10 She Is Back

The President's Office, Wood Corporation.

The door to the President's office opened as the secretary walked in to deliver some important files only to be shocked at the scene inside.

In the chair sat the President Damon Wood and in front of him, a man sat on his knees as he begged.

"Please President give me some more time. I swear that I will find her this time... I will not fail you.''

Damon, who was listening to him, suddenly banged his hand at the table as he furiously asked.

"How much more time do you need? She is missing for five years already.''

Secretary Ray silently stood there as he pitied the investigator.

'Sigh looks like the boss is going to fire him this time.'

He thought to himself as he looked at his haggard boss.

He had only started working for his boss two years ago and that is why he still didn't know certain things about the boss's private life but what he did know was that his boss was looking for his missing wife and son like a crazy man.

He never shied away from providing a tremendous amount of funds when there was even a little bit of hope, but for the past many years, he had been highly unsuccessful.

When secretary Ray was still busy in his thoughts, the door suddenly flew open as another man entered as he looked at Damon and yelled excitedly.

''I found her! She is still alive Damon."

And as a parched man who had found his oasis after searching for it his entire lifetime, Damon rushed to Oliver as he held his hand and asked.

"What! Are you sure that it is Ivy?"

Oliver, who had his hand in the grasps of his friend, felt pain in them, but he still nodded his head as he continued.

''I am positive that it was Ivy and that too with James, and not only that I saw them right here in New York at the Royal hotel.''

Damon promptly looked at his investigator as he commanded him,

"Look into this and give me a report tomorrow."

The investigator nodded happily, as he felt that he would not be fired and quickly left the room to find out more about where that woman was and with whom. He silently swore to himself that he will even find out the number of times she sneezed in the past three years.

Damon then looked at his secretary as he told him,

"Clear my schedule for today.''

Secretary Ray too nodded his head and left the room as he closed the door behind him.

Now left alone in the room with Damon, Oliver mustered up all his courage as he asked him,

''Damon, now I think that you should tell us about all this stuff. I thought that you hated your wife!''

Damon sighed when he heard his friend, but he too knew that it was time to tell them everything.

''All right I will tell you guys what all I know but can you just leave me for now.''

Damon said as he felt a deep pain in his heart.

"Fine but you better not forget."

Saying this, Oliver too left the room.

Damon sighed as he sat back at his chair and opened the down most drawer of his table and took out a photo of a very small child.

The photo was crumpled at the corners and showed unmistakable signs of being looked at regularly.

Talking to himself in the empty room he started,

"My son, will you forgive your idiotic father for falling in other people's traps? I was an idiot not to believe your mother when she proposed to do the DNA test so confidently.

Well, even if you do forgive me, I don't think that I could ever make Ivy forgive me.''

Feeling his eyes getting moist, Damon felt as if someone was driving a knife in his heart.

''Ivy... Ivy, I wish that I had listened to you for the DNA test. Somewhere deep in my heart, I always knew that James was my blood, but the mere thought that he might not be scared me so much that I was at a loss to do that. I wish that I trusted you... now look at me I don't even have a single photograph of you, many times I wonder if you have gotten even prettier and if you have someone else by your side now, someone who trusts you unquestionably.''

Feeling a sudden pain in his head as he tried to think about his wife of less than two years, he headed to the room situated in the back of the office and lied down on the bed.

Falling asleep, he felt himself once again being pulled into one of his worst nightmares.... the day he saw her for the last time.