Chapter 40

"Maybe not our first child but could also be our second child to be a sample victim of his experiment. I don't want our children to be treated as if they were born into this world to be sampled for his experiments. While Eliza disappeared for a year due to the plan of the three of you, Aurora was lucky so is Avery. Averill is willing to live languishing because she wants to gather evidence to send him to prison. I'm not as resilient as Averill and as strong as Eliza to face all of this and I can't even imagine if you were in Eliza's situation."

"Zhang Chuan is someone we can't predict. He can be okay this minute, but after five minutes he may not be."

She lowered her head to see her wife that did not answer her, she was very surprised when her wife suddenly cried. What actually happened? There was no storm, there was no rain, suddenly her wife cried. She quickly turned her wife's head slowly and saw her red eyes and her tears fall on her beautiful cheeks. She helped her wife gently wipe away her tears.

"Honey, why are you crying?" She asked her wife still wiping her tears. Caroline is a bit sensitive right now and she doesn't know why either. Lately, she is more sensitive maybe because of her age or something else.

"I, when I heard you say that you don't want to have children with me, I felt very sad." She answered in a choked voice as she wiped away the tears that were rapidly falling from her red eyelids that looked as beautiful as blooming flowers.

"Honey, this is a misunderstanding. I want to have a child with you, but right now we have to focus on imprisoning Zhang Chuan. Once we are successful to send him to prison we can try to have a child. Honey, don't cry, you know, I'm also sad if darling is crying." Sarah persuaded slowly and kissed her wife's forehead.

Caroline also doesn't know why it's hard for her to stop crying, she's worried that Sarah doesn't want to have children with her. She is very fond of children and when Sarah explains the truth she is relieved. What Sarah said is true, right now they should focus on their problem which is Dr. Zhang Chuan. If he is left alone and no action is taken, it will definitely put them in danger, especially Averill's family.

"I hope that this problem can be solved as soon as possible. I also feel worried when working with him who is often emotional. You are very lucky because he thinks you are dead now."

"Yes. He just thinks that everything almost reaching to the end but he doesn't know about the rest of his actions back than and now."

"Tomorrow night you have to be careful when you go in there and I will monitor the CCTV from here."

"No. Tomorrow you go to Alpha Villa to be with Eliza and the children. I don't want you here alone. If something happens I'm worried that no one will be here with you to help you."

"Babe..but.."

"Love, no but..but. I have discussed this matter with Averill and she also agreed. The Alpha Villa is equipped with technology and if Zhang Chuan intends to attack the place, not only will there be many bodyguards but there will be protection."

"There will be protection?"

"Yes. You don't know that Sophie is the Director of Investigators. She's the one who helped me all this time when I was training there."

"Wow! I never knew about this."

"Averill and I have been friends since childhood and I know her mother. She often follows her mother to the orphanage where I grew up. Sometimes she also follows Melly there too."

"So you two started being friends from there?"

"Yes. It is because both of her mothers saw the closeness between the two of us, they took me to live with them."

"Is there an intimacy between both of you?" An unhappy tone was heard from Caroline who was in her arms.

"Honey, we're friends and we're like sisters, don't think like that."

"I see you two are really close, unlike other friends. You two can maintain that friendship for so long."

"Honey, every friendship must have its obstacles just like a relationship too, those who resist will stay long but those who lose will leave. It's like a game, honesty is the key to a relationship or friendship."

"I didn't think so, Mrs. Anderson is good at teasing me with words." Caroline joked and then laughed when she heard that Sarah, who had been very serious all this time, was suddenly good at talking tonight.

"Honey, don't play with me you know. I'm a very strong person, honey."

"Oh! Yeah?"

"I can prove it to you, honey." She winked and pushed Caroline onto the soft mattress. It looks like the mattress is upturned due to Caroline's back movement. Her face was red from embarrassment. Caroline when she winking her eyes she finds there are similarities with Averill. She shakes her head and focus on their task right now.

"Before that, we tried the closeness of our relationship tonight and also practices to have a child before we really have it." She whispered into her wife's ear full of very seductive tones.

Caroline who heard Sarah's words felt her body tremble, something in her body seemed to turn on and from her waist down her legs felt soft. Sarah was a savage, but Averill was the one she accused of being a savage.

Caroline's nightgown was also seen thrown under the bed, pajamas also fell from the bed slowly and the night light was also extinguished. The condition of the room looked dark, only voices and the sound of the wind could be heard from the room.

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In another place

"Sophie, are you okay?" Asked Melly who was sitting next to her friend.

"I remember Nini, until now I haven't heard from her. I never believed that she followed another man."

"I know my sister and there is no way she left you because as long as I know she loved you so much all this time."

"I feel the same way, she loves Averill very much. I always hope that she will come back to us. I'm sure she's doing well."

"Sister, do you know that man?"

"I have a suspicion but don't know if it's true or not."

"The sister I know loves you very much and it's impossible for her to do that. Didn't she like you for a long time, only you don't know that your best friend loves you."

"If I had known, I would have responded earlier. I feel sorry for being late in responded to her love but I feel grateful for that night."

"Yes, the night you created Averill without both of yours noticed." Melly sneered then laughed and opened the file in front of her.

"Yes. Luckily you were late that night and gave me space to be with her but after that night she really angry with me but still I have my suspicion about it. Until know we still not finding out about it and who behind that incident."

"When you talked about that I was amused, and I cannot imagined my sister's face the next evening. Yes, about that incident, I have doubt about it too. Maybe there was someone wanted to be with her but because of you arrived early at that hotel and found her. If not because of you, I believed she will go crazy. Even through, after the incident, she still angry at you for a long time until she find out of her pregnancy."

Sophie laughed softly when she heard her sister-in-law's words when she remembered the past event. She also misses her wife very much and keeps looking for where she went. Until now she has not been able to trace, she feels that this case has something to do with someone who likes her wife. Only he was obsessed with her wife but was ignored by Nini at that time, maybe he felt challenged by Nini's rejection at that time.

"I will definitely find the truth behind Nini's disappearance, Melly because I'm sure she wouldn't do that to me and Averill."

"I also believe it and the important thing is that we don't give up on finding her."

"Yes. Thank you for helping me raise Averill all this time even though I know you also have other responsibilities by replacing Nini to manage your company."

"No need to thank me anymore. Averill is my sister's daughter and my niece. It is very important for me to give her love even though I am not her biological mother."

"I really appreciate your sacrifice all of this time for being with us."

She nodded her head and smiled at her sister-in-law who was sitting in front of her now. She turned her face and looked at her sister-in-law's face again, the face that used to be beautiful, cheerful and the eyes that used to shine with light now began to be gloomy as if there was no source of light from those blue eyes. She also often saw her sister-in-law brooding while looking at her wife's pictures. The face in the picture has not changed but the face of the person looking at it has wrinkles on the eyebrows and corners of the eyes because she often thinks about her wife.

"Sister, where are you now?" Melly whispered in her heart and she looked away from her sister-in-law and started staring at the open file in front of her. Sophie also started thinking again while looking ahead not knowing what she was counting.

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A woman was seen sitting in the corner of the room that was only slightly lit by lamp, her blonde hair was messy and because it was long it looked like it hadn't been combed for years, her eyes were swollen and red as if she had been crying non-stop all this time, her skin which used to be white is now pale as if she has not been exposed to sunlight all this time, her blood vessels which look green can be seen on the surface of her pale skin. Her legs were chained with iron chains and it looked like her ankles were abraded, the wounds that weren't dry yet began to turn black as if they hadn't been treated.

She looked scared, her legs were folded close to her chest and hugged tightly, and her face was buried in her knees. Her little sobs could be heard, her shoulders were heaving from crying and no one came there, she was like living in a cage and the little light that was there only allowed her to look around the room, the food that was given to her was not eaten. The walls of the room were painted black and plastered with the faces of the woman she loved so much but hugging her sister, they smiled happily in her eyes; her lips trembled from crying every time she opened her eyes and saw the friendly pictures plastered on wall.

All this time she was strong for the woman and her child but now when she saw the picture she felt that her efforts had failed. It is because the woman she loved for ten years has found a replacement, at the same time there is little hope that she will regain the happiness she once had.

She heard the door of the room being opened from the outside, it was pushed slowly and a man was seen coming in slowly to his direction, he smiled sweetly at her and said softly.

"My dear Nini, why are you crying? Aren't you happy in this beautiful room?" He said in a hoarse voice and then laughed loudly.

The woman he called Nini shuffled back quickly and heard the sound of the chain tied around her ankle as it rubbed against the floor. Every time the man entered the room she felt very scared and trembled with fear.

"The walls in this room are so beautiful when plastered with this pictures which are shows their happiness even without you there with them, look at them smiling sweetly at each other. You still don't believe me?" He pointed his finger at the pictures pasted on the wall and laughed merrily at the reaction of the woman who shuffled to the corner of the wall.

"If you had accepted my love before, you wouldn't be in this situation. Why should it be her, the one you accepted?!" He now started scolding the woman for not answering a word he said earlier. He spoke like a madman in front of the woman because there was no answer from the woman.

"Are you satisfied now?! I can give everything for you, wealth, popularity but still you choose her and have a child with her?! Am I not good enough in your heart?!, Why should you choose her, Nini?! Why should be her?! If I can came early that night the child your pregnant will be mine, us!"

"You know what the media said, Sophie and Melly are already married and taking care of your useless daughter. I'm very impressed that Sophie not only marry you but she can also marry your twin sister. The twins right their faces are so similar. Seeing the ex-wife who she thought to be following another man, who is not disappointed and sad?" He said again while mocking Nini who was already crying hard and saw the pictures pasted on the wall of the room.