Chapter 22 - Vulnerability Is Not A Weakness (1/2)

Before she could think more of the past or Alvin, Anya shook her head as if she could forget everything. She left the mobile in the secret locker and grabbed a spy camera. She went to her bedroom. She installed a little spy camera and hid it well on the wall. She didn't want to take a chance if anybody hacked her main security cameras. She wanted something in her defense.

Then she filled her bathtub, poured some bath salt, and lit a lavender candle. It was a candle her mother made for Zane. The latter often gets a bad dream so the faint lavender scent before sleep was to soothe his nerves. She wanted to soothe her nerves as her mind often drifted to what might happen if Alvin knew her son was also his.

Would Alvin try to take Zane away?

Will I have the chance to win against Alvin and Matthews? She was just a middle-class family girl.

What if Zane likes their lifestyle?

What if they kidnap my son?

She was vulnerable to those thoughts. That also made her think of leaving the country and settling far away from Alvin and Matthews. She wasn't scared, she wasn't ready to lose her son. She felt selfish but she couldn't help it.

Anya shook her head again to disperse her thoughts. Zane loves her, he wouldn't leave her.

What if Zane also likes Matthews?

'Argh,' Anya smacked herself. She tried to focus on her bath.

She recalled the white roses that smelled amazing. She grabbed two roses and dropped the petals into the water. She was soaking in water, she thought about what to do to stay awake all night and keep her mind busy instead of thinking of Alvin taking her son away.

A plan darted in her mind that could keep her awake and busy. Developing an application that will notify her of the intrusion into her home network. She started drawing out the plan for the application in her mind, relaxing her body in the hot water.

She felt sleepy so she shifted in the bathtub, brushing the loofah on her body. Slowly, she didn't realize when her conscious mind drifted off. Her body slowly slid inside in the tub and went under the water, knocking all the air out of her lungs.

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Alvin got dressed in the villa Linus had prepared beforehand. He wanted to sit but the villa looked more like a bin. He tried hard to ignore Linus who was rolling on the floor and laughing his ass off as he had witnessed Alvin thrown out, naked.

Alvin wanted to tell Linus about the drug but he was pissed off. He dragged Linus out by the collar and threw him out of the villa, for some peace.

Alvin didn't identify the lady. Although he found her interesting, he was suspicious of her and her behavior.

'Why didn't she ask who I am? Does she know me? If did, why didn't she take advantage of it?'

Growing up as a Matthews, he was almost always encircled with the people who wanted to be with him for the name, fame, and wealth. He knew his look was just an add-on. If he was poor and had the same looks, none would have bothered about him.

So, 'If she doesn't know me, why didn't she ask who I was? Or… Is she colluding with anybody to sell the information of the hard disk?' He strongly believed it was the last as she was desperate to get rid of him quickly.

He gave a call to his team and instructed them to erase the evidence of his presence in that lady's villa and turned the cameras off. Before she gives the hard disk to anybody, he needs to get it. So he quickly proceeded to her house.