Hermia was standing there surprised, this was not someone she knew, was she in the wrong compound, but this was her house.
"Don't have to be scared, Lucian is in."
They both stepped in and the man locked the door, Cherry was scared, while Hermia was worried that Lucian might be in danger. The man was a total stranger to Hermia, and a well built man, now she was wondering what shape she would meet Lucian.
Looking at those seated, Hermia saw Michael and now she could finally be at rest. She rushed towards him
"Where's Lucian?" she said in almost a whisper.
Micheal took his head up, smiled at her before imitating Lucian for his short words
"Room."
Hermia's eyes wandered to the men sitting in with living room, she really was worried.
"Relax, take the girl to her room and come back here." Hermia did just what he said.
*
Leading Cherry to her room, Hermia was still worried, she would have said they were the golden masked men, but they were just three, she wanted to believe they were just people she knew nothing about, they could be relatives with Lucian, but then why would he bring them here, maybe they had no idea he was the young master of the NOVA World, they might even be assassins for all she knew, cause they all looked dangerous in one way or the other, but then, if they were assassins, Lucian wouldn't be meeting them here, in fact, Lucian didn't need an assassin, cause he has nothing dirty to hid.
These were all thoughts of hers, but how could she be so sure. Wait, didn't Michael say he would explain, so what the hell was she racking her brain for.
Hermia unlocked a door and entered, Cherry followed behind.
"This will be your room from today, stay in the room for some time." she gave the key to Cherry and gave her a pat on her shoulder "have a nice stay."
Cherry opened her mouth to speak, but before she could say a thing, Hermia was out of the room.
"A bunch of weirdos."
*
Since Micheal was there, Hermia decided she wasn't going to look frightened. Although, she wasn't one to be scared of others, she was scared of these three men especially the one who opened the door. First, they were total strangers to her, she never saw them in the business world, celebrity world, no, neither had she seen any of these faces in Lucian's data.
Also Michael was not helping matters by just keeping quiet with a smug smile on his face.
Her thoughts were going wide as she thought of the possibility that they killed Lucian, and Michael was the ring leader, fear settled in her like never before, if Lucian was dead, wouldn't that mean she was next.
Michael saw Hermia's face look lifeless, he couldn't help the smile spreading to his ears. He left the living room for a minute or so, returning with a glass of water.
"Here, drink this." he gave the cup to her.
"No one is killing you and I told you Lucian is in his room."
Hermia was not a bit surprised that he was able to read her expression. He was an expert at that.
"Then who are they?" her voice was weak.
Michael sat at his former seat, looked at the men at his front and sides.
"Masked men, three out of five." he picked up the T. V. remote, suddenly interested in it
"Don't blame you, Lucian did a good job hiding their identities, even from you." he finally found a channel he was interested in, it was a boxing match.
The surprise on Hermia's face was more than what Michael had expected, her eyes were so big, he could bet those eyes were the size of a tennis ball.
Hermia jumped to her feet and approached the man who had opened the door.
"I'm Hermia."
"Oliver." he said shaking her hand "those two over there are Alex and Andrew, those two love each other, just won't accept such feelings."
"Gays ?"
He turned to look at her and the smile was no longer on his face.
"You got a thing against gays?"
Hermia decided to be careful of what she said to these people, at least she knew nothing about their temper, and also, why would she have a thing against gays when Lucian didn't mind working with gays.
"No, not at all, I was just surprised."
What a white lie, she really did hate gays.
"You didn't sound surprised at all."
"Oh!"
Hermia had a feeling that these masked men were good at reading expressions.
"I'm gonna go check on Lucian."
She said, changing the topic.
"No need," this was a feminine voice "he is right here."
Hermia turned expecting to see Cherry, but she could only see Lucian leaning on the wall, and sitting were Alex and Andrew, there was no Cherry, must have been one of those gays who spoke.