"You said that man was Ezekiel rk, from the rk family?" She asked Xavier. "I thought the two families never crossed paths again," she added, staring into his tired dark eyes. It was already three in the morning and he hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep yet. "What was he doing here?"
For an unknown reason, when she made eye contact with Ezekiel, he stared back at her with longing eyes. His soft blue eyes stared right back into hers, slightly shocked that she was awake, but there was something else hidden in them that she couldn’t exin.
Kael was the only member of the rk family she’d met and the two brothers looked quite simr.
"About that, he came to the hospital for Kael. He donated his blood for you and he was the one who brought you here," Xavier exined.
He understood why Ezekiel didn’t want him to inform Selene that he was her brother. The news woulde out as shocking and he still needed to inform his family, the rk family first before any decision was made.
He was upset he had to lie to Selene at the moment. However, telling her the truth was crucial at the moment. She needed o focus on recovering.
Selene felt indebted to Kael for donating his blood to her.
"Really? Where’s my phone? I need to call him and appreciate him," she said, her eyes scanning the hospital room, searching for her phone.
"Your phone was destroyed in the car crash. But I will get you a new one," he replied.
Selene sighed, and Xavier urged her to sleep if she was too tired. She agreed, but with one condition: he had to sleep as well. She made extra space on the bed for him, and hey down beside her. Together, they drifted off to sleep.
**
"She’s Selene Jones," Ezekiel said to Jeffrey.
He was at the rk mansion, staring at the garden scenery with Jeffrey, his hands in his pockets as he calcted their next move.
Jeffrey’s head snapped to look at Ezekiel.
"Who’s Selene Jones?" Jeffrey asked.
Ezekiel pulled out his phone and searched for <i>Selene Jones</i>. When a picture of her came up, he stretched out his hand, handing Jeffrey his phone for thetter to look at the picture, his missing daughter.
"She’s Ava, but she goes by a different name now," said Ezekiel.
Jeffrey stared at the picture of Selene on Ezekiel’s screen. The picture was taken with a professional camera at the award show, when she stepped down to collect her award. She looked beautiful, happy, and surprised with several other mixed expressions as she held her award in her hand.
Tears pooled in Jeffrey’s eyes, joyful that his daughter was finally found.
"She was in an ident yesterday. Kael was the one to bring her to the hospital and he donated his blood. Xavier had Kael take a test together with Selene in case the information is wrong, the results wille out in a few days," he informed his father.
Jeffrey handed Ezekiel his phone back, his emotions were about to burst out but he kept them caged in for a little while longer.
"She woke up yesterday," Ezekiel added.
His father had suddenly gone silent after seeing the picture.
"What are you thinking about, father?" He asked with concern.
"How were you able to find her?" Jeffrey asked.
Ezekiel sighed, keeping his hands in his pockets. He didn’t know how to reply to that question since he wasn’t the one that found her.
"I didn’t. Xavier did and we haven’t spoken since yesterday."
As soon as those words left his mouth, he felt his father’s piercing re on him.
Jeffrey didn’t need to ask more questions for Ezekiel to continue to exin.
"It turned out that the both of them are dating—"
"That’s impossible," Jeffrey immediately cut him off, his tone firm and void of any emotions. "My daughter won’t be getting associated with any member of the Wace family. They are the reason she went missing in the first ce. If they had been careful, she would still be here, right here with us."
Ezekiel sighed one more time,pletely understanding where his father wasing from.
’But the past is the past.’ Ezekiel bit his tongue so that he wouldn’t spout out those words.