CHAPTER 102

I RESTED MY HEAD ON THE EDGES OF THE TOILET BOWL WAITING FOR THE NEXT REGURGITATION. "Feeling better???" Lauren asked, her hand running on my back and caressing me softly like a mother in law taking care of her son's pregnant wife.

"Sure....." I smiled at her and closed my eyes, steadying my head.

I was trying my best not to think of the disgusting photo and only focus on building my list reputation. The doorbell suddenly rang and Lauren got up to get it.

"Elly....." just the man I wanted to see walked in and my heart quickly flustered with utmost joy.

I raised my head to look at him and he dropped the bags he was carrying and rushed over to where I was.

I got up and wrapped my arms around him and tried not to weep.

"Adam....." I called his name and he held onto me tight.

"Am right here...baby...am right here....don't worry....." He kissed my hair and I felt the warmth I'd been missing the entire time.

Where has he been?? it's been a whole 24 hours.

"Am right here my dear....." he repeated and it caused me to break down. He wasn't there when I needed him the most. Some man had me trapped to satisfy his lust and the love of my life wasn't there. It was an even strange man that rescued me, whose identify I was still fighting to know.

"Adam....I...." I began but suddenly my eyes caught Aaron and he turned to look at me. He waved and smiled as he took a seat on the couch, receiving the coffee mug from Lauren.

Seeing Aaron reminded me of last time we spoke back at the laundry. He said he found something about the dead girl that would help us get to the bottom of this.

But....if he did, that means they must've taken a sample from her and scanned her DNA. But if they did that, how did her picture get taken with her decapitated head??

Aaron definitely knew something about it and I had to talk to him about it.

I pushed Adam away and I could see his shocked face from the side of my view.

I walked towards Aaron and sat just besides him.

"Eleanor...are you...."

"Aaron...you called me in the afternoon....you said you found something about ....about the girl....." I shook him and he nodded, taking my hands off of him.

"Of course....." he replied.

Lauren and Adam walked towards us and took their seats with Adam next to me and Lauren besides Aaron.

"Her name is Angela Juan. She was an economics student at the University of Buenos Aires...."

"Angela Juan....." I repeated.

"Exactly....." Aaron agreed. "She was reported missing a week prior to the incident and her closest friends said she had gone out with her boyfriend and that was the last they saw of her. Apparently...no one knows she's dead...they just know she's missing....." Aaron looked at me and Lauren simultaneously before looking last at me.

"Why didn't they report to the police then???" Lauren asked and I nodded agreeably.

"Maybe they thought she would come back...I mean she was with her boyfriend...." Adam explained but it didn't seem tangible.

There was something else lurking in this story and we had to catch it at any cost.

"University of Buenos Aires you said?" I asked Aaron and he nodded.

"Angela Juan....great...." I parted my knee before looking at Lauren. "Please arrange for transportation...we are going there tomorrow....." She nodded and turned to her phone.

I let out a deep breath and closed my eyes leaning on the back of the chair. I pulled my legs up and hugged them like a pillow.

A million thoughts battled in my head making me wonder what I was going to do next. Vivid eruptions came like fainted snapes of memory creating a fog all over my mind.

I touched my heart and felt it pounding against my chest.

"It's okay Eleanor....am right here....." the voice of the man I loved came in a very low tone but had such a huge impact on me. It can not be measured in octaves, but in decibels.

His articulation brought forth joy and laughter to my soul. His words are like music set to a melody sang by angels. Having him here with me felt like birds summoning me to paradise.

"Someone sent me a very nasty picture again...." I murmured and he brought my fave to look at his, his expression questioning me all the way.

"What???"

"It's true....." Lauren replied handing the phone over to him. Unlike me, he didn't drop it. He just looked at it with so much attention as if seeing through the picture.

"It's photoshopped....." he turned his head to me and I narrowed my eyes at him.

Aaron stretched his hand and Adam have him the phone. One glance at the picture and he nodded his head.

"True....this picture has been photoshopped....it's not real. We have Angela's body with us and there's absolutely no way this would've happened...." he convinced me and I only sank my head against Adams chest.

Whether real or fake or photoshopped, I didn't care. Adam was here with me and that's all I wanted.

"From now onwards, I will go with you wherever you go.....your shoot, your filming site, your advertisement centres, everywhere....I will be with you 24/7. I'll be your shadow so brace yourself....." he smiled but I could tell he was worried.

He felt insecure that's why he was doing all this.

I couldn't let him do that. As much as it was beautiful to have him around me, I wouldn't be able to breathe. He was Adam Jenner. World's greatest artist and how could he be busy lurking around me instead of boosting his business?

"That's not fair to you...." I objected but it seemed as though he had already made up his mind.

"It's my decision. And not only is it fair....its final!" he bumped his head against mine and I nodded. To be a good wife I had to learn to be submissive and if this was a test, I sure had passed.

"Whatever you want....." I smiled back.

"Your subtle amplitude drives me while at ever utterance I beg you to continue speaking to me for I have never heard a sweeter tone...." he caused me to blush and I laughed.

"Since when are you such a poet???" I asked and he only rubbed his hands against mine, steadying himself on his seat.

"Your audible vibrations are like a musical instrument playing lullabies to my soul...." was his reply and I laughed even harder.

"Adam...what's gotten into you....???" I laughed and smacked his shoulders harder and he joined in.

"All I wanted was that laugh..."