269 BLOOD TIES

At around seven in the morning, Xue Jinxu was woken awake by a mobile phone that kept on ringing.

Wrapped only in a blanket, and still tired from their passionate, intense love-making the night before, she propped her self up with her elbow and sat up on their bed, sleep and utter annoyance both mixed in defined proportions and were quite strongly imminent on her flushed countenance. She found herself alone in the room.

Xue Jinxu reached at the other side of the bed, towards the bedside table where Chen Linyun's mobile phone was positioned, with the intent to answer it.

'It's another anonymous number.' She stared on the mobile phone's screen unable to answer it, fear dominating and getting the better of her. Her list of 'what-if's' resurfaced in her mind.