Samantha tries her best to contact Stacy but even with all her connections, she cannot trace where Stacy is.
Sitting inside her study room after becoming like a ghost- seeing how Kyle went mad in finding Angel and removing herself from that place without any single noise or trace.
“did she kidnap her?” this along with other questions run around Samantha’s head. Her heart is like a galloping horse as she thinks of what might happen to Angel because Samantha knows way too much for her to trust Stacy.
Samantha knows everyone’s secrets and obsession- a friend for everyone yet a friend for no one.
But this time, she is also in the dark. Samantha tried to use her connections to trace where is Stacy and where are the places she went, but somewhere in thin air Stacy has been untraceable.
Samantha, just like her favorite character in novels and webtoons, creates a map of who is connected in the missing Angel- a long web and chart of people. This list includes everyone, including her family, and at the end of the list after long hours of contemplating she found something!
The missing link. The one you least expected.
Samantha is about to call Kyle, she wanted to help because even if she knows Angel is her competitor for the heart she would give anything to have- Samantha refuses to be selfish, at least just yet.
Arms reaching to the phone, the burner phone she has been using for a while to check.
She wanted to send a message, to help but keep her identity invisible – because that is the only way to keep him close and avoid explaining.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you
Just when she is about to make the call a person behind Samantha appears, he has been watching her for a while- seen her talk to herself as she thinks loud thinking that no one is there.
The person behind Samantha slowly removes the phone that Samantha is holding.
“You should think twice”
“Dad. You are here when did you come home? …” Samantha was cut mid-sentence.
“ You should think twice, I know what is happening and I know what you are about to do my dear child but you should think twice.”
The man with a stout figure is usually jolly like Santa. The smile that used to greet Samantha was gone tonight without any trace just like how Angel and Stacy have become.
Samantha’s heart is pounding for some reason she cannot explain and yet that reason is something she is afraid for.
The man is slowly taking steps walking away from her holding the phone in his hands, running his fingers to the books on the shelves and the big chart that is impossible to hide.
The chart that help Samantha realized an important thing-the missing link the last person anyone would think of.
Samantha kept silent not because she don’t know what to say but because she wanted to know first if her father is on her side or not.
Samantha loves her father deeply after all he is the only real one she has but Samantha also knows that her father is a prominent person whose life and decisions impact a lot of people.
“You know my love, daddy loves you dearly but you see this marriage. The marriage you have with this man (pointing to Kyle’s picture in the chart that Samantha made) is more of business than love. True, I know you have fallen for him and that you wanted him to do the same right? Don’t you think the current turn of events works in your favor?”
In your favor
These words echoed inside Samantha’s mind, yes she knows things would have been better if Angel would just go missing. Yes, she wished it to happen in her subconscious mind at least more than once.
“But…” Samantha utters in low tones as if doubting her judgment.
“But what?”
Samantha struggles to say a word, maybe because her father has a point -from a point of view of a prominent businessman he has an undeniable point.
“All you need to do is to not meddle. Let them figure things out on their own. You just need to sit back and enjoy the show,”
Samantha’s father is now gently pressing Samantha’s shoulders down to the study chair and guiding her to lean. Samantha closed her eyes and let her mind go blank for a second.
For a second, a split-second decision that had caused a lot of time and tears- fears and shattered hopes.
Because Samantha decided…
To let go,
To be selfish,
To just watch and enjoy the show.
***______****
Crying a river with his troubled mind Kyle’s sanity is on its verge.
Money can make people known or make people go without a trace in just a matter of hours.
The noise is slowly dying after a week of not having a trace. Everyone is losing hope while Kyle’s wedding is approaching.
Kyle did not know what to do as Angel has been gone for more than 72 hours already. He already filed a police report and James and Belinda even helped the case. Then along with others including Angel’s fans has been doing all they can to at least make a change or share a piece of information.
But there is nothing money and influence can’t do yet Kyle did not have enough of both.
Just two days ago Kyle had an argument with his father that almost made his father lose his life as his BP went high and almost had another stroke.
“We cannot do that. The wedding will happen as scheduled.” Stern and cold.
“I am not saying I will not make it happen, I am just asking for more time let me just…”
“Find that girl?” Kyle’s father casually said it just like asking for another plate of butter.
Kyle was too stunned to speak he did not have an idea that his father knows or even had the slightest idea or care about what is happening in Kyle’s life.
“I have always known and I will always know, my son. Believe me, I am doing this to protect you no matter how you hated me this is all for you.”
And then he walked away. Leaving Kyle standing, as a tear left his eye.