Not the Substitute Girl
Disappeared
Orion breaks into Felix's study 16 hours after Alea enters the plane. "He didn't fly there!" The tone between worry and fear is implied in Orion's voice. Felix quickly stopped his work.
"Whatchu mean? He didn't go to Milan?" asked Felix to calm down. Even though his heart was in a panic. Alea didn't make it to Milan? Then where is he going?
"Earlooking already?" Orion nodded, saying Maria had told him that the girl he was supposed to pick up did not show up at the international airport in Milan, Italy. Maria checked and combed the airport area but did not find Alea. CCTV was also checked, and they found no trace of Alea at the airport.
"Is it possible they are.impossible." Orion put aside the bad thoughts of what might have happened to Alea.
"They can't kidnap him, right?" Orion immediately stared intently at Felix's face, as the man expressed Orion's deepest fears.
Orion's face changed. For the second time he felt a sense of helplessness, feeling a failure to look after someone. What happened to Sera will happen again, she hopes not. Really, he did not know what he would do if Sera's incident repeated itself.
"Don't repeat, please. I can't lose you." Orion, a man with a cold nature as if devoid of feeling, suddenly felt weak because an Alea had escaped his tutelage.
As Orion tries to brace himself, Xuan, An and Axa break into Felix's room. "Hows it? Have met?" Lick Felix. Panic also hit Felix.
"He didn't get into the plane that flew to Milan." One piece of information from Xuan made the two men stare intently at Xuan. Xuan quickly opened his laptop, typing in a few words. And there came the manifest of the passengers of the plane that Alea was supposed to be on.
"The name's on the manifest...."
"But he didn't get on the plane." Cut Xuan fast. Everyone breathes in at the same time. One thought came to their heads. Where did the girl go? Or what happened to Alea?
"What about Abraham?" ask Felix. The man asked as he glanced at Orion, who did not appear to show any expression as Felix called out the father's name.
"Nothing's going on. I've been monitoring Abraham's movements ever since Alea entered the airport. He did send some people to the airport but they didn't do anything." Axa reporting.
Silence instantly enveloped the place. "You can get Alea's parents' address. I'll check it there. Other than us, he has nowhere else to go. Except to go home."
Xuan moved quickly, the two men's direct addresses were able to. One Alea boarding address, another Alea parent address. In addition, Xuan also informed that Alea's number had been inactive since entering the airport.
"He turned off his phone. I saw it." Orion recalled Alea turning off her phone after they kissed that time.
"But I should still be able to track him, even if he turns off his GPS, too."
Silence was back in that place. "Don't you think Alea was trying to run away from us?" felix's voice made everyone stare at the man.
"Don't worry you!" Orion Sentak.
"But I thought the same thing." An began to make a sound.
Tension began to build between them. "He can't betray us!" Orion spoke with great emphasis.
"He left all his cards in his desk drawer." Atika's voice spread tension in the room. An's lover brought a slot full of cards belonging to Alea, even black card Orion gave at that time was also left by Alea. The rest are Sera's identity cards, a line of credit cards and ATMs on Sera's behalf, all Alea does not bring.
"Is he crazy? He didn't bring a penny?"
"He only had two cards. Alea's identity card and his old ATM." Atika said sadly.
"He wants to go back to his old life." Orion immediately stood up, darting out from there. If Alea were still in this country, she would face threats from Abraham as well as others who knew she was Sera. There were a lot of people targeting Sera, and that obviously affected Alea, who the laymen considered the girl to be Sera.
Orion drives his car, to Alea's parents' address. In the suburbs, two hours from Star Jewelry's office, she recalled Alea yelling that she missed her parents. Orion figured that Alea must have gone back there.
"How dare you take action without my consent. Watch out for you, Al!" Orion's mind panicked in anger.
"Rion, he pulled cash at the airport ATM, 30 minutes after the plane took off, which means he didn't get on the plane."
"Track him on all the CCTVs. I'll take him home. Use Sera's corneal scan to look for her!" A line of orders from Orion led the four men in Felix's room to begin the search.
While Felix picks up the cell phone, giving orders to keep an eye on Abraham as well as Darrel. The two men Felix suspects have the potential to do bad things to Alea.
Felix's conversation paused when Atika handed him a small box. The girl said to find him among the pile of cards Alea left behind. Felix received a box with the inscription "For Brother Felix" on it. The man walked to his desk. A twin rose brooch sparkled as Felix opened the box. With a small note on it.
"Sera's brother put this in my jacket pocket when we were in an accident. There's an FSA initial there. So I think this belongs to you. Now I give it back. I don't deserve to have anything Sera's got."
Felix's tears dripped in the corner of his eye, Felix saw the twin rose brooches from Sera, behind the tiny object, the initials of the FSA were indeed imprinted there. Felix knew about this brooch, his sister once said he wanted to make a beautiful thing, which can be used as a memory. So Sera made this thing when she was 14, a year before the accident that happened to Felix and Valdy.
"The FSA should be Felix Sera Athaya. But what if it also means Felix Sera Alea."
Is not destiny impossible to guess. Felix keeps the thing, side by side with his one, if Sera's property is a golden rose, then Felix's got is a Black Rose. The jewelry series that just made Star Jewelry name because of its high sales in the market.
"Even Sera's marketing plan ten years ago, you can make it happen. Tell me, do you want your brother to bring her back. Turns you through him. Is that what you want, Sera?"
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Up again readers.
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