The Last Agosti ✔

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This part is not edited and not polished. Hence, there will be lots of errors and track a little off, maybe. I'll try to get back again to fix this chapter or I may not :P . So, for now enjoy this half-cooked chapter😉

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"Okay, tell me about the little secret you are hiding from me" Diego came back with a coffee mug and took a seat on the recliner across her.

Diego had her paused her backstory earlier to quickly fetch a cup of coffee for himself just to make sure he doesn't doze off while she tells what's happening behind him. While she waited, Ella had settled down on the recliner at the balcony with the thought that the cool breeze might help her out to open up on the matter smoother than she could.

"Jerk! You could have brought a cup for me" she asked staring at him as he stared back at her.

"I'll make coffee for one whole week if you tell me what the hell is happening"

"Not a great reward. Try again"

As much as her inner voice was screaming to her to tell everything to him, Ella somehow wanted to buy some time. Weighing how much of the truth should she tell by mentally rehearsing, cutting and editing her content.

"Coffee for a month. Now, spill it" Diego was done with playing hide and seek. All he wanted to know was what were she doing there and does she have any idea on the attack that happened in the morning.

Fidgeting with her fingers and tapping her feet wasn't easing her anxiousness at all. She felt her heart might just leap out of her mouth anytime if she doesn't open up about these frantic attacks. Ella kept shifting her gaze from her legs to Diego and back to her legs.

A few deep breath in. Deep breath out.

"okay. . . . ., Let me clear this first, it has nothing to do with you or me. Everything that are happening lately goes back to the reason, why we entered into an alliance " beating around the bush. Ella hates herself for not telling the point straight.

"Meaning?"

"um... It all started — when we begin the search on Ara Agosti"

"Ara? What has she got to do with the attack this morning?" Diego asked unaware of the many similar incidents happened before this.

Taking it slow and steady, Ella had mapped out her content, making sure she doesn't leave any incident behind but she tried to consider which way to go first. Forward or backward.

"Ella? What is the connection between Ara and the attack?" he asked her again seeing her mind wondering off.

Instead of telling him how she ended up at the secluded building, Ella played the audio message sent by Lazaro two days ago. She tried to study Diego's reaction to the audio, meanwhile. The more he heard, the more tighter his grip were on the poor mug. There were tension building up in the air already.

She was asked to play the audio again for three more times before he sat leaning back on the recliner. Extracting information from the thirty-five seconds audio and trying to calm himself, not wanting to lash out to Ella for not telling him earlier. 

A part in Ella wanted nothing but to get swallowed by the earth because for all reasons, she was freaking out from within. Diego's facial expression wasn't giving any positive feel either, it was screaming danger to her.

'Doomed'

"So, it was not an attempt to robbery just as I figured." He spoke after a very long silence.

"I'm afraid so"

"And you knew it?"

"It would be lie if I said no but there is a reason why I did not tell you" Ella looked everywhere except to his intense gaze. She could feel they were shooting bullets on her head right now.