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34 - Puzzled

FRANCIS'S POV

She was next to me, smiling as I closed my eyes, drifting into sleep. But the smile didn't reach her eyes.
It was fake, her happiness. 

Fake.

I wanted to ask why but before I could my body shut down to sleep.

Why was she faking her happiness to me?

-

My eyes shot open as I heard deep voices talking beside me, one unfamiliar, one familiar.

Someone was sitting next to me, but the light was blurring my sight and for a second, I could swear I saw her in front of me. "Angel?"

When my eyes adjusted to the light, I looked at my surroundings.

I was still in my room, but without my love.
There was someone who looked like a doctor, looking at his computer with a needle filled with blood lying next to it. And to my left, Xavier stood over me with a worried face.

"Boss, you're awake!" he breathes out, thankful, and I raise an eyebrow at him.

"Of course, I'm awake. What's going on?" I ask skipping to the point at which the doctor's eyes flicker from his computer to me worriedly.

"Sir," he starts and looks back to his computer once more before focusing on me. "Have you had anything to eat today?" he asks and when I look out the window, I could see that it was already sunset. How long have I been asleep?

"Just soup," I answer and he nods to me and stands up.

"I'm afraid to break it to you, but whoever served you this soup... had drugged it with a heavy amount of sleeping pills," he said, and I could feel my heart instantly drop to my gut. 

"You almost overdosed," he added quietly.

She wouldn't do that to me. Would she?

"Francis. Tell me who gave it to you, and we can track the culprit down as fast as possible." Xavier says and I stare him dead in the eye, not daring the show any emotion.

"Valentina did," I deadpanned, and he double looks at me in shock.

"What?" he asked, stunned, but I ignored him and turned to the doctor as I got up.
"Look at the pill storage and do more tests on the DNA you have from me," I demand. The doctor nods and I rush out of the room, Xavier hot on my tail.

"What do you mean 'Valentina'? She didn't know it was drugged, right?" he said, and I shake my head uttering to myself.

"She doesn't have to reason too,"

We walk around aimlessly, and I try to find her but still end up alone after I looked around her favourite places. This mansion was huge. I need to order a search.

"Tell the guards to look for her, I need to attend to work," I say to Xavier who was still following me, and he nods, shouting at the guards near us to follow my command. As I walk in the hallway the thoughts in my mind darken. What if she did drug me, why would she do that?

I had no clue as to why she would do this.

What if she was forced to?

Forced. She could've been forced. And what if she was kidnapped now?

I rushed to my office instantly and started to dial a number on my phone but as I looked over my desk, I froze.

An 'F' was written in the top corner of one of my contracts. I don't remember writing that- and nobody comes into my room without me in it