Few miles away in town, another woman came to the said apartment and opened the door next to her similarly absent neighbor. She owns the other room beside it and had turned it into her own secret place.
Although on the outside, it looks like she has a larger room, a small portion of it has been hidden to put her important documents inside. Everyone has secrets, can she not keep her own?
Her current boss decided to give them a vacation for the day and even treated his employees for a movie but she turned it down. She instead requested to go back home so she can visit her tiny home.
Far from her previous grand lifestyle, this life is something she would prefer more. It was already nightime when she arrived so she just decided to take a shower and have some rest.
She heard two doors opening and closing one after the other. One from her neighbor who seemed to have arrived and is now leaving her room again and the other is noisier.
When she peered to look, she saw a familiar face. Looks like her new neighbor is also her colleague at work. She contemplated to greet the guy or not and just decided to shrug it off and sleep in.
They're not very close anyway so it's not important if she greets her neighbor or not. It's not like she owes him a debt or something.
Speaking of debts...
She saw her phone lit up and walked over to check a new message come in. One of her eyebrows raised when she read the person's message.
"Baby, just help me this once. I have a surprise for you." She closed the message after carefully trying to understand the content of the message. She tried calling the number again and again but it seems that she can't reach the person.
Fine, suit yourself, she thought before she placed it on the side table and dug into a deep sleep. On the phone is the name of the person she's been trying to reach - Akai.
Outside the apartment, the neighbor seemed to have completed moving his stuff in and is now busily talking to someone on his phone.
"Yeah, she made a beautiful setup of her place but hiding is futile. Did she think I won't let her pay for the embarassment that she caused me. If she has skills then I have my own, too. We'll just see who gets taken down first."
"Hmm. I already moved in and we have another neighbor that came in. It looks like one of my colleagues at work but she rarely comes in here. Once she leaves, I'll start to strike." he smiled gently as he said those threats.
He started bringing out his stuff for arrangement as quietly as he can. He doesn't want to disturb his neighbors at this time of the night. It was about midnight when he noticed that he has not yet completed arranging even a half of his stuff.
His body started to get drenched in sweat and seeing that his conditioning system has not been installed yet, he took his shirt off. Only that he heard an ear-piercing scream from the next room.
Without even thinking at all, he ran straight out of his house, used his body to break open the door and ran straight to the woman who looks like she's having a really bad nightmare.
He started to shake the woman to wake her up and when she did, she just blinked curiously for about two seconds before she bit his arm and started to run away.
He guy winced in pain but still managed to warn the woman.
"Put some robe on first unless you want to attract lewd men in the area." She stopped on her tracks and, realizing she only has her nighties on, she walked towards her kitchen, grabbed a frying pan and knocked the man out using the pan.
When she saw that the guy is no longer moving, she hurriedly put on some clothes and went back to the kitchen. Taking a box from one of the cabinets, she went back to guy and inspected his head.
She saw a little bump on the guy's head to she applied some ointment on it and tried to wake the guy up.
"Darjo, are you okay?"
Young master Alon arrived at his destination and he smiled like a kid. Ah, the success rate of this plan will be close to a hundred. He clapped his hands in excitement.
When he alighted from the yacth, he gave a stern instruction to the captain to come back only during weekends to replenish their food stock. The young captain bowed his head and went swiftly back to the marina.
An elderly couple greeeted him when he arrived.
"Good evening young master. I know it's almost midnight now but do have some dinner first before you sleep."
"Nah, please get help me get a warm milk instead to I can sleep soundly and wake up early for tomorrow." He just smiled at them before he stopped and turned back.
"Did my baby already woke up?" The couple got shocked by his question. He stared at them as they stared back, still in shock. When he realized what he just said, he facepalmed.
"She's just a friend." Then he walked away again.
The old lady brought the milk he requested and after gulping it down, he immediately fell asleep. Ah, beauty needs enough rest and his skin needs to be pampered.
Morning came and Alon woke up with a smile. He just brushed his teeth, inspected his face for any blemishes and happily waltz downstairs for breakfast.
A healthy breakfast was served and he ate heartily. He just let his guest sleep in as much as she wanted to. She'll feel pampered and so honored that he got her this vacation, she's going to agree with his simple request.
Noon came and his lady guest never came out of her room. Hmm, was she so busy with her new work that she never got enough rest already?
He sighed, she's trying very hard to prove herself. She refused all his offer of help except for a shelter when she needed it and never asked for anything anymore.
When the old couple called for lunch, Alon felt like he needed to wake the lady up now. After all, she still needs nourishment on her body.
He took a quick shower and walked out of his room wearing only his trunks, forgetting that he's about to wake a girl.
He still has his towel on one hand drying his wet hair when he opened the door and came face to face with a small fist. The punch directly landed on his abdomen. He laughed when he realized that he got her so mad she'd be punching him to bits but he could not even react and just let out a cry as he held his abdomen in pain. My body!
Still, he tried to comfort himself and just said she's angry because he technically had her kidnapped. She may not have read my message. And what was that punch? Is she learning martial arts now?
"You should have just kept me chained. Now you'll die." He heard a sinister voice and looked up at the woman. He blinked. When did the princess become a man?