Abel’s hand was exploring her body restlessly as he lifted the corners of his lips. “What’s the matter? Are you still in love with that man?”
Hera chuckled and playfully pushed him gently. “‘m just curious. You’re still dealing with Luke after so many years. Is there some sort of resentment between the both of you?”
“My hatred for him is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea. Do you want to know about it?” Abel asked softly as he leaned over to her neck like a dangerous serpent.
Hera shivered for a moment, but she could not suppress her curiosity. “Tell me about it, will you?”
Abel drew his hand away and stood up with extreme hatred and coldness on his face. “You shouldn’t have asked.”
He resented Luke Crawford for taking his loved ones away, for his father’s death, and for destroying his family. After all those things that had happened between Luke and him, one of them was bound to die.
However, he wanted Luke to have a taste of bitter anguish before he sent him to his death.
Otherwise, the hatred in his heart could not be resolved!
Hera realized she had asked something that she was not supposed to. She stood up hurriedly, smiled, and said, “Alright, alright. I shouldn’t have asked. You hardly have the time to keep me company, so we shouldn’t be wasting our time on that bastard.”
Abel was placated by what she said. After he let out an evil laugh, Abel put his arms around her while they walked toward the bedroom. The reason why he had maintained such a relationship with Hera was because her voice was so similar to Kassy’s. When he closed his eyes and listened to her talk, it felt as if Kassy had never left and she was always by his side.
…
The following day.
Luca received Rhett’s call, informing her that there was a problem with the research. They needed her to manage things.
Luca was thinking of going back to handle things, but Rhett told her to get some rest and she could handle things by holding a video conference.
She thought that it was a good idea, so she used the application to connect with the researchers in the laboratory. After listening to their reports, Luca learned where they were currently stuck in the research progress and discussed the issue with them.
After discussing and obtaining a new line of research, they ended their video conference.
Luca could tell that they did not want to hold up her resting time.
After a few of the researchers went offline, Rhett said with concern, “Dr. Craw, how’s your head?”
Luca touched the bandage on her forehead. She would be able to have the bandages removed, so it meant that the injury was not a big deal. She smiled and replied, “Of course, it’s fine. It’s almost healed.”
“That’s great.” Rhett was relaxed. He had thought of visiting Luca but who would have known that after rushing to the hospital after he got off work the day after the incident, he was told by the nurse that Luca had already been discharged from the hospital.
Meanwhile, Jason had gone to their department and informed them that Luca would be taking off for a week. They were told not to disturb her if there were no big problems.
Hence, the people in the research department had yet to visit her.
Moreover, Rhett had no idea where Luca was staying right now, so it was difficult for him to pay a visit even if he wanted to.
“Rhett?” Luca called out. Although she was clueless as to why he was spacing out, this was not the appropriate time to do this.
“Oh, yes. Dr. Craw, the company has decided to organize a vacation in B City. Mr. Crawford said that everyone must join if there are no special circumstances. And the company even bought insurance for the trip this time. We’ve already filled in the forms. I’m sending your form now. Can you please fill it online?” After Rhett came back to his senses, he continued to report about other matters.
A trip to B City…
Luca did not feel like going there. Was this trip not a little forced?
She had her doubts because usually, it was up to the employees if they would like to join the trips organized by the company. The company would certainly not force them to join if they were unwilling to.
Even though she did not want to go at first, when the thought of Amur being in B City flashed through her mind, she decided to grab the opportunity to check on him and see if he had gotten himself into trouble.
After all, he had not replied to any of the messages she sent yesterday.
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“Alright. Send it to me. I’ll fill it in now,” said Luca.
Rhett sent the document to her immediately.
After Luca received it, she began to fill in the form.
She just needed to jot down her basic information as it was required for the purchase of insurance. Soon, she was done filling it and she sent it back to Rhett.
After Rhett received it and made sure that there was no problem, he said, “Alright, that’s all. Dr. Craw, rest well. We’ll be waiting for you to return on Monday to manage things.”
“Sure.” Luca nodded and exited the video chat application.
She spent the next two days peacefully. In these two days, she did not do much as she was busy figuring out a way to contact Amur. Even so, he was out of reach.
Luca mustered the courage to make a call, but she was informed that the recipient’s phone had been switched off.
Amur was missing now.
At least, he was missing outside of the island. As for whether Abel kept track of Amur’s whereabouts or not, she had no idea about it.
Even if she asked, he would not tell her either. He would even mock her for showing concern.
Hence, Luca did not ask him.
If the Island Of Despair lost contact with their people who were sent outside, there were certain people who were responsible for getting back in touch with them. However, she had no idea who those people were in B City, and there was no way for her to begin tracking them down.
The only thing Luca could do was to pray and hope that Amur was fine.
…
When it was Monday, Luca showed up at T Corporation on time.
She returned to her office and checked in. When she was getting ready to put on her lab coat and start doing experiments, Zoey knocked on the office door.
“What’s the matter?” Luca asked.
Zoey smiled as she asked out of concern, “Dr. Craw, are you feeling better already?”
“Much better.” Luca picked up the experiment data that was on the table. These were all left by Rhett on her table. They were the experiment data collected during the days she was not around.
“We were planning to visit you after we got off work the other day, but when we reached the hospital, they told us you were already discharged from the hospital. Then, we sent an Instagram message to you but you didn’t reply. We didn’t know where you’re staying, so we didn’t get to visit you.” Zoey explained to her the reason why they did not visit her after Luca got into an accident.
“It’s alright. I don’t look at my phone that often, so I didn’t notice I had received an Instagram message.” Luca had no intention of blaming them. Not visiting her was actually their greatest help to her.
She was an unsociable person. If there wer any important matters related to work, they would call her. When unfamiliar people messaged her on Instagram, she would block them all.
When the Instagram notifications rang, it would always make her heart skip a beat inexplicably.
Hence, Luca did not like to hear the notification tone.
“What’s the matter?” Luca turned a few pages of the data. Rhett had arranged it well. After taking a good look at it later, she would know how much progress was done.