Chapter 209 - 209: Morning news
Daniella woke up with her heart banging uncontrollably. She raised a hand to touch her chest and felt her heartbeat, she gasped hard and looked around only to realize that she"s inside of an unfamiliar room.
She removed her blanket and got out of the bed. She"s still in the judge"s house and was planning to leave soon. From today, her business with the judge was done. He won"t see her anymore and she didn"t have a plan to see him as well.
Walking down the stairs, she found the judge sitting on the high stool chair in the kitchen. She occupied the seat next to him and stared at the television screen playing the morning news.
"Good morning," the judge greeted gaily. Today, he woke up with a light feeling and he didn"t know why.
Daniella glanced at him with a blank face, no matter how much she tried to force her lips to smile, she just couldn"t.
"Do you want a coffee?" he asked.
She nodded once and looked back at the screen. It was currently playing the news about the President in the cutting ribbon of the newly opened bridge.
"Here," the judge set the cup in front of Daniella and sat back on his chair. She might have a long face but he"s still delighted to know that she"s around.
"Hm... I should maybe get a girlfriend," he thought as he drank his black coffee.
Daniella held the cup and moved it closer to her lips. As she slowly drank the coffee her ears heard the newscaster mentioning the name Evan Su.
She looked at the television, the cup she was holding drop to the table spilling all the hot liquid around. Her body felt the burning hotness of the coffee as it dropped on her legs but her mind and body couldn"t cycle the pain as she was too immersed at the news on the television.
The judge stared at the coffee shading his table cloth, then he shifted his sight to Daniella who was staring deeply at the image of the Su Financial CEO.
Her hands on the table squeezing into fists, her cheeks gradually turning red in anger and her round eyes narrowing indifferently, the judge realized that Evan Su was someone special to his guest.
He cleared his throat to get her attention but she remained staring at the television. A line appeared in between his brows as he tried to wipe the table.
Then he remembered what she told him last night.
"Love, they should forbid it."
His mouth curled bitterly, now he understood why she came to stay in his place overnight. He might not know who she really was but he knew that she"s someone special. Those eyes, the way they changed colour, it scared him but he thought before it was just a hoax to frighten him but it was real and now while she was having that trouble expression, he could not help but sympathize her.
If she was his daughter, he would go and kill anyone that will hurt her. To see a woman hurting that much, it pained him. He let out a heavy sigh and wiped the remaining spilt coffee on the table. Then he turned around and decided to leave her alone.
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At the Su Financial Bank.
Evan was in the middle of the meeting with Kirby and his secretary when Camille barged in. For a moment, due to so much work, he forgot the reality he was in.
He looked at the bedroom door in his office. If it was Daniella, she would be inside waiting for him in the bed, she never interrupted his meeting and always cared about his work.
By the thought of her, Evan let out a sigh. He asked Kirby and his secretary to leave the room.
"Camille, you can"t barge in here. I have a job."
Camille pouted her lips. She walked closer to him despite the grim look on his face.
"You are my fiancé now Evan. Let"s have lunch together."
Evan shook his head in refusal, "Camille, I don"t love you alright? This is just a marriage in a paper nothing else so don"t expect me to-" the rest of his word froze when Camille unexpectedly turned around and fled the place hastily.
He rose a brow in disbelief, did Camille just left him? When he remembered the tears in her eyes before rushing out of his office, Evan cursed out and immediately ran after her.
How childish! He said in his mind. He took the available elevator to follow her and worried that the employee might see her in that state. When he reached the ground floor, he found her storming out of the building.
With big steps, he rushed towards her. He was able to stop her as soon as she stepped out of the building.
Confusion scrambled over him when she abruptly encircled her hands around his waist and hug him tightly. He placed both hands on her shoulder and about to push her away when flashes from cameras almost blinded his sight.
He shut his eyes momentarily, he only opened it when he felt her lips on his.
Quickly, he pushed Camille away but she was hugging him so tight that she didn"t separate from him.
"What are you doing?" he said in a grumble.
"Mr Su, is it true that you and Ms Male are engaged?"
"Did you give the ring she has in her finger?"
"How did you propose?"
One after another, questions were asked to Evan. He didn"t have time to answer any of it as Camille started answering the question.
"We are engaged and yes he did give me this ring," saying that with a delighted tone, she raised a hand and a ring with a perfectly shaped diamond shone by the reflection of the sun.
"Where did she get that ring?" Evan asked himself. He had never given her a ring let alone propose to her.
When Camille pulled away from Evan"s embrace, she swaddled a hand around his arms. Locking it to make sure that he won"t escape.
"Evan is my childhood friend and I am glad that he"s back to me."
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Daniella"s eyes shut when the live coverage ended. Resting her arms on the table, she lowered her head and buried her face on her palm.
"I will wait for you."
She cracked upon remembering Evan"s promise. Did he get tired waiting that he decided to get back to his annoying ex? It"s not even a week since they broke up yet his new fiancée was already on the television showing her ring to the world.
She lifted her head and stared at her finger which still had the tan line from wearing her ring. She snickered bitterly once again, this time it was louder, her shoulders sunken were trembling as she continued laughing.
So foolish! her mind was so amused with her situation. Fate really has a funny way to play her life.
She brushed her palms over her face all the way up to her hair, then she pulled her hair, tugged her forehead on the table repeatedly. There was a pain every time her forehead hit the table but it was nothing for her.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
She didn"t stop hurting herself. All she wanted now was to have a pain that can take over her brain. She wanted the type of pain that will burn her inside, the pain that will make her forget why she was hurting. Her emotion was lost with abandonment and betrayal. She felt nausea so she held onto the table enough to support and let her breath slowly.
She knew how to ignore her pain, rocked it away but right now regardless of what she did the warm pain which seemed lethal was devouring her heart.
"Your phone is ringing."
Daniella wanted to ignore the judge"s words but a part of her knew that she needed to take that call.
When she looked at the screen, her eyebrows creased. It was Roman Lee.
She rejected the call and buried her face on her palms once again but her phone rang again and again
She decided to answer the call, and when she did a sound of crying, begging and groaning bothered in her ears
She separated the phone from her ears and stared at it confusedly.
"What"s happening?" her voice waved as she asked that. The voices were familiar and it made her heart pulverized.
She put the phone on speaker and waited for the other line to speak.
"Daniella. I have all your friends and would you believe it? They actually snitched you out."
Daniella swallowed hard repeatedly. Now it was confirmed that it was indeed her friends.
She turned off the speaker and placed her thumb closer to the end b.u.t.ton but before pressing it, she sighed and said, "let me know where you throw their bodies as I don"t want the police asking me about them."
As she ended the call, the hopes of her friends to be rescued also disappeared.