Chapter 111 - One of His Mistresses

Hayri's gaze looked so lethal as he shifted it from Allie to his dad. At any moment, it could emit fire and brimstone to swallow her up. She did not know how much he heard but what was certain at this moment was the fact that he was angry. Before Mr. Dioko could organize his thoughts as to how he would lay it all down to him, Hayri's phone rang. Seeing the reluctance of both as to who would speak up to him first, he pulled his phone out and answered it.

"Joshua." Hayri said, acknowledging the one on the other line. His eyes eyes constricted as their conversation progressed and Allie took note of that.

"Bring her in the south tomorrow night." Joshua needed not an elaboration of what he meant. One of the deepest ravine in Cebu is located in the southern part of the province. With no further instruction, he ended the call and placed back his phone inside his pocket.

"Who's that? Something is not right."

Hayri knew that Mr. Dioko quoted from what he just mentioned.

"I just want her to tell me a very good reason why she betrayed you." He answered with an obvious restraint of his temper.

"Why does it have to be on the south?"

"It's simple, dad. If her answer is not satisfying enough, her grave would be just below her."

"Hayri, I didn't raise you to be a vindictive person. I thought you're over with it. What causes your anger

now?" Mr. Dioko gave out a smirk, knowing all too well that there's something else which had just provoked his anger.

"Dad, I can't help myself now. I thought I wouldn't mind it but...it hurts! I'm sorry." Hot tears stung into his eyes, forgetting that he was no longer the hurt high school lad complaining before his father the way he used to be. The sense of filial intimacy always became domineering whenever he was with him, making him want to become a child once again where he could pour his heart out and be comforted in the end.

Allie looked at him with heavy heart. She thought she was already successful in helping him get out of his anger and revenge. What mattered to her at the moment was no longer her demise but Hayri's life. She honestly didn't want him to waste his future on revenge. At least, it could be her way of returning all the favor. In the eyes of the law, they were guilty but in the law of gratitude, she was insufficient.

"Because you think she's one of my mistresses, right?" Mr. Dioko chuckled out loudly which brought more tears to Hayri.

"You, indeed, would have a reason to be angry but certainly not because of what you suspected." Mr. Dioko chuckled out more loudly as he ran his eyes also to Allie.

Seeing her confused looks, Mr. Dioko made it clear to her. "Dear, Hayri thought you were one of my one - night stands."

"What???? He'd better know the real me than that one!" She threw Hayri a frown and his tense expression softened.

"Just what that intimate confidential matter all about then?" He raised a brow, challenging them to open up.

"I'll be the one to tell all about it to you tonight." Mr. Dioko butted in to dismiss the topic. He was already excited to tell them over dinner the bright sides of being behind the bars for years.

"Hayri, is it Joshua just now, the one whom you entrusted the task of hunting Allyza down?" She looked up to him with lids pulled down heavily by guilt.

Before he answered, he held out his hand to her and they walked slowly towards the dining room. "Yes."

"Can you change the location?" Her request made Mr. Dioko glanced up at her as he pulled out a seat for him in the dining table.

Allie also returned his gaze with an implied meaning but Mr. Dioko failed to catch it. "Change the location because you can't be so sure of Joshua's loyalty this time. He might have prepared a back - up team to turn you up to the authority."

Hayri looked at her with guilt, thinking back of all the efforts she had made to help him quell his desire for revenge and to help him heal his pain. He knew all about the magnitude of her sincerity to redirect his course to a better life.

"So you are already prepared to accept the fact that I might kill her with my own hands?"

"I would understand."

"How about all your efforts then to help me change?"

"I want you to change, not because I want her life to be spared, but because I really want to see you in the heights of success. But whatever will happen tomorrow, if you can't hold back your temper, then better do it safely. Don't leave a trace. I don't want you to go to jail."

"If I have to make a guess, I think he will not be able to keep himself from falling in love with her." Mr. Dioko laughed out loud, making both Hayri and Allie uneasy. For Hayri, his dad drifted out of the topic but for Allie, he was getting close to a confession.

"Dad, please don't make a joke like that. Zheena is listening."

"Okay, okay, let's talk about something else. I'm sorry, dear." He looked at Allie with those amused look and Allie could not help but laugh as well.

"I hate both of you!" He exclaimed angrily but Allie was quick to stand up and hug him from behind his chair. Hayri melted easily, earning him a rolled eyes and a sense of joy from his dad.

The night after that was well spent in sharing all their experiences. However, the time was still not enough to catch up all those things they missed for five long years of being away from each other.

When Hayri pulled out his car from their parking lot later, Allie got the chance to talk to Mr. Dioko alone again.

"Sir, I am Adrian's ex - wife. I ran away when General Alfonso exposed me out to Mr. Gregorio and Mr. Lopez. I just did not expect that I would run into your company. But looking back to it, I have no regrets. I understand better the extent of Hayri's anger. And I understand better why he deserved a good life. You made a deal with the devil just for him to live and I don't want it to be wasted."

Mr. Dioko smiled at her with battling emotions of being greatly surprised and being drawn out of pity towards all that she went through. Furthermore, he was overwhelmed by the purity of her heart in treasuring those things which she felt she was greatly owed with.

"I'm sorry to hear that, dear. But I've been informed that Jane is soon to be engaged to Adrian. I never thought that you are the wife who disappeared for already more than five years."

"That's the consequence of running away."

"Why did you not communicate with him?"

"I was afraid that Adrian would be also dragged into Hayri's interrogation- plus -torture team. It would be better if they know

nothing. "

"I was not so sure then if Hayri was working with the whole syndicate against me." She went on, her expression displayed the fear she must had felt all these years.

"They all think that our exposure was due to the works of the secret agents that the PDEA dispersed. What Hayri was being so mad about was the betrayal. He knew that you were the beneficiary of the scholarship program eversince you were in elementary."

Allie could not help herself from breaking into tears again especially that the topic of Ajie's remarriage was brought in. She still couldn't forgive him for misunderstanding him and for all those stinging words he threw at her. No matter how good Hayri was, no matter what his sacrifices were, her heart still stubbornly cling to Ajie.

"If only a heart can be taught, I would have loved the possibility of you and my son. That would make so happy whatever may happen to me."

Allie was suddenly dumbfounded at the realization that Mr. Dioko was more endangered now that he decided to become a state witness. Her eyes were glued to him as her heart ached for him.

"Don't worry, dear. What are those money that I have for if I won't have the best security team around me?"

He laughed as he saw the worries in her looks.

"Don't worry for William, also. I will keep him with me or I'll send him to other country of his choice."

Allie just nodded silently. Tonight, there was still one more thorn in her heart which needed to be plucked out. Her heart sank again as she saw Hayri, the very sharp thorn in her heart, pulling his car in front of them.

"What about him, sir? How would he deal with the knowledge that I am already married?"

"Not anymore."

"But..." Allie started to protest.

"You already have too many worries for tonight. Forget it as of now. Goodnight, my dear." He patted her shoulder and smiled as Hayri came out to walk her to the other side of the car.

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Early in the morning while Allie was still asleep in her suite in Margueritta's, her phone rang. She rubbed her eyes as she picked it up and she felt there were lots of sands inside her conjunctivae. She glanced at her watch and realized that she had just slept for only few hours. However, when she checked who the caller was, her drowsiness immediately flew away.

It was Jane.