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Chapter 37 - VANISHED

Much as Diana is so much interested in turning her life to a new leaf, she is left with no option but to just do what is the right thing as of the current situation which is to leave when she still has some pride left within her.

In Alfred's office.

It is 1 pm and since morning Alfred has been in meetings upon meetings although part of his heart is not settled so he decides to go to Diana 's office to check and see if he can have lunch with her .

Once he enters office, he is shocked by what he sees the room is totally empty with nothing that looks like Diana in the office so he calls Paulo to find out what could be the new Diana stunt this beautiful afternoon but his calls to Paulo are to no avail so he decides to go and check for her at home .

Alfred knocks on Diana's door but still he doesn't receive an answer from within and to add icing to the cake , he decides to bang the door so loud that it can almost break the door when his dear little friend Skylar comes over.

Skylar: If you ask me I would suggest you stop wasting your time .

Alfred: Where is Diana?

Skylar: I don't know .

Alfred: Before I left she was here so why can't she come out and we talk like adults.

Skylar: Mmmm I don't know .

Alfred: Skylar I know you have been here all day so you definitely have all the answers to these questions so spill please.

Skylar: Okay the little I know is that I woke up with a huge hangover and so as I am passing by Diana's room I find that it is open widely which prompts me to go inside and check because I didn't want to face a robbery or a murder right inside the house with no clue about it since it was the first time to see her door wide open and guess what I saw ?

Alfred: Nothing.

Skylar: Exactly.

Alfred: You know it doesn't make sense at all for someone to just vanish like that it makes me wonder if we treated her so bad that she barely could stand us you know.

Skylar: If you ask me , I can surely say that by the looks of things she always was looking for a way to end things with you but didn't know how so this was the right way to do it.

Alfred: SKYLAR what do you mean by ending things huh? much as she is gone I know she will return and take up the role of a wife in my life and I will wait for her return so as to get answers to my questions.

Skylar: Oh! this means you haven't seen the divorce papers yet.

Alfred: DIVORCE!!!

Skylar: ( Skylar opens the door to Diana's room and gets the divorce papers that are signed against by Diana and hands them over to Alfred) see for yourself before you assume am lying.

Alfred: I know she has divorced me but I haven't divorced her so our marriage still stands so whatever happens our marriage is still valid.

Alfred speaks all this in a heart broken state so he decides to make a call to Alexa Diana 's best friend to find out whether she is with her or know where she is but all is negative so he makes a phone call to his friend Connor but amidst tears .

Connor: My man why do you sound so broken?

Alfred: Diana is gone bro ,she is gone.

Connor: You mean she is DEAD!!!

Alfred: No, I meant she has left our home that we made together and what is worse is she has managed to leave me as a divorcee.

Connor: What! Why? How ?

Alfred: I don't know , I am thinking I might have just confessed my feelings for her in the wrong way that's why, but if she wasn't happy she should have told me and I would find a better way to do it rather than opting out of marriage like this.

Connor: You know what, I highly doubt that can be an issue when it comes to Diana it might have been something else that must have prompted her to leave.

Alfred: I don't know what to think anymore, I feel like I want to blame someone but whom can I blame when everything has happened so fast.

Connor: She might be in the office if she is not at home stop drawing conclusions before you are so sure.

Alfred: I was from the office and all of her things are not there at all and what is most shocking is that no one even saw how her things were moved .

Connor: Wow, so Diana just vanished just like that . She is quite annoyingly impressive no wonder their family gets away with everything they do in handy.

Alfred: What am I going to do ? I talked to Alexa but she also wasn't aware about it and she was hearing it from me for the first time and as if that's the least of my problems because I don't know how am going to tell father in law about his daughter's disappearance when I was strictly warned against doing anything to hurt Diana.

Connor: You didn't hurt her she just disappeared just like that . Maybe she got guilty about keeping you in this sham of a marriage and decided to set you free of all problems.

Alfred: Who told her to make this decision for me? I am old enough to choose what is right and what is wrong for me , I am so broken and worst of it all is she is my one and only true love that I chose to love all my life and see what she has done , I am definitely not ever going to love anyone again.

Connor: I do think that much as she is no where, their business is top most priority and she will definitely find a way to be a part of the company since it brings in more money, so please take heart and ensure not to drink in this trying moment .

Alfred: I will try and thanks for the soothing words .

Connor: Anytime.

The call ends and Alfred locks himself up in his room to grieve his partner's disappearance as he awaits for her return which he is uncertain about.