Daniel was caught off guard by Samantha. But he held her in his arms and brought her to her feet. He didn"t speak, he just let her be. Samantha who"s still agitated was trembling. The scene kept playing in her head; from when she started to gather the evidence, posting them online, Hannah"s stalker and text threats, and the kidnapping. She terribly felt guilty."It"s okay... you"re okay.", Daniel whispered as he stroke Samantha"s hair. "I"m here now.", He repeated the same words to her, trying to soothe her.
Daniel called a.s.sistant Ahn in the middle of the night and instructed him to get his car and take it to Sapphire Gardens, Samantha"s home.
The couple then got in Samantha"s car and Daniel insisted to drive the two friends. With the two best friends quietly sitting at the back, Daniel concentrated on driving towards Hannah"s house, stopping by her cafe to quickly close it. When they arrived at her house, it was already past two in the morning.
Samantha helped Hannah to bed after she took a quick shower. When Hannah was done, Samantha helped her dry her hair and a.s.sisted her to her bed.
Samantha lowered her head, "Han, I"m sorry... this is all my fault.", she said in a low voice, feeling despondent.
"S, what are you talking about? It"s not your fault!", Hannah quickly stopped Samantha.
"But it is, it was me who made the article. I was the one who caused this to happen. And I... I put you in danger." Samantha"s tears fell and she sobbed. "It was very stupid. I was careless.", she kept blaming herself.
Hannah embraced Samantha, "Don"t say that! It wasn"t you, okay? It was Harry! He did this. Not you!"
Samantha didn"t say anything more but she still blamed herself. She continued to sob and just then, Daniel knocked, "Hey, I made you some tea... I hope you don"t mind that I helped myself in your kitchen. Here.. take this." Daniel handed the tea to Hannah.
"Thank you, Mr. Cho.", Hannah received the cup and took a sip before placing it on her bedside table.
Daniel turned to Samantha and patted her back, "Come on, Hannah needs to rest."
Samantha nodded and bid farewell to her friend before they left her house.
When they were outside Hannah"s house, Samantha hesitated, "I feel like I should stay here with her, I wanna make sure she"s all right.", she said before they reached her car.
"Don"t worry, I already asked someone to stay here just in case. You also need to rest."
Samantha and Daniel got in the car and drove towards Sapphire Gardens. They were both quiet on the car ride.
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Before arriving at the scene earlier, Daniel drove around the city while he waited for Samantha"s location. When he received the pinned position of where the call dropped, he sped off on his Maybach towards it. On the way, some police cars drove past him.
When he reached the tunnel, he received a call.
"Mr. Cho, I lost track of the number that you provided earlier but I got an alert from police dispatch and they were heading towards the same direction. I cross-checked and the number who called the police to report a kidnapping is the same number that you gave me. They are currently in an old neighborhood, I will send you the address."
Right after he received the address, Daniel Cho spared no time and drove fast.
Until now that it was over, he didn"t know how Samantha and her best friend ended up in that situation. He was able to talk to an officer before they left the scene but the policeman was only able to give a little information as they were still currently investigating what happened. Daniel knew that there was something more to it.
The two arrived at Samantha"s house and a.s.sistant Ahn who was waiting in Daniel"s Maybach greeted them. Ever since his boss started dating Samantha, he was even busier than ever.
Daniel, with his eyes closed, sat and waited in Samantha"s bed while she was taking a shower. When she was done, she quickly changed into her comfy pajamas.
She walked towards Daniel. "Are... are you staying for the night?" Samantha asked but Daniel didn"t answer, his eyes remained closed.
Samantha felt like she did something wrong, "Are you angry?"
Still no response.
"Why is he not answering me?", Samantha thought.
She climbed on the bed and faced him, "How did you know I was there?" she was curious.
This time, Daniel opened his eyes and raised an eyebrow at her. "How did you end up there?"
Samantha swallowed and avoided his icy glare. She didn"t know where to start explaining.
She decided to tell him about Hannah having a stalker and because she was worried for her, she drove to her cafe to help her close it but she ended up witnessing Hannah getting kidnapped. So she trailed the van and called the police. She told him how she waited in the car before she went into the house and some parts after that until Daniel showed up.
Daniel already knew all that, that"s what he knew from the police. What he doesn"t know yet was Harry"s motive. Why it all happened. So he thought, "So you"re really not going to tell me everything?"
"So you decided to be the hero?", he said in a cold tone.
Feeling wronged, Samantha tried to reason, "What was I supposed to do?"
"You"re supposed to wait for the cops."
"But they were taking so long and I couldn"t wait any longer!"
"So you went inside and got yourself hurt.", he said without emotions.
"I was hurt in the process of rescuing my best friend! Why are you making it sound like I did something wrong?"
"Because you could have been hurt pretty badly!!"
Daniel sighed, it was late and they were both stressed. He decided to stop and just let Samantha take a rest first. "You should get some rest.", he said while he tucked in Samantha.
"Are you mad?" she asked but he didn"t answer. "He is, he obviously is."
"Sleep."
With a hurt expression, Samantha urged, "You"re not staying?"
"You"re not afraid that I"m going to take advantage of you?"
Samantha didn"t answer and just stared at him, how was she supposed to answer that question? "Why? Does he want to take advantage of me?"
Daniel Cho sighed and sat on the bed next to her, "Sleep. I won"t leave until you fall asleep."
Feeling exhausted, Samantha crawled to Daniel"s side and hugged his waist as she closed her eyes.
When Daniel saw that Samantha was already in a deep sleep, he carefully left the bed and exited her house. He knows that Samantha left out some details and he wanted to make sure that she won"t face danger because of this in the future, so he asked a.s.sistant Ahn to investigate the matter thoroughly.
"Find out everything about Harry Davis and anything related to what happened earlier.", said, Daniel, as he boarded his car.
"Yes, Boss."
Daniel is hurt that Samantha didn"t tell him everything but after what she experienced tonight, he couldn"t bear to scold her.