Chapter 59 - Under Attack
Somewhere in Australia.
In a dimly-lit, s.p.a.cious room surrounded with computers working on their own, Sei was quietly staring at a large screen when his cellphone suddenly vibrated.
Zaki, who was sitting right in front the door looking like a lazy security guard, immediately went on alert. He knew that n.o.body would ever call Sei"s personal phone at this moment. Even his own grandfather couldn"t. Therefore, he could only deduce that it was none other than the wife.
He then instantly flew like the wind behind Sei as he quietly attempted to eavesdrop on the conversation.
Sei on the other hand, watched his phone as it rang for a while before he finally answered it.
"H-h.e.l.lo?"
As soon as Sei heard Davi"s sweet voice, he looked as though he just heard a certain mystic sound, and he seemed to suddenly forget that he needed to talk back.
"H-h.e.l.lo? S-sei?" By the time she said her second "h.e.l.lo", the man seemed to wake up. However, the moment he heard her call his name, for some unknown reason, no words came out of his mouth.
"h.e.l.lo? Can you hear me?"
Hearing her third h.e.l.lo, Sei seemed to returned to his senses once again.
However, before he could open his mouth to answer her, the girl"s voice abruptly played again like a beautiful song. "Is this my husband, Sei?"
Her gentle voice calling him sweetly as "my husband", instantly stunned the man. He couldn"t speak and he looked absolutely dumbfounded. Well, part of it was because the girl never addressed him like that before.
"Sei?"
The girl called his name for the third time, and Sei finally opened his mouth but before any sound could came out from it, Davi"s voice rang out again. "Thank you for letting me contact you."
Upon hearing her, Sei remained silent. He felt like he was a computer currently being attacked by super viruses, one after another, not even giving him the chance to react. Although the attack actually wasn"t really that fast, it was he who was strangely reacting very slowly. He was like a supercomputer suddenly lagging due to some powerful virus attack.
A short silence went by and Sei somehow managed to revive himself quickly. However, for the fourth time, before he could say a thing out of his mouth, the girl on the other side of the phone talked again and this time, the attack seemed quite lethal.
"I miss you," she said and the call promptly ended.
That moment, silence enveloped the entire room and Sei remained in a daze. The last attack seemed to be strong enough to shut down the computer by force.
Zaki, who was eavesdropping the whole time -although he didn"t hear a thing- waved his hand in front of Sei"s face but the man remained motionless.
"My G.o.d Sei! What the h.e.l.l happened? Wake up! The call already ended without you even saying a word back. Are you serious?" Zaki"s loud voice echoed in the whole room. He looked as though he didn"t know whether to laugh or cry. He was so curious as to what the girl had told him for him to be dumbfounded to that extent.
Thankfully, the man seemed to finally come back to reality though he just looked blankly at him.
"She called my name, three times," he said and Zaki"s forehead was quickly covered with deep lines for a moment, but he soon realized that it was actually a big thing since surprisingly, Davi never called him by name apart from that one time when she was kidnapped.
"And?" Zaki continued asking.
"She called me "my husband","
"H-huh?" Zaki was even more confused. So what? Was that a big deal?
"It"s the first time I heard her address me as that."
"Oh… okay. And?"
"She thanked me,"
"And?"
"She said…" Zaki was like a little kid waiting for the new year"s final countdown as he waited for the continuation of Sei"s words.
"She said she missed me."
A short silence followed Sei"s statement before Zaki could talk again. "That"s all?"
"Mm. That"s all. I felt like I was suddenly under attack."
"Pfft. Hahaha." Seriously?
Zaki rolled on the floor as he laughed with all his heart. He even smacked the floor as he laughed out loud like a crazy person, while Sei just quietly raised his head and stared at the dim light above him. At that moment, a certain warm disturbance was brewing inside Sei"s chest and a mysterious and unfathomable fire blazed across his eyes.