"Mom, are we still here for long?" a woman asked her mom. She was currently pacing in front of the kitchen because her mom was making cookies in the kitchen.
"Didn't Dady explain that we are temporarily here so that your dad's enemies don't kill us?" asked her mother as she looked at her daughter, who was still pacing. Instead of answering, her mother asked her daughter a question back.
The woman was Elanor, she was now silent, then looked at her mother, who was making cookies. "Instead of you pacing around like that, you better help Mom make cookies," Camelia said.
"Mom, I've learned to shoot and even use a knife. But why do I still have to be here? I can protect myself," Elanor was annoyed.
"Protect yourself like what? You can't even avoid the anesthetic that Jax gave you? You still can't do anything. You still can't fight them, you're still very weak against them. So, don't even think about running away from here until the situation allows you and your mom to return to the mansion," said Jhoannes, who had just arrived.
Elanor stared at her father with an unknowing look. "If I'm so weak, why don't you just kill me?" Didn't you want to kill me before? Now I'm not in mom's stomach, so mom won't take me away. I'm a useless child, right? So, just kill me instead of giving you a hard time," Elanor said, staring boldly at Jhoannes. She was very upset at her father's unilateral decision.
Cameli slammed the pan of cookies on the floor. Elanor closed her eyes, she realized that she had said it wrong. "Kill Mommy first, then if you want to be killed by your father? Momy was wrong for defending you, so kill Momy, who was bad to you!" shouted Camelia angrily.
Elanor was about to approach her mother, but Jhoannes had already approached Camelia. Taking Camelia into his arms. "Calm down, you're not wrong. I was wrong, I'm sorry," said Jhoannes, making Camelia cry loudly with her arms wrapped around Jhoannes' waist.
Elanor could only be silent at the scene in front of her. She didn't mean to hurt her mother, it was just that with her father's attitude like this, she felt she was not considered a child. For the past five years or so, she had been learning martial arts, using various tools that could be used for fighting. Elanor quickly mastered it. She could even boldly punish those who betrayed her, sadistically seeing the man who fell prey to Jhoannes' pet crocodile. Do all these things still make Jhoannes distrust her?
Even though she only fainted because she was given an anesthetic that made her weak, according to Jhoannes. As smart as we try not to get trapped, there will definitely be times when we will be trapped by the enemy. But Elanor made sure that if she was trapped, she would not be weak. She will fight those people. She would finish off those who tried to harm her. She would not let her family worry about her being kidnapped. She made sure she would survive and return home.
Elanor chose to leave. She left the house and ran towards the deeper forest. The place she was currently in was in the forest, and it was likely that her house was also in the middle of the forest. Elanor had no idea that her father had a house in the middle of the forest like this. She also didn't know which forest her father had built the house in.
She didn't care at all at the moment if a wild animal suddenly devoured her. She just wanted to get rid of her resentment towards her father. She needed to help Ellard, but why was she stuck in the forest like this? Actually, which enemy was targeting her and her mommy until she and her mommy were stranded like this in the forest?
Is this enemy stronger than the people Jhoannes has that Jhoannes chose to exile Elanor and her mother? Really, as long as she studied business and recognized who her father's business rivals were, she had known all of Jhoannes' business enemies, and their strengths were not much different at all. Now? Who was the enemy that could make Jhoannes do something like this? This was a cowardly and weak act in Elanor's opinion.
Her steps stopped when she remembered the Waltons, the family that she had to avoid. However, Jhoannes did not interfere with the Walton family's business, how could the Walton family do such evil? What Elanor knew was that most of the Walton family's business partners wanted to eliminate the Walton family. For example, she had been a victim of the Walton family's business rivals' crimes.Was the Walton family targeting her family because Axton was injured? But Axton was injured because Axton himself was reckless. Even though she had asked Axton to go home. Her bodyguard will take Axton back to his mansion safely. But Axton, with his stubbornness, would not listen if he already wanted something and did not want to go at all.
"Miss," called one of the bodyguards, making Elanor now turn to the bodyguard who had just called her with an angry look.
"What's wrong?" asked Elanor angrily.
"Don't go too deep, there are still many wild animals in this forest. It could be dangerous if you go too deep into the forest," replied the bodyguard.
"Just let me die, let the old man be satisfied. Already, you go back home. Just take care of the old man. I can protect myself!" snapped Elanor as she quickly turned around and walked away. Unfortunately, Elanor, who was not paying attention to her footing, slipped and fell from there.
Elanor's body rolled on the ground. The bodyguard immediately chased Elanor because there was a cliff ahead. Fortunately, there was a big tree that made Elanor's body stop rolling so that Elanor did not fall into the ravine in front of there.
Elanor was still conscious, she looked up at the sky, which was slowly turning dark. Elanor finally closed her eyes, she was knocked unconscious from the hard impact on her head.