Pierce’s POV
I couldn’t find Kelly again. I kept on going back to the ce she’s working but she wasn’t there. It’s almost a week since she disappeared and I don’t know what to do anymore.
I’m certain that it was her who I saw and when I asked someone working in thatpany, I confirmed that someone named Elle Young is working there. She’s here but I couldn’t find her. Is she hiding from me? I don’t know. If it’s true that she can’t remember me, then she has no reason to avoid me. But if she does remember, why is she doing this?
“Let her be. She’s old enough to know what she’s doing.”
My forehead creased when I heard dad say that to mom when mom told him that Phoebe has been constantly leaving the house almost every night. She’s sneaking and dad seemed to not give a damn. I was walking down the stairs when I heard them and I’m instantly pissed because of dad’s answer.
“What do you mean? She’s just 21 years old. We can’t let her do this. What if she’s-”
“Just trust her.”
Trust her. Iughed sarcastically, earning their attention. I gritted my teeth as I continued walking down the stairs. My eyes never leave my dad’s empty gaze.
“You don’t really care about your children, huh?”
“Pierce, don’t talk that way to your father.”
“Why won’t I, mom? His younger child, ady, has been sneaking out almost every night and that’s his reaction?”
“Pierce!” Mom walked towards me and caressed my arm, trying to stop me but I shook my head in disappointment.
“You are both my children, and I know how I raised you.” Dad’s cold remark made meugh.
“You know us? Then tell me now. Am I lying when I said that Kelly is alive?”
He didn’t say anything. He just sipped on his coffee,pletely ignoring me.
“DAD!” <fnde88> Th?s chapter is updated by f?ndnovel</fnde88>
“Do you think I’d want a son who can’t even control his own feelings? I don’t want you to end up losing your mind just because of a woman, Pierce!”
“That woman is my life-”
“That woman is fixing her life and look what you’re doing? You’re ruining yours. Do you think she’d take you back if she saw how messy your mind and life are?”
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My jaws dropped. Not because of what he said but because of the message it gives. He just…indirectly said that Kelly is alive. I swallowed the lump in my throat as I fought back his cold stares.
My dad has always been cold. He’s just warm and soft to my mother. There was even a time that I thought I wasn’t his real son but considering how he reacted to what Phoebe has been doing… Is he really our father?
“What did you say?” I asked, weakly.
Dad fixed his gaze on the tabloid again and I was about to growl at him when the door swung open. Phoebe entered and she looked really stressed. Her eyes are swollen too.
My forehead creased as I rushed towards her. “What happened to you?”
She shook her head. “I’m fine.”
“Your eyes are swollen, Phoebe! What the fck are you saying?”
She nced at mom who rushed beside us too before she looked at me again. “Remember when I disappeared?”
My lips parted and I nodded. “It was y Carver who took you that night, right?”
She nodded. “He abducted me.”
I clenched my jaws. “That bastard—”
“He abducted me so he can get Kelly back. He just released me when Kelly came.”
I feel like my head suddenly exploded. All I could hear was her name. Kelly. y got Kelly. I thought he was the one who abducted her before my private vi was burned to ashes? What the hell? Did she manage to escape or there’s another person behind that fire? Fck!
“Do you…” I swallowed hard as I stared at Phoebe. “Do you know the ce?”
She shook her head. “I was blindfolded. But…it’s an ind. A secluded ind. I think it’s y Carver’s private property.”
I sucked my breath and slowly nodded. I looked at dad. He was just reading, not even throwing us a single nce but the words he said to me before Phoebe interrupted, came rushing back into my mind. He knew all along and he kept his mouth shut. I think he knows about the person who burned the vi too. He’s just hiding everything from me. For what reason? I don’t know but I’ll confront him after this. I just need to… rescue her first.
*** Kelly’s POV
“You can’t get away anymore, y!” I growled at him as he started dragging me inside the house. “Let me go!”
“NO!” He shouted angrily as he looked into my eyes. “I won’t ever let you go, Kelly. I love you. I need you.”
“Did you
ask if I need you too?”
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He shook his head and roamed his eyes around. “That doesn’t matter. What’s important is you’re with me-”
“I don’t love you anymore!”
He stilled and his jaws clenched after a few seconds. He looked at me. His eyes were full of emotions and dominating those emotions was pain.
“As a matter of fact, I don’t have any feelings left for you except hatred,” I added mercilessly.
His grip on my wrist slowly loosened. I nced at his hand and just when his hand was about to let go, a gunshot echoed in the whole house.
I screamed and covered my ear. y immediately wrapped his arms around me as if protecting me from any harm.
I looked up at him, begging. “Just let me go, y. Please… I–I can’t die here. My daughter needs me…”
“What made you think that I’d allow you to die here?” His eyes became aggressive. “They would get through me first before they hurt you and take you away from me.”
My lips trembled. “T–They’re here for me, y. To save me-
”
“YOU DON’T NEED THE SAVING BECAUSE YOU’RE SAFE WITH ME, KELLY! WHY ARE YOU MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I’D HURT YOU? I WILL NEVER DO THAT!”
“You’re hurting me now!” I fired back. “You’re depriving me of the chance to be with my daughter and that’s hurting me!”
He looked at me and licked his lips. “We’ll get her.”
“What? No! Just let me go, y!”
“Never,” he answered firmly and grabbed a gun. My eyes widened as I looked at that thing. No!
y was about to drag me upstairs when a cold and familiar voice echoed in the whole room. My eyes
widened again and watered when I saw a familiar man standing a few meters away from us. His brown eyes were darkened with fury and his fists were balled.
“Let her go, Carver!”
Pierce…