comprehend, why did her dad change the real story?

Zach's parents had an even more tragic story. They died a few days after their accidents. Zach's dad shot his wife and then, committed suicide. No one knows the reasons. The teenage boy was left under his godfather's custody, her father. He was sent abroad to forget the bad incident and to continue his studies there.

She felt sorry for her ex-husband at that time. She thought that it might be the reason why he was so cold and aloof with her. Maybe she reminded him of that incident, as it seemed to be connected. Her dreams might be some memories that happened before, and her dad didn't want her to know or even to remember the truth about that night.

But in her dream, Zach was her brother. But if they're siblings, why did her father arrange their marriage? It was something that's still a huge question mark amid her mind.

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