Chapter 15 - Chapter 14

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((( ZHIO )))

Every step that I took felt heavy. I felt so lost once more, worsened by the deafening silence in my room. Sleep wouldn't come easily but I fought hard to close my eyes and wished for a ridiculous dream to take my reality just that day. Failing to do so, I remembered the flower in my pocket.  

I sat up and watched it with interest and curiosity. Its petals has gradually lost its pure natural color and was tinged with streaks of brown. It's has begun to wither. But I suddenly remembered her smile and her crazy optimism.  

I dialled Deo to ask for his service. A private one.  

"There was this girl I want you to investigate. Get every details of her for me…Everything,"

I said while obsessing at the sight of the flower.

"She usually goes at dusk to an old chapel beside an abandoned nunnery. Confirm with me first with her picture before delving in deeper."

"Aye sir," Deo responded with his youthful vigor.

"All noted."

"And one last thing, Nobody must know about this," I added before I hung up.  

"Good," I whispered as I let my body fall back to the huge bed.

Enthusiasm sparked inside me again and I was able to close my eyes.

Slowly, I drifted to sleep.  

(SYA)

Master Zhio has waited for five long years hoping a miracle will do its magic and revive his father. I know him too well so his face couldn't lie to me about the sadness pitted within his chest. But he needed to be firm or everything he's built would crumble to nothing. Master James had been in that dilemma too as he had chosen Zhio over Mitchel in her dangerous labor.  

I still remembered the hushed conversation between the couple before that fateful day. Miss Mitchelle herself said that if ever a complication would occur in her birthing, Master James must choose the child in her womb over her life.

The doctor gave him a measly two minutes to make the decision. Mitchelle pleaded in between pangs of extreme muscle contraction that James must do what they initially decided. He must choose Zhio no matter what.  

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