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Firstly sorry for updating so late. I was struck up with some serious situation at home, which is why I'm updating so late.

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But little did I knew, that forever is just a myth and Ryan was not something I thought he was.

This didn't last any longer, because I found myself being brought back into the reality when splashes of water droplets were felt on my face. Slowly, I opened my eyes, to look up at two worried ones of my friends. Everything suddenly made sense, and I found myself looking at them with fear adminant in my eyes.

"You alright?", Nans asked

I couldn't bring myself to answer this simple question, which is why I simply nodded at her. We sat there for like fifteen minutes in silence as none of us dared to speak a word, when suddenly Harry stands up.

"Come" she says

We simple stared at her not knowing what is she up to, "Where?", Nans asks her while standing up too.

"Just follow me" Harry looks at me with pleading eyes.

Sighing, I get up and we follow her, while she leads us further into her house. We pass her kitchen, when she suddenly stops in front of a door that is beside her fridge. She opens the door, revealing flight of stairs that leads to her basement. We escalated downstairs in complete darkness with the only source of light coming from a small window on the very end of a wall opposite to us. The room comes into life when Harry flickered the lights on and we are left baffled with the scene that is enfolding in front of us.

With graffiti on the walls, the room looked no less than an open canvas to an artist who splashed the room with so many different colors. We looked at it in awe, when suddenly Harry points at a table that is placed beneath the staircase having different types of glassware items and crockery.

"What have you got here?" I arched my eyebrow at her, clearly surprised to find she has something like this in her basement.

"This is our 'Let it out' area", she laughs while air quoting 'Let it out', "It was Edward's idea to have a space where we can let out our anger by smashing somethings on... you know" saying she points at the plates on the table and then towards the wall.

"That. Guy. Is. A. Freaking. Keeper.", Nans says while holding Harry by her shoulders and shaking her vigorously, "Gonna sign a petition to make it compulsory to have such spaces in everyone's house..." she then leaves Harry and groans, "...Good lord I'm so in need to release my anger", she says while looking at me suggestively.

Smirking at the opportunity, I walk up to the table and pick up an wine glass in my hand. "Bloody Ryan", I cussed and threw the glass on the opposite corner of the wall where Harry pointed.

Soon this turned it into a competition where we smashed and broke every fine piece of crockery into pieces while cussing a few incoherent words too. After about what seems like half hour and breaking almost everything, we looked at each other and broke into a series of laughter. Trust me the relief that followed after breaking these things won't be explained. I'm still finding it difficult to digest the fact that Harry has something like that in her house, had I been at my place, I would've tired myself by beating the boxing bag.

"Now what?", I ask Harry while pointing at the broken mess.

"Don't worry about it", she said while waving her hand in front of her face as if the mess was nothing to be bothered about, "I'll get this cleaned by someone. Now come, I'll cook something for us" saying she already started climbing the stairs.

"And burn the house to ashes? No can do" Nans says in a mocking way, "I'll cook..." she turns to me and asks, "...how does Lasagne sound?"

"Perfect", I smiled at her.

Cooking with them have always been fun; while Nans dealt with the dough, me and Harry chopped the vegetables and got all the ingredients ready. Currently, Nans stuffed the tray of Lasagne into the oven while Harry was setting the table. Sighing, I sat on the kitchen counter-top, readying myself for the rest of the conversation that was left incomplete by my sudden visit to unconscious state. Nans looked at me with a puzzled expression and walks towards me, "You good?"

"Umm hmm", I hum in the response, "Go on, I need to know what's up"

She looks at Harry who is now standing beside her and breathes out,  "The other day when we were at Vegas, I received a call from my colleague stating that, they caught some unknown satellite device activity near the vicinity of Ryan's prison room..." she pauses for a while and then continues, "...On investigating, they did find a small device that can connect through satellite and send some voice messages of lower wavelength".

I wasn't shocked on listening any of it, because I knew Ryan is capable of doing something like this. He have had tricked the cops numerous time and this... is nothing new if you ask me. I look up at Nans and simply nod at her, silently asking her to continue.

"We were investigating on this, looking out for various suspects whom he can contact and make them do his shady business but we were kind of struck...", she huffs, "... we couldn't find out exactly what he was planning on doing or what specific orders he gave to his men, or God have mercy... who knows he might have contacted the fellow gang to carry out his incomplete revenge".

"You knew?", I look up at Harry who is silently standing beside Nans without looking surprised on this piece of information.

"Yes, we had a talk about it", she pauses, "I was the one who suggested to keep this as a secret, until, you know, you get here from Berlin".

"But...", before I can continue, Nans cut me off.

"Look we knew you'll be stressed and be out of your mind on hearing this. And also, partly because we didn't want Ezra Ambrosia to know about it".

"Makes sense though", I say agreeing with her.

"But, what doesn't makes sense was your call, the other night. What happened Lucrecia?"

I mentally debated whether or not should I tell them about it, but on the other hand if I actually look into it, Nans and Harry were the ones beside Ela who knew what went down years ago. They knew my past with Ryan, and since they were the ones who have handled the case and put him behind the bars, they needed to know about it.

"Oh nothing, apart from being cornered in a dark bathroom and called 'May', nothing exciting happened", I said it with ease to uplift the tension that surrounded us and gave them a big smile.

"WHAT?" the shouted in unison.

"Being cornered?" Nans asked me, "Who was it? Did you see their face? How many of them were there? Are you anywhere hurt? And where the hell was Ezra Ambrosia?" she asked all that in one breath.

"Calm down" I signalled her to breathe in by lifting my hands a little and then breathe out. When her breathing got back to normal, I looked at her with a smirk while Harry stood beside her laughing silently, clearly being amused by the scene that is enfolding in front of her.

"We went to this party when I excused myself to use the loo. Long story short, the lights of the bathroom were cut off suddenly and enters a guy similar to Ryan's built. He corners me and gropes me, while continuously calling me May. He even knew that I was with Ezra and started  threatening me that he tell him everything that I've done. And then... he was out in a poof"

"Wait", Harry intertwined, "Something similar to this happened in Vegas too. Am I right?". She arches her eyebrow at me, "Remember when we were being chase by the dogs?"

"Why of-course" I chuckled at her, "That was hilarious".

"Shut up", she silences me, "You ran into a guy and then suddenly out of nowhere, you started bleeding because of the cut on your inner thigh?!"

"Holy-" Nans interrupts her, "This is NOT a coincidence", she says clearly emphasizing on the word 'not'.

I gave it a thought and then realized that everything fall into place. All these incidents were clearly linked with each other, as if someone has been keeping a tab on my whereabouts and everything that I do. And since Nans confirmed that Ryan was indeed communicating with someone, maybe he might be behind all this.

I looked up at Nans, alarmed and ask her, "Someone is feeding him all our information, our whereabouts and our daily activities. Someone who is close to us is behind all this, but who?"

"Your employees? Maids? Colleagues? Rivals?" Harry started listing out various possible suspects.

"Everyone is a suspect until we find the real culprit", Nans says.

"So what now? What sort of help should I expect from the police?", I ask her.

"We got the situation under control for now. He doesn't have any means of contacting anyone which leaves us some time to plan our next move and find the possible betrayer around us. All I want you to do is..." she looks at me and continues, "...Just be careful. If you suspect anything fishy going around you then contact me directly. Also don't discuss your plans and personal business with anyone".

"Don't worry about it. We're here with you" Harry says while putting her palm on my shoulder to comfort me.

"By any means, do not take this lightly Lucrecia. He might be planning on doing something big this time...", her eyes softens, "Be careful".

Our conversation was cut off by the ding of the oven, stating that our dinner was ready. Rest of the night went smoothly with our inside jokes lingering around and a comforting silence surrounding us while we watched a movie after dinner.

The only thing that contrast the whole scenario were my thoughts that lingered between Ryan and the possible betrayer around me;

Whoever you are... you'll wish never to have crossed me.

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Oof- that was one hell of a chapter to write.

So what do you think about this? Who's the betrayer?

Or what do you think is Ryan's motive?

Also if that makes any better, but the next chapter is in Mister Ambrosia's POV. Yayyy!

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