Chapter 21: Chapter 21

Marietta P.O.V

When I woke up, I was in my car.

So when I came back to the mansion it was already 11 pm. So, after parking the car, I was slowly stepping towards my room like a spy. I was about to climb the stairs when someone called me, "Princess!"

I jerked and stopped in my track, turning around, I saw Anna. I breathe in relief. She was looking at me confused. When I followed her gaze, I realized I was standing on my toes and bent like I was about to steal something. I hurriedly shifted from the thief position and grinned, "I was going to my room without making noise."

"Yeah, I can see that." She smiled. She was in her nightdress with her brown hair falling on the shoulder.

"Have you eaten anything?" She asked and walked towards the kitchen. I followed her.

"I'm not hungry but you can make a strong black coffee for me." I said and she nodded. She started to make coffee and I sat on the counter.

'Crystal world, Immortals, far away.....Don't tell anyone about our world. You will be responsible for the consequence.' I shook my mind to divert my attention and looked at Anna. She was pouring coffee in cups. Then she handed one to me. I grabbed and mouthed a 'Thankyou'.

"Lately you have been spending a lot of time outside the Mansion." She said.

'Yes, I do and not out of the Mansion but out of the world. Into another world, in Crystal World.' I sighed.

"Because I have nothing to do." I shrugged.

"That's not a reason that you start to spend your time in useless things. Don't become a teenager with...... you know what I mean." She looked at me with a knowing look.

"Stop overthinking Anna. Where is Mom?" I climbed down the counter.

"Master and Madam are in their room. Ma'am Caro went for dinner with Sir Liam. Veward and Bre are in the study for the past 2 hours." She said before adding, "God knows what they both are doing?"

Wait a minute...

"Do you said in the study?" I asked. She looked at me with a questioning gaze. Leaving the cup on the counter, I rushed upstairs to the study room.

Damn it!

In all worldly mess, I had forgotten about it. Bre asked me to meet him at 9 pm and forgetting about it, I was touring Crystal World.

I entered the study room where they both were engaged in discussing something. Bre was showing something on his laptop and Veward was attentively listening. There were piles of paper scattered on the table. I coughed to my presence noticeable and they looked at me.

Veward stood up with a big frown on his face and walked out of the study. Shit! Because of my problems, I had even forgotten, we fought. Mom was right, I had to live in my present instead of mourning over the past. That was another thing I had to find the truth.

"He is still mad at me." I murmured.

Should I say sorry? Veward and I rarely fought. It had been 2 whole days that we didn't talk. We had broken our own record of fighting. An unknown feeling appeared in the pit of my stomach realizing how mad he was.

"Where were you?" Bre asked. I internally slapped my forehead at his question.

"Nowhere! Don't ask this." I glared at him. He looked at me but didn't say anything.

"Alright listen then, you want your shares back, right?" He asked, turning towards his laptop again.

"Yes, all of them." I sat beside him where Veward was sitting a while ago.

"Then looked at this. Sir Max has stopped the investigation. Now, the case is officially closed. They declared it an accident because of no evidence which proves that it was a murder." He said and turned the laptop towards me. It had everything on the hot news section with details.

"How could they do this?" I asked. My jaw clenched tight with anger.

"Their wish. Don't interfere with it. They already declared it an accident so your name is cleared now. It would be better if you stay out of it." He said in a persuading manner.

One word; speechless. I had no words. Why the hell Daddy closed the case? How could he do this?

"And this is a plus point for you. Your name is clear from the suspect list so there is no issue in giving your shares back to you. But you have to talk with Sir by yourself." He said, picking some paper and giving it to me.

"What about justice?" I asked.

"Is there any proof that concludes it a murder?" He asked.

"Car brakes were not working in the car. All tires of my car were punctured. Is that enough?" I said, shifting my gaze on papers in my hand. He remained silent for a while. The papers had all kinds of information about the employee and shareholders of Amino. Personal, bank balance, working experience all kinds of detail.

"That's your statement and rarely anyone would believe it." He stated the truth.

"What is this?" I asked, pointing towards the paper in my hand.

"Useful information for you from me as a gift. As the main shareholder, you should know everything about your employee." He shrugged. I throw the papers on the table and stood up.

"What?" He looked at me confused.

"We can't let their murderer live in peace. We can't let everyone forget it like that. He was my brother for god's sake and I will give him justice." I said and stepped towards the door.

Daddy had to answer me. Why? Why he stopped the investigation?

He marched behind me and blocked my track towards the door and dragged me back towards the table. I creased my brows.

"They find nothing during the investigation that will prove it as a planned thing or something like murder. And If they continued to suspect you, it would be of no use either. There was nothing against you which could prove you guilty." He explained in one breath.

"So is that mean it was an accident? No, it was not!" I growled.

"Come on Marie, don't create a fuss when you have nothing to prove. If you want to do something then the first step is power and then evidence." He said in a soft friendly tone more like a persuading tone.

"Remember, slow and steady steps win the race." He nodded at me. I sighed because he was damn right.

"Believe and Hard work is the key to success," He again blabbered his philosophy.

"Shut up!" I glared at him. But he was right, my first step would be getting shares back as a source of power then the next step would be finding the evidence, to make a way to catch the real culprit. Whoever was he...

It was, maybe, that blue-eyed guy. Who disappeared the footage or maybe he was just a puppet of the real mastermind behind all this.

I knew what happened to me when I was in the car with them. Someone had sent me to the crystal world. But the question arises who? And Why?

Bre clapped his hands and put me out of my trance. I looked at him and he had a toothy grin on his face.

"What?" I asked.

"Look behind you." He winked. Dumbfounded, I turned around. and... Awww!!!! I smiled forgetting about everything in a second.

A person was standing in front of me with a huge white roses bouquet in his hand, hiding his face behind those beautiful roses. The white roses were always my favorite ones. An involuntary smile appeared on my lips on its own.

"With these exactly 48 roses, please accept my apology. I'm really sorry, princess. I shouldn't have yelled at you." That person popped his head out behind the roses and said with a cute pout.

"They are so beautiful!" I smiled widely.

"Just like you." Veward winked and came further, giving me the bouquet. I took it and felt the fragrance refreshing my mind. But more like his action refreshed me. I felt the heat on my cheeks and the fluttering of butterflies inside my stomach.

"I'm sorry too," I whispered, gazing at his ocean blue eyes. He showed me his smile. The smile that always melts my heart.

I didn't know what was happening but I was feeling like I was riding a roller coaster. What kind of a feeling was that? I never felt it before.

"Look at these LOVEBIRDS!" Bre said, emphasizing 'lovebirds'. Oh! He was here too. I had totally forgotten him.

"Heyyy!!! We are not Lovebirds." I said almost immediately.

"I don't mind to be lovebirds." Veward shrugged and made me blushed even harder. That I fixed my gaze on these beautiful roses.

"But... Why 48 roses?" Bre asked.

"It's been 2 days we didn't talk so....." Veward shrugged. This guy was doing something to my heart surely.

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Now, I knew, how I got saved. Someone had sent me to the crystal world before the accident. But who? If it was Masked Savior then how? How could she send me to some other world like this? Or it was not my masked savior but someone else, maybe someone from the crystal world.

But....what was the connection between me and that crystal world?

It had been a week since I first visited the crystal world. That guy named Peter warned me not to tell anyone about their world and I did not tell. He even said that Vampire could attack me again but gladly a week passed without any trouble.

They were immortals and guardians, they looked strange and different from humans. What did they have to do with me?

But sending these thoughts in the back of my mind I was working hard to focus on my present target. Which was somehow or by fate happened to be getting my shares back.

In the past 7 days, I worked to get information and more information about the stock market, rates, management, shares, meetings and projects, and a lot more. I learned some basic and useful techniques.

Bre and Veward helped me to clear my doubts. They trained me like mentors. They told me about some secret tips and techniques.

Of course, I irritated them but that wasn't my fault. I was a human and they fully knew about my memory skills, besides if a brain learned different things in just seven days then it was natural to mix up them, right?

Luckily, I learned everything but the conflict was I had to talk with Daddy; face to face type. I had to ask him to let me interfere in business and gave my shares back to me.

The problem was, I was not even graduated because he dropped out my name. It was my last year at graduation and everything messed up. He would never believe in my skills and would definitely doubt my sudden interest in the business.

I was pacing to and fro in my room, trying to reduce my anxiety and gathering my all courage. I was not even talking with him since he had room grounded me. We were not even facing each other on breakfast and dinner. We were behaving like minding our own business and ignoring each other.

"My eyes are hurting stop moving," Veward complained.

"What's so complicated? You just need to talk with smartness. Simple!" Bre shrugged.

These two idiots were sitting here and giving me pieces of advice like it was just a piece of cake like it was not a big deal.

"Try to be in my shoe guys." I stopped in front of them. They both were sitting on the different corners of my bed and looking at me like I was exaggerating.

"Look here!" Veward stood up and walked towards me. Standing at a two-step distance, he grabbed my shoulder like sending his overconfidence in me and said looking deep into my eyes, "You can do this!"

Looking deep into the ocean of his eyes, gave me an unknown power of courage and relaxed my all anxiety, like the ocean makes you calm. I smiled and nodded.

Bre and Veward both passed me smiles of encouragement and said in unison, "Fighting!"

I was about to move towards the study where Daddy was probably doing his work when Bre phone rang and he answered it,

"Hel....." His hello remained incomplete. He was carefully listening to the other side and his facial expressions were going odd with every passing second. My heart ached as if something bad had happened.

"Alright." He sighed and cut the call. Veward and I exchanged look.

"What happened?" Veward asked.

"They have found John."