THE LONG LOST LOVE - Chapter 84

Once the chopper landing, Ralph and Shon went to the soldier which is ȧssigned to escort them back.

Rachael still sits on the bench with Athena on her ŀȧps.

Zoro bent down his body and carry Athena to the chopper. She was still sleeping even though it’s quite noisy surrounding them.

Rachael also wants to stand up, but her legs are numb and she staggered before she falls back down to sit.

“Ouch…” She whimpering a bit. She rubs her legs and hoping that the pain will go away. She needs to board the chopper with the others.

After putting Athena down on the seat in the chopper, Zoro turns to look at behind. He didn’t see Rachael and he went back to the bench. He looks at her which is frowned right now and rubbing her legs.

“Are you okay?” He asks.

“Ermm..my legs..” She tries to tell him but the pain makes her stop her word and scrunches her eyebrow.

Not waiting for her reply, he scoops her body and brings her to the chopper too.

“You’re too skinny. Eat more.”

Rachael just shot him a glare. “Why would I need to eat more?”

“Your shape is worst and not attractive at all. I just give you the suggestion as a man.”

Rachael shakes her head. “No, thanks. Other men see me perfect enough. Only you who see me in that way, so it’s your eyes who had a problem.”

Zoro chuckles inwardly. ‘She got a point there.’

Put her down on the seat and help her to buckle up, he instructs the pilot to fly.

…

“Oh my, As..Why didn’t you tell me about coming here?” Hai Rin takes off her gloves and hat.

Aslan smiles to her and greets her properly. ” Sorry, Aunt. I come without any notice.”

“What Aunt? Call me mom since you are my son-in-law.” She also smiles at him.

Aslan nods his head. He lowered his head a bit. “Erm, mom, sorry if I ask about this, but when is Athena will coming back? I want to make a surprise for her. That is why I come here.”

“Oh? If there’s nothing wrong with her mission, I guess she will return today.” Hai Rain said and she led Aslan to the main hall.

‘Mission?’ He feels uneasy with the word ‘mission’.

Sit on the luxurious sofa, there are grandma Mu Ning and grandma Xin Me sitting on the sofa too. They are currently watching some documentary show on television.

Just after both of them sit down, the servant brings them two glass of juices and some fruits. They talk about trivial things and they also talk about when Athena was still a child.

“So Aslan, you didn’t tell her that you return back here right?” Hai Rin starts again.

“No, I didn’t tell her. Err, mom… where is she going to her mission? I mean, she only told me that she had a mission, but not the details.” He tries to dig more.

Hai Rin stops munching and she looks like she was thinking for a bit before she continues.

“Borneo. She needs to find the flower extract and also some kind of blood. Well, we can’t wait to see her in good condition again. You must be happy too right?”

Aslan plastered a smile on his face. He nods in agreement. While inside his heart, he really is a bit offended by what Athena’s do. She never told him that she was in a mission. And, Borneo? That’s a quite wilderness there.

“Erm, mom..can I go to her room?” He asks Hai Rin’s permission.

Hai Rin looks at him with a scrunches eyebrow. “Well, of course, you can…You’re the husband.”

Smiling, he said thank you to Hai Rin and went upstairs to Athena’s room.

Opened the door, he looks at all the painting. ‘No wonder you had all Nike’s painting and all of them are never sold to any auction or never been in an exhibition.’

He went to her dress room. The room is filled with her scent. The scent that he misses a lot. His eyes caught a glass rack at the corner of the room. He looks at the rack. There is a lot of shells that he used to collect when he was young and he always gives her the shell that he found on the shore.

‘You even make it your collection huh?’

There’s a set of the computer which he could guess that it was invented by Zoro. The designed is quite unique and from the look, for sure it is not in the market.

He turns on the computer. With a thought that maybe he can find the answer on where she had gone actually.

On the table near the keyboard, there is a small pen drive. He picks the pen drive and looks at it before he connects the pen drive to the PC. The file inside it is encrypted and need to put a password to open it.

He tries to put the password as Athena’s name and her birthday, but to no avail. For a few times, he still can’t pass the security system on the pen drive.

Finally, he tries his luck by unlocking it using his name.

Ting!

He passes the security and there a few files start to pop out. He opens it one by one and found that’s it all about Jye Yin.

There is a video and some of the content is a voice recording. There’s also another person that attract his interest. A scientist who is professional in a genome and had a bad record with the trying to make a baby product using the DNA.

He was totally shocked and what’s more, is..Athena investigates it without telling him. Ask another man to do this? Really? What is he to her? Why did she never rely on him? Why?

He didn’t finish to watch all the video and evidence. He feels angry at Jye Yin for trapping him like this, but he was more angry at Athena for not being honest to him. Isn’t she agreed that they should be true to each other?

Asking and relying on another man beside him really makes his pride feels like it was just stomped by Zoro on the ground. He feels so hurt, angry and sad. All of the feelings are mixed in one.

First, she didn’t tell him about the mission and he doesn’t even know her whereabouts at all. Second, she investigates about Jye Yin and never tell him anything about it. She said she trusts him, but why she investigate it secretly? Third, she lied to him about her is Nike. The artist that he admired so much.

He tries to bottles up his feelings. He turns off the computer and went downstairs.

“Mom, I think I’ll need to leave to our house now. I’ll be waiting for her at our home. Don’t tell her I coming here, okay?”

“Okay..” Hai Rin makes an okay sign.

“Oh, As..if you want to make it more romantic, you can pluck my flower in the garden or the greenhouse. I can ask my servant to pluck it for you.” She said again.

Aslan smile to her and shakes his head. “Thank you for the offer, but no thanks, mom.”

“Okay..”