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Chapter 12: Aurora Black

In the exam hall, Evelyn smiled with content, putting down her pen. She finally completed her exam. She closed her eyes to relax her mind for a few seconds. Then she stood up to hand over the paper to the front desk for submission.

She walked out from the hall and saw John Mu waving at her smiling handsomely. Once they were close, John took her arm and hugged her.

"I missed you babe" he whispered to Evelyn's ear. Then Evelyn felt another warm body hugged her from behind.

"Damn, I miss you little tiger" Evelyn laughed at Jake Mu. She is stuck in the middle of 2 tall guys, suffocating. At the corner of her eyes, she saw Tessa walking to her.

"Tessa help me. Two giants crushing me.. cough.. cough.. " Evelyn stretched her hand to Tessa with pleading eyes.

At the sight of Evelyn, Tessa came running to The Trio and hugged them all. They now looked like a giant wrapped ball with Evelyn in the middle.

"Eve.. oh my god.. I miss you girl. Where have you been?" Tessa said to Evelyn and kissed her cheeks.

"Let me go. You all are crushing me.. Help! Help!" Evelyn shouted for help acting like a damsel in distress. Once they let her go, she punched John in his abdomen lightly and turned to pinch Jake's ears. "You naughty boys, I will now teach you a lesson" Evelyn teased and chasing the twins out from the hall threathen to beat them up. The twins ran pretending to be scared which irritate Evelyn even more.

Tessa was laughing at The Trio and followed them behind. While chasing the twins, Evelyn accidentally bumped into an unknown man wearing a baseball cap. He almost fell and accidentally pulled few strands of Evelyn's hair.

"Hey you OK girl" he said.

"Sorry.. Sorry.. for pushing you" Evelyn bowed to the man.

"No worries. Watch where you are going" the unknown man said.

Evelyn bowed again and ran towards the twins.

After tired of chasing the twins, Evelyn stop and was gasping for air. She put her hands up and show signs of surrender. John came and carried Evelyn, turning her around. She was screaming at John. He then put her down, kissed her forehead and took her hand walking towards Jake and Tessa who are now smooching under a tree.

The four of them then walked side by side to the entrance of the school where their drivers are waiting to pick them up. They were chatting and laughing at Jake who is making stupid faces while imitating someone.

"OK idiots and my dear Tessa. I see you when I see you" she blew them a flying kiss each and walked to the SUV parked infront of the school entrance where Mark is waiting for her.

She ran to Mark and hugged him. "I think I nailed it Dad" she looked up to her Dad and smiled. Mark chuckled and bent down to kiss her forehead. "Sure you did sweetheart" he said then holding Evelyn's hand and walked to the SUV, happily.

At the school's gate, the man in the baseball cap handed strands of Evelyn's hair placed in a small palm sized round shaped plastic bottle to a man wearing a suit seated in a black Land Rover. Both of them did not say a word and nodded to each other. The car and the guy in the baseball cap went the opposite direction of each other.


Seated in his Bentley, Adam had a glimpse of the Beauty from far. He stared at her who is laughing and chasing two boys who seems to look alike. Twins? He thought.

She looked even more beautiful when she laughed turning her head to the side with the wind blowing her fine golden brown hair.

Suddenly, something snapped Adam into anger. One of the twin boys lifted the Beauty in his arms and turned her around. She was laughing. When the boy put her down, he kissed the Beauty's forehead lovingly and was holding her hand walking together.

Looking at the scene, Adam sneered and clenched both his fist in anger. 'You will be mine Beauty. I will come for you' he said in his mind. There are more pressing things that he needs to settled first before he makes his move on this Beauty of his.

When that day comes, he will not let her go. He vowed to himself. Adam had never felt this way to any woman before. She took his breath away.

A text came in Adam's phone. He read it and put his phone to his side. He placed the metal suitcase on his lap and keyed in the code that was given by the text from his phone.

'Click' the sound of the suitcase being unlocked.

Adam opened the metal suitcase and took the first folder out. He opened the folder and a name was written in a coroner's report.

'Aurora Jane Black'

Cause of death: Asphyxiation

Adam closed the folder and stared on a blank space. 'How could it be? To the knowledge of his family, Aunt Aurora committed suicide years ago' he thought. Adam opened the folder again and saw the photos of evidences to conclude the cause of death.

Adam closed the folder and opened another folder in the metal suitcase. It contained pictures of Aunt Aurora. She was so beautiful, Adam thought. Another picture of a man was seen smiling at Aunt Aurora. Then another picture of the man hugging Aunt Aurora. There were dozens of other intimate pictures of the couple in this folder. Who is this man?

Adam looked at the last page of the folder of the pictures. It had a copy of the marriage certificate of Aurora Jane Black and Nathan Xavier.

Looking at the name Xavier, Adam's blue eyes almost popped from the eye socket. He was gasping for air. He placed the folder back in the metal suitcase. Then he took a bottled mineral water and drank from it. His head suddenly throbbed in pain.

Xavier Industries was a newcomer and direct competition to Black Industries. For the past 5 years, both companies were aggressively competing and almost turned Black Industries that has been in the metal industries for many generations, bankrupt.

When Adam took over the business 2 years ago, he had managed to fight back and got the company back on track. It was a fierce competition. At the end, Black Industries managed to crush Xavier Industries.

'Are they the one that sent assassins to target his father' Adam thought. He now opened the third folder. He thought the second folder was shocking enough. But the third folder almost gives him a real heart attack.

It is a picture of Aunt Sue Xia with Nathan Xavier holding hands. The folder contains copies of threatening letters addressed to Aunt Aurora. The last page was a typed letter addressed to Aunt Aurora. It is a break up letter. Sent by Nathan Xavier.

Adam closed his eyes. This is so confusing. Then he saw a question handwritten by someone asking "Did Sue sent this?"

The fourth folder is a copy of medical report from a phychiatric hospital attended by.. Nathan Xavier. Adam flipped the pages and saw the date of his admission. It was a few days after the death of Aunt Aurora. Aurora date of death is also the code to unlock the metal suitcase.

The last page was the release letter from the hospital dated 7 years ago. 'Could it be that Xavier planned to revenge after his release from the mental hospital', Adam thought trying to piece the puzzle.

The last folder contained an enveloped with a pendrive. Adam took his laptop and insert the pendrive prompting for a password. Adam keyed in the same code used to open the metal suitcase. It granted the access. 'That was predictable' Adam thought.

The pendrive contained a voice recording. It was the last message.. to Nathan Xavier.

After hearing the content, Adam was trying hard to held back his tears. He calmed himself down. This time he drank some fine wine in the car. Took a deep breath and dialed his father's number.

"Pop, we have to talk. I will arrange a private flight to see you tonight. You have to see the content" Adam said.

"OK son. See you" Tony Black hang up the call abruptly. He was afraid someone might tap into the conversation and locate him.

Adam sighed.

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