Elrisha
After that serious talk slashed confession again, we decided to finish our six hours observation over the sample blood that we did before heading home. We cleaned up and put every apparatus into their proper storage and neatly settle those that were on the table already before washing our hands. After sanitizing our hands, we removed our laboratory coats and put them into the coat rack then took our dinner over our locker table.
"Now you're starving." Mirna commented since I decided to eat our dinner at the workplace.
"Nope. Just hungry because if I'm starving which only meant that I need blood in my system." I honestly told her the difference in my appetite whenever I am hungry to starving.
"Does my blood will do its magic then?" she wondered but there's a hint of tease in her tone.
"Ohho, my beloved girlfriend is offering her blood to me." I challenged her which made her automatically turned into a tomato.
"Then don't if you don't want to." She sounded like she's pouting when she rolled her eyes away from me.
"Hey. I didn't say that I didn't want to. I love it too but not because I am starving. I'd rather taste them went we're making love." I winked at her which made her blushed really in a deep shade of red.
"M-making l-love?!" she stuttered that I found so cute.
"Cute." I leaned closer to steal a quick kiss over her lips.
"Finish your dinner." She tried to ignore me but she was still being cute over that blush covering her entire face. Cute embarrassed octopus.
"Yes, my love." I winked and finished my dinner which was the food that I didn't eat earlier at lunch.
"Whatever." She just ignored me in her irritating façade but she's smiling.
After having dinner, we both signed out from our work late around eight in the evening but at the elevator, no words were being exchanged. As if none of us didn't know what to say to each other after what we've just discussed in the lab and I could feel my palms were sweating which it never did before till now. I am nervous.
"Ahm, do you want to ride with me? I'll take you home." I nervously asked which exactly the elevator suddenly rang. We're already on the ground floor.
"Oh, thank but no." Mirna answered honestly which I felt a little sad about.
"Why?" I want to know if there's some reason why she has to decline my offer.
"You're my boss and I am working with you. Plus, I don't want any stupid rumors suddenly floats around the office." She stated her reasons to me and it's totally understandable.
"We're not officially out. I understand." I concluded which made her looked sad for me.
"Sorry." She apologized which made me smiled and pulled her closer to me then kissed her forehead.
"No, don't apologize because of it. I understand the circumstances. But if ask you out on your day off, would you let me take you on a date then?" I told her since I really do understand but I hope we could of out for a simple date just the two of us.
"Of course." She agreed as we both headed to the waiting shed where my butler Terek and my car were waiting.
"Great." The only thing I managed to say as we both standing in front of the midnight black Mercedes Benz car.
"See you tomorrow." She told me with a smile over her lips.
"Yeah see you. Oh, don't forget we're going to report to Syrina tomorrow as well." I reminded her before my butler opened the backseat door for me.
"Noted." She winked at me as she nods then I hoped in the car before waving at her one more time and we're off.
On our way home, my smile never left my lips but there was something that suddenly made me felt so uneasy which my butler took notice of it as well.
"Are you alright, Milady?" Terek asked me through the rearview mirror.
"Yeah, but something was off." I honestly answered him since I am not sure why I suddenly feeling like this – uneasy. It's very rare for me to feel this way and whenever I felt it, something was going to happen.
"Oh, you better deal with it Milady before it eats you if you don't do anything about it." Terek reminded me of what I usually do whenever I felt something in my guts like this.
"You're right, Terek." I agreed with him which I immediately made some notification through all the police or even the securities to be alert over something that they might found odd and they better report it to me as soon as possible.
After pressing the sent button over my sent to all emails, my phone began to ring and it's from Mirna.
"S-save me." I heard Mirna's quivering voice before it went out. Oh boy! This was the thing I didn't want to happen on our first day of being a couple.
"Terek, change of course. Let's find my girlfriend." I gritted my teeth as I almost crashed my phone because of the anger that's building inside of me. My butler didn't hesitate and made a sharp U-turn to go back to my workplace.
As soon as I got back there, there's no sign of Mirna until Terek called me. I went to where he was standing and it was just across the company's street. Terek handed me a purse that I knew belonged to her and it's making my blood boils until there's nothing else except for coldness. I quickly took my phone out and connect to my company's personnel's ID locator. I'm the one who designs it for the safety of my workers especially my human workers in my company. In our realm, only a few humans knew that they were working with night creatures or getting along with some that are why this ID locator was indeed for their favor just in case things like this happens to them.
"Get in the car and go to the Crossfield Residences at D' Residence burned barnyard. I'll meet you there." I coldly ordered Terek which made him jolted for a second since it's very rare for me to be in the mood of hunting a killer.
"Yes, Milady." Terek said as he handed to me my crimson blood coat before he went to where I told him to be. This was going to be a bloody rescue.
Mirna
As soon as Elrisha left the waiting area, I crossed the street and waited for the cab that I called. I was checking the route of the cab when I felt something wasn't good around the air for this night. Something was about to happen but I couldn't care less. I just wanted to go home as soon as possible and maybe prepared something for my girlfriend. Damn, saying that she's my girlfriend it really felt so good, and it's definitely warming my heart. But my happy thoughts immediately flew away when some threatening eerie feeling was getting out of hand, I quickly dialed my lover's number.
"Save me." That was the only word I managed to say when something really intoxicating invaded my nostril from the handkerchief covering my mouth.
I might struggle a little since I felt that I scratched someone's face because I felt that my nails really made a dig over whoever face was it. Then I lost my consciousness though there some odd happened to me. I might be unconscious but my hearing and my sense of smell were totally on high alert. I am totally confused but definitely not since I remembered that have something that Elrisha mentioned before – Unega Unatsi. Anyway, I focused on the sudden senses that are really doing their best capacity since I could hear that were inside a car and it was traveling somewhere maybe isolated, broad, or abandoned place. I wanted to panic but it won't do any good, so, I decided to calm myself and be in my best blank façade that I could muster.
'Do you think her family will give us ransom?'
'Of course, they will. She's working at the very prestigious and known research laboratory.'
'Are you sure that we got the right girl?'
'Yes. Why did you ask? Don't you trust me?'
'It's not about that…I just don't like my guts telling me…'
'Care to elaborate?'
'Something will come in our way if we don't drop this girl somewhere safe. We'll die.'
'HAHAHAHA! PUSSY DUDE! You're a pussy.'
'Whatever, I'm just saying.'
Oh shit! They got the wrong girl. My parents weren't rich or even noble and not to mention that I am just a scholar from Syrina's charity and she's been supporting me even now. Without her help, I won't be a doctor or a surgeon and I won't have any unit at a very expensive high-security residential house in this town. Plus, not everyone who's working at the company was rich. Everyone works the asses for where they are not like these losers.
Anyway, they kept talking randomly while laughing but the drive was so familiar to me. Each turn was totally familiar since I've been walking and commuting around this place. Of course, it's familiar because this was the Crossfield Residences property. I wanted to make some scenes but I choose not to and let my guess be right. So, I waited for them to make another turn to hit the road toward the D' Residence which I knew that there's an open rice field with an abandoned and burned barn. I used to stay there for a couple of days till I found a job around here. Well, my first day here in this Crossville town wasn't really doing me any favor because I've been fooled by a recruiter which led me astray for two or three days until I received an email from Lady Syrina. She offered me a job at the research laboratory that I didn't hesitate to grab it. I work really hard and Lady Syrina transferred me to PRLab-1 where I met Elrisha for the second time around.
So enough of that reminiscing, as my abductors went in their silence, the car halted as well and my guess was right since I could smell the freshness coming from the rice field as they opened the door.
'Take her in that barn. Tied her up.'
'I'm going to make a call.'
'Wake her up when you tied her.'
One of them carried me carefully as if I am a delicate doll then I heard him spoke in his very low voice that he was sorry about this one and he desperately needed money for her sister's operation tomorrow. I know that he wasn't lying and I am not sure how I could tell myself that one but I am hundred percent sure that he was being sincere.
"What's your name?" I weakly mumbled under my breath since he was carrying me like a bride toward the barn.
"You're awake." He commented.
"Name." I insisted.
"Jonas. Jonas Tan." He introduced himself quietly as we entered the burned barn.
"I'm Irina and let me tell you that I got the wrong girl." I honestly told him which I knew he got it right. He has strong intuition.
"I thought so. But they won't listen to me. I just happened to join since I need that money." Jonas cleared to me which I understood well though I knew it wasn't right either.
"I could tell. I'll just play along but don't let them touch me or they'll die." I warned him since I could feel somewhere that Elrisha was indeed looking for me already.
"What do you mean?" he wondered as I could hear some shaken-up tone underneath his tone.
"My girlfriend will find me." I replied weakly before he put me on the chair.
"That'll put us in harm." He was a bit frightened while he was tying me and it wasn't too tight.
"Not you, just them." I weakly told him which made him nod before sitting up in front of me before giving me a hard slap to wake me up like what he was being instructed at.
I weakly opened up my eyes and I could definitely count that they were five and only one of them was decent enough to have a very good reason for doing this even it's wrong. I was about to say something when one of them beat me to it by giving me another hard slap before laughing. Jonas on the other hand tried to reason but I knew they were beyond help because in their eyes, a bug was underneath it meaning – they're taking drugs as soon as they put me here. I am not reacting or giving them pleasure over the slap they were giving me but one of them punched me to the face and to the stomach which for sure, Elrisha would definitely go for a kill.
"Elrisha." I weakly mumbled and this was what I feared. I could remember the same thing that happened to me before.
I was being kidnaped when I'm ten and the man who kidnaps me did something that I kept my best to bury deep within but not this night. Not when they reminded me of how he hurt me with a cigarette and creating a small constellation at my lower back hip; whipped me and even drugged me so he could have his way with me. Well, they were all in the past that kept hunting me when things like this happened.
"El..risha.." I mumbled as tears fell out from my eyes then some clattered echoed throughout the burned barn which made their laughter died down as well.