Concealed Love

Chapter-24 " Turned into a devine sword.. "

        Iri had finished her shoot for the day, she thanked the shooting crew, avoided the male lead desperately trying to get her attention and was on her way back to the hotel, her manager was driving the car for her and she sat at the back opening up her phone and checking the messages, there were lots of notifications but her eyes directly went towards the one from Jace which she clicked at right away.

She expected a long love poem and loving paragraphs like always but It was just a sentence, he had only wrote " I'm sorry, just want to let you know that my love for you was sincere. "

She looked at the message and typed hurriedly to reply back at him, " Jace? What's wrong? Why are you saying it like that. " She thought in her head that, ' did something happen? Is he giving up on me? '

Seeing that her message was not being delivered, she called him but his phone couldn't be connected. She told her manager to drive a bit faster and tried on his phone again but it was still unreachable so she thought of contacting someone else who would know about him.

She never thought that he would be with Ella so she called Simon instead and he picked up instantly sounding bright and lively as always, " Hello, Iri ? What's up? "

" Hey, Simon. Are you by any chance with Jace, do you know where he is? ", she asked trying to sound as composed as possible. 

Simon who had no idea of anything replied calmly, " No, he's not with me and I also don't know where he is at the moment, earlier I heard that Al was complaining that he had taken a day off from work today. Have you tried calling his phone? "

Iri was flustered, " Day off? Why? I tried calling him but his phone is not reachable. "

" Oh, I don't know why, Al only mentioned that he will be taking the day off. I doubt it will be for anything important, do you have some emergency business with him? If you can't reach him, I doubt anyone can. " Simon joked.

'Haha' Ella let out an uncomfortable laugh and said " Please tell me if you get in touch with him. " Hearing and okay from the other side, she hung up her phone saying 'thank you'.

She was not that close with Dane and Al so she called Ella, she waited impatiently for her to pick up and after she was about to hang up, the phone connected.

Iri asked right away " Ella? Are you at home? ".

The voice that came from the other side of the phone was not Ella's but Al's, " Hello, this is Al, Ella is not in, she left her phone here, do you know where she went? Or did Jace told you anything by any chance? " He was hoping that Jace would have told her something as well.

Iri reached her hotel and hurriedly went inside still on the call saying, " No she didn't tell me anything and why are you asking about Jace? is something going on with him? He left me a weird message and now I can't contact him. Is something wrong? "

Al was also as curious and impatient as her, " He left you a message as well? What did he say? "

Iri panicked " He just said he was sorry, I don't even know why he said that, tell me what's going on. "

" I don't know as well, he send me a text to get here fast, if not Ella would be in danger but when I got here, no one was home, she left her phone and staff here and I received your call so I thought you'll know. " Al was having a headache, he had no idea what to do.

"What? She left her staff at home? She never does that, what's going on... Aaghhhh. Please search for them, I'll... I'll try to come back right away. " Ella was always her priority, she gave her life, a home, a parent and a true friend, Iri also knew about Ella's enemy and their capabilities to conflict harm on her so she was freaking out thinking of her safety and what might have happened to her.

" I will, you should also take care just in case, we'll talk again of anything comes up. " As Al was talking on the phone inside the house, looking around the rooms, he looked inside the room and saw that there were several men approaching the house, it was already getting dark and they were walking around quiet and stealthily.

He knew them, they were the ones who attacked them at the event last time, five of them in black led by a robust big man.

Before Iri kept her phone she heard stumbling noises from the other side of the line and right after the phone was cut, she tried to call again but it was already switched off and she couldn't connect anymore. She called her manager right away and told her to book the earliest flight to london as fast as possible, while she went down to make her way to the airport.

Her manager at first told her that she couldn't leave the shooting side so suddenly but she insist saying, there was an emergency back at home and since she rarely have any problems her manager understood that it must have been something important and booked it for her right away adding " Don't worry I'll make up something to say to the director. Take care. "

Iri said "Thank you" and got into the taxi that was waiting outside the hotel, anxiously waiting to reach the airport". She asked the taxi driver to drive as fast as possible and that she'll even pay him double, the taxi driver saw that she was in a hurry and said " I'll try my best ma'am. "

She reached the airport, paid the driver and went in. She saw that she had to wait for another 30 minutes, plus it would take her nearly a day to get to new York. She was freaking out and thinking of many ways to get at least a small bit of useful information or help from back home.

She suddenly thought of Minerva, Ella once told her that Minerva was likely to be a reincarnation from the past, Iri wished and hoped that maybe, maybe she will remember something or know something as well. She called Minerva and right away after she picked it up she asked " Hello? Minerva? Where are you? "

" Irene? I'm home, what happen? You sound so out of breath, is everything okay? " Minerva sound concerned.

" I'm okay but I wanted to ask if you know anything about Ella or Jace. "

" Ella and Jace? No I don't, did something happen to them? " Minerva asked worriedly.

" No, just wanted to know if you have any idea, please get back at me if you get any info on them. I'm leaving now, bye. " Iri hung up the phone, she didn't want to involve anyone else innocent and hence she didn't tell Minerva about what happened.

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Al saw the people coming closer and turned off the phone, switched it off less it might notify the coming intruders and grabbed the staff on the table.

As soon as he touched the staff it turned into a devine sword with a golden sheath fitting exactly on his hand. He had a sudden rush of headache and fell on the floor on his knees. Loads of pictures came flooding in on his head like a movie scene and the pain in his head was making him dizzy.

He saw that the intruders were nearing and there was not much time so he grab hold of the sword and crawl his way up the stairs.

He reached the top and opened Ella's room, as he crawl his way in and closed it, he moved to the other corner from the door and sat on the floor leaning his back against the, panting and sweating all over his body. There were loud crashing sounds from down below, probably the windows and door.

His body was burning up like a fire in within and places, people and scenes he had never seen kept flashing endlessly in his head. He than felt that there was something on the head of the bed so he crawl his way there and when he touched a place, there suddenly appeared a stair and a room down the bed.

He went in and the stairs closed by itself. He turned around to look at the room and was stunned by what he saw in there, sure there were many unique things but what caught his eyes were the paintings hanging on the wall.

There were paintings of his faces all around the wall, he leaned on one corner and saw that the paintings were of different times, some were so old that there were torn marks and signs of rusted paper but some were brand new.

He looked around for some time as the pains in his head calmed down bit by bit, he saw the hairpin kept preciously on the glass and glued his eyes on it.

Suddenly the things in the basement shook and the sword on the man's hand shone a devine glow as its holder slide his hands down on it.

He stroked his hair up and looked at the pin with a grin, " Finally! Finally I can see you again.... Ella".