Chapter 16- Arc 1
Zosia looked at the bustling rail station. Her eyes moved in search of a brochure.
"Is there no brochure at a train station in this world?" Zosia muttered to herself after not seeing any sign of a brochure or map that talked about tourist areas.
"Hey, what is your ticket number?"
Zosia train of thought was halted by the bubbly voice.
Zosia turned her head to the source of the voice and a young lady came into view.
Looking at the young lady who seemed to be around the age of 15 years. She wondered what the lady was doing here.
"I don't have one yet, I don't know how to get one." Zosia gave an embarrassed smile.
"Oh! Are you with someone?"
"No."
Her answer made the lady stare at her for a few seconds.
"Well, then are you waiting for someone?"
Zosia tugged her lips to try and smile but it further showed how embarrassed and clueless she was.
"Um, can you show me how to get it done and also how to get a brochure or maybe a map or something like that?"
"Don't you have a phone, you can look up those things."
Through the little interaction, she knew that the person would help her with them, if she offered to pay in return.
Through the person's dressing and the occasional clutching of her bag, she could tell that the lady should either be traveling from here to another city.
"Sigh! I lost my phone to a thief and everything i need including the instructions on where I should stop or travel is in there." Her story further prompted the lady to clutch her bag tighter.
She was here to wait for her parents who went to the ticket counter to book the last minute train for them.
Zosia would have taken the longer but more safer route but she did not have such leisure and time on hand.
"How about I pay you $5, to show me how I can go about it?"
The lady eyes widened at her proposal. To her, it was free money.
"Okay. Just go left, you would see something like a booth. That is where you can get your ticket and they usually have brochures on the counters."
Zosia felt stupid. She could have just looked around, maybe she wouldn't have to spend the money.
After giving the young lady the money, she left to find the ticket booth.
.....
Zosia arrived at the booth. Taking a brochure from the counter, she quickly scanned through it .
' Derive the best possible destination. ' she said Inwardly to the chip. Since, she could communicate with the chip through her thoughts, there was no need to say it out loud.
『𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛: 𝑉𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦.』the female voice of the chip spoke.
Zosia knew she had only a few minutes left before she gets caught. She couldn't let her escape be in vain.
She walked to the ticket officer. "I need a ticket to Vlinton City."
"Hey, is there any ticket remaining for Vlinton City" the man loudly asked his colleague dealing with another ticket.
"Yes, but it's only one, the train would be leaving in five minutes." The colleague spoke while looking for the ticket.
"Here it is."
Zosia took the ticket but not without filling the details she was asked to fill.
......
A few hours later, the train arrived at Vlinton City.
Since she had no luggage, she left the train station immediately.
During those period of long boring hours, she was able to make a list of things she needed.
Her next stop was a phone shop. She needs to get a phone.
The amount she had on her is $2564, she hoped it would be enough to get a phone and have a place to spend the night.
After getting the phone and SIM card, she went to a hotel.
The first thing she did was to fill her stomach.
After that she began to do some research about the cities, her family influence etc.
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֎Dominic's POV ֎
After settling things with the client, he left in the car the butler had brought for him.
He went back to the company.
He has a self- con in his office, so he took his bath and picked up one of his casual wears.
Using the car, he went to the Leverato house.
Knock! Knock!! Knock!!!
"Ah, you are here?" Trisha who opened the door said with surprise.
She looked around to know if he came with any other person, maybe someone that had forced him but saw no one.
"Please come in." She gave a sweet smile, though inwardly she felt uncomfortable.
She did not know that Dominic was this handsome, his picture did no justice to his face.
'Luck is on my side. It's good that b*tch disappeared.' her eyes glinted.
Dominic had been watching the series of changes that occured on her face but just followed her order and entered inside.
He dropped the gifts he came with on the table.
"Ah, my son-in-law, you are here." Ferdinand came out of his study with an anxious look on his face.
"Sigh! I don't know where that daughter of mine went. I have been trying her line to no avail and I can't call the police since she hasn't been missing for 24 hours. I have been on call since trying to find her."
Dominic was stunned since he had met her and even paid for her fare.
" I am sorry about her abhorrent attitudes, especially towards you. I know you don't like her as well, I would tell your dad not to worry about the marriage. " He said quickly with a weary face.
He did not even remember the fact that Diana had no phone, so which line had he been trying?
"Sigh! I made a mistake, I should let children fall in love with each other, it's not something to be forced."
Dominic nodded his head at Ferdinand words. He even heaved a sigh of relief.
"Trisha, go and call your mother." His words snapped Trisha who had been standing and oogling at Dominic quickly ran up to call her mother.
'I must tell my mum to convince Dad to allow me to marry him instead.' she thought.
Ferdinand's phone rang, "Let me take the call. Please make yourself at home."
Dominic looked around the house, he did not want to stay any longer as even the person who went to call her mother was not coming down and the Master of the house was on call.
He decided to check out Diana's room. He didn't know why he decided to do that but decided to go with his thoughts.
'Well, her room would further tell me what kind of person she is.' he thought.
Dominic was still trying to identify which room was hers when he heard his name.
The voice seemed to belong to Trisha and her mother.
"Mum, you have to convince Dad to allow me marry Dominic. It seems like Diana knows her place and left him."
" I would try but we can't rush it. We have to make it look like Diana eloped with a man. It would make your dad more angry that he would disown her."
"But who would be doing my assignment and all the house chores." Dominic could hear the worry in Trisha's tone.
"That would be easily settled with a tutor."
"Alright mum, let's do as you say."
Dominic did not want to dirty his ears anymore and went back downstairs.
He remembered during the last banquet he had attended, Cecelia had painted her step daughter as overbearing, lazy, with all manner of bad characters.
Even his investigation had given him the same thing. He needed to check some things out, it would be best if his father don't even continue dealing with the family.
The moment Dominic sat down back in his seat, Cecilia and Trisha came downstairs.
Later, Ferdinand also joined them.
After a little talk, he excused himself.
He had not been able to see Diana's room but to him, it was best not to continue dealing with the family.
He didn't want to be the next prey they will latch onto.
{GOING TO MASS RELEASE TODAY AND GO PREMIUM AS WELL. FORGOT THAT TODAY WAS WN BIRTHDAY AND WOULD WANT TO JOIN THE ONGOING PROGRAM.}