Elizabeth reached back to her hotel and called up Lillian and explained her the whole situation. Lillian had just found out about her pregnancy with her fiance, but listning to Elizabeth she forgot about it completely.
Just like her friend, Lillian was too shocked at the circ.u.mstances. The coincidences were just too many, to simply ignore.
"Heyy! Lizie! Do you remember once our school had a charity fest in the city"s best orphange. It was Saint Francis Xavier. The building was also red in color. May be you should try!"
In just few minutes, Elizabeth was already driving towards the west direction of the city, where the orphanage was located. Soon, she parked the car outside the black gate and walked towards the tiled pathway. The building indeed looked similar to the drawing. The garden had swings and flowers, except it was already late so none of the kids were out. The red colored building had "Saint Francis Xavier" written on top of it in black color. Elizabeth was now even more confident of having reached the right orphanage.
She reached the reception area, where a middle aged lady in her early fifties was sitting reading a book.
"Excuse me! I am here to enquire about a boy who has been recently adopted. His name is Rhehan and he has been adopted by Mr. Aurthor Graham."
The middle aged lady looked up and was stunned to see the famous "Elizabeth Lodge" standing before her. "Ahh! Ahhh ! Miss Lodge! Please have a seat! I am a huge fan! It is our pleasure to have you here. Can I take a picture with you?"
Elizabeth was irritated at the lady"s sufden outburst and out if the context reply, but nevertheless obliged, since she had her own selfish purpose. The lady got her staff to click various pictures in her personal camera, standing along-side Elizabeth.
"Now let"s just come to the point! I want a complete information about the boy named Rhehan. I think five or six months back he was adopted by the famous Graham couple."
"Yes! Yes! Offcourse I remember the boy. He had same green eyes as yours. He was also very calm and obedient but a little sad and aloof. Initially he did not know how to speak much, but he was a fast learner. But he missed his uncle a lot."
"He has an uncle?"
"Yes! Not by blood relation. But he seemed to really care for the boy but was helpless. He would often come and check on the boy, till he was adopted by Mr. Graham."
"I see! The boy was already quite grown up. Where did he live before this?"
"We don"t know. His uncle just said, he found him and took care of him. But yes! The boy always believed to have played with Lions. I think he has a good imagination!"
"Can you please tell the name and other information about his uncle?" Elizabeth asked sweetly, holding the lady"s hand.
The lady who was already star-struck did not even budge to ask Elizabeth"s purpose of asking the information.
"He did not reveal much. He just said he doesn"t have any permanent address and was struggling himself to take the responsibility of a kid. We just know his name. It was Xio Lee."
Elizabeth had already expected the person"s name to be Lee. But she was devastated at not getting anymore information from the lady. She warmly thanked the lady and walked back towards her car.
She sat on the driver"s seat and texted Lilly about the latest findings.
She casually scrolled through her inbox feeling helpless and suddenly came across an old message from Davis.
"Don"t forget to go to west woods."
She read the message and suddenly switched on the ignition heading further towards west!
Davis left him in the woods! He said that himself.
Why does Rhehan claim to have played with Lions and monkeys? She looked at the second drawing again! Indeed it did look like a jungle. She needed to go to the west woods to get the answer. Elizabeth gulped at the thought of going alone in the dark west woods, but for her son she was ready to face any danger!