Facade

Chapter 21

Aiden's pov

"shit" I cursed under my breath when I heard Mia's voice. I turned, hoping I was hallucinating and she hasn't just caught me in the most compromising position. Karen said something to me but I wasn't paying attention to know what it was. My gaze was fixated on Mia. She looked surprisingly calm but I knew that was for show. There's a storm brewing under the calm facade. Think! Think of something to say, I ordered myself.
"Mia it isn't what you think" I choked out. Seriously? I asked myself. Is that the best you could come up with? I smack my forehead at my obvious stupidity. It sounded cliché even to me, the guilty party.
"Oh really? What were you doing with her? Discussing the practical aspect of reproduction?" Mia shot back at me. Her voice laced with sarcasm. I have to think before I speak. I'm only making things worse. I took a step towards her and reached out to hold her. She took a step back and snapped
"Don't even think about touching me with those filthy hands of yours"
I ignored her and held her by her shoulders. I took a deep breath to steady my trembling voice.
"Mia please y - - - -" I was cut off immediately when her bodyguard shoved my hands away from her.
"The lady said back off" he snarled at me. I gulped in fear. I didn't know what to do. One part of me, the stupid part wanted to challenge the bodyguard and talk to Mia. The other part, the reasonable one kept urging me to back off. I sent a pained look down to Mia. She rolled her eyes at me and looked away from me. Well it seems I'm not getting help from her. I began to back off slowly.
"Please Mia, let's meet and talk. I'll wait for you at the lounge by four pm tomorrow." I yelled out at her. I turned around and took off running. I'm sure you are wondering where I'm running too. Well I'm gonna call my dad to get ready to bail me from jail, then I'm going to murder Karen. Simple.

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Davis's pov

Felix has been staying with me for two days now. Helen has been disturbing him with calls, probably waiting for a confirmation of my death. Well she's going to be waiting a long time. I've been able to convince Felix to spare my life. He agreed on the condition that I extract his family from Canada. I agreed immediately. Though it'll be very hard to extract his family, I didn't tell him that. No need to put him on edge. I also need to get Karen away from Helen's grasp. If I need to attack Helen, I don't want to do when Karen is within her reach. Knowing Helen, she'll gladly use Karen as a body shield. Yeah you heard me, her own bloody daughter.
With Helen, I learned never to underestimate her.
Right now, Felix and I are anxiously awaiting report from my contacts about his family. I'm currently sitting eating some chips, while Felix is trying to wear my carpet thin with the amount of pacing he's doing. After what seemed like a long time, though it's only fifteen minutes, my cell phone rang. Felix whirled around to face me while I picked the call.
"Hey boss, got the info you needed"
"Okay what's the status"
"Helen is currently holding them in a cellar. She tortures them everyday trying to get them to give her info about Felix's whereabouts"
"That means she knows he didn't kill me?"

"Yes boss, she knows"
"Okay I'll be in contact. Thanks"
"No problem boss"

I sighed out, that was expected. Though I wonder how Felix will take this new information. I took a deep breath and turned to Felix who was staring at me, agitated. No need to try to sweeten the pot. It won't change the fact that it's my fault his mother and sister was going through hell in the hands of my psycho wife.
"Helen has taken your family hostage"
Felix froze, eyes wide and breath uneven. In a flash of anger, he whirled around and punched his feast into the wall. Blood dripped down the wall but he didn't flinch. With a cold, menacing voice, he growled out.
"I'll kill her. I'll rip her apart limp by limp and feed her to the dogs"
The voice was so frightening that even I got a shiver down my spine. I tried to make my voice sound as calm as I could in a situation like this. Though I was feeling anything but calm.
"No arguments there. And I'll help you"
Felix's head snapped up to look at me in shock.
"What? Is something on my face?" I asked him not understanding why he's staring at me. He shook his head as if broken out of a trance.
"I just didn't expect you to support me. I thought you'll be against me since she's your wife"
I rolled my eyes at him. He just doesn't get it. I looked into his eyes, my face serious and said slowly
"She seized to be my wife the day she gave the order for me to be assassinated"
I stood up from the table, abandoning my chips and walked out of the apartment. I needed to cool off or I'll explode.

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Mia's pov

I strolled into the villa exhausted. Mum and dad were in the living room watching a cooking show on TV.
"Hi mum, hey dad" I greeted and slumped onto the sofa. I dumped my backpack on the floor beside me. I layer my head back, closed my eyes and relaxed.
"Aww my baby is exhausted" Mum cooed at me. I gave her a weak smile in reply.
"She's just being lazy" Dad commented. I heard a smack and dad yelped. Mum probably hit him. Good for him. Let him go back in time to being a teenager with boy trouble and see how it feels.
"Ignore your father. He's an idiot. Go upstairs and change. Dinner will be ready soon" Mum said to me. I smiled at her, murmuring a quick thanks. I picked up my backpack and stood up from the couch. I ran upstairs to my room. Instead of changing, I brought out the signed waiver. I ran to Damian's study and used the photocopy machine to make several copies of it, just like Damian advised me to do. When I was done, I ran back to my room and hid the waiver at the bottom of my suitcase. I hopped into the bathroom and turned on the shower to blazing on. It scorched my skin but that's exactly what I needed after a long, eventful day in school. I thought back to catching Aiden with Karen a second time. It didn't hurt as much as I had expected it. Maybe I was never in love with Aiden to begin with. I was only in love with the idea of being in love with Aiden. Hmm what a distinction.

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