On Our First Attempt

Chapter Fourteen

Logan was devastated by his sister's condition. Out of all things he never imagined seeing her sister after four years in this condition. He didn't realize when he sat on the ground beside Carl.

"She used to be very lively. Where ever she was always seemed fun and interesting. Why is here so boring now even when you're here?" Logan asked with tears flowing freely down his chicks.

"I must admit you're right about that. She made even the toughest person in my family laugh and she's still making him cry now." Carlos added. They sat side by side on the floor talking about how fun Ariana is to be with when Valeria walked into the room and met them.

"Hey sweetheart, when did you get here? And who's he?" Valeria asked curiously as she walked to her husband and gave him a light kiss.

"As for when I got here, it's been quite a while now and am glad you had a great rest. You must have being so tired that you didn't know when I came in." Carlos explained.

"Hmmmmm.......I sure did had a great rest. What about the other question?" She asked, glancing at Logan.

Logan was surprised to see then kiss, that was when he realized his guts feeling were right and that Carlos was obviously not her sister's style. He was still organizing his thoughts when Carlos gestured him to introduce himself to his wife.

"Oh.....ok." Logan said as he was jolted from his thoughts. "Am Logan Lee. Ana's eld........." Logan was still trying to introduce himself when Valeria interrupted.

"Elder brother!" She exclaimed as she stood to give Logan a tight hug and with tears in her eyes, she said, "I'm sorry you had to see your sister after such a long time in this condition, it's all my fault." She blamed herself.

Though Logan didn't have any idea of what might've happened, he assured Valeria he was fine. Carlos pulled his wife to himself and wiped her tears, "I already told you to stop all this blaming stuff." He scolded calmly to which Valeria just nodded and stopped crying.

"My bad. Am Valeria Kings; Carlos's wife. I was supposed to be Ariana's boss, but then she's just like a kid sister to me, and she's supper fun to be with." She introduced.

"You both seem so well acquainted to her." Logan complimented.

"Yeah we are. But you're wrong about us knowing her for four years." Carlos said, surprising Logan with his words.

"Could she have known them for longer? She had never been to Las Vegas before she fled home four years ago." Logan thought to himself.

"We only knew her for a month now. A month, a week and five days to be exact." Carlos added, surprising Logan more.

"Woah, that's........ that's so unbelievable. You both seem to know alot about her and that in just a month?" Logan wondered.

"It's so unbelievably true." Valeria added.

They were all still talking when there heard a knock on the door and Valeria went to open it.

"Welcome doc." Valeria greeted on seeing Dr Hawkins.

"Thanks. You looked relaxed, hope you had a great rest? I need to check on Ana as quickly as possible because I have an appointment soon." Dr Hawkins replied as they walked into Ana's room. "Who have that car parked outside just on the way, preventing others from passing?" He asked.

"I sure did. Logan is here. Ana's brother. It must belong to him, I will ask the chauffeur to park it well." Valeria whispered as they entered the room.

They all exchanged pleasantries before sending everyone out to attend to Ana. Valeria took the opportunity to prepare something healthy for everyone to eat even though Dr Hawkins already declined as per his busy schedule. She called on the chauffeur to help park Logan's car properly within the compound.

While Carlos worked on his laptop, Valeria cooked in the kitchen and Logan just sat down in the living room. He got bored and decided to help Valeria in the kitchen. At first he helped wash the dishes silently, but then he got curious and began to ask questions.

"How did you meet my sister? Am mean what kind of work does she do for you?" Logan asked.

"Uhmmm....... actually, I hired her as a live-in house keep." Val replied, making Logan surprised.

"Ana agreed to that?" Logan wondered.

"I compelled her to. She had no other options." Val explained.

"I must say she's lucky to have met you. I mean that's doctor Hawkins of Engelbert institute, one of the best neurosurgeon and psychologist in the world taking care of her." Logan commended.

"Or rather unlucky. She wouldn't have been injured in the first place if she hadn't met me and my family." Valeria declined. All the while her phone kept ringing in the living room so Carlos brought it over to her.

"He wouldn't stop calling so talk to him." He said as he handed it over to her and turned to go back. "And nicely please, he've suffered enough." He urged before finally leaving.

Valeria answered the call angrily and lashed at him. "What now K, have you found her?" She asked angrily.

"No, but..........." Kyle was still trying to explain but Val didn't give him that pleasure before ending the call harshly. Logan noticed this and decided to ask what or who could have been bothering her.

"That doesn't sound nicely at all. You seem very angry with the caller." He commended.

"That's my younger brother. He's the one that was actually Ana's boss." Valeria said.

"Hmmm.....I see. He must have really gotten on your nerves." Logan said.

"You can say that again. Don't get upset, but he's the one that caused your sister's accident." Valeria explained, feeling guilty.

"Let's just focus on her recovery for now. We can talk about that later." Logan said, not wanting to inconvenience her.

As soon as the food was ready, Valeria boycotted doctor Hawkins who was about to leave and forced him to eat before he leaves. They continued to discuss on Ariana's health until Dr Hawkins reminded them of their table manners. After lunch, Dr Hawkins briefed them on Ana's progress and assured that she was totally fine now and was also conscious but right now she's just sleeping and will wake up when she's done sleeping. Everyone was happy to hear the news and Logan also got nervous as to how Ana's going to react when he sees him.

KINGS PALACE, SUMMERLIN NORTH

Kyle came back home immediately after his meeting with the car owner. Immediately he arrived home, he collected his laptop and inserted the flash drive which had the footage on it and quickly searched for the date of Ana's incident.

He watched with keen eyes as Ariana got hitted by a car and how someone else came to rescue her. He tried his possible best to see the face of Ana's saviour but it wasn't possible because it was dark and the camera was quite far from the scene. Luckily for him, he was able to copy out the plate numbers of the two cars at the scene; the one that hitted Ana and the one that saved her.

As always, he called his friend from the forensic office and sent the plate numbers for him to run a check on.

After few minutes of waiting he received a call from the forensic agent after an incomplete text of the result on the numbers.

"The second license number you sent might take longer than the other because it was privately made." The agent explained.

"Why is that?" Kyle asked.

"You use such cars so you should understand that the most, which means that it is owned by someone higher up. But don't worry, as an expert on hacking, am going to give you a favourable response in a hour or two." The agent replied.

"I don't have much patience so get to work." Kyle said and ended the call. He wondered who was it that could have saved Ana, since it was the saviour's car that he still haven't gotten a result to.

"Could it be Eduardo McMahon?" He wondered, since he was the only rich close friend Ana had made in his Palace.

"But why would he not at least inform me about that?" He thought to himself before he decided to go ask him about it. He went to the 35th floor which was where Eduardo lived and rang the doorbell for quite a while before he was finally responded to.

"Mr Landlord! Woah! What an unpleasant surprise. Why are you of all people in my abode instead of just giving me a call." Eduardo asked as he peeked through the door to see Kyle.

"Can I come in first?" Kyle asked.

"NO! No you can't." Eduardo scolded harshly before he realized he was supposed to be nice. "I mean sorry, you can't come in. I have a guest." He corrected himself making Kyle more suspicious. "He must be keeping her in his house that's why he wouldn't let me in." He thought to himself.

"It would be just for a moment." Kyle persuaded.

"NO. No, I already said you can't." Eduardo argued. Kyle got impatient and overly curious or rather suspicious that he pushed Eduardo out of his way and forced himself into the house. He searched every nook and cranny of the whole house still he couldn't find Ariana then he decided to check his room. He pushed the door open despite Eduardo trying to stop him, and just then he saw Eduardo's guest. Three call girls laying completely naked on his bed. He quickly jumped out of the room and rushed back to the living room.

"Oioi............I told you I had guests. I already said you couldn't but why did you do that?" He asked the flustered Kyle. "Why are you even here in the first place." He added.

"Huh? You're such a total waste of time. Nevermind my being here." Kyle replied and was about to leave when stopped him.

"Uhmmmm...... how's Ana? I haven't seen her in a while and her number is not reachable." Eduardo asked, infuriating Kyle. He just looked back at him and shock his head in absolute disbelief and was on his way out when Eduardo interrupted again.

"You can join us if you don't mind." He said with a sincere smile on his face. Kyle was taken by surprise and so totally flustered by his statement, he increased his speed as if he was being chased out of the house. He went back to his room and took a second calm look at the text he'd received earlier. "Who's this asshole who hitted her and ran away." He wondered as he searched for the text. He was surprised to see who the hell it was.

"Cole White is the bastard?" He exclaimed as he saw the datails of the text. "He's finally doomed because I'm so going to deal with him." He muttered to himself as he hurriedly prepared to leave for Cole's place.

PLATINUM HOLDINGS, SUMMERLIN NORTH

Kyle drove as fast and roughly as he could to the Platinum Holding. A real estate company that's been trying to out shine Kings Holdings for years now to no avail. He parked his car and went straight to Cole's office at the last floor of a seven storey building.

Without as much as a knock, he barged into Cole's office and met him in a meeting with his shareholders. He walked up to Cole, held his tie tight to his neck and gave him a hard punch on his face, causing him to bleed from his mouth. Cole was flustered and outright surprised as to what could have been the cause of this stupidity and total disrespect.

"How can you be peacefully having a meeting here when we don't know if she's still alive? Are you that inhumane and wicked?" Kyle asked angrily, upsetting Cole more. He pushed Kyle off himself and stood up swiftly not understanding what rubbish he was ranting on.

He dismissed his shareholders and faced Kyle head on. "What rubbish are you ranting on? Who the hell are you talking about that gave you the audacity to barge into my office interrupting my meeting?" He asked angrily.

"So you even wiped her from your memory. Do you have an iota of conscience left in you at all?" Kyle lashed at him.

"I won't have you come to my office and insult me as you dim fit. Say what ever brought you here and If you don't have anything better to do, f**k off my office this minute. " Cole lashed back at him.

"Where were you on the night of 20th of April. 10:53pm to be exact?" Kyle asked angrily.

Cole stopped to think for a while and as if he remembered exactly where he was, his eyes propped out of it's socket. But to cover up for his misdeed, he quickly looked down ways to calm his nerves.

"Oh looks like you remembered." Kyle said, totally catching him unaware.

"Why do I need to explain myself to you?" He asked angrily.

"You don't even need to give me an answer because I already have that here." Kyle said as he walked to Cole's desk, brought out his laptop and inserted the dash cam footage on it.

"What answer are you talking about?" Cole wondered as he walked to Kyle to see what he was doing. He was shocked to see the footage.

"That's........ that's not my........c-car there. I mean I was........I was.......Oh God." He stuttered.

"You were where? Save your lies for the police and judges." Kyle said as he pulled out his phone to call the police.

"What do you think you're doing?" Cole said, snatching the phone away from him. "That was my car, but I wasn't the one driving it and I can proof that." He said.

"Then proof it. Tell me where the hell you were at that time." Kyle lashed at him.

"You must be dieing to know where I was. Well let me tell you. I was at the gym beating myself up after loosing the Domingo's contract to you again. Are you satisfied now that you've succeeded in embarrassing me?" Cole asked angrily.

"What bullshit are you talking about? How's the Domingo's contract related to this? Who the hell was driving your car if it wasn't you?" Kyle asked.

Cole thought for a while before replying. "I think it might be my younger brother. Give me sometime and I will sort things out and personally bring out the culprit to you." Cole said as calmly as possible as he now felt guilty for the accident.

Kyle saw changes in his actions and he believed Cole knew nothing about the accident, so he decided to give him sometime as he's requested. "Don't keep me waiting." He said as he stepped out of Cole's office.

Cole was devastated by the news so he called on his brother to clear up his doubts but his brother's number wasn't reachable so he tried calling the house phone but their house help answered.

"Where's Conor?" Cole asked angrily.

"Mmmmm Sir, he's not being coming home for more than a week now, madam thought he was at your place." The house help replied.

"Don't let Mom hear of this. Did he leave the house with my car?" He asked angrily.

"Yes sir." She replied. "Is anything wrong sir? Is he not at your place?" She asked but Cole was too impatient and angry to answer her question before ending the call.

He sat on his chair depressed and worried about his brother. "What happened to this kid?" He asked no one in particular but he needed an answer so he called his personal assistant and asked him to find out where his brother might be as soon as possible.

KINGS PALACE, SUMMERLIN NORTH

Immediately Kyle left Cole's office, a sudden unexplainable sadness filled his heart but the thought of Ariana's whereabouts wouldn't let that feeling last so long. He arrived home tired and stressed out but not relieved. He still wanted answers as to where Ariana might be. It's been five hours after his last call with his forensic friend and yet still no news from him so he got worried and decided to check up on him at his office even though it was already running late.

As soon as he got to his office, he met him dozing off on his rocking chair so he slammed the table to distort his sleep thereby waking him up.

"What took you so long. You said an hour and now it's five hours." Kyle lashed at him.

"Hhhhhh." The agent heaved a huge sigh. "I can't believe you made me go through all that stress just to find your own car." He said.

"What the f**k are you talking about? Where are the contacts of the owner of the car? I need the person's file or anything." Kyle fired at him.

"Ok! Let me give you what I found out." The agent said as he brought out the details he found from his work on the license number.

After taking a closer look at it, he was surprised yet confused by the result. He asked for a better explanation and the agent did justice to it. He explained to Kyle that the car was bought under his name hence the result consisted on his own contact. After much thought, Kyle finally guessed who it might be.

"It can only be Valeria." He affirmed to himself. "But she wasn't even in Vegas that day, so who the hell was that guy?" He wondered as he drove out of the forensic office and to his penthouse with the intention of going to pick his nephew from school the next day so he could use the opportunity to talk to Val, since she wouldn't answer his calls and he's also not welcomed at her place.