Chapter 1

"Help! Help!" two voices

A girl and a boy around the age of 4 years are being washed away in the river by the force of the water.

Then the boy grabs a low hanging tree branch with one hand and holds a barely conscious girl on the other.

After few minutes,

"Eva, Evan" a male voice shouted

"Uncle Hunter …. We are here" boy shouted back

Hunter heard that, ran in the direction of the kids and found the kids in the middle of the river holding a branch. He entered the river and started swimming towards them, then he suddenly felt the water flow increased and the branch could not hold the weight and was at the verge of breaking.

The boy realized the danger and out of instinct he pushed the girl towards Hunter. The push woke the girl.

Hunter caught the girl but due to the water pressure she lost her grip of the boy's hand and he got washed away in the river.

"Evan" screamed the girl

Hunter was holding a bigger branch with one hand and a struggling girl who want to break free and follow the boy in the other. He slowly came out of the river and hugged the girl to his heart who is desperately crying for her twin, her brother.

Few men dressed in black reached Hunter in less than 2 minutes.

Hunter ordered the men to search for the boy along the river and then sounds of weeping stopped, the girl in his arms was unconscious. He got panicked and started running towards the villa.

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"She is fainted out of shock and …" said Doctor

"Is she fine" asked Hunter who rushed in suddenly cutting the doctors words.

"Doctor please continue" said a woman who is in her late forties, while glaring at Hunter.

"Ah, she has fever and just make sure she takes medicine on time" said Doctor.

"Thank you, Doctor" said the woman.

"So, Mrs. Bradfield I will take my leave" said Doctor for which she gave a nod.

Before leaving the room, the doctor walked to Hunter patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry she will be fine after the rest". Hunter gave a weak smile to the doctor.

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Next day morning in the living room the villa

"Sir, we couldn't find Evan yet, but we are still searching and even we involved police and local people in the search" said the guard

The whole room was silent, Hunter dismissed the guard

Silence was broken by a weeping woman who is in her early thirties and a middle-aged man was comforting her

"Amber, don't cry our son will be fine" said the man

"Sob! Sob! I want him, I want to see him please find him George please" said Amber in between her sobs.

George could only hug her and comfort her. He looked towards Hunter and shouted "what on earth happened Hunter, how could you let this happened"

"Sir…" Hunter started hesitantly but was stopped by Mrs. Bradfield.

"Mother" shouted George

"George calm down this is not the right time for all this" said Mrs. Bradfield

"Mother I will make the responsible one regret" said George angrily

Understanding the pain of her son Mrs. Bradfield remained silent.

George carried his wife Amber to their bedroom and came back to carry a 2-year-old boy who was sleeping all the time to their room before giving a deadly glare to Hunter and a six year old girl slowly followed her father to her parents' bedroom keeping her head low.

"Madam is Eva awake?" asked Hunter

"No, she is still running high fever" said Mrs. Bradfield

"Madam did you inform Mr. George about Eva" asked Hunter

"Yes" said Mrs. Bradfield

"Then why are they not taking care of her, their own daughter" asked Hunter

"I'm worried Hunter, I'm worried for tomorrow" by saying that Mrs. Bradfield walked to Eva's room.

Hunter did not understand, but surely felt that something bad is going to happen.

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At around midnight Eva slowly opened her eyes, looked around and found her grandmother sleeping on a chair near her bed. She tried to get up but held down by her grandma.

Mrs. Bradfield made Eva drink a glass of water and told her to lie down

"Grandma where is Evan" asked Eva

Her grandmother was silent, Eva felt something was off and started to get up but stopped by her grandma.

"First take rest, have some sleep we will speak tomorrow morning" said Mrs. Bradfield very firmly.

Eva could not oppose here domineering grandma, so she obeyed her

Seeing her obedient Mrs. Bradfield gave a sigh and thought "God knows how I am going to explain her".