Definitely uncle was present

"Sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a long day" she commanded and slapped his roving hands. He placed his arms beneath her bosom and pulled her into him and after a moment of silence, they both fell asleep.

The next morning, both of them entered the dining hall looking radiant and youthful. Master Lee was satisfied when he saw the ring on the Jade's finger. After breakfast, they entered Master Lee's study room. "Lass, I am happy to see that ring on your finger." Jade looked down at the beautiful ring on her left finger, personally, if she saw the ring on display, she don't think she would be interested but now with the ring weight and feel against her dainty ring finger, she find it is a very beautiful ring. The ring has a large central stone that has classic swirl design around it.

She was surprised that the colour of the stone had changed its colour from red to green. She concluded it was a ruby gem when she glanced at it last night. Looks like she was wrong. "The central stone is called alexandrite, emerald by day and ruby by night, it change from green, bluish green under daylight to red or purplish red under incandescent light."explained Master Lee. "Wow. No wonder. I thought it was a ruby last night. It's beautiful."

"There is more, we need to activate the ring for its hidden function. Derek." Master Lee called for Derek to start the process. Jade suddenly felt a sharp pain, followed by a squeeze and then warm, and wet sensation on her right index finger. She looked at the source of her pain. Derek was sucking on her index finger pulp. He then let go to apply a plaster on it. Master Lee cleared his throat clearing Jade's thoughts as well. "Sorry, it must be done when you feel distressed. If I were to warn you earlier that I am going to prick you, you would have been relaxed and it won't work." Derek apologize. Jade just nodded her head and pat his hands.

"Brat.. don't interrupt what this old man wants to say" Master Lee glared at Derek. Derek looked away and scratch his nose. Master Lee cleared his throat once more, "This ring has the power to mobilize an army after the hidden guards failed to guard you and to activate the mechanism, it requires the blood of its owner when in distress. If you look at your ring once again, it now has a faint yellow glow around the swirls. The ring has recognised your blood and you as their new mistress. This ring is made from pure gold." Jade was so stunned and could not belief there is a hidden function behind this ring. Derek had to drag her out of the study room still in daze.

He pinched her at her waist to get some reaction and much to his surprised, she leaped into the air and into his strong arms. "Aah, why did you do that? You took me by surprised." She tried to struggle out of his locked arms to regain her dignity and composure. "I didn't know my wife is ticklish there" he said with a devilish smile but refusing to let her down. He was so tempted to carry her to his bedroom to explore more areas. Instead he carried her to the car.

He gave instructions to the driver and they dove off to meet the hypnotist.

10 mins later, Derek was lying on a comfortable couch while Jade was sitting at a corner of the spacious room.

"Look at my swinging watch and focus on my voice, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 3, 1.. snap. Your eyelids they are getting heavier and heavier, don't resist, just close your eyes. Go back to the day, Michael called you to meet at your usual spot, Go through with me what happened on that day. If you want to abandon the process shout, I want to wake up three times"

"I received a call, Michael said to meet up, I ditched my hidden guards, arrived to the shed but it was eerily quiet, I called out to Michael, he said enter, I.. I was grabbed. There were three men, two holding me down and one was pointing a gun at Michael's temple. I was scared.. struggled and try to kick them off, the guy with the gun suddenly just pulled the trigger and brain, blood.. Michael's it was Michael's blood splattered all across. They don't plan to keep me alive too.. I saw their faces. They made me speak to my parents. I want to wake up!!!" Jade felt her heart crumbled seeing the usually shameless Derek in such agony.

"Focus on my voice, the safe word is I want to wake up, remember if you you need to say it three times. Calm down, inhale, exhale. Look around, don't look at Michael but look around the shed, take your time, don't panic, you can always escape this time compared to previously. Look around you."

"The window, it was opened, someone was approaching, but he stopped short of entering, he was on the phone." "Focus on him now, can you see his face clearly? Again, just ignore everything else." Dr Howard's soothing voice was heard clearly by Derek.

He focused again to the blurred face, the image was getting clearer and it was his uncle. Then it was all blank and it was the day of the ransom exchange. He narrated the events playing in his mind. His breathing became uneven, he started to sweat and tremble. Jade wanted to approach him but was held back by Dr Howard's assistant. "Close your eyes, don't look at anything, follow my voice. Instead focus on the voices around, rewind a few steps back, go back to the scene when you saw your mother across. Don't open your eyes just focus on her voice and other voices. "Derek, mother love you. Don't move. Mama will save you. Let me talk first to your uncle Han Ping, Han Ping let him go. He is only an innocent child. I really love Han Ting with all my heart. Even if I knew you liked me it would never change anything." "I liked you first but why is fate so cruel?" "Han Ping, I really didn't know you had feelings towards me. We have never even hold a conversation prior to my marriage." "You don't love Han Ting, because of Derek you chose to stay, tell me the truth!!!"

"The truth is I love Han Ting and then we decided to have Derek." "Liar!!!!" "Kill him!!!!" his uncle roared and then Derek open his eyes and saw his mother running towards him and jumping over him. Followed by multiple gun shots. "wake me up. wake me up. wake me up!!!" Jade quickly ran towards Derek and pulled him into her embrace the moment Dr Howard snap his finger. Derek found comfort in her embrace. He was sobbing broken heartedly into the crook of her neck.

Once he regain his composure, he looked up and held her right hand. She took his handkerchief from his pocket and gently wiped all his tears away. Derek then turned to face Dr Howard, "How much of this recollection is true? Can it be a confabulated vision?" "This memories are the memories suppressed by your brain either because your brain is trying to protect you because the truth is too painful or the certain memories were so intense that it suppressed others. Made up memories only happens when someone try to insert new memories or if you were brainwash." "Then it must be true! Uncle was definitely there and was the culprit." He hands gripped Jade's fingers searching for warmth.

"You really need to talk with uncle." Jade finally spoken. "Come, let's go."