99 Rescue

Lucian stared at her wide eyed, he was overjoyed that she was ending her engagement with Freohr, but why do he feel like something was amiss?

"Why?" He asked.

"What do you mean "why"?" Aisha frowns, aren't he's happy that she will end her relationship with Freohr?

"Don't get me wrong," Lucian quickly said when he saw Aisha misunderstood him. "I feel happy, ecstastic even, but I just feels like it's so... sudden?" Then it was his turn to frown. He wasn't sure how he will describe his feeling, but he feels like she has more reason as to why she wants to end her engagement with him.

"So that it was much easier to detached myself from him." Aisha looked at Lucian. "You know that I was planning on having my revenge to the Cavellis, if I end my engagement with him, my revenge won't be too hard---"

"You just want to protect him." Lucian cut her off in mid-sentence, his voice is as sharp as a blade can be. "I am not stupid, Aisha. I know the reason why you want to end your relationship is to drive a wedge between you two, and by doing that, you will give an impression to your enemies that they can't use Freohr to take ahold of you since you two aren't sharing any kind of close relationship with each other.

Aren't I right?" Lucian asked acidly.

Aisha sighs frustratedly, she slowed down the car and made a gesture behind the mafiosi in the back to go first to the location. She stopped the car and turned her body to face Lucian.

"Why are you angry? Yes, you are right. I am doing this because I want to protect him. Happy?" Aisha angrily said. "Look, this jealousy of yours, it's irritating. I already told you that I only see Freohr as my younger brother and nothing else!"

"It's not that!" Lucian was also getting angry, he glares menacingly at her. "I know you, Aisha, you will do everything to keep everyone around you safe even if it means sacrificing yourself to do that. That's what I'm angry about. I don't want you to do something that is dangerous, and knowing you, you will do it alone." Lucian said, emphasizing the word "alone".

Aisha suddenly froze for a moment as she almost choke on the words she was about to say to him to counter his words. She suddenly didn't know what to say because he was right. She will do everything to keep those people whom she cared around her safe, even if it means putting herself in danger.

But he certainly got one thing wrong.

"Lucian," Aisha said helplessly, she enveloped Lucian's face in between her hands as she stared deeply in his blue eyes. "Look, I am also not stupid. I know my abilities and also my shortcomings. This fight, I can't do it alone. That's why I asked for your help, right?" The last sentence was said with a lace of sarcasm as Aisha rolled her eyes at him.

"Really?" Lucian lifted his brow. "You don't plan to leave me and do something dangerous?"

"How could that be?" Aisha chuckled. "I won't leave you," even if you wanted me to leave you, I won't. "And yes, I will do something dangerous but it isn't something that can easily kill me."

Lucian frowns at the thought of her dying. "Don't talk about dying."

Aisha rolled her eyes but nodded her head nonetheless.

Then suddenly, Lucian's eyes gleem with a hint of mischievousness. "Don't forget about our agreement."

Aisha suddenly groans. "Yes, I won't ever forget that I am indebted to you and I have to pay it for my life."

"Good." Lucian nodded; feeling satisfied. He swore to himself that he will tied her to him after all of this was over.

Aisha then started the car and quickly overtake them, and soon enough they arrived in the scene. The first thing Aisha saw was the police tape around the crime scene and a familiar ash-brown haired guy, with a few strands of white hairs in his roots due to old age, wearing a police uniform, he had a tobacco in between in his thick lips as he ordered several policemen investigating the scene.

He is the Police Chief that Augustus mentioned a few days ago.

But did his sudden appearance make Aisha and the rest worried?

No, because this person was once her father's, Morano, second-hand man.

Hans Costas was known as the Police Chief in Kingsley City but when in all actuality, he was the "Quick Palm Blade Costas" in the mafia world back in the days of his youth.

Seeing him again, Aisha had a subtle gleam in the depth of her violet eyes. Approaching him quietly behind him, Aisha suddenly launch at him and aim a strong punch behind his back. But he obviously predicted her sneaky attack for he blocked Aisha's strong fist with his huge palm, and not once did he turn around to look at him.

Aisha smirked at this and loosened her fist, enclosed his wrist in a deadly gripped, and then Aisha twisted his arm but Costas followed her action, and face her, and thrusted his palm towards her. Aisha turn her head to the side, but the tip of his fingers still cut a few strands of her hair.

"It's been so long kiddo, you've grown!" Costas laughed merrily.

"And you also grew older, old man," Aisha smirked at him. "More wrinkly than before."

"Still have that poisonous tongue of yours, eh? It seems you still haven't met the one who will tame your viscious tongue."

Aisha: "..." In fact, this tongue of hers has been tamed earlier.

Seeing that these two suddenly fought, the people from the De La Torre famiglia isn't too surprised. They knew that this is their unique way of greeting each other.

If it was before, Aisha and Costas will fought for hours, but now, time is crucial. They need to save Freohr or else...

"That boy has been there for more than two hours," Costas took a long deep drag before releasing a puff of smoke and dropped the tobacco into the ground before stepping on it with his combat boots. "But I'm sure he's still alive."

"How do you know that he's still alive?" Someone asked.

"Because I trained these two kiddos how to survive in the wild," Costas smirked and ruffles Aisha's hair. "I've thrown them to the cliff numerous of times when they are still a perisher[1]... well they still are but you all get my point."

Aisha's mouth twitched, her face darkens. "What perisher? I am very obedient when I was a child!"

Eveyone: "..."

Lucian who is watching their interaction on the side and was close to erupting from his jealousy: "..."

Heh, sure, obedient, let's see who will believe that lies of yours.

Maybe Aisha caught the absurdity of her words so she quickly changed the topic. "Let's start the rescue now, we don't know how bad Freohr's condition, we need to act fast."

"Yeah." Costas turned to face the others and give some orders while Aisha went to the edge of the road, gazing below the cliff.

According to the video, Freohr fell from this position, Aisha thought.

Probably because everyone was attentive to whatever Costas was saying, no one noticed that Aisha was getting ready to jump to the cliff without any equipments.

Of course, her actions didn't went unnoticed by Lucian. As Aisha was about to jump, Lucian had pulled the back of her clothes.

His eyes dark as veins appeared in his neck, telling everyone how pissed he was at the time. "Didn't we just had a talked about not doing anything dangerous by yourself?" His voice is low, but there was a hidden anger in his voice.

Aisha involuntarily shivers but then she smiled mischievously and face Lucian. She then hugged his body tightly and with an evil smirk on her face, she said, "Then let's do dangerous things together."

And then she pulls him with her into the cliff.

[1] British, informal, a child who behaves very badly.