Chapter 33

We explain the situation to him, he taps his chin with his finger, deep in thought. He walked to Cherry and she glares at him. Her expression full of anger and rage as she continues to break free from the bed. She's been tied to the edges to prevent her from escaping and moving excessively. She screams and shouts, curses everyone in her sight. I could see Anette and Vilea gravely worried for her.

"Tell me your name" He said to her and she just laughed mischievously.

"Why would I tell you my name? Who are you to order me around?!" She shouted still trying to break free. Chris' worried face doesn't compare to anyone's expressions. I find this hopeless to talk to her since I think she doesn't recognize anyone. Except...

"Wait. I think there's someone she might just listen to." I say, looking at Cherry with slight hope. They turn to look at me, waiting for my suggestion. "Dave."

They immediately realized what I meant and sent people to get Dave. The room's atmosphere filled of nervous heart beats from every single person watching. Altair is already trying his best to calm Cherry but she keeps on complaining. He got irritated and walked towards Anette with a tired look on his face.

"This is gonna be hard if we don't know what her situation was before you guys came to her rescue. But I heard.." He turned to Anette. Wait, he isn't going to.. "Anette. You came there first right? Do you remember anything when you came there..?"

No! The trigger!!

She suddenly collapsed, her legs start shaking. Everyone got frightened of her sudden shout. Holding her head, she groans to the pain of the side effects.

"Wait! What's happening?!" His expression surprised as she suddenly showing an unusual behavior. I held her shoulders and helped her to remain standing.

"Anette!!" I called to her. She's still groaning and gripping my shirt tight. I call her name but she just continues on groaning. I scoop her legs and carry her to her bed. As I laid her down, she's still groaning and starting hyperventilating. She takes shallow breaths and few deep breaths, she's suffering. I hold her hand and squeeze it to try and reassure her that I'm here. She looks at me, her eyes begging for the pain to stop.

"It... hurts... help... me... please..." She says between her breaths. She's already crying and holding my hand tighter. My heart starts to ache as I see her like this. I feel like crying but I have to show her that everything will be fine. I give her a smile.

"We'll save you. Promise. Everything will go back to normal." I kiss the her hand. She's slowly calming down but her breaths are still the same. She nods, trusting me. "Don't lose hope."

Suddenly, the door opened with the sound of footsteps. We turn to see Dave still in handcuffs. I saw him and Anette saw each other's gaze and he suddenly got surprised of what's happening. Anette began to breathe hysterically again. I let go of Anette's hand and Vilea starts calming her as we talk this out with Dave. If a talk is enough, that is.

"Anette! What's happening?!" He shouts, trying to break free from the men holding him.

"Don't try to be the hero here, Agent Ren! We know you did this!" Altair shouted with irritation in his voice. He's keeping his cool but his hands are already balled into fists, I could feel his anger simmering from his body. Before he could do anything violent, I pat his shoulders. He calmed a bit but he's furious. But he said, Agent Ren. I think back on my thoughts but I don't really remember an Agent Ren.

"What do you mean 'Agent Ren'?" I ask Altair, though the timing is very bad. He glares at him and spoke. "Should I tell him the story, Ren?" He smiled mischievously as Dave stays silent, gritting his teeth. I could see he's already as furious as us.

"Agent Ren. Former agent partnered to Agent Junniper. Though I just started working here the previous year, I still managed to watch him work. Secretly. They made a great team. Every mission they took care of ends up successful. They've worked together for years, but a total downfall happened last year. Wanna know why?" He stops to turn to me and ask the question. My face gives him an answer and he continues to shoot daggers with Dave. "Brace yourself"

I suddenly became nervous. My heart starts an irregular beating along with my body already tensing up. I ready myself for the worst but I guess I wasn't really ready to hear his answer.

"Turned out he's long in love with her. But she's been rejecting him for years. In pure frustration, he tried to drug her, just to let her love him." My heart dropped. I feel my rage and anger overflowing as I heard what he tried to do to her. I turn furious, pure anger is consuming me. I couldn't contain my rage, I want to let it out. Gritting my teeth, I try to make my way to Dave but Altair took my shoulders because he knew how angry I was going to be, hearing the whole story of this situation.

"Why can't you just accept that she doesn't love you!! You Bastard of an Agent!! You had to go this far!! I'll kill you!!" I suddenly blurted out, people started gasping and backing away in fear.

"You think you're such a God huh?" He started smiling, mocking me. "So you didn't know? I guess someone like you wouldn't even think about it. She always came to ME crying because you were so darn far away!! It's almost everyday, she cries on my shoulder! I've gotten sick of her crying! I was merely making her happy! I can make her happy without her crying! Unlike you.."

I feel my blood boiling. I became more furious. What a terrible excuse. I want to strangle him till he dies. As I was about to walk furiously towards him, someone walk pass me. Vilea. Her presence clouded with rage as she storms to Dave. Seeing him face to face, she's disgusted and he's trembling in fear of her. Her aura suddenly changed, the Vilea that Anette intoduced me to was no where to be found. Both Chris and Altair were suddenly hiding behind me.

"Oh no. She's changing into Lucifer in just a split second!" Altair whispered, terrified. "Even I couldn't stop this personality of hers. I'm too scared to bare with her anger.." Thinking that even her husband is in pure fear of her, she must be dangerous when she's angry.

"Once, the Information Department had a terrible leak of information to outsiders and she almost trashed the whole unit. If I hadn't stopped her, she might have smashed every computer in there. But then again, it ended up her punching me in the face." Chris added. Their experience gave me goosebumps.

She suddenly held his hair, forcefully making him face her, then she chuckled wryly.

"You really want me to deal with you right now? Tell me. Are you a masochist? You really want to get in trouble that badly?" She tells him as her hand held his chin. She suddenly changed from the chin to his ear. He started moaning in pain. "Let him go." She told the men and they immediately obeyed her. She pulled his ear, dragging him pass us, between Anette's bed and Cherry's. He fell on the ground and she crossed her arms. Cherry's eyes opened wide as she saw him on the ground.

"Boss!! Boss!! Are you alright?! Do you want me to beat them up?? I'll do whatever you tell me to do!" She pleads. So my guess was right. The only person she'll be listening to is that guy. Vilea shot him a glare.

"Tell us everything you know about Anette and Cherry's situation" She said. "Unless you want me to beat you up so your brain would function like it should."

"I'll tell you. I'll tell you." He eventually gave in. Vilea ordered men to let him sit in a chair and tied him up there. Waiting for his explaination, he glanced at Anette's sleeping figure. He turned to her direction and it makes me uncomfortable.

"First things first. Both of their conditions are caused by their mental desires. Or so you could say..."

"They wanted this"