Evening. It’s already 7 pm and Matthias has decided to take his time, strolling around the building where his new place is located.Even though the lamp posts illuminated the wide street where the cars pass by, some parts are still hidden under the shades of large trees that look serene under the daylight.This made the people tailing Matthias to easily abduct him.“Wha–”Not a word was said when the kidnappers closed Matthias’ mouth with a thick cloth to silence him.And despite his effort to break free, arms aren’t able to shake off the thick arms of the person who attacked him.Fwwooosh…A white van slowed down a bit beside Matthias and the kidnapper and opened its door for the kidnapper to throw Matthias forcibly in.Inside, Matthias gasped when the kidnapper let him go. He took the cloth inside his mouth and threw it on the side.“Who are you?” he asked the people inside the van but no one spoke, irritating Matthias so he held the collar of the kidnapper who sat beside him.“I’m
Back home, Matthias was welcomed by Elisha.She was wearing a pair of sleepwear. Tank top and pyjamas and had a gel face mask on his face.“Where did you go? I was waiting for you the whole night yesterday,” Elisha said.Matthias studied Elisha’s face for a while, trying to see whatever is behind that worried face she’s showing right now. Is she lying like what that woman told her?But Elisha remained innocent like a rabbit in front of his eyes.“Did you have a contact with Mr. Owen?” Matthias asked Elisha, sitting down on one of the chairs in their kitchen counter.“Yes. Why did you ask?” Elisha replied, walking back to the living room where she left her phone charging.Elisha opened the phone and scrolled over her contacts then when she saw Mr. Owen’s number, she went to Matthias and presented Mr. Owen’s contact information.“Here,” she said.Matthias, on the other hand, pretended to copy the number on his phone. “Are you going to talk to him? About what?” Elisha inquired after se
“You what?” Mr. Owen’s voice roared inside his office when he heard Elisha’s proposal in adjusting the wedding in a month.“I already told Matthias. And isn’t a week of preparation too rushed? What will you do if Matthias will became suspicious of your actions?” Elisha reasoned out to her father, eyes determined to make her request approved. “Are you the one making the plans here? Do you think you’re better than me?” Mr. Owen rebutted. “You…”A sigh.When he can’t express the words of refusal to Elisha, Mr. Owen just threw the ashtray on top of his table to Elisha’s head, making a mess of cigarette butts on her hair.“Just make sure that you don’t thwart my plans any further or else…things will be bad for you and your mother.”When Elisha left Mr. Owen’s office, she immediately called her mother to ask about her well-being.“Ma, how are you feeling today?” she asked.“I’m fine now. Anyway, what did that person tell you today? Haven’t I already warned you before not to talk with him?”
“Master Matthias,” Zack greeted Matthias. Matthias' eyes almost bulged out of their sockets when he recognized the man in front of him. Zack Cheng! “What are you doing here? Are you following me?” Matthias answered as he looked back at the place where he came from. So, they knew that he went to the police. “You never fail our expectations, Master Matthias,” Zack commented, taking his favorite lighter out of his suit’s pocket to light the cigarette that he's been biting since earlier. “So, you already anticipated this situation?” “Yes, Master Matthias,” Zack replied. “Isn't it obvious that an honest and powerless man like you would come to the authorities rather than solving things on your own?” Matthias gritted his teeth. That's the truth he can't deny. Of course he has the money but there's no way Mr. Owen will not track down his expenditures. “You’re hopeless and just an ordinary citizen before you received Mr. Owen’s grace so it’s easy to figure out what you will do n
A month after, the wedding is set as initially planned with few modifications as requested by both Elisha and Matthias.“I really can’t believe that Matthias is really getting married.”“You said ‘really’ twice, Wilson,” Dylan commented to his friend. “And just believe what’s happening because it is what’s going on right now,” he said and waved at the camera man who walked beside them to film the grand wedding.“How can I not believe it?! But man, he’s marrying Elisha, that angel!” Then Wilson teared up again and nudged Matthias that was standing beside him. “You keep looking at your watch. Are you that impatient to see your wife?” he said with a snark. “And why did you not tell us that you’re dating before. And that you slept together huhu…”Right.That’s what everyone's thinking right now… the fact that Elisha and Matthias slept together and Elisha’s family caught Matthias red handed.In short, they don’t acknowledge that the two are marrying each other on their own volition. And
“Let me go! Let me–”Matthias woke up the next day in an unfamiliar place. In contrast to the white ceiling of his place that Mr. Owen arranged, this one looks like it’s been dipped into a golden honey, decorated with black linings and deep dark ambiance.“Did you have a good sleep?” Matthias instantly searched for the owner of the voice and saw a silver haired woman sitting on a couch not too far away from the bed. “I already warned you not to go through the wedding but you still did. Are you a fool?” the woman asked him when they locked eyes to each other, flipping the side of her hair to show her face more clearly.“You’re the woman who kidnapped me,” Matthias stated.“Obviously, I am.”Ignoring the fact that the woman is the same person who warned him and kidnapped him twice, Matthias stood up from the bed, took the robe folded neatly beside him and wrapped his naked body with it. “Where are my clothes? Where’s Elisha? Did you – urghh…”Matthias almost puked.What happened?Be
“Did you hold on to that question for too long?!”Matthias held his laughter at Mirella’s fit.“Laugh all you want, you ignorant asshole,” Mirella cursed at him. “I may look like this but I am way older than you.”“I find that hard to understand,” he bantered, looking up and down at Mirella several times. Annoyed, Mirella pushed the vase beside her as if throwing a tantrum, scattering the fake flowers on the floor and shards of the broken vase.“And you’re acting like a kid right now,” Matthias said, irritating Mirella more.“I apologize for bursting your bubble but this isn’t how I usually act when I am acting as a child. If you’re curious how I am when I’m throwing tantrums, why don’t you follow me for a while? There’s a place that I want to show you.” Matthias’ eyes brightened when he heard that he could finally get out of that room. Although it won’t mean that he can escape from Mirella’s confinement now, it is still better than becoming a stagnant water inside that room.As if
Two years after Matthias’ disappearance, Arnauld finds himself drowning on a series of reports by his private investigators again.Like before, there is still no trace of Matthias nor that freak of a loli-granny Mirella who took over control of Matthias' education which is done her way.“Dad, one of our warehouses burned again.”Arnauld glanced at his son, Aren. “How long are you going to waste resources just to find someone who is not even your blood relative?” Aren questioned his father, his hands trembling from the irateness he’s feeling toward his negligent father.“Remember this Aren, whatever we have right now doesn’t belong to us but to the great master. What I am wasting is the great master’s resources and not ours and that is to find Matthias Claude, the next master.”“Just leave him be! Can’t you just let–”“The economy will crumble, Aren!”Arnauld, frustrated, laid his head on the pile of papers in front of him. He knows exactly what will happen when the great master’s ric