Chapter 1: First clue after 13 years

USA, Washington, D.C. Wilson’s mansion

Stella went to Jane’s room and opened the door, she didn’t saw her in the room so she went to check in the bathroom; she wasn’t there either, she felt uneasy.

It was still very early in the morning and Jane was not in her room.

Where did she go?

Just when she was about to leave she saw a letter on the bedside table she picked it up and read it, the farther she read the more cold sweat started forming on her forehead, she took the note and ran to Maxwell.

Maxwell was in the study reading some urgent documents, Stella banged open the door and shouted: “Jane ran away!!”

Maxwell was stunned and didn’t react for a while; he suddenly stood up and called his assistant “Find my daughter!!”

They were already in a tight spot right now, and now his daughter suddenly ran away when they needed her the most.

Maxwell was regretting giving Jane the freedom to do whatever she wanted since she was a kid. Now she doesn’t even care about her own family.

Emerson’s family will send someone soon, and if Jane is not home; what will happen to them?

Maxwell sat on his chair slowly supporting himself with his hands; he leaned back and closed his eyes.

It is 10: 20 am in the morning, 3 hours before they found out Jane was missing.

Maxwell sat on the sofa touching his temples with one hand and the other holding a glass of water, Stella was pacing back and forth in front of him, her face was pale and she was very anxious which was visible on her face.

Suddenly Maxwell said with an irritated tone “Will you stop walking and sit and calm down.”

“What? My daughter is missing how can I calm down? If you would have refused the Emerson’s she wouldn’t have run away.” Stella said angrily.

“You and I both know that we can’t say no, it was your grandfather and father who made this engagement.” Maxwell was getting impatient “It’s you who spoil her to this extend where she doesn’t even care about her parents.”

Just when she about to refute a servant came and knocked on the door, after Maxwell let him in he said “A lawyer has come to meet sir and madam, he is waiting downstairs.”

Stella and Maxwell exchanged glances thinking who it might be? Was he sent by the Emerson family?

They walked down in the living room worriedly when they reached there they saw a man in a well-tailored suit, Stella’s eyes fell on the woman sitting beside him.

The woman was wearing jeans and a crop-top hoody her face was covered by a black mask and grey shades of glasses, she has golden blonde hair.

The lawyer and the women beside him saw Stella and Maxwell coming down and stood up.

The woman reached her hand to remove her glasses, a pair of clear, bright, and rare Xanadu eyes sparkled under the bright light in the hall; these rare light emerald eyes are never seen before, her eyes are sharp filled with elegance, calmness, and royalty, they appeared kind, but hidden behind them is the endless coldness out of everyone’s vision; no matter how kind it appeared but it can make people shudder with just a glance. Her appearance was different and confirmed to be a foreigner.

Stella wondered; who it might be?

She then slowly reached to remove her mask and revealed a pale white small face with raspberry-like curly lips and a straight small nose; in one word she was very beautiful the whole person was emitting an aura of elegance and power just like a queen.

Stella had walked down the stairs and her steps came to halt when she saw the woman and her eyes widened in shock, her body was stiff she couldn’t move, her mouth slowly opened and uttered one word “Scarlett”

Her voice was so low that only Maxwell heard her he was just walking downstairs and saw the woman and abruptly stopped after seeing the woman.

All these series of actions did not hide from Evelyn’s eyes she smiled lightly as if enjoying the fear in their eyes.

“Aunty, how are you?” Evelyn said

Stella walked towards her and the lawyer

“Miss Wilson, this is Ariana Wilson, your Cousin Miss Scarlett’s daughter and I am her lawyer Carl.”

Just some simple words of introduction but it felt like the end of the world to Stella.

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A day back in the past.

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Russia, Morning, near suburbs area on a huge empty race track 3 cars are racing; soon a black sports car crossed the finish line flowed by a white sports car than a red sports car.

Sara Smith came out of the red car; she has short-shoulder length black hairs, blue eyes, beautiful facial features, height 168 cm tall, 23 years old, caring mother of the group, usually cold.

She is Evelyn’s best friend, no.1 rank doctor worldwide.

Clare Adams came out of the White car, she is beautiful, has dyed curly light pink hairs and grey eyes, 169cm tall, 23 years old, she is the chief auto-mobile designer of the Adams Company the famous auto-mobile industry. She is the boss-type and is very- very protective of her close ones.

Evelyn Kingston came out of the black car; she has blonde straight waist-length hairs, and rare Xanadu colour eyes [very light emerald], 168 cm tall, a famous racer known as ‘Black Spade’, she usually wears a mask during races and nobody has seen her face. She’s very beautiful and has a great body, 23 years old; she is usually cold and indifferent to strangers but is very kind she has the aura of elegance and royalty, but she can be quite mischievous too.

Today they are here to test the new race cars.

Sara came out of her car and leaned against it “Wow! It feels great after a race.” she stretched her hands up. She was wearing loose jeans and a full-sleeved shirt.

Evelyn patted on the car and said “The performance is good, just need to make a few changes and it will be perfect” she was wearing tight black jeans a loose top, and a black mask hanging below her chin.

“Of course it has to be good, after all, I made them,” Clare said narcissistically rubbing her nose with her index finger and there was a hint of proudness in her eyes.

Sara and Evelyn pursed their lips and secretly laughed. Clare is usually lazy but once she starts doing what she likes her energy suddenly becomes infinite.

All of them had a lot of fun today and they enjoyed it a lot, they took the car keys and were about to walk inside but Evelyn’s phone rang.

Evelyn picked it up her face was serious; Sara and Clare noticed it and understood it must be from work.

After few seconds her face darkened and her steps came to halt, both of them noticed it and stopped looking at Evelyn.

Sara saw her clenching hard on her phone and the green veins on her pale white hand from the hard grip on her phone, Evelyn had lowered her eyes and they can’t see her expressions.

After the call ended Sara asked her “What happened?”

Evelyn put her phone back and her face was expressionless no one can find out if something is wrong or not “They found some clues regarding mom”

Sara and Clare were a bit surprised, it’s been 13 years since Madam Scarlett disappeared and finally, after all these years there’s some news, they nearly thought they would never find anything but today they finally have some clue.

Evelyn continued “Mom had contacted someone in USA before that accident, so I have to go there to check it personally.”

“USA, isn’t there your mom’s family lives” Sara nodded and said after thinking a bit “But your grandpa may not allow you to go there” her voice was low as if not wanting to say but eventually said it “After what your mom’s family did to your mom……”

Evelyn’s face darkened and they could feel the cold pressure around her.

“I know, but I will go, it might be the last chance to find what happened that day,” Evelyn said her voice was firm and determined.

Clare kept looking at her and she knew, no matter what they do they will not be able to stop her from anything related to her mom it becomes the most important thing to her sometimes even more important than her own life.

“You will need a fake Id and fake profile; I’ll make it for you,” Clare said she is serious.

“Are you too out of your mind?!” Sara said loudly looking at both of them she is now angry, going there alone will be dangerous moreover she won’t even tell her family; when her family finds out then forget the danger her grandpa will become the person to be scared of if he finds out his granddaughter went to look for clues alone.

“Right now she won’t stop, so it is better we give her support and help her avoid the coming dangers.” Clare hugged her arms and said with a casual tone.

Sara opened her mouth but didn’t speak, after giving it a thought she knew Evelyn will not stop and the only thing they can do right now is helping her and keep the danger away from her as much as possible.

“Okay fine!” Sara agreed reluctantly.

Evelyn smiled she knew even if she will be put in a life-threatening situation her friends would be there to support and help her and Evelyn knows that she can depend on and trust them blindly.

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