Sophia
I stretched my arms as I got off the bed. My gaze went to the time, it was only 7 am. Damn, I really woke up early today. I went to the washroom to freshen up and then went down to make something for myself to eat. As I passed one of the rooms to go to the kitchen, I felt uneasy.
I paused for a minute and then walked back but saw Isla sleeping. Everything seemed normal so I was about to go to where I was heading when a realisation hit me. Claire's not next to Isla. I mean, maybe she's just in the washroom or something but the feeling in my gut tells me otherwise.
Silently, I went inside and opened the bathroom door, but there was no one inside. My uneasiness only increased as I headed out of the room and was about to enter the kitchen. But the sight in front of me, had me frozen in my place.
No.no.no.no.no. This can't be true. In front of me was Claire, laying down, lifeless. A knife stabbed to her stomach and eyes wide open.
Finally realising what actually happened, I screamed. "Liam. Liam. LIAM." It didn't take a lot of time for everyone to arrive. As soon as Liam was here, looking at my expression, he rushed towards me to engulf me in a hug. I didn't react. I couldn't. He tightened his arms around me as I felt tears fall down my cheeks.
Everyone seemed too shocked to react but then Carl seemed to snap out of it as he was dialling someone's number on his phone.
"Hey, Mr Yuto? Can you please come here, QUICK. You need to get here right now."
I could understand what was going around me but couldn't bring myself to speak or even turn my gaze away. I was still being held by Liam tightly against his chest with one hand and the other was holding my head in a firm grip.
"Hey, Soph. Listen to me. Look at me" hearing his voice, I turned my head towards him even though it was not easy.
I wasn't responding and could see the tension rising on his face but could do absolutely nothing about it. I felt so bad, so guilty but could really do nothing. It seemed like he could sense what I was feeling as he picked me up and carried me to our room placing me on the bed.
As we were back in the room, the sight flashed right before my eyes again and the sight of Ethan's state did too. I felt a strange coldness pass through as my hands started shaking. A drop of sweat ran down the back of my neck as I was shivering and struggling to breathe.
He held his arms around me so tight as he whispered soothing words to me. It seemed to take an eternity but I finally calmed down.
"First Ethan, now Claire...What's happening,Liam? I feel so scared. So hopeless. I don't know what will happen next. What if I'm ne-
He cut me off
"No darling, don't worry. As long as I'm here with you nothing will happen. Trust me, okay?"
I sighed and then nodded "...okay"
Adam
I rushed to the manor. It seems like something serious has happened. The door was unlocked and so I rushed inside. Seeing everyone gathered near the kitchen, I rushed to where they were. I was just about to ask one of them when I saw the sight in front of me. I froze as my hands reached the wall. I suddenly needed support to just stand. I slapped my cheek as I reminded myself that this wasn't the time to let my personal feelings come in between.
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After asking the questions, I called Gede to check around for evidence. I asked him to do it because I don't think that I'll be able to do this when I just want her to wake up and tell me that this is some big elaborate plan or just want this to be a terrible nightmare, but alas, life doesn't go how we want it to go.
Her body was sent for an autopsy as I just started questioning everyone one by one.
"I'll talk to Ms Adams next" Carl left as Iris came for the questioning.
I started asking her questions. I was done with my questions and a weird silence took over.
"You loved her, didn't you?"
"What? N-no? Why would I?"
"Don't lie to me, I know that you already knew her. You're Adam, aren't you?"
"How do you know? She told you?"
"No, but I saw your name on her phone when you guys were talking. You love her, don't you?"
"I've only known her for a year"
"That wasn't my question"
"I saw it in your eyes. You loved her. There's nothing called it's too early to love and I know love when I see it."
"So I'm asking once again, did you love her?"
I sighed. "Yes. Yes I love her"
She just nodded and patted my shoulder gently. We sat just like that for a moment before I was about to leave when Sophia stopped me.
"Mr Yuto. Wait!"
I turned around to look at her rushing towards me
"I need to tell you something"
"Go ahead."
"Alright. She was being stalked"
"What?"
"Look I don't know a lot but what I do know is that there was this guy who used to stalk her a few years ago but suddenly stopped. He recently started sending her threatening messages or something, I suppose. About the past stalking, she'd told me herself but about the recent threats I'm just guessing that. It's because she seemed to be disturbed looking at something on her phone on the plane the other day. Please look into it. Maybe it's relevant in this case"
I nodded and made my way out of the place to where I was currently staying.
I looked into her phone and indeed found some unknown number messaging her.
Unknown: Already found another guy, sweetheart? 12:20 am
Unknown: Don't ignore me darling 2:45 pm
Unknown: Or would you rather me talk to your new guy privately? 2:46 pm
Unknown: Running away from me, are you? 5:55 pm
My hand clenched as I looked through the texts. This fucking bastard. She must've been so troubled, doubting everything.
I sighed. I don't know who did this to you, Ambrosia. But I promise that I'll not let that person get away with this. They will regret this big time. Once I find them, it's fucking over for them.
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