The Shirt

Green Villa.

Ava was very tired all day since she didn't sleep last night. She took a shower and put on Oliver's shirt, this is the only thing she brought from Oliver's villa. She dragged the collar to her nose and smelled it hard. It has her smell on it now but she still could smell Oliver faintly, or maybe it is just her imagination. The soft fabric made her feel relaxed as if she was in his safe embrace and she closed her eyes.

520 Haibin Road, Oliver's Villa

Around 8:30, Oliver came home. After Kiara left he couldn't concentrate on his work, his mind kept flying back to Ava. He had a terrible headache and he was also feeling very tired so he decided to go home and rest.

Mrs. Lee came and knock on the door with a pile of washed clothes in her hand to put them back in the closet. Oliver opened the door and Mrs. Lee saw his tired face she felt sorry for him. She knew he was having a hard time without Ava around.

"Mr. Knight, Are you alright? Do you want me to make a snack for you?" Mrs. Lee asked softly.

"No, Mrs. Lee. I am fine. It's getting late go and have a rest." Oliver looked at the clothes in her hand and his eyes got fixed on Ava's clothes in the pile.

"Well, I'll just put these clothes in the closet first." Mrs. Lee said lightly.

"Leave them, I'll do it," Oliver said in a low voice.

Mrs. Lee put the pile of clothes on the bed and said with a smile, "OK, I'll leave then. Good night Mr. Knight."

As soon as Mrs. Lee left, Oliver picked up the clothes and walked toward his closet. Oliver's clothes were always being sorted out by servants. After Ava came into his life, she would do that. Ava is an organized person so she liked to clean and sort the clothes in the closet neatly and put them in an orderly manner by herself. Every time Oliver opened the door of his closet, he would be able to feel Ava's touch everywhere.

He took out the hangers and started to hang his shirts in them. Suddenly he realized something was not right, there should be a white shirt next to the light blue one. Why is it missing? Although he didn't sort out his clothes but he knew every clothes in his closet. Last month, a new shipment of his shirt came in and he knew there were 32 shirts. Oliver started to count them, and he was right including the one he was wearing there was only 31 shirt in the closet. Suddenly something occur to him and he went to Ava's closet. Her closet was full of clothes, she didn't take a single piece of clothes with her. Did she only take his shirt?

Oliver had camera in every room of this villa except for his bedroom for safety purposes and the app was installed on his phone. He quickly opened the app and start checking the feed of Wednesday and found his suspicion was correct it was Ava who took out his white shirt from the closet. If she loved him so much to take his shirt with her then why she was torturing both of them like that? Oliver felt helpless, he really needed to investigate it as soon as possible so he could bring the woman back to their home.

Oliver took a screenshot and with a meaningful smile on his lips, he thought Ava Green I am coming to get what is mine. In fact, he didn't care about his shirt at all he just wanted to find an excuse to see Ava again. He got out of the villa with a smile on his face and drove toward Ava's parents.

When he came in front of Green Villa, it was only half-past nine. Oliver didn't go inside instead he called Ava.

Ava just lay down on the bed and closed her eyes, she was about to fall asleep when she heard her phone ringing. She took the phone from the bedside table and got a little flustered when saw it was Oliver. She didn't want to pick it up at first but she knew he will keep calling until she did so after hesitating for a while she finally picked it up.

"Hello."

"I'm in front of your house, come down right now. I am here to take back what you took from me." Oliver's eyes were tightly locked in Ava's room, he could see light from the curtain gap. He didn't say clearly what he meant, although in literal meaning it's the shirt but he actually meant his heart.

Ava's heart missed a bit. What does he mean, he couldn't possibly be talking about his shirt, could he? That's the only thing she brought from his place. Ava asked confused, "What are you talking about? What did I take from you?"

"Oh, you don't know? Where's my shirt?" Oliver said coldly.

"Who told you I took your shirt?" Ava didn't know their closet had cameras in them so denied it. She tightly held the shirt and thought he came back to take the only piece of him she had. How will she sleep at night if he took it away from her?

"I have a camera in there I saw it in the feed. Do you want me to send you the picture?" Oliver knew that Ava would not easily admit it that's why he took the screenshot.

Ava was speechless, he has a camera in the closet? Ava closed her eyes when realized that she will have to give it back but she was reluctant so she said calmly, "I've soiled your shirt and thrown it away."

"It looks like you want me to come up and take it myself." Oliver threatened Ava coldly but there was a smile hanging on the corner of his lips.

Ava panicked and quickly said, "No..no I am coming down right now."

"Be quick, I don't have all night," Oliver said then hung up.

Ava stared at the phone, there were pain and anger in her beautiful eyes. She cursed him inside her heart, he is a billionaire but so stingy that he came back for one shirt. If she knew earlier that he will find out and come to her house to take it back she would never bring it with her. Ava dejectedly went to her bathroom and took off his shirt and put on her own clothes and head downstairs.