Chapter 47: Chapter 47

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Where is my father?

That was the question in my mind. We are now back in the mansion of Wrum here in Manila. As usual, I couldn’t sleep last night because of the unexpected events around me. Who else can sleep then?

"Why are you still here in your room?" Wrum asked me when he entered the room. "Breakfast is ready. Do you want me to bring you here your breakfast?"

I shook my head. "There's no need for Wrum. I'll just come out later when I'm hungry." I answered him.

I thought he was going to force me to go out to eat. But he just nods. He doesn't treat me like that. Sometimes even when I don't want to, he still pushes me. He has to be the one to follow it.

"Okay." He said to me. "I'll be to the study room. Just come to be there when you need anything." He said. I nodded at him and after a while, I saw him come out of the room.

As the unexpected things happened right now, Wrum slowly changing. I mean, he makes me angry sometimes. There are times when he’s kind, but most of the time he’s angry with me.

I shouldn’t have expected Wrum to treat me well. I am just his slave and I should not expect that from him. I lay down on my bed again. Then I will go out first when I feel hungry. I'm still not hungry even though I haven't eaten any snacks this morning.

Since the weather is cold, I preferred to stay in my room. Lie down and think things through. It's Sunday and I'm sure Wrum won't be going to his office. Maybe he will do something but only in his study room. I don't know. Maybe.

As time goes by, I get up from here in my bed. I already felt hungry so I just decided to go out. I no longer expected to see Wrum below. In the first place, I knew he was in the study room.

I thought I wouldn't find anyone here. It's already eight in the morning. Maybe, they have things they have to work on. I went straight to the kitchen. I didn’t expect to see Wim and Xander eating. When they saw and felt my presence, they immediately turned their gaze to me.

"I thought you weren't going down and I would have taken you to your dining room after Xander and I ate," he said to me.

I approached from the vacant chair of the dining table, sat, and rolled my gaze towards Wim again. "You don't need to do it. I'm going to eat here, with you." I said.

"Wait." and Wim said. He was still up from his seat. He took a plate, spoon, and fork and laid down from it near me. I told her I could do it myself and he didn't have to do that to me but she still, insisted. I could do nothing but sit here and watch Wim put food on my plate.

"Thank you," I said to Wim.

"Do you know where Wrum is?" Xander asked me. "Wim and I were doing something earlier so we ate now."

"He is at the study room, I think?" said and I started eating. "That's what he told me when he came into my room," I added and he nodded at me.

"Thanks for that Silic." and Wim said. "I also need to go to him later there in the study room to give documents I've got."

I nodded and continued eating.

"I am going somewhere else today," said Wim once turning his gaze to his watch. "Mr. Regala and I will meet today this nine in the morning and it will be close to nine but I'm still here. Can you give those papers in the center table of Wrum, Silic?"

I nodded. "Of course. That's not a problem." I answer him.

"Thank you," he said.

We ate for a few minutes. I didn't eat much either so I finished quickly. We stood at the table together. We put everything we ate in the sink. Wim immediately said goodbye. Xander, on the other hand, told me he needed to carwash Wrum’s cars.

They all come out of the mansion. I decided to get the documents that Wim said. I picked it up from the center table of the sofa.

I went upstairs again with the documents that Wim was telling me and straight to Wrum's study room. I knocked three times before even turning the doorknob.

"Why are you here? Do you have something to ask me or do you have something to tell me about?" he asked me. "Is it about your father?" he continued to ask me.

I didn’t nod nor shake my head. Approaching his table, I put on his desk the documents I was carrying that Wim was telling me while sitting on the visitor's swivel chair.

"That's the document. It's from Wim and you know that document, he told me." I said. He focused his gaze on the documents I laid on the table. Also, I don't know what is written there because I haven't read it. I was no longer interested in reading it because I knew it has business-related content inside.

"Thank you." he only sparingly answered me when he gave me back my gaze. "Why are you carrying it? Where's Wim?" he continued to ask me, wondering where he was.

"If I am not mistaken, he will meet with Mr. Regala," I explained. "I don't know why. He didn't tell me that."

"I see."

I nodded.

"Do you have anything else to tell me or ask? You're free to be asked since I haven't done anything yet," he said.

"Alright. About what happened last night." I told him.

"Then, what?"

"I have too many questions that I want to ask you. But forgot some of them." I tell him honestly. "I don't want to ask you about my father this time. But, I just want to ask you why that happened last night?" I asked him.

"As I told you, he is a liar. Even though he is still my father, I don't care and I hate him," he said. "All he wants is you, not your father anymore. He is just using your father this time to trick you. Your father is healthy, breathing and alive, yet it's in my father."

I was suddenly nervous. Don Guillermo is using my father to trick me?

Sigh. "The first time I saw you at the club, I can feel this strange feeling. I ignored it because of my father's order. He wanted to kill you because I couldn't control myself anymore, I just made you a slave."

Damn it.

I don’t know why he’s telling me this right now. I didn't ask him about it.

"Wrum," I said.

Nervously, I didn't expect to hear that from him.

"I want you to be mine, that's why you are my slave." his hands laid on the table. "And I am willing to let our plan ruin just to make you happy. Just to let your father live and I can see your smile again...I ruin our plan. My father plans to let you suffer and die. After that, we will kill your father."

Oh My God. That's their plan? Why did he tell me?

"But I changed the plan. That is because of you." he cleared his throat. "Because I ruin the plan, my father wants to continue the plan on his own. For him to do that, he took your father as his hostage."

"And I know what else he thought to do."

Should I believe in him right now?

I'm nervous. "Then, if you ruin the plan, are you willing to help me and my father?" nervously, I asked him.

He just stared at me. A serious stare.

"Yes. I will. Just trust me. And all my people and guards are willing to be your soldiers in this battle."