Noah.Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
December 16, 2009.
After Farah rushed back to the airport after getting a phone call from Lena, informing her about the disaster awaited for her to solve, Noah went back to his hotel to change then went to his office, he had an important meeting with his partners discussing the new cases they had. The day was hectic; Noah didn"t leave his office till midnight. Throughout the day, Noah called his parents to know when exactly they were coming to Dubai.
The next day.
The law firm was busy with clients discussing their cases with each lawyer inside the firm. The meeting room was the busiest one, it was a gla.s.s room with had three doors; one led to Noah"s office, the other one led to one of his partner"s office and the last one led to the rest of the enormous firm. The room had a ma.s.sive long table with twenty leather chairs occupied by twenty stern-looking lawyers and employees.
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While Noah and one of his partners were busy discussing a complicated case, Noah"s a.s.sistant joined them for a brief minute informing Noah that his father kept calling him for the last half an hour. He excused himself for five minutes and went to his office to call him.
His father answered him with anger tone and clenched jaw, Noah immediately noticed the clock on his desk and knew the actual reason for his father"s obvious anger. Stricken by remorse, he apologized to his father and promised him to be at the airport in no time. His parents were waiting for him to pick them up after he a.s.sured them before taking their flight that he wouldn"t be late.
His parents Adaline and Donggun were college sweethearts; both were studying abroad in London; Adaline was studying Medicine while Donggun was studying Fine arts. They became close and eventually fell in love.
Noah"s Mother; Adaline was an only child; she lost her parents when she was in middle school and was raised by her aunt who didn"t get married nor had children. While his father Donggun was an orphan and got adopted by a wealthy family in South Korea. When they got married both were obsessed with the idea of having a big family; yet Adaline suffered multiple miscarriages, it became difficult for her to get pregnant. When she finally got pregnant with Noah, the doctors told her it would be her last chance of ever getting pregnant.
11:20 am.
As Donggun and Adaline finally rested in their hotel suite, Noah was in the balcony finishing what was left from his meetings. "We have everything to prove them innocent, you just have to take this one," Noah said firmly, resting his free hand on the balcony railing with the full view of Jumeirah beach across from him.
Back inside the suite, Adaline unpacked and looked at Donggun"s tired face. He was sitting on their king-sized bed resting from unpacking and the long tiring flight. She looked fondly at him and touched his face with the back of her right hand. "You need to sleep, honey." Donggun always suffered from insomnia and it was nearly impossible for him to sleep while in transportation.
"I know." he held her hand and kissed it.
Both had busy lives with Adaline running the neurosurgery department in one of the major hospitals in Sydney and Donggun as a fine art professor and famous painter; every year they took the last three months to travel and to have a romantic time together before heading back to work. Noah looked at them and admired their strong relationship. "Okay, text me with the updates"— Noah ended the call and looked at his parents— "I"m totally free now."
"Good, I"m starving let"s go eat," Adaline said while putting her wavy blond hair in a pun.
"I will stay here," Donggun said, looking at the bed and yawning.
"Okay Dad, call me if you need anything." Donggun smiled, and Adaline gave him a kiss before they went outside the room. Donggun closed the drapes and turned the suite into a block of darkness, then he took the no-disturbance sign on the nightstand beside his bed to put on the outside door handle. He took two sleeping pills and laid on the bed peacefully.
11:45 am.
The sleeping pills took a bit long time to dash him into a deep long sleep. His eyes were slowly drifting off, it felt like he was one step away from falling deeply into sleep when a gentle yet loud knock on the suite door disturbed him.
It followed by seconds of silence then heavy breathing sounds, then another knock came in, this time it was louder and faster. "Room service," a man said with a broken English accent.
Donggun opened his eyes repeatedly; the bills were fully active in his body, he couldn"t answer, he felt like he was dreaming. Another loud knock cracking what was left in Donggun"s energy. "Room service." the man sounded like a machine repeating the two words with no feeling.
Somehow Donggun managed to get out of the bed, he felt dizzy, he took a sip of water beside his bed and lighted up the golden-colored lamp, the light hit his eyes and making him cringe. The man behind the door knocked one more time.
"Yes…" Donggun answered weakly and walked toward the door.
He opened the door to find a tall man wearing the hotel uniform; his vision was little blur he couldn"t see the man"s face clearly, yet he saw the man smiling and his teeth were bright white. He closed his eyes one more time to get his vision clear and looked again at the man. He had an angelic face yet very masculine with his full black beard and bald head. His body was muscled yet slim. "What?" Donggun looked dazzled.
"Room service sir." the man"s reaction didn"t change.
"I put the no disturbance sign…"— the man shook his head no— "it"s right here," Donggun said pointing at the door outside handle without looking at it.
"Sir, there is no sign," the man said confused. "you called room service to change the towels."
"No… I didn"t." Donggun looked at him then looked at the door handle and saw that the sign wasn"t there. He left the man standing and walked to the nightstand to find the sign on it.
"Sir? Can I change the towels now or another time?" the man said loudly.
"Yeah… just… change them and leave." Donggun was confused but didn"t give much thought about it, he a.s.sumed the bills made him forget. It took the room service man two minutes to finish and before he walked to the door; Donggun called him. "Hey…can you put the sign on the handle?" Donggun was already back on the bed.
"Sure." the man took the sign and head outside the suite.