Chapter 67 - I will protect you (1/2)
Just as they finished breakfast, Sara remembered the thing about Philip and Mimi that was putting weight on her mind and decided not to delay any further. She got her laptop and found the chat logs she took from Philip's phone.
”I want to show you something. But I want you to listen until I'm done before coming to any conclusions. Or going crazy.”
Aiden nodded in agreement.
Sarah showed him the logs with only two rows of information:
#1: , , message: ”I failed”
#2: , , message: ”Useless. Keep trying”
Sarah took a deep breath before speaking. ”I'm not sure if you remember, but this date in the log here is the day when after class Philip was persistent not to let me go, and you showed up to the rescue.”
Aiden's face darkened, and he was about to speak.
”I asked you to listen what I have to say first, OK?”
Aiden closed his mouth.
She took this as an OK. ”I was curious. Why is he so persistent? I was very clear that I'm not interested, so why is he not giving up? The only thing I could come up with is that there is something else going on. I ended up checking his phone, and the first message in this log is from his phone, he sent it right away after we left. Second message is a reply he received about half an hour later. This is Mimi's number.” Sarah paused for few seconds before continuing. ”This was the only text exchange between two of them I could find, but if he got a new phone, then any previous messages would be lost. Also, they had several calls between them, and they are all short. My best guess is that they just called each other to agree on where to meet, and any talks they have, are done in person. But all of those are mostly guesses. What I do know is that Philip is working with Mimi to get to me, and I don't know for what purpose.”
Sarah stopped talking and looked at Aiden. His face was still dark, lips pressed into a thin line.
She looked at him innocently and blinked few times. ”I'm done. Now you get your turn, if you want to say something.”
He took a deep breath. ”Was I not clear that you should stay away from him?”
”Technically, I didn't go near him.”
Aiden was serious. ”Don't act like you don't know what I mean. He is dangerous. Two of them are dangerous. You need to stay away.”
Sarah was defensive. She wanted to reason with him. ”But how can I leave it at this? Even if I stay away, they are obviously coming after me.”
Aiden didn't say anything. His stern expression didn't change.
Sarah looked at him. ”You know more about this. Am I right?”
He still didn't respond. ”I knew it... I should not have said anything... I will do what I want without telling you.”
”What do you want to do?” There was a trace of panic in his voice.
”To begin with, find out more about this!”
”Don't!” Aiden sounded desperate.