Threat Message

'I don't know what Aunt Arum is planning but I have to stop it directly,' Luci thought firmly.

Luci looked up to focus again on the nurse who was still waiting for her behind the information desk. The clock struck the early hours of the morning and she had to hurry. It's quite strange, to be honest, seeing why the hospital allowed a patient to be transferred at this time of night. Could Hans be critical? Luci was getting more and more worried.

"Nurse, which hospital did Hans transfer to?" asked Luci.

Honestly, she wanted to ask many more things like was Hans at a stage that could still be overcome if not referred? So what was the reason he was referred? Then besides Aunt Arum, who brought Hans earlier? And many more, But it was all stored in Luci's throat because the girl was too panicked and couldn't think straight.

The nurse was seen checking some data on her computer.

"Sun Eden Hospital," the nurse replied. Her mouth opened again wanting to say something but before Luci could hear the nurse's voice, the girl was already running to leave. She rushed out of the hospital to get into her rental car. The engine was started and the car was moving

On the way, Luci couldn't get rid of all her bad thoughts. There's a hospital nearby which was closer than Sun Eden. The facilities were also good but somehow Hans was transferred to the hospital.

"Whatever it is, Hans, please endure. I'll be right back," Luci whispered as she drove the car.

Along the way, the girl couldn't even focus her mind on driving. She kept asking herself what was going on with Hans? Did Aunt Arum hurt Hans and did she intend to eliminate Hans this time?

Her mind was running wild in her fear. As she ran a red light Luci almost hit a car again. Luckily the car was able to control itself and just left, while Luci did not get any major injuries, except for her heart.

There was another reason why Luci would take care of Hans. She had a reason stronger than her love for Daniel which until now has not faded. All of this had to do with feelings, or rather empathy.

Luci was a child who grew up in an orphanage. A husband and wife adopted her. She had hoped for a happy family all along, and she thought she could find that in the new family that adopted her.

But it's all wrong. The family made Luci work hard on the streets. It turned out that so far the family had raised at least ten children. And all of them had the same fate, that was, they had to work on the streets.

The house was not a house because Luci was placed in a cage with the livestock and also with the other children. They also only got makeshift food which was often given when things got stale,

Luci and the others could have run away if the family didn't have a bouncer who was rumored to be a psychopath. Through word of mouth, Luci heard that the bouncer did not hesitate to eat human flesh.

She still felt the trauma and fear to this day. Even when she found two young couples who were the same age as her adoptive parents, Luci would cower in fear. Especially if she saw a man who had a tattoo. The bouncer at her adoptive parents' house used to have a tattoo.

In short, Luci didn't want Hans to share the same fate as her, losing her parents and ending up in an orphanage just because no one was willing to take care of him. Moreover, Hans was Daniel's favorite brother.

Luci remembered when she was a child, how traumatized she was to live without her loving parents. Love and affection could only be obtained from fellow adopted children in the family. Even then, not all children were good.

There was a child who was the oldest among the other adopted children. The eldest child was an accomplice to her adoptive parents. So the child would monitor every move of the children in the cage. Although he also slept in a cage, he was treated rather special, one of which was that only the child could sleep on a used foam mattress that was still soft while the other children slept on straw.

"Because of the eldest son, one of my adopted brothers was battered to death. It happened only because my foster brother who was beaten said there was a gap next to the door,' Luci recalled in her mind.

The children had intended to run away but they weren't so stupid as to do it on that isolated farm. But her beaten brother had found a crack in the side of the door, that too if only the children had been bored in the cage all the time.

Finally, the eldest child heard it and the boy who found the gap was finally beaten by the bouncer in front of all the children. Luci still remembered the blood, until her adopted brother's battered body was dragged out of the cage she still remembered. Until now Luci never knew where her brother was. But the children believed he was dead.

"Oh, where is this?" She whined. Luci was daydreaming for so long that she didn't realize that she had passed the right bend. As a result, she turned around to head for the bend fifty meters behind her.

About ten minutes later Luci arrived at the hospital in question. After parking the car carelessly and just like that the girl slid towards the Sun Eden hospital information desk. There was a female nurse on duty.

"Nurse, is there a patient named Hans referred to this hospital tonight? Mm, he was treated at the Sky Medical Hospital," Luci said breathlessly. Sweat dripped down her face and body even into her tight tank top.

The clothes that Luci was wearing were not suitable for use in a hospital but it couldn't be helped that she had just finished her mission.

The nurse was seen checking the data on her computer screen.

"Sorry, no patient named Hans has been transferred to this hospital. Is there anything else I can help you with?" asked the nurse gently.

The nurse's voice was soft and gentle but somehow gave torture to Luci because it meant that Hans wasn't here. Could something have happened? Was the nurse at Medical Sky hospital lying? No, it's not possible, right? Was the ambulance intercepted in the middle of the journey?

Lucy ran because she was thinking all kinds of things right now. In her mind was that something must have happened to Hans.

"Should I just call the police? These nights? No, I have no evidence anyway. This is all based on my hunch. But where should I look for Hans?" Luci mumbled to herself.

While outside the hospital she tried to call Aunt Arum's number again, this time it rang but she didn't pick up. The girl called again but again no answer.

"What exactly happened?" said Luci worriedly. Once again she tried to dial the number but before that happened someone called her, a new and unknown number. "Hello?" said Luci but the phone was quickly hung up by the person who called her.

Then she realized that there was a message that came from that unknown number. When Luci opened it she was surprised to see a photo of Hans lying weak in the message. Under the photo it said,

"Come to the address sent or this child dies."

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