If Harriet looks like someone who’s losing her mind right now, she doesn’t care anymore. Right at this moment, she only have one goal: to drive the people out of the mall as soon as possible.She ran, passing through the crowd as if a desperate escapee who was getting chased by a monster.The beast who’s chasing after her, it is the time itself.Every ticking of the clock, the lives of many would come closer to death.Not long after, Harriet arrived at the mall’s entrance where there are two security guards.Harriet was catching her breath so hard. She had to lean her hands on her weak knees and gulped few times.Cassius, who was on her tail, also arrived at the place. He looked at the guards, who’s looking at Harriet and waiting for her to say what she needs.“Hey miss, are you alright?” one asked.Harriet raised her hand, shaking her head while catching her breath.“Calm down, miss,” the second one said. “Calm down first before speaking.Not wanting to waste more time, Harriet gulpe
Cassius went to sleep while thinking about Harriet, and he woke up, still having her in his mind.At first, Cassius thought Harriet has ill intention after she said that the chairman wanted Cassius to go back home.He knows that his grandfather won’t force him to come back. Sorren is aware how painful for his grandson, Cassius, to remember the past. Therefore, the old man won’t possibly force him to fly back home.So why would a mere secretary desires to have convince the second grandson of the chairman to go back?Is it because she’s blinded from power, so she wanted to use Cassius so that she can get enough cognition when he became the heir?Cassius thought it is Harriet’s intention.But his perceptions changed after hearing what Harriet said last night.[“Someone will kill your grandfather. I am not sure who, but it will happen. So I can’t trust anyone and only think of you. So Cassius. Please come back with me.”]His breathing stopped for a second when he heard about the news. The
Harriet’s POV I felt pain all over my body. “Hmmm,” a groaned left my throat. With all my my might, I forced my eyes to opened. Darkness. I saw nothing but pitch of darkness around. I turned my head around with every deep breath I take, as I feel suffocated in a dusty place. ‘Where am I? What happened?’ I shut my eyes tightly, although another darkness awaits me if I do. Seeing nothing, I tried to calm down and recall my situation. ‘The building collapsed. I went back inside to get the document.’ The document! Where is it?! ‘Wait. I should not only think about the documents.’ “Cassius,” I mumbled. That’s right. I saw him came back inside. Before the whole building collapsed, Cassius pulled me into his arms and… ‘Oh no. What if… What if something happened to him?’ I saved a lot of people from death. I did. But because of me, someone like Cassius, who supposedly not here, got in danger. “Cassius!” I called in the middle of the dark. It is my fault. If only I did
Cassius saw waterfall cascading over embankment. It was a fast-rising flood between house, deceptively slight at first, tugging trippingly at the feet and ankles, but quickly sucking and battering at legs, chest and shoulder. The color of his world turned brown, gray, black and white. It did not resemble in the least of the wide vast blue ocean he held dearly in his head. There are not blue-green wave cresting elegantly in the tentacles foam in the seashore, but only a massive water; dark, strange, violent without kindness, a cruel thing coming onto the land like a monster, picking its feet and charging at everyone with a roar in its throat. He could hear the disturbing sounds of crunch of squeal of wood, concrete, metal and tilled, as if a huge black of mountain water came all at once and destroyed everything; like solid gain compressor pulverizing the neighborhoods, villages and town. There was this strange sound, difficult to describe. It wasn’t the sound of the sea which will ma
Harriet’s POV There were no reporters outside when I went inside Cassius’s hospital room. But as I waited for him to regain consciousness, I heard commotions outside and wondered why there’s so much noise. At the same time, a nurse came and told me that they are looking for the woman who’s in the blog article on the internet.So I browsed on my phone and saw an article about a mysterious woman who saved hundreds of people after seeing the future.It is the same article that Cassius is reading right now.From his phone screen, I looked at the Cassius who hasn’t say a thing while staring at the article.The reason why I asked him to read this is for him to understand why I cannot go out of his room and why there are reporters outside looking for me. So, I had no choice but to show him the ridiculous article that made me a superhero within just a day.The title of the article is: “A woman who foresaw the future”Although they did not release any of my name and picture, the last part of
Third Person’s POV Harriet tossed around her hospital bed.If not for the IV tube in her arm, she might have already fallen down for tossing too much.“Ahhh,” she winced, holding the injected part of her arm.Harriet sighed. She stopped tossing and looked at the ceiling instead. As soon as she did, she recalled what Cassius had done to her before she left his room.His handsome face after he locked her between his arms and his whispers.Harriet felt like her cheeks were on fire, she might spontaneously combust at any moment, like someone had set slow and steady fire beneath her center, deep of her stomach.And the fire is no other than Cassius.“Oh my gosh,” Harriet murmured, cupping her red cheeks.Her heart beats as it pumps her blood through her veins. The blood rushes to the tips of her fingers, the pulse coming in hot waves that cause everything else to pulse.“Why am I getting affected over that?” she asked herself with a sigh.This is the first time Harriet had a close contac
Reese was asked to buy blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries to the supermarket by the head maid of the mansion.Berries are known for being a calming food that fight stress. So the head maid wanted to make berries juice for the chairman, who almost collapsed after hearing the news about Harriet and his grandson, Cassius.On her way to the supermarket, Reese thought about her wish before the she heard the accident.[‘What if Harriet disappeared forever?’] It is just a silly wish of her out of jealousy. Although Reese is jealous at the attention and love Harriet receive from Zion and Sorren, she doesn’t wish for Harriet to die.‘After all, we’re friends,’ Reese told herself.Using their friendship as an excuse, she knew she had to worry about Harriet and wish for her to return safe. Yet, weirdly last night, she slept so well. She has appetite this morning and ate her breakfast really well. And now, even if she’s saying how worried she is to Harriet, she’s jumping up
Harriet’s POV When I got back to the hotel I am staying at here in New York, the chairman called me through video call. [“Harriet, are you really fine now? Don’t you need to stay in the hospital for more days? I almost die when I heard that you and Cassius got into that horrible accident.”] His throaty voice sounds so worried, as if sobbing without tears. And even though I can only see his face through the screen, I could tell how anxious he is. ‘He must be so shocked after hearing the news. Especially when I was not alone during the accident. Now I feel guilty for getting Cassius into this.’ “Chairman,” I said in soothing voice. Whenever the chairman is under stress, whether it is because of work or his family, then it is my job as secretary to calm him down. ‘Coming from someone who caused the stress?’ “Did you drink your medicine? Chairman?” Grandpa Sorren thinly narrowed his eyes on me. [“I did. I did. Why are you worrying about me when it should be me who’s so worri