Mr. Ban doubted that he was hearing correctly. ''Are you saying she wasn't here for as long as I was away, or am I not understanding?'' he asked the chef. ''No, I mean that anytime we wanted to serve her food, she was never there. For two days sir. We searched the entire room, and she was nowhere to be found. Maybe she went to visit family,'' the chef said innocently. Mr. Ban looked at the chef closely for a while, and then he turned around abruptly, heading back to his bedroom. Barter already overheard the chef reporting the fact that he didn't see Laura again after Mr. Ban left, and he was processing his thoughts, thinking of what he would tell Mr. Ban when he asked. ''Barter!'' Mr. Ban called as soon as he was back in his room. Mr. Ban glared at Laura, he didn't say anything to her yet, he just wanted to hear from Barter first. ''Boss!'' Barter muttered when he showed up in Mr. Ban's room. ''I heard that my wife went on her own trip after I left,'' Mr. Ban said, looking
Charles Ban spent quite some time in the living room, chatting with Margaret before he started to go to his designated room.Lucy was looking out for him. Her accident wounds still hurt her a great deal, so she could not get out of bed when she heard Charles' voice.Lucy's eyes and ears twitched when she heard his voice.She remembered how Charles had left the country earlier. She woke up to the news that he had traveled, and would soon return. Lucy was suspicious of such news at first. The relationship she had with Charles was too close and dear for him to just get up and travel without telling her about it. He didn't even casually leave the house without Lucy knowing, so how was it possible that he had left the country and she was not aware?Besides, when she was with him the previous day, he didn't show any sign of him going anywhere, and neither did he talk about it, so how could he just get up and leave like that?Lucy waited days for Charles to return. Days turned to weeks, an
Greg Chase had started to work with Don Black for a while and he was slowly building into the looks of a notorious gangsta, even though he wasn't. Hanging around Don Black, and being exposed to the sort of money that he was currently being exposed to, made Greg's looks change swiftly. However, not for one day had he forgotten about Lucy. Greg had moved out of his rickety house. Thanks to the chunk of money he started to make every week as a result of him agreeing to pair up with Don Black. He now lived in a nice bungalow on the average side of town and even had a car now. Although, his car was not a luxurious one like Lucy's own. For some reason, on this fateful night, he could not get his mind off Lucy. He understood that she might have been in a tight corner, and must have been dazed and ashamed concerning the fake video of both of them that went viral, but what he didn't understand was why she remained so distant even after the incident had long passed. It could not have bee
Greg was taken aback at first because he knew that it was not Lucy that had just spoken to him. Who could it be then? He didn't say anything for a while, as his brain searched and scanned the voices in his head, trying to figure out who the voice he just heard belonged to, but he could not think of anyone.The voice sounded familiar, yet it was also not familiar.The voice sounded like Lucy's, yet it was not Lucy's.So who was that?Greg was about to hang up, thinking that it was an overzealous friend of Lucy that was trying to be funny when he suddenly remembered something. Lucy often spoke of her mother. He was even supposed to meet Lucy's mother before the scandal happened at scattered the plans Lucy had for him. Since the scandal period, this was the first time someone, even if it was not Lucy, had taken his call. This was months after the scandal. Greg immediately flashed a smile across his face where he was. ''Good day ma'am,'' he said to Margaret Ban with a gentle voice.
Lucy almost laughed at what Greg said, but she held back because she didn't want Greg to feel so comfortable around her just yet after a couple of months had passed. His quick influence on her took her by surprise. She didn't know how fast Greg had crawled into her subconscious until after the accident. She had met Greg after college and felt so nostalgic that she got attached to him very quickly. She restrained herself from laughing when Greg accused her mother of laying incantations on him. Besides, Greg was sounding so different. She had not had the chance to ask him about that yet because of the way her mother was screaming.''Meanwhile...'' Lucy said and relaxed on the couch that she was sitting on. Greg smiled where he was. He knew she had noticed that his voice sounded more authoritative. He could hear himself loud and clear. Besides, a lot of people had mentioned it to him, including Don Black his dear friend. ''Yes?'' Greg said back to Lucy.''Meanwhile what...?'' he as
Lucy heaved a tired sigh."Greg, just wait until I am better. I'll be back on my feet in a bit, and I will come to your house. The first place I will visit as soon as I am better is your house," Lucy said to Greg.Greg chuckled and shook his head.Should he tell Lucy that he no longer lived in that house, or should he allow her to keep living in the past?"I insist," Greg said with a firm tone that made it sound obvious to Lucy that he was not going to go back on his words."But my mom..." Lucy was arguing when Greg reprimanded her.'You are not a kid, Lucy. Where are you? I am on my way there already," Greg said.Lucy was taken aback by Greg's behavior and tone of voice.The Greg that she cut off from a few months ago was nearly timid.One needed to have pushed Greg beyond his limits before an angry or aggressive reaction would come out of him.In fact, was this not the same Greg that used to insist on not being in public places because of reasons that Lucy had not yet figured out? N
Charles Ban had watched his sister and his niece argue about the person that his niece was speaking to on phone. He was confused, obviously, but he didn't say anything and listened to them closely as they argued. The least he could do for himself was to try and figure out what the issue was, and from what he was able to piece together, this person was the cause of Lucy's accident.And what was this he heard about a video? What video?After Lucy hung up the phone call she had with Greg, she went back to her room, but Margaret Ban was waiting for her there. Of course, she was not going to let it slide. The fact that Lucy was back talking to that poor creature from jail that had charmed her and nearly killed her because he was near her made Margaret Ban stark raving mad. ''Lu! Were you on the phone with that thing for this long? Did you spend more than ten minutes discussing this with him? What about?'' Margaret Ban asked, her face disgruntled. She was not happy about what Lucy was do
She looked at her mother's back as she walked to the door, grumbling about the fact that the housekeeper had not thought to be at the door until now. ''I wonder what I pay him for. He just sits around the house, sleeping, eating, admiring himself in the mirror every now and then, and does absolutely nothing to show that he is here to work,'' Margaret Ban was saying as she walked towards the door. She passed by the housekeeper's room, which was close to the front door, and peeped in to find out what he was doing. She shook her head when she heard the sound of the shower rushing in his bathroom. He was taking a bath, that was why he could not attend to the door. ''Ridiculous!'' Margaret Ban muttered and continued to walk towards the door. While she walked to the door, she wondered why whoever was out there had not knocked again. It had taken a while since the person first knocked, and no one had answered the door yet, shouldn't the person knock again? Margaret Ban wondered at th