Love Worth Fighting For

50 a Clue

No one answered Suri’s greeting, all the young women chose to be busy with their respective activities. There are those who apply make-up in front of the mirror, spray perfume on their bodies, and others play with their cellphones to browse social media accounts of famous artists. Being ignored openly makes Suri Mireya Clarke mentally down, living in Areez’s captivity for years makes Suri’s self-confidence almost disappear. Areez had completely destroyed her from within.

When she was confused about what to do, Suri was suddenly surprised by a soft touch lodged in her shoulder. Suri reflexively turned her face away, looking at the owner of the hand that had just touched her shoulder. Suri’s eyes immediately opened wide when she saw who it was who was smiling sincerely.

“Can I help you, Miss? Did you lose anything in this toilet?”

Suri shook her head quickly. “N-no, I just wanted to ask for real help. But nothing seems to be able to...”

“What do you need help with, beautiful lady?”

Suri frowned, staring at the cleaning service employee who was talking to her without blinking. A woman who is not young anymore looks so sincere.

“I..I want to call my brother, but my cell phone...”

“You can use my cellphone if you want, Miss,” said the cleaning service officer in a friendly manner as she held out her cellphone to Suri.

Suri was silent for a while, she couldn’t believe that someone would immediately offer to help her without her having to bother.

.....

“Please, Miss. You can call him too if you want,” she said again.

Realizing that she was in a race against time, Suri immediately grabbed the kind woman’s cell phone and started writing messages for Christian quickly. As Suri originally planned to send the email to Christian, fortunately Suri still remembers the email and password so she can email her brother using her own personal email without having to use the email belonging to her rescue woman.

As soon as the email was sent, Suri immediately took the email from the woman’s cellphone quickly. “Sorry, I used email to contact my brother. So earlier I took out your email and...”

“It’s okay, Miss. I still remember my email password well, you don’t have to worry,” said the cleaning service officer quickly. without changing her facial expression at all, the woman was still very friendly to Suri. It was as if she had known Suri for so long.

Suri’s eyes immediately filled with tears. “Why are you being so nice to me?” asked Suri very politely. “Even though we just met.”

“Your pretty face reminds me of a young girl who was so kind to me decades ago, a girl who doesn’t discriminate against one’s social status.”

***

Clarke Enterprise, Luxembourg. 9.00 PM

Since last night Christian has been feeling very uneasy, he keeps getting restless for no reason. Even though none of the problems bothered him, all the office work had also been completed on time after Elena and Kainer helped him. That’s why at this time Christian feels confused.

While trying to calm himself down, his cell phone suddenly rang loudly. A special tone that he set for the caller who is currently calling him rings, with slightly trembling hands Christian grabs his cell phone and immediately receives the video call from Geneva. After three years, this was the first time his father contacted him.

“Dad...” Christian greets Jack in a hoarse voice.

Jack, whose face has now appeared on Christian’s cell phone screen, smiled. “Hi Son, do you have time to talk to Daddy?”

Christian nods slowly. “I’m free, Dad.”

silence.

There is no further answer from Christian, he feels awkward talking to his father. After their great war three years ago, this was the first time they had faced each other again, even if only by video call.

“You look a little thin, don’t push yourself, Son. Take care of your health,” Jack said quietly, attentively, trying to hide his concern.

“I just couldn’t sleep last night, Dad.”

“Can’t sleep? Is there a problem at the office?”

Christian shakes his head. “Nothing, I’ve been greatly helped by my new secretary who works quickly.”

“New secretary?”

Christian smiles, he knows where his father is talking. So far, Christian has never praised the work of others on his father, even Kainer, who has become his right hand man, has never been praised by Christian.

“Yeah, he’s quite agile so it helps me and Kainer a lot,” Christian replies quietly without changing his facial expression, Christian trying to keep all his father’s bad thoughts to him.

For someone who knew Christian so well, Jack easily understood the implicit meaning of Christian’s earlier words. The man then tried to change the conversation to a more serious direction, such as his initial goal of contacting his proud son who was so similar to him when he was young.

“After all these years your Mommy suddenly started crying again in her sleep last night, your Mommy called Suri’s name so many times that finally Daddy had to wake her up,” Jack said hoarsely, unable to hide his sadness.

“Then how is it now?” Christian asks in a trembling voice.

“Mommy is sleeping now because the doctor gave her a sedative.”

Christian immediately clenched his fists that were on the table, his heart beating ten times faster when he heard his mother had to take another sedative. Although the drug was safe because it was prescribed by a doctor, Christian knew what the side effects of the drug were.

“And that’s why now Daddy has decided to continue the search for Suri, but this time Daddy wants to openly ask the police for help to...”

“No!” interrupted Christian quickly. “Don’t involve the police, bringing the police into this matter will only make things worse and Mommy will definitely be more worried because she has high hopes for the work of the police later.”

“But...”

“Wasn’t it Daddy from the start who decided not to involve the police in Suri’s case, huh?”

Jack’s face immediately changed. “Indeed but it was three years ago when Daddy was sure they could find Suri with Daddy’s men and it’s really been a big regret for Daddy to this day.”

“Oh come on, Dad. Don’t talk about the past, I don’t want to get into that madness again,” Christian quips sarcastically. “For now, it’s better for Daddy to focus on Mommy, I don’t want Mommy to have to keep taking that damn drug. And Suri’s problem, I’ll take care of it. I’ll call my friends again to come look for Suri.”

Jack’s eyes stare intently at Christian, even though they are currently talking at such a distance the tension is so real.

“Right now I already have a secretary I can trust, so I can leave the company at any time. So Daddy doesn’t have to worry, I’ll be the one looking for Suri this time,” Christian added again.

“Careful...don’t ruin Mommy and Daddy again, Christ. The two of us only have you two.”

A cynical smile immediately spreads across Christian’s face. “Oh really? Then how is your favorite child Asher doing?”

“Christ,” Jack breathed hoarsely, when he was serious usually Jack would call Christian’s name directly. “Asher is the only child of aunty Linda and uncle Paul, two people who have taken care of you since childhood.”

“My business is with aunty Linda and uncle Paul, not with Asher.” Christian responds curtly to his father’s words, mentioning Asher’s name again makes Christian’s anger flare up again.

“Aunty Linda and uncle Paul are dead, Son. And now there’s only Asher as their only descendant, that’s why you...”

“If Daddy still wants to talk about Asher over there I’d better just end it, there are still many important things to do. I do it instead of discussing that person.” Christian curtly interrupts his father’s words. “It’s better now for Daddy to focus on Mommy and make Mommy not depend on those damn drugs, leave Suri’s business to me... and don’t forget to take care of Daddy’s health too. Good afternoon.”

Christian immediately ended the video call quickly after speaking with only one breath, the level of Christian’s hatred for Asher really couldn’t be helped anymore. When he heard his father’s name, his anger was already boiling again, that’s why Christian chose to end his conversation with his father because he didn’t want to make his relationship with his father hotter.

While massaging her head which suddenly hurts, Elena enters Christian’s room. In her hands was a tray with a cup of Christian’s favorite unsweetened chamomile tea. Christian’s head lifts as soon as the scent of Elena’s chamomile tea wafts into his nostrils.

“Give it to me,” Christian begs quickly.

“Still hot, sir.”

Christian narrows his eyes. “I don’t have to repeat what I said twice, do I?”

Elena gulped, she immediately walked over to Christian’s table and immediately placed the tray carefully on the table before handing the teacup to Christian who was already looking angry. If there was a day without accepting Christian’s wrath, Elena would set that day on the Guinness World Records. Christian is really always mad at her.

“Today I will go home early, I ask you to prepare this room of mine with all my personal belongings, Elena.”

“Your personal belongings?”

Christian lifts his face to glare at Elena. “I don’t need to go into detail about my orders, do I?”

Oh Jesus, what day is it? Why is it so early in the morning that Elena has been hit by Christian’s mouth of fire?

“Sorry, sir.”

“Don’t keep apologizing to me, Elena. You are my secretary, you should be able to...”

Christian’s words were interrupted when he accidentally saw an email on his phone which was still on standby. Christian, who usually doesn’t really care about hundreds or even thousands of emails that come into his cell phone, suddenly feels so compelled to see the email. With his slender fingers, Christian touches the screen of his cellphone to see the email that has successfully entered.

Prank..

The cup of tea that had not been drunk immediately fell to the ground on the floor when suddenly Christian’s hand touched the cup with the floral motif.

“Sir...”

Christian who couldn’t believe reading the email on his cellphone, immediately ran quickly from his desk to the door, because Christian was in too much of a hurry to not see Elena’s condition, who had fallen to the floor because she was accidentally bumped by him.